11/4: Alam al-Dharr: Did Our Souls Exist Befo...

Things you'll learn in this episode of The Real Shia Beliefs:- Hadith on how death can wash away a Shia's sins- How the amount of sins will call for punishment- 300,000-year punishment for the worst of the Shia- Imam's words for the Shias who are too full of sins- The importance ...  Show more

Things you'll learn in this episode of The Real Shia Beliefs:- Fate of scholars who don't share their knowledge- Fate of scholars who don't accept good advice- Fate of scholars who only focus on guiding the rich- Fate of scholars who are tyrannous with people- Fate of scholars w ...  Show more

In this episode we discuss the formation of Shia orthodoxy. Picking up from our earlier episode on early Shi’ism we explore how the experience of persecution under the Umayyads and Abbasid shaped Shia thought and doctrine. We discuss the Muhammad al Baqir and Jaffar as Sadiq and ...  Show more

This episode traces the early developments of Shi’ism. In it we discuss the original schism of authority, how the Shiatul Ali form and the compromise that is reached by the community. We talk about how the divisions between the different tribes reflect the alignments of Pre-Islam ...  Show more

Karbala and the events following can be viewed in several angles in ways affecting Shia Muslims and the general Muslim world. This week, Sheikh Mohamed Abbas Panju of Najaf joins us to discuss the following and more: the wilayah of Imam Hussain (as), the concept of Ulama-al-Ab ...

Sheikh Azhar Nasser explores additional Sunni counter arguments to the Shia claim that the Verse of Purification (Quran 33:33)The discussion covers:- Claims that the wives were already purified- Claims that the actions of the wives had no impact on the prophetic household- Claims ...  Show more