Abdāl (Arabic: أبدال) lit :substitutes, but which can also mean "generous" [karīm] and "noble" [sharīf]) is a term used in Islamic metaphysics and Islamic mysticism, both Sunni and Shiite, to refer to a particularly important group of God's saints. What is haqeeqat...
When Ruhollah Khomeini, while visiting Iraq met with Muhsin Al-Hakim, he urged him to take action against the Baath regime who had just arrived to power in 1968. Al-Hakim is said to have replied: “If we took drastic measures people would not follow us. The people lie and follow their ...
involving the provision of the welfare and assistance needs from below through the Local Coordination Committees –tansiqiyatin Arabic – in competition with the top-level structure of the regime, known with the termNizam(literally ‘system’). All this is following the writings...
For example, in the narration below, a woman flagrantly presents herself, sans mahrem, for amrriage to the Prophet (SAW) in front of a group of Shahabah. This hadith is normally omitted by the ‘do it because the Hadith says so’ contingent since what ensues does not help them make th...
I sometimes write these things in shorthand assuming people understand what I mean, so I do apologise for not thoroughly making the terminology of the above clear, as I did for the main proof. The problem with your proof is that it does not prove God,...
Over the last decade the number of patients undergoing transplantation has increased. At the same time, effective peri- and postoperative care and better s