Zakat & Khums

Someone asked from Amir-ul-Momaneen sws 1 ‘Mola What is the true meanings of ‘Aiman’?, Mola Ali sws replied, Aiman is believing in from the depth of heart, reciting it from tongue and demonstrating it from acts.’ So all acts of worship have a direct link with the beliefs and it is important to understand the [...]

Taking Bath

It is narrated from Hazrat Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq a.s that baths are of the following kinds: Janabat, day of Jummah (Friday), time of wearing Ahram, to enter Mecca and Madina, Day of Arrafah and Ziarat-e-Kabah, before visiting Kabah, 19, 21 and 23rd of month of Ramazan, touching/washing-up a dead body. Read Complete Article

Issues of Ablutions

It is referred from Hazrat Imam Abul Hassan Musa bin Jafar a.s that one ‘Salay’ (circa 3Kg/3litres) and one ‘maud’ (0.75 Kg/0.75litres) water is sufficient for taking bath and performing ablutions, respectively. The same quantity (one Salay and one mud) has been ascribed from Rasool Allah saw in another Hadith, with the addition, that there [...]

Use of Lavatory

It is narrated from Amir-ul-Momineen Hazrat Imam Ali a.s that all human beings are escorted by an angel who has been asked to turn one’s head down when he sits on the lavatory so that he should look at the discharge and the angel would then say, look oh son of Adam, that was your [...]

Cleansing from Water

It is narrated from Hazrat Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq a.s. that water is clean and pure until you know (for sure) it has become unclean1; and Imam a.s. further explained, that water which clean others cannot be cleaned from them, therefore when you do not observe any uncleanness in the available water, then use it for (Wuzu) [...]