The historians and the narrators have unanimously agreed that the Ima`ms of the members of the House (ahl al-Bayt), peace be on them, predicted many bloody fights and events. Then they occurred on the arena of life, as the Ima`ms predicted. Ima`m 'Ali, the Commander of the Faithful, peace be on him, predicted that Mu'a`wiya would expose the great Companion, Hajr b. 'Adi, to various kinds of persecutions. Thus, Hajr suffered from those ...
The Commander of the Faithful Ali son of Abu Talib the first of the Imams of the believers, the truthful one and the trusted one, blessings on him and his pure family, he was the brother of the Apostle of God and his paternal cousin, and his helper (wazir) in his affair, his son-in- law (being married) to his daughter, Fatima the chaste, mistress of the women of the universe. He was the Lord of the testamentary trustees of authority ...
Before we explain what ideas and beliefs Ali held about human brotherhood and how he respected human rights it appears necessary to mention what the prophet did for the welfare of humanity, what rules and regulations he enacted, and how far he respected human rights. It is necessary to do so, because Ali's only responsibility was to enforce the rules promulgated by the Prophet and to accomplish what he had wished. What Ali did was a complement ...
Thirty years after this event when this nondescript recounted it for my honored friend Dr. Hajj Sayyid Hamid Sajjadi, an ophthalmologist of world fame, may God Almighty grant his success, he said, "As you say, that is a fact. This kind of eye disease is not curable, and the recovery could not have been anything but a miracle."Then he added, "One of my patients was a man who had developed a cataract, and we had fixed a day for the surgery. Before ...
Name - Muhammad
Title - At-Taqi and Al-Javad
Kunyat - Abu Jafar
Born - Friday 10th of Rajab 195 A.H. , at Medina
Father’s Name - Ali ibn Musa
Mothers Name - Khaizuran
martyrdom - At the age of 25 years, at Kazmain , on Wednesday, 29th Zilqad 220 AH. Poisoned by Mu"tasin the Abbaside Caliph
Buried - in Kazmain, Bagdad.
Imam al-Javad (A.S.) was born on 10th day of the month of Rajab, in the year 195 A.H. in Madina - the city of ...
Book on the high character of Hazrat Fatima Zahra (SA) in the view of the Sunni scholars is reprinted by Boostene Ketab Publication in Iran."Hazrat Zahra (SA) in Qur'an: A Sunni Interpretation" is the title of the book by Mohammad Yaqoub Bashavi on the high status of Hazrat Fatima Zahra (SA), daughter of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).This research is a collection of Hadiths which are about Hazrat Zahra (AS) among many more narrations and Hadiths ...
When the Holy Prophet (S.A.W) migrated to Yasrab he left his family at Makkah. When the Muslims had settled in Yasrab (renamed Madina) the Holy Prophet (S.A.W) and the other Muslims called their families to Madina. At the time of migration, Sauda, an elderly lady was the only wife of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W) whom he had married after the death of Khadija. About a year after his arrival in Madina, the Holy Prophet (S.A.W) married Ayesha, a ...
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 ...
At that moment, Angel Jibrael appeared in the sky and said:
"O Husayn! Allah is very pleased with your bravery. Husayn! The time has come to put your sword down. Enough, Husayn, enough. Come to us, Husayn, we are waiting for you."
Husayn heard Allah's command. He put his sword down.
The enemies saw Husayn put his sword down. They attacked our Imam from all sides.
Arrows were shot at Husayn. Husayn was attacked with swords.
People who ...
In this ayat Soht refers to the acquirement as well as use of anything acquired unlawfully. The dictionary meaning of 'Soht' is 'to be finished' or 'to be lost'. The thing that becomes 'Soht' is that which is finished off or used up. The use of this word signifies that unlawfully acquired things do not have any 'barakat' and will not benefit the possessor in any way. It should be evident that this unlawful practice would include usurping ...
Quoting his grandfather, Imam al-Sadiq (a.s) has reported: Hasan ibn `Ali ibn Abu-Talib was the most pious, the most devoted and the best of the people of his time. When he was on Hajj, he would often walk on foot and on many occasions bare-footed to the Holy Mosque. He would cry or be fainted whenever he remembered death, grave, resurrection on the Judgment Day and crossing the Sirat. He would be writhing like a snake-bitten whenever he was ...
With my continuous chain of transmission reaching up to the Thiqat al- Islam Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni, may God's good pleasure be with him, from a group of our companions, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid, from his father, from Harun ibn al-Jahm, from al-Mufaddal, from Sa'd, from Abu Ja'far, may peace be upon him, that he said: "Verily, the hearts are [of] four (kinds) the heart that has [both] faith and hypocrisy in it, the heart that ...
Name: Al-HusseinFather: Ali, son of Abu TalibDate of Birth: He was born in Medina, on the third of Sha’ban in the year 4 A.H. (1/8/626).Date of Death: 10th of Muharram, 61 A.H. 10/10/680Martyrdom: Sword of Shimr, in the Battle of AshuraKunyah: Abu AbdallahTitle: Sayyidu’sh Shuhada’ as Sibt (al-Asghar)THE BIRTH OF IMAM HUSSAIN (A.S.)Six months after Al-Hassan was born, Fatima(s.a.) became pregnant with her second child. Lady Fatima started ...
1. Introduction
Islam is concerned about the physical wellbeing of its followers as well as the spiritual wellbeing.
Spiritual training is an essential part of our life. While describing the mission of the Prophet of Islam, Allah says:
“He is the one who has raised among the ignorant [Arabs] a messenger from among themselves who [1.] recites to them His revelations, [2.] purifies them, and [3.] teaches them the Book and wisdom.” ...
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 ...
Jihad and Bravery
At the conclusion of the Battle of the Camel he offered funeral prayers for the enemies who had been killed and prayed to God for their forgiveness. When he gained control over his fell enemies like Abdullah son of Zubayr, Marwan son of Hakam, and Said son of Aas, he forgave them, behaved with them kindly and prohibited his companions from punishing them although he was in a position to give them a harsh treatment, and they ...
Shiites, who have received the baptism of Ahl al-Bayt due to their love for them, expect to be associated with Ahl al-Bayt on the Judgment Day. The Holy Quran supports this truth: And whoever obeys Allah and the Apostle, these are with those upon whom Allah and the Apostle, have bestowed favors from among the prophets and the truthful and the martyrs and the good, and a goodly company are they! (4:69) Imam al-Ridha (a.s.) is reported as saying: ...
Who are meant by ‘Arwah (souls)' in the passage "Peace be on you, and on the souls who died with you."?imam hussein (a.s)
Those whom this passage is referring to are the martyrs who were killed along with the Imam in Karbala, the reason being:
1) Usually, live people who visit the shrines of the imams aren't referred to as ‘Arwah' (souls).
2) This passage is read by the pilgrim himself, so he can't be the one being addressed by it at ...
When the young Ali took the mantle of Imamat, times were hard on the Ahlulbayt of the Prophet. His is the saddest story of all time. On the 10th of Muharram at the time of Asr Prayers, when his father Hussain(AS) was alone in the battlefield ready to do battle, he withdrew to the camp of his ailing son, came beside hibed, woke him and told him that the story of Kerbala was over, that he was about to go to sacrifice his own life for the cause of ...
Revelation as a medium of information about the content of reality has not been particularly a subject of scholarly interest in Western tradition of philosophy and philosophical theology. Medievalists talked of `revelation' but they did not mean by it an epistemic activity in which God `spoke' to a human person: it was rather for them a concrete event in which God `entered' into a human body. The `Word' of God (Logos) which, supposedly, was ...
