Religions and Sects
Islam, the Most Perfect and Highest of Revealed Religions
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- Imam Reza Network
And who is better in speech than he who calls unto God and does good and says, 'Verily, I am of the Muslims. (41:33) In the history of peoples and communities, sensitive moments and turning points always exist and in those moments, objective and subjective conditions prepare for real transformation and a fundamental and basic revolution.
Islamic Eschatology
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- Imam Reza Network
Those who are acquainted to a certain extent with the Islamic sciences know that within the teachings of the Holy Book and the traditions of the Prophet there are many references to spirit and corpus, or soul and body. Although it is relatively easy to conceive of the body and what is corporeal, or that which can be known through the senses, to conceive of spirit and soul is difficult and complicated.
Islam, Culture and Identity
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- Yusuf Al-Khabbaz
As a global ideal, an important quality of Islam is that it envisions a unifying system for Muslims to relate to each other and the world in which they live, while also allowing diverse peoples to flourish within that system with little interference or direct homogenization into a monolithic entity. At the same time, if we are honest with ourselves, we can also find instances when Islamic societies acted against those ideals and operated according to social or environmental needs, in the name of things like tribal loyalties or survival in the face of natural disasters.
Rational Thought in Shi'ism
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- Imam Reza Network
It has been mentioned before that Islam has legitimized and approved rational thought, which it considers a part of religious thought. Rational thought in its Islamic sense, after confirming the prophecy of the Prophet, provides intellectual demonstrations of the validity of the external aspect of the Quran, which is a divine revelation, as well as of the definitely established sayings of the Prophet and his noble Household.
The Bodleian Tribute to Islamic Sciences
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- Charis Waddy
[In 1981 Oxford University's Bodleian Library mounted a display of 50 choice works to tell one of the great stories in the history of ideas: the flowering of philosophy and science in the medieval Muslim world and the transmission of that tradition - the doctrina Arabum, the teachings of the Arabs - to Europe. "... the exhibition... by focusing attention on the debt of medieval Europe to the scholars of the Muslim world, may shed an interesting sidelight on the long and turbulent history of relations between Islam and the West."
Foreign Policy of an Islamic State
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- Ayatullah Ibrahim Amini
This article was presented as a paper under the title “Rawabit‑e bayna al‑milal wa siyasat‑e khariji‑e hukumat‑e Islami” (The Foreign Relations Policy of an Islamic State) at the Third Conference on Islamic Thought, held at Tehran, Jamadi al‑'awwal 7‑9, 1405 (January 29‑31,1985). The author is a member of the Guardianship Council (Shura‑ye Nigahban) of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis‑a Shura‑ye Islami) of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Islam the Ultimate Way to Salvation
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- Dr. Syed Hasan Akhtar
The word Islam means “submission,” as in submission to the Will of Almighty God. He is referred to as Allah* in the Qur’an (the Holy Scripture). Muslims worship the same one God that Abraham, Moses, and Jesus worshiped. Muslims believe in all the prophets that Christians and Jews believe in. According to the Muslim belief, Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him & his progeny) was the last prophet in the long line of prophets which started with Adam and included Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, David, Solomon, Moses, John the Baptist, and Jesus (peace be upon them all), to name a few. Muslims regard Prophet Muhammad as a human being with a divine mission; they do not worship Muhammad.
Arbitration in Islam
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- Muhammed Beheshti
From time to time differences arise on various questions between the people living together. Historical and personal experience shows that no society has ever existed, between the individuals or the social organizations of which there have never been any differences. Such differences have always existed in all societies from the primitive and semi-barbaric to the most advanced and civilized. Usually the differences and clash of interests arise between two individuals, two organizations, two classes or two nations, in one of the two ways.
Shiahs and the Purified Sunnah
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- Imam Reza Network
One of the lies circulated against the Shi`ahs by some fools is that Shi`ahs reject the Sunnah of the Chosen One, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him and his progeny, a nonsense beyond which there is no other nonsense. Following we would like to transmit some views of Sunni scholars about the stand of the Shi`ahs with regard to the Purified Sunnah.
Introduction to Islam
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- Sayyid Hussein Ahmed
The word "ISLAM" is derived from the Arabic words "salaam", which means peace and "taslim", which means submission. The follower of Islam is a Muslim. The word "Muslim" translated to English literally means "the one with peace". To the Muslim it has a greater meaning, Muslims believe that true peace is experienced only when Mankind acknowledges, obeys and worships the Creator, i.e. submits to the One God. So to the Muslim it means "the one who submits in peace".
Islam vs. Feminism
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- Dr. Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen
Feminism has radically altered Western culture in the latter half of the twentieth century. Perhaps no other social movement has wrought such profound changes in social mores and attitudes. Sexual revolution and liberation meant that sexual relations should be freed of the constraints associated with traditional Christian virtue.
Self-Purification: the Main Goal of Divine Messengers
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- Ayatullah Ibrahim Amini
The greatest aim of Divine Messengers was to emphasize the importance of refinement, purification, and training of human selves. God-Almighty said in the Holy Quran:
Mutual Rights in Islam
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- Imam Reza Network
One of the humane Islamic behaviour which must be taken care of disregarding is a great sin is man’s behaviour with the below-mentioned persons. They possess, besides the moral, their rights too:
Early Converts to Islam and Their Persecution
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- Sayed Ali Asgher Razwy
Though Abu Lahab frequently succeeded in dispersing the crowds that gathered to hear the Apostle's homilies, word nevertheless spread in Makkah about them. Some people talked about the message of Islam. The thoughtful ones among them posed the question: "What is this religion to which Muhammad is inviting us?" This question showed curiosity on their part regarding the message of Islam, and a few among them wanted to know more about it.
Islam, the Last Manifestation of Revelation
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- Dar Rahe Haq Institute
From the first, Islam has said that it is the last message, and Muslims have accepted this fact with wisdom and with love, and have realized that Islam is the last manifestation of revelation, prophet hood and the culmination o I the former pure religions.
Taqlid and Marji'iyyah in Islam
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- Muhammad al-Tijani al-Samawi al-Tunisi
It is incumbent upon every mature (mukallaf) Muslim, if not being a mujtahid -i.e. who can deduce legislative rules from the Scripture and Sunnah-to imitate (in all his religious acts) a mujtahid having all necessary requirements (Shara'it) including knowledge ('ilm), justice, piety, asceticism (zuhd) and righteousness, as ordained by the Almighty Allah: "Ask the followers of the Remembrance if ye know not!" (16:43).
The Doctrine of Islam
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- Martyr Ayatullah Murtadha Mutahhari
The relation of this world to the hereafter is similar to the relation between the body and the spirit, or the relation of the outer aspect to the inner aspect. This world and the next are not two wholly and entirely separate worlds; this world and the hereafter together are one unit, just as a sheet of paper has two pages and a coin has two sides. This same Earth that exists in this world will appear in the hereafter in its otherworldly form.
Religion and Modernity
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- Dr. Riza Dawari, Translated by Zahra' Shuja'-Khani
Although we find a wide range of historical reports in books on theology, philosophy, and sociology on the experience that the Western Christian world has gained from the phenomenon of modernity, our experience of what is called modernity has been decidedly different.
The Origins of the Shi'as
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- Allamah Shaykh Muhammad Husayn al-Kashif al-Ghita
Shi'ism is not a new religion. It begins with the beginning of Islam. The embodiment of the code of religion, that is, the seal of the Prophets (s.a.w.) planted the tree of Shi'ism together with Islam; with his own hands, he watered it and looked after it. The plant grew up to be a green tree which began blooming in the life-time of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.). But it had not yet born fruit, when the light of prophethood was put out.
The Natural and Intellectual Rights in Islam
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- Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Hakim
My child! My purpose of speaking about the religious issues was for you to become familiar with a sample of the beliefs of you father and mother, and to become certain that it is not without reasons that they are fond of religion. Even, if these discussions did not convince you, and if you still are of your old opinion about them, and should think your parents are old fashioned and superstitious, this rights, to be rude to them or to treat them disrespectfully. As the rights of your parents are natural and intellectual and in any case they are inviolable.
