Making good deeds a habit

Imam Sadiq (as) is quoted to have said:
“I like to continue good actions so that I become habitual in them. If I could not perform a particular deed in the day I make up for it during the night and if I do not perform an action during the night I make up the following day. Certainly the best of the deeds near Allah are those which one continues. Hence all the deeds of the week are presented to Imam (a.s.) every Thursday and the deeds of the month at the end of the month and all the deeds of the year at the middle of Shabān. So if you begin a good ritual, keep at it for the whole year.” (i.e. continue it for at least a year).

Awwwwwwwww

  وعن علي بن إبراهيم ، عن أبيه ، عن ابن أبي عمير ، عن عبدالله بن سنان ، عن أبي عبدالله ( عليه السلام ) قال : لمّا لقي يوسف أخاه قال : كيف استطعت

 أن تتزوج بعدي ؟ فقال : إن أبي أمرني فقال : إن استطعت أن يكون لك ذرية تثقل الارض بالتسبيح فافعل .

And from `Ali b. Ibrahim from his father from Ibn Abi `Umayr from `Abdullah b. Sinan from Abu `Abdillah عليه السلام.  He said: When his brother met Yusuf, he said: How can you marry after me?  So he said: Verily my father commanded me.  So he said: If you can have a progeny that makes heavy the Earth with praise then do so.

  وقال رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) : اعلموا أن أحدكم يلقي سقطه محبنطأ على باب الجنة ، حتى إذا رآه أخذه بيده حتى يدخله الجنة ، وإن ولد أحدكم إذا مات أجر فيه ، وإن بقي بعده استغفر له بعد موته .

And the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وآله said: Know that one of you (will) meet his stillborn waiting (?) upon the gate of the Garden, until when he has seen him will he take him by his hand so that he enter him into the Garden.  And if the child of one of you died, he is rewarded with regards to him, and if remained after him, he seeks forgiveness for him after his death.

 [ قال رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) ] : تزوجوا فإني مكاثر بكم الامم غدا في القيامة ، حتى أن السقط ( يقف محبنطأ ) على باب الجنة فيقال له : أدخل ، فيقول : لا ، حتى يدخل أبواي قبلي .

 [The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وآله said:] Marry, for verily I am vying in numbers by you with the nations tomorrow in the Resurrection.  Even the stillborn will stand waiting (?) at the gate of the Garden, and it will be said to him: Enter.  And he will say: No, not until my parents enter before me.

Too true...

"The learned man understands the ignorant for he was once ignorant himself. The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never been learned himself." 

-Imam Ali (as)

SubhanAllah...

It is narrated that Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (as) said:

“I am amazed at the one who has been afflicted with fear, and he does not flee to the Words of Allah:

‘Sufficient for us is Allah, and [He is] the best Disposer of affairs’ [hasbunallahu wa ni'mal wakeel] for verily Allah has said after it

‘So they returned with favor from Allah and bounty, no harm having touched them.’ (Qur’an, 3:173-174)

And I am amazed at the person who is afflicted with sadness, and he does not flee to the Words of Allah:

‘There is no deity except You; exalted are You. Indeed, I have been of the wrongdoers,’ [la ilaha illa anta subhanaka inni kuntu minaz zalimin] for verily Allah has said after it

‘So We responded to him and saved him from the distress. And thus do We save the believers.’ (Qur’an, 21:87-88)

And I am amazed at the person who is afflicted with betrayal and deception by people, and he does not flee to the Words of Allah:

‘I entrust my affair to Allah. Indeed, Allah is Seeing of [His] servants’ for verily Allah has said after it:

‘So Allah protected him from the evils they plotted, and the people of Pharaoh were enveloped by the worst of punishment.’ (Qur’an, 40:44-45)

And I am amazed at the person who is afflicted with sickness, and he does not flee to the Words of Allah:

‘Indeed, adversity has touched me, and you are the Most Merciful of the merciful,’ for verily Allah has said after it:

‘So We responded to him and removed what afflicted him of adversity. And We gave him [back] his family and the like thereof with them as mercy from Us and a reminder for the worshippers [of Allah].’” (Qur’an, 21:83-84)

That is Enough!

O you who have been rejected! Enough foolish words.

Enough repeating of repetitions.

Close the tongue of vain expressions.

Break the pen and the inkpot. Enough!

O you lover of fame! O you trickster!

Enough of your laughable tales, enough.

Your talk is for the sake of this world.

Enough tracing of meaningless words.

Leave me alone!

Enough repeating of repetitions.

Enough repeating of repetitions

~Imam Ruhullah Musawi al Khumayni

Sha'ban 28, 1407 AHS

[April 27, 1987]

When do we stop talking and start acting?

What Is This World To You?

Imam Ali heard someone abusing and blaming the world and said to him, "O you, who are blaming the world, who have been allured and enticed by it, and have been tempted by its false pretenses. You allowed yourself to be enamored of, to be captivated by it and then you accuse and blame it. Have you any reason or right to accuse it and to call it a sinner and seducer? Or is the world not justified in calling you a wicked knave and a sinning hypocrite? When did it make you lose your intelli- gence and reasoning? And how did it cheat you or snake false pretenses to you? Did it conceal from you the fact of the ultimate end of everything that it holds, the fact of the sway of death, decay and destruction in its domain? Did it keep you in the dark about the fate of your fore- fathers and their final abode under the earth? Did it keep the resting-place of your mothers a secret from you? Do you not know that they have returned to dust? Many a time you must have attended the sick persons and many of them you must have seen beyond the scope of medicine. Neither the science of healing nor could your nursing and attendance nor your prayers and weeping prolonged the span of their lives, and they died. You were anxious for them, you procured the best medical aid, you gathered famous physicians and provided best - medicines for them. Death could not be held back and life could not be pro- longed. In this drama and in this tragedy did the world not present you with a lesson and a moral?

Certainly, this world is a house of truth for those who look into it carefully, an abode of peace and rest for those who understand its ways and moods and it is the best working ground for those who want to procure rewards for life in the Hereafter. It is a place of acquiring knowledge and wisdom for those who want to acquire them, a place of worship for the friends of Allah and for Angels. It is the place where prophets received revelations of Allah. It is the place for virtuous people and saints to do good deeds and to be assigned with rewards for the same. Only in this world they could trade with Allah's Favors and Blessings and only while living here they could barter their good deeds with His Blessings and Rewards. Where else could all this be done? Who are you to abuse the world when it has openly declared its mortality and mortality of everything connected with it, when it has given everyone of its inha- bitants to understand that all of them are to face death, when through its ways it has given them all an idea of calamities they have to face here, and through the sight of its temporary and fading pleasures it has given them glimpses of eternal pleasures of Paradise and suggested them to wish and work for the same. If you study it properly you will find that simply to warn and frighten you of the consequences of evil deeds and to persuade you towards good actions, every night it raises new hopes of peace and prosperity in you and every morning it places new anxieties and new worries before you. Those who passed such lives are ashamed of and repent the time so passed abuse this world. But there are people who will praise this world on the Day of Judgment that it reminded them of the Hereafter and they took advantage of these reminders. It informed them of the effects of good deeds and they made correct use of the information it advised them and they were benefited by its advice".

Poverty of Thought...

"I am not anxious about the incursion of poverty among my community; that about which I am afraid for them is crooked thinking. That which poverty of thought will bring my community is much worse than that which economic poverty will bring them." ~Rasul (pbuh)