Is Animal Sacrifice An Ethical Act?
Is animal sacrifice an ethical act? The issue of sacrificing and being sacrificed in the way of God The below is a…
Abu Dujana
Abu Dujana is a student of the seminary since 2017 and an avid reader.
The Use of Sirah al-Mutasharri’ah (Custom of Religious People) as Evidence for the Impermissibility of Shaving the Beard
A couple of months back whilst studying the jurisprudential discussion surrounding the impermissibility of completely shaving the beard in Sheikh Anṣāri’s Makāsib…
Quranic Evidence for the Impermissibility of Tawassul Through the Awliya – An Overview and Critique
The topic of Tawassul is something that has been constantly debated since the time of Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728/1328) who seems to…
Lady Narjis: A New Reading of Her Identity
The famous scholar, Sheikh Ahmed Salman, recently authored a fascinating book entitled ‘Sayyidat al-imā’ – Qirā’tun jadīdatun fi huwīyatihā wa sīratihā’ (The…
Ayatullah Jaffer Subhani on Women Visiting Graves (ziyarat al-qubur)
The below is a translation of a treatise authored by Ayatullah Jaffer Subhani on the topic of whether Islam permits women from…
A Critical Analysis of Dr Hossein Modaressi’s View on the Life of Imam al-Sadiq
This is an abridged translation of an article that appeared in the journal, Nussūs Muāserah (49), and was originally authored by Dr…
The German Orientalist & the Prophetic Hadith
I recently came across a book in Urdu called ‘Islāmi Dāstānein’ which is a translation of the Farsi original written by Ali…
From Taqleedi Ilm al-Rijal to Ijtihadi Ilm al-Rijal
What follows is a translation of some of the conclusions reached by Sheikh Haider Hobbollah in his Rijāli discussions whereby he discusses…
Evaluating the Impact of Taqiyya (Dissimulation) On Shi’i Narrations
Below is a partial translation of the transcripts of Ayatullah Syed Ali Hussaini al-Sīstānī’s bahth al-khārij discussions on the topic of conflicting…
Identifying the Legislator of Islamic Law | Sayyid Ali al-Sistani – Part 2
Click for Part 1. As for the narrations that indicate specific instances of laws that have been legislated by the Prophet (s),…
Identifying the Legislator of Islamic Law | Sayyid Ali al-Sistani – Part 1
Below is a translation of an extract from the book Ikhtilāf al-Ḥadīth which is a compendium of lessons given by Ayatullah Syed…
The Relevancy of 5:103 Today
At first sight, the 103rd verse of Sura Maidah seems to be talking about a phenomenon limited to the time of the…
