سورة التحريم

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Jamil ibn Darraj narrates from Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Tayyar came in upon him, and while I was with him he asked him: "May I be your ransom! The saying of Allah the Mighty and Majestic يَا أَیُّهَا الَّذِینَ آمَنُوا [O you who believe] — I have seen that in several places it addresses the believers. Does this address also include the hypocrites?" He said: "Yes, it includes the hypocrites and the misguided and everyone who acknowledges the outward call."

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Sulayman ibn Khalid said: I said to Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): I have a family who listen to what I say; should I invite them to this matter? He said: Yes, Allah the Mighty and Majestic says in the Quran: يَا أَیُّهَا الَّذِینَ آمَنُوا قُوا أَنفُسَکُمْ وَ أَهْلِیکُمْ نَارًا وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَ الْحِجَارَةُ [O you who believe! Save yourselves and your families from a fire whose fuel is people and stones].

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Abu Basir said: I asked Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) about the words of Allah the Mighty and Majestic: قُوا أَنفُسَکُمْ وَ أَهْلِیکُمْ نَارًا وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَ الْحِجَارَةُ [Save yourselves and your families from a fire whose fuel is people and stones], and I said: "This is myself — I can protect it, but how do I protect my family?" He said: "Command them with what Allah has commanded, and forbid them from what Allah has forbidden; if they obey you, you have protected them, and if they disobey you, you have discharged what was upon you."

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Abd al-A'la narrated from Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) that he said: When this verse was revealed: يَا أَیُّهَا الَّذِینَ آمَنُوا قُوا أَنفُسَکُمْ وَ أَهْلِیکُمْ نَارًا [O you who believe! Save yourselves and your families from a fire], a man from among the Muslims sat down weeping and said: "I am incapable of managing myself, and now my family too has been entrusted to me." The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) said: "It is enough for you to command them with what you command yourself, and forbid them from what you forbid yourself."

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) said: A man came to my father and said: "May Allah have mercy on you and send blessings upon you; I narrate hadith to my family and speak with them: I convey to them the words of Allah and the Messenger (peace be upon him and his family); how is that?" My father said: "Yes, it is a good deed, for Allah says: يا أَیُّهَا الَّذِینَ آمَنُوا قُوا أَنْفُسَکُمْ وَ أَهْلِیکُمْ ناراً وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَ الْحِجارَةُ [O you who believe! Save yourselves and your families from a fire whose fuel is people and stones], and He has said: Command your family to prayer, and be steadfast in it! (Ta Ha/132)."

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): In the book Khara'ij wa Jara'ih, among the miracles of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) is that: when he was fighting at Tabuk, twenty-five thousand men besides their servants were with him, and on his way he passed a mountain from whose top water was dripping down without flowing. They said: "How astonishing the dripping of this mountain is!" He said: "This [mountain] is weeping." They said: "A mountain weeps?!" He said: "Would you like to know [the cause of] it?" They said: "Yes." He said: "O mountain! What is your weeping from?" The mountain, while the gathering was listening, replied in an eloquent tongue: "O Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family)! Isa ibn Maryam (peace be upon him) passed by me while he was reciting: ناراً وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَ الْحِجارَةُ [a fire whose fuel is people and stones]; and since that day I weep out of fear that I may be among those stones." He said: "Be still in your place, for you are not among them. Those are only the stones of sulphur." As a result, that dripping from the mountain dried up on the spot, so that nothing was seen of that dripping or of that moisture which had been there.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) — narrated from Ibn Mas'ud: When this verse was revealed: يا أَیُّهَا الَّذینَ آمَنُوا قُوا أَنْفُسَکُمْ وَ أَهْلیکُمْ ناراً وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَ الْحِجارَةُ [O you who believe! save yourselves and your families from a fire whose fuel is men and stones], the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) recited it to his companions, and a young man fell down unconscious. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) placed his hand on his heart and saw that it was about to leap out of its place; so he said: "O young man! Say: la ilaha illa Allah [there is no god but Allah]." The young man stirred and said it. Then the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) gave him the glad tidings of Paradise. Those people said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family)! From among us [who will enter Paradise]?" The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said: "Have you not heard Allah the Exalted say: ذَلِکَ لِمَنْ خَافَ مَقامِی وَ خافَ وَعِیدِ [That is for him who fears standing before Me and fears My threat!]. (Ibrahim/14)."

Imam Askari (peace be upon him) — Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyad and Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Sayyar narrated from their fathers: We said to Imam Hasan (peace be upon him), the father of Imam al-Qa'im: "There is a group among us who suppose that Harut and Marut were two angels, and when the sins of the children of Adam increased, Allah sent them along with a third one to the world, and Zuhrah (Venus) seduced them, and they pursued fornication, drank [wine] and killed a person, and Allah the Blessed and Exalted punished them in Babylon, and the sorcerers learned magic from them, and Allah transformed that woman into this star which is Zuhrah." The Imam (peace be upon him) said: "I seek refuge in Allah from this statement. Indeed the angels are infallible and, by Allah's grace, protected from disbelief and sins. Allah the Mighty and Majestic has said concerning them: لا یَعْصُونَ اللهَ ما أَمَرَهُمْ وَ یَفْعَلُونَ ما یُؤْمَرُونَ [They do not disobey Allah in what He commands them, and do as they are commanded]."

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): Seeking knowledge and virtue is better than worship, and Allah says: إِنَّما یَخْشَی اللهَ مِنْ عِبادِهِ الْعُلَماءُ الَّذِینَ لا یَعْصُونَ اللهَ ما أَمَرَهُمْ وَ یَفْعَلُونَ ما یُؤْمَرُونَ [Only those of His servants who have knowledge fear Allah — those who do not disobey Allah in what He commands them, and do as they are commanded]. Through knowledge they are worthy, in Allah's sight, of the name of siddiq (the truthful); Allah has called them truthful and has made obedience to them obligatory upon all servants.

Imam Sajjad (peace be upon him): They are infallible servants who do not sin and follow Allah's command. The best of their duties, at whatever rank they hold, from the earth to Allah's Throne, is to send salawat upon Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) and his pure Family, to ask for Allah's mercy and forgiveness for their pious Shia, and to invoke curses upon those who follow their enemies — those who openly follow them — and the openly hypocritical. وَ الْکِتابِ [and the Book] — he has faith in a Book that comprises the virtue of Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family), the master of the messengers, and Ali (peace be upon him), who has distinctions that no one in the worlds possesses, and comprises the virtue of his followers from the believers and hatred toward their opponents from the enemies and hypocrites.