Sheikh Mateen Charbonneau

Author: Sheikh Mateen Charbonneau

Sheikh Mateen Charbonneau is of French-Canadian descent. He was born in the United States to a Christian family, and later chose to convert to Shi’a Islam in 1999 at the age of 17, having studied both faiths. He started studying Islamic Seminary classes (Howza) in March 2013 at Imam Ali Center in Springfield, Virginia and studied abroad in Najaf al-Ashraf and Karbala and received his ‘amama (turban) from the esteemed marja’ Ayatollah Sayed Muhammad Taqi al-Modaressi in 2018. He earned a certificate from Harvard University in Islamic Studies, has filmed many documentaries about his journey to Islam, authored several books, taught in the Islamic Seminary (Howza), and is the founder of the nonprofit organization 2nd Chance Books (2014). He has lectured throughout the United States and various other countries spreading the message of Ahl ul Bayt (as). Since 2022 he has been residing in Antalya, Türkiye where he is the resident scholar of the local community and continuing his work with 2nd Chance Books.

August 8, 2016April 24, 2016 Sheikh Mateen Charbonneau Ahadith

Imam Baqir (as) said “If people come to know what (evil) lies in begging, no one will beg from the other and if the one who is begged from knows the evil of rejecting the one who begs, nobody will turn down anyone’s request.”[i]

[i] TUHFUL AQOOL, P300

August 7, 2016April 24, 2016 Sheikh Mateen Charbonneau Ahadith

Imam Baqir (as) said “The one who teaches one chapter of guidance to the people will have the reward similar to all those who would act upon it and nothing would be lessened and subtracted from the reward of those who practice it. And the one who teaches a chapter of misguidance, he will have the burden (wrath) similar to each one who acts upon it and nothing will be lessened from their burden of sin (wrath of Allah).”[i]

[i] TUHFUL AQOOL, P 297

August 6, 2016April 24, 2016 Sheikh Mateen Charbonneau Ahadith

Imam Baqir (as) said “Heaven is surrounded by unpleasantness and patience. So, the one who remains patient over its unpleasantness’ in the world, enters the paradise. And the hell is surrounded by pleasures and lusts. So the one who allows (gives) himself its pleasures and lustful desires enters the hell fire.”[i]

[i] USOOL AL KAFI VOL 2, P 89

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