January 2021

When Amír al-mu’minín appointed Muhammad ibn Abí Bakr (1) Governor of Egyptand he was overpowered and killed, Amír al-mu’minín said:I had intended to send Háshim ibn `Utbah to Egypt and had l done so he would have made way for the opponents nor given them time (to get hold of him). This is without reproach […]

When after the death of the Prophet news reached Amír al-mu’minín about the happening in Saqífah of Baní Sá`idah,(1) he enquired what the ansár said. People said that they were  asking for one chief from among them and one from the others, Amír al-mu’minín said: Why did you not argue against them (ansár) that the Prophet

O’ crowd of Muslims! Make fear of Alláh the routine of your life. Cover yourselves with peace of mind and clinch your teeth because this makes the sword slip off from the skull. Complete your armour and shake your swords in their sheathes before showing them out. Have your eyes on the enemy. Use your

Praise be to Alláh for Whom one condition does not proceed another  so that He may be the First before being the Last or He may be Manifest before being Hidden. Everyone called one  (alone) save Him is by virtue of being small (in number); and everyone enjoying honour other than Him is humble. Every

O’ creatures of Alláh! Fear Alláh and anticipate your death by good actions. Purchase everlasting joy by paying transitory things – pleasures of this world. Get ready for the journey, for you are being driven, and prepare yourselves for death, since it is hovering over you. Be a people who wake up when called, and

Beware ! surely this world is a place from which protection cannot be sought except while one is in it. The action which is performed only for this world cannot secure salvation. People are tested in it through calamities. Those who have taken worldly pleasures here will be taken out from them (by death) and

Surely, there is a strong shield of Alláh over me. When my day would come it would get away from me and hand me over to death. At that time neither an arrow would go amiss nor a wound would heal up. Back to list of Sermons

                Do not fight(1) the Khárijites after me, because one who seeks right but does not find it, is not like one who seeks wrong and finds it.                 as-Sayyid ar-Radí says: Amír al-mu’minín means Mu`áwiyah and his men.  (1).        The reason for stopping people from fighting the Khárijites was that Amír al-mu’minín was clearly

                By Alláh, no, not yet. They still exist in the loins of men and wombs of women. Whenever a chief would appear from among them, he would be cut down till the last of them would turn thieves and robbers. (1) (1)           This prophecy of Amír al-mu’minín also proved true word by word. Every

When Amír al-mu’minín showed his intention to fight the Khárijites he was told that they had crossed the bridge of Nahrawán and gone over to the other side. Amír al-mu’minín said:                 Their falling place is on this side of the river. By Alláh, not even ten of them will survive while from your side