سورة آل عمران

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Safwan said: When Mansur summoned Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him), he performed ablution and sent salutations ... and said: "O Lord! Through Your Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) You promised us, the Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them), victory — that You would grant us security from every kind of fear. O Lord! Grant us what You have promised us, for You never break Your promise." I said: "My master! What is the promise of Allah which He has given you?" He said: "This verse: وَعَدَ اللهُ الَّذِینَ آمَنُوا مِنْکُمْ وَ عَمِلُوا الصَّالِحاتِ لَیَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِی الْأَرْضِ کَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذینَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ وَ لَیُمَکِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دینَهُمُ الَّذِی ارْتَضی لَهُمْ وَ لَیُبَدِّلَنَّهُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْناً یَعْبُدُونَنی لا یُشْرِکُونَ بی شَیْئاً وَ مَنْ کَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذلِکَ فَأُولئِکَ هُمُ الْفاسِقُونَ [Allah has promised those of you who believe and do righteous deeds that He will surely make them successors in the earth, as He made those before them successors, and that He will surely establish for them their religion which He has approved for them, and that He will surely change their state after their fear to security — they worship Me, not associating anything with Me. And whoever disbelieves after that — those are the defiantly disobedient.] (Nur/55)."

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Whenever you wish to bid farewell to Imam Husayn (peace be upon him), say: "... O Allah! Raise him to the praiseworthy station, and through him aid Your religion, and through him destroy Your enemy, and through him annihilate those who plotted war against the family of Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family), for indeed You have promised him this: أَنْتَ لا تُخْلِفُ الْمِیعادَ [You do not break the promise]."

Imam al-Askari (peace be upon him), the qunut of Imam al-Askari (peace be upon him): "O Allah! Break the backs of the tyrants, destroy the slanderers, and wipe out the liars — that group who, whenever the verses of the Qur'an were recited to them, would say: 'These are the tales of the ancients.' And fulfill Your promise to me, for indeed You do not break the promise."

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): O Allah! إِنَّنا سَمِعْنا مُنادِیاً یُنادِی لِلْإِیمانِ أَنْ آمِنُوا بِرَبِّکُمْ فَآمَنَّا رَبَّنا فَاغْفِرْ لَنا ذُنُوبَنا وَ کَفِّرْ عَنَّا سَیِّئاتِنا وَ تَوَفَّنا مَعَ الْأَبْرارِ رَبَّنا وَ آتِنا ما وَعَدْتَنا عَلی رُسُلِکَ وَ لا تُخْزِنا یَوْمَ الْقِیامَةِ إِنَّکَ لا تُخْلِفُ الْمِیعاد [Indeed, we have heard a caller calling to faith: 'Believe in your Lord,' and we believed. Our Lord, forgive us our sins, remit from us our evil deeds, and take us in death with the righteous. Our Lord, grant us what You promised us through Your messengers, and disgrace us not on the Day of Resurrection; indeed, You do not break Your promise]. Our Lord! By Your great bounty and Your kindness, we answered Your caller, followed the Messenger, affirmed him, and affirmed the master of the believers, and we disbelieved in the idol and the tyrants. So entrust to us what we have taken upon ourselves, and gather us with our Imams, for we have faith and certainty in them and are submitted to them, and we believe in their hidden and manifest, their present and absent, and their living and dead, and we are content with their imamah, leadership and mastership. Between us and Allah, they alone — to the exclusion of Allah's creation — are sufficient for us; we seek no substitute for them, and we take none other than them as intimate confidants; and we declare ourselves free before Allah of every one from the jinn and mankind, from the first and the last, who waged war against them, and we disbelieve in the idol and the tyrants and the four idols and their partisans and their followers and every one of the jinn and mankind, from the beginning of the world's life to its end, who befriends them.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) looked toward the sky and said: "... O Allah! Fulfil Your promise إِنَّکَ لا تُخْلِفُ الْمِیعادَ [indeed, You do not break Your promise]; You have promised me that You will make Your religion prevail over every religion, though the polytheists may hate it."