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Ziyaarat-e-Aashoora – A Divine Salutation

Reading Time: 17 minutes Ziyaarat–e-Aashoora and the supplication recited after it, which is famous as Dua-e-Alqamah, are reliable narrations which cannot be rejected. Their presence in ancient and authentic Shia books shows that scholars, traditionalists and theologians have been […]

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Is kissing the Shrines polytheism?

Reading Time: 2 minutes Skeptics accuse Shias of ‘worshipping’ shrines. They take visitation of shrines of holy personalities (a.s.) i.e. Ziyarat, as polytheism and are quick to brand Shias as polytheists (mushrik). Reply The charge of these so-called Muslims […]

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Laanat: Prohibition or Sunnah?

Reading Time: 22 minutes The meaning of Lanat (Curse), in the dictionary, is to ‘make far’, or ‘to separate’. لَعْنَه لَعْنًا: طَرَدُه وَ اَبْعَدَه عَنِ الْخَيْرِ ‘To curse means he made him far from himself or made him far […]