Ethics

Related from Abu Wilad al-Hannat who said: 'I heard Imam Saadiq (A) saying: 'He who kills himself on purpose will be in the fire of Hell abiding therein forever.' Imam al-Saadiq (A) said: 'He who kills himself on purpose will be in the fire of Hell a...

Related from Abu Wilad al-Hannat who said: 'I hear...

Related from Imam Saadiq (A) who was asked about whether repentance can be accepted from a believer who has killed another believer deliberately. He said: 'If he killed him for his faith then there is no repentance for him. If he was killed out of an...

Related from Imam Saadiq (A) who was asked about w...

Related from al-Halabi, from Imam Saadiq (A), who said: 'The worst of people in the sight of Allah is he who kills one who is not fighting him, or he who beats someone who has not beaten him.' Related from al-Muthanna, from Imam Saadiq (A) who said: ...

Related from al-Halabi, from Imam Saadiq (A), who ...

Related from Sa'id al-Azraq, from Imam Saadiq (A) who said regarding a person who has killed a believer: 'He will be told : 'Die whatever death you wish to die. If you wish that of a Jew or if you wish that of a Nazarene.' 39 Related from Muhammad ib...

Related from Sa'id al-Azraq, from Imam Saadiq (A) ...

Related from Zayd ibn 'Ali, from his forefathers (A) who said: 'The Messenger of Allah (S) said: 'If two Muslims meet with their swords not in accordance with the Sunnah, then both the killer and the one killed will be in the fire.' He was asked: 'O ...

Related from Zayd ibn 'Ali, from his forefathers (...

Related from al-'Ayyashi, with a chain of narration from Imam Saadiq (A) that Imam 'Ali (A) said to his companions on the day of Basrah: 'Do not hastily attack them until we have a justification in the sight of Allah Almighty and them.' He stood up a...

Related from al-'Ayyashi, with a chain of narratio...

The book al-Kafi of Kuleini relates in the hadith of Malik ibn A'yun, from Amir-ul-Mu'mineen (A) that he said: 'Do not mutilate the dead, and if you reach the caravan of the people then do not tear any veils. Do not enter any houses and do not take a...

The book al-Kafi of Kuleini relates in the hadith ...

Related from al-Zuhri, from Imam 'Ali ib n al-Hussein (A) who said (in a hadith): 'If you take a prisoner and he is incapable of walking and you do not have a carriage then send him on his way (set him free) and do not kill him for you do no t know w...

Related from al-Zuhri, from Imam 'Ali ib n al-Huss...

Related from Hafs ibn Ghayyath, who said: 'I asked Imam Saadiq (A) about the case of two groups of Believers, one of them unjust and the other just. What if the unjust were to defeat the just in battle?' He (A) replied: 'It is not the way of those wh...

Related from Hafs ibn Ghayyath, who said: 'I asked...

Related from Imam Saadiq (A) who was asked: 'What is the meanin g of the Prophet's saying: 'The lowliest of them strives for their protectorate.' He (A) answered: "If a Muslim army were to lay siege to a group of Polytheists and a man looked out from...

Related from Imam Saadiq (A) who was asked: 'What ...

Related from Yunis who said: 'I was with Imam al-Kaadhem (A) when a man asked the Imam (A): 'One of your followers has heard that a man is giving out swords and bo ws in the way of Allah so he went to him and took a sword and a bow from him (not know...

Related from Yunis who said: 'I was with Imam al-K...

Related from al-Asbagh ibn Nabatah who said: 'Amir-ul-Mu'mineen 'Ali (A) said: 'Allah has prescribed jihad for both men and women. The jihad of the man is to spend of his wealth and of his self until he is killed in the way of Allah. The jihad of the...

Related from al-Asbagh ibn Nabatah who said: 'Amir...

In a hadith related by al-Hassan ibn Mahboub, from some of his companions who said: Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (A) in his letter to one of the Umayyad Caliphs wrote rebuking those Caliphs who had tasked people with things that had not been enjoined by Al...

In a hadith related by al-Hassan ibn Mahboub, from...

Islam calls to peace and considers peace to be normal and war to be extraordinary and exceptional emergency entered into only out of desperation and as a last resort. Allah Almighty says: {O ye who have faith, enter into peace all of you, and do not ...

Islam calls to peace and considers peace to be nor...

It is also imperative before reaching the final result of a comprehensive peace to expose 'wars by proxy' and prevent them from occurring by a number of means: a. Changing the relationships between the smaller states and the larger states so that the...

It is also imperative before reaching the final re...

In our book 'al-Fiqh series: Sociology' we have said that the maintenance of peace is no t possible through only the media and peace organisations, for peace is not merely a superficial issue just as war is not a superficial issue. The roots of war m...

In our book 'al-Fiqh series: Sociology' we have sa...

It is then necessary, for the sake of a general and comprehensive peace, to transfer the weapons making factories into those of peaceful motives. It should not be argued that warfare pro vides work for millions of workers for many of these workers co...

It is then necessary, for the sake of a general an...

War, in addition to the death and destruction has other effects: 1. It leaves behind war wounded and disabled p eople who will suffer from their complaints for the rest of their lives. The weapons of mass destruction cause many different diseases and...

War, in addition to the death and destruction has ...

In a previous book of ours "Sociology" 6 regarding the dangers of war we have written: 'It is imperative that the nations strive in all earnestness to bring about a comprehensive peace in our time, for the dangers of war have increased in a way unima...

In a previous book of ours "Sociology" 6 regarding...

In the book 'Prisoners of War' in the story of the Moguls the writer says: "The Moguls were known for cruelty, brutality and bloodshed. Genghis Khan the founder of their empire was famous for violence, killing, and his love of destruction and annihil...

In the book 'Prisoners of War' in the story of the...

We find the situation in modern wars to be the same if not worse than that. America with the atomic bomb killed more than 250,000 people in Japan in the space of hours, and burnt everything. When the British came to Iraq, they treated the people in t...

We find the situation in modern wars to be the sam...