The best and most profitable spiritual trade is knowing the kind Lord who is the source of everyone's hope.
The best and most profitable spiritual trade is knowing the kind Lord who is the source of everyone's hope.
Mahmud al-Alusi, a Sunni scholar, writes: Imam Ali's (AS) birthplace in Ka'ba purified and cleansed the house of Allah from the existence of the idols. According to some Hadiths narrations, the house of Allah once complained before Allah and said: O Allah! How long these idols are supposed to be worshiped around me, and Allah Almighty promised to purify Ka'ba
Ruh al-Ma'ani: 60/37
Imam Reza (as) said: Ghadir day is the day of adornment and embellishment, the one who beautifies and adorns himself on this day, God will forgive all his minor and major sins, will send angels toward him to jot down his good deeds and will increase his ranks until the next Ghadir Eid.
"remembering God Almighty", "remembering death" and " reciting the Holy Quran" are three vital truths that if they are intertwined with mankind's soul and body, a unique event will come to pass and this world and hereafter will be replete with beauty for human beings.
Imam Baqir (as) states: "Learn knowledge, for learning brings about reward and seeking knowledge is worship, studying it is glorification (of Allah), looking for it is jihad, teaching it (to others) is alms, and giving it to those who are appropriate for it is proximity (to Allah).
إنَّ هذا (علیّاً) و شیعتَه هُمُ الفائزونَ یَومَ القِیامة.
The Prophet of Islam (PBUH): It is Ali (AS) and his Shiites who will be successful on the Day of Judgment.
Tafsir al-Dar al-Manthur, Surah Al-Baynah, verse 1
From the viewpoint of Imam Mujtaba (as), chivalry is about not exchanging one’s religion with anything else. In the Divine scale, no gem is of the same value as religion. Whatsoever religion is traded with will be all loss and forfeit. A chivalrous person never trades his religion.
ما تَشاوَرَ قَوْمٌ إلاّ هُدُوا إلي رُشْدِهِم
Imam Mojtaba (AS): No group has consulted with each other in their work unless they have reached intellectual and practical growth.
عنْهُ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَالَ: يَا إِسْحَاقُ خَفِ اَللَّهَ كَأَنَّكَ تَرَاهُ فَإِنْ لَمْ تَرَاهُ فَإِنَّهُ يَرَاكَ
Imam Sadiq (as) states: fear God-Almighty as though you are actually seeing Him, and even if you do not see Him, He sees you.
Imam Zayn al-Abidin (A.S.) states: consider all people better than you, because if they are older than you, it is possible that they have done more good things than you, and if they are younger than you, it is possible that they have committed even one sin less than you.
In the words of Imam Askari (AS), if one hundred and twenty-four thousand prophets and we, the fourteen infallibles, are sitting in a line and a true believer passes by us, we will rise in full respect; Because what values a believer is his connection to God and faith in the Resurrection.
According to the words of the Messenger of Allah (PBUH), whoever purifies himself of all impurities for forty days and nights and no impurity particles remain in his heart, soul, morals and deeds and becomes completely pure, the sources of wisdom flow from his heart to his tongue.
In the eyes of the messenger of God Almighty, the one who loves God fully pays attention to his beloved one, not worldly stuff. If he has Halal income, he will consume it and help people according to the narrations and the verses of the Holy Quran.
The Holy Prophet of Islam is the best and true benchmark and criterion for faith, morality and behavior.