A Strange Cruelty on an Orphan Girl and Hazrat Ali’s Judgment Therein
Reading Time: 5 minutes It has been stated by Kulaini and Sheikh Suduq as also incorporated in Sahih Bokhari on the authority of Hazrat Imam Jafar Sadiq (A) that […]
Cruelty
Oppression
Reading Time: < 1 minute In the last portion of the book Dārus Salām there is an incident concerning Sayyid Muhammad ‘Ali Iraqi. He was one of those who had […]
Hameed Ibn Qahtabah Taai
Reading Time: 3 minutes Abdullah Ibn Bazzaaz narrates: Hameed and I were known to each other. One day at the time of Dhuhr of the month of Ramadhan and […]
The Consequence of Foolishness
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the biography of Hajjaj Ibn Yusuf Thaqafi – the bloodthirsty Umayyad, it has been reported that his mother, Fari’ah, had initially been the wife […]
The Incident of Harrah
Reading Time: 2 minutes After the incident of ‘ashura and two and a half months before his death, Yazid initiated yet another horrendous act on the twenty eighth of […]
The Oppression of Dadhanah
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Syria. there lived a king by the name of Dadhanah, who was an idol worshipper. Allah sent Prophet Jorjis (a.s) to Dadhanah to advise […]
Qais Ibn ‘Asim
Reading Time: 2 minutes Qais Ibn ‘Asim was a tribal leader during the Age of Ignorance but he later accepted Islam. Once, during his old age, in order to […]
The Kingdom of Rey or Killing the Imam
Reading Time: 2 minutes Yazid instructed his governor, ‘Ubaidullah Ibn Ziyad, that if Husain (as) refused to pledge allegiance, he should fight the Imam (as). Prior to the incident […]
Cruelty of Hajjaj ibn Yusuf Thaqafi
Reading Time: < 1 minute It is not just evil deeds which merit chastisement but evil intentions too tend to have an impact. In fact it is due to their […]