Islamic Books

Part 2 — Chapter 1— The Tribal Root — TheImpermissibility to Combine Caliphate andProphesy A. the Clans of Quraish The Quraish consist of twenty five clans.1 The best and the most honorable clan is the sons of Hashim­bn­Abd Menaf.22 They are direct...

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Chapter 6 — The Right Course to Recognizing theDecent Sahaba Topical Introductory A majority of historians mentioned the following: Just before the beginning of battle of Badr, the first armed encounter between polytheism and monotheism, Abu­Jahal...

Chapter 6 — The Right Course to Recognizing theDec...

Chapter 4 — the Sahaba's Ultimate DecencyConception At Shias 1. Shias' acceding to the Sahaba: Seyid Murteza Ar­Razawi says: “Shias accede to Mohammed's companions who did their best for the sake of supporting this religion and strove with their so...

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3 The Conception is Contradictory to Actuality — 7 Examples 1st example: Muawiya acquired declaration of fealty, as a caliph, by means of massacring, destroying, searing and reviling at the Prophet's supporters. He misused the Muslims' fortunes he h...

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Expatiating and Proving Aspects of Annulment I. the Conception Opposes Categorical Quranic Texts Manifestation Of Hypocrisy Hypocrisy was prevalently manifested during the Prophet's age. The hypocrites were forming a considerable tangible power. T...

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Chapter 3 — Outward Refutation of theConception Formally, the Sahaba's ultimate decency conception, adopted by Sunnis, is, generally, refuted from two faces: First Face: Admission and Witnesses The Holy Quran is, indisputably, the (Reminder) inten...

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Chapter 2 — Sunnis' Conception of the Sahaba'sUltimate Decency There is an assent among the Sunni Scholars upon the decency of all of the Prophet's companions. Except for some heretic individuals, as bn­Hajar Al­Asqalani expresses, none has any disp...

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The Conception of the Sahaba's Ultimate Decency and thePolitical Authority in Islam By Ahmed Hussein Ya'qub Translated by: A Group of Translators Preface I praise Thee, O Allah!, as much as the scope of Thy knowledge and dilatation of Thy mer...

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Resurrection Judgement and the Hereafter by : Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari Translated by : Hamid Algar About the Author 5 Lesson One The Two Aspects of Death 11 Lesson Two Two Views Concerning the Pleasures of This World 21 Lesson Three Resurrec...

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Lesson Twenty The Eternal Nature of Punishment The eternal nature of the punishment that the faithless and wicked are to suffer in hellfire presents a problem for many people. Given the fact that evil acts are marked by the finiteness of the world, h...

Lesson Twenty The Eternal Nature of Punishment The...

Lesson Nineteen The Assumption of Form by Our Deeds In the past it was believed by specialists in the empirical sciences that an insurmountable barrier existed between matter and energy. Further scientific research discredited this belief so that a n...

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Lesson Seventeen The Criteria by Which our Deeds will be Judged Let us now examine how our deeds will be judged and weighed after resurrection. As we have previously remarked, the mental pictures we form of scenes that have no precedent in our lives ...

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Lesson Sixteen Man's Situation in the Intermediate Realm The present existence of an intermediate realm and of separate destinations there for the virtuous and the wicked is a well-founded religious belief. There can be no doubt that after death the ...

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Lesson Fifteen Compensating for Our Sins In just the same way that numerous bodily sicknesses can be cured, the spirit can be cured of its afflictions. Islam has pointed the way to the cure by summoning man to repentance and calling on him to return ...

Lesson Fifteen Compensating for Our Sins In just t...

Lesson Fourteen Characteristics of the Hereafter The images that we form in our minds of persons, gardens, cities or other places when we hear them described to us, are generally quite different from we later see when we come to observe the objects a...

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Lesson Thirteen The Resurrection of Man in Both His Dimensions Now let us see what the nature of life will be in the hereafter. Will resurrection be exclusively corporeal, so that man is restored to life in the material form that characterises his bo...

Lesson Thirteen The Resurrection of Man in Both Hi...

Lesson Eleven The Evidence of Experience, (Continued) Man's ever-increasing curiosity first began to exercise itself on objects that were far removed from him — the stars. Now it is his normal and natural states and circumstances that preoccupy him a...

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Lesson Nine The Sovereignty of the Spirit We are aware of two realities in our being one the external compound that is our body, fully accessible to empirical science, and the other, consisting of thought and perception, love and affection, hatred, a...

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Lesson Eight The Autonomy of the Spirit as a Proof of Resurrection The existence and independence of the spirit can also be adduced as a decisive and convincing proof of life after death. Numerous theories have been put forward by scholars concerning...

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Lesson Seven Resurrection Prefigured in This World We are witnesses to a ceaseless process of motion and change in the world; everywhere we see impressive scenes of the renewal of life. If we step into the garden in winter, we are confronted with a r...

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Lesson Five Man's Essential Nature as Evidence for Resurrection If we look at religion from the viewpoint of the history of human society, we will see that at every stage of human thought, in the mists of prehistory as well as throughout the broad ex...

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