sying of imam musa kazim a.s

Sa yings of Imam Musa Kazim (AS)

1.      *Imam al-Kazim (peace of Allah be upon him) said: “On the day of Resurrection, there will stand on the Divine Throne four individuals from the past generations and four from the later generations. Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus are the four individuals from the past generations. Mohammed, Ali, al-Hasan, and al-Hussein are the four individuals from the later generations. Then, food will be served. Those who visited the shrines of the Imams will be invited to that food. The visitors of my son’s shrine will be the foremost and the most favorable.” [Bihar-ul-Anwar; vol. 22, page 6 (as quoted from al-Kafi)]

2.      "My intercession is for those of my Ummah who would have committed big sins; as for the doers of good, there shall be no difficulty for them." He was asked: "O son of the Messenger of Allah! How can the intercession be for those who have committed big sins; while Allah says, `and they do not intercede except for him whom He approves' (21:28); and a committer of big sins cannot be approved?"

3.      Never bother to learn something not knowing which does not do you any harm, and never neglect to learn something whose negligence will increase your ignorance.

4.      Plants grow in plain, not rocky, lands. In the same way, wisdom will grow in the hearts of the modest, not the arrogant, because Allah has made modesty the instrument of the mind and made arrogance the instrument of ignorance.

5. The most high-ranking people are those who disregard the worldly pleasures completely.
6. Whenever you get a pious leader and ruler (then) thank God for this boon.
7. Always say the right thing although it may lead to your loss.
8. The world is soft and beautiful like a snake but there is a (disastrous) killer poison hidden inside it.
9. No charity is superior to giving a helping hand to the weak.
10. Never bother to learn something, not knowing which does not do you any harm, and never neglect to learn something whose negligence will increase your ignorance.
11. Moderation is the half of the livelihood.
12. Amicability is half of the intelligence.
13. Hastiness is the true clumsiness.
14. I found the knowledge of people in four things: firstly, that you know your Lord (recognition of Allah)
15. and secondly that you know it as to what factors He made use of in creating you,
16. and thirdly that you know as to what does he want and intend from you,
17. and fourthly that you learn what is it that will expel you from your religion.
18. Comprehend and understand the religion of Allah, for jurisprudence is the key to vision and the completion of worship and the cause of reaching the lofty grades and magnanimous stations in the world and in the hereafter.
19. The one whose two days are equal is a loser.
20. And the one whose last one of the two days is the evil one of those (two days) is a cursed one.
21. I inform you that the obligatory most right of your brother (in faith) is that you do not hide and conceal anything, which is beneficial and useful for his worldly affairs or affairs of the hereafter, from him.
22. Be cautious! Never at all be arrogant, for, the one who has a Misqal (unit of quantity) smallest amount of arrogance in his heart, will not enter the paradise.
23. Hisham! There is a proof and logic for everything and the proof of the intelligent person is his meditation and the proof of meditation is quietness.
24. Allah has prohibited heaven for all the users of abusive and obscene language.
25. The shameless person, who does neither care about what he says and nor what is said about him.
26. And so combat and fight a holy war against your ego so as to move it away from its lust and passions.
27. Because indeed it is obligatory for you like waging holy war against your enemy.
28. Beware of not spending in (the course of) Allah’s obedience otherwise, you spend twice in the way of Allah’s disobedience (sin, transgression).
29. The worst of the servants of Allah are those whose company is undesirable due to their obscene and filthy language (false, futile, and dirty conversation).
30. The one who squanders, wastes, and spends lavishly, the beneficence and blessings are abated, terminated, and cease to exist in him.
31. Oh Hisham, verily Prophet Luqman said to his son, "Adopt humility and humbleness for the right of Allah and you will be the most intellectual of the people.
32. Oh son! The world is a deep and profound ocean, already many of the worlds creations have immersed and sunk into it.
33. So make piety your ship in it to sail out safely and make the faith its cargo and putting trust in Allah its sails and intellect its sailor and knowledge its guide and patients its passengers.
34. Put in endeavor and exercise effort that your time is schedule into four hours.
35. An hour for the supplication to Allah and an hour of it for the affairs of its economy and livelihood and still another hour for social contact with the brothers and persons of confidence who may let you learn your shortcomings and faults and they have sincere interior heart for you.
36. And a part of it in which you enjoy the unforbidden and lawful entertainments.
37. With this part of the time you get strength and vigor for the rest of the three other times.
38. Bad is the person who has two faces and two tongues (double-cross, and hypocrite).
39. He praises and commends his brother (in faith) in his presence, and when he is absent, he backbites and slanders him.
40. If he achieves (something) he gets jealous of him and if he is afflicted, he leaves and abandons him (does not help him).
41. No one will gain the reward of suffering a misfortune unless he who forbears it and says: We are Allah's, and to Him we will return.
42. The best of generosity is the help to the oppressed.
43. Be tough and strict with the cruel so that you may take the right of the oppressed from him.
44. Always say the right thing although it may lead to your loss.
45. Whenever you get a pious leader and ruler (then) thank God for this boon.
46. Be tough and strict with the cruel so that you may take the right of the oppressed from him.
47. The best of generosity is the help to the oppressed.
48. The world is soft and beautiful like a snake but there is a (disastrous) killer poison hidden inside it.
49. No charity is superior to giving a helping hand to the weak.
50. He (A.S.) said: "No believer commits a sin but he regrets it and feels ashamed. And the Prophet has said:
51. Enough is regret as repentance, 'and also he has said: `Whoever is pleased by a good deed and displeased by a bad deed, he is a believer.' Therefore, if there is someone who does not feel remorse for a sin he has committed, he is not a believer, and intercession will not avail him, and he will be an unjust one. And Allah says: `The unjust shall have no true friend nor any intercessor who should be obeyed' (40:18)."
52. It was said to him: "O son of the Messenger of Allah! How is it that he who is not sorry for a sin he has committed, he does not remain a believer?"
53. He said: 'Anyone who commits a big sin, knowing that he must be punished for it, will certainly feel remorse for what he has done. And as soon as he is sorry, he is repentant, eligible for intercession. But if he is not sorry, then he is persisting in it, and a persistent (sinner) is not forgiven; because he does not believe in the punishment of what he has done. Has he believed in that punishment he would have been sorry.
54. And the Prophet has said: `No big sin abides with apologizing, and no small sin remains (small) with persistence.' And as for the words of Allah, "and they do not intercede except for him whom He approves, " it means that they do not intercede except for him whose religion He approves. Religion is an acknowledgement that good and bad deeds have to be recompensed. If one's religion were approved, one would feel remorse for the sins one would have committed, because he would know what their result would be on the (Day of) Resurrection."
55. `O son of the Messenger of Allah! Tell me about a believer, possessing religious understanding when he reaches (a high point in) knowledge and becomes perfect, does he commit fornication?'
56. He said `By God! No.' I said: `Then does he indulge in sodomy?
57. He said: `By God! No.' I said: `Then does he steal?'
58. He said: 'No.' I said: `Then does he drink intoxicant?'
59. He said: `No.' I said: `Then does he commit any of the big sins or indulge in any of these indecencies?'
60. He said: `No.' I said: `Then does he commit a sin?'
61. He said: `Yes, and he is a believer, sinner, submissive.' I said: `What does submissive mean?'
62. He said: `The submissive (servant) does not persist in it, does not keep doing it..."

63.  Imam Abu Al-Hassan Al-kadhim (a.s) said: "Poverty shall not enter a house inhabited by people having the names Muhammad... and Fatima from among women."

64.  "Why did you permit people to trace your ancestry back to Allah's Messenger (p.b.u.h) and call you sons of Allah's Apostle while you are descendants of Ali? Men are traced to their fathers; Fatima was not but a vessel and her father, the Prophet (p.b.u.h) your maternal grandfather!"

65. The Imam (a.s) replied: "Had the Prophet been brought back to life and asked you for your daughter's hand in marriage, would you fulfill his wish?"Rashid answered: "Glory be to Allah! Why wouldn't I fulfill his wish? Indeed I would be honored among the Arabs, non-Arabs, and Quraish to do so."
66. The Imam then said: "But he would not ask to marry my daughter, nor could I give her to him in marriage." Rashid exclaimed: "Why not?"
67. The Imam said: "For he has begotten me and has not begotten you." Rashid then said: "You are right, Musa;" and added; "but why do you claim to be the Prophet's offspring while he did not beget sons? And since offspring are sons not daughters and you are Fatima s children, she did not have offspring."
68. Upon hearing this, the Imam apologized to Rashid and asked to be excused; he did not want to answer him in observance to the law of prudence (taqiya). Nevertheless, Rashid insisted on hearing his arguments and said:
69. "You are obligated to bring me your arguments from the Quran, you children of Ali, and since you are their Imam of the time and chief as I was told, I will not excuse you until you bring me proof from Allah s Book, from which you know the interpretation of every letter, as has been written in this verse:
70. 'Nothing have We left unattended from the Book.'
71. Furthermore, you dispensed with the opinions of other scholars and qiyas' (inference)."
72. The Imam then said: "Am I permitted to give you the answer?" Rashid said: "indeed you are."
73. The Imam then said: "I seek refuge in Allah from the cursed devil. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent the Merciful:
74. 'And among his progeny, David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses, and Aaron; Thus do We reward those who do good; And Zakariya and John, and Jesus (Isa)."
75. The Imam continued, "Who is Isa's Father?