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The Sunni fiqh is also in agreement with the views mentioned above on the punishment for apostasy. Soon after the Prophet's death, the Sunni caliphate started a widespread campaign of fighting some tribes in the interior of the Arabian Peninsula. The...
The Sunni fiqh is also in agreement with the views...
What are the sources for these laws? In Sh`iah Islam, the primary sources of shari`ah laws are the Qur'ān and the sunnah (of the Prophet and the Imams of Ahlul Bayt).9 However, on the issue of apostasy, the Qur'ān only talks about the consequence of...
What are the sources for these laws? In Sh`iah Isl...
Why does Islam not allow apostasy? Apostasy or irtidād in Islam is equal to treason. The Western world limits treason to political and military terms. In the USA, treason consists "only in levying war against Americans, and in adhering to their enem...
Why does Islam not allow apostasy? Apostasy or irt...
What we have said above was about accepting Islam, coming into the fold of Islam. We have made it very clear that no one can be forcefully brought into the fold of Islam; Islam cannot be imposed on any person or society. This was all about a person w...
What we have said above was about accepting Islam,...
Having accepted that from the Islamic point of view, faith in God is ingrained in human nature, and that it is only the parents and the society that corrupts the soul and divert it from the Right Path, the question comes: Can Islam be imposed forcefu...
Having accepted that from the Islamic point of vie...
According to Islam, every child is born with the innate ability to know and believe in his Creator; this cognition has been placed by God into his nature (fitra). The Qur'ān describes the human soul in a very beautiful way. After swearing by the most...
According to Islam, every child is born with the i...
IV. Shaban & His New Interpretation Among the latest work by the western scholarship on the history of Islam is M A Shaban's Islamic History AD 600-750, subtitled 'A New Interpretation,' in which the author claims not only to use newly discovered ma...
IV. Shaban & His New Interpretation Among the lat...
III. The Event of Ghadir Khum: From Oblivion to Recognition The event of Ghadir Khum is a very good example to trace the Sunni bias which found its way into the mental state of the orientalists. Those who are well-versed with the polemic writings ...
III. The Event of Ghadir Khum: From Oblivion to Re...
I. Introduction The 18th of Dhil-Hijjah 1410 AH is to be celebrated in the Shi'i world as the 1,400th anniversary of the declaration of Ghadir Khum in which the Prophet said the following about Imam Ali: 'Whomsoever's master (mawla) I am, this Ali i...
I. Introduction The 18th of Dhil-Hijjah 1410 AH i...
Other Comments on "al-Ghadir" Many unbiased non-Shi"a Muslims interpret the "al-Ghadir" in the same way that has already been mentioned. Muhammad Abdul-Ghani Hasan al-Mesri, in his foreword on "al-Ghadir", which has been published in the preface to ...
Other Comments on "al-Ghadir" Many unbiased non-S...
"By quoting and criticizing these books, we aim at warning and awakening the Islamic "ummah" (to the fact) that these books create the greatest danger for the Islamic community, they destabilize the Islamic unity and scatter the Muslim lines. In fact...
"By quoting and criticizing these books, we aim at...
Some people are of the view that those schools of fiqh, such as,Shafi"i andHanafi which have no differences in principle should establish brotherhood and stand in one line. They believe that denominations which have differences in the principles can ...
Some people are of the view that those schools of ...
The Arabic word (Mawla) means to take charge of something and to achieve it. The author of AL-Siha says: "The ruler is the mawla i.e. he takes charge of the country. A man is mawla i.e. he takes charge of something, for example, selling. One says ...
The Arabic word (Mawla) means to take charge of so...
we see that people get the opportunity to obey the present Imam even if he misses the time of the previous Imam. People got the opportunity to obey and serve the Imams of their respective times. Similarly we have got the opportunity to obey and serve...
we see that people get the opportunity to obey the...
To prove the caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Talib, Shiites have had recourse to Quran verses, including the following: "Your master [wali] can be only Allah; and His messenger and the those who believe, who establish worship and pay the poor due, and bow ...
To prove the caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Talib, Shiit...
This article is prepared in three parts with these submenus as follows: 1. The Event of the Day of Warning 2. The Tradition of Ghadir and Its Continuity (Part 1) 3. The Tradition of Ghadir and Its Continuity (Part 2) Once the Holy Pro...
This article is prepared in three parts with these...
The Holy Prophet (PBUH) of Islam, on his way back from his last pilgrimage to Mecca, received some commandments from God through Gabriel: “O Prophet! Declare what you were commanded to”‌; “Your Prophetic mission is not incomplete unless you decl...
The Holy Prophet (PBUH) of Islam, on his way back ...
The Holy Prophet is reported to have said to Imam Ali: "In relation to me you occupy the same position as Harun occupied in relation to Musa with the exception that there will be no prophet after me." The Holy Prophet said that when he was proceed...
The Holy Prophet is reported to have said to Imam ...
Another argument of the Shi’ah is the tradition of Ghadir. Khwaja Nasiruddin says that the Tradition of Ghadir is mutawatir. Mutawatir is a technical term. A tradition may either be mutawatir (continuous) or khabar wahid (isolated). An isolated tradi...
Another argument of the Shi’ah is the tradition of...
Everyone according to his ability and his style can be diligent in reviving the great Eid of the Khilafat and Wilayat and be himself a missionary in this field. We cite some examples as follow: Fathers can: 1. By buying sweets, new clothes or s...
Everyone according to his ability and his style ca...
On the 18th Zilhajj, the prophet (S.A.W) arrived at Ghadir-al-Khum, a barren land on the outer skirts of Johfa Valley. Here he ordered a halt, having received the following revelation. "O' Prophet! Proclaim what has been sent down to you from your L...
On the 18th Zilhajj, the prophet (S.A.W) arrived a...
