“It is strange that you are defending Muhammad”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA group of sixty people, unaware of the great event, which was going to bring another glory in the history of Islam, started to move towards Medina the city of […]
Greed ( Hirs)
“These bricks will kill people,”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt is recorded in another tradition that one day ‘Isa went to a village for some work along with three of his companions. They found three gold bricks in their […]
Bahlool Criticizes Haroun
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne day Bahlool was near Haroun. He said, “O Bahlool! Criticize me.” Bahlool said, “O Haroun! If there is no water in the desert, you are attacked by severe thirst, […]
Abu Zar repels greed
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUthman gave two hundred gold coins to his servants and told them to take them to Abu Zar and say, “Uthman has sent you his salām with a request to […]
Prophet Nuh (as) and Satan
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter Prophet Nuh (a.s) had disembarked from his ark, the Satan approached him and said: “You have greatly obliged me and so I wish to thank you for your obligation […]
Ash’ab Ibn Jubair Madani (d. 154 ah)
Reading Time: 2 minutesHe was a person who was squint-eyed, bald on two sides of his head and unable to pronounce the letters ر (ra) and ل (lam). He possessed such intense greed […]
Dhul Qarnain
Reading Time: 2 minutesDhul Qarnain8, during the course of his journey, reached Dhulumat, where he came across a palace in which he noticed a youth standing there dressed in white, face raised towards […]
Hazrat Isa (as) and the Greedy Persons
Reading Time: 2 minutesProphet ‘Isa (as) had been travelling in the company of another person when, after having journeyed for a period, they were overcome by hunger. They reached a village where ‘Isa […]
Greedy for Pleasure
Reading Time: 2 minutesYazid Ibn ‘Abdul Malik (the tenth Umayyad caliph) became caliph after ‘Umar Ibn ‘Abdul ‘Aziz. Contrary to his predecessor, he used to engage himself, day and night, in feasting, festive […]