Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Anecdotes of Reflection Volume ٤

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Notes
• 61. Knowledge
• Short Explanation
• 1) Al-Hajj Sheikh Abbas Qummi
• 2) The Tutor of Jibraeel
• 3) The Practicing A’alim
• 4) The Dangers of Possessing Knowledge without Prior Purification (of the Soul)
• 5) Asma’i and the Officious Grocer
• Notes
• 62. Deeds
• Short Explanation
• 1) The Lawful Work
• 2) The Practicing Ones and Paradise
• 3) The Working Youth
• 4) (Good) Deeds Cause a Jew to Become a Muslim
• 5) The Conduct of Mua’wiyah and Abu al-Aswad Du’ali
• Notes
• 63. Food
• Short Explanation
• 1) The Excessive Eater and the Moderate Eater
• 2) Food with Friendship
• 3) One Morsel and Selling One’s Faith
• 4) The Blessing is in the Bread
• 5) The Food of Death
• Notes
• 64. Pride
• Short Explanation
• 1) The Inner Pride
• 2) Pride with Respect to one’s Wealth and Children
• 3) The Proud Champion
• 4) The Scholar of Arabic Grammar
• 5) The Arrogance of Abu Jahl
• Notes
• 65. Anger
• Short Explanation
• 1) Dhul Kifl
• 2) Who is the Strong One?
• 3) One Advice
• 4) The Imam (peace be upon him) and the Slave
• 5) Bad Disposition and the Servants
• Notes
• 66. Backbiting
• Short Explanation
• 1) They Stopped the Backbiters
• 2) The Punishment for Backbiting, on the Day of Judgment
• 3) Impediment for the Rains
• 4) A Thousand Lashings
• 5) The Telltale Slave
• Notes
• 67. Obscene Language
• Short Explanation
• 1) The Imam’s Reaction
• 2) Usaamah’s Reply
• 3) Satan in the Company of Those Using Foul Language
• 4) Conduct
• 5) Ibn Muqaffa’
• Notes
• 68. Poverty
• Short Explanation
• 1) The Poor Pious Person
• 2) The Destitute and Retirement
• 3) The Benefits of Assisting a Poor
• 4) The Neighbour of Sayyid Jawaad
• 5) Abandoning Poverty is also Difficult!
• Notes
• 69. Adjudication
• Short Explanation
• 1) The Imam (peace be upon him) and the Jinn Judge
• 2) The Inclination of the Judge and his Punishment
• 3) The ‘Hereafterly’ Judgment
• 4) The Jew and the Imam in the Presence of the Judge
• 5) The Eyes Turned Blind
• Notes
• 70. Loans
• Short Explanation
• 1) Abu Dahdaah
• 2) He Repaid the Loan of the One in Debt
• 3) The Fruits of Granting Respite to the Debtor
• 4) The Ignorant Debtor
• 5) The Debtor and the Prayer for the Deceased
• Notes
• 71. Quran
• Short Explanation
• 1) Attention towards the Creation or the Creator?
• 2) The Holy Prophet and the Quran
• 3) Ahmad Ibn Tuloon
• 4) Five Hundred Copies of the Quran atop the Spears
• 5) Napoleon
• Notes
• 72. Destiny and Decree
• Short Explanation
• 1) Fetters upon the Feet
• 2) Fish from the Sky
• 3) I’zraaeel, the Companion of Prophet Sulaiman
• 4) The Hoopoe
• 5) Faghfoor, the Chinese Emperor
• Notes
• 73) Contentment
• Short Explanation
• 1) The Conduct of Imam Sadiq
• 2) Salman
• 3) By Means of Contentment the Soul Becomes Submissive
• 4) Your Food or Your Ruler
• 5) The Conduct of the Contented Ones
• Notes
• 74. The Day of Judgment
• Short Explanation
• 1) The Plaintiff of the Day of Judgment
• 2) The Most Wicked of the People on the Day of Judgment
• 3) Fear of the Day of Judgment
• 4) Imam al-Mujtaba
• 5) Taubah Ibn Summah
• Notes
• 75. Working
• Short Explanation
• 1) The Endowment Letter
• 2) U'mar Ibn Muslim
• 3) To Work is Better than Consuming Charity
• 4) Putting the Soul to Labour
• 5) Ya’qub Ibn Laith Saffaar
• Notes
• 76. Begging
• Short Explanation
• 1) Imam Sadiq and the Beggar
• 2) Abbas Dous
• 3) The Limits of the Impoverished Ones
• 4) The Respectable Destitute
• 5 ) The Young Beggar
• Notes
• 77. Helping Others
• Short Explanation
• 1) Nine Thousand Years
• 2) Breaking the Circumambulation
• 3) Concern towards the Needy
• 4) Extinguishing the Lamp
• Of course O’ Ali: I said
• 5) Lettuce
• Notes
• 78. Malice
• Short Explanation
• 1) Maliciousness of Waleed
• 2) Ibn Sallaar
• 3) Rancour Transforms into Friendship
• 4) The Vindictive Hypocrite
• 5) The Liver Eating Hind
• Notes
• 79. Weeping
• Short Explanation
• 1) Prophet Nuh
• 2) Prophet Yahya
• 3) The Intense Weeping of Hadhrat Zahra
• 4) Thirty Five Years of Weeping!
• 5) The Weeping of Mercy
• Notes
• 80. Sins
• Short Explanation
• 1) The Banishment of the Sinners
• 2) Prophet Isa and Praying for the Rains
• 3) The Reason for this Sin
• 4) The Expiation of Sins
• 5) Hameed Ibn Qahtabah Taai
• Notes