In this book, the authors have endeavored to reply to over a hundred commonly asked questions about Islamic laws and practices and have also explained the reasons being various Islamic directives.
- Philosophy of Islamic Laws
- Presentation
- The Extract of a Sermon of Hazrat Fatima (a.s.) the Princess of Islam
- Preface
- Question 1: Do we have the right to ask about the Logic behind Islamic Laws?
- Question 2: How to ponder on the Philosophy of Islamic Laws?
- Question 3: Why Should We Do Taqlid (Follow A Mujtahid) In Religious Problems?
- Question 4: Why Should We Worship Allah? What Is The Philosophy of Prayers, Fasting And Hajj?
- Question 5: Why Should We Do Taqlid of The Most Learned Scholar?
- Question 6: Why Pray In Arabic?
- Question 7: Why To Face The Qibla In Prayers?
- Question 8: Why Do We Pray Five Prayers In Three Times?
- Question 9: How Does Prayers Keep a Person Away From Sin?
- Question 10: What is The Purpose of Prayers of Ayaat?
- Question 11: Why Should Women Cover Themselves In Prayers?
- Question 12: Why Are Alcoholic Drinks Impure?
- Question 13: What Is The Difference Between Perspiration And Urine?
- Question 14: What Is The Philosophy of Bathing The Dead Body And Bath For Touching The Dead Body?
- Question 15: Why Illegitimate Children Are Kept Away From Some Posts?
- Question 16: The Harmful Effects of Pork on the Health of a Person
- Question 17: Why An Unbeliever Is Impure?
- Question 18: What Is The Purpose of Jizya?
- Question 19: The Dress of Ihram
- Question 20: Why Is The Meat of Sacrifice Wasted?
- Question 21: Why It Is Forbidden To Read The Deviated Books?
- Question 22: Why The Holy Qur’an Cannot Be Given To Any Non-Muslim?
- Question 23: The Reason of Strictness In Proving Certain Sins (Crimes)
- Question 24: Why The Animals Should Be Slaughtered In A Particular Way?
- Question 25: Circumcision
- Question 26: Philosophy of Halalah
- Question 27: The Psychological And Physical Dangers of Sexual Promiscuity
- Question 28: Music From The Islamic Point of View
- Question 29: Why Does Allah Subject People To Tests?
- Question 30: How Can Tayammum be Performed in Soil Contaminated by Germs?
- Question 31: Are Other Religions Right?
- Question 32: Prayer For Correct Guidance To The Right Path (Siraatul Mustaqeem)
- Question 33: What Is The Purpose Of Creating The Heavens And The Earth In Six Days?
- Question 34: What Is Meant By ‘Seven Heavens’?
- Question 35: Where Are Two Easts And Two Wests?
- Question 36: The Earth Being Spherical And The Holy Qur’an
- Question 37: Rotation of The Earth
- Question 38: What Is The Exegesis of This Verse?
- Question 39: Importance of Laylat’ul-Qadr
- Question 40: How Zulqarnain Saw That The Sun Sets In Dark Water?
- Question 41: Holy Qur’an And Control Over Planets
- Question 42: Does This Verse Point Towards The Artificial Means of The Present World?
- Question 43: Do These Verses Support The Theory of Evolution?
- Question 44: Is This Ayat Contrary To Islam Being Universal?
- Question 45: Why Allah Has Used Plural Pronouns For Himself?
- Question 46: Hearing And Sight In The Holy Qur’an
- Question 47: Why Would The False Gods Be Put In The Fire?
- Question 48: Is It Allowed To Prostrate Before Anyone Or Anything Other Than Allah?
- Question 49: What Is Meant By Tawbah an-Nasooha?
- Question 50: Is This Ayat Contrary To The Issue of “Abiding Forever”?
- Question 51: What is the Benefit of Uttering Allah’s Name Before Starting Anything?
- Question 52: The Qur’an is safe from distortion
- Question 53: The Order of Revelation of Surahs of The Holy Qur’an And The Scribes of Revelation
- Question 54: Interpretation of Qur’an Based On Personal Views
- Question 55: What Is The Aim of Repetitions In The Qur’an?
- Question 56: Is The Prohibited Tree The Tree of Knowledge?
- Question 57: Why Is There No ‘Bismillah’ In The Beginning of ‘Surah Baraat’?
- Question 58: Are There More Than One Creator?
- Question 59: Why is Charity Compared To An Ear Having 700 Grains?
- Question 60: Son of Nuh (a.s.) In The Holy Qur’an
- Question 61: Is The Following Ayat In Contravention of The Infallibility of The Holy Prophet (S)?
- Question 62: What Is The Meaning of The Words: Everything Will Be Destroyed Except His Face?
- Question 63: How Did Yusuf (a.s.) Allow That His Brother Should Be Falsely Implicated For Theft?
- Question 64: Should We Laugh Less And Weep More?
- Question 65: Would There Be Interrogation On The Day of Qiyamat?
- Question 66: Does The Prophet Also Seek Counsel?
- Question 67: What Are ‘Smaller’ And ‘Greater Sins’?
- Question 68: Are Greater And Smaller Relative Terms?
- Question 69: How Many Greater Sins Are There?
- Question 70: What Is Lying For A Hidden Wisdom?
- Question 71: Is It Allowed To Give Physical Punishment For Women?
- Question 72: Islamic View on Artificial Insemination
- Question 73: What Is The Command Regarding Contraception?
- Question 74: What Is The Legal Position Regarding Abortion of Illegitimate Fetus?
- Question 75: Blood Transfusion
- Question 76: Is The Sincerity of Intention Beneficial To The Deed?
- Question 77: Why Do We Sometimes Recite The Afternoon Prayers Prayers At The Time of Noon Prayers Prayer?
- Question 78: Does Prayer Have A Role In Acceptance of All Deeds?
- Question 79: How To Pray And Fast In The Polar Regions?
- Question 80: Prayer At The Earliest Hour
- Question 81: Why Do We Pray Facing The Qibla?
- Question 82: What Is The Decree Regarding The Game of Chess?
- Question 83: How Can Latin Speaking People Perform Prayers?
- Question 84: Prostrating To The Imam’s Tomb?
- Question 85: What is The Ruling about Sports like Boxing?
- Question 86: Questions of An American Muslim
- Question 87: What Are The Causes of Advancement of The Muslims In The Past Ages And Their Downfall In The Modern Era?
- Question 88: Why The Youth of Today Avoid Religious Gatherings?
- Question 89: How Can We Control The Misuse of Polygamy?
- Question 90: Has Islam Prescribed The Duties of Woman?
- Question 91: Is The Universe Dependent Upon Allah For Its Continued Existence?
- Question 92: What Is The Islamic View Regarding The Sneeze?
- Question 93: Do Dreams Have Any Truth?
- Question 94: Is Khums The Recompense of Prophethood?
- Question 95: Is Not Khums a Cause For Social Difference?
- Question 96: Why Is There Still Ignorance Despite So Many Efforts For Popularizing Knowledge?
- Question 97: Should The Good People Also Pray?
- Question 98: Is Man Superior To Angels?
- Question 99: Maturity of Boys And Girls
- Question 100: Following (Taqlid) The Religious Maraja (Mujtahid)
- Question 101: Tawalla And Tabarra
- Question 102: Did Amir al-Mu’mineen Ali (a.s.) Ever Depend On The Tradition of Ghadeer To Prove His Caliphate?
- Question 103: Is Sacrifice And Offering Possible?
- Question 104: What is The Aim of the Verse: He Deviates Whomsoever He Likes And Guides Whomsoever He Likes?
