Benefitting from every noble act
Take part in every noble act
It is good that man has his name written in every noble act and take part in it, for he does not know which one will be accepted and which one rejected on the Day of Judgment!
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Reflecting on the quality of good acts
Man must think about ways of carrying out good acts
Man must think about ways of carrying out good acts, and this should bring about initiatives helpful for reaching the goal.
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Man’s heedlessness of death
How close man is to death
How close man is to death, yet how far does he see it from himself and is heedless of it!
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Good state at the time of death
Nicely welcoming in the hereafter
Felicitous are those who die in a good state, and are welcomed nicely in the hereafter!
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A loving circumambulation on the basis of the Qur'an and Ahl al-Bayt
May there arise within us love for the entire Qur’an, and Ahl al-Bayt
May there arise within us love for the entire Qur’an, and Ahl al-Bayt, so that primarily, we are able to find the oneness of the Qur'an and Ahl al-Bayt and the confected composite of the two; and secondly, at the level of following and acting upon them, we perform a loving circumambulation on their ...
The teachings of the Imams
Act upon certainties
Our Imams, peace be upon them, have thought us to act upon certainties and to halt and take precaution in whatever we are not sure about.
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Intimacy with the Qur'an and Ahl al-Bayt
The Qur'an and Ahl al-Bayt is sufficient for us
May we have an inward warmth and intimacy with the Holy Qur'an, religion, and the necessities and preliminaries of religiosity, and may the Qur'an and Ahl al-Bayt be sufficient for us so that we become certain of the rightfulness of religion.
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The effect of the verses of blessings and punishments
Some of those who were brought close to God have died out of the love of visiting paradise, because listening to the verses of blessing and bounties or punishment and vengeance surely leaves an ontological effect in a Monotheist.
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The states of the people of spirituality
God knows best the state of those who have spiritual stations at the time of supplication and solitude; and how the silence of pondering burns them as a result of witnessing the divine lights, even if for a short duration.
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With the All-Needless
It better to be in the company of he in whose hands is our life and death
In obeying the commands of God and in committing sins and obeying the commands of Satan and the self, is it better to be in the company of he in whose hands is our life and death, wealth and poverty, sickness and wellbeing, doctor, treasures, wealth, etc. […] or he who has nothing?!
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