The Ninth Immaculate Holy Imam
Name: Muhammad bin Ali.
Titles: At-Taqi, Al-Jawad.
Kuniyya: Abu Ja'fer.
Father:Imam Ali Reza(A.S.)
Mother: Sabika (also known as Khaizarun).
Birth: 10th Rajab 195 A.H. Madina.
Martyrdom: 29th Dhulqa'da 220 A.H. Baghdad. Buried in Kadhmain.
Imam al-Jawad (A.S.) was born on 10th day of the month of Rajab, in the year 195 A.H. in Madina - the city of his grandfather, the Messenger of Allah ...
From the first, Islam has said that it is the last message, and Muslims have accepted this fact with wisdom and with love, and have realised that Islam is the last manifestation of revelation prophethood and the culmination of the former pure religions Also, all Muslims, on the basis of ayahs in the Qur'an and hadith believe that the prophet of Islam (S.A.) is the last messenger of Allah who was the recipient of human leadership. The great ...
Incident 1Shaykh al-Mufid states in Kitaab al-Irshaad that once Imam Abu Ja'far Muhammd al-Baqir visited his father Imam 'Ali bin al-Husayn. He saw that Imam as-Sajjad had reached an unprecedented state of 'ibadah. "His color had paled from keeping awake all night; eyes sored from weeping; forehead and nose bruised due to prolonged sajdahs; and his feet and ankles were swollen from standing in salaat." Such was the state of our fourth Imam ...
Imam Ali bin Abu Talib (A.S.),His Life, Achievements, and Merits
By: Syed Hasan AkhtarAustin, TexasAli bin Abu Talib (A.S.) was the cousin and son-in-Law of Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.). It is outside the scope of this presentation to record the numerous achievements and merits of Imam Ali (A.S.). His exalted personality is such that even the most learned scholars are at a loss to fathom his greatness.
His birth: The miraculous ...
Let us practice Taq’wa (piety and righteousness) in our daily life, and let us revere Allah and obey His Divine Commands. Let us be heedful of our choices in this life and the likely consequences of such choices in the hereafter. May Allah provide us all with the spirit of righteousness by way of His Divine obedience as our means of salvation.
Allah tells us in Surah 3 (Aali Imran), Ayah 102:
يَا أَيُّهَا ...
Some of famous sayings of the Holy Prophet of Islam(S.A.W.) regarding the uniqueness and magnificence of Imam Ali(A.S.) as recorded in all the authentic Sunni and Shi'ite sources. "Whomsoever I have authority over,Ali(A.S.) has also authority over him, O Allah! befriend whoever befriend him and be hostile to whosoever is hostile to him"."I am the city of knowledge and Ali(A.S.) is the gate.""Ali(A.S.) is with truth and truth is with ...
The Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) Was a Man Taught Only in the Divine School
The claim of Dr Sayyid `Abd al-Latif (who observes that the source of belief in an "unschooled" Prophet (SA) has been in the interpretation of the word "ummi"), is unfounded. This is because, firstly, the history of the Arabs and the Makkah at the advent of Islam, is decisive evidence of the fact that the Prophet (SA) was untaught. Earlier, we have explained that the ...
Rank: First Imam
Name: Imam Ali
Nicknames: Amirul Mo’mineen {Commander of the Faithful},
Abul Hassan {Father of Imam Hassan},
Al-Murtadha.
Father: Abu Talib
Mother: Fatema Bint-e-Asad
Date of Birth: 600 A.D.
Place of Birth: Inside the Ka’ba (House of God) in Mecca (Saudi Arabia)
Date of Death: 661 A.D.
Lived: 61 years
Place of Death: The Mosque of Kufa (Iraq)
Cause of Death: Hit on the Head with a Poisoned Sword while ...
The Holy Qur'an Arranged by Imam Ali (A.S.)
There is no dispute among Muslim scholars, whether they are Sunni or Shia, concerning the fact that the Commander of Believers, Ali (AS), possessed a special transcript of the text of Quran which he had collected himself, and he was THE FIRST who compiled Quran. There are a great number of traditions from Sunni and Shia which states that after the death of the Holy Prophet (PBUH&HF), Imam Ali ...
When we say ‘the Ahlul Bayt’, we mean the twelve imams of the immaculate progeny of the Prophet (a.s.) whom we have studied in full in the previous books. The Shia and the Sunni have agreed that the messenger of Allah (a.s.) said:
The imams after me are twelve; all of them are from (the tribe of) Quraysh.
The tradition mentioned in the Sahih of al-Bukhari reads:
This matter (caliphate) shall remain in Quraysh even if (only) two people ...
Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth; a likeness of His light is as a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp is in a glass .... [ 25 : 35 ]
Ibn al Maghazli al Shafi'i has related that the niche means Hazrat Fatima ( as ), the lamp means Hasan ( as ) and Hussain ( as ) .....
Give the kinsman his due .... [ 17 : 26 ]
Commentators have written that when this verse was revealed the Holy Prophet ( saw ) asked the Angel Gibrael : Who are the ...
By: Seyyed Ali Shahbaz The 11th of Sha'ban is another day of celebration in the month that was of special significance to Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) because of its being a prelude to blessed Ramadhan when the Divine Banquet is spread for the fasting believers and all those striving for the proximity of the All-Forgiving God. It is the day which the Islamic Republic of Iran marks every year as the Day of the Virtuous Youth in remembrance of a youth ...
The Qur'an emphasizes the lofty position and significance of the Ahlul-Bait so as to make mankind follow their right path, consult them when their opinion differs or their faith, situation and concepts contradict.Investigating the verse of Revelation, we will find that the Qur'an sometimes addresses them as 'Ahlul-Bait', like the Almighty's saying:..Allah desires only to keep away uncleanness from youO people of the House (Ahlul-Bait) and make ...
Introduction:
All the human beings experience ups and downs and face different problems in life The individuals , usually get weak and unable when facing a problem and try with the aid and guide of the experts to save themselves from the trouble;And by finding the "examples" in any field , and then following them , perform their duties in the best way as to solve their problems and relieve their pains. One of these examples is the honoured ...
In the House of the Holy Prophet S.A.W, which presented the best image of both the worlds - the heaven and the earth- a child who benefited humanity as if he was a Divine Impression reflecting the earth, was born on one of the nights of the month of Sha'ban. His father was Imam 'Ali A.S, the best model of kindness towards his friends and the bravest against the enemies of Islam, and his mother was Hazrat Fatimah S.A, the only daughter and ...
When we hear the words of the grief stricken story of Karbala, many names come to mind, names of those who laid their lives for the preservation of Islam. There are the more prominent martyrs, such as Hazrat Qasim (A.S) Hazrat Abbas (A.S) and Hazrat Ali Akbar (A.S).Prominent because there were the men from the family of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W) and it were not entirely surprising that they gave their lives for Islam. Then there were those ...
I bear witness that there is no God save Allah, the One; and there is no partner to share with Him.
I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger, verily, he is the lord of the ancients and the moderns, verily, he is the head of the Prophets and the Messengers.
O Allah send blessing on Muhammad, Thy servant, Thy Messenger and Thy Prophet, the chief of all that has been created by Thee, blessings which no one is able to ...
THE LIFE OF ALI (Zain al-Abideen) IBN Al-HUSAIN(A)by the late Dr. Syed Haider Hussain Shamsi(Excerpt from his book, " And the Message Continues ... the Lives of the Twelve Imams of Ahlul Bait. )
Imam Ali Zain al-Abideen (a) was only two years of age when his grandfather, Imam Ali (a) was killed during prayers in the month of Ramadan in the main mosque of Najaf (near Kufa). He was a youth of fourteen years when he saw the life ...
Lady Zaynab, daughter of Imam Ali (a) and granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad (S), was the first lady in the world of Islam to create a whole history of erecting edifices of right and justice, demolishing the gloomy castles of wrong and oppression, and recording, through her honorable circumstances, new standards of honor and dignity for Islam and Muslims throughout history. Thus, she has been a ring head in the series of the ideals and human ...
Despite their brevity, these treatises (rasa'il) reveal the profundity of al-Mufid's juristic wisdom. Although some of them, like al-Mash `ala al-rijlayn and Dhaba'ih ahl al-kirab are based on an argumentation of polemical and quasi-rational character, but some others, such as al-Mihr Jawabat ahl al-Mawsil fi al-ru'yah wa al-`adad and al-Masa'il al-Saghaniyyah truly possess a firm and structured juristic style. In the ...
