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Imam Ali said to the people, "You and I have rights on each other. My rights on you are:
(i) You should stick to your oath of allegiance to me.
(ii) You should remain my well-wisher both in my presence.
(iii) You should answer me as soon as I summon you, and your rights on me are:
(i) Sympathy with and wishing well to you
(ii) Security of the Public treasury
(iii) Education and training". (Biharul Anwar, vol. XXVII)
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REAL FAST
By:
Rai`sul Muballighin Allamah Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi R.A.
O you who believe! Fasting has been prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may guard yourselves (against evil)”.
(Qur’an; chapter 2: verse 183)
THE COMMAND for fasting in Ramadhan came in the first year of the Hijra. The Holy Prophet delivered a lecture on the last Friday of the preceding month, Sha’ban in which he said:
“O people! You are now under the shadow of the month, which has a night (Night of Qadr), which is better than thousand months. It is the month of Ramadhan in which fasting has been made compulsory by God. It is the month of patience; and the reward of patience is paradise. It is the month of mutual sympathy.
“Whoever feeds a fasting brother at the time of breaking the fast God will be as much pleased with him as though he would have emancipated a slave, and it means that his sins of past would be forgiven”.
Somebody pleaded that not everybody was affluent enough to feed others. The holy Prophet said:
“Allah is generous enough to be pleased with you even if you break the fast of a Muslim brother with a morsel of date or a cup of water if it is the only thing which you can offer”.
God does not see the wealth offered but it is the feeling of the heart only which counts. Then the Holy Prophet proceeded to say:
“Anybody who makes the burden of his servants lighter in this month Allah will make his sins lighter for him on the Day of Judgement”.
The word “Ramadhan” is derived from the root ‘R-M-Dh’, which indicates ‘Heat and Restlessness. It is said that the name of the month indicates the hard-ships, which accompany a fast, like thirst and a comparative restlessness.
But the best explanation was given by the Holy Prophet himself, who was the final authority on every thing. He said: “Ramadhan burns the sins and faults as fire burns the wood”.
Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (a.s.) told one of his companions:
“O Jabir Whoever, during Ramadhan fasts in day, stands for prayers in parts of nights, controls his sexual desires and emotions, puts rein on his tongue, keeps his eyes down, and does not injure the feelings of others, will become as free from sin as he was the day he was born”. Jabir said: “How tough are these conditions”
Have you courage enough to try to fulfil these ‘tough’ conditions in this Ramadhan and be freed from the chain of past sins?
| Chapter | Number | Listen |
| (Al-Fatihah) The Opening | 1 |
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| (Al-Baqarah) The Cow | 2 |
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| (Aal Imran) The Family Of Imran | 3 |
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| (An-Nisa) The Women | 4 |
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| (Al-Maidah) The Food | 5 |
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| (Al-An'aam) The Cattle | 6 |
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| (Al-A'Raaf) The Elevated Places | 7 |
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| (Al-Anfaal) The Spoils of War | 8 |
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| (At-Tawbah) The Repentance | 9 |
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| (Yunus) Jonah | 10 |
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| (Hud) Hud | 11 |
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| (Yusuf) Joseph | 12 |
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| (Ar-Ra'd) The Thunder | 13 |
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| (Ibrahim) Ibrahim | 14 |
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| (Al-Hijr) The Rock | 15 |
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| (An-Nahl) The Bee | 16 |
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| (Al-Isra'a) The Night Journey | 17 |
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| (Al-Kahf) The Cave | 18 |
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| (Mariam) Mary | 19 |
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| (Ta Ha) Ta Ha | 20 |
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| (Al-Anbiyaa) The Prophets | 21 |
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| (Al-Hajj) The Pilgrimage | 22 |
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| (Al-Mu'minun) The Believers | 23 |
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| (An-Nur) The Light | 24 |
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| (Al-Furqaan) The Criterion | 25 |
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| (Ash-Shuaraa) The Poets | 26 |
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| (An-Naml) The Ant | 27 |
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| (Al-Qasas) The Narratives | 28 |
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| (Al-Ankabut) The Spider | 29 |
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| (Ar-Rum) The Romans | 30 |
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| (Luqman) Luqman | 31 |
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| (As-Sajdah) The Prostration | 32 |
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| (Al-Ahzaab) The Allies | 33 |
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| (Saba'a) Sheba | 34 |
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| (Faatir) Originator | 35 |
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| (Yasin) Yasin | 36 |
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| (As-Saaffaat) The Rangers | 37 |
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| (Saad) Saad | 38 |
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| (Az-Zummar) The Companions | 39 |
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| (Ghafir) The Forgiver | 40 |
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| (Fussilat) The Detailed | 41 |
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| (Ash-Shura) The Counsel | 42 |
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| (Az-Zukhruf) Embellishment | 43 |
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| (Ad-Dukhan) The Evident Smoke | 44 |
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| (Al-Jathiyah) The Kneeling | 45 |
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| (Al-Ahqaaf) The Sandhills | 46 |
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| (Mohammed) Mohammed | 47 |
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| (Al-Fat'h) The Victory | 48 |
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| (Al-Hujraat) The Chambers | 49 |
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| (Qaaf) Qaaf | 50 |
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| (Az-Zariyaat) The Scatters | 51 |
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| (At-Tur) The Mountain | 52 |
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| (An-Najm) The Star | 53 |
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| (Al-Qamar) The Moon | 54 |
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| (Ar-Rahman) The Beneficent | 55 |
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| (Al-Waaqi'ah) The Great Event | 56 |
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| (Al-Hadeed) The Iron | 57 |
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| (Al-Mujadalah) The Pleading One | 58 |
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| (Al-Hashr) The Banishment | 59 |
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| (Al-Mumtahinah) The Examined One | 60 |
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| (As-Saff) The Ranks | 61 |
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| (Al-Jumuah) The Friday | 62 |
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| (Al-Munafiqun) The Hypocrites | 63 |
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| (At-Taghaabun) Loss and Gain | 64 |
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| (At-Talaaq) The Divorce | 65 |
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| (At-Tahreem) The Prohibition | 66 |
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| (Al-Mulk) The Kingdom | 67 |
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| (Al-Qalam) The Pen | 68 |
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| (Al-Haaqqah) The Sure Calamity | 69 |
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| (Al-Ma'arij) The Ways of Ascent | 70 |
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| (Nuh) Noah | 71 |
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| (Al-Jinn) The Jinn | 72 |
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| (Al-Muzzammil) The Wrapped Up One | 73 |
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| (Al-Muddathir) The Clothed One | 74 |
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| (Al-Qiyamah) The Resurrection | 75 |
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| (Al-Insaan) The Man | 76 |
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| (Al-Mursalaat) The Emissaries | 77 |
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| (An-Naba'a) The Great Event | 78 |
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| (An-Nazi'aat) Those Who Pull Out | 79 |
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| (Abas) He Frowned | 80 |
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| (At-Takweer) The Covering Up | 81 |
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| (Al-Infitar) The Cleaving Asunder | 82 |
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| (Al-Mutaffifin) The Defrauders | 83 |
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| (Al-Inshiqaq) The Bursting Asunder | 84 |
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| (Al-Buruj) The Mansion of The Stars | 85 |
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| (At-Tariq) The Night Comer | 86 |
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| (Al-A'laa) The Most High | 87 |
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| (Al-Ghashiyah) The Overwhelming Calamity | 88 |
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| (Al-Fajr) The Daybreak | 89 |
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| (Al-Balad) The City | 90 |
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| (Ash-Shams) The Sun | 91 |
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| (Al-Lail) The Night | 92 |
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| (Adh-Dhuha) The Early Hours | 93 |
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| (Ash-Sharh) The Expansion | 94 |
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| (At-Teen) The Fig | 95 |
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| (Al-Alaq) The Clot | 96 |
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| (Al-Qadr) The Majesty | 97 |
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| (Al-Bayyinah) The Clear Evident | 98 |
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| (Az-Zilzilah) The Shaking | 99 |
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| (Al-Aadiyat) The Assaulters | 100 |
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| (Al-Qariah) The Terrible Calamity | 101 |
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| (At-Takaathur) The Multiplication | 102 |
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| (Al-Asr) Time | 103 |
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| (Al-Humazah) The Slanderer | 104 |
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| (Al-Fil) The Elephant | 105 |
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| (Quraish) Quraish | 106 |
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| (Al-Maun) The Daily Necessaries | 107 |
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| (Al-Kawthar) The Heavenly Fountain | 108 |
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| (Al-Kaafirun) The Unbelievers | 109 |
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| (An-Nasr) The Help | 110 |
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| (Al-Masad) The Perish | 111 |
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| (Al-Ikhlaas) The Unity | 112 |
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| (Al-Falaq) The Dawn | 113 |
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| (An-Naas) The Men | 114 |
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