Reading Time: 3 minutesDownload as PDF 1. Talk to Imam Husain (peace be upon him) Specify a time during your day or night where you converse with Imam Husain (peace be upon him). Say salaam to him. Make some covenant with him and respond to his call (labbayk). 2. Regularly pray any one of the Ziyarat of Imam…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA believer always strives to achieve proximity to Allah the Almighty through the medium of sincere and heartily inclination to each of the holy infallibles (peace be upon them) and provide the means through the visitations of the holy infallibles (peace be upon them) to achieve quick fulfilment of his supplications and desires. The best…
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe hatred, malice, and enmity towards the Ahlul Bait (peace be upon them) is such an incurable illness, due to which a person loses his intellect in this world and Paradise in the Hereafter and the only reason for this is ‘jealousy’. But those who are jealous completely ignore the fact that the position and…
Reading Time: 2 minutesJabir Ibn Yazid Jo’fi narrates that Abu Ja’far Imam Muhammad Baqir (peace be upon him) said: “On the Day of Judgment, the Holy Quran will come in the best shape and form. He will pass by the Muslims who will say, ‘This man is from us.’ He will go toward the Prophets (peace be upon…
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe epochal incident of the Red Sea parting at the instance of Prophet Musa (peace be upon him) paled in comparison when the impregnable walls of Holy Kaaba split to make way for Lady Fatema bint Asad (peace be upon her) so that she can deliver her child who was named Zaid by his father…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIbn Abbas narrates that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) informed us about his daughter Fatima Zahra (s.a.) in a lengthy tradition: “My daughter Fatima, is the chief of the women of the worlds, from the first till the last ones. She is a part of me, the light of my eyes and the coolness of…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteImam Ali Ibn Moosa al-Reza (a.s.) exclaimed: “Muharram was a month in which the bloodshed was considered unlawful by the pre-Islamic pagan Arabs but our blood was shed in this month, our sanctity was violated, our children and women-folk were taken as captives, our tents were set ablaze and whatever was found therein was looted…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe night of 19th Maah e Ramadan is one of the most heart-wrenching nights for the lovers of Ahle Bait (a.s.). It was this dreadful night in the year 40 A.H. when the accursed Abd al-Rahmaan Ibn Muljim al-Muraadi struck the fatal blow on the blessed head of Ameerul Momineen Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib…
Reading Time: 2 minutesImam Hasan al-Askari (peace be upon him) narrates about why Allah the High ordered the changing of the direction of prayers (the Qiblah) from Bait al-Maqdis in Jerusalem to the Holy Kaaba in Mecca. In reply, Imam (peace be upon him) first quoted the verse of the Holy Quran which explains this very question, وَمَا…
Reading Time: 5 minutesRead Part 1 of this article. In the first part of the reply to this objection, we have already seen that the opponents of Shias claim that the house of Ahlul Bait (a.s.) did not have a door. Hence, if there was no door, nothing was burnt and the attack on the house of Fatima…