Archive for the 'Point Reyes' Category

those who oppress

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Hu does not love those who oppress (Qur’an 42:41)

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helpers of the oppressors

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings on him and his Family) said: ?When the Day of Judgement rises, an announcer announces: Where are the tyrants and their helpers, this calling also includes those who even filled an inkpot for the unjust ruler, or sew his purse, or sharpened a pencil for the oppressors. So gather them along with the tyrants.? (Biharrul Anwar, 75: 372)

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and out of it

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

It is Hu who sends down rain from the sky: from it you drink, and out of it (grows) the vegetation on which you feed your cattle. (Qur’an 16:11)

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dunya

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

“The likeness of this world is as the water of the sea. However much such water a thirsty person drinks, the thirst only increases so much that the water kills him” (Imam Musa-ibn-Ja’far (AS) - narrated in Bihar-ul-Anwar, vol. 78, p.311, trans. in A bundle of flowers, p. 201).

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peace be on you

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Peace be on you, O the degrader of the kafiroon, the proud, the oppressors. Peace be on you, O my master (maula) O master of the age (Ya Saahebaz Zaman) (Isteghasa-e-Imam Asr (a.t.f.s.))

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uproot the roots of the unjust

Monday, August 27th, 2007

You fulfilling (every promise) and giving joy, heart, and confidence (to the momineen); filling the earth with justice; making your enemies follow the law and accept the revolution; taking the wind out of the haughty and the boastful, and those who knew but denied the truth; breaking the back of the proud and the arrogant; uprooting the roots of the unjust; and we-singing the praise of Allah, the Lord of the worlds. (Dua Nudba)

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the earth will be filled with justice

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings upon him and his Family) said: “Allah will raise a man from my progeny, from my Ahlul-Bayt, through whom the earth will be filled with justice the same as it has been filled with injustice and oppression.” (attributed in Al-Musannif, vol. 11, p.371, trans. bundle of flowers, Sadr-’ameli, 2004)

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