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Signs for bulugh in male and female

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Question 414: Assalamun aleikum. What are the Signs for bulugh in male and female according to Shia and Sunni and other sects? How old for a boy to become baligh? Prayers and fasting to be wajib (obligations) for him? Is it 15 years?

Answer 414: According to Maraja’ (ha), the signs for bulugh are one of three things: a) Growth of coarse hair beneath the belly and above the reproductive organ. b) Seminal discharge c) The end of fifteen lunar years for males and nine lunar years for females.[1] Read More

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Satan Taste Death / Every Soul Must Taste of Death

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Question 217: Assalamu aleykum as it written or said innalillahi Wainnailyhi Rajiun. Shall Satan taste death as the rest of the creation will?

Answer 217: In the Holy Qur’an Allah (swt) says, “And certainly we created you, then we fashioned you, then we said to the angels, “Prostrate to Adam.” So they did prostrate, except Iblis; he was not of those who prostrated. He said, “What hindered you so that you did not prostrate when I commanded you?” He said, “I am better than he: Thou hast created me of fire, while him thou didst create of dust.” He said, “Then get forth from this (state), for it does not befit you to behave proudly therein. Go forth, therefore, surely you are of the abject ones.” Satan said, “Respite me until the day when they are raised up.”[1]

Allah (swt), the Almighty says: “So surely you are of the respited ones.” “Till the period of the time made known.”[2]

In some traditions there have been mentioned different interpretations regarding “The Time Made Known” as follows:

Some say, it means when this universe has ended and there will be no taklif (duty) for the human being. All creatures will be died on that day and Allah (swt) will be the only one who is the Ever living who dies not. In this regards, the Holy Qur’an says, “Everything is perishable but He.”[3]

Allama Tabatabaei said: the meaning of “The Time Made Known” is not the Day of Judgment nor the end of the universe when there is no duty. It is during the time when the universe still exist and everyone has Taklif.[4]

According to Tafseer al-Qummi, when Imam Sadiq (as) was asked by Muhammad bin Younes that “What is the interpretation of this following verse of the Holy Qur’an, “So surely you are of the respited ones; Till the period of the time made known?” The Imam (as) replied: “The Satan will be killed by the Holy Prophet (pbuh) on the stone of Baitul-muqaddas at the time made known.”[5]

In Tafseer Ayyashi it is mentioned that the Imam of the time (ajtf) will kill the Satan.[6]

Therefore, the Satan will be killed by the Holy Prophet (pbuh) or the Imam of the Time (ajtf) during the Rajah time, according to the previous mentioned traditions.[7] It is also said in the Holy Qur’an that “Every soul must taste of death then to us you shall be brought back.”[8]

For further information in this regards, please read the following answer:

Index:  Satans are chained during the Holy Month of Ramadan, answer 061.

Index: Quran says: Every Soul Shall Taste Death, answer 461.

[1] . Surah Aa’raf, verses 11-14.

[2] . Surah Hijr, verses 37-38; Tafseer Nemooneh, Vol. 6, Pg. 109.

[3] . Surah Qasas, verse 88.

[4] . Tafseer al-Mizan, Vol. 12, Pg. 258.

[5] . Tafseer al-Qummi, Vol. 1, Pg. 349.

[6] . Al-Borhan, Vol. 2, Pg. 343, Hadith 7; Ayyashi, Vol. 2, Pg. 242, H 14.

[7] . Rajah literally means ‘to return’, and in Islamic terms it refers to the return of certain people from the dead. These people may consist of dedicated believers and mushrik (polytheists) alike. It has been narrated that after the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam (ajtf) and the establishment his global Islamic government, prior to the Day of Judgment, certain individuals will be raised from their graves and brought back to this world.

[8] . Surah Al-‘Ankabut, verse 57; Surah Namibian verse 35; Surah Ale-Iran, verse 185. Therefore, the Satan will die.