XII. Aristotelianism
The literary activity of Aristotle was a complexus of philosophy and of the sciences. The ages immediately following him placed greater stress on scientific development by given an empirical bent to the Peripatetic School. This was in keeping with the times. The first to direct the Lyceum after Aristotle was Theophrastus, who wrote a book on plants.
Philosophically, Theophrastus' system did not have developments of ...
Our conception of sabr is one of waiting, tolerating, of biding time. But interestingly, the tawhidi culture that Islam inherently promotes presents patience as a voracious, moving, strong and balanced trait. In his book Discourses on Patience, Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Khamenei explains this with the diverging stories of Hurr ibn Yazid ar-Riyahi & Omar bin Sa’d. Both soldiers were enlisted in the army of the tyrant caliph Yazid ibn ...
Iran's cultural representative in Peshawar, Pakistan, gifted an Urdu translation of the Holy Quran to the Minister of Religious Affairs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. According to the peshawar.icro.ir website, the Iranian official had a meeting with Habibul Rahman, the Pakistani minister on Friday, November 20. An invitation letter by the Secretary General of the World Assembly for the Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought was ...
- The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) stated that the Bahraini security authorities arbitrarily arrested 39 citizens, adding that 66 others were subjected to torture and ill-treatment during the third week of April, 2016.In a statement on the human rights situation in Bahrain during the period between April 15 and 22, the forum noted that the authorities made 46 illegal house raids and cracked down on 15 peaceful protests. BFHR said that ...
Training of children
The duty of every parent is to train the child in the right way. Training means teaching and guiding. Training also means producing required changes in a person. It is not enough for parents to cater for the physical needs of the child. They need to give the child an awareness and knowledge, help him gain good characteristics, and develop a virtuous personality. Such training of children has great benefits for the ...
Hundreds of UW students abstained from food and drink Friday between dawn and sunset. Funds raised in the event will go to Islamic Relief, a nonprofit organization currently supplying food, water and tents to victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
According to Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA) hundreds of UW students abstained from food and drink Friday between dawn and sunset for the Muslim Student Association’s (MSA) seventh-annual ...
A girl as young as 10 blew herself up in a busy market in northeastern Nigeria, killing herself and four others, and fueling fears Islamic extremists are using kidnapped girls as suicide bombers.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack Sunday, which also seriously wounded 46 people, but it bore the hallmarks of Nigeria's homegrown extremist group, Boko Haram.
The girl, who appeared to be no more than 10 years old, got out ...
The text of the statement which is signed by head of the Supreme Council at Qom's Society of Seminary Teachers Ayatollah Muhammad Yazdi is as follows: In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the most Merciful The inhumane massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and the brutal violence against them is going on while the so-called international human rights defenders keep silent. During this brutal mass slaughter of Muslims, men, women ...
An attorney for the president urged the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday to focus on the text of the religiously neutral executive order rather than use campaign statements to infer that the policy was driven by anti-Muslim sentiment. But that idea was challenged by several members of the 13-judge panel, which is examining a ruling that blocks the administration from temporarily barring new visas for citizens of Iran, Libya, ...
The vigil was held by laying flowers in the Centocelle district of Rome on Wednesday after three sisters from the Roma community, including two children and a young woman, lost their lives in a fire in their camper van. The victims, aged four, eight, and 20, were sleeping with their parents and eight other siblings when their van went up in flames. Other family members reportedly managed to escape the blaze. Investigators launched a homicide ...
- Pakistan’s Lahore terror attacks as well as other tensions in the capital city Islamabad have caused the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to grow concerns. The local park Golshan Iqbal in Lahore, the capital of the Pakistan’s Punjab province, has come under terror attacks after the country’s President Mamnoon Hussein and PM Nawaz Sharif had sent a message to the country’s Christian community, congratulating the ...
Islamic counselling and psychotherapy is a discipline that is vaguely defined. Information that is available on this topic is often limited in quantity and perspective to form the theoretical basis necessary to constitute a model of intervention for Islamic Counselling. Indeed in discussions with social service practitioners this lack of a coherent Islamic counselling methodology is frequently expressed.It is not unusual to find that counselling ...
esus has been referred to as ‘Issa and his chaste mother as Maryam in the Holy Quran.Both Jesus and his mother Mary have been held in high esteem in Islam. Muslims believe in Jesus as the Prophet of the Almighty God and his mother Mary as a pure and chaste woman who conceived and gave birth to her son purely by the will of God without any mortal touching her.Let us briefly look at some of the verses from the Holy Quran, which talks about ...
Women: Qur'anic examples of outstanding human beings
There have been many discussions about the Islamic view of women and I have spoken in this regard on many occasions. I have repeatedly said that in the Holy Qur'an women have been mentioned as examples of believers and disbelievers. This is an interesting point.Allah the Exalted mentions the names of two women as examples of outstanding and pious human beings - not examples of outstanding and ...
The Worth of Raising a Daughter in Islam
The Prophet (Pbuh) said: A female child is a blessing.[Furu al-Kafi, v.6, p.5]
God's Will in Granting a Child
The Holy God is the Creator of all He wills, the owner of the heavens and the Earth, the Wise, the Powerful, the Just, the Merciful and the Benevolent. His will and decision regarding his servants is pure kindness and favor. He is the manifestation of love, mercy and nobleness and proper ...
One's goal for marriage should be spiritual, holy and pure. One must marry in order to obey God's order and the Prophets' manner and to provide for the prosperity of his/her spouse as well as divinely raising children.
Both men and women should prepare themselves for engaging in a great act of worship when they marry. They should consider God's approval of their union and they should realize that through their loin and uterus, they carry God's ...
- The Iranian Cultural Center in Senegal plans to hold a series of forums on “the world without violence” on May 14 and 15 in the African country.According to the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, the programs will be organized with the motto of "The World without Violence and Extremism”, the Iranian President’s proposal approved in the UN General Assembly in December 2014."Muslim Students, the World without ...
At least 35 migrants drowned in two accidents in the Aegean Sea on Monday as they tried to cross from Turkey to Greece. In the latest incident, at least two dozen refugees lost their lives on Monday when their boat sank off the district of Edremit in the western Turkish province of Balikesir in an apparent bid to reach the Greek island of Lesbos, Dogan news agency reported. The accident came shortly after 11 asylum seekers died after another ...
The 17-month-old son of Zainab al-Khawaja was not allowed by Bahraini Regime to be taken out of the prison however his mother is suffering from a severe flu and cannot take care of ...
Chapter One:
Excellence Of Marriage
MAN AND WOMAN: ENHANCEMENTS OF EACH OTHER
Allah created man in a manner which he is incomplete and imperfect without a spouse. Many may upgrade his knowledge, faith and qualities, but he shall never reach the desire perfection while he does not have a spouse. (Be it man or woman). Nothing can substitute marriage and the raising of a family. Both the male and female sexes need each other from a spiritual, ...
