Reading Time: 3 minutesIstigatha (calling out respected personalities for help) and Tawassul (seeking divine intervention through the medium of respected personalities) are clearly mandated in Islam basis unambiguous Quranic verses and reliable traditions (Sunnah). Yet there are constant […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesOne of the key accusations of the skeptics directed at the Shias is that in moments of crisis they invoke Ali Ibn Abi Talib (a.s.) instead of invoking Allah the Almighty. Unfortunately, even some Shias […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are several queries and doubts raised by the skeptics on the Shiite practice of prostration (sajdah) on the soil of Karbala, the land of Imam Husain’s (a.s.) shrine. The doubts range from the extreme […]
Reading Time: 10 minutes Introduction A view among the so-called puritanical Muslims with regards seeking grace and blessings (also called Tabarruk) is that it is contrary to religion and the principle of Tauheed. They argue that we should […]
Reading Time: 8 minutesDoubt Some so-called Muslims object to the practice of seeking medium (waseelah) through divine personalities. Their initial take is that we should seek only from Allah. Then they grudgingly accept that we can also seek […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesDoubt A sect of Muslims is so thoroughly confused about the concept of Waseelah (medium towards Allah) and Tawassul (seeking a medium) that it labels anything and everything related to Tawassul as polytheism (Shirk). Although […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesDoubt There was a group of Muslims in the past who claimed that we must seek only from Allah. They were opposed tooth and nail by the other Muslims and were branded as Kharijis i.e. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesSkeptics have advanced certain arguments against building mosques/structures over graves. None of these arguments are backed by any verse of the Quran nor any unambiguous tradition. Since they lack any proof from the Quran and […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Holy Quran has clearly ruled in favour of building mosques / structures over graves as documented in Surah Kahf (18): Verse 21: فَقَالُوا ابْنُوا عَلَيْهِم بُنْيَانًا ۖرَّبُّهُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِهِمْ ۚ قَالَ الَّذِينَ غَلَبُوا عَلَىٰ أَمْرِهِمْ لَنَتَّخِذَنَّ عَلَيْهِم […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesHaving advanced irrefutable evidences from the Noble Quran and the reliable Sunnah on the subject, the discussion on building mosques or domes over graves is already concluded and further evidences cannot add to the certainty […]
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