The following sayings are taken from Fascinating Discourses of the 14
Infallibles (AS), Islamic Propagation Organization, Translated by Javed
Iqbal Qazilbash Ansariyan Publications
1. Praise and Eulogy is for Allah for the blessing and
bounties which He has bestowed. And thanks to HIM upon what He revelated (to His
servants) And Praise is for HIM upon the common boons and blessings which He
bestowed upon His servants without their request And upon the comprehensive and
complete blessings which He granted to all and sundry and gave it to us,
consequetively. Those graces and favours which are uncountable.
And are irredeemable and uncompensatable due to their plentifulness of
number. And the imagination of their end is out of the reach of human mind.
He invited the servant to thankfuness for the sake of the consequetive and
continous enhanecment of blessings. And opened the door of euloqy and Praise (of
Allah) upon them so that He may make his favours and beneficiences great and
plentiful for them.
2. I testify that there is no Diety (Lord) except the sole and
matchless Allah. And the testification of the singleness of Allah is a word that
Allah has declared sincerity (as) it's reality, and made the hearts the centre
of it's contact and union. And has made the specifications and research of the
oneness of Allah's station obvious and evident in the light of meditation. The
Allah Who can not be seen by the eyes and tongues are unable and baffled to
describe His virtues and attributes. And the intelligence and apprehension of
man is helpless and destitude from the imagination of his howness.
3. Allah made all the beings without previous matter and sample
and shape and pattern. And made them wear the dress of life by His main and
mights and created them according to His Devine will and Intention short of it
that He might have neeeded their creatlon or have wished any benefit for Himself
from their shaping and sketching except this that he wanted to give a proof of
Hls wisdom and make the people (creations) aware about His obedience and
submisslon and invited them to his servitude and worship and make His Invitation
grand and ostentatlous.
4.. Allah fixed the reward for His obedience and torment for His
insubordination and disobedience so that He may restraln His servants from His
wrath and fury and lead them to His paradise.
5. And I testify that my father Mohammad (SAW) is the apostle and
the servant of Allah. And Allah selected and chose him before appolnting him at
the post of Prophethood. And He named him before choosing and selecting him. And
chose him before envoying and delegating him. Then all the creations were hidden
and covered in the covers of unseen and were hidden amid the screen and curtain
of fear and fright and stayed near the last and final border of non entity
(nothingness) for Allah was aware of and knew the end of matters and because of
Hls encompassing the incidents of times and ages and His knowledge of the
predestinates.
Allah appolnted him (as apostle) so that he may complete and finalise His
matter and Implement His order and materialise His decreeds and predestinates.
6. Allah saw nations and groups had various different sects in
their religion and scattered and staying on the verge of the fires of
differences, busy with the their idol worshipping. They denied God with all the
signs and symbols of HIM. (IRFAN) So Allah illuminated the darknesses through my
father Mohammad (SAW) and removed the darknesses from their hearts, removed
(cured) the blindness of the eyes.
7. My father (Mohammad (SAW) ) stood up with (his) guidance among
the people. And saved them from perversion and aberration, and turned their
blindness into enlightenment and guided them towards the firm religion. And
called (invited) them to the straight way.
8. You the servants of Allah, are the ones to maintain His
injunctions and prohibitions, and the carriers of His religion, and His
relevation, and the trustees of Allah upon your souls, and the propagators of
His religion among the other nations.
9. Oh the servants of Allah! (beware) the real leader from Allah,
is present among you and the commitment has previously been made to you and the
remaining and left over of the prophet hood has been appointed for your
guidance.
That is the speaking book of Allah the truthful Quran, and a beaming and
gleaming light, in which all the secrets and facts about the completion of man
and his prosperity have been exhibited and illuminated. It guides from darkness
towards light of guidance. It s followers are the subject of envoy of others.
10. The book of Allah is the guide of it's followers towards the
pleasure of Allah. Listening (carefully) to it leads to the salvation. The
enlightened and conspicous evidences and proofs of Allah can be obtained through
it. And (also the knowledge) of His interpreted intentions and fear invoking
constraining prohibitions. His sufficing testimonies and conspicous arguments,
and desired virtues and allowed endowments and gifts and obligatory devine laws.
(can be obtained from it)
11. Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and
infedility).
12. And (made) service the cause of your getting distant
(purification) from pride (egoism).
13. And rendered alms for the purity of your soul and flourishment
and expansion of your sustenence.
14. And rendered fasting for the maintainance and firmness of your
sincerity.
15. And Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of
the religion.
16. Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting
together and harmonization of the hearts.
17. And (Allah set) the subordination and obedience of us (the
houshold of the Prophet (SAW)) for the security of society's system and our
Immamate as a safety from seggregation and disunity).
18. And (Allah made) Jahad (holy war), the honour and glory for
Islam and abjectness and humbleness for the infidels and the hypocrites.
19. And (Allah rendered) patience as a help for getting reward.
20. And (Allah caused) commanding goodness and forbiding to do
evil for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks (public).
21. And (Allah made) the kindness to parents as a protectional
(shield) to His wrath and displeasure.
22. And Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and
cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.
23. And Allah made law of retaliation (revenge for homicide) as
the security of blood (from being shed).
24. And Allah executed the vow performing as a medium for
forgiveness.
25. And (Allah rendered) the correct use of weights measure
(units) a medium for stoping from selling less (than actual).
26. And (Allah rendered) prohibition from drinking wine the cause
of taking distance from contaminations (evils).
27. And Allah made the prohibition to accuse someone of adultery a
protection (shield) for avoiding (His) curse.
28. And (Allah made) refraining from theft for the sake of
positiveness and affirmation for modesty.
29. And Allah prohibited polytheism for the sake of (bringing
about) sincerety in (His) adoration and worship.
30. Certainly, an apostle has come to you from among yourselves;
grievous to him is your falling into distress, excessively solictious respecting
you; to the believers (he is) compassionate, merciful.
So if you assay and recognise him you will find he is my father not the
father of your women and the brother of my cousin, (Ali a.s) not that of your
men. And how nice a relation I have to him. So he propagated his prophetic
(mission). He always used to turn his face from the polytheists.
And fought against them till he beat them up. He would invite people towards
Allah by wisdom, and beautiful admonition. He broke the idols and scattered the
aggregation of polytheists in a way that they ran away (from the battle fields),
so that finally the hidden secret of oneness of Allah became manifested by him.
And he made the logic of religion reach the ears ((of the people) and settled
down the foam of the camels of satan and turned the salogan yelling of those
devils silent. And downed the agents of hypocrisy and mutual commitments of the
infidels got dissolved till such time that, you (people) spoke to a group of
enlightened and modest men with the words of oneness of Allah and sincerity.
31. You were on the edge of a fire ditch, and were a cup of drink
and the morsal of a greedy one and a firebrand of every hastey one and were
being trampled on (by other nations) and drank from the contaminated waters
gathered over in ditches and your energy (food) was (secured by) the leaves of
trees and desert grass. And for your abjectness and abasement you were always
afraid that those arround you might abduct you in the winking of an eye. So,
Allah liberated you (of these misfortunes) through my father Mohammed (SAW).
Inspite of it that he (SAW) was involved and at war against the intrepid and the
hungry wolves of Arab and the stubborns refractories of the people of the books
(Jews and Christians). Whenever his opponents would lit the fire of war, Allah
extinguished it to your benefit.
32. Imam Hassan (AS) said, 'on the friday night I saw my mother
(Fatima (as)) standing in her arch of prayer. She was continuously kneeling and
performing prostration till the dawn broke. I would hear her pray for the
faithful men and women, but she did not at all pray for herself. I said, 'Oh
mother why did you not pray for yourself like you prayed for others?' so she
replied, 'Oh my son, first thy neighbour and there after your own house.'
33. The Prophet (SAW) said to Fatima (AS) what is the thing which
is a blessing for woman?'
She said that, 'she must not see a man (stranger and not intimate) and a man
must not see her.'
34. One day a lady came to Fatima (AS) said 'I have a weak old
mother who does not know a few problems about her service (prayers). She has
sent me towards you to question you (about them). Thus Fatima answered her
(questions). And the number of her queries reached to ten and Fatima (AS)
replied to all her questions. Then she (the woman got a shamed because of the
high number of her questions. And said, 'Oh daughter of the Prophet (SAW), 'I do
not put you to more inconvinience than this.'
Fatima (AS) said, 'Ask me what you do not know. Have you ever seen a person
who is one day hired to carry a heavy thing to the roof top from ground for an
amount (equal to) a thousand dinnars (nearly a hundred thousand miskal (unit of
weight) of gold) and he may feel himself tired.'
She said 'No'. Fatima (AS) said, 'I have been hired by Allah to get a wages
which if the space between the earth and sky is filled up with pearls still
(That wages) would he more than it for each of the questions I may answer you.
Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired exhausted.'
35. Oh Allah! belittle me in my eyes and glorify and magnify Your
station to me. And inspire me (about) Your obedience and the practice which may
cause Your pleasure and the shunning and evading from things (matters) which are
the cause of Your wrath, oh the most merciful of all! 36. Oh Allah!
content me with the sustenence you have granted me. And till such time that you
keep me alive, hide me and make me sound and prosperous. And forgive me and take
pity upon me when I die. (During death process). Oh Allah! do not help me in
something that you have not predestined for me. And facilitate the achievement
of that thing which you have predestined for me.
37. Oh Allah! bestow upon my parents and all those persons who
have rights of their blessings and beneficiences upon me, the best of Your
rewards. Oh my Allah, spare me the leisure and respite for the object for which
You have created me. And do not let me be busy and involved (absolutely) in my
commitments. And do not torment me when I ask forgivensess. And do not deprive
me of what I yearn and question you for.
38. Underlying are the rhymes which Hazrat Zahra (AS) recited upon
the mourning of Prophet's (SAW) demise.
The person who smells the sweet fragnance of the grave of the Prophet (SAW)
so what if he does not smell any other fragnance for long times to come?
Agonies and anguishes and griefs poured upon me in such a way that had they
poured upon days those would have turned into nights. (bleak, dark and
bewildering).
39. The dust of sorrow covered the space of sky and the sun has
faded and the bright day turned bleak. The earth has become dark and gooomy
after the death of the Prophet (SAW) Woe! Alas! what the earth will have much of
Jolting upon being seperated and parted from him (SAW).
It is meritorious and befitting that the east and west of the world may weep
upon the parting of Prophet (SAW) and the persons of Muzzir tribe and all of
they rest of the Yemen tribes shed tears.
And the great magnificient mountain of the existence and the hidden and
covered Kabaah (House of ALLAH) and its pillars should shed tears.
Oh the terminator and finaliser of the (series of) prophets! the light of
whome is the source of blessing for the worlds inhabitants, Be the salutation
and blessings of Allah the desender of Holy Quran upon you.
40. Following you (Prophet (SAW)) inequities (intrigues and
revolts) took shape and varient voices were raised so that if you were present
and supervising (things) all these differences and deviations would not have
taken place.
You set off (on the journey of eternity) from among us and now our condition
is like the earth which becomes devoid of the beneficial rains. And your nation
upset the order and discipline of matters. So be a witness and do not let their
matter get out of your sight.
Contributed by Br. Ali Abbas, abbas@seas.gwu.edu
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