Importance of Patience and Prayer

About the Book

“Without patience truth and steadfast logic of exalted school of religion wouldn’t have been understood. Divine learning of Islam, which blessed humanity, would have lost its color with the passage of time. Ultimate hope of victory of truth over falsehood, which provides life-giving fresh blood for the powerful hands and steadfast steps of believers, would have been silenced forever. Without patience existence of Monotheism, prophet-hood, and prophetic mission would haven’t been possible and produced any fruits. Rights of deprived people couldn’t have been obtained from the tyrants. Also, prayers, fasting, and other deeds would have lost their meanings. During his limited span of life in this world, a human being between his birth and death is a traveler on the road towards final destination. He has been fundamentally created to endeavor as much as possible to bring himself close to final destination. The primary aim of divine religions and great prophets was to build an Islamic society providing a suitable field in which human beings could travel, ultimately reaching their desired goal.” *** “The present book contains a detailed commentary about the philosophy of daily ritual prayer in Islam. The writer describes Prayer of Islam like a siren for awakening us; a warning at different hours of day and night which provides a program for human beings, requiring their commitment for its execution. Thus, it bestows meanings to spent days and nights and makes them accountable for passing moments. Prayer of Islam by inspiration and repetition of God’s remembrance connects limited vulnerable human beings to infinite and absolute source of power and thus, makes him rely upon that supreme source. Therefore, a believer or a society of believers through establishing prayer burns the roots of deviations, sins, corruptions within themselves and their social environments; as well as at the same time neutralizes completely all kind of sinful thoughts and internal and external motives of wickedness be individual or collective, whatsoever. Certainly prayer protects individual as well as a society from all sorts of undesirable and shameful acts.”

About the Author

Sayyid Hussein Alamdar P.E, holds a MSCE from the University of South Carolina, at Columbia, S.C. He served Duke Power Company, Charlotte N.C from 1971-1982. In 1983, he was invited to join the Water and Power Co in Tehran, where he served as a Project Manager for Hydroelectric Projects until 2003. During his stay in Iran for 20 year (1983-2003) in addition to his engineering responsibilities he was blessed with the Divine grace of also attending Islamic Seminary under the able tutorship of Ayatollah Seyed Mohammad Taqi Hakim Shooshtari and Hajj Aghai Ali Solemani Aashtiani in Tehran. He also founded the Ahl al-Bayt Islamic Cultural Services (AICS) of USA to accomplish the following exalted objectives to publish the Uloom & Mu’arif of Ahl al-Bayt (AS): 1. It has been narrated that Imam al-Rida (A.S) has said to one of his followers: “May Allah bless the servant who keeps our vicegerency (vilayat) alive through publication of our learning (mu’arif) and knowledge (uloom).” Alamdar, has translated the following books, some of them are also available on the internet at WWW. Al-Islam.org, Islamic Library Project of Stanford University California (USA). His translated books are also being published by the Author house of Bloomington, Indiana, USA and are being marketed through Amazon.com and Burns and Nobles as a hard copy, soft copy, and kindle book. 1. Self Building (Khud Sazi wa Tahzib wa Tazkiyeh Nafs): Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini 2. Truth and Falsehood: Martyr Ayatollah Murtaza Motaheri (RA) 3. Importnce of Patience and Prayer: Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei 4. Spiritual Journeys of the Mystics (Saluk-e-Arifan): Grand Ayatollah Malaki Tabrizi (RA) 5. Etiquette of the Holy Month of Ramadan: Grand Ayatollah Malaki Tabrizi (RA) 6. Radiance of Vicegerency (Frooghe-e-Vilayat): Grand Ayatollah J’afar Sobhanie 7. Shi’i Replies to Wahabi Questions: Grand Ayatollah J’afar Sobhanie 8. The Story of Karbala: Ayatollah Ali Nazari Munfarid 9. How to Bridge the Generation Gap: Ayatollah Seyed Muhammad Taqi Hakim 10. Imam al-Zain al-A’abedin (AS): Seyed Munthir Hakim 11. Imam al-Baqir (AS): Seyed Munthir Hakim 12. Biography of Ash Sharif ar-Radi: Muhammad Ibrahim Nejad 13. History of the Holy Mosque of Jamkaran 14. Translation of the Death-Will (Vasiyat Nameh) of Grand Ayatollah Seyed Muhammad Rida Golpaygani 15. Every Must Know (Hame Bayad Bedanand): Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini 16. Fatimeh al-Zahra (SA): Seyed Munthir Hakim 17. Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (AS): Seyed Munthir Hakim Please visit the following websites: http://www.amazon.com/author/sayyidalamdar http://www.sayyidalamdar.com