When Imam Ali (peace be upon him) challenged Muawiyah to a duel during the Battle of Saffin so that people could be spared from the war the death of one of them
Amr ibn al-As said to Muawiyah: “Imam Ali has been fair to you, and it would be best if you yourself confronted him
Muawiyah replied: “You have never deceived me since the time you started advising me except today
Are you trying to make me fight and confront Abu Al-Hasan (Imam Ali) while you know he is a powerful and overwhelming warrior
Shaabi says: that Imam Ali saw his stolen armor in the hands of a Christian man. He brought him before the judge and sat beside the Christian man
Then he said: This is my armor. The Christian man said this is my armor, but Amir al-Mu’minin does not lie either
? The judge said to Imam Ali: Do you have any witnesses
مَنْ رَزَقَهُ اللَّهُ حُبَ الْأَئِمَّةِ مِنْ أَهْلِ بَیْتِی فَقَدْ أَصَابَ خَیْرَ الدُّنْیَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ فَلَا یَشُکَّنَّ أَحَدٌ أَنَّهُ فِی الْجَنَّةِ»
If The Almighty God grants someone the affection to Imams (pbu th),
they will has come to all the good of the world and the Hereafter. So, no one doubts such a person will enter in heaven.
Unless there is ḏikr ۱, there won’t be any interest!
Take this world for example. What increases our interest in it
and brings the world pleasing to us?
Yet, you can taste and smell the world [its physical]
And on the whole, it is available and you can easily experience it.
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh&h) stated, “At that time [after the Emergence] my Ummah [Muslims] have such a blessing that no people have ever experienced like that!
[At that time], all over the Earth give harvest and nothing be withhold from people! Wealth increases…[۱]
Economy flourish… Cities grow up… and no ruins remains…[۲]
Windows and balconies that overlook lanes are corrected, and wastewater which is poured onto the lanes are treated. 3
Every night, my Jamkarani’s1 heart is [like] your orphan. [I miss you”Imam Mahdi (hgr)” like an orphan who misses his/ her father!] Come, my darling. I’m at the end of rope! I asked the winds your address. It has been ages, I beseechingly searched for your address. [by address they mean; meeting the imam] My […]
I am looking forward [to the Emergence], and he [Sayyid Karim Mahmoudi] was looking forward too! [It means you can’t compare us. He was truly looking forward, but I just say, not act]
The late sir Sayyid Karim Mahmoudi; famous as “Sayyid Karim Kaffāsh [Kaffāsh means shoemaker]” lived in Tehran, around sixty years ago.
He had a stand of shoemaking and cobbling…
[On Fridays we have] Nudba paryer1 crying, conventions, looking forward the Emergence… [But why do we again commit] sins?
On this Friday, your [ritual] chest beater again cries.
S/ he is upset and cries, since you haven’t come
The land of Karbobala [stressed form of the word” Karbala”] cries, because of parting you.
It is to be planted flower in it.
And if not, there will grow weed.
Planting a rose,
isn’t easier than pruning weed!
We‘d better plant lots of flowers,
No to let weed grow!
In a cold wintry midnight, when it was a heavy snow and all the roads and alleys were in white, I looked down the alley and saw someone at the end. He was leaning his head to the wall, while there was a heap of snow on his head!
I told myself,” Maybe he is an addicted homeless that had syncope!”
[But when]I went forward, I saw he is a young man!
I shook him!
