My friend! do not babble so much about God. Do not exaggerate your love for God. O ‘arif! O Sufi! O philosopher! O mujahid! O ascetic! O faqih! O believer! O sage! you poor ensnared wretches! You unfortunate creatures entangled in the snares of the self and its desires! You helpless creatures bewildered in the…
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Sometimes the desire of this world …
Sometimes the desire of this world and its material comforts can cause the love of Ahlulbayt (A) in ones heart to decrease. An excess of such desires may even make the heart bereft of the love of Ahlulbayt (A). Such a person when he approaches his last moments will obviously not get any help from…
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According to traditions, both from the Shia…
According to traditions, both from the Shia and the Sunni sources, it is established that love protects one from being a slave of one’s desires and Shaitan. This is because the love of an exalted personality entails that we also love his friends and hate his enemies. The friendship of Shaitan and the following of…
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After describing the qualities of the Shias…
After describing the qualities of the Shias, Imam Muhammad Baqir (A) observed; ‘O Jabir, is it enough for one to say that ‘I love ‘Ali (A) and I have achieved his Wilāyat,’ whereas he does not act upon it?’ ‘If someone says, ‘Surely, I love the Holy Prophet (S) because he was superior to ‘Ali…
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It is written in the book Majmaul Bahraen…
It is written in the book Majmaul Bahraen regarding the meaning of the word ‘Wilāyat’: ‘Wilāyat is the love for Ahlulbayt (A), the natural consequence of which is to follow them in religious matters, to fulfil the obligations laid down on us and to abstain from the things prohibited. Wilāyat is to walk in the…
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