“O Haaris! Do you know what this conch say?”
Reading Time: 2 minutesAccording to authentic chains Haaris Aawar has narrated: One day I was going to the city of Heerah with Amir al-Mu’minin ‘Ali. By chance we came across a church wherein […]
03 HAZRAT IMAM ALI (AS)
“O ‘Ali, your status and example is like Zakariyya
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to Imam al-Baqir, ‘Ali asked Fatimah for food. Fatimah said that by Allah, she had nothing to give since three days. Imam asked, why she did not inform him. […]
“Maat ud Deen” (meaning religion is dead)
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt is recorded from Imam al-Baqir that one day ‘Ali entered the mosque. Suddenly a young man approached him weeping. He was surrounded by a big mob of people who […]
“Have you ever seen a friend putting to death a friend?”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmir al-Mu’minin ‘Ali says that when Allah desired to take away the soul of Ibrahim He sent the Angel of death. “As salaamo A’laika Ya Ibrahim” said the Angel of death. “Wa […]
“This is not a proximate angel, nor a Messenger, it is the brother of the Messenger of Allah”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnce the Messenger of Allah emerged holding the hand of ‘Ali and called out, “O Ansar, O sons of Hashim! O sons of Abdul Muttalib! I am Muhammad the Messenger […]
Who is Superior, ‘Ali or the proximate Angels?”
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt is mentioned in the Tafsir of Imam Al-Hasan al-’Askari that some hypocrites asked the Holy Prophet, who is superior, ‘Ali or the proximate Angels?” The Messenger of Allah said, […]
Hazrat Yunus (as) and Hazrat Ali (as)
Reading Time: 2 minutesAbu Hamza Thumali has narrated that one day ‘Abdullah bin Umar approached Imam Zayn al-‘abidin and said, “You say that “My grandfather ‘Ali ’s Wilayah was presented to Yunus but […]
The People of the Cave
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is narrated that Imam Muhammad al-Baqir said and others have also related from reliable chains, especially Thalabi in his tafsir that one day the holy Prophet, after performing his […]
“O Abul hasan! I do not think anybody except you knows the answers to these questions.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesIbn al-Babawayh and al-Qutb al-Rawandi have through their chains quoted from Ibn ‘Abbas that during the caliphate of the second caliph a group of Jewish clergy came to them and […]
Dua e Kumayl
Reading Time: < 1 minuteImam Ali [a] was sitting with a group of his companions. One of them asked him about the explanation of the following Holy Verse: Therein every wise affair is made […]