What is the link between the observance of Arbaeen and the anticipation of the Imam Mahdi’s advent?

06 August 24 Question and Answer
What is the link between the observance of Arbaeen and the anticipation of the Imam Mahdi’s advent? In fact, the Arbaeen, the world’s largest pilgrimages, promotes the culture of awaiting Imam Mahdi and lays the groundwork for the Imam’s appearance. Arbaeen walk in modern history has gone beyond a Shiite ritual, and every year it draws people from different faiths, languages, and ethnicities. The presence of Sunni Muslims and Christians …
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What valuable lessons can we learn from the Arbaʿeen march?

06 August 24 Question and Answer
What valuable lessons can we learn from the Arbaʿeen march?   Arbaeen is the epitome of a life endowed with liberty, dignity, and defiance against oppression and tyranny. Imam Hussein is indeed the liberator of humanity from all mundane concerns, whose shining path teaches sacrifice and altruism, particularly in today’s world, which is embroiled in wars and atrocities. Every year, during the Arbaeen, millions of Muslims step into the scorched …
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Is Arbaʿīn walk to Karbalā an innovation?

05 August 24 Question and Answer
  Is Arbaʿīn walk to Karbalā an innovation? This is not the first time or the first person who has attempted to extinguish the ‘Light of God’: “They wish to extinguish God’s Light with their mouths, but Allah will not allow except that His Light should be perfected.” (Chapter 9, Ayah 32) Although one of my colleagues has answered the above misgiving in a very academic manner, I will Inshallah …
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The sacred bond: the modern significance of the Arbaʿīn pilgrimage and the arrival of the Promised Mahdi

05 August 24 Articles
The sacred bond: the modern significance of the Arbaʿīn pilgrimage and the arrival of the Promised Mahdi   Shiʿites have particular duties to prepare the ground for the reappearance of Imam Mahdi (may Allah hasten his advent), humanity’s last deliverer. According to Islamic eschatological narrations regarding the reappearance of Imam Mahdi at the end of time– whose promised reemergence would herald worldwide salvation– many duties were cited for the faithful …
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