Islam

Your memory is the light of our nights;Is the smile of gardens, spring of delights?O! Mother again your picture has embracedus;As if the home is graced with elegance of dove.The home is filled with the fragrance of Eighth Imam;My father is disposed with the glance of the picture of tulip.O! …

Imam Jafar-as-Sadiq(A.S) the Sixth Holy Imam of the Shi’ites was the “Founder of the First Grand Islamic University. In this university the Holy Imam(A.S.) taught various branches of sciences and more than four thousand students were attracted towards him from far-off places. Imam Jafar-as-Sadiq(A.S.) strengthened the foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence …

Muhammad ibn Muhammad an-Nu‘man ash-Shaykh Abu ‘Abdillah al-Mufid, Ibnu ‘l-Mu‘allim, al-‘Ukbari al-Baghdadi (336/948–413/1022) was the teacher of the Shaykhu ‘t-Taifah, Abu Ja‘far at-Tusi, who said of him:The leadership of the Imamiyyah in his own time devolved upon him; he was foremost in the science and practice of dialectical theology (kalam), …

In the desert of Arabia was Mohammad born, according to Muslim historians, on April 20, 571. The name means highly praised. He is to me the greatest mind among all the sons of Arabia. He means so much more than all the poets and kings that preceded him in that …

On 8th Shawwal, in the year 1345 AH (Wednesday, April 21, 1925), mausoleums in Jannatul al-Baqi (Madinah), the famous burial place of great personalities without whom the history of Islam is incomplete, were demolished by the Wahabbi Khwariji,

The great renowned research scholar of Islamic history and hadith, Allama Azizullah Ottarodi was born on 5th Azar Mah 1307 Solar Hijrah/ 26 November 1928 in a village called Biglar near Quchan city in the Khurasan province, Iran. He was born in a family with deep religious background.

Censuring, Belittling or Harming the Mu’mins It is narrated from Imam Ar-Ridha’ (as) that there were four pious persons (Mu’mins) during the period of the bani Israel. Three of them were one day having a tete a tete when the fourth knocked at the door. The slave of the house …

It is said about the justice and tyranny of kings that the welfare of the subjects of a kingdom depends much upon the fairness of its ruler. Therefore, The Prophet of Allah (S) has said, “My Ummat depends for its prosperity on two types of persons: the first the Fuqha …

Hadrat Abu Talib, “The Greatest Guardian of Islam” died at the age of 80 years on 26th Rajab in Makkah, three years before Hijrah of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) from Makkah to Madinah. He strongly stood by Holy Prophet of Islam’s Divine Mission. He was always protecting him from the …

Question In my previous correspondences, I inquired regarding Islam’s approval of the continuation of the practice of slavery. You had replied in summary and for a more thorough answer had referred me to volume six of your “Al-Tafsir al-Mizan”. But I did not find my answer there.Let me repeat my …