“Oh, Allah, You are my only trust in every calamity. You are my only hope in every hardship. You are the only promise in anxiety and distress, in which hearts become weak and (human) action becomes slight, whereby one is deserted and forsaken by his own friends, and the enemies take malicious pleasure and rejoice at his misfortunes. Oh, Allah, I submit myself to You. My complaint is to You alone against my enemies, and to You alone is my desire and request. Who else other than You can relieve me from grief? You alone are the custodian of every blessing and the master of every excellence and the last resort for every desire.”

—the prayer of the Imam-Husayn (AS) on the Day of Ashura

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