what’s your idea about our lord; imam Ali (pbuh) ?
He answered with a question, “Where is the best place?”
I replied, “Mosque”
Again he asked,” Where is the best place in a mosque?”
I replied,” Mihrab1”
He continued,” What’s the best behavior?”
How can we see imam Zaman (hgr) ?
the late Ayatullah Bahjat stated:
We ought to sign and give our words and agree collectively to help and assist the
occulted imam (hgr) religious practice. And we ought not to breach.
If we want him to emerge
Someone asked the late scholar Tabataba’i,”
How can we see imam Zaman(hgr)?”
Sabean Mandaean
A sect of Sabean Mandaean live in Khuzestan. They usually have a special ceremonies around Karun on Sundays. The ceremonies have detailed customs. In special cloths, they must be completely immersed in water. It is called” Baptism”[ like what Christians do].
We have taken it easy!
They don’t care about you at all; each one cares about their business!
These days, we take the serious things easy, but we take the easy things serious. Imagine, you are at Sayyid al Shuhadā [Imām Ḥusayn (pbuh)]’s time and he is doing something. There, is there anything more important than his [activities]?!Or we may react, “You care your business and we care ours?!”
Crying over what happened in Āshūrā
[Crying over what happened in Āshūrā] looks to be consist of excitement for looking forward the Emergence, missing the beloved and the troubles of Āshūrā that is mixed and fused at the furnace of the heart.
Then it will be warm drops called tears.
Hold on a moment!
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh&h) ascended in the night of 17 ramazan. (Miraj Night).
The next morning, “Iblis” came to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh&h) and said:
O! Messenger of Allah
When you ascended into the sky last night, was there a pulpit which was fallen broken and burnt in the fourth sky, on the left side(Al-Bait-al-Ma’mur)
? Did you know that and could you recognize whose is it?
“Iblis” said to Prophet Yahya (pbuh):
“Iblis1” said to Prophet Yahya (pbuh):
I was one of the angels and prostrated myself for four thousand years. But finally I was rejected, damned and thrown down by the Almighty Allah.
Stirring words by the late Ayatullah Haj Agha Mujtaba Tehrani:
A perfect individual is like
Holy Qur’an, as Amir al-Mu’minin; Imam Ali (pbuh) were called, “The Speaking Qur’an”
Now, if Qur’an, recitation and reflection on its verses doesn’t revolute our hearts,
No doubt, visiting the perfect one; Imam Mahdi (hgr) won’t revolute our hearts!
If you want to find how will you be when you visit the Imam (hgr),
Do you know Ahmad ibn- Helal?
He made Hajj for 54 times;
And he travelled 20 times of those, in foot!
He was a trustable man by imam Askari( pbuh), also one of special companions of prophet Muhammad( pbuh&h) and a narrator of the 14 infallible imams’ traditions …
If we desire to save India, we have to pave Imam Hussein
Gandy; the leader of India who saved India from” Britain the colonizer” said:
I didn’t take anything new for Indian , just brought them as a gift, the result of my study and research on the karbala martyrs’ (those heroes) backgrounds.