I owe this to him, he protected me from heat and cold.

I owe this to him,

he protected me from heat and cold.""

aught with Him save him whom He permits: "No prophet or apostle

may intercede until Allah permits him, except the Apostle of Allah;

because Allah has already given him permission before the Day of

Resurrection; and intercession is (allowed) to him and to the Imams

from his progeny, and after that to the prophets." (Tafseer, Al-Qumi)

intercede with Allah and their intercession will be accepted: The

prophets, then the (religious) scholars, then the martyrs. " (Al-Khisal)

(A) that he said: "The garden has eight gates: one for the entry of

prophets and the truthful ones, the other for the martyrs and the good

ones; and five gates are for the entry of our Shiites and lovers-I shall

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be standing on the As-Sirat (the path, the bridge over hell) praying and

saying: `My Lord! Save my Shiites and my lovers and my helpers and

those who followed me in the (life of the) world.' When all of a sudden

there will come a voice from inside the throne: Your prayer is granted

and your intercession for your Shiites accepted.' And every Shiite of

mine and everyone who loves me, helps me and fights my enemies by

(his) deed or word, shall intercede for seventy thousand of his

neighbors and relatives; and (there is) a gate from which shall enter all

the Muslims who witness that there is no god except Allah and in

whose heart there is not an iota of enmity towards us, the people of

the Prophet that he said: "My intercession is for those of my Ummah

who would have committed big sins; as for the doers of good, there

shall be no difficulty for them." He was asked: "O son of the

Messenger of Allah! How can the intercession be for those who have

committed big sins; while Allah says, `and they do not intercede except

for him whom He approves' (21:28); and a committer of big sins

cannot be approved?" He (A) said: "No believer commits a sin but he