Iraqi religious leaders denounced ISIS violence, emphasized its impact on all religious communities, supported justice for victims and survivors and ensured unity in the fight against the terror group militarily and intellectually
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How Faith Helped Build Resistance Against, Defeat ISIS
The Iraqi clergy effectively tapped into the doctrine of martyrdom in the fight against ISIS by invoking the Battle of Karbala in which the Prophet's grandson Hussain and 72 of his companions and family members laid down their lives resisting an unjust ruler
Ahl al-Bayt: Bearers Of Prophet Muhammad’s Light
Ahl al-Bayt (people of the Prophet Muhammad's household) are known as nur-e-Muhammadi, or the bearers of his light, as well as his trustees ‘privy to his esoteric and religious knowledge'
How Shia-Sunni Bridge-Building Worked In Face Of ISIS Threat
Successes against ISIS would have been impossible without national unity when the bloody civil war deepened Shia-Sunni fissures
How Association With Corrosive Power Mutated Idea Of Sufism
The idea of 'Sufism', which in its present form has little to do with saints and their teachings, has long mutated with the association of those helming shrines purely by virtue of heredity with corrosive power, patronage, and vanity