Shedding of the sins
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAbu Usman says: I was sitting along with Salman-e-Farsi under a tree.He took a dried branch of that tree and shook it, all the dried leaves dropped down.Then Salman said […]
Sins (Gunaah)
Yazid Bin ‘Abd al-Malik – the Umayyad Oppressor
Reading Time: 2 minutesYazid b. ‘Abd al-Malik devoted himself to wine and songstresses; he was called the dissolute of the Umayyads; he fell in love with two of his female slaves: one was […]
Bishr Al Hafi
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bishir al-Hafi, who drank wine, spent his nights and days in impudence and prostitution. The Imam passed by Bishir’s house in Baghdad. He heard the singers singing and the flutes […]
Mamoon’s Marriage
Reading Time: 2 minutesAl-Ma’mūn gave his wife one million dinars as a dower. It is worth mentioning that the value of a dinar was equal to a camel. Al-Hasan b. Sahl, the father […]
By Allah! If you had been a true god you would not have been lying in a well tied to a dead dog.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Ansar had thirst for Islam and its sublime and invigorative programme, and in order to purify Madina of all traces of polytheism and idol-worship they had burnt the idols […]
Wine Stops Him from Islam
Reading Time: 2 minutes A’asha was one of the great poets of the Age of Ignorance and his verses were quoted in the assemblies of Quraysh. He heard about the commandments of Allah and […]
Buring the Daughters Alive – Qays bin Asim
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe first people who resorted to the practice of burying their daughters were the tribe named Bani Tamim. No’man bin Munzir, the ruler of Iraq, attacked his enemies (including Bani […]
The Greater Sins ( Gunahane Kabeera)
Reading Time: 3 minutesMusa bin Ja’far said, ‘Once, Amr bin Ubayd came to Abu Abdullah (as-Sadiq) (a.s). When he offered greeting and took a seat, he recited this Qur’anic verse, (And those who […]
Israaf – Mutawakkil 2
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt was narrated that one day al-Mutawakkil was drunken in his palace called al-Barkwar. He said to his drinking companions where it was not the season of flowers, ‘What do […]
Israaf of Mutawakkil
Reading Time: 2 minutesMutawakkil spent the wealth of Muslims on his lusts and pleasures over the limit. The treasury was as his own property and he spent from it as he liked. Al-Mas’oudi […]