Sayed Razi (ra) and Nahjul Balagah
Reading Time: 4 minutesSayyid Razi in his introduction to Nahj al-Balaghah writes:In my early age at the dawn of youth, I commenced writing a book on the characteristics […]
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Sayyid Razi and his elder brother ‘Ali Abual-Kasim Sayyid Murtaza
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is an interesting story how Sayyid Razi and his elder brother ‘Ali Abual-Kasim Sayyid Murtaza started their formal Islamic education. Sheik Mufeed saw Hazrat Fatima Zehra […]
Usul e kafi – How it was Named
Reading Time: 3 minutesBear in mind that the importance of the 4 basic books (kutub e arba’) for the shias is the same as the importance of the […]
The Year of the Breaking of the Stars
Reading Time: 2 minutesShaikh Mohammed bin Yaqoob bin Ishaq Kulaini died in Baghdad in 329 A.H. The year he died is called ‘tanasirul nujoom’ or the year of […]
Shaikh Sadooq’s Debate with Rukn al Dawla
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe very famous debate that Sheik Sadooq had was in the court of Rukn al Dawla who was the ruler of the territory of Deelam in Iraq. Rukn al Dawla had heard a […]
Zakaria ibne Adam was greater or Shaikh Sadooq?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSheik Bahai, who is accepted as the Mujaddad of the10th Century , writes that once people asked him whether Zakaria ibne Adam was greater or Sheik Sadooq? Zakaria ibne Adam was a […]
Ali ibne Babawiya Qummi – Father of Shaikh Sadooq (ra)
Reading Time: 4 minutesSheik Sadooq’s father too was a person of high erudition. Imam Hassan Askari (a.s) had written a letter to him in the following manner: After praising Allah, His […]
Man La Yazharul Faqih
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn his preface to the book, al-Saduq writes: When, during my journey, I happened to be in a small town, Ilaq near Balkh, where a […]
Ayatullah Sayyid Gulpaygani & burial place
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the relatives of Ayatullah Sayyid Ridha Gulpaygani narrates: ‘Sayyid [Gulpaygani] contacted us some hours before his death from his hospital bed. He said, […]
Ayatullah Marashi Najafi & Poliecemans ghusl money
Reading Time: 2 minutesI knew a policeman who resigned in the era of the Shah. I asked him what convinced him to resign from the post, to which […]