“Say, “If your parents, and your children, and your siblings, and your spouses, and your relatives, and the wealth you have acquired, and a business you worry about, and homes you love, are dearer to you than Allah, and His Messenger, and the struggle in His cause, then wait until Allah executes His judgement.” Allah does not guide the sinful people.” (Quran, 9:24)
“And do not invoke any other god with Allah. There is no god [worthy of worship] except Him. Everything is bound to perish except He Himself. All authority belongs to Him. And to Him you will [all] be returned.” (Quran, 28:88)
“Certainly, this is the true narrative, and there is no god [worthy of worship] except Allah. And indeed, Allah [alone] is the Almighty, All-Wise.” (Quran 3:62)
One who cries upon the Paradise will enter the Paradise, and one who cries upon the world will enter the Hellfire!
-Prophet Muhammad
Al-Majlisi, Allama Baqir. Bihar al-Anwar, Vol.90, Chapter 19, Hadith 23
“Whoever dies and has not done jihad, and has not wished to do so dies as a hypocrite.”
-Prophet Mohammad(PBUH)
–Muslim Ben Al-Hajaj. Sahih Muslim. Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah. 2011.
“Whoever meets God without having any signs Of jihad within himself, meets God with a flaw.”
Prophet Mohammad(PBUH)
–Al-Hindi, Ala al-Din ‘Ali ibn ‘Abd-al-Malik Husam al-Din al-Muttaqi. Kanz al-Ummal Fee Sunan al-Aqwal wa al-Af’al. Generic, 2022
“[Remember] when your Lord said to the angels, “I am going to place a successive [human] authority on earth….”
(Quran, 2:30)
“I did not create the jinn and the humans except to worship me.” (Quran, 51:56)
It is narrated in a hadith that when the people are placed in the Paradise, a message from the Almighty will be given to them and its purport will be as follows: “From the One who is Eternal and Immortal to him who is also eternal and immortal: Whatever I desire to bring into existence I command it to be and it comes into being; from this hour it has been decreed that you also command whatever you desire to bring into existence and your wish would be obeyed.”
Musawi Khomeini, Sayyid Ruhullah. Forty Hadiths: An Exposition of Ethical and Mystical Traditions. The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works, p.80
“[From] a spring where Allah’s servants will drink, flowing at their will.” (Quran, 76:6)
“Reclining face to face. They will be waited on by eternal youths.” (Quran 56:16-17)
O servants of God, you are like the sick, and the Lord of the worlds is like the doctor. The welfare of the patience is in what the doctor knows and manages, not in what the patient desires or suggests. So submit to God and His command and you will be among the victors.
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
(Principles of Servitude and Prayer
–Al-Hilli, Fahd. Uddat al-dai wa najāh al-sai
“May be that you dislike something while it is good for you, and it may be that you like something while it is bad for you. God knows, and you do not know.” (Quran 2:216)
It is stated in Misbah ash-Shariah that Imam as-Sadiq (a) said:
“Servitude is a gem whose core is Lordship [rububiyyat]. Whatever is lost of servitude is found in the Lordship, and whatever is hidden of Lordship is obtained by servitude.”
(Musawi Khomeini, Sayyid Ruhullah. Adab aS-Salat: The Disciplines of the Prayer. The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works, p.10)
Imam Sajjad said: When the matter of Hussain bin Ali bin Abi Talib, peace be upon them both, was intensified, those who were with him looked at him, and at sudden he was behind them, because whenever the matter intensified, their colors changed, their shoulder flanks shivered and their hearts fell, whereas Hussain, peace be upon him, and some of those who were with him of his special companions, their colors would shine, their limbs would quieten and their inner selves would calm. They said to each other: Look, he does not care about death!
Ibn Babawayh al-Qummi, Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Ali, commonly known as Al-Shaikh Al-Saduq. Maani Al Akhbar (The Meanings of Reports)
From Abu Ja’far having said: Al-Husayn said to his companions before he was killed: The Messenger of God said to me: ‘O my son! You will be driven out to Iraq… you will be martyred at it, and a group from your companions will be martyred at it, not even feeling the pain of the touch of iron.
Qummi, Shaykh Abbas. Nafasul Mahmum (Relating to the heart rending tragedy of Karbala), Chapter 25, p.264, trans. Aejaz Ali T Bhujwala. Islamic Study Circle.
