•  I.R. IRAN Welfare Day
    • Day 16 July Islamic Republic of Iran Welfare Organization was approved on July 10, 1980 to fulfill the 3rd, 21st, and 29th articles of its Constitutional law. Social Welfare services are offered to the disabled...
    • The Fox Borrows the Tiger's Terror
    • Chinese fable In the Warring States period, the Chu State had a very capable minister called Zhao Xixu. He was well respected and held in awe by the people of other countries as well as his own. One day, the king aske...
    • AL-BALAD ([This] Countryside)
    • ide) Name The Surah has been so named after the wordal balad in the first verse. Period of Revelation Its subject matter and style resemble those of the earliest Surahs revealed at Mecca, but it contains a pointer which indi...
    • The counsel (ash-shuraa):23
    • a):23 Verse of the Week That is of which Allah gives the good news to His servants, (to) those who believe and do good deeds, say: I do not ask of you any reward for it but love for my near relatives [1] And whoeve...
    • Whom does Allah lead to Paradise?
    • se? Hadith of the Week Allah fixed the reward for His obedience and torment for His insubordination and disobedience so that He may restrain His servants from His wrath and fury and lead them to His paradise. Lady...
    • An Introduction to Irfan (Mysticism)
    • Now that the necessity of understanding the Qur'an has been confirmed, let us see what are the ways of understanding this book. Generally for the purpose of a profound understanding of any book it is necessary to study it in three ways...
    • Blessed Necklace
    • ace Jaber bin Abdullah Ansari, the Prophet's (PBUH) companion, says that a poor man came to Prophet (PBUH) and asked for help. The Prophet (PBUH) answered: "I do not have anything. Go to my daughter whose house is ...
    • Day of Industry & Mine
    • ine This day was called as Industry and Mine day, according to a regulation issued by the high council of Cultural Revolution. The phenomenon of Industry and Mine is a subject that must be taken seriously. This high c...
    • Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti
    • hti head of the Islamic Republic of Iran's judicial system (October 24, 1928 - June 28, 1981) Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti was an Iranian cleric, the secretary-general of the Islamic Republic party...
    • Iraq and the Use of Chemical Weapons
    • ns By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2003 -- Iraq's chemical weapons arsenal is not some hypothetical problem, but a danger and a weapon Saddam Hussein has used in the past. Hussein had bee...
    • CHEMICAL WARFARE IN THE IRAQ-IRAN WAR
    • AR Allegations of the use of chemical weapons have been frequent during the Iraq-Iran War. One of the instances reported by Iran has been conclusively verified by an international team dispatched to Iran by the UN Secretar...
    • University Engineering and Technology
    • ogy Lahore- Pakistan http://www.uet.edu.pk/index.php History UET Lahore is the oldest Pakistani teaching institute for pure engineering sciences and received its charter as a University in the year 1961. It ha...
    • Teaching Problem Students
    • nts by: Jere Brophy Paperback: 466 pages Publisher: TheGuilford Press (July 29, 2003) Language: English ISBN: 1572309563 Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.0 x 1.0 inches Draws on on scholarly and professi...
    • The Alchemy of Happiness
    • ss By Al Ghazzali Translated by: Claude Field [b. 1863, d. 1941] [1909] INTRODUCTION KNOW, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not fro...
    • Keys and Locks and Open Doors
    • ors Jane Wallis Hicks "Quiet the dog, house the pony and bar the doors against the dark." Each night we heard and obeyed Pa's telling and each morning we woke safe, forgetting the terrors of the night in th...
    • The Israelites (Al-Israa'): 7
    • If you do good, you will do good for your own souls and if you do evil, it shall be for them (your own souls) So when the second promise came (We raised another people) That they may bring you to grief and that they m...
    • AL- GHASHIYAH (The Pall)
    • all) Name The Surah takes its name from the word al-ghishiyah in the first verse. Period of Revelation The whole subject matter of the Surah indicates that this too is one of the earliest Surahs to be revealed; but this wa...
    • Clergymen's role
    • Martyr Beheshti Clergymen must preserve all their previous roles. Seminaries must be a place for learning, teaching and researching. The clergies' word and pen must still be influential and also be more such from a ...
    • Neither incantations nor medicines are of any avail
    • ail I was holding a disputation with a company of learned men in the cathedral mosque ofDamascus when a youth stepped among us, asking whether anyone knew Persian, whereon most of them pointed to me ( Sa'di ). I asked ...
    • Haigazian University
    • ity Lebanon http://www.haigazian.edu.lb/ HISTORY & VISION Haigazian University is named in honor of Dr. Armenag Haigazian, former headmaster of the Jenanian Apostolic Institute of Konya,Turkey. Dr. Haigazi...
    • FATIMA IN QUR'AN
    • FATIMA IN THE VERSE OF RELATIONSHIP The verse of relationship, from the Quran, says: "Say: `No reward do I ask of you for this except the love of those near of kin. 'And if anyone earns any good, We shall give him an...
    • After the Prophet (S.A)
    • A) After the Prophet's death, events continued to occur. When studying the era following the Prophet's death, history speaks of the wonders which occurred. Indeed, history tells us about "Apostasy" which included ...
    • The Allies (Al-Ah'zaab):33
    • Verse of the Week Allah only desires to keep away the uncleanness from you, O, people of the house [1] ! and to purify you a (through) purifying [1] - Fatima, her father (Prophet Mohammad), her husband (Ali) and ...
    • AL-FAJR (Daybreak)
    • eak) Name The Surah is so designated after the wordwal-fajr with which it opens. Period of Revelation Its contents show that it was revealed at the stage when persecution of the new converts to Islam had begun inMecca. On ...
    • Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL)
    • EL) www.soas.ac.uk/Centres/IslamicLaw/ Introduction The Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law was established in 1990 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in recognition of the growing impor...
    • Lady Fatima Zahra's Will to Imam Ali (PBUH)
    • H) Imam Ali (PBUH) was surprised to find that his dear wife had left her bed and had started doing the housework; he asked her about it and she replied: "This is the last day of my life. I want to wash my chil...
    • Martyr Mostafa Chamran
    • ran (1311-31 Khordad 1360/1932-21 June 1981) Chamran was born in 1932 inTehran. At 15, he began his activities with Islamic associations, participating in classes of commentary on the Qur'an by Late Ayatollah Taleghan...
    • Shari'ati on Shari'ati and the Muslim Woman
    • Ali Shari'ati , Laleh Bakhtiar In Part 1, the life of Ali Shari'ati is seen through his own journals and letters as well as through the words of his first teacher, his father. Part 2, Shari'ati's compelling advice for ...
    • I
    • I Ibn Abi al-Hadid , Sharh Nahj al-Balaghah, ed.M. Abu al-Fadhl Ibrahim, 20 vols.; Cairo, 1959-1964. Ibn Abi Shayba , 'Abd Allah ibn Muhammad (b. 775 or 776, d. 235/849), Al-Kitab al-musannaf fi l-ahadith wa-l-athar, 15...
    • Some Logical Fallacies Dealt With In the Qur'an
    • by: Mustansir Mir A widely held belief about the Qur'an is that it makes its basic appeal to emotions and not to reason. Among the advocates of this view were the Muslim philosophers of early centuries who used a ...
    • The Gentle Shepherd
    • rd On the edge of a mountain, lovely as the entrance to paradise, see, coming along, and descending toward the valley, three flocks of young lambs, driven by three young shepherds; one is an inhabitant of the plains of Mo...
    • Mulla Hadi Sabzewari
    • ri (1212/1797[-8] - 1289/1873) Mulla Hadi Sabzawari was the most influential nineteenth-century Iranian philosopher. His reputation rests in part on his Sharh al-manzuma, a commentary on his own Ghurar al-fara'id (The Blaze...
    • The man (Al-Insaan): 7-12
    • -12 *They fulfill vows and fear a day the evil of which shall be spreading far and wide *And they give food out of love for Him to the poor and the orphan and the captive *We only feed you for Allah's sake; we desire fo...
    • Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical Terms
    • rms (5) Al-ummahat al-sufliyah: “the lower mothers”: and expression used to denote the four elements: fire, air, water, and earth. Al-ummahat al-‘ulwiyah: “the higher mothers”: as opposed to al-ummahat al-sufliyah (the l...
    • Al-TARIQ (The Nightcomer)
    • omer) Name The Surah taken its name from the wordal-tariq in its first verse. Period of Revelation The style of its subject matter resembles that of the earliest Surahs revealed at Mecca, but this surah was sent down at a st...
    • Hazrat Zaynab's sermon in Kufa
    • Quotation of the Week When Zaynab (PBUH) reached Kufa, she addressed people with fury words: “Praise to Allah, and may the blessing of Allah be upon Muhammad and his progeny. O people of Kufa! You are hypocrites an...
    • Entangled in tribulations of this world
    • rld Hadith of the Week When the baby girl,Hazrat Zaynab, was brought before the Prophet (PBUH), held her in his lap and kissed her. The Angel Gabriel came to him and conveyed the name that was to be hers, and then he...
    • Taqlid:
    • id: Blind Adherence or Rational Acceptance? Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina University of VirginiaIn the age of reason the question of taqlid (literally," blind adherence") becomes highly unpalatable. In the age known f...