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The Significance and Role of Lamentation for Imam Hussein (a.s.) in Reviving Society

The incidents that have taken place in the history of every society can have great effects on the destiny of that society and other societies. If an incident has been useful and effective in its own place, then reviewing and reconstructing it and keeping it alive can have a lot of benefits and effects for humanity. Hence, forgetting it can entail enumerable irreparable damages to human society. That is because the events take place in the history of nations at great material and spiritual cost in the sense that those nations lose their great men and go through a lot of hardship, difficulties and deprivations.

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What are the courses of actions for having good-temperament in our life? What are the worldly and heavenly results of having good moral?

1507 دستور العمل ها
What is the proper consumption pattern in Islam?

1137 اسراف و تبذیر
Did the past religions like Christianity and Judaism have prayers like Muslims?

1157 کلیات
What are the most important citizenship rights in Islamic society according to Imam Ali (as)?

972 روایات و دعاهای برجای مانده
If Islam is the complete religion why most of people don’t accept it?

1114
If Islam is the religion of kindness and love what do the aggressive verses of the holy Quran stand for?!

1261 دین اسلام
I want you to give a short biography of Lady Khadijah (sa).

998 تاريخ بزرگان
Please provide us with a short biography of the holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)?

931 پیامبر اکرم ص
Is it possible to mention names of all the prophets (as)?

1152 تاريخ بزرگان
How it is possible that distortion did not occur in the holy Qur’an, in spite of that the meanings of stance is changed, while changing phonetics in Arabic language?

2163 Quranic Studies

Various meanings of distortion and alternation have been expressed. The Islamic scholars agree with view of less or more non-distortion and non-alternation in the holy Quran. In other words, neither anything has been decreased nor anything has been increased which was not present inside ...
Prove the existence of God and then indicate how qualities such as being pure, sacrosanct (inviolable), and the greater, etc can be proven in regards to Him?

2030 پروردگار. نامها و ویژگی ها

Allah the Exalted is the absolute and perfect existence with no defects or deficiencies. (He is) a unique existence with the ability to do anything and is aware of all objects (everything) in all situations and at all times. He is receptive and perspicacious (The Hearer and ...
I doubt whether my prayer is valid. Please tell me how to perform my prayers correctly

1847 Laws and Jurisprudence

Before answering your question, it seems necessary to note that asking questions about things you don’t know is not embarrassing. A lack of knowledge and asking questions are not deficiencies that one should fear. To ask questions is considered as a degree of completion. This is due ...
Who has more power and influence, God or Satan?

1425 ابلیس و شیطان

Undoubtedly, the power of God, who is the Creator of of all things, is more than Satan in all matters. However, when Prophet Adam (peace be upon him) obeyed Satan's advice and refused to obey God's command, it was not because of the influence of Satan's word; ...
For what purpose do the dwellers of paradise of consent need intercession from angels?

1399 Exegesis

God is pleased by those who have faith and right deeds. But since faith and right deeds have severity and weakness and have different levels, therefore God's pleasure towards them also differs. Paradise also according to the levels of faith and the quality of the right deeds ...
Is Satan eternal and immortal like God since God gave respite to Satan until Day of Judgment?

1354 Exegesis

Eternity means a state of immortal existence in future. Since Satan is God's creature and each creature is under the control of its creator, therefore Satan cannot make himself involved in God's affairs volitionally, rather like other creatures whatever he has belongs to God. The respite God ...
Why does God not heal the disease of the hypocrites but also adds to it or worsens it?

1399 Exegesis

Allah the Exalted has created the human beings with freewill and volition which means that human evolution (perfection) is gained through his free choice and will. Therefore if people like the hypocrites choose to go astray of their own free will, it would not be right on ...
in brief: Is there any hope of protection from the punishment of the Day of Judgment?

1257 Practical

What is concluded by studying all the religious teachings is that the hope for Allah’s mercy and the fear of punishment on the Day of Judgment are two complementary qualities which a believer should posses equally and in the same degree. It means that if the believer ...
What is meant by the ‘Unity of Existence?’

1566 Islamic Philosophy

What the philosophers and the mystics mean by the ‘unity of existence’ is not that the whole existing world put together is God; because, the whole collection does not enjoy a ‘real existence and unity’ (wujud wa wehdat-e-haqiqi). Similarly it also does not mean the ‘union’ (ittehad) ...
What does the word "ila" "up to" in the Quranic verse on wudu (paying attention to the Sunni method of making wudu) mean? Can you please tell us of the Holy Prophet\'s demeanor regarding this subject?

1931 Way of life of

It should be said about the word "ila" in the Quranic verse on wudu that it is only for explaining the limit of washing and its amount, not the way and method of washing; meaning in the verse the limit and amount of the hands and arms ...
Can the slaughtered meat of the Non-Muslims be used (lawfully)?

1408 Laws and Jurisprudence

The opinion of the Shia' jurists and the School of Thought of the Ahl al-Bayt (the family of the Noble Prophet of Islam (s)) is that meat that has not been slaughtered according to Islamic laws, the ruling is that it is like regular dead meat (animal ...
what is dignity? How can it be achieved? And what status do dignified people posses before God?

1420 انسان شناسی

Dignity can be defined as the act of avoiding the degradation of oneself and baseness and a magnanimous man is the one who is free from all the indecencies. Indecency (antonym for dignity) equals degradation and humiliation and one has to equip oneself with the weapon ...
What are the necessary limits - quantitatively and qualitatively - for women\'s covering while performing prayers?

1736 Laws and Jurisprudence

The obligatory limits of covering for women while performing prayers is that the entire body even the hair should be covered except for the face (as much as it is washed in wudu) and both hands and legs to the wrists and ankles. As far as the ...
What does it mean to think well and avoid suspicion about God? How can we get rid of suspicion towards God?

2415 گناه و رذائل اخلاقی

There are verses in the Quran which condemns suspicion and bad expectations of God.[1] As well, there are also narrations which, somehow, deal with the subject of good and bad expectation of God, the Exalted: The Commander of the Faithful, Ali (AS) says: "Whoever ...
What are the narrations about rizq (sustenance) and what are the ways through which one can earn lawful sustenance? What duas are there for increasing rizq?

3608 رزق

Contrary to the common perception which restricts sustenance to its material manifestations, the term rizq (sustenance) has a more extensive meaning that includes all divine bounties irrespective of the bounties being material or spiritual. Nevertheless, there are some traditions which also refer exclusively to material sustenance which ...
Why didn’t Imam Ali (AS) punish the murderers of Uthman?

1905 امام علی ع و خلفا

1. Uthman was not killed by only one individual so that he could be brought to book; rather an extensive uprising was launched an angry mob against him. The uprising led ultimately to his death. Imam Ali (AS) could not punish thousands of people for launching an ...

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What happened to the Prophet's daughter after his demise?

4384 تاريخ بزرگان

There are many ahadith and much that can be said in regard to what took place for Lady Fatimah after the Prophet's demise, but we will only examine one hadith from Sahih Bukhari, the most reliable source of Sunnis, in the detailed answer. ...
What is the Islamic law concerning family marriage?

3639 Laws and Jurisprudence

There is a proverb in Persian which says, “A girl’s marriage with her cousin is made in heaven”. Is it really as such? The answer is that: Who knows about the heaven? Obviously no one knows about it except God, the Exalted, and the infallible leaders? No matter how much ...
Is it possible for humankind to know Allah (awj)? If yes, to what degree and what is the value of such knowledge?

7371 Traditional

The human being can attain knowledge of Allah (awj) through various ways. This knowledge can come about through the medium of the intellect or of the heart. At times he—as in the case of the sage and the philosopher—reasons and understands through conceptual knowledge ...
Is it okay to say "Ali is the inheritor"?

4013 Traditional

An heir is someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property or position of another without an external cause like purchase and sale, dedication etc. rather by descent and right of relationship.
What is the Islamic law concerning friendship between the opposite genders? Kindly explain the rules regarding various types of friendship between two individuals from the opposite genders.

3634 Laws and Jurisprudence

The answer given by His Eminence, Ayatollah Mahdi Hadavi Tehrani (may Allah grant him long life) is as follows: 1. Any kind of relations between the opposite genders that entail evil and sins such as lustful look or physical contact are ...
Why is a child that has been born from a temporary marriage given to the father?

7116 Laws and Jurisprudence

Temporary marriage is an easy and simple marriage for people that can’t practice permanent marriage, legitimized by God for a number of reasons, one of which is to prevent fornication and sexual corruption. Consequently, God has excluded a few of the rulings and conditions required in permanent marriage ...
Does a virgin girl need to get her father’s permission for marriage?

3925 Laws and Jurisprudence

The maraje’ consider the permission of the father or paternal grandfather [in the case of her not having a father] of a virgin girl necessary for her marriage[1].[2] The baligh virgin girl who can distinguish between what is ...
Is it permissible to name a village mosque and the only mosque in a village as central mosque?

2066 احکام مساجد و مکانهای مقدس

There is no problem in doing so. In case the mosque does not belong to a particular group of people or ethnicity, it would be considered as the central mosque. Index: Some grand religious authorities have responded to this question.[i] Grand Ayatollah Khamenei ...
Many of the hadiths on the birth of Imam Zaman (as) are weak and unauthentic ones and only a few of these hadiths are authentic. Can one say that the weak ones are strengthened by those that are authentic, thus making the weak ones also dependable, so that all ...

5046 Traditional

A few points need to made concerning the birth of Imam Zaman (as):1- All of the hadiths on this subject aren’t weak, and there are also “sahih”, “mowathaq” and “hasan” (terms referring to different types of authentic hadiths) ones amongst them. Moreover, the narrators of these narrations who ...
What are the different stages and levels of religion?

4541 Philosophy of Religion

The main stages of religion are as follows:1- The “nafsul-amr” religion: What exists in the knowledge of Allah (swt) regarding the guidance of man to his eternal prosperity and salvation, is the “nafsul-amr” religion. In other words, the nafsul-amr religion is the way of life for man from ...

Is lobster, clam, oyster and octopus halal?

85801 Laws and Jurisprudence

Eating lobster, clam, oyster and octopus is haram. According to religious resources regarding halal and haram meat, there are general rulings and numerous standards; for instance, a set of rulings has been given for land animals, sea creatures, birds and so on.The condition for halal meat sea ...
Why are shrimps halal and crabs haram? What makes one of them halal and the other halal despite the fact that both of them are from the same category?

79599 Philosophy of Religion and Law

Although all Islamic laws are a result of the benefits or disadvantages and harms that back them, and there is a particular reason behind each and every one of them, discovering the exact reason in detail for every one of them is extremely difficult. The most we ...
What is the definition of "Muslim" according to the Quran?

68186 Exegesis

According to the Quran a Muslim is one who has absolutely surrendered to Allah and his commands and believes in pure Tawhid (the oneness of God) that isn't tainted with any Shirk and this is why the Almighty has introduced Prophet Abraham as a true ...
Why hasn’t Imam Ali (a.s.) been mentioned in the Holy Quran?

65644 Exegesis

One should be aware that although the imam’s names, )especially Imam Ali’s(, haven’t been mentioned in the Quran, nevertheless, their names, )especially Imam Ali’s(, can be found in the Prophet’s sayings. One very good example is the hadith of Ghadir which is considered the official announcement of the appointment of ...
What is meant by Sidratul-Muntaha that the Quran has mentioned?

65092 Exegesis

This question doesn’t have a brief answer. Please click on the detailed answer. ...
Why do we the Shia pray at three times while the Quran tells us to pray at five times?

47324 Laws and Jurisprudence

The reason the Shia perform their prayers in three times is the Quranic verses and traditions on the matter. Although the Quran has mentioned that prayer is wajib several times and hasn’t gone into the details, it has spoken of its times: “Maintain the prayer from the sun's ...
Which animals and insects have been named in the Quran?

47121 Exegesis

Approximately 35 animals have been named in the Quran; the birds and insects of which are:Salwa (سلوی)=The quail (Baqarah:57), Ba’uth (بعوض)=Mosquito (Baqarah:26), Dhubab (ذباب)=Fly (Hajj:73), Nahl (نحل)=Honeybee (Nahl:68), Ankabut (عنکبوت)=Spider (Ankabut:41), Jarad (جراد)=Grasshopper (A’raf:133), HudHud (هدهد)=Hoopoe (Naml:20), Ghurab (غراب)=Crow (Ma’idah:31), Ababil (ابابیل)= probably ‘Swallow’ (Fil:3), Naml (نمل)=Ant ...
Is there any problem in sweeping and cleaning one”s house at night?

42994 Hadith

1. Having conducted a research into Hadith (scriptural) sources, we found out that the narrations about cleaning, dusting and sweeping a house are absolute and unrestricted in the sense that they include both day and night. There is nothing to indicate that dusting and cleaning are forbidden ...
How is Prophet Adam’s (A.S.) creation (about 5,764 years ago) make sense when fossils found from human beings are almost 25 million years old?

42432 Exegesis

There is no inconsistence between these two. If we have heard that Prophet Adam has been created six to seven thousand years ago, this might refer to a different and new generation of human beings which started with Prophet Adam (A.S.) and might ...
How do you prove that Imam Ali (as) was imam and khalifa after the Prophet (pbuh)?

41524 Traditional

There is no doubt that in order for Islam to survive, it needs a keeper and guardian and individuals to deliver and express the teachings and guidelines of religion for the people, and carry them out. Since one of the reasons of creation is the ...

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