العافِيَةُ

VITALITY

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2– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘There is no garment more beautiful than vitality.’
[al-Tawhid, v. 74, no. 27]

3– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Joie-de-vivre
[i.e. the pleasure of living] is to be found through vitality.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4207]

4– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Vitality is a subtle bounty – when present it is forgotten, and when lost it is remembered.’
[al-Faqih, v. 4, p. 406, no. 5878]

5– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘He who sends peace and blessings on me once, Allah opens for me a door of vitality.’
[Jami`a al-Akhbar, p. 152, no. 344]

6– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Vitality has ten parts, nine of which lie in silence except for the remembrance of Allah, and one part of which lies in abandoning the company of fools.’
[Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, no. 89]

7– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘He who would like extensive vitality should rely on Allah.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 72, p. 232, no. 2]

8– The Prophet (SAWA), when he heard a man ask Allah for patience, said, ‘You have asked Allah to be tried, so now ask Him for vitality.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 4935, 3272]

9– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Allah is not asked anything more beloved to Him than to be asked for vitality.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, nos. 3130-3153]

10– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Ask Allah for vitality, for verily after conviction no one is given anything better than vitality.’
[Sunan Ibn Maaja, no. 3849]

11– A man once heard the Prophet (SAWA) reciting the chapter
[of the Qur’ an] entitled al-Qari`aah (The Catastrophe) in his evening prayer, as a result of which he supplicated to be punished for his sins in this world and fell ill as a result. The Prophet (SAWA) said to him, ‘You spoke badly indeed when you should have said, ‘Our Lord, grant us good in this world and good in the Hereafter and protect us from the punishment of the Fire!’ and he supplicated for him until he got up again.’
[al-Da`aawat, p. 114, no. 261]

12– Imam Zayn al-Abidin (AS) bumped into the shoulder of a man circumambulating the ka`aba saying, ‘O Allah verily I ask You for patience’ , upon which the Imam said, ‘You have asked to be tried! Say instead O Allah verily I ask You for vitality, and for the ability to thank You for my vitality.’
[al-Da`aawat, p. 114, no. 262]

13– Imam al-Kazim (AS) said, ‘O Allah verily I ask You for vitality, and I ask You for gracious vitality, and I ask You for the ability to thank You for vitality, and I ask You for thankfulness for having granted me the ability to thank You for vitality.’
[al-Da`aawat, p. 84, no. 211]

14– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘Verily Allah, Mighty and Exalted, has certain protégés whom He tenaciously guards against tribulation, such that He gives them life through vitality, sustains them with vitality, causes them to die in vitality, resurrects them again in vitality, and makes them dwell in Paradise in vitality.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 462, no. 1]