Reading Time: 3 minutes History shows that the Bani Umayya, led by the likes of Muawiyah and Marwan, tried to arouse the passions of the lay Muslims against Aal Muhammad (a.s.) through some means or the other. One of […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Among the objections of the skeptics is that an Imam is one who leads the people. So how can Shias consider their leaders as Imams when they never led the Muslims in a formal government. […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Muslim majority rejects the leadership (Imamat) of the infallible Imams (a.s.). They maintain that the Imams (a.s.) although virtuous never claimed Imamat. It is only the Shias in their zeal who have elevated them […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes While the Muslim community is divided on the caliph / successor of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) after him, they have ignored an equally important issue – the caliph / successor of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Muslim scholars have widely reported narrations from Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) on these lines: علماء امّتي كأنبياء بني إسرائيل The scholars of my nation are like the prophets of Bani Israel. علماء أمتي أفضل من أنبياء […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes Ameerul Momineen’s (a.s.) association and relation with the Noble Quran runs deep right from the start when the divine call came to Holy Prophet – ‘Read in the name of your Lord Who created.’ (Surah […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Muslim scholars and historians lavished fulsome praise and adulation on Imam Muhammad Ibn Ali al-Taqi al-Jawad (a.s.). While all infallibles from the lineage of Imam Ali Reza (a.s.) were referred as ‘Ibno Reza’ by scholars, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes In an interesting incident, an extract of which is recorded here, a group of Christians headed by their priest comes to Medina, after the demise of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.), in search of the truth about […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes Was Ali (a.s.) disinterested in caliphate? The Muslim majority maintains that others were more eligible for caliphate than Ameerul Momineen, Ali Ibn Abi Talib (a.s.). In their view Ali (a.s.) was not interested in caliphate, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes When Muslims talk of whether Imam Hasan and Imam Husain (peace be upon them) were the rightful successors of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.), they should first discuss the merits of the two Imams (a.s.) vis-a-vis their […]
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