Hyderabadi shia

Assalamalaikum, Can somebody please shed light on general consensus in Twelver Shia Islam, whether bank loan (with interest to be paid back) can be obtained for marriage expenses? Or is it possible to pay certain secondary marriage expenses with the loaned amount and payment for maulvi who reads the nikah be paid with my halal earned money?

A colleague had suggested me to watch the first SciFi space movie Dune from 1970s. He said it inspired all later movies like star wars and star Trek. I did watch the extended version on YouTube (3+ hours) it's a complicated story but I was surprised as they have burrowed the core plot from shia Islam like the coming of Imam Mehdi a.s. and portrayed the main hero in that light... It's not good to compare this movie to the pure shia values, but they just burrowed few concepts from Islam. If seen from an Islamic point of view the movie is a bit indecent, I was not aware of this and just

I hope the ismailis research atleast their own religious personalities to whom they conferred the titles of imam, but I never read about a religious ismaili practicing at least some islamic activities, they seem to be easy-going, and cool-type mindset people mainly concentrating just on the business and worldly affairs from what I have seen.

I am reading this topic now in November 2017 after 10 years of original posting... I felt really great now, because this is one of the top objections from Shia opposition, they always jump up with excitement without in-depth reading about early islamic incidents and with excitement they question like - if so and so was so person was really bad then why did ahlulbayt approved them. (I recently got a great doubt cleared about Umm Kulthum (daughter of Imam Ali) who Married to a bad guy. The wonderfully responses are an eye opener - just like Prophet's Noah's wife was destroyed by raining dow

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As Salam alaikum. Bismillah ir Rahman ir Raheem. Hi all.. This is my first post in this wonderful blog. I am glad to read about various topics related to our wonderful Islam. But I frequently find that our shia sites have special sections related to Palestine and Palestinian cause (especially the Iranian brothers). We are always standing and supporting them since day 1 of their oppression, even when other so-called caretakers of Islam, Arab countries betrayed them and left them alone, Shias have supported them even with blood. Ofcourse our religion asks us to support t

Shiites are always standing with the oppressed.. However in today's scenario Shiites main priority shall be support for the "most oppressed lovers of ahlulbait" in countries like Saudi, Yemen, Bahrain, Egypt, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan etc... Everybody is there to help Palestinians round the clock (including sunnis, wahabbis and dozens of other sects who send aid and money). Aid reaches them day and night... But what about the plight of our Shia brethren in the above mentioned countries where every day is a struggle by a shia to survive in the above listed anti-shia count