The Neighbour of Sayyid Jawaad
Reading Time: 2 minutesSayyid Jawaad A’amloi, a jurist and the author of the book Miftaah al-Karaamah, narrates: One night as I was having my meals, someone knocked at the door. Opening the door, I […]
Fear of Allah
A Polytheist Turns Into a Believer
Reading Time: < 1 minuteShabih Ibn Uthman was a polytheist whose father and brother had been killed by the Muslims in the battle of Uhud. He awaited an opportunity to kill the Noble Prophet […]
Interpretation of the Dream
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIbn Sirin was an extremely good-looking and elegant youth, and a cloth-merchant by profession. Once it so happened that a woman became enchanted with his looks; she expressed her desire […]
Hazrat Yahya (as)
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen Prophet Yahya (as) observed the clerics of Baytul Maqdas wearing veils made of haircloth and headgears of cotton, he requested his mother to make a similar dress for him. […]
The Fearful Ones
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen the verse: “And surely Hell is the promised place of them all. It has seven gates; for every gate there shall be a separate party of them”8 was revealed to […]
Punishment by Fire
Reading Time: 2 minutesOnce, Amirul Mo’minin (as) was in the company of his companions when a person approached him and said: “O’ Amirul Mo’minin (as)! Purify me for I have committed sodomy with […]
The Mute Language of the Stone
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt has been reported that once in the course of his journey, one of the Prophets came across a small stone and observed that a large quantity of water flowed […]
The Fearful Youth
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalman Farsi was passing through the blacksmiths’ market of Kufah when he observed that a crowd had gathered around a youth who lay on the ground, senseless. When the people […]