that two rak‘as of prayer are better
than the world and all it contains.
This does not apply to every person.
The person to whom this applies is one
who considers it more serious
to miss two rak‘as than to lose the world and all it contains,
that is, one for whom it would be harder to miss
those two rak‘as
than to lose possession of the whole world.
Be always at work scraping the dirt from the well.
To everyone who suffers, perseverance brings good fortune.
The Prophet has said that each prostration of prayer is a knock on heaven's door.
When anyone continues to knock, felicity shows its smiling face.
WHO IS THIS ANGELIC FIGURE WHO IS SO PARTICULAR OF THE TIME OF MEETING HIS ONLY BELOVED?
From an hour before noon, he asked whoever came to him: 'How much time is left for mid-day?'
And his aim (behind this) was that he should not delay in praying at the beginning of its time.
From 3.30 afternoon an overwhelming anxiety overcame all (of us). The treatment had reached at a point when, following utmost efforts by the physicians and the Hospital personnel, everyone was in wait for a miracle to transpire.
During Maghrib, the doctors, considering their awareness of his sensitivity toward prayers, called him and said: 'Agha, it is time for prayer.'
Imam Khumayni, who was unconscious from 1.30 afternoon, attended to this voice. All of us witnessed that he prayed his Maghrib prayer in that state of restlessness by moving his hands and eyebrows."
Firishte I'rabi
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