If half of one's life is spent in remembrance of the true benefactor and the other half in ignorance, then half of his life is considered as life and the other half as death.
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On the blessed Eids of Islam and faith, we ask God to grant us success at our firm and continuous determination of abstaining from sins, for it is the key to prosperity in the world and hereafter.
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If this path (servitude and abstinence of sins) was hard to the end, and did not end at ease and desire, it would not have been set up as the responsibility, and cause of encouragement, by the All-Powerful and Benevolent Creator.
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We love Imam Mahdi since he is the Commander of the Bees. All our affairs reach us through him, and the Prophet, peace be upon him and his progeny, has appointed him as our commander. We love the Prophet because God has appointed him as an intercessor between God and us, and we love God because he i...
Abstinence from sins is not attained such that it becomes second nature, except through muraqabah and the remembrance of God in every state, time, place, in public and in private.
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The purpose of creation is servitude, "I did not create the Jinn and Humans except that they may worship Me,"[Surah adh-Dhariyaat (51): 54] and the reality of servitude is refraining from sins in belief, which is the act of the heart, and in acts of the body.
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