God has heard the words of her who disputes with thee concerning her husband and complains to God.The weaker someone is, the gentler is the Lord. The lord of lords, the master of all masters, the gentle, generous, and lovingly kind, takes care of the work of the weak in a way that leaves all […]
O you who have faith, when you whisper with the Messenger, offer charity before you whisper.It is narrated that the Commander of the Faithful ʿAlī said that when this verse came down, he gave one dinar in charity and asked ten questions from God’s Messenger. He said, �’O Messenger of God! How should I supplicate […]
Whatever the Messenger gives you, take; whatever he prohibits you, forgo.The call came from the Real: �Whatever drink comes to you from the auspicious hand of MuḤammad the Arab, the Hashimite prophet, take, for your life lies in that. Read the tablet that he writes, learn servanthood from his character traits, take seeking from his […]
Those-they are the truthful.Truthfulness [ṣidq] is the charity [ṣadaqa] of the secret core, the dower [ṣidāq] of the Garden, and the true friend [ṣadīq] of the Real.Make truthfulness your trade, for among the ranks at the resurrection, none are delivered from God’s anger but the truthful. [DS 188]
Whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth glorifies God.The maker of the world and the world’s folk, the nurturer of mankind and jinn, the creator of earth and heaven, the wonder-worker of the emplaced and place, reports that everything in heaven and earth, whether wind, fire, water, mountains, seas, sun, moon, stars, trees, and […]
To Him belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth.The seven heavens and the seven earths are His kingdom and property. They are kept by His help, penetrated by His will, and driven by His decree. All creatures are incapable, and He is powerful and potent. All are weak, and He is subjugating and […]
He is the First, the Last, the Outward, and the Inward, and He is knower of everything.He is the First, for He knew the nonbeings, the Last for He knows what He knew, the Outward through what He made, the Inward, hidden from imaginations.He is the First: He was before every created thing, without beginning. […]
Glorify the name of your Lord the Tremendous!�Come, praise Me and remember My oneness and greatness, so that tomorrow I may bring you forth in the ranks of the proximate ones of repose and ease, for this is what I have decreed in the Beginningless. In My eternal speech I have said,
If he is one of those brought near, then repose and ease and a garden of bliss.One of the great ones of the religion said that repose and ease will be both in this world and in the afterworld. The repose is in this world and the ease will be in the afterworld. The repose […]
If he is one of those brought near, then repose and ease and a garden of bliss.One of the great ones of the religion said that repose and ease will be both in this world and in the afterworld. The repose is in this world and the ease will be in the afterworld. The repose […]