Translation

The following is a translation of Sayyid Musa al-Shubayrī al-Zanjānī’s response to a question regarding the authenticity of the widely-recited Ziyārat ʿĀshūrāʾ. The version...

A lecture by Shahīd Murṭaẓā Muṭahharī on the role of intellection (taʿaqqul) in the Islamic tradition, and the role it plays in the guidance of human beings.

Can anyone fully understand God's Words? Only those who first received those Words and inherited them, al-Fayd al-Kashani argues.

Mulla Fayd al-Kashani, in this translated introduction to his Tafsir al-Safi, explains the profound role the Qur'an plays in the life of a believer.

This guest translation discusses how the Qur'an portrays pious women as universal role-models. An excerpt from Ayatullah Jawadi Amuli’s Women in the Mirror of Divine Beauty and Divine Glory, translated by Ustadah Fatemah Meghji.

A selection of legal prohibitions that relate to a person’s relationships with Allah ﷻ and others, in accordance with the rulings of Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani.

Who is God? The following translation, from a treatise by the 5th-century Shīʿī scholar, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Karājikī, attempts to concisely explain Divine Unicity (tawḥīd), while discussing the basic creed of Shīʿī Islam.

How do we treat others equitably and fairly? This edited translation focuses on the virtues of transacting, on what it means to be a good buyer and seller of commodities and goods. Drawing from a classical legal text by ʿAllamah al-Ḥilli, it attempts to draw out the ethical from the legal, the akhlaq from the fiqh as it relates to commercial transactions.

This is the first installment in a series of translations of Sayyid Saʿīd al-Ḥakīm's work on taqlīd—referring to a jurist for legal issues. This article deals with the origins of the practice of taqlīd in the Shīʿī community.