Members of the US armed services could be prosecuted for war crimes for providing midair refueling and other military support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, the Obama administration has been warned. Nearly 4,000 Yemeni civilians have been killed since the conflict began in earnest in March In a letter to secretary of state John Kerry and defence secretary Ash Carter, US congressman Ted Lieu, a former air force lawyer, said the ...
I always believed in one god. My entire life during hardship I asked god for help even as a child. I remember crying on my knees in the kitchen, screaming and crying all around me. I was praying for god to make it stop. Religion on the other hand never did make sense. The older I got the less it really made [Angel] sense to me. People thinking they were the negotiator between you and god. I felt the same about Jesus peace be upon him. How does ...
Takfiri terrorists of Sipah-e-Sahaba assassinated a Shia doctor in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa province's capital city Peshawar on Saturday.
Dr. Asim was sitting inside his clinic situated in Hayatabad area of Peshawar when the takfiri terrorists stormed into the clinic and opened fire upon him. He embraced martyrdom.
Shia parties and leaders have condemned the targeted murder of Shia medical doctor in Hayatabad Peshawar. They demanded public hanging ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - On the sidelines of the 6th Ahlul Bayt World Assembly Congress which is ended in Tehran yesterday, the Exhibition of Islamic Republic of Iran's Cultural Works presents books in 10 different languages.According to IBNA correspondent quoting from the public relation office of Al-Hoda International Institute, the 6th Ahlul Bayt World Assembly Congress has been attended by the religious and political leaders of more than 130 ...
A discontented nurse working clandestinely for a covert medical corps in Şanlıurfa—a city in Southeastern Turkey, close to the border with neighboring Syria— divulged information about the alleged role which Sümeyye Erdogan plays in providing extended medical care for ISIL wounded militants transferred to Turkish hospitals. Living in a dilapidated apartment in Istanbul’s outskirts along with her two children, a 34-year- ...
A rally was staged in Germany in solidarity with the prominent Saudi Shia cleric Sheikh al-Nimr.
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - A rally was staged in Germany in solidarity with the prominent Saudi Shia cleric Sheikh al-Nimr. In the capital, Berlin, Germans called upon Riyadh to immediately release Sheikh Nimr and drop all illegal charges brought against him as they carried large portraits of the Shia Saudi cleric.The German demonstrators also ...
Merits of the Islamic SocietyBecause of its remarkable qualities, the Islamic society, in the reign of its prosperity, was nonesuch and ideal among the international civilized nations. Its individuals composed one compact family of virtues and dignities. It has been a nonesuch example of belief that included secrets of monotheism, showed true traits of divinity, declared the reality of prophesy, and explained the dimensions of the ...
A Palestinian youth succumbed to his wounds early Sunday morning after a wall, where he took shelter from bullet fire, was hit by an Israeli jeep, crushing him.Eye-witnesses said the 22-year-old youth Abdullah Iyad Ghaneim breathed his last after he was crushed by a wall that he took as a cover from Israeli bullet fire.Ghaneim breathed his last in the clashes that burst out shortly after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rolled in ...
A Tunisian scholar emphasized that although Wilayat al-Faqih is an old theory, but Imam Khomeini renewed it in order to eliminate the gap between Sunnis and Shi’ites.” Ahmad al-Abyadh, a Tunisian Sunni scholar and professor of social psychology at the University of Tunis, stated that the theory of Wilayat al-Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurisprudent) was the most important issue explained by Imam Ruhollah Khomeini. “Although, ...
The annual Hajj pilgrimage that ended in the first week of October, was meant by God Almighty to remove all distinctions of wealth, class, position or authority, but as Canada-based Journalist Zafar Bangash Zafar Bangash, who is Director of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought, points out in the Crescent International Fortnightly, "the Saudis have reduced it to a purely commercial enterprise devoid of its Qur'anic content and ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Shaykh Dr. Ahmad Mahmoud Karimah, the director of the Department of Contemporary Islamic Jurisprudence at Egypt’s famous al-Azhar University, has stated that after his visit to Iran last August, he was repeatedly questioned.Dr. Karimah emphasized that he only went to Iran in his capacity as a professor to teach comparative jurisprudence in relation to the five Islamic schools of thought for personal purposes and ...
A Muslim woman denied a sales job at an Abercrombie & Fitch Co clothing store in Oklahoma because she wears a head scarf has won the support of Christians, Jews, Sikhs and fellow Muslims as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear her case.
Various religious and civil rights organizations have filed friend-of-the-court briefs backing Samantha Elauf, who was denied a sales job at the store in Tulsa in 2008 when she was 17.
Their lawyers say ...
Chapter two:
When Must We Marry?
One of the important problems in connection with marriage and choosing a spouse, which must be taken into consideration, is the time and age of it.Much has been written and said on this topic. And everybody has endeavoured to answer this question according to his own taste and perdisposition, understanding, knowledge, and mental ability. We must say that the answer to the question "when must we marry?" is ...
It is a natural, human and vital affair for men to be attracted to women and vice versa, especially when the buds of the instincts bloom and the flower of lust with its intense degree and power appears at the time when one is marriageable. Marriage is an undeniable affair for anyone. The just desire of the youth, whether they be young women or men, concerning the future of establishing a married life is an obvious truth. This truth is as clear ...
Respect For Parents
As it is Wajib to fulfill the rights of the parents, it is also necessary to give them due respect and honour. Numerous traditions have been recorded from the Ahlul-bayt (a.s.)
1) One must not address the parents by their names. However, they can be addressed by their title or kunniyat. 2) One must not precede them while walking, nor should one sit down before them. 3) While having meals one should not begin before the ...
Seeking Knowledge
One of most valuable man's characteristics being one's power and aptitude to acquire cognition and knowledge... cognition of oneself, of the world in which one lives, and of secrets and mysteries concealed in the existence... etc. Man can acquire all this cognition through reasoning, detection and witnesses, gaining perfection of existence for oneself within the range of this cognition. In the Islamic Law this perfection has ...
According to Islam, the Hijab is practiced in order to build one's self-esteem and maintain one's self-respect and dignity amongst society and its members. It is a practice which allows women an escape route from the negative expectations of society. The Hijab is a practice which teaches Muslims self-control and order, a significant element of Islam.
It is common in today's times for people to view the physical version of the Hijab as ...
Allah states in Qur'an: ' And We did not create the heaven and the earth and what is between them for sport. Had We wished to make a diversion, We would have made it from before ourselves: by no means would We do (it).' Holy Qur'an (21:16, 17)
The above surah amply emphasizes the seriousness with which Allah created this world and everything that exists therein, including the human beings. Allah created us for a specific and important purpose ...
Criteria of Spouse Selection
WHOM MAY WE SELECT AS A SPOUSE?
Now we have reached the most sensitive and important point of our discussions! Whatever we have discussed so far was a prelude and prefix to this chapter. That is to say, whom may we select as a spouse? With what sort of qualities, peculiarities, standards and criterions, so that we may lead a prosperous life with each other, and be the cause of each other's progress, ...
The Holy Qur’an:1. "Eat and drink of that which Allah has provided and do not act corruptly, making mischief on the earth” (2:60)2. “Eat clean and Halal from what portion God allots to you” (5:88)Traditions:1. Natural Needs:Imam Baqir (PBUH): “the Almighty God created human beings as hollow in middle (having stomach) and thus it needs water and food (Kafi 6/287)Elaborating the saying of Prophet Moses ...
