Just in these few lines Imam (A) is teaching us so much...

Just in these few lines Imam (A) is teaching us so much:He is teaching us that only Allah is the provider.He is teaching us that we should not fear Allah as He is the most forgiving and the most Merciful but at the same time He is also the Most Just and it is this justice that we should fear.There was once a man who was a very religious man and because he was so sure of himself he always used to pray to Allah to judge him on Justice, (we are told always to pray to Allah to judge us with His mercy).

When this man died he saw a scale which was being weighted down with all his good actions. The angels then brought an apple which they put on the other side of the scale and the scale came down on the side of the apple. The man did not understand how a single apple could outdo all his good actions. He was then told that, that apple was one that he had tasted in the market without the permission of the shop owner.

Because the man had insisted that Allah judge him on justice, Allah did not intervene with His mercy. Imam Zainul Abideen (A) then finished the 1st verse with the lesson that we should only rely on Allah and attach ourselves to Him alone. Moral: We should always ask Allah to judge us with His mercy. We should try to read the du'as from Al-Sahifat al-Kamilat al-Sajjadiyya, as there is so much to learn from them. Our 4th Imam, Imam Ali Zainul Abideen (A), was a very kind and patient person.

He usually never got angry and he always had a smile on his face. One day when Imam Ali Zainul Abideen (A) was walking down the street with a few of his friends, he saw an old man carrying a heavy load while his son walked next to him. Imam Ali Zainul Abideen (A) lost his smile and became red with anger. All his friends were very surprised to see Imam (A) in this way, as they had never seen him angry. They asked Imam Ali Zainul Abideen (A) what had happened to make him so angry.

Imam (A) replied that he was angry to see a son walk with his father letting him carry a heavy load and not helping. Moral: You should always help your parents, even when they do not ask you to. For example, you can tidy up your toys after you have finished playing with them. Our 4th Imam, Imam Ali Zainul Abideen (A) always remembered the saying of the Holy Prophet (S): that if a Muslim did not think of the needs of his Muslim brothers then he was not a Muslim.