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IMAM JA`FAR AL-SADIQ   The sixth Imam in the line of the Twelve Imams descended from the Prophet Muhammad, Imam Ja`far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq (702–765 C.E. or 17th Rabi` al-Awwal 83 AH – 15th Shawwal 148 AH) was the founder of the Ja`fari School of Islamic Law and a renowned...

This eBook is Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri's commentary on the third chapter of the Qur'an: The Family of `Imran. Surat 'Ale-`Imran is one of the most comprehensive and detailed chapters of the Qur'an. It demonstrates the meaning of hypocrisy, courage and belief, using the historical setting of...

Commentaries on four chapters of the Qur'an: 1. Chapter 29: The Spider (Surat Al-'Ankabut) 2. Chapter 55: The Beneficent (Surat Al-Rahman) 3. Chapter 56: The Great Event (Surat Al-Waqi'ah) 4. Chapter 67: The Kingdom (Surat Al-Mulk) These four chapters from the...

For the serious seeker of Reality, the way to this transcendent knowledge has been clearly indicated by the Prophet: "Whoever knows himself, knows his Lord". Coming to know the inner landscape of the human self is one of the essential foundations for progress on the path of knowledge. This...

COLLECTED BY SHAYKH FADHLALLA HAERI TRANSLATED BY ASADULLAH AD-DHAAKIR YATE Imam `Ali, who was a cousin of the Prophet Muhammad, was the first man to accept Islam, when he was still a young boy, and for the next twenty-three years he was one of the Prophet's closest companions. Imam...

The primal design of human beings is based on an intrinsic knowledge of perfection and its yearning and journeying towards it. Life's experience is based on polarities and opposites, all of which is founded on a zone of constancy that does not change. All needs and desires are drives toward the perfection...

This book is written for anyone interested in the basic message and purpose of the Qur'an and its historical and religious framework. It highlights the important issues and topics of the Qur'an. The Qur'an connects life on earth to its sacred essence and heavenly source which encompasses whatever...

This book consists of all 12 lessons of the Academy of Self Knowledge's Course TWO – The Prophetic Revealed Path. It's been renamed to The Prophetic Way of Life and published as an eBook. After discovering the map of the self, we learn here how the code of ethics that govern religious practice...

The Qur'an traces the journey of all creation explicitly and implicitly, seeing the physical, biological and geological voyage of life as paralleled by the inner spiritual evolution of man. Bringing together the meanings and derivations of individual words, the author reveals vibrant images which...

SONGS OF IMAN ON THE ROADS OF PAKISTAN is a series of talks given by Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri during a tour of the country in 1982. Shaykh Fadhlalla speaks out on the central theme of the conflict between the pursuit of Western technologic and materialistic goals and a spiritual way of life promising...

Surat Ya Sin is the heart of the Qur'an (qalb al-Qur'an). It is the chapter (surah) of the Qur'an which is read over the dead; therefore it is a chapter of great importance to the living. Should one seek to know the meaning of life, one must experience death, for man has come from the non-physical...

This eBook combines Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri's commentary on the first and the second chapters of the Qur'an. Surat al-Fatihah is placed at the beginning of the Qur'an because it signifies the opening of knowledge and so the victory over ignorance. If, in the direction we are taking, there is...

The original edition of this commentary was published some twenty years ago. It was a result of teachings and talks with the objective of exploring the deeper meanings of the Divine revelations. The emphasis had been on the key Qur'anic terms and the subtle facets and connotations of Arabic words....

Free will or determinism has been the frequent topic of philosophical debate from the early civilizations right through to the present day. Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri shows how according to Islamic thought the answers to this important question lie in understanding two inseparable spheres of consciousness:...