Islamic Books

FIRST VERSE ...and We did not make the vision which We showed you but a trial for men and the cursed tree in the Quran as well; and We cause them to fear, but it only adds to their...

YAZID'S CLAN After my article "Banu Umayyah in the View of Holy Quran" was published in al-Jawwad magazine last year, many brothers-in-faith from Pakistan requested me to write...

UQBAH BIN ABI MUIT He was in the forefront in harassing the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) before the migration (Hijrat). When the infidels forced Banu Hashim to be confined in the Sheb-e-Abu...

WHO WERE THE KILLERS OF IMAM HUSAIN(A.S)? Time and again objection is issued by the ignorant that killers of Imam Husain (a.s) were Shias. Though more than once those objections have been...

MARWAN IBN HAKAM His father Hakam had been exiled from Medina by the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) and he was called a 'lizard, young one of a lizard' by the Holy Prophet (s.a.w). It is mentioned...

A 'REVOLUTIONARY' BOOK: CALIPHATE OF MUAWIYAH AND YAZID Mahmud Ahmad Abbasi, the writer of Caliphate of Muawiyah and Yazid has created a strange type of friction in the Shia, Sunni...

MARTYRDOM OF IMAM HUSAIN (A.S) AND THE MUSLIM AND JEWISH CALENDARS (Published in As-Serat Vol. VI No. 3 & 4, 1401) The 1400th year of the Hijri calendar is nearing its end. Since the...

THE ILLUSTRIOUS PERIOD OF THE IMAMATE OF IMAM ZAINUL AABIDIN (A.S) (Al-Serat, Vol. 5 (1979), Nos. 3 & 4 ) No Imam began his Imamat in a more tragic atmosphere. The first day of his...

UNDERSTANDING KARBALA by SAYYID SAEED AKHTAR RIZVI TRANSLATOR'S FOREWORD 9 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 11 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 12 HOW IMAM HASAN AND IMAM HUSAIN...

PREFACE The magnificent and auspicious celebration of the fifteenth of Sha'baan can be observed everywhere. Every place has been decorated. In every place joyful and cheerful...

THE BIRTH At dawn, on the 15th Sha'ban 255 AH., the rays of the illuminating world shone with a powerful shaft of light into a human form which became the source of existence for...

THE MAJOR OCCULTATION After the year 329 A. H., when the major occultation commenced, the special deputation of Imam- e Zaman terminated. If anybody claims during the major occultation...