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💠A Small Promise

Hojjatol Islam wal Muslimeen Jawad Ajayee (husband of the Beheshti family's daughter) narrates:

"In the year 1956, we were with Hajj Agha Beheshti in Mashad.. at a family event with our family. Shahid Bahonar entered my home in Mashad, and asked if Shahid Beheshti was home. I said yes. When Shahid Bahonar saw Shahid Beheshti, he said 'some friends asked if you were in Mashad, so I came to take you to our gathering'.

Hajj Agha Beheshti replied, 'is 8 pm tomorrow night good?' I said: 'what are you doing now (which makes you unavailable)? He said, 'I have promised my wife and kids to take them to the park'. When he heard this, Shahid Bahonar became angry and in result his face turned red. He then said, 'we have gathered to sit with you, and you decide to take your family to the park?' Aghaye Beheshti said, 'it is as I said'. Shahid Bahonar then said, 'let Aghaye Ajayee (me) take the family instead'. Aghaye Beheshti replied, 'I have promised that I take them to the park'.

The next day at the gathering, Shahid Bahonar and Ayatollah Mahdawi Kani told Aghaye Beheshti that 'the brothers had gathered to meet you when they were released from prison, and you took your family to the park?' Aghaye Beheshti stated: 'friends, isn't it true that we want to initiate a revolution? (Hence) in this revolution we are promising to people (a proper system of governance). If we are unable to fulfill the (small) promises that we give to our wives and kids, how will we then fulfill (large and weighty) promises of this revolution? I believe that this is a special principle of the revolution, that if we promise even our toddlers, we must not neglect its conditions and or ignore it. However, when we do promise we must think if it is doable or not'".

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said: "to bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah and that 'Isa (Jesus) (a.s) is created a slave (of Allah), and he used to eat, drink and relieve himself”.

They said: “Then who was his father”? The revelation was then revealed to the Messenger of Allah saying: “Say to them - what do you say about Adam, was he a created servant (of Allah), who would eat, drink, relieve himself and cohabit”?

So the Prophet asked them and they replied: “Yes”. He (Prophet) asked them: “Then who was his father”? They could not answer, so Allah revealed:

Verily, the similitude of Jesus with Allah is as the similitude of Adam; Allah created him out of dust, then said to him, ‘Be’, and he became (3:59)

till the verse:

And should anyone argue with you concerning him, after the knowledge that has come to you…. and call down Allah’s curse upon the liars. (3:61)

The Messenger of God said: “So challenge me: if I am telling the truth the curse falls on you, and if I am a liar the curse falls on me”. They said: “You have been just”.

They agreed on a date for ‘mubahala’ (mutual imprecation). [The term 'Mubahala' is derived from its Arabic root 'bahlah' meaning 'curse'. Thus the act of al-Mubahala means that each of the two parties invokes the curse of Allah on the other if the latter is untruthful].

When they returned to the places they were staying in, their leaders al-Sayyid, al-'Aqib and al-Ahtam said: “If he challenges us with his people, we accept the challenge for he is not a Prophet; but if he challenges us with his family in particular we don't challenge him, for he is not going to put forward his family unless he is truthful”.
In the morning, they came to the Messenger of Allah, and there with him were the Commander of the Faithful Ali, Fatimah, Hasan and Husayn peace be with them, so the Christians said: “Who are those”? The people replied: “This is his cousin and successor and son-in-law, and this is his daughter Fatimah, and these are his grandsons, Hasan and Husayn”.

When the Christian delegation saw a woman, two children and only one man with the Prophet, they were frightened and worried and said to the Messenger of Allah: “We will pay tax so excuse us from the ‘mubahala’”. Then the Messenger of Allah made a settlement with them for them to pay the Jizya like muslims were paying zakaat and khums and then they left.’
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This event has been related in both Sunni and Shi’i books of hadith and Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir).
It is related in the al-Tafsir of al-Tha’labi:

When the Prophet called the Christians for the imprecation they said: 'Let us return and think over it.' When they were alone, they asked al-'Aqib - and he was a man of good judgment among them: 'O 'Abd al-Masih! What is your opinion? , He said: ' By Allah! You are well-aware, O Christians, that Muhammad is a prophet sent by Allah, and that he has brought to you the decisive word about your Companion ('Jesus of Nazareth).

By Allah! Whenever a nation has entered into imprecation with a prophet, their elders have perished and their youngsters have died. And if you do it, we shall surely perish; but, if you turn down, for the love of your religion and (want) to remain on what you have at present, then make peace with the man and go back to your towns.

"So they came to the Messenger of Allah; and he had come out in the morning carrying Husayn in his lap, holding the hand of Hasan, with Fatimah walking behind him and 'Ali was behind her; and he was saying: 'When I pray, you say "Amen" '. Then the Bishop of Najran said: 'O Christians! Surely I see the faces that if they ask Allah to remove a mountain from its place, He would surely remove it. Therefore, do not do imprecation, otherwise you will perish, and there will not remain any Christian on the face of the earth, upto the Day of Resurrection’.

"Then they said: 'O Abu'l-Qasim! We have decided that we should not enter into imprecation against you; and that we leave you on your religion and we remain on our religion.'

He said: 'Well, if you ref

Asalaamo Alaykom
(Peace be with all of you)

We wish you a fresh and blissful start to a new year that will God willingly be filled with joy, prosper, felicity, serenity, and true satisfaction.

We wish to see smiling faces, warmth and unity in families, bonds of brotherhood amongst the believers, and spiritual enlightenment in all.

May Gods blessing, mercy, and good tidings be with all of humanity, and specially his benignity on all the Mu’mineen and Mu’minat.

With that being said, Happy New Years on behalf of the @AbodeofWisdom admins.

✴Why do Shias prostrate on the soil?✴

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🔷🔶1. Some of the scholars say that Prophet Muhammad (peace be with him and his progeny) knew the earth as a place to prostrate. He also says that the earth is a place for prostrating and for cleanliness to me.(4)
The word “Ja’al” which here has the meaning of legislation clearly shows that this subject is a Divine Decree for followers of Islam. So legitimation of prostration on soil and sand and other content of the ground will be proved.

🔷🔶2. A series of narration state that our prophet (peace be with him), was ordering Muslims to put their forehead over the soil while prostrating, as Um Salama (wife of prophet) narrates from prophet that he said:
"Put your forehead on soil for Allah."(5)

 Two points are clear from this statement: "put your forehead on soil". First is that we should prostrate on soil and put our forehead on the soil while prostrating, and the other is that this is an order that should be followed.

🔷🔶3. Prophet’s behavior in this regard is another evidence for believers.

Wael-Ibn-Hajar narrates: “I saw that whenever prophet (peace be with him) would prostrate, he'd put his forehead and tip of his nose over the ground”(6)

Anas Ibn Malik and Ibn Abbas and some of prophet’s wives like Aisha, Um-Salama and a group of Narrators narrated that: “prophet was prostrating on “Khumra” which was a kind of mat woven from palm’s bast”(7)

Abu-Saeed who is one of prophet’s companions, narrates: “I entered while prophet (peace be with him) was prostrating on palm’s bast mat”(8)

These will be another evidence for Shi’a’s theory that prostrating to whatever grows from the ground except of foods and clothes is permissible.

🔷🔶4. The things that the followers of the Prophet's way did, testify that we are doing the correct action.

Jaber Bin Abdollah Ansari says: "we were praying Zuhur prayers with the Prophet, when I took the pebbles and kept it in my hand to get cool so that I could put on it my forehead".(9)

The Narrator also says: "if prostrating to the clothes that you wore was not a problem, then it was way easier than taking pebbles and keeping them in your hand"!.

Mohammad Ibn-e Sa'ad in his book “Tabaghat-ul Kubra” says: "Masrūq bin Ajda used to take a small stone while on a trip by ship so that he could prostrate on it when praying".(10)

It is necessary to say that Masrūq bin Ajda was one of the Tabe’in (Follower of the companions) of prophet and accompanied (the best student of) Ibn-e Mas'ūd and also lived in the time of the author of “Tabaqat-Al Kubra”.
He has been counted as the first level of Kufans after prophet and was also a narrator of Abu Bakr, Omar, Othman and Imam Ali (peace be with him) and Ibn-e Mas'ūd. This statement clearly proves that the word of those others who assume carrying a piece of stone is "polytheism", is baseless, as the followers (of prophet) were also doing the same.(11)

Nafe’e narrates that if Abdollāh ibn-e Omar was praying and he had put on the head-veil, he was made to remove it to put his forehead on the ground.(12)

Rasīn narrates that: Ali Ibn-e Abdollāh Ibn-e Abbas wrote to me: "send a piece of marble of Marva mountain so as to prostrate on that".(13)

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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'.

Some people were making a mosque

Suddenly Bahlōl arrived and asked: what are you doing ?

They replied: we are making a mosque.

Bahlōl said: for what?

They replied: "there is no “what”! It is for the sake of God."

Bahlōl wanted them, the trustees of good works (who built the mosque) to realize the degree of their sincerity and honesty in building that mosque..

So he (Bahlōl) secretly ordered a rock, and wrote on it, "Bahlōl’s Mosque" and installed it overnight on the mosque’s main entrance.

The trustees of the mosque came the next day and saw the stone on the main entrance where there was written "Bahlōl Mosque."

They became upset; and started searching for Bahlōl. When they found him, they beat him and said that you put others' efforts under your name.

Bahlōl said: "Did not you say that you have made the mosque for GOD?"

Let’s say if people make a mistake and think that I made this mosque, but God doesn’t make mistakes (he knows who sincerely built it).

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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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🌺 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'.

said: "to bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah and that 'Isa (Jesus) (a.s) is created a slave (of Allah), and he used to eat, drink and relieve himself”.

They said: “Then who was his father”? The revelation was then revealed to the Messenger of Allah saying: “Say to them - what do you say about Adam, was he a created servant (of Allah), who would eat, drink, relieve himself and cohabit”?

So the Prophet asked them and they replied: “Yes”. He (Prophet) asked them: “Then who was his father”? They could not answer, so Allah revealed:

Verily, the similitude of Jesus with Allah is as the similitude of Adam; Allah created him out of dust, then said to him, ‘Be’, and he became (3:59)

till the verse:

And should anyone argue with you concerning him, after the knowledge that has come to you…. and call down Allah’s curse upon the liars. (3:61)

The Messenger of God said: “So challenge me: if I am telling the truth the curse falls on you, and if I am a liar the curse falls on me”. They said: “You have been just”.

They agreed on a date for ‘mubahala’ (mutual imprecation). [The term 'Mubahala' is derived from its Arabic root 'bahlah' meaning 'curse'. Thus the act of al-Mubahala means that each of the two parties invokes the curse of Allah on the other if the latter is untruthful].

When they returned to the places they were staying in, their leaders al-Sayyid, al-'Aqib and al-Ahtam said: “If he challenges us with his people, we accept the challenge for he is not a Prophet; but if he challenges us with his family in particular we don't challenge him, for he is not going to put forward his family unless he is truthful”.
In the morning, they came to the Messenger of Allah, and there with him were the Commander of the Faithful Ali, Fatimah, Hasan and Husayn peace be with them, so the Christians said: “Who are those”? The people replied: “This is his cousin and successor and son-in-law, and this is his daughter Fatimah, and these are his grandsons, Hasan and Husayn”.

When the Christian delegation saw a woman, two children and only one man with the Prophet, they were frightened and worried and said to the Messenger of Allah: “We will pay tax so excuse us from the ‘mubahala’”. Then the Messenger of Allah made a settlement with them for them to pay the Jizya like muslims were paying zakaat and khums and then they left.’
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This event has been related in both Sunni and Shi’i books of hadith and Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir).
It is related in the al-Tafsir of al-Tha’labi:

When the Prophet called the Christians for the imprecation they said: 'Let us return and think over it.' When they were alone, they asked al-'Aqib - and he was a man of good judgment among them: 'O 'Abd al-Masih! What is your opinion? , He said: ' By Allah! You are well-aware, O Christians, that Muhammad is a prophet sent by Allah, and that he has brought to you the decisive word about your Companion ('Jesus of Nazareth).

By Allah! Whenever a nation has entered into imprecation with a prophet, their elders have perished and their youngsters have died. And if you do it, we shall surely perish; but, if you turn down, for the love of your religion and (want) to remain on what you have at present, then make peace with the man and go back to your towns.

"So they came to the Messenger of Allah; and he had come out in the morning carrying Husayn in his lap, holding the hand of Hasan, with Fatimah walking behind him and 'Ali was behind her; and he was saying: 'When I pray, you say "Amen" '. Then the Bishop of Najran said: 'O Christians! Surely I see the faces that if they ask Allah to remove a mountain from its place, He would surely remove it. Therefore, do not do imprecation, otherwise you will perish, and there will not remain any Christian on the face of the earth, upto the Day of Resurrection’.

"Then they said: 'O Abu'l-Qasim! We have decided that we should not enter into imprecation against you; and that we leave you on your religion and we remain on our religion.'

He said: 'Well, if you ref

said: "to bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah and that 'Isa (Jesus) (a.s) is created a slave (of Allah), and he used to eat, drink and relieve himself”.

They said: “Then who was his father”? The revelation was then revealed to the Messenger of Allah saying: “Say to them - what do you say about Adam, was he a created servant (of Allah), who would eat, drink, relieve himself and cohabit”?

So the Prophet asked them and they replied: “Yes”. He (Prophet) asked them: “Then who was his father”? They could not answer, so Allah revealed:

Verily, the similitude of Jesus with Allah is as the similitude of Adam; Allah created him out of dust, then said to him, ‘Be’, and he became (3:59)

till the verse:

And should anyone argue with you concerning him, after the knowledge that has come to you…. and call down Allah’s curse upon the liars. (3:61)

The Messenger of God said: “So challenge me: if I am telling the truth the curse falls on you, and if I am a liar the curse falls on me”. They said: “You have been just”.

They agreed on a date for ‘mubahala’ (mutual imprecation). [The term 'Mubahala' is derived from its Arabic root 'bahlah' meaning 'curse'. Thus the act of al-Mubahala means that each of the two parties invokes the curse of Allah on the other if the latter is untruthful].

When they returned to the places they were staying in, their leaders al-Sayyid, al-'Aqib and al-Ahtam said: “If he challenges us with his people, we accept the challenge for he is not a Prophet; but if he challenges us with his family in particular we don't challenge him, for he is not going to put forward his family unless he is truthful”.
In the morning, they came to the Messenger of Allah, and there with him were the Commander of the Faithful Ali, Fatimah, Hasan and Husayn peace be with them, so the Christians said: “Who are those”? The people replied: “This is his cousin and successor and son-in-law, and this is his daughter Fatimah, and these are his grandsons, Hasan and Husayn”.

When the Christian delegation saw a woman, two children and only one man with the Prophet, they were frightened and worried and said to the Messenger of Allah: “We will pay tax so excuse us from the ‘mubahala’”. Then the Messenger of Allah made a settlement with them for them to pay the Jizya like muslims were paying zakaat and khums and then they left.’
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This event has been related in both Sunni and Shi’i books of hadith and Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir).
It is related in the al-Tafsir of al-Tha’labi:

When the Prophet called the Christians for the imprecation they said: 'Let us return and think over it.' When they were alone, they asked al-'Aqib - and he was a man of good judgment among them: 'O 'Abd al-Masih! What is your opinion? , He said: ' By Allah! You are well-aware, O Christians, that Muhammad is a prophet sent by Allah, and that he has brought to you the decisive word about your Companion ('Jesus of Nazareth).

By Allah! Whenever a nation has entered into imprecation with a prophet, their elders have perished and their youngsters have died. And if you do it, we shall surely perish; but, if you turn down, for the love of your religion and (want) to remain on what you have at present, then make peace with the man and go back to your towns.

"So they came to the Messenger of Allah; and he had come out in the morning carrying Husayn in his lap, holding the hand of Hasan, with Fatimah walking behind him and 'Ali was behind her; and he was saying: 'When I pray, you say "Amen" '. Then the Bishop of Najran said: 'O Christians! Surely I see the faces that if they ask Allah to remove a mountain from its place, He would surely remove it. Therefore, do not do imprecation, otherwise you will perish, and there will not remain any Christian on the face of the earth, upto the Day of Resurrection’.

"Then they said: 'O Abu'l-Qasim! We have decided that we should not enter into imprecation against you; and that we leave you on your religion and we remain on our religion.'

He said: 'Well, if you ref

💠A Small Promise

Hojjatol Islam wal Muslimeen Jawad Ajayee (husband of the Beheshti family's daughter) narrates:

"In the year 1956, we were with Hajj Agha Beheshti in Mashad.. at a family event with our family. Shahid Bahonar entered my home in Mashad, and asked if Shahid Beheshti was home. I said yes. When Shahid Bahonar saw Shahid Beheshti, he said 'some friends asked if you were in Mashad, so I came to take you to our gathering'.

Hajj Agha Beheshti replied, 'is 8 pm tomorrow night good?' I said: 'what are you doing now (which makes you unavailable)? He said, 'I have promised my wife and kids to take them to the park'. When he heard this, Shahid Bahonar became angry and in result his face turned red. He then said, 'we have gathered to sit with you, and you decide to take your family to the park?' Aghaye Beheshti said, 'it is as I said'. Shahid Bahonar then said, 'let Aghaye Ajayee (me) take the family instead'. Aghaye Beheshti replied, 'I have promised that I take them to the park'.

The next day at the gathering, Shahid Bahonar and Ayatollah Mahdawi Kani told Aghaye Beheshti that 'the brothers had gathered to meet you when they were released from prison, and you took your family to the park?' Aghaye Beheshti stated: 'friends, isn't it true that we want to initiate a revolution? (Hence) in this revolution we are promising to people (a proper system of governance). If we are unable to fulfill the (small) promises that we give to our wives and kids, how will we then fulfill (large and weighty) promises of this revolution? I believe that this is a special principle of the revolution, that if we promise even our toddlers, we must not neglect its conditions and or ignore it. However, when we do promise we must think if it is doable or not'".

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💠THE COUNSEL OF THE BIRD💠

“A man captured a bird by deception and snares.

The bird said to him, ‘O noble sir, in your time you have eaten many oxen and sheep, and likewise sacrificed many camels. You have never become satisfied with their meat, so you will not be satisfied with mine.

Let me go, so I may give you three advices by which you will see whether I am wise or foolish. The first of my counsels shall be given on your wrist, the second on your well-plastered roof, and the third I will give you from the top of a tree. On hearing all three you will see yourself happy.

🔹As for the advice on your wrist:
Don’t fall for foolish claims of any one!’

When he had spoken this counsel on his wrist, he flew up to the top of the roof, entirely free, the bird said:

🔹’Do not grieve for what is past. When a thing is done, don’t be vexed about it.’

Then the bird continued: ‘Hidden inside me is a precious pearl, it weighs as much as ten silver coins. It belonged to you, a wealth for yourself and prosperity for your children. When you set me free you lost it, as it was not fated you should get it. That was such a pearl whose like can be found nowhere.’

Thereupon the man, started crying painfully like a woman giving birth.

The bird responded to him: ‘Did I not advise you to be aware of grieving over what is past?! When it is past and gone, why have sorrow for it? Either you misunderstood me or you’re deaf.

The first counsel I gave you was this:
Don’t believe foolish assertions. You fool! I do not weigh three silver coins let alone to carry a pearl of ten silver coins within me.’

The man recovered himself and said, ‘well then, at least tell me your third good advise!’

The bird replied sarcastically, ‘oh yeah, sure! Certainly you made a fine use of the others, that I should waste my third counsel upon you! Giving advice to a sleepy idiot is like sowing seeds on salty land. Torn garments of foolishness and ignorance cannot be patched.

Oh advice-givers, do not waste the seed of advice on them!’”

📚”Flowers from Persian Poets” (1901) vol. 1, p. 228-229

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Prophet Mohammad’s Sermon of Sha’bāniyeh (peace be with him and his Progeny) خطبه شعبانيه
Part Two

And whosoever repeatedly invokes Allah's blessings on me (salawāt), Allah will keep his scale of good deeds heavy, while the scales of others will be tending to lightness.

He who recites one verse of the Qur'ān will be given the rewards
of reciting the whole Qur'ān during other months.

O people! The gates of Paradise and Heaven remain open during this month. Ask your Lord not to close them for you; while the gates of Hell-fires are closed, ask your Lord to keep them closed for you.

During this month devils (Satans) are imprisoned in chains. So, ask your Lord not to let them have power and domination over you.'

Amir al-Mu’menin said that ‘I stood up and asked: O’ Messenger of God, what are the best deeds during this month?'
He replied: ‘O Aba al-Hassan, the best of deeds during this month is to be far from what Allah has forbidden.'"

Then all of sudden prophet cried.
I said: ‘O Prophet of God, what is the reason for your crying?’
Prophet said: ‘O Ali, I weep for that your sanctity will be violated in this month. It is as if I see you are praying to your Lord, but one who is the most unfortunate of this nation from the first day to the end, who is the brother of the one who beheads the people of Thamud, gets up and strikes you on the head, and your beard is colored with the blood of your head.’

I said: ‘O Prophet of God, is my religion safe in that case?’
Prophet said: ‘Your religion is safe and perfect.’

Then he said: ‘O Ali, whoever kills you, has killed me, and whoever considers you an enemy, has made me an enemy, and whoever insults you, has insulted me. Because you are from me, like my soul. Your soul is from my soul and your nature is from my nature. God Almighty created me and you and chose me and you and chose me as the Prophet and you as the Imām. Whoever denies your Imamate has denied my prophethood.

O Ali, you have my authority, and you’re the father of my children (Imām Hasan and Husain), the husband of my daughter and you’re my successor over my nation, when I am alive and after my death. Your command is my command and your prohibition is my prohibition. (For what I said,) I swear by God, who chose me to prophethood and made me one of the best of creatures.’”

📚Wasāel-ush Shīah, V.10, P.314

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said: "to bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah and that 'Isa (Jesus) (a.s) is created a slave (of Allah), and he used to eat, drink and relieve himself”.

They said: “Then who was his father”? The revelation was then revealed to the Messenger of Allah saying: “Say to them - what do you say about Adam, was he a created servant (of Allah), who would eat, drink, relieve himself and cohabit”?

So the Prophet asked them and they replied: “Yes”. He (Prophet) asked them: “Then who was his father”? They could not answer, so Allah revealed:

Verily, the similitude of Jesus with Allah is as the similitude of Adam; Allah created him out of dust, then said to him, ‘Be’, and he became (3:59)

till the verse:

And should anyone argue with you concerning him, after the knowledge that has come to you…. and call down Allah’s curse upon the liars. (3:61)

The Messenger of God said: “So challenge me: if I am telling the truth the curse falls on you, and if I am a liar the curse falls on me”. They said: “You have been just”.

They agreed on a date for ‘mubahala’ (mutual imprecation). [The term 'Mubahala' is derived from its Arabic root 'bahlah' meaning 'curse'. Thus the act of al-Mubahala means that each of the two parties invokes the curse of Allah on the other if the latter is untruthful].

When they returned to the places they were staying in, their leaders al-Sayyid, al-'Aqib and al-Ahtam said: “If he challenges us with his people, we accept the challenge for he is not a Prophet; but if he challenges us with his family in particular we don't challenge him, for he is not going to put forward his family unless he is truthful”.
In the morning, they came to the Messenger of Allah, and there with him were the Commander of the Faithful Ali, Fatimah, Hasan and Husayn peace be with them, so the Christians said: “Who are those”? The people replied: “This is his cousin and successor and son-in-law, and this is his daughter Fatimah, and these are his grandsons, Hasan and Husayn”.

When the Christian delegation saw a woman, two children and only one man with the Prophet, they were frightened and worried and said to the Messenger of Allah: “We will pay tax so excuse us from the ‘mubahala’”. Then the Messenger of Allah made a settlement with them for them to pay the Jizya like muslims were paying zakaat and khums and then they left.’
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This event has been related in both Sunni and Shi’i books of hadith and Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir).
It is related in the al-Tafsir of al-Tha’labi:

When the Prophet called the Christians for the imprecation they said: 'Let us return and think over it.' When they were alone, they asked al-'Aqib - and he was a man of good judgment among them: 'O 'Abd al-Masih! What is your opinion? , He said: ' By Allah! You are well-aware, O Christians, that Muhammad is a prophet sent by Allah, and that he has brought to you the decisive word about your Companion ('Jesus of Nazareth).

By Allah! Whenever a nation has entered into imprecation with a prophet, their elders have perished and their youngsters have died. And if you do it, we shall surely perish; but, if you turn down, for the love of your religion and (want) to remain on what you have at present, then make peace with the man and go back to your towns.

"So they came to the Messenger of Allah; and he had come out in the morning carrying Husayn in his lap, holding the hand of Hasan, with Fatimah walking behind him and 'Ali was behind her; and he was saying: 'When I pray, you say "Amen" '. Then the Bishop of Najran said: 'O Christians! Surely I see the faces that if they ask Allah to remove a mountain from its place, He would surely remove it. Therefore, do not do imprecation, otherwise you will perish, and there will not remain any Christian on the face of the earth, upto the Day of Resurrection’.

"Then they said: 'O Abu'l-Qasim! We have decided that we should not enter into imprecation against you; and that we leave you on your religion and we remain on our religion.'

He said: 'Well, if you ref