Trustworthiness of Umm Salamah
Reading Time: 2 minutes When Imam Ali (a.s.) decided to move to Iraq and settle there, he handed his letters and testament to Umm Salamah, who in turn passed […]
Anecdotes for Reflection – Part 1
Jo’dah State of Disgrace and Humiliation
Reading Time: 2 minutes Imam Hasan (a.s.) was extremely good-looking, possessed great forbearance and generosity, and was very kind and affectionate towards the members of his family. After the […]
Desire for Martyrdom
Reading Time: 2 minutes A’mr Ibn Jamuh, an inhabitant of Madinah and from the tribe of Khazraj, was a generous and magnanimous person. The first time the people of Khazraj arrived in the presence […]
Prophet Isa and the Farmer
Reading Time: < 1 minute It is reported that once, Prophet Isa Ibn Maryam (a.s.) had been sitting and intently observing a farmer who, with a spade in hand, was […]
Reward of Reconciliation
Reading Time: 2 minutes Fudhail Ibn A’yyadh says: A distressed man once took some rope, which his wife had woven, to the market in order to sell it so as […]
Exercise Caution in Reconciliation
Reading Time: < 1 minute A’bd al-Malik says: There arose a dispute between Imam Baqir (a.s.) and some of the children of Imam Hasan (a.s.). I approached the Imam (a.s.) […]
The Order to Imam Sadiq (as) to Reconcile
Reading Time: < 1 minute Once, during the time of Imam Sadiq (a.s.), Abu Hanifah, the administrator of Hajjaaj, had a quarrel with his son-in-law over some inheritance. Mufadhdhal Ibn U’mar Kufi (one of […]
Hazrat Nuh (a.s.)
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hadhrat Nuh (a.s.) lived a very long and difficult life which resulted from his spending a lot of time among stout idol worshippers, attempting to […]
The Family of Yasir
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the initial period of Islam, a small and oppressed family of four embraced the religion. Each of them displayed an incredible degree of perseverance […]