Al-Sidrah: A Publication of the Ahl al-Bayt Islamic Seminary

Al-Sidrah: A Publication of the Ahl al-Bayt Islamic Seminary

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  • Khutbah - Commemorating ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā September 12, 2016
    In the two sermons for ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā Sayyid Sulayman Hassan spoke about the Muslim community and the need for mercy, forgiveness, and the reconciliation of hearts between Muslims, especially on one of the year's most important holidays. He reflected upon the nature of human diversity and the underlying ethics of how to manage disagreements and different personalities.
    37 min
  • Khutbah - The ʿĪds and Commemorating Our Heritage
    In a Friday Sermon at Baitul Ilm on September 23, 2016 Sayyid Sulayman Hassan reflected upon the nature of commemoration and how the Muslim holidays, the ʿĪds, help us transcend our personal lives' commemorations and anniversaries and link us to commemorations that remind us about the purpose of our creation.
    38 min
  • Interview - Sayyid Sistani and The Ethics Of War
    We live in a time when warfare is conducted with a level of violence unprecedented in human history. Cluster bombs are commonplace, and mass executions are so visible, they virtually disappear. In such circumstances, how can Muslims understand and live by a religion that calls to higher ideals, even as much of the Muslim world is being torn apart by violence in which their co-religionists are either perpetrators or victims of such atrocities?
    In this interview, Sayyid Sulayman Hassan Abidi discusses some of the main issues addressed in Sayyid Ali al-Sistani’s 2014 letter to the Iraqi forces battling ISIS. The issues range from what role warfare and violence have in Islam, to how one can derive and stay true to Islamic values and virtues during these conflicts. Sayyid Sulayman Hasan provides insight into these questions and more, gleaning from both the verses of the Qur’an and the lives and words of the Ahl al-Bayt.
    Autumn 2015
    40 min
  • Interview - Imamic and Scholastic Knoweldge with S. Sulayman
    In accordance with the Imāmī Shīʿī interpretation of Islam, the Prophet Muḥammad (ṣ) was succeeded by divinely appointed successors from among his progeny, the Imāms of the Ahl al-Bayt. These Imāms guided the Muslim community by infallibly preserving and disseminating the teachings of Islam. During the 9th century C.E., however, the Twelfth Shīʿī Imām (a) went into a state of absence.
    Azhar Sheraze sat down with Sayyid Sulayman Hassan to discuss some of the intellectual ramifications of this absence, and the requirements and limits of scholarship in relation to Imāmic knowledge.
    Interview Questions Authored by Naveed Ganjani and Azhar Sheraze. Multimedia Directed by Huda Abdul-Razzak
    Winter 2014
    31 min
  • Interview - Devotional Theology with Shaykh Vinay Khetia
    Trenton Carl interviews Shaykh Vinay Khetia about his his Ph.D thesis work at McMaster University on Devotional Theology - the duʿāʾ and ziyārāt of the Ahl al-Bayt.
    In this interview, he introduces his educational background before elaborating on his research. Of particular interest is his explanation of the history and focus of scholastic commentaries on Shīʿī devotional literature. He explains that this process perhaps started in the 13th century with Sayyid ibn Ṭāwūs, expanded in the Safavid era, and has continued through to the contemporary period. He also provides the names of contemporary ʿulamaʾ who have written on the duʿāʾ of the Imāms, and the academic scholars and ʿulamaʾ that he is working with to complete his thesis.
    21 min

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Al-Sidrah is a web publication published by the Ahl al-Bayt Islamic Seminary, an institution which aims to train Islamic scholars who are fully conversant in both traditional Islamic and modern scholarship.