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“The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.” —Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium

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“Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”

— Joe Abercrombie

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Imam Reza ((عليه السلام).) narrates through his forefathers from Amir al-mu'minin ((عليه السلام).) that he said: “I heard the Apostle of Allah saying: 'Allah, Mighty and Great is He, has said: “I have divided the Opening of the Book between Myself and My servant; so, its half is for Me and the (other) half is for My servant. And My servant shall get what he asks for.”
When the servant says: “In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful”, Allah, Great is His Glory, says: “My servant has started with My name, and it is incumbent upon Me that I should complete his works for him and bless him in his affairs.”
And when he says: “All praise is due to Allah”, the Lord of the worlds, Allah, Great is His Glory, says: “My servant has praised Me, and he knows that the bounties that are with him are from Me, and that the misfortunes that have been averted from him were so averted by My grace; (O My angels!) I appoint you as My witnesses that I shall add for him the favours of the next world to those of this world, and will avert from him the calamities of the next world as I have averted from him the calamities of this world.”
And when he says, “The Beneficent, the Merciful”, Allah, Great is His Glory, says: “My servant bore witness for Me that I am the Beneficent, the Merciful; I make you My witness that I will most surely augment his share in My mercy, and I will most certainly increase his portion in My bounties.”
And when he says, “The Master of the Day of Judgement”, Allah, the High, says: “I make you My witness that, as he has acknowledged that I am the Master of the Day of Judgement, I will most certainly make his reckoning easier (for him) on the Day of Reckoning, and I will most certainly accept his good deeds, and look over his sins.”
And when he says: “Thee do we worship”, Allah, Mighty and Great is He, says: “My servant is telling truth, He worships Me only. Be My witness that I will most surely give him for his worship a reward that will be the (object of) envy to all who opposed him when he worshipped Me.”
And when he says, “and Thee do we beseech for help”, Allah, the High, says: “From Me has My servant sought help, and in Me has he taken refuge. Be My witness that I will most certainly help him in his affairs, and will aid him in his difficulties, and will take his hand in his calamities.”
And when he says, “Guide us to the right path . . ., ” Allah, Mighty and Great is He, says: “This (part) is for My servant, and My servant shall have what he asks for; and I have answered (the prayer of) My servant, and have given him what he hopes for and have protected him from what he is afraid of.” ' ” (`Uyūnu 'l-akhbar).
https://www.al-Islam.org/al-mizan-exegesis-Qur'an-vol-1-allamah-tabatabai

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Imam as-Sadiq (a) said: “On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will extend His mercy so vastly that even Eblis will expect himself to be included with that mercy.”
Quoted from Bihar ul-Anwar; 3/274 (as quoted from Sheikh as-Saduq’s al-Amali).
“On the Day of Resurrection, the guilty believers will be stopped before Allah Who will personally interrogate him. He will display before him his sins in details, and the believer will confess of them all. The Lord will then say: ‘In the worldly life, I covered these sins and, now, I will cover them for you.’ He then will order to change them into virtues. As the record of that believer will be shown to people, they will say, ‘How admirable this man is! He did not commit a single sin!’ This is the meaning of God’s saying:
“But only those who repent and believe and act righteously will have their sins replaced by virtue,” (25:70)”
Quoted from Bihar ul-Anwar; vol. 3 page 274 (as quoted from al-Barqi’s al-Mahasin).
Favorable Judgment about God:
Imam as-Sadiq (a) said: “The last servant who will be sent to Hell will turn his face towards Allah. The Lord then will order the angels to bring him back. ‘Why did you turn your face, servant?’ the Lord will ask. ‘Lord,’ the servant will say, ‘I had another idea about you.’ ‘What did you think of Me, servant?’ the Lord will ask. The servant will answer, ‘I thought You would forgive me and allow me to live in Your Paradise.’ The Lord then will say, ‘My angels, I swear by My power, majesty, favors, tests, and exaltation, this servant had never thought good about Me for a single hour of his lifetime. Had he done so, I would not have sent him to Hell. Nevertheless, I will regard the lie that he has just told as true and allow him to be in Paradise.’ Allah will live up to the servant who thinks well of Him:
‘This was how you considered your Lord, but He knows you better than you know yourselves. Thus, you are now lost (41:23)5.’”
Quoted from Bihar ul-Anwar; 3/301 (as quoted from as- Saduq’s Thawab ul-Aamal).
Mohammed Ibn Muslim narrated that Imam al-Baqir (a) said to him: “Muhammad Ibn Muslim, all the sins of the believer who repents to Allah will be forgiven. He therefore should put a new beginning for himself after his repentance and Allah’s forgiveness to him. By Allah I swear, this is peculiar for people of faith.”
“What if one commits sins from which he had repented and then repeat his repentance?” I asked.
The Imam (a) wondered: “Muhammad Ibn Muslim, do you think that Allah does not accept the repentance of the believing servant who feels sorry for his sinning and seeks forgiveness and repents to Him?” I said: “What if that servant commits a sin repeatedly and repents to Allah repeatedly?”
The Imam (a) answered: “Whenever a believer seeks forgiveness and repents, Allah accepts his repentance again. Allah is surely All-forgiving and All-merciful. He accepts the repentance and pardons the sins. You should never make the believers feel desperate of the mercy of Allah.”
Quoted from al-Wafi; part 3 page 183 (as quoted from al- Kafi).
https://www.al-Islam.org/ahlul-bayt-ethical-role-models-Sayyid-Mahdi-sadr

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On PBS News Hour, Monday, 18Nov19 in the report, "Hong Kong Chaos", after showing the firebombs and the PolyTech standoff where 400 are said to have been arrested, there were other demonstrations in other parts of the city. At one of these later marches, a student wearing a white bucket hat carried a homemade sign which reads: "We Need the 2nd Amendment".

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l read a quote from th author Margaret Atwood, which went like this:

l'm old, so l do not scare much. lt is when you are young that you are scared because you do not know the plot.

Opine: yeah, the plot is against you and me.

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عيسى بن مريم عليه السلام: 

طوبى للمتراحمين، أولئك هم المرحومون يوم القيامة

"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be the ones receiving mercy on judgement day"

Jesus Son of Mary (عليه السلام) 

Tuhaf al U'qool 501

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Shirk Warning:

l turn on the TV and the news is running a feature on vegetarians and healthy lifestyles. One of the women in a gym interviewed about her physical fitness said, "My body is a symbol of g.od."

:book: "What is the ayat on something like this?"

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"All predictions are important. Most predictions are wrong. And l think we must be careful with that." -

-Dr..Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme, Feb.17 2020

[asked about prediction that COVlD-19 could affect 2/3 of World's population]

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Salams

Dr. Stephen Covey - Between stimulus and response, there is a space and in that space lies your freedom to choose. And in your choice lies your success and failure.

ACT and DO NOT REACT, 

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"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Baba Tahir:

Some want the drug, some want the pain,
Some want union, some want separation,
I am not of those who want the drug, the pain, union or separation.
I want what the beloved wants.

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3 hours ago, hasanhh said:

"l cIimbed the Iadder of success. Then l found it Ieaned against the wrong waII."

The trick would be to get it off that wall & make it stand on its own without getting off...    a leap of faith?!

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"Faith is four pillars: trust in Allah, satisfaction with Allah's decree, submission to Allah's command, and entrusting (affairs) to Allah." -  عَلِيّ ٱبْن مُوسَىٰ ٱلرِّضَا

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1 hour ago, ShiaMan14 said:

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Well, this brought tears to my eyes. :cry: 

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From Right-Wing Radio today:

Subject: the George Floyd Riots

Sean Hannity: The protests are getting quieter, yet with the left-wing socialist plottings, are we going to see these "in perpetuity?"

Geraldo Rivera: No "because they looted the stores out."

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16 hours ago, hasanhh said:

Geraldo Rivera: No "because they looted the stores out."

:ko:0n the CBS Morning News -Saturday, there is the report that in Minneapolis people are complaining that the neighborhood they rioted in has lost its two supermarkets, drug stores and other businesses. Both supermarkets have announced they will not reopen.

ln satirical Biblical idiom:  A voice is crying in the wilderness . . . in a food desert . . .   Isaiah 40:3

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:dwarf:Ahhhhhh . . . (morph) ...:ranting: "Why did l never read this before?  This explains it !

"Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb."

---- Yul Brynner

OPINE: This must explain why there are so many dumb girls in the World.

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From an article in a March, 2007 The lndependent, reporting on the decision to remove the ancient civilizations  A-LeveI course by Oxford, Cambridge and RoyaI Society of Arts:

"Ancient history is becoming a thing of the past . . ."

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"lSlS for all its weapons could not manipulate the truth." --the blogger for MosulEye.wordpress

Thought: l wonder if the same will be said of the USA in ten years --since the US plans to go after lRl in 2025.

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On 7/14/2020 at 9:56 PM, hasanhh said:

"lSlS for all its weapons could not manipulate the truth." --the blogger 

Thought: l wonder if the same will be said of the USA in ten years --since the US plans to go after lRl in 2025.

Salam, Brother. The USA has been going after the Islamic Republic of Iran since February 11, 1979. What made you (in the summer of 2020) predict the year 2025? 

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On 7/14/2020 at 10:56 PM, hasanhh said:

"lSlS for all its weapons could not manipulate the truth." --the blogger for MosulEye.wordpress

Thought: l wonder if the same will be said of the USA in ten years --since the US plans to go after lRl in 2025.

Did you see trump trying to start a war with iran in january 2020 and then theorise trump was going to lose the elections in 2021 and then in 2025 when hes back as president he would go to war with iran? 

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On 5/19/2025 at 10:17 AM, Hameedeh said:

Salam, Brother. The USA has been going after the Islamic Republic of Iran since February 11, 1979. What made you (in the summer of 2020) predict the year 2025? 

It is now Juneteeth -the 19th. Trump spokesgurl K. Levitt announced about noonish that Trump will "decide" in two weeks.

That  noted, the past week kinda endorses my "prediction", yet l do not remember what is was thinking.

Meanwhile, Operation Rising Head Fake (away from the Gaza Ghetto ethnic cleansing) will continue.

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