Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are those who claim that Tabarra must be avoided and advance one pretext or another as justification. Such an attitude towards tabarra is at odds with the categorical verses of the Holy Quran and […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUnity between all Muslims is on everyone’s wish list. Is this possible? Will all Muslims ever unite in spirit? In a lengthy tradition, Imam Sadiq (a.s.) informed: …Your (physical) assemblies and their assemblies are the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne who hates Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) – the Nasibi – is worse than the apostate who ascribes a son to Allah. Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) informed Ibn Abbas – …by the One who raised me a […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe poet has versified the tradition on Ameerul Momineen’s (a.s.) friend and enemy و تصفو النفوس و يزكو النجار بحب علي تزول الشكوك فثم العلاء و ثم الفخار فمهما رأيت محبا له ففي أصله نسب […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe common perception is that the Nasibi is one who hates Ameerul Momineen – Ali Ibn Abi Talib (a.s.). Muslims who love Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib (a.s.) cannot be considered Nasibi regardless of their […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe opponents are quick to raise objections against Shias and quicker still to attack Aal Muhammad (عليهم السلام). One of their objections against the infallibles is: Lady Fatima Zahra (سلام اللّه عليها) stepped out of […]
Reading Time: 9 minutesAmong the many ‘uncomfortable’ questions to which the Muslim majority has no answers is the death of the Holy Prophet (صلّى اللّه عليه و آله و سلّم) or should we say martyrdom? The Muslim majority […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesCritics of mourning (azadari) claim that once dead, all Muslims, including the martyrs, are as lifeless as stones and do not retain any hearing, sight or capability for that matter. Hence, they allege that to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesCritics of mourning (azadari) level the following charges in support of their claims: Weeping over dead is bidah (innovation) and there is no evidence of mourning from the Prophet’s (s.a.w.a.) Sunnah Weeping is the cause […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe calamity of Karbala is etched in Islamic history forever with some peculiarities. One of these includes the weeping of skies over Imam Husain (a.s.). But some reject this as an exaggeration by the Shias […]
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