Every day is Ashura and every land is Kerbala Imam Jaafer ibn Mohammad As-Sadiq (A) What is Ashura ? In the month of Muharram 61 AH (approx. 20 October 680 AD), an event took place in Iraq at a place known as Kerbala on the bank of the river Euphrates. It seemed in those […]
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Who is Hossein ?
“I learnt from Hossein how to achive victory while being oppressed ” Mahatma Gandhi
THE STORY OF KERBALA
THE PROPHET (SAW) SAID: Indeed, Hossein is the light of guidance and the saviour ship. Having come to know of Yazid’s scheme to assasinate him while performing the rite of Hajj, Imam Hussein (A.S) decided to leave Mecca before finishing the rites, performing only the Umra.
Workers on Strike at Bandar Imam Petrochemical Complex – Day 7
Seven days have passed since 1500 workers of Bandar Imam Petrochemical Complex in Khuzestan Province began their strike. Free Trade Union of Iranian Workers has reported that security agents have arrested 3 workers and taken them to the Intelligence Agency located at the port city of Bandar Imam Khomeini.
Lebanon and Iran urge Libyan rebels to probe 33-year-old mystery
libya-missing-cleric Moussa al-Sadr, who went missing in 1978 Shia across Middle East eager to find out whether Moussa al-Sadr, a cleric who disappeared in 1978, is still alive
LAYLATUL QADR
In The Name Of God Most Gracious, Most Merciful We have indeed revealed this (Message) in the Night of Power: And what will explain to thee what the Night of Power is? The Night of Power is better than a thousand months. Therein come down the angels and the Spirit by God’s permission, […]
The Feast of Freedom and Justice
Imam Zaman is dominant on the time, that won’t be placed within the present and future, and never been captive in the past. If it is said that he was born on Shaban 15, it doesn’t mean that he hadn’t been before. The Shaban 15 is the redemption hope to the aware ones, awakening feast […]
15th Shaban:The Happy and Auspicious Birthday Anniversary of Imam Mahdi
Hadrat Hujjat ibn Hasan al-Askari(A.S.) the Twelfth Holy Imam, Al-Mahdi was born on 15th Shaban in 255 A.H. in Samarrah(Iraq). On this Auspicious and Solemn Occasion we extend our Heartiest and Happy Greetings to all the peace-lovers and justice seekers in the world. O heart, the pain of love burned once again Beloved departed and […]
The Imam and the Qutb: The Axis Mundi in Shiism and Sufism
Zachary MarkwithThe earth shall never be empty of the witness of God (ĕujjat AllΪh).2In Christianity, Christ is envisaged as the Axis Mundi, or the cosmological andspiritual center around which the world rotates.