according to the free will principle, man is responsible for his actions and will be punished accordingly. therefore, acting against the law of shari’a in islam leads to punishment and in islamic jurisprudence there are prefixed punishments for many crimes called “hadd”. but there are some elements like repentance that extinguish “hadd”, so that the criminal will be forgiven and excused. concen...

Background and Objectives: Self-confidence, referring to relying on and exploiting individual abilities and talents for realizing spiritual and material prosperity, not only contradicts but is in agreement with and a prerequisite for faith in God. Practically, the greater faith in God one has, the more potent self-confidence he /she possess. Investigating the subject of self-confidence from the...

in some islamic narrations (ahadith) it is prohibited to postpone the performance of had (prescribed punishment). by analyzing the content of these narrations, this article concludes that they are not specifically related to hodoud in its idiomatic sense, i.e. prescribed punishments as opposed to ta’zir(discretionary punishment). indeed all punishments must be certain and performed in a reasona...

adaption of metaphor and allusion has been always considered as the most valuable literary representations and seved as an appropriate device for benchmarking versification potential in poets. as one of shiite poets, seyed hemyari who has devoted his verse for defense from al-ul-bayt (pbut) has benefitted successfully from rhetoric images in this field. despite of its simplicity and plainness i...

The paper analyzes different interpretations of riba and discovers that the main source of confusion about the concept has been misunderstanding of riba in hadith in general and riba in barter exchange with a time lag, hereafter called riba in barter loans, in particular. A majority of jurists has, so far, either overlooked riba in barter loans or has included it in the category of trivial riba...

knowing that suratul-fatihah, is the opener of salat (daily prayers), and is repeated 10 times at least, in daily prayers, the fiqhi commandment of assignment of “bismillahir-rahmanir-rahim” as a component of suratul-fatihah, is a functional and useful discussion. in this regard, we have to search to know if it has been part of prophet’s tradition or not and its denial is ijtihad against nass (...