
Ali (A.S.)’s genealogy reads thus: Ali son of Abu Talib (A.S.), son of Abdul Mutallib, son of Hashim, sonof Abde Munaf, son of Kasa, son of Kalab, son of Murrah, son of Kaab, son of Lavy, son of Galib, son ofFehr, son of Malik, son of Mazr, son of Maad, son of Adnan who was the descendant of Ismail son of Ibrahim the builder of Kaaba. Ismail’s mother was Hajira daughter of Raqueen the king of Egypt. All these souls were re-formers, trustees of Kaaba (the house of God) and the rulers and administrators ofMecca. They commanded great respect from their people and were honoured with great titles by their people. Their lives were of sufferings, sacrifices and struggle. It was they who changed the face of mankind. And Ali (A.S.) as their descendent, like Mohammad (S.A.W) (the Prophet) inher-ited all these qualities and responsibilities from them both. Both Mohammad (S.A.W) and Ali (A.S.) had learned the history of their ancestors from Abu Talib (A.S.), father of Ali (A.S.) and uncle and the only guardian ofthe Prophet (S.A.W) for about fifty years. They learned from Abu Talib (A.S.) how Kasa had collected all the descendants of Ibrahim and Ismail and made them unite to take the possession of Kaaba and administration of Mecca from Banu Khaza and Banu Bakr who had captured these places by force. Abu Talib (A.S.) must have also told them how the descends of Ibrahim and Ismail stood under one flag andone leader ‘Kasa’ and vowed to take back the house of God which belonged to them and that they werethe only people in the whole of Arabia who were known as Ahlebait (members of the household)because they were considered the only guard-ians of Kaaba. The title Ahlebait was very famous inArabia. It was used only for those people who managed the affairs of Kaaba and looked after thewelfare of the pilgrims.
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In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Praise be to Allah (SWT) 1 whom none is praised but Him, and no one asks reward on a calamity except from Him. May Allah (SWT) reward us for our calamity regarding the grandson of the Holy Prophet, Al-Husayn bin ‘Ali! May peace and blessings be upon the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S) 2 and on his purified progeny and those who take him as guardian!I have been thinking for a long time about the idea of establishing an international tribunal to try the killers of Imam Husayn (as) 3 and the perpetrators of the massacre of Karbala.The idea is to place them under trial with the charge of committing war crimes, mass murder, and crimes against humanity, based on the modern-day laws and understanding, and away from any religious accusation or anything related to religion.A real and practical trial which the whole world participates in… one that is represented by a group of chosen judges who come from all parts of the world, and a jury who represents all the different nationalities and religions of the globe.A trial that gives the defendants the right to defend themselves through lawyers and a defense team; it would have a prosecution team as well. The defendants would be called by their names only (since they died long time ago) to face the world and all of humanity. They will be tried for their crimes and massacres which they have committed in Karbala. The witnesses will be called from the historical texts, and the well-known Islamic books written by famous Muslim historians.Let this be a just and fair trial by international modern standards under the supervision of the international community. Let the court trial take its time and follow all the legal procedures which are typically followed in most of the democratic countries that respect human rights.Thereafter, a fair verdict will be issued regarding the criminals and let all of humanity make its judgment against them and then sentence them! Let the horrendousness and insanity that happened in Karbala be exposed to the whole world as it does not only belong to the supporters of Al-Husayn (as) alone, but to ALL of humanity! What happened in Karbala greatly exceeds crimes committed against humanity and the war crimes. It will shock the whole world and I am very confident of that!Accomplishing this is not impossible and praise is to God, the supporters of Al-Husayn have sufficient monetary and social ability to sponsor such a trial, especially in the western countries. We could accomplish this mission with determination and this will surely be a great achievement in front of the whole world. Let the truth be revealed and let all of humanity sympathize with the tragedy of Imam Al-Husayn (as)!
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Ziarat e Aal e Yaseen (as)Ziarat Aal-e-Yaseen is another important Ziarat of Imam-eZa-man (a.s.). It is actually a Hadith Qudsi (direct saying of Allah (swt)) as reported in Mafatih-al-Jinnan. According to the traditions, "Aal-e-Yaseen" is equivalent to "Aal-eMuhammad (pbuh&hf)" and is the correct pronunciation (Qira'at) of verse 37:130 of the Holy Quran. Beside its superb beauty, one of the interesting points about this Duaa is that, in it, we confess all the central beliefs one by one.In the Name of the Most beneficent & the Most Merciful Peace be upon the progeny of Yaseen. Peace be upon you,O the caller of Allah and place of manifestation of His signs. Peace be upon you, O the door of Allah and the devout one of His religion. Peace be upon you, O the vicegerent of Al-lah and the helper of His truth. Peace be upon you, O the proof of Allah and the Guide of His intention. Peace be upon you, O the reciter of Allah's book and its interpreter. Peace be upon you in your night and in your day. Peace be upon you, O the remnant of Allah on His earth. Peace be upon you, O the covenant of Allah, which He took it and He fastened it. Peace be upon you, O the promise of Allah which He guaran-teed it. Peace by upon you, O the manifested flag and the one who is filled with knowledge and the help and the far-reaching mercy a promise which is not a lie. Peace be upon you while you are standing.
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This is Answering-Ansar's rebuttal of this article where 'proofs' that the Shi'a are kaffir were based on what can be identified in their books.It was put together by the Deobandi group Maktabat Minhaaj Al-Sunnah, and found on many anti Shi'a sites such as:
These adherents of Mu'awiya declare right at the beginning:
This group has clearly learnta great dealfrom anti Muslim sites and adopted a methodology of adopting 'parts' of tradi-tions out of context, in the same way that answering-Islam evangelists such as Gilchrist quote hadith and Qur'anic verses out of context so as to convincetheir faithful that Islam is a false religion. We shall Inshallah go through the points cited and show how pathetic the Minhajal al Nasibi have been.
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I am not a professional storywriter. What I present herein are but a few of the many portraits of life in which Good confronts Evil and spiritual faith and belief confront an imperialist, dominating culture.The apex of my hope is to produce a faithful image of the ideological call for virtue to prevail over vice.Muslim men and women live contradictory existences of contempor-ary life as presented in the following fiction. I have tried to pave the way for the revival of one of the propagative apparatus, the story, which in-fluences our lives at this juncture in Islamic history.The ideological conflicts caused by the world's dominating cultures have produced negative effects on the Muslim community. The alien Western ideals flooding the Islamic world have tried to uproot Islamic concepts and beliefs.This methodical foreign invasion has greatly damaged the successive Muslim generations. The slogans of freedom, equality and justice have swept the Islamic world and distorted the Islamic culture. As a result, the Muslim Ummah is suffering today from cultural chaos and devi-ation, which is damaging the core of the community.Deliberate falsehoods have been perpetrated by the enemies of Islam to degrade the sublime religion of Islam. Due to such conspiracies, Muslim women and men have forgotten their religious beliefs, duty and commitments. Hence it is necessary to take serious steps to save the soci-ety from falling into the abyss of disbelief, which could not only crush the whole community but could also destroy the religious belief still surviving.Such a situation has compelled the Muslim intellectuals to know their duty in saving the society. It is a very difficult task to bring the deviated generation to the right path of Allah's religion.Hence our aim is to assist such achievements and to help Islamic con-cepts and values to spread throughout the world, guiding the youth to the right direction. Such a motive is behind translation and publication of Bint ul-Huda's books. The famous Iraqi woman writer presents Islam-ic ideals in her stories within a framework of interesting and modern cir-cumstances. Through her characters she exposes the contradictory beha-vior of some Muslims.
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In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the MercifulIt is mentioned in the book of Misbahul Harmain that in the last days of his life, a respected personality named Shaykh Abdul Tahir Khorasani travelled to Mecca and made a vow that as long as he was alive he would remain there only and serve the holy house. During those days a person had a bag full of gems, jewels and money and he was looking for a reliable person who may hold it as a trust. People suggested the name of Shaykh Abdul Tahir Khorasani and said that he was one of the most reliable and honest personality in Mecca. Thus he placed his trust with the Shaykh. After a period of time the Shaykh passed away. When the person who had kept his bag as trust returned, he was informed that the Shaykh was dead. When he approached the successors of the Shaykh, they expressed ignorance about the matter. That man was devastated and he was reduced to penury due to this. However he was aware of the fact that the souls of believers arrive in Wadius Salaam and that they are free and communicate with each other. So he prayed to the Almighty Al-lah to enable him to see the deceased so that he can ask him about his money. After a long time, when he did not get any reply from the valley he inquired from some scholar why it was so; that he was supplicating so much but not getting any reply from the Shaykh. They told him that it was possible that he might be in the place fixed for wrong doers. That is he might be Wadi Barhut, which is in Yemen. Wadi Barhut is a danger-ous valley having horrible wells and pits etc. It is often mentioned that extremely terrifying voices are heard in that place, in other words just as Wadius Salaam in the neighborhood of Amirul Momineen (a.s.) was a place of peace and safety for noble souls, in the same way, Wadi Barhut was a place of stay for wicked souls.
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Imam Sadiq (pbuh) is a great academic personality which the human history has come to know. He has advanced this great colossal (amount) of constructive and effectual contributions, in the interest of service to humanity and the building of civilization. Such as, and indeed he has [contributed to], bettering off the Islamic intellect by means of what he propogated of the kinds of sciences full of fundamentals of life. And in addition to that, the brilliant intellectual treasures, and that which is considered to be the pillar of the academic revival to his era. So the Imam (pbuh) has left for us a collection of the visions transmitted from him regarding his interpretations of dreams. So that there is [a book] by Imam Sadiq (pbuh) of Dream Interpretations specifically by him, that is circulating among the people and to a nearby age.And the reality is that a book specific for this subject was not provided by the Imam (pbuh). Rather it was upon our gathering of visions ascribed to the Imam, we discovered a large collection from these visions in the book (Ta’ateer AlAnam) by Nablusi, and of which the author backing [the chain of narrations] is Imam Ja’afer AlSadiq is from a book ascribed to him called (Biltaqseem(By Distribution)). And the author cites in his book: (And I have accredited) concerning that upon the foremost books and the respected Sheikhs’ views such as: Essentials by Daniel AlHakeem, and the book the Distribution by Ja’afer AlSadiq, and the book the Compilers by Muhammed bin Seereen.And we cherish the reader when we place before you this book that we ask our Master, Praise and Glory to Him, to grant the good of His acceptance. And lastly our supplication is that all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
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