Husayn ibn Ali

“Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon” (Jackson 246). “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson describes about a tradition of an annual lottery draw, participated by the people of a village to insure a bountiful harvest. Usually in lotteries, the winners get something special that makes them happy. But in this story, the tradition of the lottery is that whoever is the winner is stoned to death to get a good crop on coming harvest time. We know that tradition is an important part of any culture. But this story is telling about a tradition where the villagers are murdering an innocent person, though the rationale behind this tradition has been lost over time. This tradition of human sacrifice is totally unlawful, which is based on superstition. This shouldn’t be participated by any villagers. A tradition is a belief or custom passed down from generation to generation within a community. In this story, the tradition of drawing lottery has been practiced for over seventy years by the villagers. Every June they held the lottery though this tradition is actually meaningless. Some young people tried to stop this tradition. In the story we see that Mr. and Mrs. Adams suggested to the Old Man Warner, who is the oldest man in the village that some other villages have already stopped this tradition. Then Warner said “…………. We’d all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There’s always been a lottery” (Jackson 246). Old Man Warner keeps strong belief in superstition. That’s why he wants the…

Ali’s close partisan constitutes the Shi’at Ali, along with the general Islamic belief in Allah, Muhammad's message, and the Quran. The Shiites believe in the Imam as the true leader of faith and the veritable interpreter of the Quran. According to the Shia doctrine, the prophet-- shortly before he died, appointed Ali as the leader of the community and initiated him into the esoteric aspects and the mysteries of faith, and also his particular designated descendants, in turn, inherited this…

another of his daughters, in marriage. On the death of Umar, Uthman was elected the third caliph by a council of six, including Uthman, Ali, and Abd al-Rahman. Noticeably, the Ansars had no representation on the council, a detail which helped Uthman defeat Ali. Uthman is credited with establishing the canonical version of the Quran during his caliphate. He handed the pages of Quran, left by Umar in the care of his daughter Hafsa (a widow of the Prophet), to Zayd, and ordered him to compile it in…

The Fatimid Caliphate (ad-Dawlah al-Fāṭimiyya) was an Ismaili Shia Caliphate, it lasted from the year 909 to the year 1171 and eventually fell when its last Caliph (Al Athid or Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ) died, making place for the Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt and Syria under Saladin. The Fatimid Caliphate was the only Shi’a Caliphate, it was tied to the Ismaili branch of Shi’a Islam, the belief is centered around Isma’il, the son of Ja’Far As-Sadid, the sixth Imam and seventh…

The primary hagiographic story of ‘Aziz al Saksawiyya is the one found in the hagiographic work entitled Uns al-Faqir Wa izz al Hakir (the Intimacy of the Sufi and the greatness of the Denigrated) by the Sufi jurist ‘Abd al-Aziz ibn al-khatib who is known by the name of ibn Qunfudh (14th century). As we saw before this hagiographic record is a compilation of saints, Sufis and holy people belonging to Morocco and other Maghrebian countries. It includes only saints who were disciples of the axial…

account, Yaḥyā ibn Zayd was killed in a village of Gūzgānān or Jūzjān of modern-day Afghanistan in 125/742 (al-Ṭabarī, 1996, Vol. X:4342). Farhad Daftary believes that Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl spent the final years of his life in Khūzistān, where he did around 179/795-6 (Daftary, EI2). However, Idrīs ʿImād al-Dīn locates Farghānah as the original burial place of Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl, whose corpse was then believed to have been taken to Cairo during the Fatimid caliphate (Idrīs ʿImad al-Dīn, 2007,…

in her science lab. This was confirmed by one the boys who swore that he saw her from the lab’s window. I could not verify his account but the roamers continued about her and how she was flirtatious with the other visiting fathers to the school. I was fascinated by the amount of attention she received and how her beauty swayed the boy and the men alike. She became the object of my obsession of how to attract attention by being an eye candy. I wanted to be like ‘Aasha and I started taking care of…

The symbolism of Mecca for Helen In the play (The road to Mecca by Athol Furgard faber and faber edition) In the play “The road to Mecca” by Athol Furgard is a character named Helen, also known as Miss Helen. In the play she creates her own Mecca in her yard. Mecca is a city in Saudi Arabia and it is a holy city to followers of Islam. People take this religious journey to deepen their experience with God. In this case Helen takes a spiritual journey and she does not physically go to Saudi…

This acts have been transforming the society. Now people has fear, uncertainty and anger, they are looking to a different moon. Middle East, a government influenced by religion, two groups of people the Sunni and Shia. Split soon after the death of the prophet Muhammad over who should lead 3 the Muslim Community. They have co-existed for centuries and share many fundamental beliefs and practices. Shia claim the right to Ali, the son-in-law of the prophet Muhammad, and…

The Dawoodi Bohra community are a sect within the Ismaili branch of Shi’a Islam. They are the followers The Prophet (s.a), His successor, Imam Ali (s.a), and his successor, Imam Hussain. After the twenty-first Imam went into hiding the leadership continued through Dai 's hoping that the Imam would return one day. So far there have been 53 Dai 's. After the passing of the 52nd Dai, Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, the Dawoodi Bohra community split due to dual claim of succession. Most of the…