A Spanish primary school headmaster has sparked uproar after writing a letter to parents warning them not to let their children fast in a school that is almost exclusively attended by Muslim students, a move rejected by parents as interfering in religious ...
Quran is a book which guides human beings in several dimensions of life and nobody can deny its several special characteristics and everybody may use it according to his capacity, here we want to talk about different viewpoints of non-Muslim scholars about Quran which show that the divine trainings of this book will soon spread through the world. Of course it should be mentioned that every scholar has looked at Quran from his own point of view ...
O Mary! God hath chosen thee and purified thee above the women of all nations.[Holy Quran: Al-i-Imran 3:42]
God's Pure Religion
The revered religion of Islam fundamentally differs from other religions and schools of thought in all areas. The Shiite school of thought is actually Islam interpreted by the Household of the Prophet (Pbuh) and the rightful successors to the Noble Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh). The Orthodox Islam has been expressed in the ...
(1) قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ(2) مَلِكِ النَّاسِ(3) إِلَهِ النَّاسِ(4)مِن شَرِّ الْوَسْوَاسِ الْخَنَّاسِ(5)الَّذِي يُوَسْوِسُ فِي صُدُورِ النَّاس(6) مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَ النَّاسِIn The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful1. Say: I take refuge with the Lord of Mankind,2. The King of Mankind,3. The ...
HOW DOES ISLAM BUILD THE FAMILY
By analyzing these arguments, we understand that none of the
Religious learned scholars deny the virgin from exercising her will or harming her.
On the contrary, they try to protect her against any act of rashness
caused by her naive youth and tender adolescence or driving desires,
and prevent her from falling a prey to the seduction of men and their
carnal desires, which may turn her into means of ...
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei's new representative to Damascus started official work on Friday. The Leader's new representative Abolfalz Tabatabai-Ashkezari was introduced in a ceremony held in Hazrat Zainab's shrine in the presence of a number of high ranking officials from the Leader's office. Leader's former representative to Syria Mojtaba Hosseini was appointed as Leader's representative to Iraq in August ...
Close to 300 Muslim scholars and imams from Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo have issued a religious edict (fatwa) against Al Shabaab and its extremist Wahhabi doctrine. They said they will henceforth “join their respective governments in weeding out extremism” after realizing that extremist ideas must be combated. They warned that radicalism threatens the existence of sovereign nations and ...
Here it is essential to discover the reason why ordinarily the theists refer to the origin and beginnings of life when relating life to the Divine will, and to discover as well the reason why the Noble Qur'an has never taken this path in its effort to affirm monotheism, consider ing as it does life and biological developments absolutely the direct result of God's will, without making any distinction whatsoever between the beginning of life and ...
“Imam Sajjad (A.S.), The Face of Worshipers”, “Jihad of Imam Sajjad (A.S.)”, “Ethics Effects in the Prayers of Imam Sajjad (A.S.)”, “Imam Sajjad (A.S.), The Fourth Leader”, “The Life of Imam Sajjad (A.S.)” etc., are some of the titles that with the theme of lifestyle and conduct of Imam Sajjad (A.S.) have been published and released by Islamic Research Foundation of Astan Quds Razavi. ...
Anyone who is good-natured with a pleasant disposition would also face the hardships and problems of life in the same manner. These are the kinds of personality that people are attracted to and continually seek. The pleasant disposition and attitude of a person would be immune to psychological disorders since their outlook to life is to overcome their hardships in the best feasible manner.
"Imam Sadiq (PEACE BE UPON HIM) stated: 'No ...
Protest in Vienna capital of Austria against beheading of 7 Afghan Shia Hazaras.
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Hundreds protest in Vienna capital of Austria against killing of 7 innocent Shia Hazaras in Afghanistan.
The murdered Shia Hazaras included four men, one woman and two girls. Some had their throats slit - it is not clear by whom.Their bodies were found at the weekend in southern Zabul province where fighting between rival Taliban factions ...
In Book Two of the noble Mathnawi-, Jala-l ad-Di-n Muhammad Mawlawi- [Balkhi- ar-Ru-mi-] has a short and elegant story. An ignorant desert Arab has a sack full of grain and he wants it to load on top of his camel. But instead of dividing it into two, he takes another sack full of sand so as to balance the weight of the sack full of grain and load the two on both sides of the camel. Along the way, a sage man becomes his co-traveler and talks with ...
Men and women need each other spiritually and intrinsically and such a need is something that does not change because of social changes and industrial and technological advancement. This need is rooted in the nature of human beings and it is this very nature which drives human beings to form families and sound family relations. It is an important concern of our age which accounts for the decrease in wrong-doing, mental aberration and ...
Today we suffer from early maturity. This is due to the cultural invasion of the minds and spirits of our youth by the voices and images of the atheist global media. Pornography is an international catastrophe causing sexual arousal. Therefore, it is both religiously ordained and morally expected of the Islamic government and people, the rich, the relatives and the parents to do all they can to ease the marriage of the youth. They should ...
Considering The Principle of Marriage in the Cosmos, we come to intersting conclusions that are informed in the Holy Quran in advance. As an example the honorable verse in Zaryat Surah makes the case clear “ And of everything We have created pairs: That ye may receive instruction.[Holy Quran: Zariyat”. The text to be followed is a part of the book “ The Islamic Family Structure” by Hossein Ansaryan that elaborates on the importance ...
Here we intend to carry out a Qur'anic study of the problem of life to find out the specific viewpoint of the Qur'an about life. In particular, we intend to study the view that the Qur'an takes of the relation between life and the supranatural world and Divine will.
The Noble Qur'an recurringly mentions life. In many of its verses, the coming to life of creatures, the different stages of life, the system involved in the creation of living ...
Divine Tests
Question: If Allah (awj) is omniscient, why does He need to test mankind?
Brief Answer
As implied by the question, because Allah (awj) is omniscient, the purpose of His tests is not to unveil something hitherto unknown. Rather, the Qur`an and ahadith suggest that these tests serve two purposes. First, they comprise a Divine precedent (sunnah ilahiyyah[129]) that is in turn based on another Divine precedent ...
THE LAWS WHICH HAVE A RIGHT OF VETO
Another aspect of Islam which has given this religion the characteristic of mobility and applicability to varying circumstances, and has kept it as a living and everlasting religion, is that within it there exists a body of laws whose object is to control and modify other laws. They are called by the jurists, 'the governing rules'.
The rule of "No harm" and "No loss", that a law will not apply to those ...
QUESTION AND OBSERVATION
At this stage, a question and objection comes forth; that is, if being religious is the real standard of success, then why do we see many religious ones who do not lead good lives and their lives are disturbed and unhappy?
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1- Wasail al-Shia, vol. 14, p 31.
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ANSWER
Firstly, religiousness (devoutness) means real ...
