He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.
Submission to Allah's Will is the best companion; wisdom is the noblest heritage; theoretical and practical knowledge are the best signs of distinction; deep thinking will present the clearest picture of every problem.
A conceited and self-admiring person is disliked by others; ...
The Youth Care Center of the Imam Hussein Holy Shrine has opened a visual art gallery in Bein al-Haramein, or the area between the two holy shrines of Imam Hussein and al-Abbas.
AhlulBayt News Agency - The Youth Care Center of the Imam Hussein Holy Shrine has opened a visual art gallery in Bein al-Haramein, or the area between the two holy shrines of Imam Hussein and al-Abbas.More than 18 youth artists from the southern province of Basra ...
The human race is mysterious and mystifying. The various aspects of existence are more profound than can be understood. Despite constant endeavor throughout history to solve the riddle of humanity’s existence, there are still incalculable unrevealed mysteries. Even now that we stand upon the heights of a multitude of anthropological studies and research, we are still faced with a number of ambiguities. It is astonishing that with the ...
Imam Ja'far As-Sadiq (as) says, "When two Mu'mins embrace each other, the Allah's Blessing will be on them! When they embrace each other only to please Allah, without any worldly motives, the angels say, ‘all your sins have been pardoned! Repeat the act of embrasure!' When two Mu'mins start speaking, the angels responsible for recording the deeds of the people ask one other to stay away from them that perhaps they desire to exchange secrets ...
AN UNPLEASANT SPECIMEN
A girl, who had a weak intellect but apparently was beautiful, was engaged to Ghulam. Right from the time of engagement , Ghulam became aware for the weakness of the girl's mind and wanted to change his mind and give up the idea of marriage with her, but her beauty and charm had dazzled his mind.
Anyway, the marriage took shape. After a certain period of time, the difficulties started, because the pretty girl who ...
Birth Control; Who is behind it?
The emissary of Allah has said: 'Marry, procreate and proliferate!' 96 He also said: 'Marry, procreate and proliferate so that I may be proud of you as a nation on the day of judgement even if the child is stillborn'. 97These two traditions contain laws albeit in the form of recommendations which like all recommendations should only be neglected in the case of strict necessity. The night prayer for example is a ...
Prosperity or RuinAttaining prosperity or ruin is the result of one's acts, morals and beliefs. Good morals, righteous beliefs and good deeds will result in prosperity, while wrong belief, bad character and wicked deeds will result in one's life getting ruined. Prosperity implies happiness in this world and the Hereafter, while getting ruined implies a disastrous life here and loss in the Hereafter. The result of prosperity is God's Pleasure and ...
Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a part of the Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between faith, reason or philosophy, and the religious teachings of Islam.DefinitionThe attempt to fuse religion and philosophy is difficult because there are no clear preconditions. On the other hand, classical religious believers have a set of religious principles that they hold to be fact. Indeed, due to ...
a) The first reward granted to those who swallow their anger is that they shall have protection on the Day of Resurrection.If Allah was to grant a person protection on the Day of Resurrection, which is also the day known as: The Day of Grief; The Day of Everything in the Open; The Day of Trepidation; The Day of the Great Fear; and The Day of the Distress, then is there any greater blessing or gift?!In the same way, if a person was to possess the ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Bahrain's main opposition group Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society stressed that August 14 is a historic day in Bahrain and a badge of pride for all Bahrainis for it represented a transition from a protectorate to an independent and sovereign state.It considers that August 14, 1971 was a major turnpoint leading to the stability of Bahrain and cohesion of its people under the unified principles and values of establishing a ...
Originally, in Arabic the word 'as-Sawm' meant 'al-Imsak', that is, to abstain totally from any act including eating, drinking, walking, speaking, etc. Thus, the Arabs used to refer to a horse refusing to run or to be fed, as 'Sa'im', that is, fasting. As is clear, the word 'Sawm' is ancient and was used in a different context by the Arabs before Islam. Then, however it did not have the specific meaning given to it by Islam as a term denoting a ...
At least two commanders of the ISIL militant group have been killed and six others arrested in mop-up operations by Afghan security forces carried out against the Takfiri terrorists in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar. Brigadier General Fazl Ahmad Sherzad, the provincial police chief, told reporters on Tuesday that the ISIL extremists were killed and arrested in Chaparhar district, located 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of the ...
The relation between man and woman becomes lawful by contracting marriage. There are two kinds of marriages: (i) Permanent marriage (ii) Fixed-time marriage In a permanent marriage, the period of matrimony is not fixed, and it is forever. The woman with whom such a marriage is concluded is called da'ima (i.e. a permanent wife). In a fixed time marriage (Mut'ah), the period of matrimony is fixed, for example matrimonial relation is contracted ...
Swiss media revealed on Saturday that a “World champion” in Muay Thai Boxing has joined ISIS in Syria, indicating that boxing fans demanded by depriving him of all sports titles in his possession, while the world champion confirmed that he is seeking to die “as a martyr through Jihad ...
The Russian capital Moscow is growing increasingly Islamic, as the number of Muslims in the city has increased to over 1.5 million over the past decade, according to Russia’s chief of imams. There are hundreds of mosques in Moscow, but not enough to accommodate the huge number of worshippers, forcing many to pray on the streets. According to experts, the number of Muslims in the city has grown dramatically in the past two decades due to ...
The infallibility of the Prophets in the Qur’an
Question: Explain the infallibility of the prophets. Why is it that some verses of the Qur`an contradict their infallibility?
Brief Answer
The answer to these questions can be summarized in the following points:
1. Infallibility is a state of the soul that makes an infallible person shun sins or any unpalatable acts and protects him from mistakes and forgetfulness ...
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
"To her the name of father was another name for love."
~~By Fanny Fern.~~
"They didn"t believe their father had ever been young; surely even in the cradle he had been a very,
very small man in a gray suit, with a little dark mustache and flat, incurious eyes."
~~By Richard Shattuck.~~
"Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers-
and ...
- Covering over 20,000 square meters, it stands adjacent to the world-famous Imam Mosque in south side of the historical Naqsh-e Jahan (Imam) Square, the second largest in the world after Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Placed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, the mosque is still functional as a busy place of worship in the historical precinct of the city. It features evolutionary yet remarkable decorative tilework, stucco and other intricate ...
Sayyed Nasrallah: US-Gulf Sanctions Ineffective / Fighting public sector corruption in Lebanon “major battle”
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah stressed on Friday that fighting the public sector corruption in Lebanon is a major national battle, adding that the party will start carrying out all the items of its election program in order to be honest with its supporters.
In a televised speech ...
When the sperm of the man enters the womb of the woman and fuses with the ovum, the process of fertilisation and the woman becoming a mother commences. The fertilised egg(the ovum) starts fast metamorphosis and ultimately takes the final shape of a human being. In fact the age of a person can be counted from the day the process of fertilisation takes place.
One intellectual writes:
“When a person arrives in this world, he would already ...
