Question: In the absence of the Imam of our time (a.), is it permissible to stone? Answer: Aban Ibn Taghlib reported that Imam As-Sadiq (a.) said: “Two kinds of blood that God has allowed in Islam may not be shed by the judgement of anyone until God sends the Rising (Qa’im) of the people of…
Abd-ul-Hamid Ibn Abi l-Ala’ reported that Imam As-Sadiq (a.) said: “By God, if after disobedience and arrogance the devil would prostrate himself before God as long as this world lasts, it would neither benefit him nor God would accept it from him unless he prostrated before Adam (a.), as God commanded him to prostrate before…
Abdullah Ibn Sinan reported that Imam As-Sadiq (a.) said: “Everything, which is allowed and forbidden, is always allowed to you, until you know with certainty the forbidden (Haram) of it, after which you abstain from it.” [Al-Kafi by Al-Kulaini, volume 5, page 313, hadith 39] عن عدة من أصحاب الكليني عن سهل بن زياد وأحمد بن…
Narrated from Abdul Aziz ibn Muslim: ,,At the times of Ali ibn Musa Al-Ridha (as) we were in Marv. We had gathered together in the Jami’a mosque where the people were talking about the concept of Divine Leadership (Imamat) and the many differences which the people have with each other in that respect. I went to…
Jabir Ibn Yazid reported that Imam Al-Kazim (a.) said: „God created the light of Muhammad (s.) from a light, which He brought forward from the light of His glory and splendor and this is the light of His divinity, which originated from the divine being, thus from His divinity, from His thisness, which originated from…