The easiest of this world is poverty and the easiest in the...
The easiest of this world is poverty and the easiest in the hereafter is torment of the grave.” [31] وَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص: مَا قُرِئَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ فِي بَيْتٍ إِلَّا هَجَرَهُ إِبْلِيسُ ثَلَاثِينَ يَوْماً وَ لَا يَدْخُلُهُ سَاحِرٌ وَ لَا سَاحِرَةٌ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْماً Al-Qutb Al-Rawandy states in Lub Al-Albab Book: The Messenger -saww of Allah -azwj said: “Reciting this verse (Ayat Al-Kursi) in a home prevents Iblees -la from coming to it for three days and no wizard or magician shall enter in it for forty days.” [32] الْقُطْبُ الرَّاوَنْدِيُّ فِي لُبِ اللُّبَاب قَالَ جَعْفَرٌ الصَّادِقُ ع: مَنْ قَرَأَهَا بُنِيَ عَلَيْهِ حَائِطٌ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ Al-Qutb Al-Rawandy states in Lub Al-Albab Book: Imam Sadiq -asws said: “When one recites this verse (Ayat Al-Kursi) a wall of iron is built around him.” [33] عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع أَ يُكْرَهُ السَّفَرُ فِي شَيْءٍ مِنَ الْأَيَّامِ الْمَكْرُوهَةِ الْأَرْبِعَاءِ وَ غَيْرِهِ فَقَالَ افْتَتِحْ سَفَرَكَ بِالصَّدَقَةِ وَ اقْرَأْ آيَةَ الْكُرْسِيِّ إِذَا بَدَا لَكَ Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from ibn abu ‘Umayr from Hammad ibn ‘Uthman who has said the following: “I once asked Abu Abdallah -asws , this question.
‘Is it detestable to leave for a journey at any particular day like Wednesday or so?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘Begin your journey with giving charity and reading Ayat Al-Kursi whenever or whichever day you want to get cupping.’” [34] عَنْهُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي هَاشِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي خَدِيجَةَ قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ مَكْتُوباً فِي بَيْتِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع آيَةَ الْكُرْسِيِ قَدْ أُدِيرَتْ بِالْبَيْتِ وَ رَأَيْتُ فِي قِبْلَةِ مَسْجِدِهِ مَكْتُوباً آيَةَ الْكُرْسِيِّ Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Abdul Rahman Bin Abu Hashim, from Abu Khadeeja who said, ‘I saw written in a house of Abu Abdallah -asws , Ayat Al-Kursi – 2:255 circled (all around) the House, and I saw in the Qiblah of his -asws Masjid (Prayer room), the Verse of the Chair been inscribed’.
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