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Sayings of Fatema (A.S.)

Posted by | Jun 15, 2013 | , |

Sayings of Fatema (A.S.) The following sayings are taken from Fascinating Discourses of the 14 Infallibles (AS), Islamic Propagation Organization, Translated by Javed Iqbal Qazilbash Ansariyan Publications 1.Praise and Eulogy is for Allah for the blessing and bounties which He has bestowed. And thanks to HIM upon what He revelated (to His servants) And Praise is for HIM upon the common boons and blessings which He bestowed upon His servants without their request And upon the comprehensive and complete blessings which He granted to all and sundry and gave it to us, consequetively. Those graces and favours which are uncountable. And are irredeemable and uncompensatable due to their plentifulness of number. And the imagination of their end is out of the reach of human mind. He invited the servant to thankfuness for the sake of the consequetive and continous enhanecment of blessings. And opened the door of euloqy and Praise (of Allah) upon them so that He may make his favours and beneficiences great and plentiful for them. 2.I testify that there is no Diety (Lord) except the sole and matchless Allah. And the testification of the singleness of Allah is a word that Allah has declared sincerity (as) it’s reality, and made the hearts the centre of it’s contact and union. And has made the specifications and research of the oneness of Allah’s station obvious and evident in...

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What Is the Benefit of Having the Imam in Occultation?

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What Is the Benefit of Having the Imam in Occultation? If the Imam is the leader of the people he should be present among them. What is the benefit of having an Imam who lives an invisible life? What is the use of having an Imam who lives in the state of occultation for centuries without fulfilling any of the functions that he normally under takes: such as propagating religion, solving the problems of society, responding to the attacks of his opponents, commanding the good and forbidding the evil, helping the poor and redressing the wrongs committed against the downtroddens upholding the ordinances of God by instituting proper penalties and explaining the lawful and the unlawful to the people, and so on. The people are surely deprived of the benefits that you have enumerated during the occultation. However, the benefits of the Imam’s presence are not limited to these. In fact, there are other benefits that are available during the occultation. The following two are among those many other benefits that you have not enumerated: First, in accord with all that we have said previously and the proofs that were derived from the writings of Muslim scholars, including the hadith reports that spoke about the necessity of the Imamate, the existence of the Imam as a perfect and unique embodiment of humanity serves as a link between the material...

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OCCULTATION (GHAIBAT) OF IMAM MAHDI(A.S)

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OCCULTATION (GHAIBAT) OF IMAM MAHDI(A.S) If the Imam is the leader of the people he should be present among them. What is the benefit of having an Imam who lives an invisible life? What is the use of having an Imam who lives in the state of occultation for centuries without fulfilling any of the functions that he normally under takes: such as propagating religion, solving the problems of society, responding to the attacks of his opponents, commanding the good and forbidding the evil, helping the poor and redressing the wrongs committed against the downtroddens upholding the ordinances of God by instituting proper penalties and explaining the lawful and the unlawful to the people, and so on. The people are surely deprived of the benefits that you have enumerated during the occultation. However, the benefits of the Imam’s presence are not limited to these. In fact, there are other benefits that are available during the occultation. The following two are among those many other benefits that you have not enumerated: First, in accord with all that we have said previously and the proofs that were derived from the writings of Muslim scholars, including the hadith reports that spoke about the necessity of the Imamate, the existence of the Imam as a perfect and unique embodiment of humanity serves as a link between the material and the spiritual world. If...

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Sahleh

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DEFINITION OF THE CITY: Verily, Kufah is the second city in Islam after Islamic conquer, likewise it is a skull of the Arabs, Almighty Allah’s javelin, hoard of the faith, Moslems immigration House, capital town of the Commander of Faithful Imam Ali (peace be upon him). The city also contains his Shias, Lovers and companions, as it is also a brilliant center of science and Islamic civilization. THE REFERENCES: 1 – Tareekh Al-Kufah /Ta’lif Sayyid Ahmed Al-Buraqi / Tab’atu Ar Rabiah / Sanat 1987 / Beirut. History of Kufah / Authored by Sayyid Ahmed Al-Baraqi / Fourth Edition / Year 1987 A.D. Beirut. 2 – Takhteet Madinatul Kufah / Ta’lif Doctor Kazim Al-Janaabi / Baghdad / Sanat 1967. Planing of City of Kufah / Authored by Doctor Kazim Al-Janaabi / Year 1967 A.D. 3 – Tareekh Al-Kufah Al-Hadith / Al-Juz’ul Awwal Wa Thani / Ta’lif Kamil Salman Al-Jaburi / Tab’atul Ula / Sanat 1974 / Najaf. The Modern History of Kufah / Volume One and Two / Authored by Kamil Salman Al-Jaburi / First Edition / Year 1973 A.D. Najaf. 4 – Al-Atabaat Al-Muqadasah Fi Al-Kufah / Ta’lif Mohammed Saeed At-Turaihi / Sanat 1982 A.D. / Beirut. The Sacred Tombs in Kufah / Written by Muhammed Saeed At-Turaihi / First Edition / Year 1982 A.D. Beirut. 5 – Fadhl Al-Kufah Wa Fadhl Ahliha / Ta’lif Abi Abdullah Mohammed Al-Hasani...

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Jamkaran

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History of Masjid Jamkaran The learned Shi’ite research scholars and historians in their books have narrated from Hasan b. Mathleh Jamakarani – a righteous man of upright conduct and noble character, and a lover of the family of the revelation and Prophethood (i.e. the Ahlul Bayt, the holy progeny of the Prophet [s]) – regarding the construction of the Holy Jamkaran Mosque in the outskirts of Qum as follows: “I was sleeping at my home in the village of Jamkaran on Tuesday night, the 17th day of the blessed and holy month of Ramadhan of 393 A.H. (Lunar Calendar). It was after midnight that a group of people came to my home and awakened me up and said: ‘O Hasan! Wake up and arise, and obey the command of your Lord and Master of the Age – Imam al-Mahdi [a] who has summoned you.’ After hearing this command, I woke up immediately to get ready and said: ‘Please permit me to put on my clothes’, and being amazed and confused in total darkness, I picked up a shirt to put on then I heard a voice saying: ‘Hasan don’t put it on, because it does not belong to you.’ After removing it and putting on my own shirt, I picked up a trouser, then again I heard the voice saying: ‘Hasan. This is not your trouser don’t put it...

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