Quran and Etrat Internet University Academic Educations of Islam
"Fall 2009 Registration " (Quran and Etrat Internet University is offering the courses free of charge.) Please visit our website: <http://university.etrat.net> http://university.etrat.net In the name of Allah, The compassionate, the Merciful Imam Zein Al-Abideen's supplication (Al-Sahifa Al -Sujadiah) in which he defines our responsibilities in Ramadan month. What does the Imam ask His lord in this month and thus teach us to ask our lord the same things too. O God, bless Muhammad and his household; inspire us with knowledge in its excellence, veneration of its inviolability, and caution against what Thou hast forbidden within it, and help us to fast in it by our restraining our limbs all our organs should not do any unlawful act from acts of disobedience toward Thee and our employing them in that which pleases Thee, so that we lend not our ears to idle talk( since one of the signs of the believer is he does not listen to such talk) and hurry not with our eyes to diversion. We stretch not our hands toward the forbidden and stride not with our feet toward the prohibited our bellies hold only what thou hast made lawful and our tongues speak only what Thou hast exemplified. We undertake nothing but what brings close to Thy reward and pursue nothing but what protects from Thy punishment! Then rid all of that from the false show of the false showers and the fame seeking of the fame seekers, lest we associate therein anything with Thee or seek therein any object of desire but Thee! O God, Bless Muhammad and his Household. In it make us attend to the appointed moments of the five prayers within the bounds Thou hast set so that nothing will make us ignore them or forget the obligations Thou hast decreed, the duties Thou hast assigned, and the times Thou hast specified; and in the prayers make us alight in the station of the Keepers of their stations, the guardians of their pillars, their performers in their times, as Thy servant and Thy messenger set down in his Sunna (Thy servant and Thy messenger set down in his Household) in their bowings, their prostrations, and all their excellent acts, with the most complete and ample ritual purity and the most evident and intense humility! Then the Imam attends to the social aspects and says: Give us success in this month to tighten our bonds of Kin with devotion and gifts, attend to our neighbors with bestowal and giving, purify our possessions through paying the alms( for there are those who do not pay the alms except when they want to perform pilgrimage And all those who do not deliberately pay the Khoms are thieves who have stolen the money of the orphan, and the needy). Go back to him who has gone far from us, Treat justly him who has wronged us make peace with him who shows enmity toward us (accept him who is regarded as an enemy in Thee and for Thee (Those enemies who fight us because we have embraced your religion for he is the enemy whom we will not befriend, the party whom we will not hold dear), and seek nearness to Thee through blameless works which will purify us from sins and preserve us from renewing faults, so that none of Thy angels will bring for Thee the kinds of obedience and sorts of nearness-seeking unless they be less than what we bring! This is the atmosphere Imam Zein Al-Abideen, wants us to live as we prepare ourselves to receive this month, expressing the views of his fathers and that of the prophet (P.b.u.h.&h.f.). Thus, and before we start to think about what food we have to eat when we break our fast, we have to prepare ourselves spiritually and morally. We have to be always with the good, the right and Justice, so as to be with those who obey Allah. Welcoming the Ramadan Month, the spring for human spiritual growth, and the month for reading and contemplating Quran. Quran and Etrat Internet University Academic Educations of Islam "Fall 2009 Registration " (Quran and Etrat Internet University is offering the courses free of charge.) Please visit our website: <http://university.etrat.net> http://university.etrat.net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "shiagroup" group. To post to this group, send email to shiagroup@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to shiagroup+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/shiagroup?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
