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													Pearl of Wisdom
	'Staying awake from sickness or pain for one night carries a greater reward than the worship of one year.'
 Imam Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir [as] al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 114, no. 6 
			
				
					
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		| About allegiance to Amir al-mu'minin for the Caliphate. |   |  
| Sermon 227                                                  				 				About allegiance to Amir al-mu'minin for the Caliphate. 
 
 You  drew out my hand towards you for allegiance but I held it back and you  stretched it but I contracted it. Then you crowed over me as the thirsty  camels crowd on the watering cisterns on their being taken there, so  much so that shoes were torn, shoulder-cloths fell away and the weak got  trampled, and the happiness of people on their allegiance to me was so  manifested that small children felt joyful, the old staggered (up to me)  for it, the sick too reached for it helter skelter and young girls ran  for it without veils. 	 			 
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