Conversation of ‘Ali (a.s.) With Some Shias
Reading Time: < 1 minute On a certain evening ‘Ali (a.s.) was departing from the mosque. The surroundings were bright due to the moonlight. He saw behind him a group […]
Piety (Taqwa)
Shia and Mohib
Reading Time: < 1 minute On one occasion Muhammad bin Muslim along with Abu Karibatul Azdi went to see Qazi Sharīk. Sharīk glared at him in anger and said, “These […]
Abu Darda Praises Hazrat Ali (as)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ibne Babawayh relates from Umru’ bin Zubayr that one day the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) was seated with his companions. They started discussing about the worship […]
Prophet Yahya (as)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Prophet 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 […]
By Means of Contentment the Soul Becomes Submissive
Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the signs of a contented person is abstemiousness and satisfying himself with that which restrains and subjugates the soul. Aswad and A’lqamah narrate: […]
Interpretation of the Dream
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ibn 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 […]
The Woman who Remembered Allah
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sayyidah Nafisah, the daughter of Hasan Ibn Zaid Ibn Hasan al-Mujtaba (a.s)) married Ishaq Mutamin, the pious and virtuous son of Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s). […]
The Religiousness of Abu Ja’far Husaini
Reading Time: < 1 minute Abu Ja’far Muhammad Husaini6 – whose lineage reached Imam Husain (a.s) through four generations – was a jurist and a pious and ascetic person, who had […]
The Religiousness of the Learned One from Dizful
Reading Time: < 1 minute At the time of his death, Sheikh Murtadha Ansari – having become the highest-ranking religious authority, with notable popularity and profundity in the Methodology and […]
The Objection of ‘Aqil
Reading Time: < 1 minute Once, after becoming the caliph, Imam ‘Ali (as) ascended the pulpit, praised Allah and said to the assembly: “By Allah, as long as I have […]