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In the Name of God بسم الله
Minor Islamic Sects
Dicuss the history and doctrines of non-Imami sects and religions such as the Isma`ilis, Zaydis, Waqifis, Druze, Nusayris, Zoroastrians, Mandeans, and others, both existing and extinct.
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By ShiaChat Mod · Posted
To the guest who is a previously banned member, your post was not approved. Plenty of Ulema are using Istikhara. You can't say Istikhara is misguidance and from Shaytan -
Professor Mohammad Marandi videos are good, also the ones by George Galloway. I just don't have time to watch them. I wish people would summarize the videos they post. For those of us who cannot watch them. -
By Lion of Shia · Posted
The Daily Express US planning to permanently relocate 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to Libya Story by Housnia Shams • © Getty The US government is reportedly in talks with Libyan officials on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to Libya. A report by NBC News, which cited unnamed sources, said the Trump Administration had discussed the proposal with Libya's leadership. Washington would reportedly offer Libya billions of dollars of funds that the US froze more than a decade ago in exchange for the resettling of Palestinians. No final deal has been reached. A former US official told NBC News that financial incentives, including free housing, may be offered to Palestinians to encourage them to voluntarily leave Gaza. The White House is also reportedly considering resettling Palestinians in Syria, the report said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has backed a plan by US President Donald Trump to take over Gaza and resettle displaced residents outside the enclave. Last week, Netanyahu said Israel was working to find third countries willing to take in Palestinians. "We have put together an administration that will allow them to leave, but the problem with us is one thing - we need receptive countries," Netanyahu said. ) And, you know, I have concepts for Gaza that I WXIA-TV Atlanta Proposing a Freedom Zone for Gaza "That's what we're working on right now. If you give them the go-ahead, I tell you that more than 50 percent will leave, and I think much more." Trump's proposal has been widely condemned by allies in the Middle East who have warned that relocating Palestinians from Gaza would threaten stability in the region, expand the conflict and undermine the push for a two-state solution. Human Rights Watch said it amounted to "ethnic cleansing." Israel launched dozens of airstrikes across Gaza on Friday that killed 108 people, mostly women and children, according to health officials. Gaza's Health Ministry said 31 children and 27 women were killed and hundreds more wounded in the airstrikes. It comes days after Netanyahu declared that Israeli forces would enter Gaza with "full force," adding that there was "no way" Israel would stop the war. "In the coming days, we are going in with full force to complete the operation," he said earlier this week. "Completing the operation means defeating Hamas." His comments come after Israel's Cabinet approved a plan to capture all of Gaza and move hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the territory's south. In March, Israel blocked the entry of all food, water and other aid supplies to two million people in Gaza, causing what is believed to be the worst humanitarian crisis since the war began in October 2023. The move was widely condemned by aid groups, who have accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war. -
Salam. People need to read the info from that topic. It says (in Techniques of Foreplay) no foreign objects (sex toys): As far as the methods of mutual stimulation in foreplay are concerned, the shari'ah allows the husband and the wife to see, kiss, touch, smell and stimulate any part of each other's body. Therefore, oral sex, as it is known in this part of the world is allowed. Imam Musa al-Kazim was once asked, "Can a person kiss his wife's vagina?" The Imam said, "No problem."49 The only restriction is that no foreign object should be used. And this restriction is quite understandable: nothing can really substitute the things Allah has created in our bodies! (D) Anal Intercourse: The opinions of our mujtahids vary on the permissibility of anal intercourse. Before mentioning the preferred and correct view, I would like to explain why the mujtahids have differed in their opinions. This variance in fatwas is because of the difference in the ahadith we have on this issue. There is a hadith, for example, from Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq quoting the Prophet that "The anus of women is haram for my community."53 Now this hadith categorically forbids anal intercourse. But, according to 'Allamah al-Hilli and ash-Shahid ath-Thani, the chain of narrators of this hadith is not completely flawless.54 When faced which such conflicting ahadith, most mujtahids have tried to bring them together by taking the apparently more authentic hadith (which approves anal intercourse) as a qualifier for the ahadith which totally forbid such sex. And in conclusion, they say that the prohibition in such ahadith is not on the level of haram, instead it is on the level of makruh.55 This conclusion of theirs is supported by a third category of ahadith on this subject in which the Imams have clearly and strongly discouraged their followers from anal intercourse. An example can be found in the question asked by Safwan al-Jammal to Imam 'Ali ar-Riza ((عليه السلام).) in which the latter clearly expressed his personal dislike for such act.56 Therefore the majority of the Shi'ah mujtahids have derived two conclusions: (l) that anal intercourse is not haram but strongly disliked (karahatan shadidah) provided the wife agrees to it. (2) and if she does not agree to it, then all mujtahids say that it is precautionarily wajib to refrain from it.57 With all due respect to the great mujtahids who hold the above opinion, I would like to present the preferred opinion. It is true that we have conflicting ahadith from our Imams on anal intercourse, but the ahadith which approve anal intercourse are not suitable for deriving an opinion. Why? Because, in the case of conflicting ahadith, the mujtahid has to contrast them with the Sunni view prevalent at the time when the ahadith were issued by the Imams. And, then, those which agree with the Sunni view are to be considered as statements issued under taqiyyah and, therefore, not suitable for use in ijtihad.58 Using this method of solving the conflicting ahadith gives strength to the prohibitive ahadith and brings us to the preferred view that anal intercourse is not allowed.59 Probably, it was such a consideration which caused the late Ayatullah al-Khu'i to change his view on this issue. During the last decade of his life, Ayatullah al-Khu'i departed from the majority view and gave the ruling that it was precautionarily wajib to abstain from anal intercourse no matter whether the wife agrees to it or not.60 I would strongly advise against anal intercourse, and would like to end this section with the saying of Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq and Imam 'Ali ar-Riza about anal intercourse: "Woman is a means of your pleasure, therefore do not harm her."61
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This Twitter thread deals with UAE sponsored bot farms in Somalia I can't vouch for the accuracy of the material. But it is worth a read.
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