Hameed Ibn Qahtabah Taai
Reading Time: 3 minutesAbdullah Ibn Bazzaaz narrates: Hameed and I were known to each other. One day at the time of Dhuhr of the month of Ramadhan and dressed to travel, I went […]
Anecdotes for Reflection Part 4
The Expiation of Sins
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the Prophets of Bani Israel happened to pass by a person, who had died under a collapsed wall and who was in a state such that half of […]
Prophet Isa and Praying for the Rains
Reading Time: < 1 minuteProphet Isa (peace be upon him) and his companions came out of the city and into the deserts to pray for the rains. There he (peace be upon him) said […]
The Banishment of the Sinners
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere lived in the tribe of Bani Israel a licentious and sinning person, whose sinning and evil ways had left the people disturbed and exasperated as a result of which […]
Thirty Five Years of Weeping!
Reading Time: 2 minutesImam Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: The fourth Imam (peace be upon him) wept for his father for around forty years, the days of which he used to remain in […]
The Intense Weeping of Hadhrat Zahra (sa)
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe loss of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his holy progeny), the sacrilege committed in connection with Wilayah and the injurious blows (to her) caused Hadhrat Zahra (peace be […]
Prophet Yahya (as)
Reading Time: 2 minutesProphet Yahya (peace be upon him) once came to Bayt al-Maqdas and witnessed some clerics and priests wearing coarse garments and woolen caps. He requested his mother to arrange for him a similar […]
Prophet Nuh (as)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe name of Prophet Nuh had been A’bd al-Ghaffaar. After the lashing of the storm, the rising of the water and the drowning of the people, the archangel Jibraeel approached […]
The Liver Eating Hind
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the battle of Uhud, Hamzah, the Chief of the Martyrs and the uncle of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his holy progeny) killed nearly thirty people […]
The Vindictive Hypocrite
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRancour and malice are of the signs of hypocritical individuals and during the time of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his holy progeny), they used to manifest […]