• The least I could do
    • do Iranian Folklore Long long ago, an old mother had a son who had disobeyed the then ruler. The ruler was so angry that had sentenced her son to death. The son was supposed to be hanged in the village center in fron...
    • Elephant (Fil): 1-5
    • 1-5 Verse of the Week Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant? Did He not cause their war to end in confusion? And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks Casting against...
    • A Holiday Task
    • ask Hector H. Munro Kenelm Jerton entered the dining-hall of the Golden Galleon Hotel in the full crush of the luncheon hour. Nearly every seat was occupied, and small additional tables had been brought in, where fl...
    • The Prophets (Anbiya): 7-10
    • -10 Verse of the Week And We did not send before you any but men to whom We sent revelation, so ask the followers of the reminder if you do not know And We did not make them bodies not eating the food, and they wen not t...
    • Imam Khomeini
    • ini After appointing members of Cultural Revolution High Council Quotation of the Week This regime, generally, has a lot of expectation from a selected skillful group as Cultural Revolution High Council, because i...
    • The Japanned Box
    • Box Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was a curious thing, said the private tutor; one of those grotesque and whimsical incidents which occur to one as one goes through life. I lost the best situation which I am ever lik...
    • Hadith of Wilayah
    • yah Hadith of the Week "Whosoever, I am master of, Then this man, Ali is his master." "O God! Befriend him, whosoever befriends him. Oppose him, whosoever opposes him. Support him, whosoever suppor...
    • Declaration at Ghadir Khumm
    • umm O MESSENGER! MAKE IT KNOWN THAT WHICH HADITH BEEN REVEALED UNTO THEE FROM THY LORD, FOR IF THOU DO IT NOT, THOU WILL NOT HAVE CONVEYED HIS MESSAGE. ALLAH WILL PROTECT THEE FROM MANKIND. LO! ALLAH GUIDETH NOT THE DISBELIE...
    • The Elevated Places (Al-A'raaf):178
    • Verse of the Week Whomsoever Allah guides (through His Bounty), he is the one who follows the right way and whomsoever He (through His justice) causes to err, these are the losers ...
    • The supreme one
    • one Hadith of the week Others will fear him who fears Allah. He who obeys Allah will be obeyed. He who obeys Allah will not care for the dissatisfaction of the creatures. He who enrages the Creator should be sure of...
    • THE WELCOME
    • ME Mostafa Rahman doust Translated and Edited by: K. Najafi Abdollah shouted, "I know, I know! I know better than all of you. Be quiet, and leave my sight!" His spies who worked for him, backed away, leavi...
    • Three traits of a believer
    • ver Hadith of the Week A believer is not a real believer unless he has three traits : A practice from his God , a practice from his prophet and a practice from his Imam ; the practice from his God , is keeping hi...
    • Rewarding Superstitions
    • ons Fernando Sorrentino Translated by Clark M. Zlotchew I live off the superstitions of others. I don't earn much and the work is pretty hard. My first job was in a seltzer plant. The boss believed, who can say why...
    • The Instrument of the Mind
    • ind Hadith of the Week Plants grow in plain, not rocky, lands. In the same way, wisdom will grow in the hearts of the modest, not the arrogant, because Allah has made modesty the instrument of the mind and made arroga...
    • The Cask of Amontillado
    • ado Edgar Allan Poe THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I...
    • Spider (Al-Ankabout): 5-6
    • 5-6 Verse of the Week *Whoever hopes to meet Allah, the term appointed by Allah will then most surely come and He is the Hearing, the Knowing *And whoever strives hard, he strives for his own soul Most surely Allah is S...
    • Imams' tradition
    • Hadith of the Week "My traditions are my father's traditions; my father's traditions are my grandfather's traditions; my grandfather's traditions are the traditions of Ali bin Abi Talib, the Commander of the faith...
    • A Miraculous Act of Imam Sadiq
    • iq A man fromDamascus was given a meeting with Imam Sadiq (pbuh) and said that he had come for a discussion with one of his students. Imam said, "Introduce him to Hisham." Hisham was the youngest of his stude...
    • Saba: 46
    • 46 Verse of the Week Say: I exhort you only to one thing That ruse up for Allah’s Sake in twos and singly, then ponder There is no madness in your fellow-citizen He is only a warmer to you before a severe chastisemen...
    • Palestinian Proverbs
    • The empty gives the way to the full. Do good and throw it in the sea. This who digs an evil hole will fall into it. Your close neighbor is better than your faraway brother. The house is our father's and the stranger...
    • The Nightingale and the Rose
    • ose Oscar Wild She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; `but in all my garden there is no red rose.' From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him, an...
    • Behave your teacher
    • her Hadith of the Week Respect your teacher and be polite in his assembly (session) and listen carefully to his words. Do not talk loudly before him. If somebody questions him about something do not reply before he do...
    • Rescue the Moon
    • oon As he was returning home late and tired one night, Nasreddin Hoja [i] stopped at the village well to draw a drink for himself. He was horrified to see the full moon reflected in the dark water at the bottom of t...
    • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
    • Iran will remain a non-nuclear-weapon state party to the NPT and has placed the entire scope of its nuclear activities under IAEA safeguards and additional protocol...
    • Four pillars of Faith
    • ith Hadith of the Week Faith has four pillars: Trusting & relying upon Allah, & contentment & pleasure with the divine will, & submitting to the ordain & ordinance of Allah, & delegation &...
    • To Tell the Truth
    • uth Lori looked glum as she came in the door. "Problems, honey?" asked Mom. "Oh, I just get tired of Marie bossing me around!" complained Lori. "Sometimes I wish I'd never tried to make frien...
    • Educate Yourself First
    • rst Hadith of the Week Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is...
    • Imam Ali's beseech to Allah
    • Zirar bin Zamra Zibabi, known as Zirar Suda'i, was a companion of Imam Ali. When, after the martyrdom of Imam Ali, he went to Damascus, Muawiya called him and asked him to say something about Imam Ali. Zirar, knowi...
    • Native American proverbs (1)
    • (1) It's impossible to awaken a man who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest. Anishinabe Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, are goi...
    • Treachery's Necklace
    • Ibn Abi Rafe' has narrated thus: I was the administrator of the public treasury during the period of the caliphate of Ali and was also his scribe. The property received from Basra for the public treasury included a pe...
    • Level of faith
    • ith Hadith of the Week "Your faith should be at such a level that you should prefer truth to falsehood even though it may cause you loss and falsehood may bring you gained". Imam Ali (PBUH) Also see: h...
    • Muhammad and the Holy Quran
    • ran Muslims believe that during the month of Ramadan, the Holy Quran "was sent down from heaven, a guidance unto men, a declaration of direction, and a means of Salvation" One day Muhammad was sitting alon...
    • Al- alaq 1-5
    • 1-5 Verse of the Week Proclaim (or read)! In the Name of your Lord and Cherisher who created (everything). (He) created man of a (mere) clot of congealed blood. Proclaim! And your Lord is the Most Bountiful Who taught...
    • The Poetry of Hafez
    • Poems on this page are translated by both Thomas Rain Crowe, from his book, Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved and selections from Daniel Ladinskys translations.
    • Samarqand and Bokara
    • ara There is a story that the invader Timur angrily summoned Hafez and demanded if he was the poet who would exchange two of Timur’s great cities, Samarqand and Bokara, for the mole on his mistress’s cheek. “Yes, sir...
    • The Cow (Baqarah): 185
    • 185 Verse of the Week "Ramadan is the month during which the Quran was revealed, providing guidance for the people, clear teachings, and the statute book. Those of you who witness this month shall fast there...