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Master of the martyrs Imam Husain (peace be with him):

Surely, the most generous is he who gives to someone from whom he has no hope of return,

and certainly the most forgiving is he who forgives when he is at the climax of power,

and definitely the eminent is he who establishes a relationship with the one who (has) severed it.

Reference
Shining Gems From The Ocean of Wisdom, Hadith 46

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A droplet of rain fell from a cloud
Over the sea, wide and profound;
It felt ashamed when it saw the sea;
It was about to never be found.

It thought, 'who am I when there is the sea?
If the sea exists, then who am I, this me?'

It found itself unworthy, therefore
An oyster appeared, opening its core.

It was taken and grown until it became
A pearl of value, honor and fame.

It knocked on the door of non-being; however,
It found existence, exalted forever.

The saints have realised
That their being is a facade;
If one sees himself,
He can never see God.

You can't pretend to be noble and grand;
It's not a matter of name or brand.

If you are modest and humble
Then you shall grow;
If you're arrogant and proud
You'll fall below.

For one who's deceived by the glamour of this world,
Having a share of religion is odd;
When one is proud and sees himself,
Don't expect that he can ever see God.

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Letter of Imam Ali to Malik e Ashtar

(Part Three)

Ruling should be in favor of the people as a whole.

💠The way most coveted by you should be that which is the most equitable for what is right, the most universal by way of justice and the
💠most comprehensive with regard to the agreement with those under you because the disagreement among the common people sweeps away the arguments of the chiefs and can be disregarded when compared with the agreement of the common people.💠

💠No one among those under you is more burdensome to the ruler in the comfort of life, less helpful in distress, more disliking of equitable treatment, more tricky in asking favors, less thankful at the time of giving, less appreciative of reasons at the time of refusal and weaker in endurance at the time of the discomforts of life than the chiefs.💠

💠It is the common people of the community who are the pillars of the religion, the power of the Muslims and the defense against the enemies. Your learning should, therefore, be towards them and your inclination with them.💠

💠The one among the people under you who is furthest from you and the worst of them in your view should be whoever is the most
💠inquisitive of the shortcomings of the people because people do have shortcomings and the ruler is the most appropriate person to cover them.💠

💠Do not disclose whatever of it is hidden from you because your obligation is to correct what is manifest to you, while Allah will deal with whatever is hidden from you.💠

💠Therefore, cover shortcomings as far as you can; Allah will cover those of your shortcomings which you will like to remain under cover from your subjects. Unfasten every knot of hatred in the people and cut away from yourself the cause of every enmity.💠

💠Feign ignorance from what is not clear to you. Do not hasten to second a backbiter because a backbiter is a cheat although he looks like those who wish well.💠

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Letter of Imam Ali to Malik-e Ashtar
(Part Twelve)

5. The Clerical Establishment

🍁🍁Then you should take care of your secretarial workers. Put the best of them in charge of your affairs. Entrust those of your writings which contain your policies and secrets to him who possesses the best character, who is not elated by honors lest he should dare speak against you in public. He should also not be negligent in presenting the communications of your officers before you and issuing correct replies to them on your behalf and in matters of your receipts and payments.

🍁🍁He should not make any damaging agreement on your behalf and should not fail in repudiating an agreement against you.

🍁🍁He should not be ignorant of the extent of his own status in matters because whoever is ignorant of his own status is (even) more ignorant of the status of others.

🍁🍁Your selection of these people should not be on the basis of your understanding (of them), confidence and good impression because people catch the ideas of the officers through affectation and personal service, and there is nothing in it which is like well-wishing or trustfulness.

🍁🍁You should rather test them by what they did under the virtuous people before you. Take a decision in favor of one who has a good name among the common people and is the most renowned in trustworthiness because this will be a proof of your regard for Allah and for him on whose behalf you have been appointed to this status (namely your Imam).

🍁🍁Establish one chief for every department of work. He should not be incapable of big matters and a rush of work should not perplex him. Whenever there is a defect in your secretaries which you overlook, then you will be held responsible for it.

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PROPHET'S HISTORIC GHADIR SERMON

PART IV

O people! Prefer him (' Ali) over all others! There is no knowledge except that Allah has divulged it to me, and all the knowledge I have learned I have divulged to Imam al-Muttaqin (leader of the righteous), and there is no knowledge (that I know) except that I divulged it to' Ali, and he is al-Imam al-Mubin (the evident Imam) whom Allah mentions in Surat ya-Sin: "... and everything We have computed is in (the knowledge of) an evident Imam" (Qur'an, 36:12).

O people! Do not abandon him, nor should you flee away from him, nor should you be too arrogant to accept his authority, for he is the one who guides to righteousness and who acts according to it. He defeats falsehood and prohibits others from acting according to it, accepting no blame from anyone while seeking to please Allah. He is the first to believe in Allah and in His Messenger; none preceded him as such. And he is the one who offered his life as a sacrifice for the Messenger of Allah and who was in the company of the Messenger of Allah while no other man was. He is the first of all people to offer prayers and the first to worship Allah with me. I ordered him, on behalf of Allah, to sleep in my bed, and he did, offering his life as a sacrifice for my sake.

O people! Prefer him (over all others), for Allah has preferred him, and accept him, for Allah has appointed him (as your leader).

O people! He is an Imam appointed by Allah, and Allah shall never accept the repentance of anyone who denies his authority, nor shall He forgive him; this is a must decree from Allah never to do so to anyone who opposes him, and that He shall torment him with a most painful torment for all time to come, for eternity; so, beware lest you should oppose him and thus enter the fire the fuel of which is the people and the stones prepared for the unbelievers.

O people! By Allah! All past prophets and messengers conveyed the glad tiding of my advent, and I, by Allah, am the seal of the prophets and of the messengers and the argument against all beings in the heavens and on earth. Anyone who doubts this commits apostasy similar to that of the early jahiliyya, and anyone who doubts anything of what I have just said doubts everything which has been revealed to me, and anyone who doubts any of the Imams doubts all of them, and anyone who doubts us shall be lodged in the fire.

O people! Allah, the most Exalted and the Almighty, has bestowed this virtue upon me out of His kindness towards' Ali and as a boon to' Ali and there is no god but He; to Him all praise belongs in all times, for eternity, and in all circumstances.

O people! Prefer' Ali (over all others), for he is the very best of all people after me, be they males or females, so long as Allah sends down His sustenance, so long as there are beings. Cursed and again cursed, condemned and again condemned, is anyone who does not accept this statement of mine and who does not agree to it. Gabriel himself has informed me of the same on behalf of Allah Almighty Who he said (in Gabriel's words): " Anyone who antagonizes' Ali and refuses to accept his wilayat shall incur My curse upon him and My wrath." "... and let every soul consider what it has sent forth for the morrow, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah" (Qur'an, 59:18), "And do not make your oaths a means of deceit between you lest a foot should slip after its stability" (Qur'an, 16:94), " Allah is fully aware of all what you do" (Qur'an, 58: 13).

O people! He (' Ali) is janb-Allah mentioned in the Book of Allah, the Sublime One: The Almighty, forewarning his (' Ali's) adversaries, says, "Lest a soul should say: O woe unto me for what I fell short of my duty to Allah, and most surely I was of those who laughed to scorn" (Qur'an, 39:56).

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PROPHET'S HISTORIC GHADIR SERMON

PART VI

O people! Allah, the Exalted and the Sublime, has perfected your religion through his (' Ali's) Imamate; so, whoever rejects him as his Imam or rejects those of my offspring from his loins who assume the same status (as lmams) till the Day of Judgment when they shall all be displayed before Allah, the Exalted and the Sublime, these are the ones whose (good) deeds shall be nil and void in the life of this world and in the hereafter, and in the fire shall they be lodged forever, " ...their torture shall not be decreased, nor shall they be given a respite" (Qur'an,2:162).

O people! Here is' Ali, the one who has supported me more than anyone else among you, the one who most deserves my gratitude, the one who is closest of all of you to me and the one who is the very dearest to me. Both Allah, the Exalted and the Sublime, and I are pleased with him, and no verse of the Holy Qur'an expressing Allah's Pleasure except that he is implied therein, nor has any verse of praise been revealed in the Qur'an except that he is implied therein, nor has the Lord testified to Paradise in the (Qur'anic) Chapter starting with "Has there not come over man a long period of time when he was nothing (not even) mentioned?" (Qur'an, 76:1) nor was this Chapter revealed except in his praise.

O people! He is the one who supports the religion of Allah, who argues on behalf of the Messenger of Allah. He is the pious, the pure, the guide, the one rightly guided. Your Prophet is the best of all prophets, and your wasi is the best of all wasis, and his offspring are the best of wasis .

O people! Each prophet's progeny is from his own loins whereas mine is from the loins of Arneerul-Mo'mineen ' Ali.

O people! Iblis caused Adam to be dismissed from the garden through envy; so, do not envy him lest your deeds should be voided and lest your feet should slip away, for Adam was sent down to earth after having committed only one sin, and he was among the elite of Allah's creation. How, then, will be your case, and you being who you are, and among you are enemies of Allah?

Indeed, none hates' Ali except a wretch, and none accepts ' Ali's wilayat except a pious person. None believes in him except a sincere mu'min, and in honor of, Ali was the Chapter of 'Asr (Ch. 103) revealed, I swear to it by Allah: "In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. I swear by time that most surely man is in loss" (Qur'an, 103:1-2) except' Ali who believed and was pleased with the truth and with perseverance.

O people! I have sought Allah to be my Witness and have conveyed my Message to you, and the Messenger is obligated only to clearly convey (his Message).

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Qor’an; Chapter; The Great Event (Al-Waqeah سورة الواقعة) revealed in Makkah, ninety six verses.

will eat from the fruit of the tree of Zaqqum, (52) filling your bellies, with it (53) and on top of this you will drink boiling water (54)

like a thirsty camel". (55) Such will be their dwelling on the Day of Judgment. (56) It is We who have created you. Why then did you not testify to the Truth? (57)

Have you seen sperm? (58) Did you create it or was it We who created it? (59) We have destined death for you and no one can challenge Us (60)

in replacing you with another creation like you, changing you into a form which you do not know. (61) You certainly knew about (your) first development. Why do you not take heed?(62) Have you seen what you sow? (63)

Do you make it grow or is it We who make it grow? (64) Had We wanted, We could have crushed it to bits and you would have been left to lament, (65) crying, "We have been left to suffer loss. (66)

Surely, we have been deprived (of the benefits)". (67) Have you seen the water which you drink? (68) Is it you who sent it down from the clouds or is it We who have sent it down? (69)

Had We wanted, We could have made it salty. Why then do you not give thanks? (70) Have you seen the fire which you kindle? (71) Is it you who have produced its tree or is it We who have produced it? (72)

It is We who have made it as a reminder and a means of comfort for the people. (73) (Muhammad), glorify your Lord, the Great One. (74) I do not need to swear by the setting of the stars (75)

- which is indeed a great oath if only you knew it - (76)that this is an honorable Quran (77) preserved in a hidden Book which (78)

no one can touch it except the purified ones. (79) (This Quran) is a revelation from the Lord of the Universe. (80) Would you say that this statement is a lie? (81)

Would you reject the sustenance that you receive rather than give thanks?(82) Why can you not help a soul dying (83) right before your very eyes? (84)

We are closer to him than you, but you cannot see. (85) If you are true to your claim that there is no Day of Judgment, (86) why can you not bring it (the soul) back (to life)? (87)

(If a dying soul) is of those near to God, (88) it will have rest, happiness, and a beautiful Paradise. (89) If it is of the people of the right hand, (90)

it will be with the people of the right hand, living in peace and security. (91) If it is of those who have rejected the Truth and have gone astray, (92)its dwelling will be boiling water (93)

and the heat of hell fire. (94) This is the absolute Truth and certainty.(95) So glorify the name of your Lord, the Great One.(96)

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🌺 Prophet of God Jesus (peace be with him and his mother) said:

🌺 How can you work for this world when you are provided for therein without work, but not work for the Hereafter when you will not be provided for therein without work?

🌺 Verily, you are bad scholars, who take a salary for their duties and squander their deeds. The doer of a deed hurries to demand its reward, and you hurry to leave this wide world for the dark confines of the grave.

🌺 God forbade you from misdeeds as he ordered you to pray and fast. How can one displeased with his portion and who debases his rank (as a scholar) be counted amongst the people of knowledge?

🌺 When he knows of God's knowledge and power, how can one who accuses God by what He decrees for him and whom nothing can satisfy be counted amongst the people of knowledge? How can one over whom the world holds more sway than the Hereafter, who embraces the world and loves the thing that harms him more than the thing that benefits him be counted amongst the people of knowledge? How can one who seeks knowledge so that he can display it rather than act upon it be counted amongst the people of knowledge?
📚 Sunan-ud Dāramī, vol. 1, p. 103.
📚 Al Kāfi, vol. 2, p. 319.
📚 Desires of the Aspirant, p. 52.

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🌺 In Ma'ani al-Akhbar: In his tradition from Ahmad ibn Abi Abdillah from his father, in a Hadith attributed to the noble Prophet (peace be with him and his progeny) that he said:

"Jibraeel (Angel Gabriel) came to me and said: 'O Prophet of Allah! Allah has sent me to you with a gift which He has not given to anyone before you'.

The noble Prophet asked:
🍃'what is it?'
💠 Jibraeel replied: 'it is patience, and something better than it'.

🍃 He asked: 'and what is that?'.
💠 Jibraeel replied: 'it is satisfaction, and something better than it'.

🍃 He asked: 'and what is that?'
💠 Jibraeel said: 'it is abstinence; and that which is better than it'.

🍃 He said: 'and what is that?'
💠 Jibraeel said: 'it is sincerity; and something better than that'.

🍃 He said: 'and what is that?'
💠 Jibraeel said: 'it is certainty; and something better than it'.

🍃 The Noble Prophet (then) said: 'i said: "what is that O' Jibraee!"
💠 He said: 'the way to attain all of them is to trust in Allah'.

🍃 I said: 'oh Jibraeel, what is the meaning of trusting in Allah?'
💠 He said: knowing that creation can neither cause harm nor benefit and can neither give nor withhold (anything), and having no hope (of getting anything from creation). When the servant reaches this state, he does not do anything save for Allah, and he neither desires nor fears anyone but Allah, and he does not set his hopes on anyone except Allah. This is is the meaning of trusting in Allah'.

🍃 The noble Prophet said: I said: 'oh Jibraeel, what is the meaning of patience?'.
💠 He replied: 'one must be forebearing and patient in times of affliction as he is in times of joy, and in poverty as he is in wealth, and in calamity as he is in comfort; without complaining of his condition because of what has befallen him'.

🍃 I said: 'and what is the meaning of contentment?'
💠 He (jibraeel) said: 'to be pleased with whatever comes to him in this world, being content with whatever little he has and thanking Allah for it'.

🍃 I said: 'and what is the meaning of satisfaction?'
💠 He (jibraeel) said: 'it means that one should never be displeased with his Master, whether he gets (the comforts) of the world or not, and not be happy with one's few good deeds'.

💠The Station of 'Rida'💠
📝Shaykh Nasir al Din Tusi

God has said:
لِّكَيْلَا تَأْسَوْا عَلَىٰ مَا فَاتَكُمْ وَلَا تَفْرَحُوا بِمَا آتَاكُمْ ۗ وَاللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ كُلَّ مُخْتَالٍ فَخُورٍ

"That you may not grieve for what escapes you, nor rejoice in what has come to you . . .” (57:23)

Rida is gratification and its fruit is love. It entails the absence of resentment, outward and inward, in the heart, in speech and action. Those who are preoccupied with the outward
(ahl-e zahir) are eager that
God, the Exalted, be pleased with them, that they may remain secure from His wrath and punishment.

The seekers of the Truth
(ahl-e haqiqat) are eager that they may remain pleased with God, the Exalted, so that none of such various states as life and death, survival and annihilation, pain and comfort, felicity and wretchedness, prosperity and poverty be contrary to their desire, leading them to prefer one of them
to the other, for their knowing that all of them are from the exalted Creator. The love of God, the Exalted, is fixed in their nature, and hence they do not seek anything beyond what
He wills and determines and are well-pleased with whatever befalls them.

It is related of one of the sages who possessed this station that in seventy years of a lifetime he never said when something happened “Had it not happened!” nor “Had it happened!” when something didn't. And a sage when asked concerning the effect of
'rida' he had found within himself answered, “I do not
find any trace of rida
within myself. Yet, if I were to be made into a bridge extending over the hell, and all of creation from the first to the last, were to pass over me into paradise and I alone were consigned to
hell, it would never occur to me why I didn't receive what others did.”

And when the equality of the different aforementioned states becomes well-established in one's nature, that which happens accords wish his real desire. Hence it has been said that `Everyone gets what he
deserves and deserves what he gets.' For one who has found the Truth, God's good-pleasure with a servant is realized when the servant's good pleasure with God is obtained:

...رَّضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا عَنْهُ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ

“...God being well-pleased with them and they well-pleased with Him” (5:119).

Hence whenever one has an objection concerning the occurrence of something, whatsoever that may
be, or when there is a probability of its coming to one's mind, one would be devoid of the station of
rida.

One who possesses the station of 'rida' is always in a state of ease, for he has no preferences or reservations, or rather his preferences accord with all that happens and doesn't happen:

...ۚ وَرِضْوَانٌ مِّنَ اللَّهِ أَكْبَرُ...

“. . . and God's good-pleasure is greater....” (9:72)

That is why the angel who is the keeper of the paradise is called
Ridwan and it has been said:

الرضا بالقضاء باب الله الأعظم

"Satisfaction with fate is the greatest door to Allah "📍
for everyone who attains to
'rida' reaches paradise and whatever he beholds is seen in the light of Divine
mercy, and:

المؤمن ينظر بنور الله الأعظم

"The believer sees with the greatest light of Allah"📍

As God, the Exalted, is the creator of all existents, were He to dislike something it would be impossible for it to come into existence. And since He has not disliked anything, [the wayfarer] is well-pleased with everything [that comes into existence], not regretting anything that doesn't occur, nor feeling elated by
that which does:

...إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ عَزْمِ الْأُمُورِ...

“Surely that is true constancy.” (31:17)

📚Reference
📃 "Awsaf al Ashraf" by Khwaja Nasir al Din Tusi
📍Al-Barqi, Kitab al-mahasin, p. 131.
📍Bihar al-anwar, vol. 67, p. 73.

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Nahju-l Balāghah. Letter No 27

Given to Muhammad Ibn Abu Bakr (May Allah Be Pleased with Him), When Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib (peace be with them) Appointed Him as Governor of Egypt:

Deal humbly with the public. Remain lenient. Meet them large-heartedly, accord them equal treatment so that the mighty should not expect injustice from you in their favor and the lowly should not be despondent of your justice.

Allah, the Sublime, will certainly question you, O community of His creatures, about your actions, small or big, open or concealed. If He punishes you, it is because you have been oppressive, and if He forgives you, then it is because He is the most Generous.

Be informed, O servants of Allah, that the God-fearing share the joys of this transient world as well as those of the next, for they share with the people of this world in their worldly matters while their people did not share with them in the matters of the next.

They lived in this world in the best manner of living. They ate the choicest food and enjoyed herein all that the people with ease of life enjoyed. They secured from it what the haughty and the vain secured. Then they departed from it after taking provision enough to take them to the end of their journey, having contracted a profitable transaction.

They tasted the pleasure of renouncing the life in this world, firmly believing that on the Coming Day, they will be neighbors of Allah, where their call will not be repulsed, nor will their share of pleasure be small.

O servants of Allah! Fear death and its measures, and prepare all that is needed for it. It will come as a big event and a great affair, either as something good in which there will never be any evil, or an evil one in which there will never be any good. Who is nearer to Paradise than one who works towards it, and who is nearer to Hell than one who works for it?

You are being chased by death. If you stop, it will catch you, and if you run away from it, it will grab you. It is more attached to you than your own shadow. Death is tied to your forelocks while the world is being wrapped up from behind you. Therefore, fear the Fire whose hollow is deep, whose flames are severe and whose punishment is novel.

It is a place wherein there is no mercy. No call is heard in it. No pain is healed in it. If it is possible for you to have severe fear of Allah and to rest hope in Him, then do both these things because every individual can have hope in His Lord to the extent of his fear of His Lord. Certainly, the most hopeful person with Allah is whoever fears Him the most.

O Muhammad son of Abu Bakr! Be informed that I have given you charge of Egypt which is my biggest force. You are duty-bound to oppose your passions and to serve as a shield against your religion even though you may get only an hour in the world.

Do not enrage Allah for pleasing others because (Allah) is such that He may take the place of others, yet others cannot take the place of Allah. Say prayers at their appointed times. Do not say your prayers earlier for the sake of (available) leisure, nor should you delay them on account of any preoccupation. Remember that every deed of yours is dependent on your prayers.

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Master of the martyrs Imam Husain (peace be with him):

Surely, the most generous is he who gives to someone from whom he has no hope of return,

and certainly the most forgiving is he who forgives when he is at the climax of power,

and definitely the eminent is he who establishes a relationship with the one who (has) severed it.

Reference
Shining Gems From The Ocean of Wisdom, Hadith 46

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💠The Station of 'Rida'💠
📝Shaykh Nasir al Din Tusi

God has said:
لِّكَيْلَا تَأْسَوْا عَلَىٰ مَا فَاتَكُمْ وَلَا تَفْرَحُوا بِمَا آتَاكُمْ ۗ وَاللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ كُلَّ مُخْتَالٍ فَخُورٍ

"That you may not grieve for what escapes you, nor rejoice in what has come to you . . .” (57:23)

Rida is gratification and its fruit is love. It entails the absence of resentment, outward and inward, in the heart, in speech and action. Those who are preoccupied with the outward
(ahl-e zahir) are eager that
God, the Exalted, be pleased with them, that they may remain secure from His wrath and punishment.

The seekers of the Truth
(ahl-e haqiqat) are eager that they may remain pleased with God, the Exalted, so that none of such various states as life and death, survival and annihilation, pain and comfort, felicity and wretchedness, prosperity and poverty be contrary to their desire, leading them to prefer one of them
to the other, for their knowing that all of them are from the exalted Creator. The love of God, the Exalted, is fixed in their nature, and hence they do not seek anything beyond what
He wills and determines and are well-pleased with whatever befalls them.

It is related of one of the sages who possessed this station that in seventy years of a lifetime he never said when something happened “Had it not happened!” nor “Had it happened!” when something didn't. And a sage when asked concerning the effect of
'rida' he had found within himself answered, “I do not
find any trace of rida
within myself. Yet, if I were to be made into a bridge extending over the hell, and all of creation from the first to the last, were to pass over me into paradise and I alone were consigned to
hell, it would never occur to me why I didn't receive what others did.”

And when the equality of the different aforementioned states becomes well-established in one's nature, that which happens accords wish his real desire. Hence it has been said that `Everyone gets what he
deserves and deserves what he gets.' For one who has found the Truth, God's good-pleasure with a servant is realized when the servant's good pleasure with God is obtained:

...رَّضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا عَنْهُ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ

“...God being well-pleased with them and they well-pleased with Him” (5:119).

Hence whenever one has an objection concerning the occurrence of something, whatsoever that may
be, or when there is a probability of its coming to one's mind, one would be devoid of the station of
rida.

One who possesses the station of 'rida' is always in a state of ease, for he has no preferences or reservations, or rather his preferences accord with all that happens and doesn't happen:

...ۚ وَرِضْوَانٌ مِّنَ اللَّهِ أَكْبَرُ...

“. . . and God's good-pleasure is greater....” (9:72)

That is why the angel who is the keeper of the paradise is called
Ridwan and it has been said:

الرضا بالقضاء باب الله الأعظم

"Satisfaction with fate is the greatest door to Allah "📍
for everyone who attains to
'rida' reaches paradise and whatever he beholds is seen in the light of Divine
mercy, and:

المؤمن ينظر بنور الله الأعظم

"The believer sees with the greatest light of Allah"📍

As God, the Exalted, is the creator of all existents, were He to dislike something it would be impossible for it to come into existence. And since He has not disliked anything, [the wayfarer] is well-pleased with everything [that comes into existence], not regretting anything that doesn't occur, nor feeling elated by
that which does:

...إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ عَزْمِ الْأُمُورِ...

“Surely that is true constancy.” (31:17)

📚Reference
📃 "Awsaf al Ashraf" by Khwaja Nasir al Din Tusi
📍Al-Barqi, Kitab al-mahasin, p. 131.
📍Bihar al-anwar, vol. 67, p. 73.

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*This is what Amir al-mu'minin said on the occasion of the burial of Sayyidatu'n-nisā' (Supreme lady) Fatimah (peace be with her) while addressing the Prophet at his grave.*

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O' Prophet of God, please accept my salams and those of your daughter who is being buried not far from you, and who is to meet you so quickly. O last chosen Apostle! The death of your daughter has left me without patience and solace. I have lost my self-restraint and power of endurance.

After having endured the separation from you I shall have to bear this catastrophe patiently. O Prophet of God! I laid you down in the grave with my own hands, your soul departed from my body while you were resting upon my chest and your head was lying between my neck and heart.

Verily we are for Allah's and verily unto Him shall we return (Qur'an 2:156)

Your trust (your daughter) which was entrusted to me is taken back from me. Sorrow now abides with me and happiness has taken leave. This grief is so overbearing that it engulfs and swallows other sorrows, and it has left me with sleepless nights and joyless days. From now onwards, my life will be a continued heartache until God gathers me with you both in the realm of His favour and peace.

O Apostle of God! Your dear daughter will tell you how your followers have behaved with her and how they have mistreated her. Please ask her the details of all that has happened to her during such a short period (barely three months) after your departure to Heaven. This period of separation from you was so short that people were still remembering you and talking about you.

Please, both of you accept my parting salams and goodbye. It is the wish of a sincere heart, which has loved and will always love you both, a heart which will cherish and will carry your tender and loving memeories to its grave. Goodbye O daughter of the chosen Apostle of God! May you rest in peace (in the world) which mankind has refused you in this world. If I leave your grave to go it is not because I am tired of your company, rather I wish I had it till the end of my life. If I make a permanent abode on your grave, it will not be because I doubt the reward that God has reserved for those who bear sorrows patiently, Goodbye, may God's peace and blessings be with you both.

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💠One of the scholars was giving a lecture to the people of the city from the pulpit. He said: "oh people, imagine that you have a lemon. Now, imagine that you have a knife in one hand and the lemon in the other. Imagine now, that you have sliced the juicy lemon and are licking it onto your tongue. Now, take the lemon and squeeze it's acidic juice onto your tongues".

💠After a few minutes, many people had watery mouths just by imagining such a scene.

💠The scholar continued: "oh people, as you all have just experienced changes in your body simply by thinking of lemons when really there weren't any, so too does the chemistry of your existence alter simply by thinking about sinning. God has been lenient and has ordered chastisement only when someone has sinned, but certainly there are changes in your spirit, mind, and body that occur even simply by thinking about sinning.

💠For this reason, the Prophet and his progeny have stated that one repents immedietely after sinning. Those beloved to God, the Prophet and his progeny always repented even after hearing others sin or talk about sinning, so as to rid of those negative effects".

💠Allamah Tabatabai writes in "Sunan an Nabi" that the Prophet would recite "estighfar" 25 times before leaving a gathering.

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🌺 In Ma'ani al-Akhbar: In his tradition from Ahmad ibn Abi Abdillah from his father, in a Hadith attributed to the noble Prophet (peace be with him and his progeny) that he said:

"Jibraeel (Angel Gabriel) came to me and said: 'O Prophet of Allah! Allah has sent me to you with a gift which He has not given to anyone before you'.

The noble Prophet asked:
🍃'what is it?'
💠 Jibraeel replied: 'it is patience, and something better than it'.

🍃 He asked: 'and what is that?'.
💠 Jibraeel replied: 'it is satisfaction, and something better than it'.

🍃 He asked: 'and what is that?'
💠 Jibraeel said: 'it is abstinence; and that which is better than it'.

🍃 He said: 'and what is that?'
💠 Jibraeel said: 'it is sincerity; and something better than that'.

🍃 He said: 'and what is that?'
💠 Jibraeel said: 'it is certainty; and something better than it'.

🍃 The Noble Prophet (then) said: 'i said: "what is that O' Jibraee!"
💠 He said: 'the way to attain all of them is to trust in Allah'.

🍃 I said: 'oh Jibraeel, what is the meaning of trusting in Allah?'
💠 He said: knowing that creation can neither cause harm nor benefit and can neither give nor withhold (anything), and having no hope (of getting anything from creation). When the servant reaches this state, he does not do anything save for Allah, and he neither desires nor fears anyone but Allah, and he does not set his hopes on anyone except Allah. This is is the meaning of trusting in Allah'.

🍃 The noble Prophet said: I said: 'oh Jibraeel, what is the meaning of patience?'.
💠 He replied: 'one must be forebearing and patient in times of affliction as he is in times of joy, and in poverty as he is in wealth, and in calamity as he is in comfort; without complaining of his condition because of what has befallen him'.

🍃 I said: 'and what is the meaning of contentment?'
💠 He (jibraeel) said: 'to be pleased with whatever comes to him in this world, being content with whatever little he has and thanking Allah for it'.

🍃 I said: 'and what is the meaning of satisfaction?'
💠 He (jibraeel) said: 'it means that one should never be displeased with his Master, whether he gets (the comforts) of the world or not, and not be happy with one's few good deeds'.

💠 Ayatollah Dastaghaib Shirazi:

🌳"Do not imagine that your soul is in your head or in your heart. It is not like this. It is neither within the body nor out of it. The encirclement of soul is indeed amazing. Put your hand at any part of your body, the soul is there. It is both positive and negative. It is not in the body. It also is not
out of it.

🌳This is one of the finest (most delicate) things. Have you not experienced that sometimes if a thread or a strand of hair enters your mouth along with food it is at once detected and you push it out. Such signs pertaining to your body are there to make you realize that God encircles
and covers each and every thing and affair.

🌻“Allah is He Who created seven heavens, and of the earth the like of them; the decree continues to descend among them, that you may know that Allah has power over all things and that Allah indeed encompasses all things in (His) knowledge.” (65:12)

🌳The specimen or example is your own soul. O Man! If a snake bites at your foot, your soul knows of it at once. If a thin hair enters the body… If you ponder over the power of remembrance or learning by heart, it is unfathomable. How many things are stored in your brain!"

📚"Moral Values of Quran" by Ayatollah Dastaghaib Shirazi p. 410

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💠One of the scholars was giving a lecture to the people of the city from the pulpit. He said: "oh people, imagine that you have a lemon. Now, imagine that you have a knife in one hand and the lemon in the other. Imagine now, that you have sliced the juicy lemon and are licking it onto your tongue. Now, take the lemon and squeeze it's acidic juice onto your tongues".

💠After a few minutes, many people had watery mouths just by imagining such a scene.

💠The scholar continued: "oh people, as you all have just experienced changes in your body simply by thinking of lemons when really there weren't any, so too does the chemistry of your existence alter simply by thinking about sinning. God has been lenient and has ordered chastisement only when someone has sinned, but certainly there are changes in your spirit, mind, and body that occur even simply by thinking about sinning.

💠For this reason, the Prophet and his progeny have stated that one repents immedietely after sinning. Those beloved to God, the Prophet and his progeny always repented even after hearing others sin or talk about sinning, so as to rid of those negative effects".

💠Allamah Tabatabai writes in "Sunan an Nabi" that the Prophet would recite "estighfar" 25 times before leaving a gathering.

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PROPHET'S HISTORIC GHADIR SERMON

PART IV

O people! Prefer him (' Ali) over all others! There is no knowledge except that Allah has divulged it to me, and all the knowledge I have learned I have divulged to Imam al-Muttaqin (leader of the righteous), and there is no knowledge (that I know) except that I divulged it to' Ali, and he is al-Imam al-Mubin (the evident Imam) whom Allah mentions in Surat ya-Sin: "... and everything We have computed is in (the knowledge of) an evident Imam" (Qur'an, 36:12).

O people! Do not abandon him, nor should you flee away from him, nor should you be too arrogant to accept his authority, for he is the one who guides to righteousness and who acts according to it. He defeats falsehood and prohibits others from acting according to it, accepting no blame from anyone while seeking to please Allah. He is the first to believe in Allah and in His Messenger; none preceded him as such. And he is the one who offered his life as a sacrifice for the Messenger of Allah and who was in the company of the Messenger of Allah while no other man was. He is the first of all people to offer prayers and the first to worship Allah with me. I ordered him, on behalf of Allah, to sleep in my bed, and he did, offering his life as a sacrifice for my sake.

O people! Prefer him (over all others), for Allah has preferred him, and accept him, for Allah has appointed him (as your leader).

O people! He is an Imam appointed by Allah, and Allah shall never accept the repentance of anyone who denies his authority, nor shall He forgive him; this is a must decree from Allah never to do so to anyone who opposes him, and that He shall torment him with a most painful torment for all time to come, for eternity; so, beware lest you should oppose him and thus enter the fire the fuel of which is the people and the stones prepared for the unbelievers.

O people! By Allah! All past prophets and messengers conveyed the glad tiding of my advent, and I, by Allah, am the seal of the prophets and of the messengers and the argument against all beings in the heavens and on earth. Anyone who doubts this commits apostasy similar to that of the early jahiliyya, and anyone who doubts anything of what I have just said doubts everything which has been revealed to me, and anyone who doubts any of the Imams doubts all of them, and anyone who doubts us shall be lodged in the fire.

O people! Allah, the most Exalted and the Almighty, has bestowed this virtue upon me out of His kindness towards' Ali and as a boon to' Ali and there is no god but He; to Him all praise belongs in all times, for eternity, and in all circumstances.

O people! Prefer' Ali (over all others), for he is the very best of all people after me, be they males or females, so long as Allah sends down His sustenance, so long as there are beings. Cursed and again cursed, condemned and again condemned, is anyone who does not accept this statement of mine and who does not agree to it. Gabriel himself has informed me of the same on behalf of Allah Almighty Who he said (in Gabriel's words): " Anyone who antagonizes' Ali and refuses to accept his wilayat shall incur My curse upon him and My wrath." "... and let every soul consider what it has sent forth for the morrow, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah" (Qur'an, 59:18), "And do not make your oaths a means of deceit between you lest a foot should slip after its stability" (Qur'an, 16:94), " Allah is fully aware of all what you do" (Qur'an, 58: 13).

O people! He (' Ali) is janb-Allah mentioned in the Book of Allah, the Sublime One: The Almighty, forewarning his (' Ali's) adversaries, says, "Lest a soul should say: O woe unto me for what I fell short of my duty to Allah, and most surely I was of those who laughed to scorn" (Qur'an, 39:56).

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PROPHET'S HISTORIC GHADIR SERMON

PART VI

O people! Allah, the Exalted and the Sublime, has perfected your religion through his (' Ali's) Imamate; so, whoever rejects him as his Imam or rejects those of my offspring from his loins who assume the same status (as lmams) till the Day of Judgment when they shall all be displayed before Allah, the Exalted and the Sublime, these are the ones whose (good) deeds shall be nil and void in the life of this world and in the hereafter, and in the fire shall they be lodged forever, " ...their torture shall not be decreased, nor shall they be given a respite" (Qur'an,2:162).

O people! Here is' Ali, the one who has supported me more than anyone else among you, the one who most deserves my gratitude, the one who is closest of all of you to me and the one who is the very dearest to me. Both Allah, the Exalted and the Sublime, and I are pleased with him, and no verse of the Holy Qur'an expressing Allah's Pleasure except that he is implied therein, nor has any verse of praise been revealed in the Qur'an except that he is implied therein, nor has the Lord testified to Paradise in the (Qur'anic) Chapter starting with "Has there not come over man a long period of time when he was nothing (not even) mentioned?" (Qur'an, 76:1) nor was this Chapter revealed except in his praise.

O people! He is the one who supports the religion of Allah, who argues on behalf of the Messenger of Allah. He is the pious, the pure, the guide, the one rightly guided. Your Prophet is the best of all prophets, and your wasi is the best of all wasis, and his offspring are the best of wasis .

O people! Each prophet's progeny is from his own loins whereas mine is from the loins of Arneerul-Mo'mineen ' Ali.

O people! Iblis caused Adam to be dismissed from the garden through envy; so, do not envy him lest your deeds should be voided and lest your feet should slip away, for Adam was sent down to earth after having committed only one sin, and he was among the elite of Allah's creation. How, then, will be your case, and you being who you are, and among you are enemies of Allah?

Indeed, none hates' Ali except a wretch, and none accepts ' Ali's wilayat except a pious person. None believes in him except a sincere mu'min, and in honor of, Ali was the Chapter of 'Asr (Ch. 103) revealed, I swear to it by Allah: "In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. I swear by time that most surely man is in loss" (Qur'an, 103:1-2) except' Ali who believed and was pleased with the truth and with perseverance.

O people! I have sought Allah to be my Witness and have conveyed my Message to you, and the Messenger is obligated only to clearly convey (his Message).

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