One can enjoy the fruits of faith at any time...

One can enjoy the fruits of faith at any time, anywhere, and in all of one’s ups and downs. The verse says: “…and its branches are in heaven,” The tree of monotheism has got fixed roots. No threats, or conspiracies, no instigators and blame as well as the despots can uproot or eradicate it.

If we find that in quotations this tree has been rendered to the Prophet (S) and his Ahl-ul-Bayt (as), it is because of this very reason that the religion of Muhammad (S) and the path of his household widens ever more as against the background of all those enemies, and it will globalize one day. Some Traditions [^10] Mul a ‘Abd-ur-Rahman-ibn-‘Ūf has been quoted as saying: take from me the correct traditions of the Prophet (S) before they are distorted and mixed with lies.

I heard the Messenger of Allah (S) who said: ‘I am the tree (of prophecy) (Tūb a) and Fatimah is its trunk, Ali is its seed, Hassan and Hussayn are its fruits. The Shi‘ites of us (our followers) are its leaves.

The grass root of this tree is in the Garden of Eden, and the rest of it is in other Gardens (of Paradise).’ [^11] The Prophet (S) said: “People are from different (roots of) a tree, and Ali and I are from (the roots of) a single tree.” [^12] The blissful Prophet (S) remarked: “My Ahl-ul-Bayt and I are a tree in Paradise, the branches of which are in the world and whoever attached to us (took the tree by the branch)