Greats of thought and Imam Ali (PBUH)Category Archive

     Imam Ali not only had intense spirituality and knowledge, but his spiritual growth and faith reflected his character through his actions.  He was, and still is, known for such great piety and humbleness.  We should not only take his knowledge and add it to the rest of our knowledge.  Rather, we should take it and apply it to our daily lives.  To show the e More ...

   It is narrated that one day Imam Ali the caliph of Muslims had a dispute with a Jewish man about armour, where Imam Ali claimed the armour was his and the Jewish man denied the allegation. Therefore, Imam Ali asked the Jewish man to come with him to the Judge and resolve the matter before him. The Jewish man accepted the offer and went with Imam Ali to the judge. The judge heard the More ...

   Saeed bin Zaid bin Artaah met with Kumail bin Ziyad and asked him about the virtues of Ali bin Abi Taleb (A.S) Kumail said, "I will share the will that Ali bin Abi Taleb (A.S) left for me with you, which is better than the entire world and everything that is in it." All bin Abi Taleb (A.S) told me: -O Kumail! Start your day with the name of Allah More ...

  Khwarizmi has reported Abdullah ibn Mas’ud on the authority of the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H&H.P) as saying: When God created the universe and Adam and blew in him His spirit; Adam sneezed and began to praise Allah immediately. God said: My servant! Now that you praised me, by my glory, were if not for the sake of two of my servants, I would never have created you. Adam said: O More ...

 Of His bounty they would have returned to the right path and feared the punishment of the Fire; but hearts are sick and eyes are impure. Do they not see the small things He has created, how He strengthened their system and opened for them hearing and sight and made for them bones and skins? Look at the ant with its small body and delicate form. It can hardly be seen by the eye or perceived More ...

 Ibn Abi al-Hadeed said the best thing about this aspect: The virtues of Imam Ali (A.S) had reached a high standard of greatness, majesty, to extent that it is ugly to account it and explain it. What can I say about a man whose enemies and opponents admitted his merit? They could not deny his attributes nor conceal his virtues. I knew that Umayyad seized the authorities of Islam in east and More ...

  The presence of heart means that the heart and attention of the one who offers his prayer is with God during the pray. The presence of heart is more profound than mere attending the meaning of the words of prayer, although this may be a good start to reach the presence of heart. Two she-camels were gifted to the Messenger of God. One was fatter than the other, but the other was bigger. T More ...

 The Noble Qur’an and Prophet Muhammad specifically refer to the leadership of Imam ‘Ali after the Prophet in several incidents. Ghadir Khum This incident took place on the 18th of Dhul Hijjah, the twelfth month of theu Islamic calendar, and has been narrated by 110 companions of the Prophet, 84 members of the following generation (the tabi΄in), and 360 Muslim scholars from all More ...

 Numerous verses in the Noble Qur’an refer to the fact that throughout history Allah alone has the right to ordain an imam (leader) or khalifah for mankind – some of them are as follows: And remember when your Lord said to the angels, ‘Verily, I am going to place [for mankind] a successor (khalifah) on the earth.’[7] O David! Verily We have placed you as a successor More ...

  The emergence of the Kharijites occurred during arbitration. The Kharijites initially were members of the "Party of Ali". They later rejected his leadership after he agreed to arbitration with Muawiyah rather than combat to decide the succession to the Caliphate following the Battle of Siffin. Alis forces met Muawiyahs at the Battle of Siffin. Initially, the battle went against Mu More ...

 Imam Ali`s intelligent management is based on rigid moral principles and flexibility in tolerance with people. Imam Ali`s rigid moral principles consist of management elements such as justice, equality, honesty, etc. Meanwhile, his flexibility in tolerance with people includes sacrifice, forgiveness, mercy, etc. reflected in his political behavior. Imam Ali`s intelligent power management dir More ...

  Ibrahim al-Yaziji. Ibrahim al-Yaziji was an Arab philologist, critic, poet, and journalist. He belonged to the Greek Catholic population of the Mutasarrifate of Mount Lebanon. Yaziji’s family is originally from Homs and it moved before he was born in Beirut. His works include The Necklace: A Book of Verse; Fine Examples of High Oratory, and Naj‘at al-Rai’d [5, p. 1058]. More ...

  Paul Salameh. Paul Salameh, a Christian poet, scholar, journalist of Lebanon, was an accomplished scholar, capable writer, great poet, and famous lecturer. During his life, he attracted the attention of contemporary poets, scholars, and religious and cultural-figures. His works include Imam Ali Imam and Hussain, 1946; Palestine and Sisters, 1947; Prince Bashir, .1947; Ghadir, 1948; Modern More ...

  Khalil Farahat. Khalil Farahat is a Lebanese scholar, poet, and writer. His works include From the Deeps, New Studies in Literature, and African Odes. [3, p. 331]. Farahat has composed a beautiful epic on Imam Ali called In Ali’s Altar testifying to the fact that Ali is a pioneer and leader in various sciences. Here, he states that scholars and thinkers are inspired by Imam Ali as More ...

  UN Secretariat, the Committee of Human Rights in New York under the chairmanship of the Secretary General Kofi Annan issued, in 2002 A.D., this historic resolution: "The Caliph Ali Bin Abi Talib is considered the fairest governor who appeared during human history (After the Prophet Muhammed)". UN Declaration was based on documents of 160 pages in English. For this reason, the W More ...

  For one billion Muslims from the Ahl al-Sunnah group, the source of the hadiths attributed to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace and his family, is Sahih al-Bukhari, which is an encyclopedic book that the believers say regarding its authenticity that it is the most reliable in what it contains of hadith attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. In addition Sahih al-Bukhari is no More ...

  Because the French philosopher was a communist, he was attractive to many university students to join his classes. So when he turned to religiosity, he became more appealing because of the ambiguity of his experience and to the stir in his life. He is the influential philosopher and politician in the history of France, and repeated in front of students when he was a communist, and then when More ...

  The writer Gibran Khalil Gibran: He says in Ali: "In my belief that Abi Talibs son was the first Arabic person to adhere to the Holy Spirit, he was close enough to it, and used to hangout with it. He was the first Arabic one whose lips addressed the echo of its holy words that reached, for the first time, the ears of people so they were lost between his rhetoric approaches, and the d More ...

  In his book Memoirs of the Principal Events of Muhammadan History, Major Price observed: "His virtues and extraordinary qualities have been the subject of voluminous panegyrics, and his war-like exploits from his youth upwards have been particularly celebrated in the "Khawer Nama," a poem well-known in the East and which may perhaps contend in extravagance with the More ...

 In his book An Account of the Rise and Progress of Muhammadanism, Dr. Henry Stubbe observed: "Ali was of a brown complexion, a little man with a somewhat large belly, he had a contempt of the world, its glory and pomp. He feared God much, gave many alms, was just in all his actions, humble and affable, of an exceedingly quick wit, and of an ingenuity that was not common. He was exc More ...