Beliefs

Adopted from the Book : "Shi'ism; Imamate and Wilayat" by : "Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi" "Ahlul Bayt" literally means people of the house and it refers to the family or children of a person. In Islamic terminology, it refers to the family of the Prophet M...

Adopted from the Book : "Shi'ism; Imamate and Wila...

Adopted from the Book : "Shi'ism; Imamate and Wilayat" by : "Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi" According to the Qur'an, the only independent source of 'ilmu 'l-ghayb is Allah. "And with Him are the keys of ghayb, no one knows it except Him ..." (6:59) "Say, Tho...

Adopted from the Book : "Shi'ism; Imamate and Wila...

Adopted from the Book : "Shi'ism; Imamate and Wilayat" by : "Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi" Islam began when the Prophet became 40 years old, Initially, the mission was kept a secret. Then three years after the advent of Islam, the Prophet was ordered to com...

Adopted from the Book : "Shi'ism; Imamate and Wila...

Adopted from the Book : "Shi'ism; Imamate and Wilayat" by : "Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi" First let us see whether or not this division of appointment of caliphate into "implicit" and "explicit" has any historical precedence in the history of Islamic theol...

Adopted from the Book : "Shi'ism; Imamate and Wila...

Adopted from the Book : "Shi'ism; Imamate and Wilayat" by : "Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi" The event of Ghadir Khumm is a very good example to trace the Sunni bias that found its way unto the mental state of Orientalists. Those who are well-versed with the ...

Adopted from the Book : "Shi'ism; Imamate and Wila...

Adopted from the Book : "Shi'ism; Imamate and Wilayat" by : "Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi" When the Egyptian writer, Muhammad Qutb, named his book as Islam; The Misunderstood Religion, he was politely experessing the Muslim sentiment about the way Orientali...

Adopted from the Book : "Shi'ism; Imamate and Wila...

Adopted from the Book : "Shi'ism; Imamate and Wilayat" by : "Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi" The Origin of Shi'ism is not separated from the origin of Islam since the Prophet himself sowed its seed by Proclaiming the wisaya (succussorship) and khilafat (calip...

Adopted from the Book : "Shi'ism; Imamate and Wila...

Adopted from the Book : "Temporary Marriage in Islamic Laws" by : "Sachiko Murata" The Opinions Of The Four Sunny Schools Of Law 1 The general opinion of the four Sunni schools of law concerning the reason mut'a was permitted and then afterwards proh...

Adopted from the Book : "Temporary Marriage in Isl...

Adopted from the Book : "Temporary Marriage in Islamic Laws" by : "Sachiko Murata" 3. The Hadith Transmitted by the Companions In Sunni sources hadith have been transmitted from the Prophet showing that he banned mut'a during his lifetime. In most of...

Adopted from the Book : "Temporary Marriage in Isl...

Shia Muslims around the world are preparing to start processions marking the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (PBUH) and 72 of his companions. The mourners have begun heading to the Iraqi city of Karbala, where the shrine of the grandson of Prop...

Shia Muslims around the world are preparing to sta...

By: Rasul Jafariyan Translated by: Zahra' Shuja Khani As a sacred religious movement and as a revolutionary political step the epic of Karbala is the most crucial religio- political uprising in the political culture of the Shi ah. This movement aimed...

By: Rasul Jafariyan Translated by: Zahra' Shuja Kh...

by : Dr. Ibrahim Ayati Truly speaking if we wish to find out the causes of the rising of the Imam we shall have to make a search for its preliminaries during a period of at least thirty years preceding that time, because about thirty years after the ...

by : Dr. Ibrahim Ayati Truly speaking if we wish t...

From all the references to the Mahdi and his appearance in the sources it is obvious that people were awaiting the coming of the Mahdi from the early days of Islam and were actually counting the days for that to happen. They regarded the establishmen...

From all the references to the Mahdi and his appea...

Muslims consider every aspect in the life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH&HP) to be very significant. For not only the Prophet's statements are away from any carnal desires and is related to the origin of Revelation according to the holy Quran2, but also, ...

Muslims consider every aspect in the life of Proph...

Reply : Before proving the groundlessness of this loathsome accusation made against the Shi‘ah by some ignorant or spiteful people, it is appropriate to trace its origin.The origin of this accusationThe noble verses of the Qur’an and some relevant ha...

Reply : Before proving the groundlessness of this ...

A narration from the book “Ikmaal al-Diin” On the authority of Musaa ibn Muhammad he said: Lady Hakima bint Muhammad bin Ali ibn Musaa ibn Ja’far ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husain ibn Ali ibn abi Ta’lib related to me: Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn ‘Ali ...

A narration from the book “Ikmaal al-Diin” On the ...

Virtue Number 1 Hasan bin Ahmad bin Sokhtaweyh narrated in Kufa in the year three hundred and seventy-four from Abu Bakr Mohammad bin Ahmad bin Isa bin Mihran, from Yahya bin Abdul Hamid, from Qays bin Rabee’, from Aamash, from Abaya, from Habba Al-‘...

Virtue Number 1 Hasan bin Ahmad bin Sokhtaweyh nar...

The fear of death, for most of the people, is not a matter which requires any evidence because it is totally obvious and we also see that a lot of people manifest extra-ordinary sensitivity with respect to the term "death" and its reality. Thus the a...

The fear of death, for most of the people, is not ...

On the Resurrection Day, all the people’s deeds shall be investigated and everyone will receive the consequence of his, or her, acts; and nobody shall face any injustice. The Hell is waiting for the sinner, who did not believe in the Resurrection Day...

On the Resurrection Day, all the people’s deeds sh...

by : Ayatullah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi The difference between Islamic laws and man-made laws —especially laws of the liberal societies that consider right for the people in lieu of the services they render in the society— can be examined through t...

by : Ayatullah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi The diff...

by : Ayatullah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi The second meaning of democracy has been accepted with certain conditions and qualifications. No legislative authority has the right to oppose the definite laws of Islam which is how we accept democracy. Mean...

by : Ayatullah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi The seco...