Sayyid Jamāal al-Dīn Asadābādi was playing with an apple in the presence of Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh. The Shāh objected to his playing with an apple before him. He replied, “The Sultān plays with [the lives of] twenty million people. Am I not allowed to play with one apple?” [In the Presence of Bahjat, vol...

Ayatollah Bahjat said:...

Practical preaching is higher and more effective than verbal preaching. ...

Sometimes we do not act upon the explicit and easy commands of jurisprudence that we are already aware of, and then we go to teachers of ethics and spirituality to ask for heavy Zikrs (invocations) and matters heavier and greater than what we need… This indicates that we do not want to progress and ...

We regret because of having seen scholars that are very different to us (in terms of spirituality), so much so that it feels as though there is a distance of a few hundred years between us and them. ...

Every individual should spend a part of his day in acquiring religious knowledge, even if it is just for an hour, for instance. ...

We must be loyal to the Shia scholars. They are our benevolent and spiritual kind fathers and they have many rights upon us. ...

When one is given the chance to teach, study, or write, he must value the opportunity. ...

      Ayatollah Naeeni was one of the most famous religious authorities of his time, one of the greatest critics and verifiers in the sciences of fiqh and Usul, so much so that he was known as the reviver and innovator in the science of Usul. The Allamah was born in a family known for its knowledge ...

One of the plans of the disbelievers is to separate sons and daughters from their parents and to separate the people from the scholars. They plan to make the people think negatively about the scholars even by having people wear the clothes of scholars and perform actions of disobedience out in the o...