Islamic Laws

Wife and Husband’s Duties

By: Sayyed Hussain Sheikh al-Islami Tooyserkani Love One of the other duties of wife and husband is to love each other and this is a very important factor behind the unity in society. There are two kinds of love between…

Warnings of Corporate Moral Failure

Dr. Muhammad Legenhausen Introduction: Red Lights Red lights serve a variety of functions, but here we shall be concerned with their use as warning devices. The image of the red light flashing on to indicate some danger will be used…

Islamic Law and Muslim Life

Dr. Muhammad Legenhausen Islamic law or shari’ah performs various functions, and these functions have altered over the centuries. Even within a given time period, the shari’ah plays different roles for different Muslim communities. Throughout the middle ages, the shari’ah functioned…

Piety and Society (Social Piety)

By: Sayyed Hussain Sheikh al-Islami Tooyserkani One of the other cases in which one must observe piety (Taqwa) is the association with people, which is considered as social piety. If piety is observed in the social relations, the world would…

Piety and Jihad

By: Sayyed Hussain Sheikh al-Islami Tooyserkani Jihad comes from the root ‘Jahd’ meaning endurance and hard work. The word ‘Ijtihad’ too is from the same root meaning what is hard to obtain. Therefore, ‘Jihad’ means to do what is in…

Piety and the Hajj

By: Sayyed Hussain Sheikh al-Islami Tooyserkani Although the Hajj is an important religious obligation, it is especially related to ‘Taqwa’, for it requires the suffering of a long journey by people who live in distant lands. It also requires money,…

Piety and Fasting

By: Sayyed Hussain Sheikh al-Islami Tooyserkani One of the other religious obligations which require ‘Taqwa’ in practice and have no worth without Taqwa is ‘Fasting’. Fasting is sometimes interpreted as the ‘purification of body’, as a shield of one who…

Piety and Islamic Rules

By: Sayyed Hussain Sheikh al-Islami Tooyserkani Rules made by God Almighty are binding and it does not make any difference whether they are real or superficial (apparent), for benefits and harms in them have been taken into consideration. Therefore, when…

Common Rights of Women and Men

By: Ayatullah Ibrahim Amini • What are the common rights of men and women? Reply: Islam does not regard women and men any different in their humanness and it considers this principle so obvious that it does not feel the…

Divorce in Islam

By: Ayatullah Ibrahim Amini Islam tolerates divorce and separation of a husband and wife under specific conditions; however, Islam regards divorce as abhorrent and reprehensible. Thus, it has been censured in Hadith. Imam Sadiq (‘a) has declared: Verily, Allah loves…