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?

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

The Extract of a Sermon of Hazrat Fatima (a.s.) the Princess of Islam
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Allah has settled:

**Faith -** so that He may clean your heart from polytheism.

**Prayers -** so that the pride may vanish from your mind.

**Zakat -** So that your heart becomes purified and your property
increases.

**Fasting -** So that your sincerity becomes firm.

**Hajj Ka'ba -** So that the religion gets strength and magnificence.

**Justice -** So that you may join your hearts together.

**Imamate of Ahlul Bayt (a.s.) -** So that the Ummat is saved from
disparity and divergence.

**Jihad -** So that the grandeur of Islam and the dignity of the Muslims
is saved.

**Amr bil Maruf -** so that the common people are reformed.

**Sile-rahm -** so that the number of Muslims increase in the world.

**Qisas -** so that the lives of the people are protected.




