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I do not agree with extremist beliefs of Zayn who is responsible for keeping ummah away from Ahlulbayt , but I want to clarify that it was in the home of a Companion Sulaiman bin Surad may Allah be pleased with him, that supporters of Imam Husain(as) gathered in Kufah , and they wrote letters to Imam Husain(as). But later when they could not support him, they formed a group of repenters called Tawwabun, and fought and were martyred, so the Sunni Companions fought and died for Imam Husain(as). Shia scholars regard Sulaiman bin Surad as a Shia. Here is a narration of that Companion in Sunni book Ibn Majah. It was narrated that Sulaiman bin Surad said: “The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to us and we stayed for three nights without having anything to eat.” https://sunnah.com/urn/1292510

Peter Bell Those ways and values that pass the test of time and usage will survive. The others will fall away.

Ishmael Abraham Sacred values are falling away due to laziness and hypocrisy of believers.

Peter Bell Ishmael Abraham Yes, they are. I agree. But this has always been happening, hasn’t it?

Ishmael Abraham I think we are living in most spiritually difficult phase of history. The Ishmaelite Prophet peace and blessings be upon him said that during temptation of Antichrist a believer would have faith in the morning and would lose faith in the evening, and this would be the greatest temptation in human history. To resist that we are taught to adopt solitude more and avoiding the secular culture more. Chapter 18 of Quran is prescribed to be recited to resist Antichrist in which young believers went to a cave to save faith which is the most precious asset a human can have.

Peter Bell I agree that faith is our most precious asset, and that going to a cave to save it might be a good strategy when under attack from Antichrist, which I also agree is coming in more and more with the growing secular culture. Since we are getting on pretty good speaking terms, let me tell you very briefly of a long time in my life when I followed these ideas very heartily and logically to an extreme extent. With these beliefs in mind that we have been discussing (about the dangers of this phase of history), I joined a radical group dedicated precisely to “adopting solitude more and avoiding the secular culture more,” to use your exact words. I joined that group with sincerity (and I believed the direct leading of God) when I was 24 and left it when I was 48. We established isolated communities in the wilderness in many places in North and South America and elsewhere, and I learned many amazing things there, such as the sweetness of godly fellowship and the delights of worshiping God and the glory of good solid work with my hands — but ultimately the experiment failed to meet its stated ends. Fortunately the group that was available to me in 1972 was not at all violent or hate-filled, as so many radicalized groups out there are now (expressing the Antichrist spirit while professing to fight against it). I am not bitter, but I have learned a lot about how to be “isolated unto God” and how not to be that as well. Blessings to you!

Ishmael Abraham Since now you are rejuvenated, you can share the fruits with others who need it.

Ishmaelite Imam Zayn Al-Abidin(as) did not talk much in Ramadan except prayers(dua), glorification of God(tasbih and takbir) and requesting God for forgiveness(istighfar).

The Messenger of Allah(s) said: Fasting on a hot day is jihad.

Imam As-Sadiq(as) said: Fasting on a hot day is the best jihad.

Imam As-Sadiq(as) said: Who fasts for God on a day of intense heat, and he becomes thirsty, God appoints for him one thousand angels who touch his face and congratulate him until he breaks his fast, then God says: Your breath and your soul is so pure, O my angels, I make you my witnesses that I have forgiven him.

Some ignorant Shia believers criticize Sunni believers for praying six hundred rak’at of tarawih in Ramadan. They do not know that Prophetic descendants taught praying two third times more units of prayer in Ramadan.

Imam Jafar As-Sadiq(as) said: If you can pray one thousand rak’at in days and nights of Ramadan, you should do that because Ali, may Allah be pleased with him used to do that.

Abdullah bin Umar may Allah be pleased with him said about Uthman may Allah be pleased with him: He committed a major sin on the day of Uhud by leaving the battlefield but Allah forgave him ( Quran 3:155) and he committed a minor sin in terms of your rights and you killed him.

We leave the methodology of some Twelver extremists in dialogue with Salafis, because that methodology cannot possibly make them understand the school of Prophetic family and cannot bring Twelvers and Salafis closer, rather it takes them away from truth and disunites the ummah because those extremists do not have a positive thinking about their Salafi brothers and they think that Salafis are enemies of truth, and this is great injustice, because we were Salafis too but when we recognized truth we left Wahhabism.