Anecdotes of The Ahlul Bayt

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Author(s): Ayatullah Murtadha Mutahhari

Translator(s): Iffat Shah

Category: Ethics

Topic Tags: Laws Ahadith

Featured Category: Spirituality

Person Tags: 14 infallibles Mutahari Ahlul Bayt

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This text is a compilation of incidents, narrations and teachings from the lives of the 14 infallibles which help us in living our lives in total accordance with the laws of Islam. In this collection, Ayatullah Mutahhari only used reports that he found credible and which came from reliable sources.

Thanksgiving – A Prayer

In the name of Allah the Beneficent the Merciful

He Makes Whom He Pleases Enter into His Mercy

(Surah Dahr; 76:31)

Thank You, Allah T’aala

Is all that I can say

For who knows whether we’ll make it

With grit, come what may

And without Allah’s Mercy

We may try all night and day

Forgetting what we’re worth

A clot of blood, just clay

However, with His Mercy

A mountain can we move

With ease and no great effort

Just hope in Him, just love

So, Thank You Allah T’aala

Is all that I can say

Just help me share this blessing

With all who come my way

Bless Muhammad and his sacred Household

inconsequential me

Preface

Whenever a book arrives on the shelves, one wonders why it was written, what it contains, and whether it will be worthwhile reading it. I’ll make it easy for you.

This book is a selected translation of the Urdu version of the Persian compilation, ‘Daastaan e Raastaan’ by Martyr Murtadha Mutahhari, who included only those incidents of the Ahl al Bayt (s) that he obtained from reliable sources, which he cited in the bibliography. For me, his

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