Waleed The governor of Madina and Imam Husayn (a.s.)
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen Yazid had taken the oath of allegiance for the Caliphate from the people, he wrote a letter to Waleed bin Utba informing him of the death of Mu’awiyah. In […]
Kerbala
Sand Turns into Blood
Reading Time: 2 minutesUmm Salama (a.s.), that she says, one night the Holy Prophet (S) went away from our midst and did not return for quite a long time. When he came back […]
Ziyarat e Ashura
Reading Time: 2 minutesProphet Muhammad (s.a.) said: “The difficulties I had to face were unlike anything faced by the earlier prophets (a.s.).” Regarding this tradition, Ayatullah Shaykh Iraqi writes that, here the Prophet […]
“Zuhri, do you think that these chains are causing distress to me?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteZuhri says: Abdul Malik Marwan ordered the governor ofMedina to place Imam Sajjad (a.s.) under arrest and dispatch him toShaam. He did that. When it was time for departure, I […]
Ayatullah Behbahani & Russian lady jewels
Reading Time: 3 minutes“One of the senior students of the great scholar, Ayatullah al-Udhma Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Isfahani (commonly known as al-Wahid al-Behbahani), narrates that he was sitting beside the great scholar in […]
Ayatullah Shaykh Ja’far Shustari (R.A.)
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe eminent philosopher and jurist, Marhum Ayatullah Shaykh Ja’far Shustari is the author of the important book of Maqtal: “Khasais al-Husainiyyah”, meaning “The Attributes of Husain’s Movement”. He relates the following incident […]
Who is Worst then Shimr ?
Reading Time: 2 minutesShimr bin Ziljawshan attacked until he reached a particular tent of Imam Husain (a.s.), and stricking at it with his lance, said, “Bring me fire, so that I may burn […]
NAJMUS SAAQIB Incident Twenty-five: Supplication of Imam Asr (a.s.) which the patient should drink and eat with Turbah for Cure
Reading Time: 2 minutesShaykh Ibrahim Kafami has narrated in Al Baladul Amin from al-Mahdi (a.s.): One, who writes this supplication on a new vessel by the soil of the grave of Husain (a.s.), washes […]
The Soil of the Grave of Imam Hussain (as) – Khake shefaa
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe respected scholar Shaykh Mufīd’s teacher, Shaykh Ibn Qulaway records in his book Kamiluz Ziyarāt a narration from Muhammad Ibn Muslim. He says: I went to Madinah and fell seriously […]