#shi'a

[thatshowthingstarted]

'The Mogul Mughal' 

The rectangular-cut emerald weighing 217.80 carats.

the obverse engraved with Shi'a invocations in elegant naskh script, dated 1107 A.H (1695–1696 AD).

The reverse carved all over with foliate decoration, the central rosette flanked by single large poppy flowers, with a line of three smaller poppy flowers either side, the bevelled edges carved with cross pattern incisions and herringbone decoration, each of the four sides drilled for attachments,

2.06 by 1.56 by 1.56 inches (5.2 by 4.0 by 4.0 cm).

[ibn-agim]

Al Imām Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal said,

"Whoever does not affirm the Khilāfah for 'Ali (رضي الله عنه),

then he is more misguided than the donkey of his family.

[اعتقاد الأئمة الأربعة ص٧١]

[acomradea]

As someone who is Zaidi, it is so weird to understand that the only thing people around me know about Zaidia is that it is "what those terrorists in Yemen follow" like they are some scary foreign sect of Muslims which doesn't line up with my experience at all.

Lol like hello right here! I'm not shooting rockets in Yemen, I'm scraping the ice off my windshield asking you "how ya doin there! Pretty chilly today eh?"

Also the Houthi are an ethnic group who happen to make up a large number of the rebels but not all Houthi are rebels and not all rebels are Houthi, they aren’t a terrorist group and it's weird when people pretend like they are. And before you ask, I'm not a Houthi.

[thelamentingsoul]

In the name of He who created this world and its beauty from nothingness.

[alienturnipp]

Birthday gift for a beloved someone

[lover-of-ar-rahmaan]

Be Taha 3 به طاها - Hasten In My Youth By Ali Fani - English Subtitles I love listening to this when I feel sad and especially distant from Imam Zaman (ajfs)

[sraliz]

Zainab must now live in a world without her father, But how tremendous are her calamities That first she must lose her brother, Then watch her children’s slaughter, Then see her moon cut in two, Then witness the death of another sun, Before we may cry, “Zainab’s tragedy has begun!”

[lionofchaeronea]

Finial (steel inlaid with gold) with the Arabic inscription “Ya, Da’im” (“Oh, Everlasting!”)  Artist unknown, probably from Iran; 17th century.  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.