The Eighth Spurious Argument:THE TRADITIONS THAT THE PROPHET APPOINTED IMAM ALI AS GUARDIAN AND SUCCESSORThe Shias are criticized for saying that the Prophet Muhammad (s) had recommended that the Imamate and the caliphate were for Ali and his sons (a), and that the Prophet's Companions had opposed his testament.THE ANSWERAmong both Shias and Sunnis it has been established that the Prophet (s) had appointed Ali to be the Caliph and Imam after ...
The main purpose of Iraqi Kurdistan secession is to create a base for the arrogant powers in the region, but the joint efforts of the neighboring countries including Iran, Iraq and Turkey will neutralize this plot; the security and stability of the region will not be ...
The prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh Hani Al-Banaa said that the authorities allegedly charged him with "inciting hatred against the regime and disobedience of law" based on a lecture he delivered in Ashura.He added in an interview with Al-Wasat that the lecture over which he was referred to trial included that: "Imam Hussain (pbhu) succeeded in making the source of Sharia be in the hands of the religious scholars and specialists and not based on ...
Sheikh Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, in a meeting with educated women of Tabriz, stated: in Surah At-Tawbah, God has enumerated five characteristics of faithful people and some of them are same both for men and women.
He then added: in the current conditions with all of these enemy campaigns, not only should women try to improve themselves, but also must try to improve society.
He held that promoting virtue and preventing vice (Amr bilMaroofwaNahi ...
Lawyers to the detained leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, have attributed their absence at a Judicial Commission of Inquiry instituted by the Kaduna State government to the commission’s inability to facilitate access to their client.In a statement Monday signed by Festus Okoye on behalf of Mr. El-Zakzaky’s legal team, the lawyers said the Kaduna State government had already made up its mind to frame ...
We have said that there are two issues involved here. First, what is obligatory upon women and what is permissible for men. Those points which are clear are that it is obligatory upon women to cover themselves except for their face and hands. This is neither compulsory nor in the Holy Quran; nor in the traditions can we find reason to believe that it is obligatory upon women to cover their face and hands.
But as to whether it is permitted for ...
On Sunday, Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence issued against the cleric last year. The execution warrant will be sent to Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to be approved and then implemented.
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Activists have once again gathered outside the Saudi embassy in London calling on Riyadh to halt the execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqi al-Nimr and his nephew.The participants in the ...
Muslim leaders in the United States are unveiling initiatives in an effort to tackle Islamophobia, which has particularly peaked in the country due to anti-Islam statements by GOP candidate Donald trump.
The plans, including voter registration drives and open-house days at mosques, were announced in Washington on Monday, a day after an emergency summit over the matter was attended by 100 leaders from across the country, the Associated ...
Woman and Family
Chapter 3
The second area of human life of woman and man, being the arena of family life, and this chapter will be dedicated for manifesting the common identity of woman and man within the framework of family. Yes, it is impossible to believe in the equal human character of woman and man unless by proving it in all arenas of life. In chapter two, commonness "between woman and man" in human and individual maturities was laid to ...
Ali's Regard for Fatema
Ali's regard for Fatema was the same as was the regard of the Holy Prophet for Lady Khadija. Until the life of Lady Khadija, the Holy Prophet did not accept the hand of any other woman and likewise until the life of Fatema, Ali did not marry any other woman.
The critics of Islam, in their ignorance of the truth, betray their prejudice in their venture to criticise saying that the Holy Prophet was extremely polygamous. ...
Jealousy And The Evil Eye
What does common custom deem jealousy or "the evil eye", concerning which some supplications and prayers of refuge have been narrated?
I have perceived no detailed proof or actual instances of jealousy in this sense. Rather, we find that the situation of people of whom others are jealous do not have any effect on their person. The issue of jealousy to be analyzed is the evil which the jealous person may cause for the ...
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 ...
If you want your son to be that human being who would draw his way in life with determination and confidence, one who would overcome all obstacles and would become a successful personality in the future. You have to adopt the following recommendations, that were reached through scientific experiments and reaffirmed by the experience of parents, over many successive generations:
1 - Let him Depend on Himself A child cannot depend on ...
A civil rights group has asked the FBI to investigate a threatening letter sent to a Phoenix mosque that was once a place of worship for gunmen in a shooting three weeks ago at a Texas cartoon contest featuring cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.The Council on American-Islamic Relations says one of its lawyers spoke with an FBI agent about the letter that was mailed over the weekend to the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, where the gunmen, ...
Bahraini authorities are stepping up their clampdown on annual Ashura commemorations, targeting all displays associated with the occasion as well as those observing it.
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Bahraini authorities are stepping up their clampdown on annual Ashura commemorations, targeting all displays associated with the occasion as well as those observing it. On Friday, Salam for Democracy and Human Rights reported that detainees in ...
- Dozens of family members of Pakistanis stranded and unpaid workers in Saudi Arabia staged a protest demonstration in Islamabad asking the government to take concrete steps for bringing back those people. The protesters were carrying placards and banners seeking serious help of the government regarding problems of the stranded Pakistanis. Presently around 9,000 Pakistani workers of two defaulted companies are facing the issues regarding ...
A woman artist's efforts in Toronto, in Canada, to stay warm ended up giving her a chilling glimpse into Islamophobia after she was assaulted by a man who mistook her scarf for a hijab. Kayla Gerber, a 24-year-old actress, had just left a rehearsal near Bloor and Bathurst streets in Toronto on Monday when a man approached her as she walked. “He told me to take off my hijab and get the out of his country and he just kept repeating that ...
THIRD: NOBILITY OF THE FAMILY
(A FUNDAMENTAL AND UNAVOIDABLE CONDITION FOR BOTH SIDES)
Family nobility does not mean fame, wealth,and social status. Rather it means modesty, purity and religiousness. Marriage with someone is equal to a bond with a family, tribe, and a race.
It is not logical that in connection with marriage one says:"I desire to marry this person and have notion do with his or her family, relation, and tribe", ...
The outspoken sports star has come under fire by some after writing in "Time Magazine" earlier this month that the attack in France was not about religion, but "about money."
"Knowing that these terrorist attacks are not about religion, we have to reach a point where we stop bringing Islam into these discussions. I know we aren't there yet because much of the Western population doesn't understand the Islamic religion," Abdul-Jabbar wrote.
On ...
Pakistan has extended deepest condolences and sympathies on the loss of human lives caused by heavy rains and flash floods in several provinces of Iran.
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Pakistan has extended deepest condolences and sympathies on the loss of human lives caused by heavy rains and flash floods in several provinces of Iran. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Dr. Mohammad Faisal in a statement said people and government of Pakistan ...
