traduza o texto completamente e perfeitamente para o português Someone asked Imam Jafar e Sadiq (a.s) whether one should offer optional (Naafila) prayers at one place or at different places. The Imam (a.s)
replied that it is better to offer these prayers at different places that these
places will bear witnerss to the act on the Day of Reckoning.
It is narrated that when people assemble at a place and don’t praise
the Prophet and his Holy Progeny (a.s), such assembly will be the harbinger of retribution of the concourse on the Day of Reckoning
O Abu Dharr! When Allah created the land and trees grew on it, there
was no tree from which the progeny of Adam had not derived benefit.
The land and its flora kept providing benefits to man that he praised Allah for His Bounties. But the misguided said, “God has a son!” When this
happened, the earth had a cataclysm and the benefits that the trees
provided to man faded away. The Qureish believed that the angels are
God’s daughters. The Jews thought that Aziz (of Egypt) was God’s
son.The Christians said, “Jesus is the son of God.”
It is narrated from authentic sources that Imam Jafar e Sadiq (a.s) has
said: Allah has not created any tree that did not give fruits. But when
people started saying that God has a son, half the flora went barren of
fruits. And when people started being polytheist, many a tree grew
thorns.
It is narrated from the Prophet of Islam (a.s): Allah deputed a messenger to a nation. He preached with them for forty year. He invited them to
have faith in Allah, but none of the people agreed. The people of the
place used to congregate on a festive occasion at a ground. On one such
occasion the Messenger too went to the assemblage and said, “O people!
Have faith in Allah! He is one and only and has no partners!” The people
said, “O person! If you are the messenger of Allah, ask Him to give us
fruits of the color of our robes!” That day the people were wearing orange colored dresses. The Messenger went a little distance from there
and brought back a dried branch of a tree. He offered prayer and the
dried branch became fresh and green. It put on orange fruits. The people
saw and ate the fruits. Those who got convinced of the existence of Allah
found that the stone of the fruit was sweet. But the others who still had
doubts, found the stones bitter.
The Prophet of Islam (a.s) has said, “O Ali (a.s)! There are three things
that sooth the hearts of the Momins: 1. Meeting brother momins. 2. Breaking of the fasts. 3. Offering the late night prayers (Tahajjud)” The Prophet
(a.s) added, “O Ali (a.s)! In my view offering two Rakaat of the night
382prayers is better than everything in the world. O Ali (a.s)! A momin has
an elevated status! When he dies, the angels lament in the Heaven because he was like a rampart for a city for the other momins against the
evil intent of the Satan, the innovators and the infidels.”
Imam Mohammed Baqir (a.s) said, “We are incapable of praising Allah
that He is beyond our comprehension! Similarly we cannot enumerate
the qualities of the Prophet of Islam (a.s) because Allah says, ‘His praise
is My praise, his injunction is My injunction, his obedience is My obedience!’ Similarly we Ahl al Bayt cannot be praised that Allah has kept us
free of all defects and rendered us pure. Also momins cannot be praised
that when a momin meets another, his sins fall away as do the leaves in
autumn!”
383THE BENEFITS OF MU’ANAQAH OR EMBRACE
Imam Jafar e Sadiq (a.s) says, “When two momins embrace each other,
the Allah’s Blessing will be on them! When they embrace each other only
to please Allah, without any worldly motives, the angels say, ‘all your
sins have been pardoned! Repeat the act of embrasure!’ When two momins start speaking, the angels responsible for recording the deeds of the
people ask one other to stay away from them that perhaps they desire to
exchange secrets and Allah wishes to keep them from others hearing!”
The narrator asked: Do the angels not record these exchanges despite Allah observing,
No person utters a word which our chroniclers don’t record.
The Imam (a.s) took a sigh and said: Allah has ordered the angels to
keep away from them in reverence to their greatness. Although the angels don’t hear their conversation Allah (Alam as sir wal khaffiyat) knows
their acts and hears their talk!
Hazrat Ali (a.s) says, “A momin moves amidst five lights (anwaar). In
congregations (majalis) and matters of religion his entry and exit are both
accompanied by light.His knowledge is light and his talk has an aura of
light. On the Day of Judgement a momin’s glance towards the bounties of
Allah too is accompanied with light.”
It is evident from the traditions that the actions and the morals of a
person are a reflection of his faith. Shunning the mandatory acts and perpetration of major sins ostracises a person from the faith. Sometimes a pious person is termed a momin, sometimes a shia and at others a wali. A
person is called a momin or shia when his actions are upright.But one
should not become proud and conceited learning about these traditions
that define a shia and momin. One should understand that persons fitting
the description of a momin are hard to come by.
Imam Mohammed Baqir (a.s) says, “Allah has endowed a momin with
three traits: 1. Respect in the world. 2. Deliverance in the Hereafter. 3.
Fear in the hearts of the tyrants.”
Some companions of Imam Jafar e Sadiq (a.s) approached him on a
moonlit night. Impressed with the serene ambience, one of the companions told to the Imam (a.s), “How brilliant is the night with the moonlight and the stars. The attractiveness of the sky is enhancing with the
passage of time.” The Imam (a.s) said, “When you say this about the sky,
Jibrael and Mekael are waxing eloquent praising the brightness of the
earth and and the momineen living on it. Izrael and Israfeel too have a similar opinion about the earth.”