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Adopted from the Book : "Khums; An Islamic Tax" by : Sayyid Mohammad Rizvi Khums becomes wajib at the beginning of the new financial year on the profit or surplus of the past year's income.Beginning : The "beginning" of a new year means the time when...

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Adopted from the Book : "Khums; An Islamic Tax" by : Sayyid Mohammad Rizvi Khums" literally means " one-fifth or 20%" . In Islamic legal terminology, it means "one-fifth of certain items which a person acquires as wealth, and which must be paid as an...

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Adopted from the Book : A Short Biography of Imam Jaffer As-Sadiq (A.S) For reasons that have already been outlined in the preceding chapters, like his father, Imam Sadiq (A.S.) had an opportunity of serving humanly in general and Muslims in particul...

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Adopted from the Book : A Short Biography of Imam Jaffer As-Sadiq (A.S) Whereas others saw only the political opportunity in the form of a ripe fruit ready to be picked from the tree, Imam Sadiq A.S) saw yet another opportunity: the educational one w...

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Adopted from the Book : A Short Biography of Imam Jaffer As-Sadiq (A.S) Imam Jafer Sadiq (A.S) was born in the reign of Abdul Malik Bin Marwan and was martyred in the times of Mansoor Dawanaqi. He therefore witnessed the reign of ten rulers from the ...

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Adopted from the Book : A Short Biography of Imam Jaffer As-Sadiq (A.S) Imam Jaffer Sadiq (A.S) took over as the Imam of the time from his father in AH 114 when Hisham Bin Abdul Malik was the Caliph. Unlike most of his predecessors, who had ruled for...

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Adopted from the Book : A Short Biography of Imam Jaffer As-Sadiq (A.S) Admittedly, the divinely appointed Imam gets his knowledge form Allah, the Almighty and does not learn anything form any human being. Nonetheless, an Imam does learn from his fat...

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Adopted from the Book : A Short Biography of Imam Jaffer As-Sadiq (A.S) Not only was Imam Sadiq (A.S) his father's right-hand person in conducting classes in his father's madressa, he was also his father's companion on his journey abroad. Imam Sadiq ...

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Adopted from the Book : Youth and Morals Success in social behavior directly relates to certain rules which we must learn and build our conduct upon. For man's role in his relationships with others and his knowledge of the limits of his duties are am...

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Adopted from the Book : Youth and Morals Along with its call upon people to struggle and advance Islam included a strong warning against fanatical adherence to materialism. Islam declares that such adherence deprives man from seeking the real goal of...

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Adopted from the Book : Youth and Morals A psychological state which leads one's nature to divert from its natural path is anger. When it controls and besieges man, anger takes the form of arrogance and removes the barriers which prevent it from ente...

Adopted from the Book : Youth and Morals A psychol...

Adopted from the Book : Youth and Morals The lives of religious leaders are lessons of honor, nobility, forgiveness and humanness. Their spiritual merits were manifested in practical lessons in a most magnificent picture.One day lmam Ali ibn al-Husai...

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Adopted from the Book : Youth and Morals The Holy Quran announced the inevitable severe punishment of oppressors when Allah the Almighty said:"And (as for) these towns, We destroyed them when they acted unjustly and We have appointed a time for their...

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Adopted from the Book : Youth and Morals A Study of the history of revolutions shows important factors worthy of reflecting upon, on which the basis of uprisings and revolutions around the world and between various nations were built. That factor is ...

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Adopted from the Book : Youth and Morals One of the excellent morals which can be considered as a symbol of love and the best path of achieving it is modesty. By performing their duties towards their societies by practicing good manners, modest indiv...

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Adopted from the Book : Youth and Morals It is love that lights the horizons of life. Love plays deep and vast roles in man's material and spiritual development; it holds magnificient and astonishing power. This power was implemented in man's conscie...

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Adopted from the Book : Youth and Morals The Holy Quran warns the sarcastic of their gloomy fate, and cautions them about the results of their evil actions. It is written in the Quran:"Woe to every slanderer, defamer." Islam deems it obligatory for a...

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Adopted from the Book : Youth and Morals It is the nature of some people to search for the faults, mistakes, and secrets of others and to criticize and blame them for these shortcomings. Yet in most circumstances, these people's faults and shortcomin...

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Adopted from the Book : Youth and Morals One of the greatest behavioral weaknesses of man is the ignorance of his own faults. In many instances the soul ignores an unwanted quality which results in the subconscious adopting of such a trait as a basis...

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Adopted from the Book : Youth and Morals The most dangerous disadvantage of slander is the destruction of the spiritual personality of the slanderer's conscience. Those who violate the natural path of their thought will lose their thinking balance an...

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Adopted from the Book : Youth and Morals There is no doubt that at the present time societies suffer from various types of spiritual deviations and psychological corruption, and have failed to develop their manners at the same pace that they were abl...

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