- Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H): Whenever one of you is needy and brings that to other people, he will not be satisfied. and Whenever someone is needy and brings that to Lord, he shall give him what he wants. sooner or later.
- Imam Sadiq (As.): Whenever you had tenderness in your heart, Pray. because your heart doesn't get tender unless it's pure.
- I told to Imam Baqir (A.S): “What is the meaning of “truly, Ibrahim was awwah and patient”? He replied: “Awwah means (the one who is) praying (to) and wailing (for God) a lot.””
- “Two people, who have acted alike, enter the heaven, but one of them sees the other one in a higher place. Then, he says: O’ Lord! How come has he a superior place in comparison to me while we acted alike? God the Almighty replies: “because he asked Me (whatever he needed) and you did not do that”.
- “The most knowledgeable person to God is the one who asks more from Him”
- “Whoever prays a lot, the angels say: this voice is familiar (to us) and this is the prayer which is accepted and this is the need which is provided”
- “There is no servant who goes to a land and opens their hands and praises God and prays, unless God fills the land with his rewards, whether it is vast or tiny”
- If you knew god the way you should’ve known, Mountains definitely will be moved by your prayers.
- Crying out of fear of god is the key to his mercy, it’s a sign for his acceptance and it’s a door to answering (your prayers)
- Pray to god and believe in his answeres. But understand that god wont accept prays from an unwitting oblivious heart.
Forty: His Supplication when Death was Mentioned
Forty: His Supplication when Death was Mentioned
اللّهُمّ صَلّ عَلَى مُحَمّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ اكْفِنَا طُولَ الْأَمَلِ، وَ قَصّرْهُ عَنّا بِصِدْقِ الْعَمَلِ حَتّى لَا نُؤَمّلَ اسْتِتْمَامَ سَاعَةٍ بَعْدَ سَاعَةٍ، وَ لَا اسْتِيفَاءَ يَوْمٍ بَعْدَ يَوْمٍ، وَ لَا اتّصَالَ نَفَسٍ بِنَفَسٍ، وَ لَا لُحُوقَ قَدَمٍ بِقَدَمٍ وَ سَلّمْنَا مِنْ غُرُورِهِ، وَ آمِنّا مِنْ شُرُورِهِ، وَ انْصِبِ الْمَوْتَ بَيْنَ أَيْدِينَا نَصْباً، وَ لَا تَجْعَلْ ذِكْرَنَا لَهُ غِبّاً وَ اجْعَلْ لَنَا مِنْ صَالِحِ الْأَعْمَالِ عَمَلًا نَسْتَبْطِئُ مَعَهُ الْمَصِيرَ إِلَيْكَ، وَ نَحْرِصُ لَهُ عَلَى وَشْكِ اللّحَاقِ بِكَ حَتّى يَكُونَ الْمَوْتُ مَأْنَسَنَا الّذِي نَأْنَسُ بِهِ، وَ مَأْلَفَنَا الّذِي نَشْتَاقُ إِلَيْهِ، وَ حَامّتَنَا الّتِي نُحِبّ الدّنُوّ مِنْهَا فَإِذَا أَوْرَدْتَهُ عَلَيْنَا وَ أَنْزَلْتَهُ بِنَا فَأَسْعِدْنَا بِهِ زَائِراً، وَ آنِسْنَا بِهِ قَادِماً، وَ لَا تُشْقِنَا بِضِيَافَتِهِ، وَ لَا تُخْزِنَا بِزِيَارَتِهِ، وَ اجْعَلْهُ بَاباً مِنْ أَبْوَابِ مَغْفِرَتِكَ، وَ مِفْتَاحاً مِنْ مَفَاتِيحِ رَحْمَتِكَ أَمِتْنَا مُهْتَدِينَ غَيْرَ ضَالّينَ، طَائِعِينَ غَيْرَ مُسْتَكْرِهِينَ، تَائِبِينَ غَيْرَ عَاصِينَ وَ لَا مُصِرّينَ، يَا ضَامِنَ جَزَاءِ الْمُحْسِنِينَ، وَ مُسْتَصْلِحَ عَمَلِ الْمُفْسِدِينَ.
O God,
Bless Muhammad and his Household,
spare us drawn out expectations
and cut them short in us through sincerity of works,
that we may not hope expectantly for
completing an hour after an hour,
closing a day after a day,
joining a breath to a breath,
or overtaking a step with a step!
Keep us safe from the delusions of expectations,
make us secure from their evils,
set up death before us in display.
and let not our remembering of it come and go!
Appoint for us from among the righteous works a work
through which we will feel the homecoming to Thee as slow
and crave a quick joining with Thee,
so that death may be
our intimate abode with which we are intimate,
our familiar place toward which we yearn,
and our next of kin whose coming we love!
When Thou bringest it to us
and sendest it down upon us,
make us happy with it as a visitor,
comfort us with its arrival,
make us not wretched through entertaining it,
degrade us not through its visit,
and appoint it one of the gates to Thy forgiveness
and the keys to Thy mercy!
Make us die
guided, not astray,
obedient, not averse,
repentant, not disobedient or persisting,
O He who guarantees the repayment of the good-doers
and seeks to set right the work of the corrupt!