Charity to the poor

Fatimah (A.S) was charitable and too kind to the poor and the deprived. She, her husband, and her two sons were meant by these Qur’anic verses, (And they give food out of love for Him to the poor, the orphan, and the captive. We only feed you for Allah’s sake; we desire from you neither reward nor thanks. 76:8-9).

Fatimah (A.S) milled wheat and barley for her poor neighbors who were unable to do that. She carried water to her weak neighbors who could not get water.

On the night of her wedding, Fatimah (A.S) had a new dress on. When she knew that a young woman from the Ansar[1] could not find a dress to put on, she took off the dress of her wedding and gave it to that young woman. Fatimah (A.S) turned away from every material pleasure and preferred the satisfaction of Allah to everything. Jabir bin Abdullah al-Ansari said,

‘Once, the messenger of Allah (A.S) led us in offering the Asr (afternoon) Prayer, and when he offered the nafila (a supererogatory prayer), he sat in the qibla and people sat around him. A very old man came complaining of hunger and saying, ‘O prophet of Allah, I am hungry. Feed me! And I am naked (have no clothes). Clothe me!’

The Prophet (A.S) asked the old man to go to the house of his (the Prophet) daughter Fatimah (A.S). The old nomad man went to Fatimah’s house and from behind the door he greeted her and said, ‘O daughter of Muhammad, I am naked and hungry. Would you please comfort me, may Allah have mercy on you?’

Fatimah (A.S) herself was in neediness, and she found nothing to give to the man except a sheepskin that her sons al-Hassan and al-Hussein slept on. The old man did not like it and he gave it back to her. Then, Fatimah (A.S) took a necklace, which was a present from her cousin Fatimah bint Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib, off her neck and gave it to the man.

The old man took the necklace and went back to the Prophet (A.S) saying to him, ‘Fatimah gave me this necklace and said to me, ‘Sell it! May Allah recompense you with good for it.’

The Prophet (A.S) cried and said, ‘And how does Allah not recompense you with good for it while the daughter of Muhammad, the principal of the daughters of Adam, has given it to you?’

Ammar bin Yasir asked the Prophet (A.S), ‘O messenger of Allah, do you permit me to buy this necklace?’

The Prophet (A.S) said, ‘Buy it, Ammar! If the human beings and the jinn participate in it, Allah will not punish them with Fire.’

Ammar said, ‘O Sheikh (old man), how much is the necklace?’

The old man said, ‘I sell it for a meal of bread and meat, a Yemeni garment that I cover my private parts and offer prayer for my Lord with, and a dinar that takes me to my family.’

Ammar said to him, ‘I give you twenty dinars, two hundred dirhams, a Yemeni garment, my camel to take you to your family, and a meal of wheat bread and meat.’

The old man said, ‘O man, how generous you are!’ He left delightedly saying, ‘O Allah, there is no god but You. O Allah, give Fatimah what no eye has ever seen and no ear has ever heard of.’

Ammar perfumed the necklace with musk, enveloped it in Yemeni garment, and gave it one of his slaves saying to him, ‘Take this necklace to the messenger of Allah (A.S) and you will be his.’

When the slave took the necklace to the Prophet (A.S), the Prophet (A.S) asked him to take it to Fatimah (A.S) who took it and set the slave free. The slave smiled. Fatimah (A.S) asked him what made him smile and he said:

‘What made me smile was the great blessing of this necklace. It satiated a hungry one, clothed a naked one, made a poor one rich, freed a slave, and then returned to its owner.’

 

 

 

Taken from the book called: THE LIFE OF FATIMAH AL-ZAHRA'

Source:coiradio.com

مِن دُعاءِ فاطِمَةَ الزَّهراء عليهاالسلام: اِلهى اَصْلِحْ دينى اَلَّذى هُوَ عِصْمَةُ اَمْرى وَاَصْلِحْ لى دُنْياىَ الَّتى اِلَيْها مَعادى وَاجْعَلِ الْحَياةَ زِيادَةً لى مِنْ كُلِ‏خَيْرٍ وَاجْعَلِ‏الْمَوْتَ راحَةً لى مِنْ كُلِّ شَرٍّ؛
يكى از دعاهاى حضرت فاطمه زهرا (عليهاالسلام) این بود: بارالها: دينم را كه ملاك و محور كارهاى من و دنيايم را كه خانه تلاش ومعاش من وآخرتم را كه سرانجام من به سوى آن است اصلاح فرما، و زندگيم را وسيله بركت و خير و مرگم را وسيله رهايى و راحتى از هر شرّ و بدى قرار ده.
[فلاح‏السائل: 238.]

Hazrat Fatimah (A.S) was different from all women in her high qualities and noble characteristics that took her to the highest rank of virtue and perfection. She was an example of her father’s morals and mentality. She resembled him in his deep faith in Allah the Almighty, asceticism, and refraining from pleasures of this life. Here, we talk about some of Fatimah’s characteristics:

Infallibility

Fatimah (A.S) was infallible, and this is an indisputable fact. Allah had purified her from every sin and every defect, and endowed her with all virtues to make her an example for all the women of the world. She was an ideal example in faith, worship, chastity, purity, charity, and kindness to the poor and the deprived.

Proofs on her infallibility

1. The verse of purification; Allah has said, (Allah only desires to keep away the uncleanness from you, O people of the House, and to purify you a (thorough) purifying. 33:33).

The People of the House (the Ahl-ul-Bayt) were Ali, Fatimah, Imam Hassan, and Imam Hussein (A.S).

The verse clearly proves the infallibility and purity of these persons from every sin and vices. Allah had chosen these people to be examples for His people and guides to His obedience and pleasances. It is impossible for Allah to give sinners or guilty people this gift.

Infallibility, in its concept, definitely would not be far from the Ahl-ul-Bayt (A.S) who were the centers of knowledge and wisdom in Islam. For forty years, I have researched and written books on them, but I could find a slip neither in their sayings nor in their doings. Even their enemies, who were full of grudge against them, did not mention any fault or any bit of deviation about them.

Imam Ali (A.S.) says, ‘By Allah, if I am given the seven districts with all that under their skies to disobey Allah in bran of a grain of barley that I deprive it of a mouth of a locust, I will never do.’

 

2. The Prophet (A.S) made his entire nation, through his repeated sayings, know that Fatimah (A.S) was a part from him, and that whatever pleased her would please him and whatever displeased her would displease him. That she was a part from the Prophet (A.S) means that she was infallible since the Prophet (A.S) was infallible.

3. The true traditions that were transmitted from the Prophet (A.S.) confirmed that Allah would be pleased for the pleasure of Fatimah (A.S) and would be displeased for her displeasure. These traditions mean that Fatimah (A.S) had reached a degree of faith and piety that would take her to the same rank of the infallible prophets who sincerely obeyed Allah and knew Him as He was.

4. The Prophet (A.S.) compared his progeny to the Book of Allah as in the mutawatir (successive) tradition of “ath-Thaqalayn”, and since the Book of Allah is infallible from any falseness, so are the Ahl-ul-Bayt (A.S); otherwise, the Prophet (A.S) would not compare them to the Book of Allah.

Fatimah (A.S) was at the head of the pure progeny of the Prophet (A.S) and was the mother of all the infallible imams (except Imam Ali) whom Allah had purified from all uncleanness.

 

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Taken from the book called: THE LIFE OF FATIMAH AL-ZAHRA'

Source:coiradio.com

 از امام صادق (ع) از پدرانشان نقل شده که رسول خدا (ص) فرمود: بالاتر از هر نیکی، نیکی دیگری است تا آدمی در راه خدا کشته شود، هر گاه در راه خدا کشته شد، بالاتر از آن، نیکی وجود ندارد

 

شهادت مرگی است که انسان با توجه به خطرات احتمالی یا ظنّی یا یقینی فقط به خاطر هدفی مقدس و انسانی و به تعبیر قرآن «فی سبیل الله» از آن استقبال کند. شهادت دو رکن دارد: یکی اینکه در راه خدا و «فی سبیل الله» باشد؛ هدف، مقدس باشد و انسان بخواهد جان خود را فدای هدف نماید. دیگر اینکه آگاهانه صورت گرفته باشد. علامه شهید آیت الله مطهری.

 

 

در مقام شهدا و منزلت شهادت مطالب زیادی شنیده‌ایم. اکنون فرصتی دست داد تا با مروری بر آیات قرآن و روایات اهل بیت نگاهی گذرا و اجمالی به این قضیه داشته باشیم که شهید دارای چه امتیازاتی است :

حضرت سجاد فرمود: برای شهید هفت خصلت و امتیاز است:

1- اول قطره خونی که از بدنش جاری شود تمام گناهانش آمرزیده می‌شود.

2- همسران بهشتیاش سرش را به دامن می‌گیرند و غبار از چهره‌اش پاک می‌کنند و به او می‌گوید: آفرین بر تو باد.

دنباله در ادامه مطلب....

 ادامه مطلب...

مِن دُعاءِ فاطِمَةَ الزَّهراء عليهاالسلام: اَلّلهُمَّ اِلَيْكَ نَشْكُو فَقْدَ نَبِيِّكَ وَرَسُولِكَ وَصَفِيِّكَ وَارْتِدادَ اُمَّتِهِ وَمَنْعِهِمْ اِيّانا حَقَّنَا الذَّى جَعَلْتَهُ لَنا فى كِتابِكَ الْمُنْزَلِ عَلى نَبِيِّكَ بِلِسانِهِ؛
يكى از دعاهاى حضرت فاطمه زهرا (عليهاالسلام) این بود: بارالها: ـ درد جانكاه ـ از دست دادن پيامبر و فرستاده برگزيده‏ات را به تو باز مى‏گوييم و نيز عقبگرد امّتش و جلوگيرى آنان از دسترسى ما به حقى را كه تو در كتاب و برزبان پيامبرت تعيين كرده‏اى به تو شكايت مى‏كنيم.
[صحيفة الزهرا:174 ]

مِن دُعاءِ فاطِمَةَ الزَّهراء عليهاالسلام: اَلّلهُمَّ اِنّى اَسْأَلُكَ قُوَّةً فى عِبادَتِكَ وَتَبَصُّرا فى كِتابِكَ وَفَهْما فى حُكْمِكَ، اَللّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلى مُحَمَّدِ وَالِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَلاتَجْعَلِ الْقُرْانَ بِنا ماحِلاً وَالصِّراطَ زائِلاً وَمُحَمَّدا صَلَى اللّهُ عَلَيهِ وَالِهِ عَنّا مُوَلِّيا؛
يكى از دعاهاى حضرت فاطمه زهرا (عليهاالسلام) این بود: بارالها: نيرومندى در بندگيت و بينش روشن در كتابت و فهم و درك احكامت را از تو خواستارم. خدايا بر محمد و آل محمد درود فرست و قران را دور از دسترس ما و پل صراط را لغزشگاه ما و محمد (صلى‏الله‏عليه‏و‏آله) را رويگردان از ما قرار مده.
[بلد الامين: 101.]

 

 

 

جناب عالم جليل القدر آخوند ملازين العابدين سلماسي داستان ملاقات علامه بحرالعلوم با حضرت صاحب الامر و الزمان عجل الله تعالی فرجه الشریف در مكه مكرمه را نقل كرده است ايشان مي گويند علا مه بحرالعلوم در مجاورت مكه معظمه سكني گزيد و با آنكه در بلد غربت بود و منقطع از اهل و خويشان، اما قوي القلب بود ودر بذل وبخشش و عطا يد طولاني داشت و زياد شدن مخارج چندان اهميتي براي وي نداشت.روزي اتفاق افتاد كه من چيزي نداشتم پس چگونگي حالم را خدمت سيد عرض كردم كه مخارج زياد است و چيزي در دست من نيست سید چيزي نفرمود، عادت سيد اين بود كه صبح دور كعبه طواف مي كرد و بعد به خانه مي آمد و در اطاقي كه مختص به خودش بود مي نشست و دانش آموزانش از هر مذهبي دور او جمع مي شدند پس براي هر صنف به طريق مذهبش درس مي گفت فرداي آن روز كه شكايت از تنگدستي كرده بودم چون از طواف برگشت ناگاه كسي در را كوبيد پس سيد به شدت مضطرب شد با شتاب برخاست و نزديك در رفت و در را باز كرد پس شخص جليل و شريفي به هيئت اعراب داخل شد و در اطاق سيد نشست سيد در نهايت ادب دم در نشست ساعتي باهم نشستند و با يكديگر سخن گفتند آنگاه سيد بر خواست ودر خانه را باز كرد و دست آن اعرابي را بوسيد و او را بر ناقه اي كه دم در نشسته بود سوار كرد و او رفت وسيد با رنگ متغير و برگشته آمد و براتي به دست من داد و گفت اين حواله اي است به مرد صرافي كه در كوه صفا است نزد او برو و آنچه بر او حواله شده است از او بگير آن برات را گرفتم و نزد همان مرد بردم چون برات را گرفت نظر نمود آن را بوسيد و گفت برو وچند نفر بياور رفتم و چهار نفر آوردم پس به قدري كه آن چهار نفر قوت داشتند پول فرانسه آورد وايشان بر داشتند پول فرانسه پنج قران عجمي است آن افراد آن پولها را به منزل آوردند روزي رفتم نزد آن صراف كه از حال او جويا شوم و اينكه بپرسم حواله از جانب چه كسي بود اما نه صرافي را ديدم ونه دكاني از كسي كه در آنجا حاضر بود از حال صراف پرسيدم گفت: ما در اينجا هرگز صرافي نديده بوديم.

حضرت فاطمه زهرا (عليهاالسلام) فرمودند:
مَرَّ بى رَسُولُ‏اللّه‏ِ صلى‏الله‏عليه‏و‏آله وَأَنَا مُضْطَجِعَةٌ مُتَصَبِّجَةً فَحَرَّكَنى بِرِجْلِهِ وَقالَ يا بُنَيَّةَ قُومى فَاشْهَدى رِزْقَ رَبِّكِ وَلاتَكُونى مِنَ الغافِلينَ، فَاِنَّ اللّه‏َ يُقَسِّمُ اَرْزاقَ النّاسِ ما بَيْنَ طُلُوعِ الْفَجْرِ اِلى طُلُوعِ الشَّمْسِ؛
روزى پيامبر خدا (صلى‏الله‏عليه‏و‏آله) آمد در حالى كه من پس از نماز صبح خوابيده بودم، پيامبر (صلى‏الله‏عليه‏و‏آله) با پاى مباركشان مرا تكان دادند و فرمودند: دختركم برخيز و شاهد روزى پرورگارت باش ـ در طلب روزى بكوش ـ و از غافلان مباش زيرا خداوند روزى مردم را به هنگام سپيده صبح تا طلوع خورشيد تقسيم مى‏كند.
[مسند فاطمة الزهراء: 219.]