They Should Witness the Wisdom!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteProphet Musa (a.s) came across a poor person who, due to his abject poverty, lay bare-bodied on the desert sand. When he (a.s) came nearer, the person requested: “O’ Musa! […]
Anecdotes for Reflection – Part 3
The Woman who Remembered Allah
Reading Time: 2 minutesSayyidah Nafisah, the daughter of Hasan Ibn Zaid Ibn Hasan al-Mujtaba (a.s)) married Ishaq Mutamin, the pious and virtuous son of Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s). She was of the rare […]
Remembering the Beloved while in Comfort
Reading Time: 2 minutesAllah had granted immense bounties to Prophet Ayyub (a.s) such that it has been reported that he possessed five hundred pairs of bulls for ploughing his fields and hundreds of […]
The Poor Ones Question the Noble Prophet
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome of the poor persons of Madinah approached the Noble Prophet (s.a.w) and said to him: “The affluent ones perform acts of goodness like freeing slaves, giving charity, performing the […]
Remembering Allah when Confronting the Enemy
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Noble Prophet (s.a.w) had started out for a battle and on the way ordered his army to halt. In order to relieve himself, he distanced himself from his forces […]
Religion-Selling by Samurah
Reading Time: 2 minutesSamurah Ibn Jundab was of the inhabitants of Basrah. After his father’s death, he accompanied his mother to Madinah, where she married Mary Ibn Shaiban – a companion of the […]
The Religiousness of Abu Ja’far Husaini
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAbu Ja’far Muhammad Husaini6 – whose lineage reached Imam Husain (a.s) through four generations – was a jurist and a pious and ascetic person, who had revolted against Mutasam – the […]
The Religiousness of the Learned One from Dizful
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt the time of his death, Sheikh Murtadha Ansari – having become the highest-ranking religious authority, with notable popularity and profundity in the Methodology and Science of Islamic Jurisprudence – […]
Religion is Dead
Reading Time: 2 minutesImam ‘Ali (a.s) was passing by a place where a group of children were engaged in play. However, there was one boy who was not playing with them but stood […]
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 for rain. The first of […]