Category: Ahadith/ Sayings

Why do we Sprinkle/Pour water over the graves?

May 10, 2025 / editor

Imam Ali (a) reported: ‘Sprinkling water over graves was practiced at the time of the Holy Prophet (saww)’.

(Wasa’il al-Shia Vol. 3 Pg 196)

Enlightening Inspirations from Rabi’ al-Abrar – 4

December 11, 2024 / editor

The best speech is that in which the speaker is truthful and from which the listener derives benefit.
Not every human is a human being - only one who is a human in his knowledge and etiquette.
The tongue with which Allah is mentioned ought not to be used to speak obscenities.

Enlightening Inspirations from Rabi’ al-Abrar – 3

December 11, 2024 / editor

Food and drink are the provision for physical bodies, but the provisions for the intellect
are wisdom and knowledge.
Contentment suffices as honor, and good
nature [suffices] as bounty.
Gratitude has three stages: a feeling inside
the heart, an expression by the tongue and a
recompense by the hand.

Enlightening Inspirations from Rabi’ al-Abrar – 2

December 11, 2024 / editor

Good management with enough is more
sufficing than plenty of wealth with extravagance.
Do not attend [too many] weddings, for they will make you yearn for this world and forget the Hereafter. [Instead] attend funerals
because they will make you abstemious in
this world and desirous of the Hereafter.

Enlightening Inspirations from Rabi’ al-Abrar

December 11, 2024 / editor

A Wise man was asked, “What is the thing which
is not good to speak even if it is true?” He replied, “A man’s praise of himself.”
Whoever habituates himself to lying will not
believe the [words of the] truthful.

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