Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Al-Hakeem receives a Sufi group from the UK

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Al-Hakeem receives a Sufi group from the UK
2020/01/03

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammed Saeed Al-Hakeem received a Sufi group from the UK on Thursday, 2nd January 2020. He advised that the Muslims in all nations across the world to increase the dialogue, cooperation and affection amongst each other. He emphasized the importance of unity, through entrenching the commonalities and strengthening them.

His Eminence narrated to his guests the narration of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his progeny): “Compassion has not been placed in something, but that it adorns it; and foolishness has not been placed in anything, but that it causes it disgrace.”

His Eminence called all Muslims to act upon the straight path shown by the Holy Quran and the teachings of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his progeny), with beautiful ethics, taking the Prophet as an example in how he was able to establish his personality amongst the polytheists, with his beautiful etiquettes and ethics.

Day Questions

Why are the Zoroastrians people of the book?

Some narrations indicated that they used to have a godly message but was altered by misguided people.

Can my brother and I pray in congregation together, just the two of us? What qualities must one of us have to lead the other?

Yes, it is permissible to do so. One of the descriptions of the imam of the congregational prayer is adalah, which means observance of the religious rulings and not breaking them. If a person committed a sin by which he is no longer considered adil, but he repented after that and decided to refrain from committing the sin again, then he can be considered adil again. Also, the imam's recitation of the two chapters of the Quran in the first two rak'as should be correct and according to Arabic grammar.

Sometimes I get marriage invitations from non-Muslim or non-Shia friends in the month of Safar before 20th Safar (Arba’een). Could you please advise whether we can attend weddings during these days?

These days are days of sadness and mourning for the Shia because of the tragedies that befell the Ahlulbait in this period of the year.