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Commentary On Kumayl Supplication

Author: Allama Husayn Ansariyan
Translator: Hamideh Elahinia
Publisher: Ansariyan Publications – Qum
Category:

• Publisher’s Foreword
• Author’s Preface
• Note from Translator
• Du’a’ (supplication) in a Glance
• Du’a’ in the Holy Qur’an
• Du’a’ in Traditions
• The Value of Du’a’ in a Congregation
• Despair; the state of the disbeliever
• Conditions of Du’a’
• Thursday Night
• Notes
• Kumayl Ibn Ziyad Nakha’i
• Notes
• Du’a’ Kumayl
• Notes
• Commentary of: “Bismillah, ar-Rahman, ar-Rahim”
• Connotations of Bismillahi
• Notes
• Commentary of: “Allahumma Inni Asaluka bi rahmatika allati wa si’at kulla shay”
• The Living World
• Human; the Noblest Inhabitant of the World
• Different Stages in the Creation of Man
• The first Stage: Soil
• The Second Stage: Water
• The Third Stage: Alaq
• The fourth Stage: Creation from a Despised Fluid
• The Fifth Stage: Amshaj (the Zygote)
• The Sixth Stage: the Shaping of the Fetus
• The Seventh Stage: Placing the fetus in Three Veils
• The Eighth Stage: Breathing Spirit
• The Ninth Stage: Birth
• A Manifestation of Allah’s Mercy
• The Respiratory System
• The Skin
• The Defensive System of the Body
• The Remarkable Uses of the Plants
• The Role of Animals and Insects in the Living World
• Allah’s Guidance; a Valuable Blessing
• Allah’s Mercy
• Traditions about Allah’s Mercy
• Stories of Allah’s Mercy
• Jesus Christ and the sinner
• The Sinful Youth
• Granted Wish
• Meeting the Generous Allah
• Repentance After Repentance
• Prayer of a Lost is Answered
• Change from the Unlucky Book to the Lucky Book
• Notes
• Commentary of: “Wa biquwwatika’llati qaharta biha kulla shay”
• Commentary of: “Wa khadha’a laha kulla shay..”
• Note
• Commentary of: “Wa bi jabarutika’llati ghalabta biha kulla shay”
• Allah’s Compensation of the insufficiencies
• Compensation of sun’s exhausted energy
• Compensation of Caspian Sea Tide
• Allah’s Compensation of Fruit Seeds Shortage
• Notes
• Commentary of: “Wa bi ‘izzatika’llati la yaqawm laha shay”
• Knowing the Actor by His Act
• Creation of Various Worlds
• Hanging Lanterns in the Heaven and the Solar System
• Suns, the Countless Stars
• Notes
• Commentary of: “Wa bi Sultanika’alladhi ‘ala kulla shay”
• Commentary of: “Wa bi wajhika’lbaqia ba’da fana’i kully shay”
• Commentary of: “Wa bia’smaa’ika’llati malat Arkana kully shay”
• Commentary of: وَبِعِلْمِكَ الَّذِى أَحَاطَ بِكُلِّ شَيٍْء
• The Meaning of Light in Qur’anic Verses and Traditions
• Notes
• Commentary of: يَّا نُورُ يَا قُدُّوسُ يَآ أَوَّلَ الأَوَّلِينَ وَيَآ آخِرَ الآخِرِينَ
• Commentary of: اللَّهُمَ اغْفِرْ لِىَ الذُّنُوبَ الَّتِى تَهتِكُ الْعِصَمَ
• The Story of Gratefulness for the Hospitality of a Generous
• Inauspicious Consequences of Committing Sins
• Sins Tearing off Reverence
• Drinking Intoxicants
• Gambling
• Useless Acts for Amusing People
• Reference to People's Deficiencies
• Accompanying the Alleged Sinners
• The Sins Bringing Down the Adversities
• Rebellion (baghy)
• Violating People’s Rights
• Mocking Allah’s Servants
• Breaking Promises
• Obvious Wrongdoing
• Modesty of a Believing Lady
• Scattering Lies
• Judging in contrast to Allah’s Rules
• Not Paying Zakat
• Shortening the Measures
• Sins Altering Blessings
• Oppressing People
• Losing the Good Habits
• Abandoning good deeds
• Ungratefulness
• Abandoning Gratefulness
• Factors that Hinder the Acceptance of Supplications
• Bad Intention
• Hidden Vices
• Mistrust
• Hatred
• Self-Admiration
• Hypocrisy
• Arrogance
• Negligence
• Stinginess
• Greed
• Cupidity
• Jealousy
• Loving Allah’s Enemies
• Hypocrisy with Brotherhood-in-faith
• Doubtfulness about Acceptance of Supplications
• Postponing the Prayers
• Leaving Alms-giving
• A Wonderful Story about Charity
• Speaking Rudely
• Sins Causing Tribulations
• Inattention to the pleading of an afflicted
• Avoiding Helping the Oppressed
• Abandoning Enjoining to Good and Forbidding Evil
• The Ruins of Remoteness
• Remembrance
• The Meanings of ‘Remembrance’
• Hearty Attention to the Almighty
• The Holy Qur’an
• The Prophet and His Household
• The Meaning of Intercession
• The Conditions for Intercession
• The intercessors of the World and Hereafter
• The Intercession of Belief
• The Intercession of Good deeds
• The Intercession of Repentance
• The Intercession of Qur’an
• The Nearness Position
• Wonders of Favorite Servants
• 1. Hajj Sayyid ‘Ali Qazi
• 2. Mirza Tahir Tonekaboni
• 3. Jabir Ja’fi
• The Gratitude Position
• The Wonderful Account of a Grateful Servant
• The Remembrance Position
• Four Requests from the Almighty
• Forbearance
• Mercy
• Satisfaction
• Modesty
• Modesty in Qur’an
• Modesty in Traditions
• The Modesty of the Messenger of Allah
• The Modesty of Imam ‘Ali
• The Modesty of Prophet Solomon
• Allah; the True Owner
• Allah’s Rewards for the Servant’s Deeds
• Paradise
• Allah’s Mercy
• Allah’s Forgiveness
• The Forgiver of Sins
• The Concealer of Wicked Acts
• Transferor of Wicked Acts to Good Acts
• The Cost of Paradise
• Tasbih
• Wronging Oneself
• Audacity in Ignorance
• Confessing to sins
• Confession of the Young Sinner
• Regretful Sinner's End
• Notes
• The Meaning of ‘bala' (tribulation)’
• 1. Sins
• An Important Question-Answer
• A Dialogue with Uways al-Qarani
• 2. Remoteness from Allah’s Closeness
• 3. Ignorance
• Bad State
• Inadequacy of Acts
• The Restrictive Fetters
• High Hopes
• A Strange Account
• Descriptions of the Soul
• Amir al-Mu’minin’s Viewpoint about Reforming the Soul
• The Description of my Dilly-Dallying
• The Reason for the Obstruction of Supplications
• Secret-Keeping
• An Astonishing Story on Forgiveness
• Dissipation
• Ignorance
• Passion
• The Unlucky Prince
• Forgetfulness
• The Sinner and Allah’s Forgiveness
• The Servant of ‘Abdullah al-Mubarak
• The Tale of the Mother and the Child
• The Healing Regard
• The Amazing Story of Hatam al-Asamm
• The Influential Regard
• Duties
• Allah’s Arguments against Man
• The Mystical Prayer
• Josef and Zulaykha
• Prophet Jonah’s People
• The Presence of the Beloved
• The Wonderful Tale of Harun’s Death
• The Exact Estimation
• Oneness
• The Divinity Manifestation
• Moses and Korah
• The Youth and His Mother
• Right of Hospitality
• Right of the Guest on His Host
• Comprehensive Worship
• Having Good idea about Allah
• Tribulation of this world and that of the Hereafter
• Purgatory and Hereafter Punishments
• Complain to the Friend
• Lamenting and Weeping
• Friends’ Remoteness
• Greed for the Noble Servants’ Position
• Hope for Forgiveness
• Harun and Buhlul
• Salman and the Fearful Young Man
• The Believer Woman
• An Interesting Advice
• Allah’s Bounty and mercy
• Solomon and the Peasant
• An Important Tradition
• Imam Sadiq (as) and the Terrified Caravan
• The Wonder of Allah’s favorites
• The Kind Embrace
• Abraham’s Impatience of Sins
• A Strange Truth
• Allah’s Mercy on the Youth in David’s Age
• Features of the Freed Captive
• The Believing Servant
• The Fate of Witness of Josef’s Innocence
• The Two Illustrious Angels and Body Limbs
• Allah’s Exalted Name
• Accepted Deeds
• Request for Strength
• Conditions for Allah’s Special Blessings
• Association and the Companion
• Unlawful food
• Moral Vices
• Gluttony
• Excessive Sleep
• Worshipping Allah
• Serving Allah’s servants
• Certainty
• Khajah Nizham al-Mulk and the Pious Man
• Ahmad Khadhrawayh and the Thief
• The Tongue
• Forgiveness of the Prostitute Woman
• Guarantee of Acceptance of Prayer
• Prayer of the Entangled
• Prayer of the Black Slave
• Prayer of Imam al-Sajjad’s Slave
• Imam al-Husayn’s Prayer
• Nightly Prayer of the Prisoner
• Rain of Mercy
• Hope of Mercy
• Divine Truth and Minute Points
• Notes
• Complete text of Du’a’ Kumayl in Arabic with Trasliteration and English Translation