Common Grounds for Muslim Unity
The Eastern and Western colonialists are finding themselves confronted with sporadic manifestations of a brewing world-wide Islamic movement. Not surprisingly, they have launched an all-out offensive on the Islamic Revolution in Iran and other Islamic uprisings elsewhere, because tbey could not afford to sit idle and witness the flourishing and strengthening of their only viable enemy. After all, Islam is challenging them both as a more popular alternative. Muslims in common believe that...
Read MoreThe right of Prayers
It is the right of prayers that you know that it draws you close to God and that you are standing before God so when you understand that you are before God you should stand in prayer as one who is humble, the implorer, fearful, desirous, in need and hopeful. Respect Him by standing in silence, motionless with eyes in submission. Offer your prayers with a good voice and confidence. Beg Him to forgive you your sins, your mistakes and to help you to keep yourself pure. There is no power except by...
Read MoreThe right of your Stomach and Organs
It is the right of your stomach that you should not turn it into a garbage can of unlawful food and that you should not over-eat because eating into gluttony and shamefulness instead of giving you strength. You should keep it under control when hungry or thirsty bcause over eating causes laziness, hinders work and cuts a person away from every good and noble deed. Drinking makes a person seem to be ideotic, ignorant and humiliated. It is the right of your sexual organs to protect them from...
Read MoreThe rights of your Hand and Feet
It is the right of your hand that you should not extent it to what is forbidden to you, otherwise, you will earn punishment from God in the life hereafter and condemnation from people in this life. You should not withhold it from any action which God has obliged you to do. You should enhance the honor of your hand by withholding it from unlawful things and by extending it only for good deeds whether or not they be obligatory upon you, because if the actions of your hands are based on wisdom and...
Read MoreThe Rights of your Tongue, Ears and Eyes
The right of your Tongue It is the right of your tongue for you to respect it and not make use of it to utter obscenities. You must use it and train it for good words and good deeds. You must discipline your tongue so that it remains silent except at times of necessity and for material and spiritual benefit. Refrain it from superfluous, reviling, useless talk which may cause harm and has little benefit. The tongue bears a witness to mental power and acts as a guide to our ideas. Its good deeds...
Read MoreFaculties of the Soul: Their Effects and Characteristics
At the time of its creation, the soul of man is like a clean tablet, devoid of all faculties (traits), whether good or evil. As one progresses through life, he develops faculties which are directly related to the way he lives, thinks, and acts. The speech and deeds of man, when repeated over a long period of time, produce a lasting effect in the soul which is known as a “faculty”. This faculty penetrates the soul and becomes the origin and cause of man’s actions. In other...
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