• To Respect One’s Parents
    • Parents have a high position, as they are responsible for giving birth to children and for raising them. That is why Islam has recommended people to always accord due respect to the parents: ...
    • The Rule of Openness and Winning the Hearts
    • Islam, as the most complete divine religion, has room for everyone and has no limitations for accepting people. Everyone, with different colours, races, appearance, social status, and language can ascend to this peak. It is like ...
    • The Best Deeds
    • One gains perfection by getting close to God. The closer one gets to God, the most perfect his soul becomes, until he reaches a state that he can pay attention to nothing, but to God. Quoting Prophet Muhammad, Imam Sadiq said, ...
    • How to Treat Subordinates?
    • “Praise be to Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds;” “Most Gracious, Most Merciful”. The use of the two terms of “gracious” and “merciful” as attributes of God in the Qur’an means that ...
    • Postponing the Repentance
    • The Holy Qur’an has proposed ways for people to make up for their mistakes. In the words of Qur’an, this is the act of asking for forgiveness called ‘repentance’ which has different types: ...
    • Music in Heaven
    • According to the religious teachings, there are two kinds of pleasant music in Heaven: One is the music of the nature of the Heaven, like the song of the Heavenly birds, the sound of rivers and waterfalls, and the sound of ...
    • Lessons of Ashura
    • Ashura was a battle between right and wrong; a divine battle which is not forgotten by time. The more time is lapsed from its date of happening, the clearer its teachings become for us. Hussein bin Ali was ...
    • Treatment and Penance of Backbiting
    • It is necessary to keep in mind the forecited disadvantages of backbiting. * It is necessary to pay the greatest attention to self-discipline by ...
    • Reasonable Grounds of Backbiting
    • Backbiting is decided as forbidden so long as it is intended to disgrace others. It is natural for us to look for mistakes and faults in others in order to make ourselves feel better and powerful. Many people may not realize that ...
    • Backbiting is prohibited in Islam
    • Not only is backbiting is prohibited but to listen to gossips has also been condemned in Islam. It is necessary to avoid being in conformity with the backbiters or listening to them, for the listener of backbiting is regarded as partner in the sin. It ...
    • The Sermon of The Pious (part 9)
    • They have endurance in hardship: They tolerate hardship and difficulty. They are patient in distress and by relying God, they persist straitened circumstances. When a person resists ...
    • The Sermon of The Pious (part 8)
    • The pious have determination along with leniency: They are not lenient towards anyone without reason, nor do they become boisterous. They become intimate with people by thinking and according to ...
    • The Sermon of The Pious (part 7)
    • If anyone looks at them he believes they are sick, but they are not sick and he says that they have gone mad. In this part the effect of fear towards God which dominates the soul is explained. Fear of God means ...
    • The Sermon of The Pious (part 6)
    • 16. It is a beneficial transaction that Allah made easy for them. Our entire life is a transaction. Every action in this world receives a reaction. The God-Fearing exchange ...
    • The Sermon of The Pious (part 5)
    • If there had not been fixed periods (of life) ordained for each, there spirits would not have been remained in their bodies even for the twinkling of an eye because of...
    • The Sermon of The Pious (part 4)
    • The reason Imam Ali (A.S) starts with the way of speaking is that speech is what distinguishes between human beings and animals. The personality of a person is revealed by his speech. The key to human beings thought is ...
    • The Sermon of The Pious (part 3)
    • Whenever you analyze a text, context is an important aspect to consider. Context is the particular element of the situation within which the text is created and interpreted (the effect of time, place, ideology, and etc.). The context of the ...
    • The Sermon of The Pious (part 2)
    • I don’t why when speaking about morality, the majority of people consider it as a dispensable issue, while most of the individual and social problems of people are certainly and precisely due to our frailty. Morality is the principal asset ...
    • Greater Sin from viewpoint of the traditions (Part 3)
    • Ibne Mehboob has mentioned in his ‘Sahih’ that he and his companions had written a letter to Imam Reza (A.S) enquiring about the number of the Greater Sins. Also the method of determining their “greatness”. The respected Imam (A.S) replied thus: ...
    • Greater Sin from viewpoint of the traditions (Part 1)
    • 1) Sadooq (r.a) has recorded in Oyoone Akhbaar that Imam Zadeh Hazrat Abdul Azeem the son of Abdullah Hassani said, “I heard from Abu Jafar the second, Imam Muhammad Taqi (A.S) who heard from his respected father Imam Reza (A.S) who ...
    • The Definition of a Greater Sin
    • 1) Sins are of two types- The Greater and the Lesser. All those sins are Greater which have been specifically termed as Greater in the Holy Qur’an and the traditions. The number of such sins exceeds ...
    • “And be thankful to Me and to thy parents”
    • The Lord has commanded that ye worship none but Him and that ye show kindness unto your parents ….. (Qur’an, 17:23). The spiritual and moral duties are laid down side by side here. We are to ...
    • Allah’s Help the Best (Part 3)
    • A group of Muslims migrated to Abyssinia, on the advice of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), to save themselves from being persecuted by the polytheistic Quraysh of Mecca. They always had their ears open for ...
    • Allah’s Help the Best (Part 2)
    • It was the wide, open territory of Mina during the Hajj season. Imam Jafar Sadiq (A.S) was sitting in his corner surrounded by his friends, other Hajjis, eating grapes. A poor man passed by and ...
    • Allah’s Help the Best (Part 1)
    • One of the companions of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) found his financial conditions in a critical state and sat wondering how he could improve them. His wife suggested he visit the ...
    • The reality of Sincere Repentance (Tawbah): Part 2
    • Successful Tawbah is a difficult task. Indulging in sins, especially major and mortal ones cause a person to become totally forgetful of Tawbah. If the tree of sins growing in the orchard of the human heart reaches maturity and its roots become ...
    • The reality of Sincere Repentance (Tawbah): Part 1
    • O you who believe! Turn (in repentance) to Allah with sincere repentance; Perhaps your Lord will remove your evil from you… (Holy Quran, 66: 8). The Prophet of Allah (PBUH) said: There are four signs of one who is repentant: ...
    • The Important Choice in Karbala (Part 3)
    • From the beginning, Hurr was hoping that the events would not lead to war, but now war seems to be unavoidable. Human-beings have limited capability in tolerating shame and scorn, except for ...
    • The Important Choice in Karbala (Part 2)
    • The history of Islam is full of contradicting features. The two lines starting from Habil and Qabil, existing throughout the history side by side though in different faces, have also continued in Islam. Now, both these streams are ...
    • The Important Choice in Karbala (Part 1)
    • Hurr was the name of one of the high-ranking commanders of the army of Omar-e-Sad who faced the grandson of the Prophet of Islam, Hussein-ibn-Ali, with orders from Yazeed-ibn-Muawiah to either get ...
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