Don’t feel ashamed to Ask

Miracles of Masoomeen
Abū Hashim al-Ja‘fari told me: I complained to Abū Muḥammad (al-Ḥasan al-‘Askarī) about the oppressiveness of prison and the harshness of the chains. He wrote to me: “You will pray today’s noon prayer in your own house.”
I was released at noon and prayed the noon prayer in my house as he had said. I was in a distressed state and I wanted to ask him for help in a letter which I had written to him but I was ashamed to send it.
When I went to my house, he sent me a hundred dīnārs and he wrote to me: “When you are in need, do not be ashamed and do not refrain. Ask for it and you will be given what you need, Allāh willing.”


(Kitab Al Irshad, Chapter on Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.)Al-Kāfī, I, 508, tradition no. 10)

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