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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Tuhaf Al-uqul ( the Masterpieces of the Mind ) Narrations of Imam Al-askari The following maxims are related to Imam Abu Mohammed Al-Hasan bin Ali Al-Askari (peace be upon him) the pure the guide. Imam Al-Askari's Message to Is'haq bin Ismaeel An-Nisapuri God cover you and us with His shelter and take care of all of your affairs through His power. I have understood your message -God compassionate you-.

Thanks to God, we -the Prophet's family- sympathize our disciples and feel delight when God's beneficence and favors are given to them incessantly. We also count every favor that God, the Blessed the Exalted, bestows upon them. God confer upon you, Is'haq, and your examples, whom God has compassionated and led to the right, with His grace. God make His favor perfect for you by taking you to Paradise.

'Alhamdu Lillah -All praise be to God-' is the perfect thanks for any favor, apart from its greatness or magnitude. I praise God too much to be compared to any wording of praise all over times, for His conferment of graces upon you as He has compassionated you, saved you from destruction, and eased your course to pass the obstacle. By God, it was such an insurmountable obstacle.

Its matter was too intense; its course was too difficult; its trial was too hard; it was mentioned in the ancient books. In the time of the late Imam (peace be upon him) and in my days, you have had some affairs due to which I dispraised your opinions for you have been practicing unsuccessfully. You should know so fully, Is'haq, that he whoever quits this world with blindness will be also blind in the world to come and in terrible error.

O Is'haq, it is not the sights that are affected with blindness; in fact, it is the hearts that are in the chests. This is proved in God's conveying the saying of the wrong ones in His Book of wisdom: He will say, "My Lord, why have you brought me back to life blind; before I could see?" The Lord will say, "This is true. But just as you forgot Our (claim) that had come to you, so, too, are you forgotten on this day.

Which claim is more magnificent than the Lord's argument against His creatures, the Lord's representative on His lands, and the Lord's witness on His servants after the consecution of forefathers; the prophets and forefathers; the successors of the prophets? Peace and God's mercy and blessings be upon them all. Where are you taken away? Where are you directing aimlessly like animals?