Islamic Articles

By: Sayyid Fazil Milani “You are examined in this life, but you have been created for the next life” This well known saying of Imam Ali (as) aptly identifies the journey of man and womankind to the "Day of Resurrection". According to the Quranic view...

By: Sayyid Fazil Milani “You are examined in this ...

Presented by Syed H. Akhtar When writing about the greatness of a personality, one needs a gold standard with which to compare the strengths and weaknesses of that individual. However, if that person is herself the gold standard, then it makes it imp...

Presented by Syed H. Akhtar When writing about the...

By: Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari While the warp of society is the individual person and the woof is social order, the unit of the design is the family. Families in which mutual understanding, sincerity and tenderness reign, form details of a harmonious...

By: Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari While the warp of s...

The true date of Fatemeh's martyr is a subject for discussion among Muslims. Some say that it was forty days after the death of our Prophet, some say it was sixty days after, some believe it was seventy five days after, and some say it was ninety day...

The true date of Fatemeh's martyr is a subject for...

Her stances were stances for the right, and her sorrow was the sorrow for the issue (Islam), and her joy was the joy of the message; the depth of Islam was manifested in the depth of her personality and she amassed within herself all the Islamic huma...

Her stances were stances for the right, and her so...

Adopted from Fatima (A.S.) The Gracious by Abu Muhammad Ordoni When political opposition fails, silent protest starts. This kind of protest can be more effective than the first, because in addition to having the benefits of offending and disapproving...

Adopted from Fatima (A.S.) The Gracious by Abu Muh...

The companions of the Prophet (s.a.w.) competed with one another to win the hand of Fatimah Al-Zahra' (a.s.), his only surviving child. They all knew the great status and high position she enjoyed in Islam. She was part of the Chosen Prophet (s.a.w.)...

The companions of the Prophet (s.a.w.) competed wi...

Among the pictures that point to the distance of society from the right path and that make clear the level of its deviation and separation from it is the open spread of women not just uncovering their faces but enhancing and making a display of their...

Among the pictures that point to the distance of s...

Zayd ibn Ali (695-740 C.E.) He was given the title "Zayd the Martyr" (Zayd ash-Shahid) by his sympathizers. He was the grandson of Husayn ibn Ali(AS), the grandson of Hazrat Muhammad (p.b.u.h). Zayd was born in Medina in 695. His father was Ali bin H...

Zayd ibn Ali (695-740 C.E.) He was given the title...

By : Ayatullah Shaheed Sayyid Abdul Husain Dastghaib One day, Jibreel came to the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) and asked: Would you like to observe the condition of people on the Day of Gathering? The Hazrat replied: Yes. Jibreel, the honest angel, took t...

By : Ayatullah Shaheed Sayyid Abdul Husain Dastgha...

Neighbors First The child had made it a habit to rise regularly in the small hours of the night and join his mother in her nightly prayers called Tahajjud. He observed that his mother prayed for all Muslim men and women. She remembered them by name a...

Neighbors First The child had made it a habit to r...

Mourning for Zahra (pbuh) by : Farideh Mahadavi-Damghani In the middle of the night, the cry of a hopeless sorrow flew out of this house. And then some more... The women from the Ghorayche tribe, especially those from the Bani Hashem tribe, came out ...

Mourning for Zahra (pbuh) by : Farideh Mahadavi-Da...

Moral Virtues of Hazrat Zahra (s.a.) Fatimah (AS) had high moral virtues and her life is full of spiritual behavior. We explain two of them below noticing that these are only a very little part of her moral virtues : 1. Jaber-bin-Abdullah-al-Ansari, ...

Moral Virtues of Hazrat Zahra (s.a.) Fatimah (AS) ...

To seek a mediator implies to gain proximity to an individual in order to achieve one’s objective through the mediator’s recommendation and arbitration. Arabic litterateurs define mediation (tawassul) as ‘When he sought proximity with him through his...

To seek a mediator implies to gain proximity to an...

By: Ibrahim B. Syed, PhD Introduction The Qur'an is a book of guidance; among its several names is Kitab al-Hikmah or the Book of Wisdom. The verses of the Qur’an are called ayath (signs), just as are the phenomena of nature: both speak forth the pre...

By: Ibrahim B. Syed, PhD Introduction The Qur'an i...

Hadhrat Zaynab (SA) and Karbala At the death of the Mu’awiyah I, Imam Hussein (AS) set out from Medina to Kufa to claim the leadership of the Muslim community. Hadhrat Zaynab (SA) accompanied him, as did most of his household. After Imam Hussein’s de...

Hadhrat Zaynab (SA) and Karbala At the death of th...

by : M. H. Bilgrami It was five years after the Muslims had accompanied the Prophet (pbuh) and his family in the migration (hijrah) to Medina, when the Holy Prophet's daughter, Hazrat Fatima (pbuh), gave birth to a little girl. When her father, Imam ...

by : M. H. Bilgrami It was five years after the Mu...

Who was Zaynab? Why do we look up to her? She was the granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad and Khadija, the daughter of Fatima az-Zahraa and Ali, the sister of the Youths of Paradise, Hassan and Hussein, and the beloved aunt of Imam Ali Zayn al Abideen....

Who was Zaynab? Why do we look up to her? She was ...

Importance of Early Marriage in Islam A Social, Cultural, Educational & Religious E-Forum Under the Facilitation of the World Federation of KSI Muslim Communities Issue No. 07-06, May 26, 2006 / Rabi' al Thaani 27, 1427 AH The institution of marriage...

Importance of Early Marriage in Islam A Social, Cu...

Shaking Hands with a Non-Mahram Woman By : Martyr Ayatullah Murtuda Mutahhari Another issue is shaking hands. Of course, all of these issues arise only when there is no lust or fear of deviation present; otherwise they are clearly not permitted. Agai...

Shaking Hands with a Non-Mahram Woman By : Martyr ...

Preparation for the Future By : Ayatullah Shaheed Sayyid Abdul Husain Dastghaib The aim of this remembrance (admonition) is to create fear of Almighty God through these Holy verses and thereby to make ourselves ready for the events to come. So, make ...

Preparation for the Future By : Ayatullah Shaheed ...