Senior Iranian commander Major General Qassem Soleimani says the United States is using the Daesh Takfiri group as an instrument against Muslims.General Soleimni said on Tuesday that the Daesh Takfiri group is the creature of Washington, noting that “the US plans to maintain Daesh so that there would be a …
Read More »UN Officials Warn of Dengue Outbreak in War-Torn Yemen
An outbreak of dengue fever in Yemen’s most populated governorate has prompted urgent calls from the World Health Organization (WHO) for a “humanitarian corridor” to facilitate the flow of medicines to over three million civilians trapped in the war-torn area.The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is appealing for a …
Read More »Imam Moussa Sadr
Born to a Lebanese family living in Qom, Iran in 1928, Moussa Sadr was raised among scholars and theologians. He attended primary school in Qom and completed his secondary education in 1946. Sadr then entered seminary in Qom to study jurisprudence. In 1950, Sadr moved to the capital to join …
Read More »Iran to Screen Movie ‘Muhammad (PBUH)’ with English, French Subtitles
‘Muhammad, the Messenger of God’, the latest film by the renowned Iranian director Majid Majidi, will be screened in Iran’s theaters with English and French subtitles for foreigners living in the country, one of the film’s producers announced. There are many Muslims from other countries residing in Iran, many of …
Read More »Hezbollah: Imam Mussa Al-Sadr Case Top Priority
Hezbollah stressed on Monday that the case of Imam Sayyed Mussaal-Sadr’s disappearance is a top priority, calling for exerting efforts in a bid to uncover his fate.In a statement released by Hezbollah’s Media Relations on the 37th anniversary of the disappearance of Imam Sadr, the resistance movement said that the …
Read More »The Wilayat, authority, of the Faqih
The main part of the subject, the Wilayat of the Faqih, will be discussed on the basis of the following sources of authority, conditions and factsIn the lights of Ahadith that prove the validity and the authority of Wilayat of the faqih.The qualifications required for this kind of WilayatIts scope …
Read More »Four Million Muslims Killed In US-NATO Wars: Should We Call It Genocide?
Hearkening back to the Japanese interment camps of WWII, some Americans are now calling for Muslims to be placed in camps or even openly calling for genocide against the 1.6 billion practitioners of the faith.It may never be possible to know the true death toll of the modern Western wars …
Read More »Duties and Responsibilities of the Prophets
In the previous lesson, it was concluded that the chosen Prophets of God have certain responsibilities towards God and the people. This lesson is aimed at discussing these responsibilities.Our discussion here does not include such matters as the establishment of a monotheistic society and a prophetic government, not meaning that …
Read More »Background to Prophethood in the Nahjul Balaghah
In the previous lesson, the background to the appointment of the Prophets was discussed with regard to a few statements of the Nahjul Balaghah. This lesson is aimed at completing what was mentioned before by analyzing in detail the peculiarities of two periods, which are of concern in our discussion, …
Read More »Former DIA Chief Michael Flynn Says Rise of Islamic State was “a willful decision” and Defends Accuracy of 2012 Memo
In Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn confirms to Mehdi Hasan that not only had he studied the DIA memo predicting the West’s backing of an Islamic State in Syria when it came across his desk in 2012, but even …
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