Faithful believers mark Arba’een as COVID-19 restricts pilgrimage to Karbala

Muslims around the world commemorate Arba’een, the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of the third Shia Imam Hossein (AS) amid coronavirus-related restrictions placed by Iraq on the number of foreign pilgrims.

Arbaeen marks an important turning point in the movement of Karbala

A great significance had been attached to this day because the Ahlul-Bayt reached the land of Karbala on this day and performed pilgrimage to the holy shrines of Imam Hussein (PBUH) and his 72 companion who gave their life for the cause of Islam.

Imam Khomeini: Why should we, who are traversing on the path of God and who rose against this ...

Seminary students are in need of learning and teaching morals and spirituality

Imam Khomeini through his theological works stressed that simultaneous with the study of scholarly matters, the seminaries of religious learning are in need of teaching and learning in morals and spirituality.

Attention towards world raises dark veils, Imam Khomeini explained

According to Imam Khomeini, attention to other than God covers man with veils of darkness and light. If any worldly affair is a cause for man’s attention to be directed toward the world and to neglect God, the Exalted, it raises dark veils. All of the corporeal worlds are dark veils. If the world is a means of directing attention to the Truth and for arriving at the abode of the Hereafter, which is the “abode of honor,” then the dark veils are transformed into veils of light.

Imam Khomeini explained the source of moral corruption

Imam Khomeini through his theological works explained that faith, which is the joy and fortune of the soul, is different from knowledge, which is the pleasure and satisfaction of the intellect.

What did Imam describe as a root cause of humans decline?

According to Imam, the deep love for worldly affairs and close association with material world could lead to an all-out collapse of societies and moral decline of humans.

Imam Khomeini explained how to eradicate the roots of anger

Imam Khomeini through his theological works explained that among the fundamental remedies of anger, one is to exterminate the factors responsible for its provocation.