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2.14.23

• Added "60% of Kafi is Weak" to Shia FAQs 

• Added the following documents to Recommended Reading 

  • Sayyed Sistani on Reason and Sharia

  • Sayyed Sistani on The Verse of Ikmal al Din

  • Answer to the Problem of Evil - HakiNinth

  • Sayyid Abu Al Hassan - What is the meaning of the Quranic Ayah:  “There is no compulsion in religion” (2:256) - Firespin

  • Quranic Verses Compilation List - Anonymous

1.18.23

• Changed "Philosophy" to "Miscellaneous Articles"

• Added "Not Every Question is a Good Question" to Miscellaneous Articles 

• Added the following documents to Recommended Reading 

  • Was the Quran Revealed All at Once? - HakiNinth

  • Imam Khomeini’s Fearless Attack on Muhaddith Nuri’s Scholarship

  • Sayyed Sistani on Evaluating the Impact of Taqiyya (Dissimulation) On Shi’i Narrations

  • Divisions of a Day: Reconstructed Narration 

  • A Glossary of Shiite Methodology of Jurisprudence - Alireza Hodaee

1.5.23

• Added Ritual and Spiritual Purity - Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi to Recommended Reading 

• Fixed a small goof in Site Updates

• Added "The assumption that everything is tahir until it is proven otherwise" to Shia FAQs 

• Made edits to "Gelatine and Investigating Ingredients"

1.4.23

• Added "Hadiths of the A’imma Reading the Minds of Their Companions Miraculously" to Hadiths 

• Added the following documents to Recommended Reading

  • Khums Guide

  • Clarification on Exempting a Debtor from Khums

  • Do You Pray Like Imam Sadiq? 

  • Greater Sins - Sayyid Abdul Husayn Dastghaib Shirazi (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

  • Khums: Islamic Tax - Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi

• Added a "Fiqh Copy Pastes" section to Shia FAQs and added Gelatine and Investigating Ingredients to Shia FAQs

1.3.23

• Added the following documents to Recommended Reading:

  • Sahih Hadith Nabawi - Hamza al Amili

  • Sayyed Sistani on the Prophet's Legislative Authority (Part 2)

  • Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence - Allamah Hilli

  • Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Islamic Jurisprudence - Robert M Gleave

  • Kamalludin Wal Tamaman al Ni'ma (Part 1) (Part 2)

12.30.22

• Added the document Usul al-A’immah - HakiNinth, to Shia and Recommended Reading and gave it a highly recommended designation

12.28.22

• Added the document: "Proving the Oppression that occurred to Sayyida Fatima al Zahraa’ (as)" to Shia 

12.22.22

• Added Telegram channel, t.me/zurarah_updates, where subscribers can receive notifications on the latest site updates

• "Applications on How to do Tahqiq of a Chain" was originally in five parts, and was consolidated into one post "Usul al Rijal - Sayyed Shubayri Zanjani, Translated by HakiNinth" in Recommended Reading

• Updated the description in Recommended Reading

• Removed Guest Posts from site view (though it is still accessible via link), and moved the Guest Post Application to the bottom of Recommended Reading 

12.21.22

• Added TAQWA to My Friends

• Added "Important Blogs and YouTube Channels" to Recommended Reading, and added the following:

  • Shiiticstudies

  • IqraOnline

  • PurifiedTruth

• Copied all of articles from Guest Posts to Recommended Reading

• Indicated "highly recommended" articles in Recommended Reading by highlighting them in boldface

• Added the following to Recommended Reading:

  • Why the First Cause Must be God - Robert Koons

  • I'tiqadat - Sheikh Saduq

  • Tashihul I'tiqadat - Sheikh Mufid

  • Islamic Rulings of Food and Drink (IMAM-US)

12.17.22

• Guest Posts will soon be merged into Recommended Reading, and readings will be given their own description

• Added the following articles in Recommended Reading:

  • Kitab al Irshad al Saghir

  • Proof that Imam Ali (AS) Was the Foremost in Knowledge After the Prophet (SAW)

• Added the following documents in Guest Posts:

  • Guide to Types of Hadith - Hamza al Amili [Explanation of Hadith jargon]

  • Sahih Hadith al Qudsi - Hamza al Amili

  • Prophets in the Quran - Hamza al Amili

  • Guidance: Qur'an's Methodology - HakiNinth

  • Eid of 9th Rabi al Awwal - HakiNinth

10.26.22 

• Site Updates created; 

• Added the following documents in Recommended Reading: 

• The Application of the Rijali Methodology - Sayyed Ali Abul Hasan;

• Al Sahih Wal Mu'tabar (Authentic and Accepted Hadiths About Imam Mahdi);

• Ramadan or Month of Ramadan? - Hasan al Qadri; 

• Al Sahih Wal Mu'tabar - 40 [Authentic] Hadith on Imam Mahdi; 

• Imam Sadiq and the Ghulat - Selim Salhab;

• Predictions in Hadith - Contemporary Doubts About Imam Mahdi - Al Baheth;

• Imami Aqida in One Answer by Shaykh Saduq;

• Doctrines of Shi'i Islam - Ja'far Subhani;

• Trends of History in the Qur'an - Shaheed al Sadr