Five Fornicators and Five Rulings
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFive persons, who had committed fornication, were brought before Umar, who ordered them to be subjected to the legal punishment for the crime. At that […]
Sins (Gunaah)
The Dissembled Worship
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere once lived a worshipper who could never get himself to perform any of his deeds sincerely, and free from showing off. Once, attempting to […]
Informing People of Worship
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the tribe of Bani Isra`il, there lived a worshipper who after years of worship, requested Allah to manifest to him his rank and status, […]
The Two Apparels
Reading Time: 2 minutesSufiyan Thauri happened to pass by Masjid al-Haram and there he witnessed Imam Sadiq (a.s) wearing costly and expensive clothes. He said to himself: “By […]
The Congregational Prayers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the distinguished scholars, who had journeyed the path of spiritual cleansing and possessed sublime ethics, was Mulla Abdullah Shushtari. He was the tutor […]
The Proud Monk
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIbrahim Adham narrated: “I acquired wisdom and enlightenment from a monk by the name of Samaan. One day I entered his monastery and asked him: […]
They Should Witness the Wisdom!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteProphet Musa (a.s) came across a poor person who, due to his abject poverty, lay bare-bodied on the desert sand. When he (a.s) came nearer, […]
Religion-Selling by Samurah
Reading Time: 2 minutesSamurah Ibn Jundab was of the inhabitants of Basrah. After his father’s death, he accompanied his mother to Madinah, where she married Mary Ibn Shaiban […]
Behlool and the Thief
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhenever Buhul happened to have money in excess of his expenses, he used to save it by concealing it in one corner of a ruined […]
The Bedouin’s Camel
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSheikh Tawoos al-Haramain narrates: “I had been standing near Masjid al-Haram in Makkah when I witnessed a Bedouin advancing on his camel. When he reached […]