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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Arbaʿīn and Mahdism

05 August 24 Articles
  … Similar to the Era of Reappearance Indeed the Era of the Reappearance of the twelfth Imam (PBUH) is neither comparable to the time before it, nor precisely perceivable. Things which will happen shall be beyond current social relations and human knowledge. Manifestation of justice to a point that there will be no more poor, people’s disinclination to wealth, comprehensive peace, sufficient rainfall and manifestation of blessings all over …
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