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Reflections on Munajat Sha'baniyyah (4)

Reflecting on this prayer and other prayers, a question may arise: why is it that most of the time the end results are asked from God

Reflections on Munajat Sha'baniyyah (3)

اِلـهي اِنْ كُنْتُ غَيْرَ مُسْتأهِل لِرَحْمَتِكَ فَاَنْتَ اَهْلٌ اَنْ تَجُودَ عَليَّ بِفَضْلِ سَعَتِكَ My God, although I am not qualified to receive Your mercy, You are suited to be generous to me through the grace of Your plenty.

Reflections on Munajat Sha'baniyyah (2)

مُتَضرِّعاً اِلَيْكَ، راجِياً لِما لَدَيْكَ ثَوابي I am humble before You, hopeful for what You have in terms of a reward.

Reflections on Munajat Sha'baniyyah (1)

Sha’ban, the eighth month of the Islamic calendar, is considered the month of Allah’s mercy and pleasure.

The Justice of Ali ibn Abi Talib (as) and Us

It’s said that Imam Ali (as) was killed because of his excessive emphasis on practicing of and adhering to justice. After the demise of the third Caliph, people thronged Imam Ali (as) to accept the reins of Islamic government.

The Poet on Imam Ali ibn al-Husayn, al-Sajjad (as)

Imam Zayn al-‘Abidin, peace be on him, went to the Sacred House of Allah to perform the pilgrimage. Meanwhile Hisham b. ‘Abd al-Malik went there for the same purpose. The latter did his best to touch the Black Stone but he was unable to do that, for the people overcrowded around it.

What Happens After Death? Life in the Grave

In his will to Imam Hasan (peace be upon him), Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said, “My son, know that you have been created for the next world and not for this world, and for annihilation and not for stay, for death and not for life; you are in a transient place, a place which is a path to the Hereafter… You are driving away a death from which no one can run away and which none of its seekers can miss. It has to be experienced, so beware lest it catches up with you while you are in a bad state.” (Nahjul Balagha, Letter 31)

Imam Ali(a) on the ‘welfare state’ and ‘limited guardianship’

Ali ibn Abi Talib (599-661), the most revered religious scholar among Shiite Muslims who made the first explicit attempt to conceptualise rights in the history of political thought.

Nahj al-Balaghah and It's Spiritual Teachings (10)

The Contradiction Between the World and the Hereafter The problem of the conflict between the world and the Hereafter and the contradiction between them as two opposite poles, such as the north and the south, which are such that proximity to the one means remoteness from the other-is related to the world of human heart, conscience, human attachment, love and worship.

Nahj al-Balaghah and It's Spiritual Teachings (8)

Zuhd and Freedom Another ingredient of zuhd is love of freedom and independence. The union between zuhd and freedom is as primordial as it is indissoluble.

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