The Religious Condition Of The People Prior To The Uprising Of Imam Al-Mahdi (ATFS)
In this chapter, we will examine the religious condition of the people prior to the advent of the Imam of the Time (‘atfs). It can be understood from the hadiths that during those days, Islam and the Qur’an will remain in name only while the Muslims will be Muslims only superficially. The mosques will no longer be centers for guiding and admonishing the people. The jurists (fuqaha) at that time will be the worst jurists on the face of the earth while religion will be bartered for a trivial price and paltry sum. Islam and the Muslims Islam means submission to the will and ordersRead More →
Ka’aba Against The Might Of Elephants
During the sixth century around 570 A.D., before the advent of Islam, the part of Arabia known as Yemen was under the rule of the Abyssinian Christians who had driven away the Jewish Himyar rulers.The Abyssinian viceroy in Yemen was Abraha Ashram. He was determined to build great church in San’aa, present capital of Yemen, so as to make it a leading centre of commerce and place of pilgrimage for the Christian world. He was convinced that this dream could only be realized if he could first destroy Mecca which was then a huge centre of commerce and pilgrimage.Intoxicated with power and fired by religiousRead More →
Arba’een Procession
Arba’een (Arabic: األربعين ,Persian: چهلم ,Urdu: چہلم” (the fortieth day”, is a Shia Muslim religious observance that occurs 40 days after the Day of Ashura to commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussain (PBUH) which falls on the 20th day of the month of Safar. Forty days is the usual length of the time of mourning in Islamic cultures. Arba’een, is one of the largest pilgrimage gathering on Earth, in which over 25 million people go to the city of Karbala in Iraq. The occasion reminds the faithful of the core message behind Imam Hussain’s (PBUH) martyrdom: Establishing justice and fighting injustice, no matter what itsRead More →
Imam Ja’far Al-Sadiq’s Contribution To The Sciences
Birth & Early Childhood Imam Jafar as-Sadiq was born in Medina on the 17 of Rabi ul-Awwal in the year of 82 Hijra. His father was the 5th Imam Mohammed Baqar (a) and his mother was Umme Farwa. It is said that Jafar as-Sadiq was born circumcised.Contrary to the Western belief, the Shias firmly believe that Imam Jafar as-Sadiq had Ilm-e-Ladunni or ‘God given Knowledge’. The Shias believe that a man’s subconscious mind is quite different from his conscious mind. It is the treasure house of knowledge of mankind and of the world. Modern science lends support to this theory. Biological studies have gradually provedRead More →
Revelations Of Imam Jafar As-Sadiq (A.S)
Imam Mohammed al-Baqar and Imam Jafar as-Sadiq knew that the Muslim world would be flooded with books of the philosophers of Greece and Alexandria and that the Muslims would blindly accept everything they had written as the Gospel truth. Thus, many of the false and fallacious theories would catch their imagination, corrupt their minds, and keep them under total darkness for centuries, which is actually what had happened in the past. For example the theory of Ptolemy that the earth is the centre of the universe and the sun, the planet and the stars rotate around it was generally accepted by the Muslims as true.TheRead More →
How Islam Immortalized Imam Hussein (A.S.): The Blessed Infant
On the third of the blessed month of Sha’ban, the fourth year after Hijrah and a year after the birth of Imam Hassan (a.s.), the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.) was given news of the birth of Imam Hussein (a.s.). He hurried to the house of Imam Ali and Fatimah al-Zahra’ (a.s.).“O Asma’,” he ordered Asma’, the daughter of Umays, “bring me my son.”She took the newborn to him. The infant was wrapped in a piece of cloth. The face of the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.) lit up upon seeing his grandson. He took him in his arms. He recited the call to prayer (adan) intoRead More →
Signs Of Reappearance Of Imam Mahdi (Part 2)
Remoteness of Islam “Islam certainly began strange and very soon it will revert to being strange. Thus blessed be the strange ones.”In Ghaibat Nomani this same tradition is narrated through another chain of narrators and it is narrated in Ikmaaluddin from Imam Ali Reza (a.s.) from another chain of narrators. 1 “Islam certainly began strange and very soon it will revert to being strange as it started. Thus blessed be the strange ones.” 1 Effect of the Uprising of Imam Zamana (a.s.) and its Signs “The Qaim from us will be aided by awe and helped with divine assistance. The earth will fold up forRead More →