meaning. It may teach us how to pray to the Lord andto purify our soul by that prayer. The whole book is the collection of many fervent prayers in the form of hymns, and narrated by our fourth Imam, Ali IBN Hussain, who is famed as SAJJAD( ONE WHO OFTEN PROSTRATE )Most of the SHIITE traditons are narrted by thefifth and the sixth Imam, and these traditions we havereceived through Ali IBN MOOSA, ALREZA theeighth Imam of the SHIITHE.

Those three Imams were under less pressures ofthe dynasties of Ommayids and Abbassids, and had abetter opportunity of teaching the doctrine of theprophet as they had received it through their fathers. So they succeeded to convey to people a great deal ofthe knowledge they had obtained. This is why the sectof SHIITE is known also as the JAAFARI SECT ofIslam. Imam JAAFAR SADIQ the sixth Imam, lived ina periode of the history in which the Ommayids weregetting weaker and weaker, and the ABBASSIDS weregaining power. The Imam is said to have trained morethan four thousands of students in his school.