Today is the 1st of January of the Gregorian calendar, a day celebrated as New Year in the West and in countries following the culture of their former colonial masters.Of course, January 1 is not the New Year of the Muslims. Neither has it any significance for any other religion anywhere in the world, such as Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shamanism, Animism, and even Christianity.In other words, none of the religious texts ...
Former Bahraini Member of Parliament Mr. Jawad Fairooz says that the Bahraini regime’s move to strip Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim from his citizenship will no question lead to his forcible deportation.“If the government will try to detain the opposition key figures just like they already did with Sheikh Ali Salman and now the nationality stripping of Sheikh Isa Qassim and the attempt to deport him, I don’t think that the people ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - On 29 April 2015, a Bahraini court convicted 12 men in the case of killing the policeman Mahmoud Fareed and sentenced yet another person, Salman Isa, to death, while others were handed down imprisonment sentences ranging between life to 10 years, and all have had their citizenship revoked.Salman Isa, 30 years old, who is the most recent of 8 cases of death penalty, was first arrested on 27 December 2014, following ...
The head of the museum of the Imam Hussein Holy Shrine Mr. Ala Ahmed stated that in 1909, a French writer wrote in a French newspaper called L,Illustratio, about the Husseinian rites held annually in Ashura month. The piece of news which was written in 1909 and provided with photos show the practice of the Husseinian rites has just been presented to the Imam Hussein Holy Shrine by a French news agency. He also said that some other important ...
Chapter Seven: The Nasibi attack on the Prophet (sa) Salafi belief that Prophet (s) remained an idol worshiper for 40 years (God forbid)We read in Sahih al-Sirah al-Nabawyiah by Dr.Muhammad Rezq al-Tarhuni, volume 2 page 41:كان على أمر قومه أربعين عامًا“For forty years, He was on the faith of his people”.Similarly we read: Tafseer Al-Kabeer, Page 424, By Mohammad Fakhr ud-Din RaziTafseer Al-Kabeer, Page ...
One of the worst practices of our times is the custom of huge dowries. By this I mean the dowry which is against the shariah,the dowry which amounts to extravagance, the dowry which poses a hindrance to marriage. The result is that the girl has reached thirty years of age, but her father is unable to get her married because he cannot give her the dowry her friends or neighbors were given. The girl is twenty years old, and is getting many ...
Salamalaikum my new brothers and sisters! I’m a new revert to Shia Islam – I said my shahada in May of this year (2008), so I’ve been a Muslimah for just over 2 months. It’s difficult to know where to begin my story, as God has been leading me to Him my entire life.[From Darkness to Light]I had been a Christian my entire life, as I was raised in a conservative Christian family. We were Pentecostal for the ...
Birth Control; Who is behind it?
The emissary of Allah has said: 'Marry, procreate and proliferate!' 96 He also said: 'Marry, procreate and proliferate so that I may be proud of you as a nation on the day of judgement even if the child is stillborn'. 97These two traditions contain laws albeit in the form of recommendations which like all recommendations should only be neglected in the case of strict necessity. The night prayer for example is a ...
When I was a student at a Catholic high school in Queens, New York, I was taught that although philosophy is the mother of the sciences, she is also the handmaid of theology. Sometimes the dialogue between philosophy and theology may have seemed to have taken the form of orders given by the theological mistress to her erudite but obedient maid, but that was a long time ago, if ever it was at all.The idea that philosophy should be in service to ...
The sixth Greater Sin is to be disobedient to one's parents as expressly mentioned in the traditions from the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) and the Pure Imams (a.s.). These have already been quoted in the first chapter. A tradition of the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) says that the greatest sins are shirk and to be disobedient to one's parents. The seriousness of disobedience to parents as a Greater sin can be gauged from the fact that the Holy Prophet ...
The eighth among the Greater Sins is to usurp the property of an orphan who has not attained maturity.
This is categorized as a Greater sin by the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.), Imam Ali (a.s.), Imam Reza (a.s.), Imam Kazim (a.s.) and Imam Taqi (a.s.). It is a sin, the punishment of which is fixed by Allah to be the fire of Hell.
The Quran says, "(As for) those who swallow the property of the orphans unjustly, surely they only swallow fire ...
Member of Bahrain's Special Investigation Unit (SIU) Abdulrahman Al-Moawada said that the unit has received during January 2016, 17 complaints about torture or otherwise ill treatment and begun its investigations into the allegations.With regards to the SIU's achievements during the past month in the cases it's investigating, it has listened to the statements of 54 complaintants and witnesses, interrogated 26 defendants, questioned 28 suspects ...
It possible for us to know God immediately or directly? Our ordinary knowledge of God is knowledge by representation/correspondence (al ‘ilm al husuli). We have a concept of God; we don’t feel the real God. We know God through some concepts. These concepts provide us with abstract knowledge, mental knowledge. This is not immediate feeling of God. The mystic is looking to know God, not through these abstract concepts. In other words, ...
Religion Verses ill Manners
The Holy Qur`an manifests the reality of slander in one short but eloquent verse: “Does one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? But you abhor it,” Therefore, in the same way that it is natural for a human to reject eating the flesh of a dead person, his reason should resent slander. The religious, leaders gave as much attention to correcting the feelings and psychological characteristics of people ...
(A.S). In his early days, he practiced medicine and was under the patronage of the Barmaki Vizir (minister) during the Abbasid Caliphate of Haroon al-Rashid. He shared some of the effects of the downfall of the Barmakis and was placed under house arrest in Kufa, where he died in 803 C.E.Apart from several contributions of basic nature to alchemy, involving largely the preparation of new compounds and development of chemical methods, he also ...
- Failure to reach a nationwide consensus
Yemen is the only country among the Arab states that while the tribes are playing the major factor in its political structure it is not suffering from the pitfalls of government building. In fact, unlike many of the Arab countries, the Yemeni national identity is not artificial, rather, it is historically-developed and deep-rooted. This makes Ansarullah have no difficulty building the upcoming ...
Using Musical Instruments in a Halal Manner
What about the prohibitions on musical instruments?
There are hadiths which speak about the prohibition on the use of musical equipment, but they refer to the entertainment and amusement that are haram. There are scholars who view the prohibition of instruments used predominantly for haram purposes, even when they can be used for halal purposes. However, we see no problem in using these same ...
What Is The Philosophy Behind Wudhu And Ghusl ? ? Undoubtedly, wudhu possesses two manifest benefits - the medical benefit and the ethical and spiritual one. From the medical point of view, washing of the face and hands - and that too fives times a day or at the very least, three times a day – has an appreciable influence as far as the cleanliness of the body is concerned. Wiping the head and the exterior ...
"O thou soul which are at peace, return unto thy Lord, with gladness that is thine in Him and His in thee. Enter thou among My slaves. Enter thou My Paradise." (Quran - LXXXIX; 27-30 (trans. by M. Lings.)
The function of religion is to bestow order upon human life and to establish an "outward" harmony upon whose basis man can return inwardly to his Origin by means of the journey toward the "interior" direction. This ...
Allah’s (awj) nearness to things
In regards to the nearness of Allah (awj) to things, the verses of the Qur`an can be divided into four categories.
a. One group state His nearness per se: that Allah (awj) is near us:
“Verily I am near, I answer the caller.”[74]
b. A second group of verses state that He is relatively nearer to man than others:
“We are nearer to him than you but you do not see.”[75]
c. ...
