PRAYERS (SALAT) :Reward

O my foolish soul! Is this duty of worship without result, and is its recompense little that it causes you weariness? Whereas if someone was to give you a little money, or to intimidate you, he could make you work till evening, and you would work without slacking. So is it that the prescribed prayers are without result, which in this guest-house of the world are sustenance and wealth for your impotent and weak heart, and in your grave, which will be a certain dwelling-place for you, sustenance and light, and at the Resurrection, when you will anyway be judged, a document and patent, and on the Bridge of Sirat, over which you are bound to pass, a light and a mount? Are their recompense little? Someone promises you a present worth a hundred liras, and makes you work for a hundred days. You trust the man who may go back on his word and work without slacking. So if One for Whom the breaking of a promise is impossible, promises you recompense like Paradise and a gift like eternal happiness, and employs you for a very short time in a very agreeable duty, if you do not perform that service, or you act accusingly towards His promise or slight His gift by performing it unwillingly like someone forced to work, or by being bored, or by working in half-hearted fashion, you will deserve a severe reprimand and awesome punishment. Have you not thought of this? Although you serve without flagging in the heaviest work in this world out of fear of imprisonment, does the fear of an eternal incarceration like Hell not fill you with enthusiasm for a truly light and agreeable act of service? The Words ( 278 )

Defeat is part of war.

Defeat is a part of war. Life may be hard sometimes, but it does not matter how many battles you have lost; there still be a bunch of possibilities to win the entire war. Life is all about preparation. Just dreaming would take us nowhere. Everyone has a vision, but many have failed to attain their ambitions because of lack of preparation. Only being lucky is not enough, without a lucid plan at the end of the day, our fortunes may turn into miseries. Take your chances; hope for the best, get ready for the worst. Imagination leads creation, however, only hard work can make the difference. Life is a competition, your first worst opponent is you: yourself. Enjoy taking responsibility,however, just patience and determination can lead us to a final, complete, undoubted victory here as well as hereafter. Slogan is not a program; get a program.

People 'The Have' and 'The Have Not'

Because we are living on the Earth that includes two groups of people: the "Have" and the "Have not". The two groups are living in one planet, but different worlds. The "Have" only the sky is their limit. Great wealth or luxuriousness everywhere; meanwhile, the "Have not" are crying out for leavened breads. They are living in a nightmare i mean. Their unique neighbor that they hate so much is poverty, which brought them up diseases and insecurity. Nevertheless, life will never be sweet as a candy, until the "Have" help the "Have not". Helpfulness is a path to love; love is the door to peace; peace is the key of life; life is the source of mankind. Not helpfulness, nor love, neither peace, nor life.

Virtues Of Visitin Shrines(Maqams) Of AhlulBayah and Auliya'Allah

The reason that at the door of Imam al-Husayn's maqam there are two ring-shaped door handles (may God be pleased with him) is that he used to have an iron ring on his house door that visitors would knock to be let in; it was a large door. A poor bedouin came to him once from the mountains and held onto the ring and recites these lines: He is not disappointed in his hopes in you who moves the ring on your front door You are generous, you are reliable your father was a king, the killer of deviants Were it not for your predecessors hell would be surrounding us from every angle. He (may God be pleased with him) was a man of a lot of extra devotions. When he finished what he was doing, he opened the door and sat the man beside him, then he called his servant and said: O servant! Get me the pouch from the chest - and in it was his allowance from the Treasury House- and the servant brought it. The bedouin thought that imam al-Husayn (may God be pleased with him) would open it and give him a few dinars, but when he pushed the entire purse to him, the bedouin said: By God, I bear witness that you are the son of the Prophet (may God bless him and his family). By God, no one can do such an act, or give such a giving, but a man from the family (Ahlul Bayt) of the Prophet (may God send peace and blessings upon him and his family). Shaykh al-Shinqiti the great hadith master and mufti of Mecca (who had moved to Egypt) said: I read those lines when I was teaching my children commentaries on Ibn Hisham in grammar and I remembered that our master al-Husayn is present and alive, and how he gave that bedouin what he gave in his lifetime, and he is now alive in his maqam. So I entered his maqam with one of my students and grabbed the ring and recited these same lines. Then I said: "My master! I am not permitted to travel, but I want to travel to Mecca." A man who was wearing a long coat and fez, and was holding a sibha, said to me: "O Shaykh, not at this time!" I said to him: "What is not at this time?" He said: "Travel." I said: "When?" He said: "In a month's time." A month later, the man came to me in the same place and said: "Place your trust in Allah, it is time to travel!" Then I went to the British ruler of Egypt and said: "I am travelling to Mecca and I heard that the way is through you." He said: "Go bring us your passport." So I said to myself: "God has made it possible!" Shaykh Muhammad Bakhit al-Muti'i the Mufti of Egypt was my friend. I said to him: "I will travel to Mecca by the permission of God." He said to me: "You must tell me the secret by which you were allowed to travel. You people of the maghreb (the Muslim west- the shaykh was from Mauritania) have your secrets!" I said to him: "By God, I am not travelling except by the blessing of our master al-Husayn (may God be pleased with him)" and I told him the story as it happened. --------- This is the speech of a great shaykh, a hadith master, but now we see people say: visiting (maqams) is forbidden! I attended his lessons for fifteen years, he taught me. - From the Friday Lessons of shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari (may God be pleased with him and his teachers).

Shaykh Syed Salih Al-Jafri's Permission for Doing Hajj

Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari (may God be pleased with him) performed the Hajj 27 times. It all started when he began composing his famous poem The Garden of the Hearts and Souls (aka Radeena Ya Bani al-Zahra) at the shrine of our lady Zaynab, sister of our masters al-Hasan and al-Husayn. He saw her in a dream, giving him an authorisation to go to Hajj, and ever since he went every year until he passed away. But one of those years, the Egyptian government made a new law that no one who has been to Hajj before can go this year. Shaykh Salih tells us in one of his Friday lessons what happened next: -- I went to our master al-Husayn (may God be pleased with him) after the Noon Prayer, and greeted him. Then I said, "How could I not be allowed to go Hajj while you are present in Egypt? Who can rule over your decision?!" I then fell asleep and I saw a big bed, and on it was our master al-Husayn (may God be pleased with him), asleep. His hand was very wide. He stood up and spoke, so I seized the opportunity to kiss his hand. He said to me: "Where are your beautiful roses?" That is because I used to bring him roses from Bahrain (their famous Muhammadi Rose, pictured below). I said: "I am busy, and I want to visit your grandfather, may God's peace and blessings be upon him." He said, "You and the one with the sunglasses." (He was thus known because he used to always wear sunglasses, and would only take them off when he entered the presence of shaykh Salih). (When I woke up) I said to my brothers: "Good news, my brothers! InshaAllah, God will make it easy." At that moment, Ibrahim (the one with the glasses) came, ecstatic. He said: "By God I just did such and such a thing, to apply for Hajj!" I said to him: "Go and make me an application too." So he went and applied for me, on the basis that I had not been to Hajj before through the government. But then the boat left, and Ibrahim took it, and I had to apply to get a place on the airplane, and I travelled by plane. As soon as I arrived in Medina, I went to greet the Prophet (may God's peace and blessings shower down upon him and his family). I said: "Greetings of peace unto you from your grandson al-Husayn (may God be pleased with him), and then greetings of peace from me to you." After that I saw Ibrahim there. The reply to my request came on the same day, and the very same hour! "How could I not be permitted to go to Hajj while you are present?!" * Kings, but kings are their servants And for their servant, the whole world becomes a servant

Bright proof For Celeberating Mawlid

"A scholar from Medina came to the Sudan. The people of Sudan said to him: 'We celebrate the Mawlid of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace) every year, and we want to ask you for an evidence for this.' He said: 'Your evidence is right in front of you, and you hear it every hour! Allah (most high) said, {And all We relate to you of the stories of the Messengers is that with which We make your heart firm} (11:120) So if the life stories of the Messengers and their news make firm the heart of the master of the messengers and of all the worlds, how could the memory and mention of the birth of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace) not make firm the hearts of the Muslims?" - Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari, The Friday Lessons, vol 8, p. 21.

To Abode of Eternity:By Shaykh Syed Salih Al'jAfri(rahimahumullah)

To the abode of eternity we have come And the elect one we have visited And in the Garden we have prayed And we have seen Rasulallah. I saw the people in droves The sea of their love surge like waves The tears of longing like cool rain All in love with Rasulillah So we visited him the Pure-hearted Of greatest rank and nearness to Allah Whoever bears him loyal love Becomes filled with Rasulillah Seeing him is joy followed by joy While incense wafts and overflows There the people of love reveal their states And Rasulullah pardons them Light surrounds us the secret is revealed Goodness arrives piety is achieved The people of Allah are fed and quenched By witnessing Rasulallah The night of separation is gone away The morning of connection dawns to stay The light of al-Mustafa highlights Our foremost guide Rasulallah Drinks of paradise go round from hand to hand And in the cups lights overflow And with this drink perfumed and filled Rasulullah is quenching us The hearts obtain what they had hoped When they visit after their pilgrimage One throng after another says Salaamun Ya Rasulallah See them in their place of prayer The God of the Throne giving them gifts Habibullah is meeting them They visited Rasulallah Gifts of forgiveness and secrets For whoever visits al-Mustafa Upon them glow sparkles of light Coming from the Guide Rasulillah The armies of nafs went away The moons of guidance have risen Rain-clouds hail filled with good For the visitors of Rasulillah The sun of religion guides us To the Creator who made us Rasulullah is calling us We have come Ya Rasulallah The beauty of al-Mustafa shows Welcoming us and cheering us It has perfumed the soul of this valley We have witnessed Rasulallah We have obtained intimacy By Divine grace without the veils We visited the Arabian liegelord Abu al-Qasim Rasulallah Souls are swayed by their Creator Before the Chosen One their guide They have received their dearest hopes At witnessing Rasulallah We left love of all that perishes, At al-Mustafa’s doorstep we arrived The connection of hearts is sealed With the guide Rasulillah The Gardens of Paradise we obtained By coming and greeting TaHa The soul of love enlivened them With help from Rasulillah The blessings of Allah like rain On the Elect of highest fame And Companions all radiant chiefs And the House of Rasulillah For as long as al-Ja’fari writes And al-Mustafa’s praise is sung, And the faces of lovers beam With light from Rasulillah!