Lessons Learned in Muharram 1438 (2016)

[ShiaMan14]

Salaam,

Starting a thread where you can post anything informative you learn during the days of Muharram that would be beneficial to the entire ShiaChat community - religious or secular....

Hopefully, we can all increase our knowledge this year because there is no knowledge that is not power.

[certainclarity]

Better not call ourselves Shias unless we are like:

 

,When Mamoon appointed Imam Reza (a) as his crown prince

:His gate keeper came and said

A group of people are standing and want to come and visit you and say they are the Shias of Imam Ali

 

The Imam said, tell them I have work and tell them to return back

The Gate keeper returned them

The next day they returned and introduced themselves in the same manner

The gate keeper returned them again

And so the third, fourth day till two months they would come every day but were not allow to meet the Imam

 

,After two months they told the Gatekeeper,tell our master we are the Shias of your father Ali

.You have not given us permission to meet you, and our enemies are ridiculing us

We will return but we will be homeless when we return to our cities and country

as we will won't be able to bare the ridicule of the enemies

 

Imam Reza told the gate keeper to allow them in

They entered and said Salam to the Imam

But the Imam did not answer and did not even allowed them to sit

.and were still standing

 

,They said oh son of the prophet what is this belittling for

after closing the door on us for two long months and not giving us permission

?what will be left of us

 

The imam said read this Quranic verse which says whatever that reaches you is all from your bad deeds

(although Allah forgives many of your bad deeds (Shora:30

 

:Then he said

 

 ! Because you CLAIMED to be the SHIA of Ali

 !Woe to you'll

 

,The Shias of Ali (a) are like Imam Hassan and Imam Hussein

Abu Dhar, Salman, Miqdad and Ammar and Mohammad bin Abi Bikr

who did not disobey the laws of Allah

.and did not do any of the Haram

 

?And you also say that you are Shias 

although in most of your acts you are against him

,and even fall short in the obligatory acts

and take the rights of your brothers in religion lightly

And the places you shouldn't do Taqiyah, you do taqiyah

 ,but in places that you have no choice but to do taqiyah

you don't adhere to this great duty

 

If instead of claiming to be shias you would have said

,that you are the admirers and friends of Imam Ali

 and like the friends of them and consider their enemies your enemies

I would not have rejected your claim and would have accepted it

,BUT YOU HAVE CLAIMED A HIGH POSITION

!and if your actions don't match your words you are destroyed 

 

,They said, oh son of the prophet we ask forgiveness from God

,and ask repentance from God for our inappropriate statement

and as you, our master have taught us, we shall say

.we are your friends and your friends are our friends and your enemies are our enemies

 

,The imam said Welcome my brothers and my friends come higher and higher and higher

,he took them so high that he made stick to him

:Then told the gate keeper

?How many times have you returned them entering this house

".He said ,"60 times

Then Imam Said, then go to their houses 60 times

,and say Salam to them, and say my Salams to them

because today they seeked repentance , and their sins have been forgiven

,and since they are our friends and attached to us, they are worthy of respect

Hence go visit them, check their and their families situation

give them their expense of their livelihood and charity

.And solve their worries and problems

Edited October 3, 2016 by certainclarity

[ShiaMan14]

30 minutes ago, certainclarity said:

Better not call ourselves Shias unless we are like:

 

,When Mamoon appointed Imam Reza (a) as his crown prince

:His gate keeper came and said

A group of people are standing and want to come and visit you and say they are the Shias of Imam Ali

 

The Imam said, tell them I have work and tell them to return back

The Gate keeper returned them

The next day they returned and introduced themselves in the same manner

The gate keeper returned them again

And so the third, fourth day till two months they would come every day but were not allow to meet the Imam

 

,After two months they told the Gatekeeper,tell our master we are the Shias of your father Ali

.You have not given us permission to meet you, and our enemies are ridiculing us

We will return but we will be homeless when we return to our cities and country

as we will won't be able to bare the ridicule of the enemies

 

Imam Reza told the gate keeper to allow them in

They entered and said Salam to the Imam

But the Imam did not answer and did not even allowed them to sit

.and were still standing

 

,They said oh son of the prophet what is this belittling for

after closing the door on us for two long months and not giving us permission

?what will be left of us

 

The imam said read this Quranic verse which says whatever that reaches you is all from your bad deeds

(although Allah forgives many of your bad deeds (Shora:30

 

:Then he said

 

 ! Because you CLAIMED to be the SHIA of Ali

 !Woe to you'll

 

,The Shias of Ali (a) are like Imam Hassan and Imam Hussein

Abu Dhar, Salman, Miqdad and Ammar and Mohammad bin Abi Bikr

who did not disobey the laws of Allah

.and did not do any of the Haram

 

?And you also say that you are Shias 

although in most of your acts you are against him

,and even fall short in the obligatory acts

and take the rights of your brothers in religion lightly

And the places you shouldn't do Taqiyah, you do taqiyah

 ,but in places that you have no choice but to do taqiyah

you don't adhere to this great duty

 

If instead of claiming to be shias you would have said

,that you are the admirers and friends of Imam Ali

 and like the friends of them and consider their enemies your enemies

I would not have rejected your claim and would have accepted it

,BUT YOU HAVE CLAIMED A HIGH POSITION

!and if your actions don't match your words you are destroyed 

 

,They said, oh son of the prophet we ask forgiveness from God

,and ask repentance from God for our inappropriate statement

and as you, our master have taught us, we shall say

.we are your friends and your friends are our friends and your enemies are our enemies

 

,The imam said Welcome my brothers and my friends come higher and higher and higher

,he took them so high that he made stick to him

:Then told the gate keeper

?How many times have you returned them entering this house

".He said ,"60 times

Then Imam Said, then go to their houses 60 times

,and say Salam to them, and say my Salams to them

because today the seemed repentance , and their sins have been forgiven

,and since they are our friends and attached to us, they are worthy of respect

Hence go visit them, check their and their families situation

give them their expense of their livelihood and charity

.And solve their worries and problems

beautiful.

It is true that greatness is not in us calling ourselves shia but only if the AhlulBayt consider us shia.

[certainclarity]

6 minutes ago, shiaman14 said:

beautiful.

It is true that greatness is not in us calling ourselves shia but only if the AhlulBayt consider us shia.

For that we have to be like Imam Hassan, Imam Hussein, Salman, Abu Dhar, Miqdad....very difficult task to achieve...

Edited October 3, 2016 by certainclarity

[ShiaMan14]

A quote from Ayatollah Bahjat that someone sent me"Think of majlis and azadari as karbala. Whenever you are going to majlis and people ask you where you are going, dont say you are going to majlis; say you are going to Karbala."

[myouvial]

I learn and wonder about the technology/technique for serious cry/lament/sadness with various degree/level of intelligent/aql.

[Abdul Haleem]

There is a book called Sirru Sahahdatayn by Mawlana Shah Abdul Aziz dehlwi r.a it beautifully speaks of Falsafa e Shahadah. A must read indeed!

In Tafseer e Fathul Aziz Mawlana has given wonderful description of Maqaam e Ahle Bayt a.s.

Many times i think the contribution on Maqaam e Ahle Bayt by Sunni is greater than the shi'a but now the trend unfortunately is changing as siyasa is more linked with interpretation now.
 

And Dr Tahirul Qadri has spoken beautifully about it but i prefer what Mawlana stated and also Mawlana Maududi and Mawlana Azaad have written beautifully about it.

Mawlana Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi r.a has also written wonderfully about it in his Al Murtaza on Shahdah e Imam Hussain a.s

And how the sufiya like Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti and others commemorated Maqaam e Hussain a.s is soemthing no one could say anythign better than that.

 

[ShiaMan14]

I learned that Hz Hamza's mother and Hz Amina (Prophet's mother) were sisters. Hz Hamza was close in age to the Prophet.