Fascinating Discourses of Fourteen Infallible (a.s)

PREFACE

This age is the space & electronic age, & man is leaping towards stars & into the depth of this vast universe. But did one ever think who are those personalities arround whom this universe spins & by one small finger gesture they split the moon apart. Who are those who commanded the stars, rocks, mountains, air, water & all the natural & supernatural ingredients of universe & over & above that the heavens & the entire metaphysical world.

Those who truely claimed to be the city of knowledge & learning & whose chest were brimful with wisdom. But then they would not find anyone capable anough to imbibe & digest it.

Alas, there were only a very few who could take in just a bit of what they had.

And so that bit taken was just a tiny fraction of what they possessed has today developed into this huge & gigantic show of knowledge industry & technology by man.

Of course, it took man centuries to develop the little amount of knowledge he had recieved.

It was only possible through some highly callibred & genious persons like Jabbir bi Hayyan the father of todays sciences, Alberuni, Ibne sina the father of medicine, Abul Haisam & some others who were all the pupils of the household of Prophet MohammadfP.8.fI.HJ.

So briefly speaking they as the torch bearer & flag holders of knowledge & learning picked up a drop from the mighty & gigantic ocean of knowledge, (the city of knowledge & his descendents) & passed it on to the coming generations for further consideration, contemplation, research, investigation & ellaboration,

Now, that man has entered the space age he looks back to the real source of his modern develpments & progresses,

And only then the honest researcher humanists, philoshpers & thinder like ZHOL Laboom, DENOURT, LORA WAKSIA WAGLARI came to admit the bare & plain facts, French thinker ZHOL LABOOM says in the book "the detail of verses" ",knowledge & learning came to our hand from the Muslims"

Renouned orientalist Denort said "It is obligatory for us to admitt that Physical sciences, astronmy, Philosphy & mathematics which reached their zenith in Europe are mostly from the beneficiencc of Quranic learning,"

Thus it becomes inevietable to recognise those upon whome this sarcred book of knowledge & wisdom was revelated, & those are its heir up to this day.

And can not find a single soul in the universe except Mohammad(P.B.U.H.) & his rousehold her daughter, the gracious & magnanimous Fatima(A.S), his cousin Ali(A.S) the grand, splendid & sublime personality known as the gate of the city of Prophet's knowledge & the eleven Imams who are his descendents & progeny.

These fourteen channels of knowledge & wisdom are linked up with Allah(S.w.T) so their knowledge is devine knowledge.

Even today their effects, such as Nehjul balaghah, speach of Fatima(s.w.A) SAHEEFA E SAJJADIA, SAHEEFA E ALVIA & frame

work of social, moral, etheticul, logical educational, economical norms & standards for humanity with which it can put a curb & restraint upon the various evils, vices & misfortunate catastrophes like war, famine, destruction, illitracy, disease & annihilation. Humanity by curbing the ever growing lawlessness, & oppression can turn this. world full of misery into a glorious heaven with all the thinkable & possible comforts, joys, fraternity & felicitations.

To sum up, the need of introducing & materialising the aspirations of the holy Prophet of Islam & his progeny, has grown multiply in this age. The need to translate, propagate & spread their mission of peace & tranquillity.

So this book is an effort towards this end. Although with its small volume & limited boundaries it can just be called a symbol & indicator for the reseachers & a guidline for them to proceed ahead & discover the genuine & natural phenomenon of the metaphysics & the highway to the devine light leading to eternal prosperity.

It contains 560 Hadieths which covers many dimensions of the human life &' for those seeking solution to the today's, world problem, it is a guide.

Yet there is need to probe into the rest of the Hadieths through strenous efforts.

As already mentioned this knowledge is 'a beneficience, & benevolence equally for those in the East or west whether they are white, or black, yellow or red.

I earnestly pray to Almighty Allah to give us the courage, strength & sincerity to gather up the I gems from the heritage of MohammadfP.B.tI.lf) &' his I house hold.

And to put that into practice.

I have put in sincere effort to do the job of translating these Hadieths.

But it was not an easy thing to do.

Since, :کلام الامام امام الکلام

The speach of the leader (Imam) is the Imam (leader) of all speaches.

But only with their help, &' affection could this job be completed.

Any helping suggestions in improving the short commings of translation including Islamic terminologe will be appreciated.

JAVED IQBAL QAZILBASH

SEMINERY OF QUM