A top Iranian cleric warned on Friday that Washington has sought to blame Tehran for any possible failure of the diplomatic negotiations for clinching a final agreement over Iran's nuclear energy program. Addressing a large congregation of worshippers here in Tehran on Friday, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said the recent news about a shift in the positions of Americans during the Vienna nuclear talks backs up the notion that the US is not ...
Mufti Tanveer Alam Farooqi, the leader of an extremist group, was sentenced by the court on Monday in the garrison city of Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad. Judicial sources said Judge Asif Majeed Awan found him guilty of "acts intended or likely to stir up sectarian hatred" in the violence-wracked country. "He was awarded a six-month jail sentence and a 50,000-rupee (500-dollar) fine," media outlets quoted an unnamed senior security ...
However, after the occultation of Imam Al-Mahdi, the Shia community have introduced many great scholars, who have been very influential domestically and globally. These scholars developed and delivered new methods of discretion and interpretation, which has helped Shias and even other sects to understand their religion in a more effective approach.
2.Sheik Al-Mufid: Sheikh Al-Mufid was born in a small town north of Baghdad named, Ukbara in 948. ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Introduction: “Al – Nakba” is a Palestinian term that looks into the human tragedy associated with the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. It is the name the Palestinians call their displacement, and the destruction of most of their political, economic and cultural aspects in 1948, it is the year the Palestinians were forced out of their homes and lands and lost it in order to ...
PART ONE
Wafa and Raja are two sisters in religion. They exchange letters, which indicates that one of them has been a religious guide to the other.
Dear sister Wafa,
Assalamu Alaikum,
I must confess that you have been a real guiding light to me in my life...I am writing to you, while darkness has engulfed the Universe. Night has gently put out its fingers to wipe away the troubles of the day and give rest to the exhausted. ...
Offering a window into Muslims' life in Ramadan, a recently founded Dearborn company has produced its first Ramadan commercial, displaying a glimpse into Muslim lives and traditions during the holy month, news agencies reported. “A part of the message is to show that Islam is very diverse,” said Wissam Bazzi, of Dearborn Heights and founder of Piximotion. “Islam in the mainstream media is not the only perspective.” The ...
Muhaddis Jazaairi (r.a.) mentions at the end of Anwaar-e-Nomaaniyah: If you ask when souls live in allegorical bodies in Vaadiyus Salaam, why we have been asked to visit graves (for reciting Fatihaa and prayers)? And how do the souls understand that a visitor has arrived when they are not present in the graves? The reply is that it has been narrated form Imam Sadiq (a.s) that though the souls live in Waadiyus Salaam, their relations with graves ...
Chess In a Halal Setting
Should we refrain from accepting the view on the permissibility of chess?
Imam Khomeini ruled on the permissibility of chess on the grounds that the view of its prohibition depended on chess being regarded as a tool of gambling. He felt that it has come out of this classification and entered the realm of the permissible. This is confirmed by some hadiths which insist that "certainly chess is gambling" but they do not ...
For Mohammed Jafri, thoughts that his hijab-wearing wife might be attacked when she is running errands by herself, either in grocery shopping alone or shuttling the kids to the park, have hijacked his personal feeling of safety forever.
"I tell her to try not to go anywhere she doesn't need to go, and I try to go with her most places when I can," Jafri, who lives in New Jersey.
Jafri said his attitude is a direct reaction to what he and other ...
Islamic Conditions for Marriage
By: Hojjat al-Islam Shaykh Husain AnsariyanMarry those among you who are single, or the virtuous ones among yourslaves, male or female. [Holy Quran: Nur 24:32]
Religion and PietyThe revered religion of Islam is in fact a system supplied with beliefs, morals and practical matters. Religious faith in Islam consists of joining up of the heart with God and belief in the Day of Judgment; the angels; the Prophets and ...
Some western writers who are no doubt prejudiced have been dubious about the descent of revelation upon our Holy Prophet 75 and have considered it a sort of disease called hysteria. Fortunately, this false accusation is so vain and baseless that it calls for no arguments to prove its falsehood. It is well-known that hysteria has certain moods and indispositions, none of which has been observed in the Holy Prophet of Islam. As John Davenport has ...
A drone strike in Afghanistan has killed a militant commander who recently swore allegiance to ISIS, officials say.
The police chief of Helmand said that former Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Rauf had died in the Nato strike.
It emerged last month that Rauf had sworn allegiance to IS after falling out with the Taliban.
Tribal elders in northern Helmand say a car carrying up to six people was destroyed while crossing the desert.
The car was ...
The above-mentioned writer says, “A group of the extremists (ghulat) believe that the Holy Qur'an is misrepresented. Some chapters and verses on 'Ali's guardianship and succession have been left out. They do not believe in the Holy Qur'an compiled by 'Uthman and say that he changed and misrepresented it according to his wish. For example, they say the Confederates Chapter (Sura al-Ahzab) which contains 73 verses now had 286 verses before ...
Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi made the remark on Sunday during a televised speech in which he also noted that Riyadh’s onslaught is aimed at dividing the nation. He went on to call on the people of Yemen to safeguard their unity against all external threats and challenges. Houthi further stressed that the nation is united with Ansarullah. He also slammed the international community’s silence towards Saudi Arabia’s war ...
Islam, as the most complete divine religion, has room for everyone and has no limitations for accepting people. Everyone, with different colours, races, appearance, social status, and language can ascend to this peak. It is like a university without conditions for admitting new students. The doors are open to everyone. But it does not end here.It is true that God has given everyone the opportunity to enter the path towards happiness. But one ...
DOWER AND MAINTENANCE - I
It is one of the most ancient traditions of the human family relations that at the time of marriage the man pays a dower (mahr) to the woman or to her father. In addition to that, he undertakes to bear the expenses of his wife and children during the entire period of his life.
What is the basis of this tradition? Why and how did it begin? Why should the husband be responsible for the maintenance of his wife? ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - LAHORE, Pakistan: A court in Pakistan has jailed an Imam or prayer leader for five years for inciting hate against Shiite Muslims, officials said Wednesday.The extremist prayer leader, Abubakar, was arrested in February in Kasur district, Punjab, some 50 kilometres south of Lahore, for making a speech against the Shia Muslims, a prosecutor told AFP.“The judge of an anti-terrorism court on Tuesday sentenced the Imam ...
Fulfilling an old dream, Muslims in Uganda have opened the country's first-ever Islamic television channel in the country, hoping it will launch a revival of their faith in the country after years of absence of Muslim voice in the media. “Our listeners demanded for a Television station they would relate with and that is how the idea was conceived,” Al-Hajji Karim Kalisa, the managing director of Salam TV said. Despite having ...
The United States has offered a $12 million bounty for information leading to the arrest of two senior officials from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance ...
Mysticism in the Islamic context has traditionally been intertwined with the notion of Ḥikmah, which is at once both wisdom and philosophy (Nasr 1996). The source of mysticism and the mystical elements in Islam are to be traced to the Qur’an and the Islamic doctrine itself. Some of the Qur’anic verses have been viewed by the mystics and philosopher-mystics of Islam as allegorical and esoteric hints for those who can see them. ...
