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🔰The reality of the "Shi'a"🔰

✔The hadith is number 34 of the book "Sifat ush-Shi'a" which directly and without any formalities explains the essence of a "Shi'a". The book is compiled by Shaykh Sadooq (may Gods mercy be with him), who was amongst the greatest foundational scholars in the preservation of the pristine path of Islam after the occultation of Imam Mahdi, may God hasten his reappearance.

📍From the Hadith we learn that 'detestation' does not manifest from the heart of a believer into the corporeal world where it would harm others. Anger is restrained and hatred is shackled. Thus a "Mu'min" is he who's shadow is a shield for others.

📍The "Shi'a" do not easily ask others for favors unless it is their own intimate brethren and companions. Thus highlighting that the "Shi'a" are those who are a band of firm brothers.

📍The "Shi'a" do not bark or speak loudly and or disrespectfully like animals towards others, weather they be arguing or wailing. Weather they be friends, or foes. Hence, they are calm and firm on the path of righteousness and nobility.

📍They do not run after pennies of wealth, nor do they have the desire to as well. Thus, they do not sell their moral values for the cheap offers of "Dunya".

📍The lives of the "Shi'a" are simple, their homes do not exceed extravagance, and they will move or relocate without any resistance if it means to maintain their position on the path of "truth". Hence, they are constantly adhered to the values of truth.

📍Whether rich or poor, they always have a fixed share of their wealth for giving to others. They care and share of the bounties that God has blessed them. Thus, they are generous.

📍The "Shi'a" are intimate and interconnected with each other, and when they pass away, will visit each other and enjoy the others presence in the graves. Thus, it illustrates the elevated rank and station of a "Shi'a" even after life in this world.

📍When asked, where are these people?

📍Imam Sadiq, peace be with him, replies: "You will find them living in the outskirts and among the marts. They are the intendeds in Allah’s saying: 'They are humble towards the believers and dignified to the unbelievers' (5:54)".

🌺May God guide all of us to the path of true values and station us on the ark of salvation in this world and the next.

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Directives from the grand Ayatollah Shaykh Ishaq Fayyadh may God prolong his life, Relayed by his son, during his visit, to the Unites States of America in April 2012

2-- Because believers in some distant, western countries must necessarily coexist and deal with the peoples of those countries – with their various religions, the predominance of weak religious values, and being busy trying to develop material gains – they must take their precautions for themselves and pay attention to specify times and places to meet one another and revive the tenets of their faith. They should nominate individuals to teach the ignorant amongst them, to guide the misguided amongst them, and to convince those who depart (from the correct faith) through the use of clear evidence and the honorable religious legal rulings. (All of that should be done) in order to bring down (the hurdles of) hardship, such that the faith becomes their friend in their (environment which is) foreign (to the faith). If they do not do this, there is a fear that they may dissolve in the midst of such societies. Their religious spirit may be lost. Following one’s whims, as well as ignorance, may dominate. Consequently, this will lead to the birth of generations amongst them who are distant from religious values. They will lose themselves, and their families and relatives along with them.

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💠 Pets in Islamic lifestyle:

🔸Pigeon

In Islamic lifestyle some pets are highly recommended to be kept at home because of their spritual and other benefits.
For example dogs are not supposed to be kept at home.
💠Imam Ali says: "there is no benefit in keeping dogs except the hunter and guard dogs (used to protect the flock"
And of course these dogs are supposed to be kept outside.

🔸But about pigeons there are plenty of Ahadith recommending to keep them.

🔺Some scholars believe that some specific diseases such as M.S, Parkinsonism, Madness, etc are caused by Jins, when they get close to human being.
One of the ways to keep the Jins away is keeping pigeons at home according to the Ahadith.

💠Abdul Karim bin salih says:
I was in the presence of Imam Sadiq and I saw 3 pigeons are on his bed and they made it dirty by their poop. I told Imam about that, he replied: "it's OK, it's good to have them in the house"

💠Imam Sadiq says:
"Pigeons are the birds which the prophets used to keep them at home and in the house where they stay, the evils of Jins will not disturb the members of that house."

🔺Unlike pigeons, roosters and sparrows, Cuckoo is a bird which according to some Ahadith is not supposed to be kept at home nor should let them build their house on our environment as they cause spritual troubles.
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لِلْفُقَرَاءِ الَّذِينَ أُحْصِرُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ ضَرْبًا فِي الْأَرْضِ يَحْسَبُهُمُ الْجَاهِلُ أَغْنِيَاءَ مِنَ التَّعَفُّفِ تَعْرِفُهُم بِسِيمَاهُمْ لَا يَسْأَلُونَ النَّاسَ إِلْحَافًا ۗ وَمَا تُنفِقُوا مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ بِهِ عَلِيمٌ

[The charities are] for the poor who are straitened in the way of Allah, not capable of moving about in the land [for trade]. The unaware suppose them to be well-off because of their reserve. You recognize them by their mark; they do not ask the people importunately. And whatever wealth you may spend, Allah indeed knows it.
‏Quran 2:273

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

The ruler cannot acquit himself of the obligations laid on him by Allah in this matter except by striving and seeking help from Allah, by training himself to adhere to righteousness and by enduring on that account all that is light or hard.

1. The Army

🍁Put in command of your forces the man who in your view is the best well-wisher of Allah, His Prophet and your Imam. The most chaste of them in heart and the highest of them in endurance is one who is slow in getting angry, who accepts excuses, who is kind to the weak and is strict with the strong; violence should not raise his temper and weakness should not keep him sitting.

🍁Also associate with considerate people from high families, virtuous houses and decent traditions, then people of courage, valor, generosity and benevolence because they are repositories of honor and springs of virtues. Strive for their matters as the parents strive for their child.

🍁Do not regard anything that you do to strengthen them as big nor anything that you have agreed to do for them as little, even though it may be small because this would make them your well-wishers and create a good impression about you.

🍁Do not neglect to attend to their small matters. Confine yourself to their important matters because your small favors will also be of benefit to them while the important ones are such that they cannot ignore.

🍁That commander of the army should have such a status before you that he renders help to them equitably and spends from his money on them and on those of their families who remain behind so that all their worries converge on the one worry to fight the enemy.

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

🍁Your kindness to them would turn their hearts to you. The most pleasant thing for the rulers is the establishment of justice in their areas and the manifestation of the love of their subjects, but the subjects’ love manifests itself only when their hearts are clean. Their good wishes prove correct only when they surround their commanders (to protect them).

🍁Do not regard their positions to be a burden over them and do not keep watching for the end of their tenure.

🍁Therefore, be broad-minded with regard to their desires, continue to praise them and recount the good deeds of those who have shown such deeds because the mention of good deeds shakes the brave and rouses the weak, if Allah so wills.

🍁Appreciate the performance of each and every one of them. Do not attribute the performance of one to the other and do not minimize the reward below the level of the performance.

🍁The high status of a man should not lead you to regard his small deeds as big, nor should the low status of a man make you regard his big deeds as small.

🍁Refer to Allah and His Prophet the affairs which worry you and the matters which seem to confuse you because, addressing the people whom Allah the Sublime wishes to guide, He said the following:

“O you who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Prophet and those vested with authority from among you; then if you quarrel about anything, refer it to Allah and the Prophet if you believe in Allah and in the Last Day (of Judgement)”
📗(Book of God: Qor'an, 4: 59).

🍁Referring to Allah means acting according to what is clear in His Book, and referring to the Prophet (peace be with him) means following his unanimously agreed upon Sunnah with regard to which there are no differences.

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

3. Executive Officers

🔰🔰Look into the affairs of your executives. Give them appointment after testing them and do not appoint them according to partiality or favoritism because these two things make up the sources of injustice and unfairness.

🔰🔰Select from among them those who are people of experience and modesty, hailing from virtuous houses, having been previously in Islam because such persons possess high manners and untarnished honor.

🔰🔰They are the least inclined towards greed and always have their eyes on the ends of matters.

🔰🔰Give them an abundant livelihood (by way of salary) because this gives them the strength to maintain themselves in order and not to have an eye upon the funds in their custody and it will be an argument against them if they disobeyed your orders or misappropriated your trust.

🔰🔰You should also check their activities and assign people to report on them who should be truthful and faithful because your watching their actions secretly would urge them to preserve trust with and to be kind to the people.

🔰🔰Be careful of assistants. If any one of them extends his hands towards misappropriation and the reports of your reporters reaching you confirm it, that should be regarded assufficient testimony.

🔰🔰You should then inflict corporal punishment on him and recover what he has misappropriated. You should put him in a place of disgrace, blacklist him with (the charge of) misappropriation and make him wear the necklace of shame for his offence.

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

6. Traders and Industrialists

✅️✅️  Take some advice about traders and industrialists. Give them good counsel whether they are settled (shop-keepers) or traders or physical laborers because they are the sources of profit and the means of the provision of useful items. They bring them from distant and far-flung areas throughout the land and the sea, the plains or the mountains, from where people cannot come and to where they do not dare to go, for they are peaceful and there is no fear of rebellion from them and they are quite without fear of treason.

✅️✅️  Look after their affairs before those of your own wherever they may be in your land. Be informed, along with this, that most of them are very narrow-minded and awfully avaricious. They hoard goods for profiteering and fixing high prices for goods. This is a source of harm to the people and a blot on the officers in charge. Stop people from hoarding because the Messenger of Allah has prohibited it.

✅️✅️  The sale should be smooth, with correct weights and prices, not harm fill to either party, the seller or the buyer; whoever commits hoarding after you prohibit it, give him exemplary but not excessive punishment.

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We notice in several Ayahs a call for man to look into the effects of the past people and study how they rebelled, how they failed and the chastisement Allah punished them with due to the rebellion they demonstrated against Allah and His messengers. Allah says: “Therefore travel in the land, then see what was the end of the rejecters” (16:36), and: “So how many a town did We destroy while it was unjust, so it was fallen down upon its roofs, and (how many a) deserted well and palace raised high. Have they not travelled in the land so that they should have hearts with which to understand…” (22:46) and: “Have they not travelled in the earth and seen how the end of those before them was? They were stronger than these in prowess, and dug up the earth, and built on it in greater abundance than these have built on it, and there came to them their messengers with clear arguments; so it was not beseeming for Allah that He should deal with them unjustly, but they dealt unjustly with their own souls” (30:09) and several other Ayahs.

Therefore, in his sermon, Imam Ali (a.s.) was urging us to comprehend history by studying its experiences, for he said: “You should also fear what calamities befell peoples before you”, and calamities here are the punishments they received as a result of their deviation from the straight path, “on account of their evil deeds and detestable actions”, which they carried out and led to bad results, “so remember”, as we recall the past and try to grasp its effects and situations, “during good or bad circumstances what happened to them”, meaning to study all the positions of goodness they had and their results and all the positions of evil they had and their results, so as not to pass as mere memories and rather have stands whereby we deduce the right thoughts that establish goodness in one’s life. In the end, he called on us to “be cautious that we do not become like them”; i.e. not to follow them and adopt their methodology and consequently be entrapped with what they were entrapped with and suffer from what they suffered from. He continued to say: “After you have thought over both the conditions of these people, attach yourself to everything with which their position became honorable”, explaining the elements of goodness and success and how they upheld honor that is based on strength, for there is no such thing as honor without strength, be it a spiritual strength, a physical strength or the strength of one’s stand that prevents others from offending or ending him.

“On account of which enemies remained away from them”, so try to understand what kept the enemies far from them when they saw them arming themselves with strength, as well as with dignity and honor, “through which safety spread over them”, meaning that safety was reached after trials and after offenses having acquired the elements of honor, “by reason of which riches bowed before them”, for when they communicate and complement and strengthen each other, it would be natural that all the riches will be provided for them, for they increase through the development and investment process and as one attains gains and profits here and there, “and as a result of which privilege connected itself with their rope”, where Allah privileged them and showered them with His mercy, thus attaching this privilege to them.

“These things were abstention from division, sticking to unity”, and all that happened because they rejected division which could have disrupted their society and ended their unity. Division leads to each party standing against the other with all the aggressiveness and negativity entailed. And once this happens, the enemies will make use of that to destroy the society. So, the people here avoided division and stuck to unity, whilst opening their hearts to one another.

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🌹و قال امام صادق (علیه‌السلام):
من شيعتنا من لا يعدو صوته سمعه و لا شحنه أذنه، و لا يمتدح بنا معلنا، و لا يواصل لنا مبغضا، و لا يخاصم لنا ولّيا، و لا يجالس لنا عائبا.

🍃قال له مهزم: فكيف أصنع بهؤلاء المتشيّعة؟

🍃قال عليه السلام: فيهم التّمحيص، و فيهم التّمييز، و فيهم التّنزيل، تأتي عليهم سنون تفنيهم، و طاعون يقتلهم، واختلاف يبدّدهم، شيعتنا من لا يهرّ هرير الكلب، و لا يطمع طمع الغراب، و لا يسأل و إن مات جوعا.

🍃 قلت: فأين أطلب هؤلاء ؟

🍃قال عليه السلام: اطلبهم في أطراف الأرض، أولئك الخفيض عيشهم، المنتقلة دارهم، الَّذِين إن شهدوا لم يعرفوا، و إن غابو لم يفتقدُوا، و إن مرضوا لم يعادوا، و إن خطبوا لم يزوّجوا، و إن رأوا منكرا انكروا، و إن خاطبهم جاهل سلّموا، و إن لجأ إليهم ذو الحاجة منهم رحموا، و عند الموت هم لا يحزنون، لم تختلف قلوبهم و إن رأيتهم اختلفت بهم البلدان.

🌹Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (peace be with him):

🍃"Our followers are such that their voices do not exceed beyond their ears, detestation does not burst beyond their bodies (they swallow their frustration), do not praise us declaredly, refrain from befriending our enemies, avoid antagonizing themselves with our friends, and prohibit themselves from sitting in gatherings in which we are misspoken about.

🍃Mahzam said: 'then what do I do about those who claim to be your follower (but are not)'?

🍃Imam, peace be with him, said: difficulty, trials, and infliction of misfortunes is for them. In some years to come, disastrous droughts, deadly plagues, and excessive disagreements shall scatter them. Our followers are those who do not bark like dogs (speak loudly and arrogantly), and do not caw as crows do (speak in disrespectful and annoying manner), and if they die of starvation they will still not beg.

🍃Mahzam said: 'where shall I find such people?'

🍃Imam, peace be with him, replied: search for them in the outskirts and corners of the land, for they have just enough (savings) to live on, their homes always moving, and if they are present (amongst the people) they are not recognized, and if they are absent from them they are never asked about their whereabouts.

🍃If they are sick none go to visit them, if they seek to ask for marriage they will be rejected, and if they see evil misdeeds they will see it with disgust, and when the ignorant dispute with them they reply with 'salaam', when a needy seeks their asylum he is compassionate to them, at the coming of death they (truly) do not grieve, and their hearts are not separated from each other even though they may be in different regions of the world".

📚 Reference 📚
Tuhaf al-Uqul, Short Sayings of Imam Ja'far Sadiq, no. 169

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🌹و قال امام صادق (علیه‌السلام):
من شيعتنا من لا يعدو صوته سمعه و لا شحنه أذنه، و لا يمتدح بنا معلنا، و لا يواصل لنا مبغضا، و لا يخاصم لنا ولّيا، و لا يجالس لنا عائبا.

🍃قال له مهزم: فكيف أصنع بهؤلاء المتشيّعة؟

🍃قال عليه السلام: فيهم التّمحيص، و فيهم التّمييز، و فيهم التّنزيل، تأتي عليهم سنون تفنيهم، و طاعون يقتلهم، واختلاف يبدّدهم، شيعتنا من لا يهرّ هرير الكلب، و لا يطمع طمع الغراب، و لا يسأل و إن مات جوعا.

🍃 قلت: فأين أطلب هؤلاء ؟

🍃قال عليه السلام: اطلبهم في أطراف الأرض، أولئك الخفيض عيشهم، المنتقلة دارهم، الَّذِين إن شهدوا لم يعرفوا، و إن غابو لم يفتقدُوا، و إن مرضوا لم يعادوا، و إن خطبوا لم يزوّجوا، و إن رأوا منكرا انكروا، و إن خاطبهم جاهل سلّموا، و إن لجأ إليهم ذو الحاجة منهم رحموا، و عند الموت هم لا يحزنون، لم تختلف قلوبهم و إن رأيتهم اختلفت بهم البلدان.

🌹Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (peace be with him):

🍃"Our followers are such that their voices do not exceed beyond their ears, detestation does not burst beyond their bodies (they swallow their frustration), do not praise us declaredly, refrain from befriending our enemies, avoid antagonizing themselves with our friends, and prohibit themselves from sitting in gatherings in which we are misspoken about.

🍃Mahzam said: 'then what do I do about those who claim to be your follower (but are not)'?

🍃Imam, peace be with him, said: difficulty, trials, and infliction of misfortunes is for them. In some years to come, disastrous droughts, deadly plagues, and excessive disagreements shall scatter them. Our followers are those who do not bark like dogs (speak loudly and arrogantly), and do not caw as crows do (speak in disrespectful and annoying manner), and if they die of starvation they will still not beg.

🍃Mahzam said: 'where shall I find such people?'

🍃Imam, peace be with him, replied: search for them in the outskirts and corners of the land, for they have just enough (savings) to live on, their homes always moving, and if they are present (amongst the people) they are not recognized, and if they are absent from them they are never asked about their whereabouts.

🍃If they are sick none go to visit them, if they seek to ask for marriage they will be rejected, and if they see evil misdeeds they will see it with disgust, and when the ignorant dispute with them they reply with 'salaam', when a needy seeks their asylum he is compassionate to them, at the coming of death they (truly) do not grieve, and their hearts are not separated from each other even though they may be in different regions of the world".

📚 Reference 📚
Tuhaf al-Uqul, Short Sayings of Imam Ja'far Sadiq, no. 169

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We notice in several Ayahs a call for man to look into the effects of the past people and study how they rebelled, how they failed and the chastisement Allah punished them with due to the rebellion they demonstrated against Allah and His messengers. Allah says: “Therefore travel in the land, then see what was the end of the rejecters” (16:36), and: “So how many a town did We destroy while it was unjust, so it was fallen down upon its roofs, and (how many a) deserted well and palace raised high. Have they not travelled in the land so that they should have hearts with which to understand…” (22:46) and: “Have they not travelled in the earth and seen how the end of those before them was? They were stronger than these in prowess, and dug up the earth, and built on it in greater abundance than these have built on it, and there came to them their messengers with clear arguments; so it was not beseeming for Allah that He should deal with them unjustly, but they dealt unjustly with their own souls” (30:09) and several other Ayahs.

Therefore, in his sermon, Imam Ali (a.s.) was urging us to comprehend history by studying its experiences, for he said: “You should also fear what calamities befell peoples before you”, and calamities here are the punishments they received as a result of their deviation from the straight path, “on account of their evil deeds and detestable actions”, which they carried out and led to bad results, “so remember”, as we recall the past and try to grasp its effects and situations, “during good or bad circumstances what happened to them”, meaning to study all the positions of goodness they had and their results and all the positions of evil they had and their results, so as not to pass as mere memories and rather have stands whereby we deduce the right thoughts that establish goodness in one’s life. In the end, he called on us to “be cautious that we do not become like them”; i.e. not to follow them and adopt their methodology and consequently be entrapped with what they were entrapped with and suffer from what they suffered from. He continued to say: “After you have thought over both the conditions of these people, attach yourself to everything with which their position became honorable”, explaining the elements of goodness and success and how they upheld honor that is based on strength, for there is no such thing as honor without strength, be it a spiritual strength, a physical strength or the strength of one’s stand that prevents others from offending or ending him.

“On account of which enemies remained away from them”, so try to understand what kept the enemies far from them when they saw them arming themselves with strength, as well as with dignity and honor, “through which safety spread over them”, meaning that safety was reached after trials and after offenses having acquired the elements of honor, “by reason of which riches bowed before them”, for when they communicate and complement and strengthen each other, it would be natural that all the riches will be provided for them, for they increase through the development and investment process and as one attains gains and profits here and there, “and as a result of which privilege connected itself with their rope”, where Allah privileged them and showered them with His mercy, thus attaching this privilege to them.

“These things were abstention from division, sticking to unity”, and all that happened because they rejected division which could have disrupted their society and ended their unity. Division leads to each party standing against the other with all the aggressiveness and negativity entailed. And once this happens, the enemies will make use of that to destroy the society. So, the people here avoided division and stuck to unity, whilst opening their hearts to one another.

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🌹و قال امام صادق (علیه‌السلام):
من شيعتنا من لا يعدو صوته سمعه و لا شحنه أذنه، و لا يمتدح بنا معلنا، و لا يواصل لنا مبغضا، و لا يخاصم لنا ولّيا، و لا يجالس لنا عائبا.

🍃قال له مهزم: فكيف أصنع بهؤلاء المتشيّعة؟

🍃قال عليه السلام: فيهم التّمحيص، و فيهم التّمييز، و فيهم التّنزيل، تأتي عليهم سنون تفنيهم، و طاعون يقتلهم، واختلاف يبدّدهم، شيعتنا من لا يهرّ هرير الكلب، و لا يطمع طمع الغراب، و لا يسأل و إن مات جوعا.

🍃 قلت: فأين أطلب هؤلاء ؟

🍃قال عليه السلام: اطلبهم في أطراف الأرض، أولئك الخفيض عيشهم، المنتقلة دارهم، الَّذِين إن شهدوا لم يعرفوا، و إن غابو لم يفتقدُوا، و إن مرضوا لم يعادوا، و إن خطبوا لم يزوّجوا، و إن رأوا منكرا انكروا، و إن خاطبهم جاهل سلّموا، و إن لجأ إليهم ذو الحاجة منهم رحموا، و عند الموت هم لا يحزنون، لم تختلف قلوبهم و إن رأيتهم اختلفت بهم البلدان.

🌹Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (peace be with him):

🍃"Our followers are such that their voices do not exceed beyond their ears, detestation does not burst beyond their bodies (they swallow their frustration), do not praise us declaredly, refrain from befriending our enemies, avoid antagonizing themselves with our friends, and prohibit themselves from sitting in gatherings in which we are misspoken about.

🍃Mahzam said: 'then what do I do about those who claim to be your follower (but are not)'?

🍃Imam, peace be with him, said: difficulty, trials, and infliction of misfortunes is for them. In some years to come, disastrous droughts, deadly plagues, and excessive disagreements shall scatter them. Our followers are those who do not bark like dogs (speak loudly and arrogantly), and do not caw as crows do (speak in disrespectful and annoying manner), and if they die of starvation they will still not beg.

🍃Mahzam said: 'where shall I find such people?'

🍃Imam, peace be with him, replied: search for them in the outskirts and corners of the land, for they have just enough (savings) to live on, their homes always moving, and if they are present (amongst the people) they are not recognized, and if they are absent from them they are never asked about their whereabouts.

🍃If they are sick none go to visit them, if they seek to ask for marriage they will be rejected, and if they see evil misdeeds they will see it with disgust, and when the ignorant dispute with them they reply with 'salaam', when a needy seeks their asylum he is compassionate to them, at the coming of death they (truly) do not grieve, and their hearts are not separated from each other even though they may be in different regions of the world".

📚 Reference 📚
Tuhaf al-Uqul, Short Sayings of Imam Ja'far Sadiq, no. 169

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🔰The reality of the "Shi'a"🔰

✔The hadith is number 34 of the book "Sifat ush-Shi'a" which directly and without any formalities explains the essence of a "Shi'a". The book is compiled by Shaykh Sadooq (may Gods mercy be with him), who was amongst the greatest foundational scholars in the preservation of the pristine path of Islam after the occultation of Imam Mahdi, may God hasten his reappearance.

📍From the Hadith we learn that 'detestation' does not manifest from the heart of a believer into the corporeal world where it would harm others. Anger is restrained and hatred is shackled. Thus a "Mu'min" is he who's shadow is a shield for others.

📍The "Shi'a" do not easily ask others for favors unless it is their own intimate brethren and companions. Thus highlighting that the "Shi'a" are those who are a band of firm brothers.

📍The "Shi'a" do not bark or speak loudly and or disrespectfully like animals towards others, weather they be arguing or wailing. Weather they be friends, or foes. Hence, they are calm and firm on the path of righteousness and nobility.

📍They do not run after pennies of wealth, nor do they have the desire to as well. Thus, they do not sell their moral values for the cheap offers of "Dunya".

📍The lives of the "Shi'a" are simple, their homes do not exceed extravagance, and they will move or relocate without any resistance if it means to maintain their position on the path of "truth". Hence, they are constantly adhered to the values of truth.

📍Whether rich or poor, they always have a fixed share of their wealth for giving to others. They care and share of the bounties that God has blessed them. Thus, they are generous.

📍The "Shi'a" are intimate and interconnected with each other, and when they pass away, will visit each other and enjoy the others presence in the graves. Thus, it illustrates the elevated rank and station of a "Shi'a" even after life in this world.

📍When asked, where are these people?

📍Imam Sadiq, peace be with him, replies: "You will find them living in the outskirts and among the marts. They are the intendeds in Allah’s saying: 'They are humble towards the believers and dignified to the unbelievers' (5:54)".

🌺May God guide all of us to the path of true values and station us on the ark of salvation in this world and the next.

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