Anecdotes of Reflection Volume ٤

Anecdotes of Reflection

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

Author: Sayyid Ali Akbar Sadaaqat
Publisher: The Islamic Education Board of the World Federation of Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Communities
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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

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