Who is Shia ?

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Who is Shia ?

• The true follower of Ahlul Bayt (a)

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Perhaps... one may think that the Shia of Ahlul
Bayt (a) is someone who is born in a shia family,
or someone who participates in the azadari of
Imam Husain (a) someone who only claims to love
Prophet (s) and His Ahlul Bayt (a)... but has
nothing to do with obedience to the teachings of
Islam
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• Imam Ali (a) My Shias ! By God ! The forbearers,
  the knowledgeable of God and His religion,
  actively following Him and His orders, guided by
  His love, appear weak because of worship, seekers
  of seclusion for their piousness, of pale
  complexion because of their night prayers

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• their eyes are weak because of weeping, their
  lips are dry because of remembrance of God, their
  stomachs are sunken because of eating in
  moderation, their faces reveal Godliness, and
  simplicity is apparent from their appearance,
  they are guiding lights in every darkness

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• they are not recognized even when seen, they are
  not remembered when not present, these are my
  pure shias and my respected brothers. Ah ! I wish
  so much to meet them

al-Amali, Toosi, p. 1189, hadith 576
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• Imam al-Baqir (a) No one is our shia except by
  the fear of God and His obedience, and they are
  not recognized except by their humbleness,
  reverence, trustworthiness, and abundance of
  remembrance of God.

Tuhaf al-Uqool, hadith 295
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• Imam al-Sadiq (a) Our shias are those who are
  pious and men of solid opinion, they are loyal
  and trustworthy, they are men of piety and
  worship, they pray fifty one rakats prayers
  during day and night

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• they are usually awake in the night, they
  observe fasts during the day, they purify their
  property (by paying poor-rate) they perform Hajj
  of Kaaba, they abstain from all that which is
  forbidden.

al-Bihar, v.68, p. 167, hadith 23
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• Imam al-Baqir (a) You shouldnt be mislead by
  different views (in Islam), for by God nobody is
  our shia except by obedience to God, the powerful
  and magnificent.

al-Kafi, v.2, p. 73, hadith 1
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• Imam al-Kazim (a) the Shia of Ali (a) is the
  one whose action testifies his words.

al-Kafi, v.8, p. 228, hadith 290
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• Imam Ali (a) Our Shia are those who are gnostics
  of Allah, they act according to the orders of
  God, they possess excellences, they speak only
  truth, their food is limited to gaining strength,
  their dress is simple.

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• ...their behavior is humble, you think that they
  have lost their senses, but its not like that,
  instead, the greatness of their Lord has made
  them oblivion and His power has overwhelmed their
  hearts and taken over their intellects

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• So when they strongly wish of Him, they promptly
  strive to do pure actions before God, the most
  High they are not happy with few good actions,
  and they never take their abundant good actions
  to be sufficient.

al-Bihar, v.78, p. 29, hadith 96
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• Imam al-Baqir (a) (describing the attributes of
  Shias) They are like strong fortress, their
  chests are trustworthy, they are men of prudence
  and self-control, they are not extravagant, they
  are neither oppressors nor ostentatious, they are
  devoted worshippers in night and brave like lion
  in day.

Mishkat al-Anwar, p. 62
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• Imam al-Sadiq (a) He is not from our shia who
  lives in a population of several thousand people
  and someone else is more pious than him among
  them.

al-Bihar al-Anwar, vol.2, p. 80, hadith 76
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• Imam al-Sadiq (a) He is not from our Shia who
  accepts us by only his tongue and is against our
  actions and our legacy.

al-Bihar al-Anwar, v.68, p. 164, hadith 13
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• Imam al-Sadiq (a) Test our shias on three
  occasions At the time of prayers as to how they
  safeguard their prayers, and when they have a
  secret as to how they keep them from our enemies
  and by their properties (and wealth) as to how
  they spend on their brethren.

al-Bihar, v.83, p. 22, hadith 40
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• Imam al-Sadiq (a) Verily the shia of Ali is the
  one who is purified of (influence of) stomach and
  sexual desires, and intense is his struggle...and
  his action is for his creator, and his hope is
  for divine reward and he is afraid of his end so
  if you see someone like that, then that is the
  shia of Jafar (Imam Jafar al-Sadiq).

al-Kafi, v.2, p. 233, hadith 9
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• Imam al-Sadiq (a) He is not from our shias who
  denies four things Mairaj (heavenly ascension of
  Prophet (s)), and questioning in grave, and
  creation of heaven and hell and shafaat
  (intercession).

al-Bihar al-Anwar, v.69, p. 9, hadith 11
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• Imam al-Sadiq (a) Verily our shias are known for
  their following attributes By their generosity
  towards their brethren and by their praying of
  fifty one rakats of prayers during night and day.

Tuhaf al-Uqool, hadith 303
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• Imam al-Kazim (a) said He is not from our shia
  whose heart is not afraid of God in his
  loneliness.

Basaer al-Darajat, p. 247, hadith 10
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• Imam Ali (a) Our Shiasthey spend on each other
  for the sake of our wilayah, they love each other
  for the sake of our love, they visit each other
  for the sake of keeping alive our affair

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• they never oppress if they become angry with
  someone and they never become extravagant in
  their happiness, they are mercy for their
  neighbors, and a source of peace and security for
  those who live with them.

al-Kafi, v.2, p. 236, hadith 24
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Soit is not easy to claim for a Muslim to be a
shia of Ahlul Bayt (a)It demands a lot of
continuous struggle and hardship in the way of
God to become a true follower of Ahlul Bayt
(a)...That is why the Prophet of God (s) has
said
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• Prophet of God (s) O Alimy friend here Gabriel
  has informed me from God, the magnificent that
  certainly He has blessed your lovers and your
  shia with seven attributes

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• ease at the time of death and familiarity in
  the lonelinessand light in the darkness (of
  grave) and peace in the fear (of the day of
  judgment) and justice when the deeds will be
  judged and crossing of the (bridge) sirat

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• And entry in the paradise eighty years before
  all other human beings.

al-Bihar al-Anwar, v. 68, p. 4, hadith 9
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• The Prophet of God (s) The Shia of Ali, they
  will be successful on the day of Judgment.

al-Amali, Toosi, p. 104, hadith 72