Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, commemorating the martyrdom of Lady Zahra (s) in the Islamic Seminary of Amir al-Momineen (s), spoke about the importance of learning from the sermon of Lady Zahra (s) delivered by the blessed lady regarding Fadak. He said: “The famous sermon of Fadak by Lady Zahra (s) contains ...
Read More »The bias within
By Saad Rasool This week, I happened to meet a man whose story represents a deep rupture in the soul of our “Muslim” nation. This young man, barely in his early thirties, is a bookseller in one of the densely populated urban centers of Lahore. I had been told by ...
Read More »Ayatollah Misbah: Be like Ammar ibn Yasir (ra)
Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi, speaking to a group of university students yesterday, spoke about the status of the youth in the Islamic revolution and the importance of correctly understanding our role-models in Islamic history. Regarding the youth, his eminence said: “One of the blessings and bounties of our nation today are ...
Read More »Shia Publisher arrested for selling Nehjul Balaghah in Lahore
Shia publisher and owner of a bookshop was arrested and detained for selling Nehjul Balaghah, a book of sermons and sayings of Imam Ali (A), in Lahore on Monday. Police arrested Syed Mohammad Raza Shah, owner of Matkaba tur Reza from his Urdu Bazaar sales point. Police of Lahore had ...
Read More »Saudi’s Lonely, Costly Bid for Sunni-Shiite Equality
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — MIKHLIF AL-SHAMMARI has been jailed repeatedly, declared an infidel, ruined financially and shot four times — by his own son — all for this: He believes his fellow Sunni Muslims should treat Shiites as equals. In a Middle East torn by deepening sectarian hatred, that is ...
Read More »Anti-Taliban “Labbaik Ya Rasoolallah Conference” a show of Shia power
Shia Muslims expressed their mass strength and political power by holding a successful Labbaik Ya Rasoolullah (PBUH) Conference in Khairpur on Sunday. Shia and Sunni leaders called it a referendum against the Taliban terrorists. Shiite News Correspondent reported here that Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafari, head of Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen, Sahibzada Hamid ...
Read More »Will Erdogan apologise to Turkey’s Shia’s?
It was Turkey’s Shia (Jaafari) community’s turn to be offended by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as he criticized the Gulen faith movement, which he holds responsible for revealing the corruption files. Talking about Gulenists on a TV program, Erdogan said, “These people have three major characteristics. They practice taqiyya [religiously sanctioned dissimulation], they lie, they slander. As a result ...
Read More »Over 100 Malaysian Shia Muslims arrested in latest crackdown
Malaysian authorities arrested 114 people in Perak on Saturday on the basis of their Shia faith, in what is the latest crackdown against followers of the Shia Muslim faith, the second largest school of Islamic thought. The arrest took place while they were attending a celebration to commemorate the birth ...
Read More »Leader of the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria addresses people in Lafia, closes seminar
Leader of the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria, His Emminence, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky was in Lafia, Nassarawa State to address participants at a three-day seminar (Mu’utamar) organised by Jos zone of the Islamic Movement. Mu’utamar is a moral enhancement seminar organized by the Movement on regular basis, as a ground ...
Read More »Ayatollah Ka’bi: Victory is assured on the path of the Ahlulbayt (a)
Ayatollah Abbas Ka’bi, a highly respected teacher of the Islamic seminary, in a meeting with the central committee of Majlise Wahdate Muslimeen (MWM), spoke about the importance of following the footsteps of the Ahlulbayt (a) to ensure victory for any movement. “Victory is certain for us if we travel upon ...
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