Protect oneself from gheebat (back biting)
Reading Time: < 1 minute Traditions inform us that a respected person complained to Hazrat Ilyas (a.s.) and Hazrat Khizr (a.s.) that people were doing too much back biting and […]
Greater Sins ( Gunah e Kabeera)
The Oppressions of Harun Rashid upon the Ahlulbayt (as)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Harun’s tyrannical soul had neither mercy nor compassion toward the ‘Alawids, for he committed the most horrible crime history has recorded against them. He ordered […]
Yazid Bin ‘Abd al-Malik – the Umayyad Oppressor
Reading Time: 2 minutes Yazid b. ‘Abd al-Malik devoted himself to wine and songstresses; he was called the dissolute of the Umayyads; he fell in love with two of […]
Bishr Al Hafi
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bishir al-Hafi, who drank wine, spent his nights and days in impudence and prostitution. The Imam passed by Bishir’s house in Baghdad. He heard the […]
By Allah! If you had been a true god you would not have been lying in a well tied to a dead dog.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Ansar had thirst for Islam and its sublime and invigorative programme, and in order to purify Madina of all traces of polytheism and idol-worship […]
Wine Stops Him from Islam
Reading Time: 2 minutes A’asha was one of the great poets of the Age of Ignorance and his verses were quoted in the assemblies of Quraysh. He heard about […]
Buring the Daughters Alive – Qays bin Asim
Reading Time: 3 minutes The first people who resorted to the practice of burying their daughters were the tribe named Bani Tamim. No’man bin Munzir, the ruler of Iraq, […]
The Greater Sins ( Gunahane Kabeera)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Musa bin Ja’far said, ‘Once, Amr bin Ubayd came to Abu Abdullah (as-Sadiq) (a.s). When he offered greeting and took a seat, he recited this […]
Judgements of Imam Ali Naqi (as)
Reading Time: 2 minutes 1. Al-Mutawakkil had a Christian clerk who was preferable by him. Because he loved him too much he surnamed him as Abu Noah. Some other […]
Hazrat Musa (as) and Shaitaan
Reading Time: < 1 minute It is mentioned in a reliable tradition that one day Musa was sitting when Satan appeared before him wearing a multicolored cap. He took off […]