Imam Ali (peace be upon him) and the Jinn Judge
Reading Time: < 1 minute Imam Ali (peace be upon him) once was busy delivering a sermon from atop the pulpit in the city of Kufah when a python suddenly […]
Justice
Equality in the Spoils of War
Reading Time: < 1 minute When the battle of Hunain concluded and the spoils of war were about to be distributed, some of the Bedouins, who had participated in the […]
Five Fornicators and Five Rulings
Reading Time: < 1 minute Five persons, who had committed fornication, were brought before Umar, who ordered them to be subjected to the legal punishment for the crime. At that […]
Religion is Dead
Reading Time: 2 minutes Imam ‘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 […]
The Imam and the Thief’s Confession
Reading Time: < 1 minute A person approached Imam ‘Ali (as) and confessed that he had committed a theft. “Are you able to recite something from the Noble Qur’an?” Imam […]
Imam ‘Ali and the Public Treasury
Reading Time: 2 minutes Shu’bi narrates: “Accompanying the other youths, I too entered the vast open ground of Kufah where I saw Amirul Mo’minin (as) holding a small whip […]
Submission before a Ruling
Reading Time: < 1 minute The date-plantation of Zubair Ibn ‘Awwam (a cousin of the Noble Prophet (S)) lay adjacent to that of one of the Ansar (the Helpers). Once, there […]
The Equity of Imam Ali
Reading Time: < 1 minute Shu’bi narrates: Like the other youths, I entered the vast open ground of Kufah, where I witnessed Amirul Mu’mineen (a.s.) standing beside two containers which were […]