What Should We Know About Islam?

About the Book

“Does this world have a Creator and God or has it been created by itself without any cause? If there is a God then what are His attributes and works? Does God assign an obligation for us, or are we not without some from of responsibility? Were the divine messengers truthful in their claims or not? Is it possible that after this world there exists another world whereby a human being would see reward or punishment for his/her deeds? The human faculty of reason in accordance with his primitive nature and special creation desires to find out about these realities, remove curtains from mysteries, provide correct answers to these inquiries and many more alike. It certainly possesses this distinction where it can distinguish between the truth and falsehood, naturally is inclined to discover the realities, causes of things, and until it rests upon an absolute certainly─it does not feel comfortable.”

About the Author

Sayyid Hussein Alamdar, PE, holds a MSCE from the University of South Carolina, at Columbia, South Carolina. He served Duke Power Company, Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1971 to 1982. In 1983, he was invited to join the Water and Power Co in Tehran, where he served as a project manager for hydroelectric projects until 2003. During his stay in Iran for twenty years (1983–2003), in addition to his engineering responsibilities, he was blessed with the divine grace of also attending Islamic seminary under the able tutorship of Ayatollah Seyed Mohammad Taqi Hakim Shooshtari and Hajj Aghai Ali Solemani Aashtiani in Tehran. He also founded the Ahl al-Bayt Islamic Cultural Services (AICS) of USA to accomplish the following exalted objectives to publish the Uloom & Mu’arif of Ahl al-Bayt (AS). It has been narrated that Imam al-Rida (A.S) has said to one of his followers, “May Allah bless the servant who keeps our vicegerency (vilayat) alive through publication of our learning (mu’arif) and knowledge (uloom).” Alamdar has translated the following books; some of them are also available on the internet at www.Al-Islam.org, Islamic Library Project of Stanford University California (USA). His translated books are also being published by the AuthorHouse of Bloomington, Indiana, USA, and are being marketed through Amazon.com and Barnes and Nobles as a hardcopy, softcopy, and kindle book. 1. Self Building (Khud Sazi wa Tahzib wa Tazkiyeh Nafs): Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini 2. Truth and Falsehood: Martyr Ayatollah Murtaza Mutaheri (RA) 3. Discourse of Patience: Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenie 4. Profundities of the Prayer: Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei 5. Spiritual Journeys of the Mystics (Saluk-e-Arifan): Grand Ayatollah Malaki Tabrizi (RA) 6. Etiquette of the Holy Month of Ramadan: Grand Ayatollah Malaki Tabrizi (RA) 7. Radiance of Vicegerency (Frooghe-e-Vilayat): Grand Ayatollah J'afar Sobhanie 8. Shi'i Replies to Wahabi Questions: Grand Ayatollah J'afar Sobhanie 9. The Story of Karbala: Ayatollah Ali Nazari Munfarid 10. How to Bridge the Generation Gap: Ayatollah Seyed Muhammad Taqi Hakim 11. Imam al-Zain al-A’abedin (AS): Seyed Munthir Hakim 12. Imam al-Baqir (AS): Seyed Munthir Hakim 13. Biography of Ash Sharif ar-Radi: Muhammad Ibrahim Nejad 14. History of the Holy Mosque of Jamkaran 15. Translation of the Death-Will (Vasiyat Nameh) of Grand Ayatollah Seyed Muhammad Rida Golpaygani 16. Every Must Know (Hame Bayad Bedanand): Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini 17. Fatimeh al-Zahra (SA): Seyed Munthir Hakim 18. Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (AS): Seyed Munthir Hakim