Al-Amālī · Volume 1 · Section 23 · 12 narrations
When Amir al-Mu’minin (as) inspected the graveyards, he said: O people of the dust! O people of estrangement! As for your houses, they have been reinhabited. As for your wives, they have been remarried. As for your…
Read the full narration →`Ali (as) said: There is not a day that comes by a son of Adam except that the day says to him: “O son of Adam! I am a new day, and I am a witness over you. So, say what is good and do what is good, and I will testify…
Read the full narration →`Ali (as) said: Surely, a Muslim person has three friends: (1) A friend that says to him: “I am with you, alive and dead” – that is his deeds. (2) A friend that says to him: “I am with you until you die” – that is his…
Read the full narration →`Ali (as) said: Death is not given its proper due if one considers tomorrow to be his.
Read the full narration →A duration – even if it is prolonged – is short. The past is a lesson for those present. The dead are an exhortation for the living. When yesterday passes, it does not return, and a person from tomorrow is not upon…
Read the full narration →Amir al-Mu’minin (as) said: All goodness is in three actions: sight, silence, and speech. Every sight that is devoid of consideration is negligence. Every silence that is devoid of thought is heedlessness. Every speech…
Read the full narration →Take to supplication in five places: (1) When reciting the Quran, (2) When the adhan [is called], (3) When rain falls, (4) When two rows meet for martyrdom, and (5) at the call of the oppressed, for it does not have a…
Read the full narration →Amir al-Mu’minin (as) said: How many heedless people weave a robe to wear, when it is actually his shroud; and build a house to live in, when it is actually the place of his grave.
Read the full narration →It was said to Amir al-Mu’minin (as): What does one do to prepare for death? He said: Performing the obligations, avoiding the forbidden, and being generous – then, it will not matter if he approaches death or if death…
Read the full narration →“What has he brought?”, while the people say: “what has he left behind?” Send virtues before you so that they may be for you, and do not leave anything that may be against you. Surely, the deprived is one who is deprived…
Read the full narration →The Messenger of Allah (s) said: The Imams after me are twelve. You are the first of them, O `Ali. The last of them is the Qa’im, by whose hands Allah will conquer the East of the Earth and its West.
Read the full narration →al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad (as) said: The people are heedless of what the Messenger of Allah (s) said regarding `Ali b. Abi Talib (as) in the chamber of Umm Ibrahim, just as they are heedless of what he said regarding…
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