Sheikh al-Mufid wrote nearly 194 books and treatises, out of which few have survived passage of time, and meticulously planned destruction of the Shia resources. Among the surviving ones, we have his Al-Amaali, which is also known as Al-Majaalis. His student al-Najashi has mentioned it as Al-Amaali Al-Mutafarriqaat. These were sessions held in the month of Ramadhan where al-Mufid read the traditions giving the chain of narration ending up to him and the students wrote them down. Those who were absent wrote down from the recording of their colleagues, and then got it ratified by reading the...

Man instinctively desires to have an understanding of the life Hereafter, i.e. the life after death and the state of the Barzakh (the interval between death and resurrection), which we all have to face. Knowledge of "Barzakh" is required because Barzakh is completely different from this world. So man wishes to know how his present lifestyle and his activities here will affect his life in the Barzakh. Certain questions rise in his mind, like: what sort of people will he encounter there? What kind of beings live there? Do eating, drinking, sleeping, waking friendship, enmity etc, exist there,...

No book no explanation nor any mind can ever explain or comprehend the luminous soul that was created from God's glory and splendour, that is Hazrateh Fatemah Zahra (sa). One can never compare the respectable mother of the infallible Imam's (as) or Hazrateh Fatemah Zahra (sa) to other women in history even if they are learned scholars and hold a high spiritual status, because even before her existance God ordered his holy messenger (sawa), who already beheld a high spiritual position, to spend forty days praying and gaining spiritual purification. Soon after, a beautiful heavenly fruit was...