In the holy month of Ramadan, Iraqi Christians have set up Iftar booths in different cities, offering food, water and dates to fasting Muslims to break their fast after evening Adhan (call to prayers).
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - In the holy month of Ramadan, Iraqi Christians have set up Iftar booths in different cities, offering food, water and dates to fasting Muslims to break their fast after evening Adhan (call to prayers).According to ...
ISIS terrorist militants have publicly beheaded a man for allegedly practicing witchcraft - the latest in a long line of barbaric executions carried out by the terror group.
ISIS terrorist militants have publicly beheaded a man for ISIS terrorist militants have publicly beheaded a man for allegedly practicing witchcraft - the latest in a long line of barbaric executions carried out by the terror group.
The unknown man was photographed being ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) broke into al-Haram al-Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil city in the southern West Bank on Tuesday. Local sources revealed that a group of IOF soldiers stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the afternoon amid intensive presence of Muslim worshipers.The soldiers were roaming and laughing inside the mosque which provoked Muslims.Along time ago, the Israeli forces divided the Ibrahimi Mosque after ...
In reply to some one who posed Imam Ali (as) a difficult question, Imam Ali (as) said:
'Ask in order to understand, and do not ask in order to find fault, for surely the ignorant man who wants to learn resembles a man of knowledge, and surely a man of knowledge who wants to be difficult resembles an ignorant man who wants to find fault. ...
Iranian Sunni clerics in a letter to the UN and other international organizations called for heightened efforts to free prominent Shiite cleric Nimr Baqr al-Nimr who has received a death sentence from a Saudi court. "We, a group of Sunni clerics in Iran, on behalf of the Clergymen and the Sunni community in Iran, condemn this inhumane verdict which is issued in contrary to international and judicial practices and demand its immediate abolition ...
NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF A FAMILY
Interest in the numerical increase of the children and the expansion of the family has been another cause of polygamy. The position of a man and a woman with regard to the number of children each of them can have is different. The number of children a woman can bear is very limited, whether she has one husband or several husbands. But the number of children which a man can beget depends on the number of women he ...
Six years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, no foreign trips were made by officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The crucial moments created by the Imposed War, and furthermore, the domestic crisis that used to happen one after the other made all forces within the government and the nation to spend their efforts entirely on a struggle against the anti-revolutionary rebels. Such a situation left no time for international trips. At ...
Youth: The Pedagogical Responsibility
Characteristics of the Islamic Educator
From the Islamic perspective, what are the characteristics of the tutor or teacher? What are his responsibilities?
The first vital characteristic is that the teacher should be, from the aspect of professional competence, wellgrounded in the field of knowledge which he wishes to impart to others. If he is unqualified, then teaching will be an exercise in ...
What is happiness?We take different paths on our journey to happiness. Some of us define happiness through material possessions, such as a particular house, car or general lifestyle. This is what most people are working towards when they say or think ‘I want to be happy’. Others define happiness through personal relationships, such as having a loving spouse, or loving family members around them. Yet others define happiness through ...
The Prophet (Pbuh) said: Whoever marries and visits his relatives for the sake of God, God shall attend to him by placing a crown like that of the angels on his head. [Vasa'il, v.20, p.51, Al-i-Bayt Press]
The Sincerity of One's Intentions
These wise and important words have been reported on the authority of the Prophet (Pbuh): Whoever marries to please Allah and establish a family, God will adorn his head with the crown of angels. Marriage ...
The Angels and free-will
Question: We know that some angels do nothing but worship Allah (awj). Is this worship of theirs performed of their own freewill? If not, does Allah (awj) have need of such worship?
Brief Answer
No benefit from any creature’s worship—whether it has freewill or not—reaches Allah (awj). Rather worship that is offered out of freewill is the cause for the spiritual advancement of the ...
By: Shaykh Nasir Makarim Shirazi‘Abdullah b. ‘Umar said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah (S) say, 'My nation will be divided into three categories in the transient world. The first group are those who do not like to gather (and save) wealth and (also) do not bother in hoarding it. These people are content with the transient world in that amount which will remove the hunger and clothe the nakedness (the bare necessities of ...
The Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno (city of California) issued a statement this week denouncing a statement from the highest ranking religious authority in Saudi Arabia, Shaykh Abdul Aziz al-Shaykh, who said Iranians are not Muslims because they are “descendants of Majus” – a term that refers to Zoroastrians, a monotheistic religion predating Christianity and Islam that was the dominant religion in Persia before Arab ...
A year ago, Indira Kaljo, a female Muslim basketball player, chose to wear the hijab, the Islamic headdress for women.
She took the decision following an "awakening" during a charity trip to earthquake-hit Haiti.
But the Bosnian-American player quickly realized she would not be able to play professionally in Europe as basketball's governing body had forbidden the use of any type of headgear, including hijabs, turbans or yarmulkes, during ...
Ramadan is a special time for us, and we want to make it a special time for the community,” Elsayed Elmarzouky, president of the Islamic Center and a longtime spokesman for the Islamic community, told Reading Eagle on Saturday, May 20. “It’s very hard not to touch any food or drink, but practicing this tradition honors God,” Elmarzouky explained. “It’s a test of faith. We are not forced to do so, but we ...
Existence of spirits within animals and its differnce from that of the Human Being
Question: Do animals possess souls and if so how does the animal soul differ from the human soul?
Brief Answer
Before embarking on the answer to this question, it must be noted that the answer provided below is based on the school of Transcendent Theosophy, i.e., Sadrian philosophy. In this light, the answer will be expounded under two ...
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - At least 30 people are feared dead and over 100 injured after two subsequent explosions hit a densely populated area of Kurram Agency's Parachinar city Friday evening, Sabir Hussain, the medical superintendent (MS) of the District General Hospital, Parachinar, said.
The MS has appealed for help, saying the hospital is not equipped to handle the large number of casualties.This is the second major bombing incident ...
Resurecction
Question:Please discuss the issue of resurrection in detail both from a rational and a natural or instinctive perspective. Please refer to important books regarding this topic.
Brief Answer
The answer to this question will be clarified by examining three philosophical perspectives—that of Masha’ (Peripatetic Philosophy), Ishraq (Illuminationist Philosophy), and Hikmat al-Muta’aliyah (Transcendental ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - A total of 47,210 racist crimes were reported across the European Union in 2013, with an anti-racism organisation warning that this is only the “tip of the iceberg”, as many crimes go unreported.Muslim women, people of African descent/black Europeans and Roma are reported to be most at risk of racially motivated crimes.The report, the first of its kind which examines racist crimes based on civil society ...
