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Featured Article: The Glow of Embers By Fatema Kahil As the last of the fire withered away, there remained, in a pile of gray ashes, a lonely branch, fractured, and charred a death black. From beneath the burnt bark, volcanic rivers flickered and flashed, like midnight lightning in the horizon, quiet and menacing. Swiftly, the axeman crashed his axe through the branch, bifurcating it. An explosion of embers erupted and swirled into the moonless night sky revealing the mysteries of the dark. In an era of great ignorance and obscurity, there existed an axeman, a man who through great modesty and intelligence, ruptured and split open knowledge, scattering enlightenment on the pious and on those who seeked to respond to the request of the exalted. It is he who spread understanding and light on the population, just as the fragments of embers lit the night sky and revealed the unseen. A man whose name meant to rupture and split, Imam Muhammad Al Baqir (as) the fifth Imam of twelve, was acclaimed for his vast knowledge and leadership expertise in all matters. It is only through his educated footsteps that we are able to erase society’s ills today, just as he was able to do so many years before. Read the entire article . . . .
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