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farewell Ramadan

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

So we bid farewell to it (Ramadan) with the farewell of one whose parting pains us,
whose leaving fills us with gloom and loneliness, and to whom we have come to owe
a safeguarded claim, an observed inviolability, and a discharged right.
We say: Peace be upon thee, O greatest month of Allah! O festival of His friends!
(Imam Sajjad (AS) dua #45)

Ramadan

Monday, September 29th, 2008

This month (Ramadan) stood among us in a standing place of praise, accompanied us with the companionship of one approved, and profited us with the most excellent profit of the world’s creatures. Then it parted from us at the completion of its time, the end of its term, and the fulfilment of its number. (Imam Sajjad (AS) dua #45)

praiseworthy

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

… show vanity in praiseworthy habits such as the protection of the neighbour, the fulfilment of agreements, obedience to the virtuous, opposition to the haughty, extending generosity to others, abstention from rebellion, keeping aloof from blood-shed, doing justice to people, suppressing anger and avoiding trouble on the earth. (Imam Ali, sermon #191)

judgement

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

One who judges without disharmony and differences, his judgment is of the judgment of Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High. Whoever would judge in disharmonious manner with differences, and considers it as the rightful way of judging he has judged with the judgment of the shaytan. (Imam Jafer Sadeq (AS) Al Kafi, H 645, Ch. 41, h 3)

dark dusk

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Glory be to Allah from Whom neither the blackness of dark dusk, or of gloomy night (falling) in the low parts of the earth or on high dim mountains is hidden. (Imam Ali (AS) sermon #181)

a light

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Hu has made the stars in the skies, by way of signs by which travelers wandering the various routes of the earth may be guided. The gloom of the dark curtains of the night does not prevent the flame of their light, nor do the veils of blackish nights have the power to turn back the light of the moon when it spreads in the skies. (Imam Ali (AS) sermon #181)

a true wrestler

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

He (Imam Ali (AS) then asked: “Who is a wrestling champion among you?” They said: “One whom no one can defeat.” He said: “A real champion is one who remembers Allah and patiently quenches his anger whenever shaytan beats his heart with it’s fist to raise his anger. (Imam Ali (AS) Mishkat h. # 759)