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7ـ رسولُ اللهِِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): لولا عِبادٌ للّهِِ رُكَّعٌ، وصِبيانٌ رُضَّعٌ، وبَهائمُ رُتَّعٌ، لَصُبَّ علَيكُمُ العَذابُ صَبّا . |
| 7– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Were it not for the praying servants of Allah, the young suckling children, and the grazing animals, punishment would pour down on you.’[Nur al-Thaqalayn, v. 1, p. 353, no. 1007] |
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8ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): لو أنَّ الناسَ حينَ تَنزِلُ بِهِمُ النِّقَمُ، وتَزولُ عَنهُمُ النِّعَمُ، فَزِعُوا إلى رَبِّهم بِصِدقٍ مِن نِيّاتِهِم، وَوَلَهٍ مِن قُلوبِهِم، لَرَدَّ علَيهِم كُلَّ شارِدٍ، وأصلَحَ لَهُم كُلَّ فاسِدٍ. |
| 8– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘If people were to fear and return to their Lord when calamities befall them and blessings are taken away from them, returning with truth in their intentions, and reverence in their hearts, He would return to them every runaway, and correct every corrupt person.’[Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 178] |
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9ـ الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): إنَّ اللّهَ (لَـ)يَدفَعُ بِمَن يُصَلِّي مِن شيعَتِنا عَمَّن لا يُصَلِّي مِن شِيعَتِنا ولو أجمَعُوا على تَركِ الصلاةِ لَهَلَكُوا، وإنَّ اللّهَ لَيَدفَعُ بمَن يُزَكِّي مِن شيعَتِنا عَمَّن لايُزَكِّي ... وهو قولُ اللّهِ عَزَّوجلَّ: «ولَولا دَفعُ اللّهِ الناسَ بَعضَهُم بِبَعضٍ لَفَسَدَتِ الأَرضُ». |
| 9– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Allah repels [corruption] from those of our followers who do not pray, with those of our followers who do pray, and if they were to all agree to not pray, they would be destroyed. And verily Allah repels [corruption] from those of our followers who do not pay the alms-tax with those of our followers who do pay the alms-tax. And this is the purport of Allah’s verse in the Qur’an: “Were it not for Allah's repelling the people by means of one another, the earth would surely have been corrupted.” [Qur`an 2:251] [al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 451, no. 1] |
