Al-Amālī · Volume 1 · Section 90 · 7 narrations
Amir al-Mu’minin `Ali b. Abi Talib (as) said: Learn knowledge, for surely, learning it is a good deed, studying it is glorification, and researching it is jihad. Teaching it to one who does not know it is charity.…
Read the full narration →The Messenger of Allah (s) said: Be modest before Allah in the most rightful way. They said: What should we do, O Messenger of Allah? He said: If you do so, none of you will sleep except that he will see death before his…
Read the full narration →I said to al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad (as): What is asceticism in this world? So, he said: Allah has defined that in His Book. He says, “So that you may not grieve at the things you fail to get, nor rejoice over that…
Read the full narration →Ibn Abi’l `Awja’ was from the students of al-Hasan al-Basri. He deviated from monotheism. It was said to him: You abandoned the school of your companion to enter that which has no basis and no reality? So, he said:…
Read the full narration →Amir al-Mu’minin (as) appeared at the most difficult stand in Siffin when a man from Bani Dudan went to him and said: What is the matter with your people who have pushed you away from this Order, even though you are the…
Read the full narration →Al-Ala' ibn Al-Hadrami visited the Prophet (sw) and said, "O Messenger of Allah, I have family members whom I treat kindly, but they mistreat me, and I maintain ties with them, but they sever ties with me." The Messenger…
Read the full narration →Amir al-Mu’minin `Ali b. Abi Talib (as) said: By Allah, your world is nothing to me but a journey over a sweet waterfall: when the captain shouts out to them, they abandon ship. In my eye, its delight is like drinking…
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