Third
Infallible Sayings
- Allah made the obedience of Muslims
to us (Ahlul Bayt) as discipline for the Omma, and our leadership as
safety from differences.
- Praise and Eulogy is for Allah for
the blessing and bounties which He has bestowed. And thanks to HIM
upon what He revaluated (to His servants) And Praise is for HIM upon
the common boons and blessings which He bestowed upon His servants
without their request And upon the comprehensive and complete
blessings which He granted to all and sundry and gave it to us,
consecutively. Those graces and favors which are uncountable. And are
irredeemable and uncompensatable due to their plentiful ness of
number. And the imagination of their end is out of the reach of human
mind. He invited the servant to thankfulness for the sake of the
consecutive and continuous enhancement of blessings. And opened the
door of eulogy and Praise (of Allah) upon them so that He may make his
favors and beneficences great and plentiful for them.
- I testify that there is no Deity
(Lord) except the sole and matchless Allah. And the testification of
the singleness of Allah is a word that Allah has declared sincerity
(as) its reality, and made the hearts the centre of its contact and
union. And has made the specifications and research of the oneness of
Allah's station obvious and evident in the light of meditation. The
Allah Who can not be seen by the eyes and tongues are unable and
baffled to describe His virtues and attributes. And the intelligence
and apprehension of man is helpless and destitute from the imagination
of his how ness.
- Allah made all the beings without
previous matter and sample and shape and pattern. And made them wear
the dress of life by His main and might's and created them according
to His Devine will and Intention short of it that He might have needed
their creation or have wished any benefit for Himself from their
shaping and sketching except this that he wanted to give a proof of
His wisdom and make the people (creations) aware about His obedience
and submission and invited them to his servitude and worship and make
His Invitation grand and ostentatious.
- Allah fixed the reward for His
obedience and torment for His insubordination and disobedience so that
He may restrain His servants from His wrath and fury and lead them to
His paradise.
- And I testify that my father
Mohammad (SAW) is the apostle and the servant of Allah. And Allah
selected and chose him before appointing him at the post of Prophet
Hood. And He named him before choosing and selecting him. And chose
him before envying and delegating him. Then all the creations were
hidden and covered in the covers of unseen and were hidden amid the
screen and curtain of fear and fright and stayed near the last and
final border of non entity (nothingness) for Allah was aware of and
knew the end of matters and because of His encompassing the incidents
of times and ages and His knowledge of the predestinates. Allah
appointed him (as apostle) so that he may complete and finalize His
matter and Implement His order and materialize His decreed and
predestinates.
- Allah saw nations and groups had
various different sects in their religion and scattered and staying on
the verge of the fires of differences, busy with their idol
worshipping. They denied God with all the signs and symbols of HIM. (IRFAN)
So Allah illuminated the dark nesses through my father Mohammad (SAW)
and removed the dark nesses from their hearts, removed (cured) the
blindness of the eyes.
- My father [Mohammad (SAW)] stood up
with (his) guidance among the people. And saved them from perversion
and aberration, and turned their blindness into enlightenment and
guided them towards the firm religion. And called (invited) them to
the straight way.
- You the servants of Allah are the
ones to maintain His injunctions and prohibitions, and the carriers of
His religion, and His revelation, and the trustees of Allah upon your
souls, and the propagators of His religion among the other nations.
- Oh the servants of Allah! (Beware)
the real leader from Allah, is present among you and the commitment
has previously been made to you and the remaining and left over of the
prophet hood has been appointed for your guidance. That is the
speaking book of Allah the truthful Quran, and a beaming and gleaming
light, in which all the secrets and facts about the completion of man
and his prosperity have been exhibited and illuminated. It guides from
darkness towards light of guidance. It s followers are the subject of
envoy of others.
- The book of Allah is the guide to
its followers towards the pleasure of Allah. Listening (carefully) to
it leads to the salvation. The enlightened and conspicuous evidences
and proofs of Allah can be obtained through it. And (also the
knowledge) of His interpreted intentions and fear invoking
constraining prohibitions. His sufficing testimonies and conspicuous
arguments, and desired virtues and allowed endowments and gifts and
obligatory divine laws. (Can be obtained from it)
- Allah made the faith for you as
purity from polytheism (and infidelity).
- And (made) service the cause of your
getting distant (purification) from pride (egoism).
- And rendered alms for the purity of
your soul and flourishment and expansion of your sustenance.
- And rendered fasting for the
maintenance and firmness of your sincerity.
- And Allah set Hajj for the
consolidation and reinforcement of the religion.
- Allah executed and rendered justice
for the sake of putting together and harmonization of the hearts.
- And (Allah set) the subordination
and obedience of us (the household of the Prophet (SAW)) for the
security of society's system and our Imamate as a safety from
segregation and disunity).
- And (Allah made) Jehad (holy war),
the honor and glory for Islam and abjectness and humbleness for the
infidels and the hypocrites.
- And (Allah rendered) patience as a
help for getting reward.
- And (Allah caused) commanding
goodness and forbidding to do evil for the amendment and correction of
society and the common folks (public).
- And (Allah made) the kindness to
parents as a protectional (shield) to His wrath and displeasure.
- And Allah made joining and
connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of
life.
- And Allah made law of retaliation
(revenge for homicide) as the security of blood (from being shed).
- And Allah executed the vow
performing as a medium for forgiveness.
- And (Allah rendered) the correct use
of weights measure (units) a medium for stopping from selling less
(than actual).
- And (Allah rendered) prohibition
from drinking wine the cause of taking distance from contaminations
(evils).
- And Allah made the prohibition to
accuse someone of adultery a protection (shield) for avoiding (His)
curse.
- And (Allah made) refraining from
theft for the sake of positive ness and affirmation for modesty.
- And Allah prohibited polytheism for
the sake of (bringing about) sincerity in (His) adoration and worship.
- Certainly, an apostle has come to
you from among yourselves; grievous to him is your falling into
distress, excessively solicitous respecting you; to the believers (he
is) compassionate, merciful. So if you assay and recognize him you
will find he is my father not the father of your women and the brother
of my cousin, [Ali (a.s.)] not that of your men. And how nice a
relation I have to him. So he propagated his prophetic (mission). He
always used to turn his face from the polytheists.
- And fought against them till he beat
them up. He would invite people towards Allah by wisdom, and beautiful
admonition. He broke the idols and scattered the aggregation of
polytheists in a way that they ran away (from the battle fields), so
that finally the hidden secret of oneness of Allah became manifested
by him. And he made the logic of religion reach the ears (of the
people) and settled down the foam of the camels of Satan and turned
the slogan yelling of those devils silent. And downed the agents of
hypocrisy and mutual commitments of the infidels got dissolved till
such time that, you (people) spoke to a group of enlightened and
modest men with the words of oneness of Allah and sincerity.
- You were on the edge of a fire
ditch, and were a cup of drink and the morsel of a greedy one and a
firebrand of every hasty one and were being trampled on (by other
nations) and drank from the contaminated waters gathered over in
ditches and your energy (food) was (secured by) the leaves of trees
and desert grass. And for your abjectness and abasement you were
always afraid that those around you might abduct you in the winking of
an eye. So, Allah liberated you (of these misfortunes) through my
father Mohammed (SAW). In spite of it that he (SAW) was involved and
at war against the intrepid and the hungry wolves of Arab and the
stubborn refractory of the people of the books (Jews and Christians).
Whenever his opponents would light the fire of war, Allah extinguished
it to your benefit.
- Imam Hassan (AS) said, on the Friday
night I saw my mother [Fatima (s.a.)] standing in her arch of prayer.
She was continuously kneeling and performing prostration till the dawn
broke. I would hear her pray for the faithful men and women, but she
did not at all pray for herself. I said, 'Oh mother why did you not
pray for yourself like you prayed for others?' so she replied, 'Oh my
son, first the neighbor and there after your own house.'
- The Prophet (SAW) asked Fatima (SA),
what is the thing which is a blessing for woman? She said that, 'she
must not see a man (stranger and not intimate) and a man must not see
her.'
- One day a lady came to Fatima (SA)
said 'I have a weak old mother who does not know a few problems about
her service (prayers). She has sent me towards you to question you
(about them). Thus Fatima answered her (questions). And the number of
her queries reached to ten and Fatima (SA) replied to all her
questions. Then she (the woman) got ashamed because of the high number
of her questions. And said, 'Oh daughter of the Prophet (SAW), I do
not put you to more inconvenience than this.' Fatima (SA) said, 'Ask
me what you do not know. Have you ever seen a person who is one day
hired to carry a heavy thing to the roof top from ground for an amount
(equal to) a thousand dinnars [nearly a hundred thousand Miskal (unit
of weight) of gold] and he may feel himself tired.' She said 'No'.
Fatima (SA) said, 'I have been hired by Allah to get a wages which if
the space between the earth and sky is filled up with pearls still
(That wages) would he more than it for each of the questions I may
answer you. Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired
exhausted.'
- Oh Allah! Belittle me in my eyes and
glorify and magnify your station to me. And inspire me (about) Your
obedience and the practice which may cause Your pleasure and the
shunning and evading from things (matters) which are the cause of Your
wrath, oh the most merciful of all!
- Oh Allah! Content me with the
sustenance you have granted me. And till such time that you keep me
alive, hide me and make me sound and prosperous. And forgive me and
take pity upon me when I die. (During death process). Oh Allah! Do not
help me in something that you have not predestined for me. And
facilitate the achievement of that thing which you have predestined
for me.
- Oh Allah! Bestow upon my parents and
all those persons who have rights of their blessings and beneficences
upon me, the best of Your rewards. Oh my Allah, spare me the leisure
and respite for the object for which You have created me. And do not
let me be busy and involved (absolutely) in my commitments. And do not
torment me when I ask forgiveness. And do not deprive me of what I
yearn and question you for.
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