If someone owns some property and wishes to relinquish possession of it, his transference of it may be such that it is final. That is, now only will it go out of his possession, but he can never claim it back, whether, e.g., he frees a slave, or gives up possession of a house or some land to make it a place of worship, a mosque, or a place for use in pilgrimages. By such an act, the property can never again return to the ownership of that person ...
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A Ph.D. dissertation on Shia jurisprudence written in English language was defended by Hujjat al-Islam Jahangiri in the seminary of Qom.
The doctoral dissertation defense was held at the International Institute for Islamic Studies in the city of Qom, Iran.This dissertation study on Shia jurisprudence was done by Hujjat al-Islam Yahya Jahangiri, an international Muslim missionary who was a Ph.D. candidate in the field ...
More than 1,000 Muslim clerics in India have ratified a religious ruling that condemns the Islamic State and calls the extremist group's actions "un-Islamic," a top Indian Muslim leader said Wednesday.
Religious leaders from hundreds of Islamic mosques, education institutions and civic groups across India have signed the edict, or fatwa, saying the actions of the Islamic State group went against the basic tenets of Islam.
The edict was issued by ...
By: Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi
It is quite probable that these so-called experts of Islam and of the Middle East have confused the basic order of the Qur’an with the style of hijab worn by Muslim women of various ethnic backgrounds.
The requirement of hijab is a Qur’anic command. The basic requirement is that a Muslim woman should cover her head and bosom with a khimar (a head covering), and her body with a jilbab (a loose over-garment). ...
The 30th Islamic unity conference under the banner of "Unity, Necessity of Countering Takfiri movements" was kicked off by President Hasan Rouhani in Iranian Capital City of Tehran with religious thinkers and elites from more than 50 countries across the World in attendance.The unity event this year is centered on the hows of countering Takfiri groups for boosting unity among Muslims and braving the standing problems the World of Islam is ...
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says conditions set by Western countries for supplying Iran with nuclear fuel prompted the country’s young scientists to produce the fuel on Iran's soil.Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with heads of Iranian universities and higher education centers in the capital, Tehran, on Wednesday.“ln the case of selling 20-percent [nuclear] fuel [to Iran], Western ...
Mothers and fathers must pay attention to the fact that the right to choose a spouse - with important conditions that dear Islam has stated - belongs to the offspring themselves. Parents do not have the right to force their son to marry a girl whom he does not approve of. Also parents do not have the right to force their daughters to marry the ones she does not want to. The offspring have the God-given right of freedom to choose their spouse. A ...
Nigerian forces have opened fire at a group of Shia Muslims holding a demonstration in preparation for the upcoming Arba’een mourning rituals, which mark 40 days after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein, the third Shia ...
Pakistan's Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) chief and senior politician Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao along-with a high profile delegation met Majlis Wahdat ul Muslimeen leader Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri at MWM protest camp, Islamabad, to discuss the current country’s turmoil and problems pertaining to Shiite nation.
AhlulBayt News Agency - Pakistan's Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) chief and senior politician Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao along-with a high ...
By: Seyyed Ali ShahbazThe 12th of Muharram, two days after Muslims all over the globe observed Ashura, with a rare unanimity, thanks to the sighting of the crescent on the same day throughout the world this year.Hopefully, this would be a good omen for the solidarity of the ummah at a time when at the bidding of the enemies of Islam, Muslims are tearing themselves apart.While Ashura is marked as a day of grief by the majority of Muslims ...
A letter calling on “Muslim authorities” to reject parts of Islam’s holy book of Qur'an and signed by 300 French public figures – including an ex-president, three former premiers and several MPs – has sparked reaction across ...
Mutah: is a fixed-time marriage which is a marriage with a preset duration, after which the marriage is automatically dissolved. It is the second form of marriage, described in the Qur'an (4:24). Details regarding Mutah here Nikkah: is the contract between a bride and bridegroom and part of an Islamic marriage, a strong covenant (mithaqun Ghalithun) as expressed in Qur'an 4:21). The first part of the marriage ceremony, Nikah, is the ...
Larycia Hawkins, an associate professor of political science at Wheaton College, posted a photo of herself in the Muslim head cover last week, stating that she stands in “human solidarity” with Muslims “because we are formed of the same primordial clay”.
She added that Muslims, like Christians, are “people of the book...and as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God.”
It didn't take long for ...
Mankind was but one people; so Allah sent the prophets as bearers of good tidings and as warners, and He sent down with them the book with the truth, so that it might judge between the people in that in which they had differed. And none differed about it but the very people who were given it, after clear signs had come to them, revolting among themselves; whereupon Allah guided, by His will, those who believed to the truth about which they ...
rand Ayatollah Abdullah Javadi Amoli, senior Shia jurisprudent, met with members of the national conference on legal alliance of the Muslim world and said a great asset to reach Islamic unity is logics highlighting the high capacities of seminaries to reach solidarity. He said,” Unity is not achieved merely through preaching or recommendations” and added a prerequisite to resolve disagreement is to distinguish the nature of ...
Satan’s Influence
Question: How does Satan influence our thoughts?
Brief Answer
Before we can investigate the influence of Satan on our thoughts, we must gain an understanding of who Satan is.
Lexicographers differ over the linguistic root of the word shaytan (satan). The strongest opinion states that it comes from “shatana” meaning “to be far.” As it is known, shaytan in ‘Arabic, is a common noun, ...
Following a four-week pause, Friday and congregational prayers were resumed in Shiite mosques today on Friday (July 15, 2016), as part of a joint decision made by Shiite clerics
AhlulBayt News Agency - Following a four-week pause, Friday and congregational prayers were resumed in Shiite mosques today on Friday (July 15, 2016), as part of a joint decision made by Shiite clerics. Sheikh Mohammad Sanqour led the largest Friday prayer in Al-Diraz ...
Not in the least. Islam strictly condemns the use of violence against innocent lives. There is no justification in Islam for terrorism. Targeting the lives of innocent civilians and their property through suicide bombings or any other means of attack is haram (impermissible), and those who commit these acts are criminals, not martyrs.
The Qur’an states in this regard: "Whoever kills a person [unjustly]…it is as though he has killed ...
Dr. Muhammad Legenhausen0n 25 October 1994, the Turkish scholar Adnan Aslan interviewed Profs. Nasr and Hick at the home of John Hick in Birmingham. The topic of discussion was religious pluralism, about which Dr. Aslan was writing his doctoral dissertation. Later Dr. Aslan published a book in which he compares the ideas of Profs. Nasr and Hick on religious pluralism. Unfortunately, I have not yet had the opportunity to see this work, but the ...
- Do not be surprised if you find the airport crowded with Shia clerics, because these clerics from Lucknow are now being invited from all parts of the world to address the Muharram majlis, a religious congregation during the period of mourning.Well known Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Sadiq is already in London for the first 12 days of Moharram and will then tour other parts of Europe to hold the majlis.Another Shia cleric, Maulana Mirza Mohammad ...
