Shaykh Mohammad Ishtihardy’s book titled “Fascinating
Discourses of The Fourteen Infallible” was translated by Javed Iqbal Kizilbash of Seminary of Qum, under Islamic Propagation Organization. Selected Ahadiths from Sayyida Fatima
Zahra (s.a.) are reproduced here:
Praise is for Allah for the blessings and bounties which
He has bestowed and thanks to Him upon what He revealed. They are irredeemable
and not compensable due to their plentifulness, and the imagination of its end is
out of the range of human mind. I testify that there is no deity except the
sole and matchless Allah. The Allah Who cannot be seen by the eyes and tongues are
unable and baffled to describe His attributes and virtues. Allah made all the beings
without previous matter, shape, sample, and pattern. Allah fixed His reward for
His obedience and torments for His Insubordination and disobedience so that He
may restrain His servants from His Wrath and lead them to His Paradise. And I
testify that my father Muhammad (s.a.w.a.s.) is His servant and apostle. And
Allah selected and chose him before appointing him as Prophet He chose him
before everything. Then all the creations were hidden and covered under the
screen of unseen. Allah saw nations idol worshipping. So, Allah illuminated the
darkness through my father Muhammad and removed the darkness from their hearts
and cured the blindness of eyes. My father Muhammad (s.a.w.a.s.) stood up with
his guidance among the people and guided them towards the firm religion. You
the servants of Allah are the ones to maintain His Injunctions and prohibitions
and the carriers of His religion and trustees on your souls and the propagators
of His religion among other nations. O the servants of Allah! Beware the real
leader from Allah, is present among you and the commitment has previously been
made to you and the remaining and left over of the prophet hood has been appointed
for your guidance. The Book of Allah is the guide of its followers towards the
pleasure of Allah. Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism. He
made salat the cause of your getting distant from pride and rendered alms for
the purity of your souls and nourishment and expansion of your sustenance and
rendered fasting for the maintenance and firmness of your sincerity. He set
Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion. He executed and
rendered justice for the putting together and harmonization of the hearts. He set
the subordination and obedience of us (AhlulBayt) for the security of the
society’s systems and our Imamate as a safety from segregation and disunity. He
made jihad the honor and glory for Islam and abjectness and humbleness for the
infidels and hypocrites. He rendered patience as a help for getting reward. He caused
commanding goodness and forbidding to do evil for the amendment and correction of
society and commoner. He made the kindness to parents as a protection to His
Wrath. He made the joining and connecting with kinship the cause of lengthening
life. He made the law of retaliation (revenge for homicide) as the security of blood
(from being shed). He executed the vow performing as a medium for forgiveness. He
rendered the correct use of weight and measure a medium for stopping from selling
less. He rendered prohibition from drinking wine the cause of taking distance
from contamination (evils). He made the prohibition to accuse someone of adultery
a protection for avoiding His curse. He made refraining from theft for the sake
of positivity and affirmation of modesty. He prohibited polytheism for the sake
of bringing about sincerity in His adoration and worship. Certainly, an apostle
has come to you from among yourselves and if you recognize him, he is my father
and not the father of any women, and the brother of my cousin Ali not that of
your men. He invited people toward Allah by wisdom and beautiful admonition.
You were at the edge of a fire ditch, suffering from moral and social
degradation, so Allah liberated you (from these misfortunes) through my father.
O Allah! Belittle me in my eyes and glorify and magnify your station to me and
inspire me about your obedience and the practice which may cause your pleasure
and evading from things which are the cause of Your Wrath. Content me with
sustenance you have granted me. O Allah! Bestow upon my parents and those who have
rights of their blessings upon me, the best of your reward.
Source: Fascinating Discourses of the Fourteen Infallible by
Shaykh Mohammad Ishtihardi (al-islam.org)
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