“Take advantage of five opportunities before five other things:Your youth before your senescence, your health before your illness, your wealth before your poverty, your leisure before your haste, and your life before your death.”

The Holy Prophet [s]

A Beautiful Saying By Maula Imam Ali Naqi (a.s):-

Do not expect honesty and purity of intention from someone who has suffered from your malice; do not expect loyalty from one to whom you have been disloyal; do not expect goodwill from someone whom you regard with ill-will: his heart towards you is the same as your heart towards him.

A person came to Imam al-Hadi (a.s) and asked, 

“ Does a prayer become invalid if someone passes ahead of a person in his Salaat ? ” Imam (as) said :

“ No, the prayer is not so simply invalidated. It is accepted from its keeper ”. 

(Wasail al-Shia’h)

It is also reported from our 10th Imam (as) that the Holy Prophet (saww) has said,

 “ On the day of resurrection, I shall intercede for four (4) types of people: The lover of my progeny; One who follows them; One who shows enmity to their enemies and one who helps them and relieves them of distresses ”.

 (Aamaali of Shaykh al-Toosi)

Imam Hussain’s (a.s.) Letter for the People of Kufa :

“I am sending my cousin and one of the most trusted ones from my family, Muslim ibne Aqeel, to report to me about your affairs. If his report agrees with what you have written I will soon be with you.

You must be clear of the fact that the Imam is the one who follows the book of Allah only, and serves Allah in all matters and affairs with justice, honesty and truth and submits to the command of Allah.”

As Hazrat Muslim(a.s.) was preparing for the journey to Kufa , Imam Hussain(a.s.) went to him and said:

” Muslim, the whole world knows that you are one of the bravest warriors. It is just possible that seeing you in Kufa some people may think that our intention is to fight Yazid.

Take your two sons Muhammad (a.s) and Ibraheem (a.s) with you. When they see you with such young children, they will know that our intentions are peaceful “.

Actually he wanted to pose a difficult question that required lengthy explanation, Imam Hasan (a.s) replied:

“There is a distance of four fingers between faith and certainty.”

“How is it so?” asked the Syrian.

Imam (a.s) explained, ” What you hear (by your ears) is faith and what you see (by your eyes) is certainty.”

Then the Syrian asked :

” What is the distance between the sky and the earth?”

Imam (a.s) said, “The length of ones eyesight.”

He asked, “What is the distance between east and west?”

Imam Hassan (a.s) said, “ The distance the sun travels in a day.”

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B) Question asked by another man :

, “What are those ten things, that are harder than each other?”

Imam (a.s) replied :

“Allah has made stone hard and made iron harder than it;

because it breaks the stone and fire is stronger than iron

because it melts the iron and water is more powerful than fire

because it extinguishes the fire and the cloud is more powerful

because it has control over water; and wind is more powerful than the cloud

because it moves the cloud and more powerful than wind is the angel

who controls it and more powerful than this angel is the angel of death who would capture his soul.

And death is more powerful than the angel of death that he himself would be subjected to death.

More powerful than death is the command of God Almighty, as by this death arrives and is warded off.”

Ya Imam Hassan  (a.s) اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وآلِ مُحَمَّدٍ وعَجِّلْ فَرَجَهُمْ

After the morning prayers Ali Akbar stood in front of Hussain ibn Ali.He said:

“Father I request for permission to go and fight the enemies of Islam.”

Hussain ibn Ali looked at his son lovingly. He said:

“Akbar, you have my permission. May Allah be with you! But Akbar, you know how much your mother, sisters and aunts love you. Go and say farewell to them.”

Ali Akbar went into the tent of his mother. Every time he wanted to come out of the tent the mother, aunts and sisters would pull his cloak and say,

“O Akbar, How can we live without you?”

Finally Hussain ibn Ali had to go in and plead with all to let Ali Akbar go.

As Ali Akbar ibn Hussain a.s began to the ride towards the battlefield, he heard foot steps behind. He looked back and saw his father. He said,

“Father, we have said good-bye. Why are you walking behind me?”

Hussain ibn Ali replied:

“My son, had you been a father of a son like me, you would surely have understood!”

Ya Muala Hussain (a.s) Ya Hussain Ya Mazloom (a.s)