Supplicating for Rain
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnce, during the time of Prophet Dawud (a.s), a famine struck. The people selected thri of their scholars, who procided outside the city to pray […]
Month: December 2013
Repelling Calamities – Ziyarat e Ashura
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe late Ayatullah Al-Hajj Sheikh Abdul Karim Haeri, the founder of the Hawzah Ilmiyyah of Qum recounts: “During the time when I was engaged in […]
Congregational Supplication
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHafs Ibn Umar Bajalli relates: “Once, I complained to Imam Sadiq (a.s) about my abject financial condition and the dismal state of life whereupon he […]
The Supplication of Mashlul
Reading Time: 3 minutesImam Husain (a.s) narrates: “One dark night, my father and I were engaged in circumambulating the house of Allah when our attention was drawn towards […]
Behlool and the Thief
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhenever Buhul happened to have money in excess of his expenses, he used to save it by concealing it in one corner of a ruined […]
The Bedouin’s Camel
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSheikh Tawoos al-Haramain narrates: “I had been standing near Masjid al-Haram in Makkah when I witnessed a Bedouin advancing on his camel. When he reached […]
The Imam and the Thief’s Confession
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA person approached Imam ‘Ali (as) and confessed that he had committed a theft. “Are you able to recite something from the Noble Qur’an?” Imam […]
Zainab the Great Liar
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the caliphate of Mutawakkil ‘Abbasi, a woman claimed that she was Zainab, the daughter of Fatimah Al-Zahra (as). “Years have passed since the time […]
Hunger and Lies
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAsma Bint ‘Umais, reported: “On the night of ‘Aishah’s marriage with the Noble Prophet (S), a few ladies and I were with her, dressing her […]
Walid Ibn ‘Uqbah
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAbi Mu’eet Walid Ibn ‘Uqbah was a Muslim who initially appeared to be such a righteous individual that the Noble Prophet (S) even assigned him […]