Hossein Wahid Khorasani: the virtues of the Imam of the Time (A)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful! Resurrection (Qiyāmah) is called by twenty-eight names in the Qur’an. One of them is the “Day of Regret” (Yaumu’l-Ḥaṣrah). The verse…
TAFSIR: Verses 5-7 of the Surah “Fatiha”
إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ .5 اهدِنَــــا الصِّرَاطَ المُستَقِيمَ .6 صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ أَنعَمتَ عَلَيهِمْ غَيرِ المَغضُوبِ عَلَيهِمْ وَلاَ الضَّالِّينَ .7 5. We worship You and…
TAFSIR: Verses 2-4 of the Surah “Fatiha”
Verses 2-4 suras “Fatiha” الْحَمْدُ للّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ 2 الرَّحْمـنِ 3 مَالِكِ يَوْمِ 4 2. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, 3. Gracious, Merciful, 4. To the…
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TAFSIR: Verse 1 of the Surah “Fatiha” – “In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful”
As we have already said, bismillahi rrahmani rrahim ( In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful ) is an ayah. Moreover, it is the best ayah of the Book of Allah. So, the first…
Part 1. Introduction. Languages of the world. The Language Paradox
In this cycle, we turn our attention to what might be called metalinguistics. We’ll explore language, letters, and numbers as a spiritual reality formed by a pattern of symbols that…
Part 31. The modern world from a sacred perspective. The Mystery of Imam Mahdi’s (A) Major Occultation
Imam Reza (A) reportedly said: “A grave and bloody upheaval will occur, erasing all ties of kinship and friendship. This will be the time when the Shiites lose the last of my…
Part 30. The Modern World from a Sacred Perspective. The Secret of the Occultation of Imam Mahdi (A)
After quoting the hadith from Imam Ali (A): lil batyli jawla wa lil haqqi dawla – “lies have their own period, and truth has its own realm” – we have said that we are now living in a period of…
Part 29. Nietzsche and His Delirium
Nietzsche’s legacy is not coherent and consistent like Kant’s, but is made up of fragmented, confusing, and sometimes contradictory notes and aphorisms. Almost all of his books can be read in…
Part 28. An excursion into Western philosophy: Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger
We said that modern Western civilization is, first of all, a system of material power over this physical world. It is based on a fear of reality, projected outward as the will to power. It…
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Part 27. The Black Myth of the West – 2. Modern Science
In these parts of our series, we are identifying the basic structural elements of Western thinking, which are essentially the “programming codes” that every Westerner or, more broadly, every…
Part 26. The Black Myth of the West – 1
If we look at the modern world and compare it with the traditional one in which people lived before the Industrial Revolution, we will notice a great difference. The fact is that traditional…
Part 25. History of Christianity
The original environment in which Jesus lived and preached was Aramean Palestine. During that time, Palestine was the home of the Jews, the only monotheistic believers in the ancient world. In…