Reciting Kalema on the Death Bed
Reading Time: 2 minutes Shaikh Bahai states in his book ‘Kashkol’ that there was a person who had spent his entire life in pleasures and luxuries of this world. […]
Love of the world
One Morsel and Selling One’s Faith
Reading Time: < 1 minute Fadhl Ibn Rabi’ relates: Once, Sharik Ibn Abdullah Nakhai’ arrived before Mahdi Abbasi, the third Abbasid Caliph, who said to him: You must accept to perform one of […]
Talhah And Zubair’s Love for the World
Reading Time: 2 minutes Talhah and Zubair had been of the elders during the initial phase of Islam and had extended fitting contributions in the battles. After the death […]
Dhul Qarnain
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dhul Qarnain8, during the course of his journey, reached Dhulumat, where he came across a palace in which he noticed a youth standing there dressed […]
The Inventor of a Religion and Repentance
Reading Time: 2 minutes Imam Sadiq (as) related: “In ancient times there lived a man who sought to earn his livelihood and procure great wealth by lawful means but […]
The Kingdom of Rey or Killing the Imam
Reading Time: 2 minutes Yazid instructed his governor, ‘Ubaidullah Ibn Ziyad, that if Husain (as) refused to pledge allegiance, he should fight the Imam (as). Prior to the incident […]
Zakaat from Tha’labah Ansaari not Accepted
Reading Time: 3 minutes Once, Tha’labah Ibn Haatib Ansaari approached the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.) and beseeched: “O’ Prophet of God! Pray to God that He grants me wealth and riches.” “Little […]
Qaroon and Prophet Musa
Reading Time: 2 minutes Prophet Musa (a.s.), in the course of propagating his religion, had to face severe adversity and hardship from the likes of Firo’un, Bala’m, Bao’ora and […]
Sa’ad and the Holy Prophet
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the companions of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.), by the name of Sa’d, was very poor and was regarded as one of the People […]