Thousands attend Eid al-Fitr prayer at Husainiyyah Baqiyyatullah Zaria, Nigeria 1436-2015
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Thousands of Muslims attended the Eid al-Fitr prayer at Husainiyyah Baqiyatullah Zaria on Thursday the 1st of Shawwal 1436 after completing 29 days of fasting.The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria explained some issues regarding differences in citing of the months in his sermon after the Eid prayer which he called the ...
Kurram Agency Pakistan Peoples Party President Hamid Hussain Toori was shot dead by assailants here on Tuesday.The motive behind the target killing is yet to be ascertained as the assassinated leader of the PPP had no enmity with anyone.The PPP Kurram Agency chapter has announced three-day mourning over the murder. Mr Toori was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard amid moving scenes.Mr Toori was at his residence when someone called him on his ...
Themes I - Our Youth In the Light Of The Quran
The Word as a medium of InstructionQuestion: In the light of the bequest of Luqman to his son as he was exhorting him, what is the value of direct education in terms of guidance, perspective, and advice?
Abrahamic education
Corrupt woman and society
Studies on Noah's experience
The Problem of Jealousy
Friendship and Friends
The Two Parents and their Guardianship over their ...
In his oral defense in court on Monday, Sheikh Ali Salman, Al Wefaq Secretary General reiterated the opposition’s call for a national dialogue to build “A Modern Bahrain”. He called on all Bahrainis to work for a political solution that must replace the current repressive security handling of the political crisis. He said the repression that has continued over the past five years has left Bahrain in economic and political ...
The hijab is something that I have been adhering and striving to perfect for more than about 10 years (since the age of 9). An attachment that has grown to become an integral part of my existence – the hijab is my true identity. My love and appreciation for it has intensified over the years, as the desire to sincerely worship Allah swt alone (not people/shaytaan/my own ego) has been my main focus and realisation in reaching the ultimate ...
The Generative Will of Action: This is Allah’s (awj) will in establishing the objective destiny and portion; that is, it pertains to the systems governing the cosmos, how things come about and operate, and their certain and definite ends This is manifested in the creation of creatures in different shapes, different ways, and in different times.
In the world of being, the Divine generative will governs the entire corpus of existents, ...
In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful
MORAL SYSTEM OF ISLAM
Islam has laid down some universal fundamental rights for humanity as a whole, which are to be observed and respected under all circumstances. To achieve these rights Islam provides not only legal safeguards but also a very effective moral system. Thus whatever leads to the welfare of the individual or the society is morally good in Islam and whatever is ...
WHY ARE THERE MORE WOMEN OF MARRIAGEABLE AGE THAN MEN?
Though the birth rate of girls is not higher than that of boys, yet there are more women of marriageable age than men. The reason is clear. The mortality rate of men is higher. Deaths usually occur at the age when man should normally be the head of a family. If we take into consideration the deaths which occur following accidents such as, wars, drowning, falls, motor collisions ...
Address by Sister Zahra Rahnavard at the Seminar for Studying Hejab. The Seminar for Studying Hejab was held on Sunday, 16th Dey 1364 (5th January 1986) at Farhang Hall. It was attended by some Members of the Majlis (Iranian Parliament), experts and officials of the Educational Affairs Section, Sector 11, Department of Education, Tehran. At this Seminar Sister Zahra Rahnavard gave a speech on "Zeebaiye Hejab va Hejabe Zibayi" (Beauty of ...
At least five Shiites were martyred and others injured in two terrorist attacks on Imam Hussein (AS) mourners in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province.
At least five Shiites were martyred and four people also sustained injuries in the armed attack on the religious center in the city of Saihat near the Qatif region of Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province on Friday night.
“A person who opened fire on a husseiniya was killed, and the ...
Imam Sajjad’s Reaction to Those Who Mistreated Him
The lives of religious leaders are lessons of honor, nobility, forgiveness and humanness. Their spiritual merits were manifested in practical lessons in a most magnificent picture. One day lmam Ali ibn al-Husain as-Sajjad (A.S.) was sitting in the company of his followers when a man, who was related to him, approached and began insulting the lmam (A.S.). This man’s name was at Hassan ibn ...
(1) What is post-modernism? Does it have a universal definition? A question asking for any definition that is universal implies the existence of an essential quality that transcends local context. This would according to the postmodern dogma constitute an unforgivable sin. The primary moral agenda behind postmodern attempts to destabilize the foundations of modern knowledge and modern ethics is to challenge essential theorizing claiming ...
ncentives of Backbiting(1) Enmity and envy are the strongest incentives of backbiting.(2) Joking is another incentive of backbiting, because it is regarded as fresh subject for arising joking and laughter at others.(3) Boasting is also an incentive of backbiting, because the boastful, in most cases, tries to refer to the others’ defects to prove that he disdains and does not enjoy such defects.(4) It frequently happens that an individual ...
January 16, 1979 remains in the mind of the Iranian people as a golden day when the then despotic ruler of Iran, Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi fled the country, faced with nationwide demonstrations and opposition.
The then winter season seemed to have gown warm as the people saw themselves at last free from a 50-year spell of despotism started by the Pahlavi regime in Iran.
The feat was completed fourteen days later when Imam Ruhollah Mousavi ...
The approach to choosing a spouse is much different in the angelic spirit of Islam, when compared to those religions or schools of thought which have become void of the spirit of revelations. Islam does not allow a believing Muslim man to choose any woman as his wife. Neither does it allow a believing Muslim woman to choose any man as her husband. This is so because there are certain things to be considered in marriage, such as their well-being ...
The present existence of an intermediate realm and of separate destinations there for the virtuous and the wicked is a well-founded religious belief. There can be no doubt that after death the spirits of men the only element within them that is truly essential are transferred to the vast expanse of the non-material world. Just as the spirit appears in man's body and material form after it has been fashioned to completion, the spirit retains its ...
Allah (God) wisely and fairly willed to create pairs of everything in the firmly-founded and extensive order of Creation. In the expansive scene of Creation the pairing of everything is an absolute truth with no exception. Even before man came to know this fact through his knowledge and perform scientific research on it, the Glorious Quran had made this truth known in numerous verses, including verse 49 of the Blessed Surah (Chapter) entitled ...
Greed is the excess fondness of money and fortune. It is one of the bad manners that draw to various evils and sins.Amir ul-Mu'minin (A.S) said: “Know with certainty that you cannot achieve your desire and cannot exceed your destined life. You are on the track of those before you. Therefore, be humble in seeking and moderate in earning because often seeking leads to deprivation. Every seeker of livelihood does not get it, nor is everyone ...
The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) stated that the Bahraini child Ali Abdullah Isa (15 years old) was recently arrested in a raid on his father's house in Zayed city in the early hours of the morning by members of civilian security forces and was taken to the juvenile detention center. BFHR added that he "was harshly beaten and tortured, despite his medical condition as he suffers from sickle cell anemia and was born with a punctured ...
Breaking up relations
The seventh Greater Sin is the breaking up of relations with one's kith and kin. This is clearly verified by Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) as well as Imam Musa al-Kazim (a.s.), Imam Ali ar-Reza (a.s.) and Imam Muhammad al-Taqi (a.s.). The Quran has also decreed Hell-fire and the curse of Allah upon those who cut off ties with their relatives.
Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) says: "Beware of those who cut off relations because I ...
