Many of us think that as long as a man’s heart beats, and the nerves are active and he walks about, he is alive. When can he be said to be dead? When the physician listens to his heart and declares that it has stopped functioning. This is to some extent true, but this...

Nahjul Balagha - Commandment 31 From the father who is (shortly) to die, who acknowledges the hardships of times, who has turned away from life, who has submitted himself to the (calamities of) time, who realizes the evils of the world, who is living in the abodes of...

Imam Ali (A), (15 September 601 – 29 January 661) , the first Imam (AS), was the cousin and son-in-law of the Holy Prophet Muhammad of Islam. He was born on Friday, the 13th of Rajab in the Holy Ka’aba. He was brought up and mentored under the direct guardianship of...