sincerity

“Every single servant who delivers a sermon, Allah, the Exalted will ask him about it and what he meant by it” (Prophet (pbuh) – scale of wisdom 260, #3, pp. 153)

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shadows

“So in whatever condition these deceitful people are, they should not deceive you, because it is just a long shadow whose term is fixed …” (Imam Ali, Sermon 88)

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shadows

To God bow all who are in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, as do their shadows also in the mornings and the evenings. (Qur’an 13:15

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shadows

Do they not look at Allah’s creation, (even) among (inanimate) things,- How their (very) shadows turn round, from the right and the left, prostrating themselves to Allah, and that in the humblest manner? (Qur’an 16:48)

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