Adam's ale Adam's ale Adam's ale (also referred to as "Adam's wine", especially in Scotland; sometimes simply called "Adam") is a colloquial allusion meaning water. It alludes to the idea that the biblical Adam had only water to drink. This inference gained popularity around the beginning of the 19th-century temperance movement. "Adam's ale" means unadulterated water, based on the presumption that the biblical first man Adam had only water to drink in the Garden of Eden. Common variations are "Adam's wine" in Scotland, and sometimes simply "Adam". The phrase is an allusion, colloquialism, epithet, and idiom. In common use until the mid-
Ziyarat Ale Yasin Ziyarat Ale Yasin Ziyarat Ale Yasin (Arabic: زیارة آل یاسین) is regarded as a well-known Ziyarat (piece of salutation) which is associated with Mahdi who is an eschatological redeemer of Islam that will reappear and he will rid the world of all wicked and bad things (evil). Mahdi is also considered as the last (The Twelfth) Imam of Shia Islam. According to sources, Ale Yasin is referred to Ahl al-Bayt. This Ziyarat is begun with the following phrase: “Greetings be to the offspring of Yasin”. Abu Jafar Muhammad b. ‘Abdullah al Himyary al Qommi as the narrator of this Ziyarat