The Shīʻahs (Shiite Muslims, Shia) acknowledge the five obligatory daily prayers. However, they frequently combine the Zuhr and ‘Asr prayers by offering them consecutively during the time period defined by the start of Zuhr and the end of ‘Asr. They also consider it permissible to combine the Maghrib and ‘Isha prayers in a similar manner.

Francis Fukuyama, well-known American political scientist, has predicted the end of the US hegemony, which Washington is not likely to regain it, nor should it aspire to.

On October 5, 1965, Imam Khomeini was sent from Turkey to the second exile, Iraq. With the establishment of the Imam in Najaf, a new chapter of the struggle against the Pahlavi regime began. In return, the regime sought a royal show of strength to crack down more strongly on the activities of the Imam and his followers. The first attempt to do so was the occupation and looting of the Faizieh school in Qom. The attack on the Imam's house in Qom and its inspection was another reaction of the regime. In another move, the regime arrested and deported several Imam's tuition officials. But these measures had no effect on the process of struggle. The regime was forced to deport the Imam to a country like India in order to distance him from the people. The spread of this rumor provoked such a strong reaction among the people and the fighting forces that the regime stopped carrying it out.

The decision by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries to impose import restrictions on Lebanon comes at a critical time for the little country as it is facing its worst economic and financial crisis in modern history.

As the Syrian crisis reached the end of a devastating war, Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad called for the withdrawal of US and Turkish troops from Syria in a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York lately, asking what the American troops have to do on the Syrian territories.

While finally admitting the drone strike against Daesh-K terrorists actually killed civilians and children, the Pentagon won’t punish anyone, because these things aren’t considered war crimes when the US does it.

The huge gathering of Hajj has the potential to greatly benefit the Islamic nation and even the world. However, like many other great phenomenon the Islamic-Abrahamic Hajj ceremony has been now and then subject to some deviation from its genuine path.

The Goharshad uprising was seriously suppressed by the Pahlavi regime. On this occasion, the following Op-Ed article attempts to locate the forceful removal and banning of hijab by Reza Khan Pahlavi in a (post)colonial context.

One of the declared goals of the United Nations is to maintain international peace and security and spare the world the scourge of wars, but under the pressure of imperialism and the unipolar regime led by America and behind it the Jewish lobbies,...

My father was a well-known religious scholar who was very pious and a bit of a recluse. We had a difficult life. I remember that sometimes, we didn’t have anything in the house for dinner at night.

As every loved leader, Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s source of power comes from his supporters, this time the confession is made by Zionist media.

Islamic civilization, which filled the gap between the ancient civilizations and modern Western civilization, is one of the most developed civilizations with regards to attention it has shown to science, philosophy and literature, and ultimately served as a foundation for much of Western civilization’s later achievements.

The great Islamic Revolution of Iran occurred under the leadership of Imam Khomeini and with the widespread presence of people against internal tyranny and foreign domination and brought Iranians independence, freedom and movement in the direction of creating a new Islamic civilization. Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution has had many causes and effects.

Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United States joined forces to pressure Jordan's King Abdullah II to partake in the US-sponsored "normalization deals" with Tel Aviv, according to the Washington Post.

The reappearance of Imam al-Mahdi (AJ), like the original appearance of Islam itself, will instigate revolutionary changes in the world. In particular, his movement will challenge the modern “Age of Ignorance” that has witnessed a revival in the pre-Islamic values associated with women.