{"id":11779,"date":"2021-05-07T22:05:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T21:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/?p=11779"},"modified":"2021-05-07T22:05:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T21:05:54","slug":"prayer-imam-ali-s-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/11779\/prayer-imam-ali-s-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer of Imam Ali (A.S) during the war"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Prayer of Imam Ali (A.S) during the war<\/h1>\n<p>Prayer of Imam Ali (A.S) during the war<\/p>\n<p>What follows is a part of the book Nahj al-Balagha, the most famous collection of sermons, letters, tafsirs and stories attributed to Imam Ali (A.S). It was collected by Al-Sharif al-Radi, the Shiite scholar of the tenth century. Known for its eloquent content, it is considered as a masterpiece of literature in Shiite Islam, ranked third behind the Qur\u2019an and prophetic narratives. This is the 15th letter of this book, selected by SHAFAQNA.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer of Imam Ali (A.S) during the war: O Lord, hidden hostilities are obvious and boils of hatred are boiling.<\/p>\n<p>[ Whenever Imam Ali (A.S) faced an enemy he invoked Allah in the following words. ]<\/p>\n<p>O Lord! Our hearts seek Your Protection, our faces turn to You, our eyes look towards You, our feet move towards Your path and our bodies sincerely submit to Your command. O Lord! Hidden hostilities and concealed spite are exposed, hearts are boiling over with envy and malice. O Lord! We place before You our difficulties, the absence of the Holy Prophet (S.A) from amongst us, the abundance of enemies, the disappointments and frustrations which face us. O Lord! Let truth prevail and let our people realize the justice, honesty and piety of our case.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zLiNXUFeRl\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/10363\/imam-ali-s-benchmark-recognizing-truth\/\">Imam Ali (a.s.) is the benchmark for recognizing the truth<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Imam Ali (a.s.) is the benchmark for recognizing the truth&#8221; &#8212; Shia Studies&#039; World Assembly\" src=\"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/10363\/imam-ali-s-benchmark-recognizing-truth\/embed\/#?secret=s98OIFF7fQ#?secret=zLiNXUFeRl\" data-secret=\"zLiNXUFeRl\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer of Imam Ali (A.S) during the war Prayer of Imam Ali (A.S) during the war What follows is a part of the book Nahj al-Balagha, the most famous collection of sermons, letters, tafsirs and stories attributed to Imam Ali (A.S). It was collected by Al-Sharif al-Radi, the Shiite scholar of the tenth century. Known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7456],"tags":[10181,20130,19669],"class_list":["post-11779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-infallibles","tag-imam-ali-a-s","tag-shia-beliefs","tag-shia-studies-world-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}