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The Tenth Imam Ali Ibn Muhammad (Al-Naqi, Al-Hadi) (AS) Born in Madina 5th Rajab 214 Hijri ( 8.9.829 AD). Died in Samarrah, Iraq 3rd Rajab 254 Hijri ( 1.7.868) aged 40 years. Period of Imamat 34 years. The period of Imamat of our 10th Imam coincide...

The Tenth Imam Ali Ibn Muhammad (Al-Naqi, Al-Hadi)...

The Ninth Imam Muhammad ibn Ali al Taqi al Jawad (AS) Born in Madina, 10th Rajab 195 Hijri (12.4.811 AD). Died in Baghdad Iraq 29th Zeeqad 220 Hijiri (27.11.835, aged 25 years, Period of Imamat 17 years. At the time of the death of Imam Ali Al-Reza...

The Ninth Imam Muhammad ibn Ali al Taqi al Jawad (...

The Eighth Imam Ali Ibn Musa, Al-Reza(AS) Born in Madina 11th Zeeqaad 148 Hijri (1.1.766 AD). Died in the city of Tus Iran on 17th Safar 203 Hijri (26.5.819 AH) Period of Imamat 20 years. His grandfather Imam Ja’afar Al-sadiq (AS) died one month be...

The Eighth Imam Ali Ibn Musa, Al-Reza(AS) Born in...

The Seventh Imam Musa Ibn Ja’afar Al-Kazim (A.S) Born in Madina on 7th Safar 128 Hijri (10.11.745AD). Died in Baghdad Iraq 25th Rajab 183 Hijri (4.9.799 AD) Period of Imamat was 35 years. Imam Musa Ibn Ja’afar was born during the struggle between t...

The Seventh Imam Musa Ibn Ja’afar Al-Kazim (A.S) ...

The sixth Imam, Ja’afar Ibn Muhammad el-Sadiq(AS) The 6th Imam, Ja’afar Ibn Muhammad el Sadiq(AS) was Born in Madinah on 17th Rabiul Awwal 83 Hijiri (23.4.702 AD). Died in Madinah on 15th Shawwal, 148 Hijri (7.12.765 AD) at the age of 63. Period of ...

The sixth Imam, Ja’afar Ibn Muhammad el-Sadiq(AS) ...

The fifth Imam Muhammed Ibn Ali el-Baqir(AS) Born in Madina on Ist Rajab 57 Hijri, died in Madina on 7th Zilhijja 114 Hijri (31.1.733AD) at the age of 57 years. Period of Imamat 19 years. On the evidence of the most authentic Hadith narrated by Sun...

The fifth Imam Muhammed Ibn Ali el-Baqir(AS) Born...

The fourth Imam Ali Ibn el Hussain, Zainul Abedeen (AS) When the young Ali took the mantle of Imamat, times were hard on the Ahlulbayt of the Prophet. His is the saddest story of all time. On the 10th of Muharram at the time of Asr Prayers, when his...

The fourth Imam Ali Ibn el Hussain, Zainul Abedeen...

Imam Hussain Ibn Ali (AS) the third Imam Second son of Fatima (SA) and Ali (AS) Hussain (AS) was born on 3rd Shabaan, 4th year of Hijri (10.1.626 AD) When he was born the Holy Prophet was given the news of the birth of his 2nd grandson. He arrived a...

Imam Hussain Ibn Ali (AS) the third Imam Second s...

Hasan (AS) The Second Imam Born in Madina 15th Ramazan 3rd year of Hijri. Elder son of Ali and Fatima, grandson of the Prophet of Islam. When he was born and the news of the birth of a grandson was conveyed to the Holy Prophet he came to the house o...

Hasan (AS) The Second Imam Born in Madina 15th Ra...

Ali (AS) The First Imam It was Friday 13th of Rajab 30 Amulfeel Hazrat Fatima binte Asad, the wife of Hazrat Abu Talib entered the precincts of the Kaaba and prayed to Allah saying O’my protector ease my pain.’All of a sudden the wall of the Kaaba o...

Ali (AS) The First Imam It was Friday 13th of Raj...

The Story of Hazrat Fatima(SA), daughter of the Holy Prophet The Prophet of Islam had only one daughter named Fatima. Her mother Khadija had two other daughters from her two earlier marriages. When The Prophet married her, both daughters came with ...

The Story of Hazrat Fatima(SA), daughter of the H...

Muhammad (SA) The Messenger of Allah Born in Makka on 17th Rabiul Awwal about 53 years before Hijra. The year of his birth was called "Amul Feel" due to the invasion of the Ka’aba by Abraha the viceroy of the Abysinian King. Since the forces of Abra...

Muhammad (SA) The Messenger of Allah Born in Makk...

Story of the Holy Ka'aba and Its People Introduction In 1980 we celebrated the 1400 anniversary of the Hijri Calendar and published a short biography of the 14 Masoomeen (infallibles). As this was just a one page biography of each Masoom, we thoug...

Story of the Holy Ka'aba and Its People Introduc...

Prophet Sulaiman (AS) Hazrat Daud (AS.) was a prophet of Allah and a king. He had nineteen sons and every one of them wanted to inherit his throne. He agreed with one of his wives to nominate their eldest son to the throne. Allah commanded him not t...

Prophet Sulaiman (AS) Hazrat Daud (AS.) was a pro...

Stories of the Prophets (May Allah's Peace be Upon Them) By : Rafed Network for Cultural Development...

Stories of the Prophets (May Allah's Peace be Upo...

Prophet Noah (AS) Noah was a great messenger of God. He laboured hard to propagate theism even though he was persecuted by many individuals. Although he lived an extended life and did much to promulgate his religion, few people accepted his faith an...

Prophet Noah (AS) Noah was a great messenger of G...

Prophet Moses (AS) - Part 2 THE CONSULTATIVE MEETING So, Pharaoh summoned a few of his intimates - including Haman, the minister, and Hezghil, the treasurer - and held a consultative meeting to decide about Moses (AS). Hezghil was one of Pharaoh's...

Prophet Moses (AS) - Part 2 THE CONSULTATIVE MEET...

Prophet Moses (AS) - Part 1 THE STORY OF THE ISRAELITES As we saw in Prophet Joseph's (AS) story, when his brothers recognised him, he ordered them to return to Canaan to bring the whole family back to him. So Jacob (AS) and his family went to Egyp...

Prophet Moses (AS) - Part 1 THE STORY OF THE ISRA...

Prophet Joseph (AS) THE DREAM One morning, when Joseph woke up and got out of bed, he was cheerful and happy. He went to Jacob, his father, and said: "O my dear father! Last night I had a wonderful dream. In my dream, I saw eleven stars, the sun an...

Prophet Joseph (AS) THE DREAM One morning, when ...

Prophet Isma'il (AS) ISMA'IL AND HAJAR IN MECCA Prophet Ibrahim's wife, Sara, was barren; furthermore, she had reached the age which had made her lose hope of ever bearing children. She realised that her kind and loyal husband wanted to have a chil...

Prophet Isma'il (AS) ISMA'IL AND HAJAR IN MECCA ...

Prophet Isa (AS) The Holy Qur'an says: "When the angels told Maryam that Allah had given her the glad news of the birth of a son whom He calls His Word, whose name would be Massiah, ‘Isa son of Mary, who would be a man of honour in his life and the...

Prophet Isa (AS) The Holy Qur'an says: "When the...