DOWER AND MAINTENANCE - I
It is one of the most ancient traditions of the human family relations that at the time of marriage the man pays a dower (mahr) to the woman or to her father. In addition to that, he undertakes to bear the expenses of his wife and children during the entire period of his life.
What is the basis of this tradition? Why and how did it begin? Why should the husband be responsible for the maintenance of his wife? ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - LAHORE, Pakistan: A court in Pakistan has jailed an Imam or prayer leader for five years for inciting hate against Shiite Muslims, officials said Wednesday.The extremist prayer leader, Abubakar, was arrested in February in Kasur district, Punjab, some 50 kilometres south of Lahore, for making a speech against the Shia Muslims, a prosecutor told AFP.“The judge of an anti-terrorism court on Tuesday sentenced the Imam ...
Fulfilling an old dream, Muslims in Uganda have opened the country's first-ever Islamic television channel in the country, hoping it will launch a revival of their faith in the country after years of absence of Muslim voice in the media. “Our listeners demanded for a Television station they would relate with and that is how the idea was conceived,” Al-Hajji Karim Kalisa, the managing director of Salam TV said. Despite having ...
The United States has offered a $12 million bounty for information leading to the arrest of two senior officials from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance ...
Mysticism in the Islamic context has traditionally been intertwined with the notion of Ḥikmah, which is at once both wisdom and philosophy (Nasr 1996). The source of mysticism and the mystical elements in Islam are to be traced to the Qur’an and the Islamic doctrine itself. Some of the Qur’anic verses have been viewed by the mystics and philosopher-mystics of Islam as allegorical and esoteric hints for those who can see them. ...
Today's world is a raucous world. Sometimes one feels as if he has lost his self and lacks any will. We move along the current to any direction either up or down. Everything depends on the circumstances. It can be said that humans in today's world have reached the point of uncertainty and face the crisis of identity.
The crisis emerges when a conflict arises between the person's inner self and the surrounding world. There are different kinds ...
Muhammad Yakub Kulaini quotes from Imam Zain-ul-'Abidin (as) that some people were sailing in a boat when it toppled in a storm. Only one woman survived by hanging on to a wooden plank that kept afloat. She landed in an island where she met a sinful person. When he saw the woman the evil desires rose in his mind. The woman cried and begged him to spare her the ignominy. The man told her why she was so scared of anyone in that lonely place.The ...
The French parliament is debating plans to ban women from wearing the full Islamic veil, known as the burka, in public. The country appears to be obsessed with Islamic dress. In 2004, the wearing of headscarves was outlawed in French schools and now Muslim women are back in the spotlight. As a young Scottish Muslim, I am tired of Western governments’ attempts to impose their values upon these women. Being brought up in Scotland has ...
16 of Malaysian Shiites, who were arrested two days ago at Imam Hussein (AS) mourning ceremony, were released on bail.
Ahlul Bayt News Agency -ABNA- 16 of Malaysian Shiites, who were arrested two days ago at Imam Hussein (AS) mourning ceremony, were released on bail.
They also have to be present at the 'Religious Affairs Organization of Selangor' (JAIS) according to the dates specified for each of them.
Police also called on every women and ...
God doth wish to lighten your (difficulties). [Holy Quran: Nisaa 4:28]
Celibacy is a wound to morals and social purity. A celibate is the worst of people in site of the Almighty God in such a manner that it is frequently underlined in many Quranic verses and instructions of tradition. On the other hand, in Islam, the marriage is encouraged and apperciated and many blessings are put in it by the mercy of Allah. Considering the Islamic ...
(According to the fatwas of Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Sistani)
Prayers Of A Traveller (Musafir)
A traveller should reduce the Rak'ats in Zuhr, Asr and Isha prayers, that is, he should perform two Rak'ats instead of four, subject to the following eight conditions: The first condition is that his journey is not less than 8 farsakh . A farsakh in shariah is a little less than 51/2 kilometres. (When converted into miles, 8 farsakh is equal to 28 miles ...
Muslims for centuries have engaged themselves and the world in pursuit of inner Jihad (Inner Struggle). This has been their way of getting closer to their Creator, achieving inner peace and getting closer to God’s creations. Unless we are at peace with ourselves, we cannot have peace with the Creator and vice versa.The word Jihad is from the Arabic root word JAHADA which basically means striving or struggle. The question is striving for ...
Islam has instituted the system of family on sound bases agreeing with the life necessities and the individuals’ exigencies and behavior. It has regarded the family talents that are afforded by God, as spontaneous. God says:And one of his signs is that He created mates for you from yourselves that you may find rest in them, and He put between you love and compassion.This phenomenon on which mankind have been natured is one of God’s grand ...
Responding to allegations about the video clip aired by military, he said the video was edited to justify their inhumane acts. "American President Barack Obama was stoned somewhere and nobody was killed"
AhlulBayt News Agency - On Tuesday 19th January, 2016 Nigerian students under the aegis of the Academic forum of the Islamic movement in Nigeria staged a peaceful protest at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) headquarters, Abuja ...
Unfortunately, many of us feel it is nearly impossible for our offspring to select the right kind of atmosphere in which they are able to freely and comfortably nurture their faith while living in the West. On the other hand, there are the parents who have complete confidence in their children and never worry about who their friends are and what they do. For them, raising children well at home rules out any possibility of them being negatively ...
Slovak police investigate the case of a Muslim woman robbed and attacked in downtown Bratislava on the same day as terrorist attacks in Brussels, March 22. The woman travelled in Hodžovo Square with her son, aged 3, and she wanted to take bus No. 83 to the Main (railway) Station at the stop near the Presidential Palace when an unknown man tried to take off her veil and pulled her handbag. When she looked back, she saw he took her purse and ...
Bible verses regarding head covering or Hijab. It clearly states that the woman needs to cover up her hair.
King James Bible CORINTHIANS 11:1-18
11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Thirteen graves, thought to belong to Muslims, were damaged in acts of vandalism over the weekend in the Swiss city of Lausanne, police said on Monday. The damaged headstones in the Bois-de-Vaux cemetery bore the names of people thought to be Muslims based on their names appearing to be of Arab or North African origin. However, none of the sites had specific symbols distinguishing the buried as ...
1.The reality of marriage
It must be taken into consideration that marriage in fact is the intermarriage of the souls, not just the bodies.
From this it becomes known that the spiritual intermarriage needs a special kind of maturity, and not attaining the stage of spiritual majority and maturity in this connection might be a cause of the relapsing of the marital life even when committed to some of the external indications of the Shariah, ...
AhlulBayt News Agency - The Majlis Wahdat Muslimeen (biggest Shiite religious-political party of Pakistan) Secretary General Allama Nasir Abbas Jaffary on the third day of hunger strike on Sunday urged the Army Chief General Raheel Sharif to form a commission to probe the recent gunning down of four in Parachinar allegedly at the hands of FC and Levies personnel.Speaking to a media conference here the MWM leader, who was flanked by Sunni Ittehad ...
