It was narrated that Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (as) said:
"When archangel Jibreel descended down upon the Messenger of Allah (sawa) during the farewell Pilgrimage to declare the matter of Ali bin Abi Taleb (as)...
...as the verse says:
"O' Messenger, proclaim (the message) sent down to you from your Lord…(5:67)."
The Messenger of Allah (sawa) waited three days till he reached al-Jahfa. Not all people were present there. On the day of al-Ghadeer, he went to a place in al-Jahfa called...
...Mahi’a and called for prayer. The people gathered and the Prophet (sawa) said:
"Who is closer and more important to you than your own selves?"
They said loudly: "Allah and His Messenger." He asked a second time and they said: "Allah and His Messenger..."
...He then asked for a third time and they said: "Allah and His Messenger."
Then, he grabbed the hand of Ali and declared: “Whoever I am his master, then Ali is his master. O' Allah, support whoever is loyal to him and be an enemy to whoever is an enemy of him...
...Advocate for whoever advocates for him and forsake those who have forsaken him; as verily, he is from me and I am from him. He is to me as Haroun was to Musa except that there is no prophet after me."
(Tafsir al-Ayashi, volume 1, page 332)
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It was narrated by Imam Zaynul Abadeen (as) that Luqman (as) said to his son:
"My son, the greatest annulment is the annulment of the heart. The greatest affliction is the affliction of faith and the most tragic loss is losing faith. The most beneficial wealth is the wealth of the heart...
...Truly, you must hold strongly onto that and be in satisfaction and contentment with what Allah had destined. Indeed, when a thief steals, Allah deducts what he stole from his sustenance and yet he still carries the burden of that transgression...
An extremely beautiful & magnificent description of Amir al-Momineen (as) as uttered by the most loyal servant of the Imam, Qambar:
It was narrated that Qambar was asked:
"Who is your master?"
Qambar answered:
"Verily, my master is the one who struck the enemies with two swords and pierced them with two spears. The one who prayed in the two Qiblas, pledged both allegiances, participated in both migrations...
...and did not disbelieve in God with as little as a blink of an eye. I am the servant of the most righteous of the believers, the inheritor of the Prophets, the greatest of the successors, the grandest of the Muslims, the leader of the believers...
It is a known tradition that from the first day of Muharram till the 8th of Rabi al-Awwal, it is a time of grief and sadness for the tragedies that befell the Ahlulbayt (as).
However, some claim that this lacks legitmacy, especially when happy occasions occur during this time period - most notably, the birth of Imam al-Kadhim (as).
Sayeda Zainab (as) holding Majlis Aza for Sayeda Roqayyah (as).
It was reported that when the Ahlulbayt returned to Medina, the women of the city came to console the Alawite women for the tragedy they endured.
And Sayeda Zainab (as) began to narrate to them what happened in Karbala, Kufa and the Levant, from the tragedies and calamities and the numerous amount of afflictions that befell them. The women began to cry and wail over Imam al-Hussain (as).