Introduction

Preface

The Opening Tradition

Knowing Allah, His Greatness and His Grace

Prayer and Its Effects

Midnight Prayers

Faith in Allah and Attaining his Pleasure

Piety and Its Necessity in a Muslim

Invocation

Ahlul Bayt

The Love of Ahlul Bayt

The Acceptable Characteristics

The Real Followers of Ahlul Bayt and Their Qualities

Sin and Its Effects

Knowledge and Its Value

Knowledge and the Virtue of Learning It

Knowledge and the Virtue of Teaching It

The Excellence and Importance of Scholars

Being Attentive to the Hereafter

Repentance

Protecting the Honour of Believers

Righteous Deeds

Injustice and Transgression

The Rights of Fellow Muslims

Greetings

Enjoining Right and Forbidding Wrong

The Tongue and Its Evils

Backbiting and Faultfinding

Telling Lies

Companions & Friendship

Immoral Friends

Serving People

Giving Loan

Helping the Needy

Donation & Pleasing The Believers

Charity and Alms

Regard for Kinship

Kindness to Parents

The Rights of Children

Suckling

Marriage, a Great Worship

Encouragement for Marriage

Marriage Is the Key to Divine Mercy and a Good Temper

Hasten to Marry

Intercession and Help in Lawful Marriage

Wife and Her Dower

Dower: The Less the Better

Marriage with Regard to Faith and Honesty

Man's Intention in Marriage

Earning a Livelihood

Wives and Good Treatment to Their Husbands

Honour Your Wives

Wife And Pleasing Her Husband

Admirable Qualities of Wives

Divorce and Its Effects

Lowering the Gaze and Guarding the Modesty

Women and Ornamentation

Fornication and Its Harmful Effects

Hygiene in Islam

Business and Social Relationships

Fraud in Bargain

Lusts

Worldly Possessions and Greedily Compiling Wealth

This Fleeting World, Its Attractiveness and Poison

The Neglectful Slaves of this Deceitful World

Arrogance and Pride

Moderation in Economic Affairs

Consultation

Activity and Idleness

Martyrs and Martyrdom

The Expected Mahdi (‘a) and His Government of Justice

The Muslim Ummah at the End of the Time

Lifetime Should Be Well Spent

Religion and Studying Its Affairs

Good Temper and Its Good Results

The Disadvantages of Anger and an Ill Temper

Asking for Divine Pardon

Congregation Prayer

References Material and Tradition Sources

An excellent collection of traditions from the Ahlul Bayt, organized
according to topics such as the knowledge of God, Invocation and social
issues.


A Bundle of Flowers

Ahlul Bayt
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The Holy Prophet (S) said: "The likeness of my Ahlul Bayt (progeny)
amongst my Ummah (followers) is similar to Noah's Ark. Those who
embarked on it were rescued and those who rejected it perished...."

Bihar-ul-Anwar, vol. 27, p. 113

Imam al-Baqir, the fifth Imam, (‘a) said: "Our traditions (Ahlul Bayt)
survive in the hearts."

Bihar-ul-Anwar, vol. 2, p. 144

The Holy Prophet (S) said: "Make your gatherings lively with the
remembrance of ‘Ali-ibn-Abi-Talib." (Talk about the excellencies of ‘Ali
(‘a)).

Bihar-ul-Anwar, vol. 38, p. 199

In 'Ikmal-ud-Din' a tradition, through 'Jabir-il-Ju'fi', is narrated
from 'Jabir-ibn-'Abdillah' thus: "I said: 'O Messenger of Allah we have
known Allah and His Apostle; then who is 'Ulul-Amr', those that Allah
has made their obedience the same as your obedience?' Then, the Prophet
(p.h.u.h.) said: 'O' Jabir! They are, after me, my successors and the
guides of Muslims; the first of them is ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib; then (Imam)
Hasan, and (Imam) Husayn; then ‘Ali ibn Husayn; then Mohammad ibn ‘Ali;
known in the Turah as Baqir, whom you will see, O' Jabir! When you visit
him, give my regards to him. After him, there is Sadiq, Ja'far ibn
Muhammad; and after him Musa ibn Ja'far; then ‘Ali ibn Musa; then
Muhammad ibn ‘Ali; then ‘Ali ibn Muhammad, then Hasan ibn ‘Ali; and
after him (there comes) Al-Qaim, whose name and epithet is the same as
mine. He is Allah's Authority on the Earth and His Remainder amongst His
servants. He is the son of (Imam) Hasan-ibn-’Ali (al-al-’Askari). This
is the very personality by whose hands Allah will open the Easts and
Wests of the worlds and this is the very personality who will be absent
from his followers and those who love him, in which his mastership
cannot be proved by a statement of anyone except for the one whose heart
Allah tests for Faith."

Jabir said: "I asked him: 'O' Messenger of Allah will his followers
avail of him during his occultation?' He answered: 'Yes. By the One Who
appointed me to prophethood, they will seek brightness from his light
and will avail by devotion in his absence the same as the availing of
people from the (glow of) sun when clouds cover it...'

(Ikmal-ud-Din, vol. 1, p. 253, with nearly similar meaning in
Yanabir-ul-Mawaddah, p. 117)

Malik-ibn-Anas said about the virtue of Imam as-Sadiq (‘a): "No eye has
ever seen, no ear has ever heard, and no heart (soul) has ever been
striken that there can (contemporaneously) be anybody higher than (Imam)
Ja'far Sadiq (‘a) from the point of virtue, knowledge, worship, and
piety."

Bihar-ul-Anwar, vol. 47, p. 28

Imam Husayn (‘a) said: "By my soul, there is no Imam but he issues
judgement upon the Book, establishes justice, believes in the religion
of Truth, and restrains his self alongside the way of Allah.

Al-Irshad, vol. 204


