LECTURE 19: MODERATION IN SPENDING

This verse is speaking about an attribute of the Servants of Rahman relating to “infaaq”. This is generally translated as “spending”.

LECTURE 17: WHO WOULD WANT TO KILL IMAM ALI (a.s) ?

Where can we find someone in history like Imam Ali (a.s) who treats people under his governance with the highest level of humility? Let us use his relationship with his own slave as an example, Qambar.

LECTURE 13: THE REWARD OF PROPHETHOOD

After discussions of how the Prophet (sawa) was rejected in various ways by various sectors of society, one can picture a situation wherein the Prophet (sawa) must have been exhausted

LECTURE 12: QURAN AS A TOOL OF JIHAD

And if We had pleased certainly We would have raised up a warner in every town.”
“So do not follow the infidels, and strive against them with it (the Qur’an) a strenuous strife”

LECTURE 11: CALL TO REFLECTION

The Quran says people who worship their desire are worse than cattle. In the absence of “intellect” in cattle, they do not have the capacity to grow and progress.

LECTURE 10: WORSHIPING ONE’S DESIRES

They do not overtly worship idols, but actually worship their desires and place idols in front of them as a smoke screen so that it appears that they worshiping the idols.