✦⋆· said, "Above every act of piety is yet a greater act of piety until a man is killed in the way of Allah, and when he is killed in the way of Allah, there is no act of piety greater."

● "The most dignified way to die is to be martyred."

● "The martyred one is forgiven every sin except his debt [to others]."

● "Whoever is unjustly killed is a martyr."

● "Whoever loves someone passionately, then suppresses his love in order to remain chaste and dies in the process, is a martyr."

● "Whoever dies loving the household of Muhammad (saw) dies a martyr."

● "Whoever is wounded in the way of Allah will rise up on the Day of Resurrection, his fragrance as sweet as musk and his colour as vibrant as saffron, and he will have the stamp of a martyr on him.

And whoever sincerely asks Allah to grant him martyrdom, Allah grants him the reward of a martyr, even if he dies in his own bed."

✦⋆· "Verily if you are not killed then you are going to die anyway, and I swear by the One Who holds Ali’s soul in His Hand, a thousand strikes of the sword on one’s head is easier to bear than to die in one’s bed."

✦⋆· "Whoever dies accepting our guardianship during the occultation of the one who will rise up [the awaited twelfth Imam, al-Mahdi (a.j)], Allah will grant him the reward of a thousand such martyrs as died in the battles of Badr and Uhud."