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Rajab is the seventh month in the Islamic Lunar Calendar. The great month of Rajab is one of the four sacred months. This month and the following Shaban and the month of Ramadan are the greatest months in the year.There is a hadith that the month of ...

Rajab is the seventh month in the Islamic Lunar Ca...

By: Shaheed Ayatullah Abdul Husain Dastghaib Shirazi Soil which is in the vicinity of the grave of Imam Husain (a.s.) is sacred. Allah has bestowed it with beneficence, unsurpassed in compassion to any other material. Allah has ordained it to be a cu...

By: Shaheed Ayatullah Abdul Husain Dastghaib Shira...

1. Childhood and Parents Imam Khomeini was born in the town of Khomein, about 350 kms south of Tehran in the central province, on the 20th of Jamadi-Al-Thani, the year 1320 L.H.,(September 24, 1902). Also the birth anniversary of Fatima Zahra, the da...

1. Childhood and Parents Imam Khomeini was born in...

Taken from : Tebyan.net The earliest Mother"s Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600"s, England celebrated a day called"Mothering Sunday". Celebrated ...

Taken from : Tebyan.net The earliest Mother"s Day ...

By: Shaheed Ayatullah Abdul Husain Dastghaib Shirazi Every building that is designated as a Mosque by one or other sects of the Muslims is deserving of respect. Its respect is Wajib and its disrespect, like demolishing it or making it impure is a Gre...

By: Shaheed Ayatullah Abdul Husain Dastghaib Shira...

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...

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 ...

Norooz, the Iranian New Year What an interesting coincidence this year! The start of the calendar year 1387 in Iran, coincides this year with the first of the Islamic month of Rabi al-Awwal. In other words, Farvardin, the first month of Spring accord...

Norooz, the Iranian New Year What an interesting c...

Norooz Promotes the Culture of Peace and Prosperity Norooz, a symbol of cultural resistance, has withstood the sociopolitical effects of foreign dominance and has always carried an everlasting message of peace and prosperity for Iranians, enabling th...

Norooz Promotes the Culture of Peace and Prosperit...

How to Overcome Various Marriage Problems? By: Abdul Adheem al-Muhtadi al-Bahrani What is the cure for sexual impotence, and what are its causes? Question: What is the cure for sexual impotence, and what are its causes? My wife has begun thinking of ...

How to Overcome Various Marriage Problems? By: Abd...

Supplication or Dua Arafa The Spiritual Life: Prayer and Supplication For the Muslim, the necessary personal concomitant of professing God"s Unity is devotion to Him. The outward dimension of this devotion is shaped by the Shari"ite injunctions conce...

Supplication or Dua Arafa The Spiritual Life: Pray...

What does the Eid al-Adha commemorate ? During the Hajj, Muslims remember and commemorate the trials and triumphs of the Prophet Abraham. The Quran describes Abraham as follows: "Surely Abraham was an example, obedient to Allah, by nature upright, an...

What does the Eid al-Adha commemorate ? During the...

Eid-Ul-Adha, Festival of SacrificeEid ul-Adha or Festival of Sacrifice is in commemoration of the sacrifices of Abraham and his family. All the other Muslims in the world join the hajjis (pilgrims) in Mecca, in celebrating the Eid ul Adha (Festival o...

Eid-Ul-Adha, Festival of SacrificeEid ul-Adha or F...

What is Eid Al-Adha? The Festival of Sacrifice, Eid-al-Adha, immediately follows the Day of Arafat. Although only the pilgrims in Mecca can participate in the Hajj fully, all the other Muslims in the world join with them by celebrating Eid Al-Adha, o...

What is Eid Al-Adha? The Festival of Sacrifice, Ei...

Introduction to Pilgrimage - HajjTiming of HajjThe Hajj (Arabic: ÍÌ, transliteration: ?a??) is the pilgrimage to Mecca in Islam. It is the fifth pillar of Islam, an obligation that must be carried out by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do ...

Introduction to Pilgrimage - HajjTiming of HajjThe...

Why do the Shi'ahs Combine Prayers? The Shi'ahs acknowledge the five obligatory daily prayers. However, they frequently combine the Zuhr and 'Asr prayers by offering them consecutively during the time period defined by the start of Zuhr and the end o...

Why do the Shi'ahs Combine Prayers? The Shi'ahs ac...

Hussain Symbol of Love and Sacrifice in Islam by Sheikh Bahmanpour It is usually thought that Islam views God as a heartless Ruler of the world, an angry Judge, and a wrathful Lord who is looking meticulously for a wrongdoer to punish them. For those...

Hussain Symbol of Love and Sacrifice in Islam by S...

Resurrection and the Life after Death (Ayatullah al-Uzma Naser Makarem Shirazi) 1- Without Resurrection, Life is Void WE BELIEVE that all men and women will be raised up in a certain day after death. They all will be judged, and those who are good an...

Resurrection and the Life after Death (Ayatullah a...

Arba'een Arba'een (ÇÑÈÚíä, Arabic "forty"), or Chehlum, as it is known by Urdu-speaking Muslims, is a Shi'a religious holiday that occurs forty days after the Day of Ashurah, the commemoration of the martyrdom by beheading of Husayn bin Ali, the gran...

Arba'een Arba'een (ÇÑÈÚíä, Arabic "forty"), or Che...

The Day of Arbain (Dr. Ibrahim Ayati - Imam Reza Network) It has been recommended that on the occasion of the Arba'in, "40th day of Imam Husayn's Martyrdom - 20th Safar" of Imam Husayn and his devoted companions visit to the graves of the Holy Imam a...

The Day of Arbain (Dr. Ibrahim Ayati - Imam Reza N...

Gluttony and Uncontrolled Sexual Lust The Prophet has stated; “Refrain from gluttony and over eating because it causes an individual to be hard-hearted; one becomes relaxed and lazy at performing his religious duties; one deafens his ear in what he d...

Gluttony and Uncontrolled Sexual Lust The Prophet ...