When Abu Dharr was leaving, people accompanied him to bid farewell to him till they reached Dair Maran outside the city. There he offered his prayers in congregation. Then he delivered an address, whose translation is given here from Hayat ul-Qulub: “ ...
Abbas Gadhia - 09/29/2012 - 13:27
We have briefly thrown light on the excesses of Uthman in the foregoing pages, and have told that by distributing the money of the Muslims only among his kinsmen he had deprived the poor people of their right, and Abu Dharr, by virtue of his religious f ...
Abbas Gadhia - 09/29/2012 - 13:27
It is an established fact that Abu Dharr had seen the Holy Prophet and his Ahlul Bayt from very close quarters and remained in very intimate company with them. He had seen very carefully every aspect of their life, and had learnt much from it. He has se ...
Abbas Gadhia - 09/29/2012 - 13:27
Abu Dharr having returned to Medina from Syria was busy in his preachings when one more heart rending incident came to pass and that was the burning of the Holy Qur'an. He was already grieved to see that the Islamic State was being ruined. The weal ...
Abbas Gadhia - 09/29/2012 - 13:27
Historians say that Abu Dharr delivered his speeches on specific topics, in the masjid, outside the masjid, in the bazars, on the thoroughfares, on the streets, and at every place where he got an opportunity to do so. He did not fear his assassination b ...
Abbas Gadhia - 09/29/2012 - 13:27
Abu Dharr was passing his days at Rabzah in utter solitude and loneliness. There was nobody to look after him too to inquire about his condition. He had no means of solace. Had his family been with him he would not have felt his loneliness so painful. T ...
Abbas Gadhia - 09/29/2012 - 13:27
Having suffered continuous oppressions, constant tortures and hardships of the successive exiles at the hands of the worldly-minded men, Abu Dharr left this transient world at Rabzah, but the story of his love for Allah is still living and will last for ...
Abbas Gadhia - 09/29/2012 - 13:27
Jaun bin Huwi was Abu Dharr's slave whose life history depicts the training of Abu Dharr. According to the Mamaqani, the genealogy of Jaun is as under: Jaun bin Huwi bin Qatadah bin A 'war bin Sa 'idah bin 'Awf bin Ka'b bin Hu ...
Abbas Gadhia - 09/29/2012 - 13:27
The Holy Qur'an Abu Dharr Ghifari-Gilani Nahjul Balaghah Tarikh A 'immah Usulul Kafi Tarikh Abul Fida Tafsir 'Ayashi Tarikh Rawzatus Safa Tafsir Tha'labi ...
Abbas Gadhia - 09/29/2012 - 13:27
Martyr Murtadha Mutahhari was born in Fariman (Iran) in February 1919. His father Skaikh Muhammad Husain was a religious scholar and a pious person. Mutahhari received his elementary education in theology from his father. When he was twelve years of age, ...
Aliwaale - 10/18/2012 - 04:23
The question of fate and destiny that forms the subject matter of this book is a philosophical question, and should normally be looked for in the books of philosophy. But here in this book it has been taken out of its proper context and placed along with ...
Aliwaale - 10/18/2012 - 04:23
No two words more awful than fate and destiny have ever struck the ears of a human being. Nothing can be more depressing to the spirit of a man than the feeling that he has no liberty and all his acts are controlled by a superpower. It may be said that fr ...
Aliwaale - 10/18/2012 - 04:23
There is no doubt that the doctrine of predestination, as enunciated by the Ash’arites, who maintain that man absolutely lacks liberty and freedom is dangerous. It paralyses the spirit and will of man. This doctrine encourages the oppressors and binds the ...
Aliwaale - 10/18/2012 - 04:23
This aspect of the question provided a pretext to the Christians of Europe to assert that the main cause of the decadence of the Muslims is their belief in fate and destiny and that Islam is a predestinarian system which totally deprives man of his libert ...
Aliwaale - 10/18/2012 - 04:23
There is no doubt that if the divinely appointed fate is supposed to be related to the events direct without the intervention of the causes, human freedom and liberty will have no meaning. Now the next question is whether it is possible to accept the gene ...
Aliwaale - 10/18/2012 - 04:23
Human acts are among the events which have no definite and irrecocable destiny. They depend on thousand and one causes, including man’s own will and choice. All the possibilities which exist in the case of inorganic material, plants and the instinctive ac ...
Aliwaale - 10/18/2012 - 04:23
The Holy Prophet was asked about the amulets used for seeking a cure, (Ghazzali reports that the question was about both the spell and the medicine) whether they could forestall a divinely ordained destiny. In reply the Prophet said that they themselves w ...
Aliwaale - 10/18/2012 - 04:23
The forgoing examples of the causes and the factors affecting destiny were concerned only with the material factors and their effects. We took into consideration only the material and perceptible aspects of the events, for from material angle only these f ...
Aliwaale - 10/18/2012 - 04:23
Many reports from the Holy Prophet (s) and the Imams say that when a divine decree comes, the whole system of caution, especially the faculties of thinking and reasoning cease to work. This point has been depicted in Persian and Arabic literature also. In ...
Aliwaale - 10/18/2012 - 04:23
Difference Between The Two Doctrines We have already said that the materialists and some Christians have used the question of fate and destiny as a weapon in their attack on Islam. They say that an essential result of the belief in destiny and fate is tha ...
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