August 2011
55 posts
“We are very good lawyers for our mistakes, and very good judges for other...”
– Ali M.
When Ayatullah Javadi-Amoli was asked why only men have been given the responsibility of prophethood, he replied,
“Because women have been given motherhood, which is equivalent to prophethood.”
Why do I worry so much? My affairs are in the...
“If one spends all of Laylatul Qadr’s night in prayer and dua but the next...”
– Ayatullah Khameini (ra)
“Coming back from his mission, he was very happy.
He asked: By the way boss,...”
“Our enemies are not the Jews or Christians, but our enemy is our own ignorance.”
– Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib (as)
“When Allah (swt) takes something from you, He always replaces it with something...”
“My dear, remember that desires are endless and ever insatiable. If man takes one...”
– Imam Khomeini (RA)
“Equip yourselves and be ready, your departure has already been announced.”
– Imam Ali (as)
Please Keep Me in Your Duas
Once revelation came to the Prophet Moosa ,
“O Moosa , call upon me with such a tongue which has not committed any sin.”
The Prophet Moosa replied,
“Our lord, none of us posses such a tongue.”
The reply came,
“Call upon us with the tongue of others.”
(In other words, request others to make supplication for they because you did not sin through their mouths.)
“When did you ever...
“These night that you hold the Quran on your head
Let’s hope our heads...”
“We are such sinners that if we touch the ocean, it will turn najis”
– Aghaye Panahean
“The Prophet [s] passed by an insane person and asked, ‘What is wrong with him?’...”
– Mishkat al-Anwar, no. 270
Duas for Laylatul Qadr - various recitations
List of a’amal: http://www.duas.org/laylat_aamaal.htm
Recitation of Dua for when placing the Quran on the head: Recitation #1 Recitation #2 Dua Joshan Kabir: Text found here Recitation #1 Recitation #2 Recitation #3 Recitation #4 Dua Abu Hamza: Text found here Recitation #1 Recitation #2 Recitation #3 Dua Jawshan Saqir: Text found here Recitation #1 Dua Iftitah: Text found here ...
“Imam Musa al-Kadhim (a): Every single thing that your eye sees contains a...”
“O Allah, place us among those whose habit is rejoicing in You and yearning for...”
– Imam Sajjad (as)
Allah's Guest
Has it every happen to you that when you are guests at somebodies house, they keep going back and forth into the kitchen. You keep telling them:
“please don’t trouble yourself, i’ve come to just see you”
The more the host is special for you, the more you pay attention to not burdening them. You beg them to come sit by you for a bit so you get to see them, talk to them,...
Laylatul Qadr
A group came to the Prophet saying that in the past ummahs … their lives were much more longer than us and they could worship Allah more while our lives are short. He replied: Allah placed a night for my ummah that worship in that night is better than 1000 months …
“Verily, you have been made your own doctor. The malady has been described to...”
– Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (as)
“A man wrote to Abu Dharr, may God be pleased with him: ‘O Abu Dharr, teach me...”
– Abu Abdallah (as)
“Islam is not about ‘we’re better than you’. Islam is about ‘let me show you...”
– Nouman Ali Khan
“They claim that one flower can not bring about spring,
I have a flower, that...”
“Islam is such a set of principles and beliefs that it will satisfy every seeker...”
– Imam Ali (as)
“My dear heart never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows...”
– Rumi
Bahrain: Shouting in the dark (touching... →
Shaytan is conquered for you in Ramadan, so its...
Hamza Yusuf
“A scholar who does not act on his knowledge is like the candle that illuminates...”
– Ayatullah Bahjat (r.a.)
“There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are flutes. When the...”
– Fasting in the language of Rumi
“Once someone asked Imam Ali (as), ”How do we know that the problem that has come...”
"We search for happiness everywhere, but we are...
“الحمدلله علی کل حال”
“Deeply think and ponder on your role and purpose in your life, as Allah did not...”
– Imam Zayn Al Abideen (as)
“Our enemies are not the Jews or Christians, but our enemy is our own ignorance.”
– Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib (as)
"When my Dua is accepted I become happy because...
“Nothing is more beautiful than a woman in hijab”
– Imam Suhaib Webb
“We are lucky that we choose not to eat for a few hours in the day, some don’t...”
“Luqman (as) in his advice to his son: ‘O my son, do not let the rooster be...”
