Don't look scornfully at these beggars with no shoes on their feet!

Don't look scornfully at these beggars with no shoes on their feet! They are dearer to wisdom than eyes which shed tears from fear of Allah. If Adam sold Paradise for two grains of wheat, then truly know that these people will not buy it for even one grain. Bahlool was sincerely devoted to Allah; he was an intelligent and virtuous scholar. He was the master of the mind and manners; he spoke with the best of answers ready on his lips; he protected his faith and the Shariah.

Bahlool became insane at the Imam's command for the love of Ahlul Bayt, and so he could enforce the rights of which they had been wronged. There was no other way for Bahlool to protect his life. For example, Haroun told his vizier, Yahya bin Khalid Barmaki, that listening to the words of Imam Jafar Sadiq's student Hisham bin Hikam --who proved Imam Musa Kazim's Imamate-- was more dangerous to him than 100,000 swords.

Haroun said, “Even then it amazes me that Hisham is alive and I am in power.” Haroun planned to kill Hisham. Hisham learned of this and fled from Kufa, and hid in a friend's house, but after a short while he died. Previous…