Avoid too much Wealth
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt has been reported on the authority of the Holy Prophet (SAW): Avoid too much wealth, for in the past a man had amassed a great fortune for his children. When […]
Love of the world
Bahlool, a Bundle, Barley Bread, and Vinegar
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt is said that Bahlool mostly spent his time sitting in a graveyard. One day, as usual, he went there. Haroun passed by, desiring to hunt. When he arrived near […]
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, […]
Bahlool Sits on Haroun Rashid’s Throne
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne day Bahlool arrived at Haroun’s palace and saw that the throne was empty. There was no one to stop him, so he unhesitatingly and fearlessly went and sat in […]
Prophet Huzqeel (as) and Prophet Dawood (as)
Reading Time: 2 minutesImam Ja’far As-Sadiq (as) narrates that when prophet Dawood (as) committed the Tark al-Aula (the first misdemeanor), he remained in prostration for forty days. During this time, he cried and did not […]
Eating dry bread and salt is definitely better than the life of sin
Reading Time: 2 minutesImam Ja’far As-Sadiq (as) narrates that prophet ‘Isa (as) passed through a hamlet once. All the people, animals and birds in that place were lying dead. He thought, they must […]
Ma’mun’s Trickery
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMa’mun played every trick to make Imam al-Jawad as worldly and sensual as himself but he failed in his plot until he gave her daughter in marriage to the Imam. […]
Sympathy with People
Reading Time: 2 minutesAmong the homeless poor people who used to live in the mosque, there was a believer who was poor and indigent. He would follow Allah’s Messenger when praying and never […]
Self-Negation versus Lawful Pleasures
Reading Time: 11 minutesSufyan Suri belonged to a group of Muslims called Zahids and Sufis, which emerged in the beginning of 200 AH. They rejected the world, considering its blessings and advantages as […]
Pul e Seraat
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt is written in ‘Darus Salaam’ that the great Scholar Allamah Sayyed Hashim Husain Bahrani says: In Najaf there lived a shopkeeper who counseled and advised people daily at his […]