What is wisdom in fasting?
One of the many instances of wisdom in fasting from the point of view of man’s social life is as follows: Human beings have been created differently with regard to their livelihoods. In consequence of…
Is Life A Virtual Game?
A Virtual Game? In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. That which is on earth We have made as a glittering show for the earth, in order that We may test them, as…
How Can We Transform Prison Into Happiness ?
It is definite and obvious that death will befall us as the night will follow today and winter, this autumn. Just as this prison is a temporary guest-house for those who continuously enter it and…
The Wisdom of Frugality
On Frugality This treatise is about frugality and contentment, and wastefulness and extravagance. In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Eat and drink, but waste not by excess. (7:31) This verse gives the…
Lion Behind Us
Lion If you want to understand this world, and man’s spirit within the world, and the nature and value of religion for man, and how the world is a prison if there is no True…
When I Feel Lonely, Isolated and Old
Lonely, Isolated, and Old One time when afflicted with old age, exile, loneliness, and isolation in addition to my innate and infinite impotence, ‘the worldly’ were attacking me with their spies and stratagems, and…
My heart desires its immortality
While my heart desires its immortality, Reality wants the passing of my body; I am afflicted with an incurable illness which not even Luqman could cure! I bowed my head in despair. Suddenly the verse,…
Why Are There Calamities?
Calamities Life Finds Its Perfection Through Motion Almighty God sends calamities and inflicts tribulations; isn’t this an injustice towards the innocent in particular, and animals even? T h e A n s w e r:…
Fear and Love
O soul and O friend! Two faculties, through which one may experience fear and love, have been included in man’s nature. This love and fear are bound to be turned towards either creatures or the…
What Am I And What Are You?
One of the instances of wisdom in fasting in Ramadan with regard to shattering the instinctual soul’s imaginary dominicality and making known its worship through pointing out its impotence is as follows: The instinctual soul…
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