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Salaam, The cyber world can be taken as just another Dajjal which is absorbing so many of our youth into unimaginably sick engagements, spiritual illnesses, troubles and so on... It's one the major things that our community (as Muslims) must be aware of or made aware of. As adults many of us may know that there's just NO REASON to trust ANYONE online (to provide personal info)... adolescents and kids however are not able to understand this. They come into talks of these experienced online predators and do what not. They're easily deluded to believe what they're online friends tell them, and do what they expect or ask of them. The dirt and filth of cyber world is even BEYOND their imagination. Thanks for the topic Sr. IBelieve... InshAllah we can also come up with certain helpful/practical suggestions which parents must undertake if they desire safety (emotional, spiritual, and physical) for their kids. Wasalam.

How are those members supposed to set an example by not participating?? (you won't even know that they exist) Sure... I have myself known some people who have stopped coming on the site as regularly as they used to before. However one needs to understand that.... Shiachat is an online Shia community... a problem that is within this community, is therefore every SHIA's problem. This is not a personal issue! Each of us has a duty towards any problem in our society. (If you see the problem that is... and yes, it is a huge problem) And no, there are not a "few" unappropriate topics/posts, it's becoming a growing trend and to such an extent that noone notices that something's going wrong... everyone thinks it's fine and normal (atleast the regular members). And Shiachat WAS NOT like this before. I have been on this site some years ago, and it was indeed praiseworthy for maintaining proper standards. It is NOW that weird changes are being noticed. Lastly, I do not think that members can make a massive difference to the site. They can spread a word, but do nothing more. If there are people who can change the face of this online Shia community, it is only either the mods, or the admins.

Great points Br. Shabbir.HasanAlly! Jazakallah! Our society has this problem of worshipping just any person who comes in front of the people, utters some hadith, and verses from the Quran. If people get the kind of majlis/lecture that they want/like or "woo to" ,that's it, they're happy... they don't care whether that particular person deserved to sit on the mimbar of the Prophet or not. So pathetic! In actuality Islam just isn't as important to many as other worldy affairs, as you mentioned.... people would make sure they're going to the right doctor, but it does'nt matter to them if a speaker of their community is saying [Edited Out] or behaving [Edited Out].

Beautiful Indeed! May Allah increase His bounties on her...

Haha.. exactly.... Friendship with a nonmahram, which constitutes, talking unneccessary, joking, sharing personal info etc... is totally totally haram,... and when a girl is doing that, she absolutely has no right to complain people bothering her. If our girls have learnt anything and anything at all from Sayedatun nisail alameen, Hz. Fatematuz-Zahraa SA, they would never ever step into such nonsense, neither allow "pervs" to do so.

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Yes, there are many accounts of events after Karbala in this book (author is Sheikh Abbas Qummi). It also talks about how Hz. Mukhtar takes revenge over each of them. (May Allah increase the curse upon them) http://www.maaref-foundation.com/english/l...afasul_mahmoom/ There is another book called Maqtal al-Husain: Martrydom Epic of Imam al-Husain ('a) and the author is 'Abd al Razzaq al-Muqarram. http://al-islam.org/staging/maqtal/ You are right about what you say. It's very strange indeed..... I wonder how can the pains and sufferings upon Imam Hussain not awaken a person's heart? And how can one mourn for him, and yet make his son (the Imam of the time) mourn for our ugly actions today ? We do send curses on the Kufans that betrayed Imam, but today are we sure we donot posess the qualities of those Kufans, who were disunited amongst themselves, who gave allegiance to Imam, but turned away from him? Didn't they claim to help Imam? What made them change in a matter of few days, not even years? Yes, our azadari focusses on emotions during Karbala, but maybe not sufficiently! If we deeply feel the pain for Karbala, we would not dare to so openly criticize Islam (which has become too common today), not dare to talk with ignorance, not dare to do anything that will go against the spirit and message of Kerbala..........

Like we all know -- Every Day is Ashura, Every Land is Karbala..... This means that unles and until Yazeediyat has not ended Karbala continues. Who was Yazid? The one who snatched the veils from the heads of the Ladies of Ahlulbayt. ---- What do you say about our own women who take off their veils with their own hands? The one who would use the verses of the Quran to say things he wanted to! -- What about the people of today who exploit the Quran in any way they want to prove their point--which is so Haram. The other things we commonly know about him as an alcoholic, aldulterer etc... any of this that is being done is nothing but Yazeediyat. And this all happens everyday. So when we say "Fayalaytanee kuntu......." -- "I wish I were in Kerbala...." Then I'm sure that the Imam of our time AS responds back and says help me now, as Kerbala has not ended........ The blood of Imam Hussain AS has not been avenged yet.

Thanks for providing the links. Please remember to keep informing. He will be in the Husayniyah in Toronto INSHALLAH from the first of Rabi-ul-awwal. (which is 9th March - 17th March) Live broadcast will be available at : www.husainiyah.org For timings and more information please look at the website. May Allah give him a long long life!!!!!

A book about the development of Shi'a hadith - Outlines of the Development of the Science of Hadith