از بین دوستان کسی هست که با مباحث روش و روش شناسی آشنا باشد؟ من چند تا سوال داشتم. خیلی کارم فوری هست. ممنون می شوم راهنمایی بفرمایید.
Directives from the religious authority, grand Ayatollah Shaykh Ishaq Fayyadh may God prolong his life, Relayed by his son, Hujjatul Islam wal Muslimeen, Shaykh Mahmood Fayyadh during his visit, to the Unites States of America in April 2012/Jamadi al-Thania 1433 AH
All praise is due to God, Lord of the Worlds. May peace and blessings shower the greatest of God’s creation, the Seal of His Messengers, Muhammad, and his purified progeny…
For as long as the Shia – may God aid them with victory – have been known (to history), they have been the repository for safekeeping knowledge of guidance. They took it upon themselves to be sincerely devoted to that knowledge. Whenever their Imams raised a banner of firm knowledge and lofty morals they would follow its lead and trod its path, even if that was at the cost of being exiled, getting excluded and losing worldly gains. Nonetheless, they remained jubilant and pleased. They considered it a gain for themselves, while they considered what came of the miserable opposition and its abundant collections to be a loss. As a result, the Exalted God increased their certainty, giving it a sweet taste in their hearts. He mixed their faith with love, affection and allegiance. In every good soul among them, for any slipup they may have, God has taken them off the hook through the righteous deeds they perform to make up for it, or through a manifestation of their allegiance to the rightful guardians of truth – those whom God has chosen to place the truth with until the Hour of Reckoning. The subsequent teachings of the Imams (peace be upon them) as well as their guidance reiterate the importance of honing the souls (of the Shia) and building up the strength of their confidence regarding the Promise of their Lord. (Confidence which is) unmoved by the (winds of) storms because it includes pearls of wisdom regarding peaceful coexistence with other schools of thought; (pearls of wisdom) which draw people toward them and have them turn to their call – that is for those amongst them who lend an ear and have an open mind. Hence, the Imams were like lamps in the midst of darkness. Take, for instance, the words of Imam Abu Abdillah (peace be upon him) when he says,
“You should have God-wariness, vigilance, and diligence; (you should) speak the truth, return trusts (to their rightful owners), (have) good character, and (be a) good neighbor. Be callers toward yourselves through (things) other than your tongues. Be an adornment and do not be a disgrace. You should also prolong (the duration of) your bowing and prostration.” In another narration, he says,
“Be callers (who call out) to the people with (things) other than your tongues, such that they may see vigilance, diligence, prayer, and goodness from you. For indeed, that is a caller.” In another narration, he says,
“One whose vigilance is not discussed by veiled women in their veiled quarters is not amongst our followers (Shia). And if one is in a village with ten thousand men and there is someone amongst God’s creation who is more vigilant than him, then such a person is not amongst our close friends (Awliya).”
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Directives from the grand Ayatollah Shaykh Ishaq Fayyadh may God prolong his life, Relayed by his son, during his visit, to the Unites States of America in April 2012
2-- Because believers in some distant, western countries must necessarily coexist and deal with the peoples of those countries – with their various religions, the predominance of weak religious values, and being busy trying to develop material gains – they must take their precautions for themselves and pay attention to specify times and places to meet one another and revive the tenets of their faith. They should nominate individuals to teach the ignorant amongst them, to guide the misguided amongst them, and to convince those who depart (from the correct faith) through the use of clear evidence and the honorable religious legal rulings. (All of that should be done) in order to bring down (the hurdles of) hardship, such that the faith becomes their friend in their (environment which is) foreign (to the faith). If they do not do this, there is a fear that they may dissolve in the midst of such societies. Their religious spirit may be lost. Following one’s whims, as well as ignorance, may dominate. Consequently, this will lead to the birth of generations amongst them who are distant from religious values. They will lose themselves, and their families and relatives along with them.
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Directives from the grand Ayatollah Shaykh Ishaq Fayyadh may God prolong his life, Relayed by his son, during his visit, to the Unites States of America in April 2012
4-- It has been noticed that some believers departed their home countries to foreign countries, without having a clear goal or being confident of their status in those societies. Thus, they became a burden of weaklings (on the believers), to say the least. Neither did they gain from what they traveled toward, nor did they satisfy an aspect of the need in that society. Rather, they returned with broken souls, no longer finding some of the beliefs and righteous considerations which had once rested in their souls.
In light of this, believers in such societies should strive to attain excellent academic scores and understand the responsibility on their shoulders. For, indeed, power lies in action, or in knowledge which an individual there knows well – as power for the principles and values which he/she serves. If the people of a single faith and school of thought, over there, connect to the connection of religious education then that will be a (source of) power for them and a guarantee (to protect) their interests. We also anticipate that the increase in the number of believers in those countries will give hope to reduce the extremeness in misunderstanding Islam, faith, and the attributes of believers. (This is the extremeness) as marketed by those with a prejudice and others beneficiaries who paint an evil image of Islamic countries.
5-- The formation of Shia thought, ever since its beginnings in the first generation after the advent of Islam, was not limited to a region or group. Rather, it is the conscience of Islam and its call – a call which was answered by people of every kind. The worked diligently with seeking knowledge and teaching until they casted the summary of their knowledge in their verdicts. That is why you see the Shia refer back to the Grand Jurists, based on the principle which is confirmed by all intellectuals – the ignorant one refers to the knowledgeable one. For they are unable to reach the basis for the verdict, which represents God’s judgment in the matter in question, and they do not find it okay – rationally speaking – to refer to anyone but the most learned one, in order to fulfill the legal responsibility laid down by the system of law which they believe in. Hence, if the most learned scholar is proven to them, or if his most learned nature is at the level to allow them to emulate him, they do not hesitate to refer to him, no matter what his nationality or ethnicity may be. There is nothing strange about that, for the intellectuals of the entire world agree that if they are assured regarding the qualifications or knowledge of a given person in an area which they need him, they turn to him with their need, follow him, and obey his commands to attain their objective. Emulating a Grand Jurist is not different from this (intellectual) practice. It should not be seen as strange, then, if an American citizen, for instance, emulates a Grand Jurist in Najaf or Qum because the Grand Jurist is directing him/her within (the framework of) what his/her faith dictates, and that does not at all contradict the conditions for his/her citizenship, with all that it entails in terms of (observing) agreements and (avoiding) violations.
Yes, when it comes to matters dealing with governance in that country and the established laws which organize the rights of citizens regardless of their religion, and in order to have harmonious coexistence, the Grand Jurists find it necessary to abide by these (laws) and comply with their content.
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💠An Analysis of "True Men"
🔶"...Chuang Tzu let's Confucius make the following statement. Confucius here, needless to say, is a fictitious figure having nothing to do with the historical person, but there is of course a touch of irony in the very fact that Confucius is made to make such a remark":
🔹'They (true men) are those who freely wander beyond the boundaries (i.e. ordinary norms of proper behavior), while men like myself are those who wander freely only within the boundaries. Beyond the Boundaries and Within the Boundaries are poles asunder from one another. They are those who, being completely unified with the Creator Himself, take delight in being in the realm of the original Unity of the vital energy (pure state of unity [chicken and egg being same and not divided up yet]) before divided into Heaven and Earth. To their minds Life is just the growth of an excrescence, a wart, and Death is the breaking of a boil, the bursting of a tumor. Such being the case, how should we expect them to care about the questions as to which is better and which is worse-- Life or Death?
🔹They simply borrow different elements, and put them together in the common form of the body. Hence they are conscious neither of their living nor of their gall, and they leave aside their ears and eyes (do not pay attention to their physical existence). Abandoning themselves to infinitely recurring waves of Ending and Beginning, they go on revolving in a circle, of which they do not know neither the beginning nor the end"
📚"Sufism and Taoism" by Toshihiko Izutsu, Pg. 314-315
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Letter of Imam Ali to Malik-e Ashtar
(Part five)
🔰Then, more preferable among them for you should be those who openly speak better truths before you and who support you the least in those of your actions which Allah does not approve in His friends, even though they may be according to your wishes.
🔰Associate yourself with God-fearing and truthful people; then educate them, so that they should not praise you or please you by reason of an action which you did not perform because an excess of praise produces pride and drives you nearer to haughtiness.
🔰The virtuous and the vicious should not be in equal status before you because this means dissuasion of the virtuous from virtue and persuasion of the vicious to vice.
🔰Keep everyone in the status which is his. You should know that the most conducive thing for the good impression of the ruler on his subjects is that he should extend good behavior towards them, lighten their hardships and avoid putting them to unbearable troubles.
🔰You should, therefore, in this way follow a course by which you would leave a good impression with your subjects. This is so because such good ideas would relieve you of great worries.
🔰Certainly, the most appropriate for your good impression is he to whom your behavior has not been good.
🔰Do not discontinue the good lives in which the earlier people of this community had been acting and by virtue of which there was general unity and through which the subjects prospered.
🔰Do not innovate any line of action which injures these earlier ways because (in that case) the reward for those who had established those ways would continue, but the burden for discontinuing them would be on you.
🔰🔰Keep on increasing your conversations with the scholars and discussions with the wise in order to stabilize the prosperity of the areas under you and to continue with that in which the earlier people had remained steadfast.
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Letter of Imam Ali to Malik-e Ashtar
(Part Seven)
The ruler cannot acquit himself of the obligations laid on him by Allah in this matter except by striving and seeking help from Allah, by training himself to adhere to righteousness and by enduring on that account all that is light or hard.
1. The Army
🍁Put in command of your forces the man who in your view is the best well-wisher of Allah, His Prophet and your Imam. The most chaste of them in heart and the highest of them in endurance is one who is slow in getting angry, who accepts excuses, who is kind to the weak and is strict with the strong; violence should not raise his temper and weakness should not keep him sitting.
🍁Also associate with considerate people from high families, virtuous houses and decent traditions, then people of courage, valor, generosity and benevolence because they are repositories of honor and springs of virtues. Strive for their matters as the parents strive for their child.
🍁Do not regard anything that you do to strengthen them as big nor anything that you have agreed to do for them as little, even though it may be small because this would make them your well-wishers and create a good impression about you.
🍁Do not neglect to attend to their small matters. Confine yourself to their important matters because your small favors will also be of benefit to them while the important ones are such that they cannot ignore.
🍁That commander of the army should have such a status before you that he renders help to them equitably and spends from his money on them and on those of their families who remain behind so that all their worries converge on the one worry to fight the enemy.
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Letter of Imam Ali to Malik-e Ashtar
(Part Ten)
3. Executive Officers
🔰🔰Look into the affairs of your executives. Give them appointment after testing them and do not appoint them according to partiality or favoritism because these two things make up the sources of injustice and unfairness.
🔰🔰Select from among them those who are people of experience and modesty, hailing from virtuous houses, having been previously in Islam because such persons possess high manners and untarnished honor.
🔰🔰They are the least inclined towards greed and always have their eyes on the ends of matters.
🔰🔰Give them an abundant livelihood (by way of salary) because this gives them the strength to maintain themselves in order and not to have an eye upon the funds in their custody and it will be an argument against them if they disobeyed your orders or misappropriated your trust.
🔰🔰You should also check their activities and assign people to report on them who should be truthful and faithful because your watching their actions secretly would urge them to preserve trust with and to be kind to the people.
🔰🔰Be careful of assistants. If any one of them extends his hands towards misappropriation and the reports of your reporters reaching you confirm it, that should be regarded assufficient testimony.
🔰🔰You should then inflict corporal punishment on him and recover what he has misappropriated. You should put him in a place of disgrace, blacklist him with (the charge of) misappropriation and make him wear the necklace of shame for his offence.
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Given to One of His Officers Whom He Sent for the Collection of Zakat and Charities.
🔰✍🏼 He (Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be with them) ordered him to fear Allah in his secret matters and hidden actions, where there is no witness except the One and only Who watches over all.
🔰✍🏼 He also orders him that whatever he does in obedience to Allah openly should not be different from what he does secretly.
🔰✍🏼 Anyone whose hidden attitude is not different from his open one and whose action is not different from his words has discharged his obligation and his adoration is pure.
🔰✍🏼 He also ordered him that he should not harass the public. He should not be harsh to them and should not turn away from them because of the superiority of his official status over them because they are all brethren in faith and assist in the recovery of taxes:
🔰✍🏼 Certainly, you have a fixed share and a known right in this levy, and there are others who are poor, weak and starving. We shall discharge your rights. So, you should [first] discharge their rights. If you do not do so, you will have the largest number of enemies on the Day of Judgement.
🔰✍🏼 How wretched is the man whose enemies in the view of Allah are the needy, the destitute, the beggars, the turned away, the indebted and the (penniless) travellers?! Whoever treats the trust lightly, indulges in treachery and does not keep himself and his faith untarnished by it has certainly secured humiliation in this world while his humiliation and disgrace in the next world will be much greater.
🔰✍🏼 Surely, the greatest treachery is the treachery against the believers community, and the most ugly deceit is deceiving the faithful leaders, and that is the end of the matter.
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In the Name of God the Merciful, the compassionate
It has been reported that Jesus requested his disciples to accept his request. They did so.
Afterwards, Jesus sat down and washed their feet. They (flushed in embarrassment) and said: "we should be doing this".
The Messiah (Jesus) replied: the most deserving among humans to serve and help people are the scholars.
And I have manifested humbleness and humiliated my self to you and now you too be humble towards the people after me.
Through humbleness, not arrogance, is wisdom spread. As such, agriculture is done on soft land, not rocky mountains.
📚Al Kafi, vol. 1 p. 37
Imam Khomeini, in his commentary to this narration writes:
"This saying is specifically implied for scholars and luminous individuals in order to pay attention on it,
and they should apply this divine moral trait to their lives; and they should contemplate that Jesus the Messiah considered washing the feet of his disciples as his own wish and desire, and surely this (being in the service of others as your own want and desire) is end of humility and humbleness.
The scholar who doesn't associate himself to humility and humbleness and expects from people their humiliation and lowliness, is not a Scholar. And his knowledge collection is just a song of the devil.
📚Sharh hadis junud aql wa jahl, p. 249
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم
🔸عن محمد بن خالد، عن محمد بن سنان، رفعه قال: قال عيسى ابن مريم عليه السلام: يا معشر الحواريين لي إليكم حاجة اقضوها لي،
قالوا: قضيت حاجتك يا روح الله، فقام فغسل
أقدامهم فقالوا: كنا نحن أحق بهذا يا روح الله!
فقال: إن أحق الناس بالخدمة العالم إنما تواضعت هكذا لكيما تتواضعوا بعدي في الناس كتواضعي لكم،
ثم قال عيسى عليه السلام: بالتواضع تعمر الحكمة لا بالتكبر، وكذلك في السهل ينبت الزرع لا في الجبل.
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🔸نقل است که حضرت مسیح از حواریون خواست تا خواسته ای از او را برآورده کنند. آنها موافقت کردند.
سپس حضرت مسیح بلند شد و پاهاى حواریون را شست. آنها [خجالت زده شدند و] گفتند: ما باید این کار را میکردیم.
مسیح فرمود: سزاوارترين مردم به خدمت نمودن به خلق، عالِم است. و من براى شما اينگونه تواضع كردم كه شما نيز براى مردم بعد از من اينگونه تواضع كنيد. به واسطه تواضع حکمت، آباد مىشود نه به تكبر. همان طور كه در زمينِ نرم، زراعت مىرويد نه در كوه!"
کافی ج1 ص37
🔹امام خمینی در شرح این روایت نوشتهاند:
💬 "اين حديث شريف را، خصوص علماء و بزرگان بيشتر بايد مورد نظر قرار دهند، و خود را به اين اخلاق بزرگ الهى موصوف كنند، و تفكّر كنند در اين كه عيسى مسيح شست و شوى پاى حواريِّين را حاجت خود مىدانست و اين غايت تذلُّل و تواضع است.
آن عالمى كه به صفت تواضع موصوف نباشد و از مردم چشم داشتِ كُرنش و تواضع داشته باشد، عالِم نيست، و آن انبار مفاهيم رجز شيطانى است.
اگر با اين مفاهيم سعادت و سلامت حاصل می شد ابليس نيز بايد سعید باشد".
شرح حديث جنود عقل و جهل ص: ۳۴۹
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🌴Jesus (peace be with him), the son of Mary said:
📜O seeker of knowledge, revere the scholars for their knowledge and stop disputing them. Disrespect the ignorant for their ignorance. Do not dismiss them; you should favor and teach them. O seeker of knowledge, you should know that any grace for which you do not show gratitude is considered as a sin for which you will be judged.
📚Tuhaf al-Uqul, Admonitions and Maxims of Jesus in the Bible
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Remembrance of us, the household (Ahlulbayt), is a healing from problems, illnesses and the whispers of doubt.
~Master of believers Imām Ali
(peace be with him):
Commentary:
Imām Ali is referring to the remembrance of their entire lifestyle, which is based on Moraqebeh (struggles according to Qor’anic values). This struggle includes how they faced hardships and musibat (tragedies) as a result of living life according to values sourced from Qur'an and the messenger of God. Likewise, by remembering, we are striving to remind ourselves that as their followers, we should also live according to those values with no compromise.
Like expert swimmers, they were submerged in the sea, but didn’t drink from the ocean. Ahlulbayt lived in this world and used it, but never filled themselves up with lust and desires. @AbodeofWisdom
said: "to bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah and that 'Isa (Jesus) (a.s) is created a slave (of Allah), and he used to eat, drink and relieve himself”.
They said: “Then who was his father”? The revelation was then revealed to the Messenger of Allah saying: “Say to them - what do you say about Adam, was he a created servant (of Allah), who would eat, drink, relieve himself and cohabit”?
So the Prophet asked them and they replied: “Yes”. He (Prophet) asked them: “Then who was his father”? They could not answer, so Allah revealed:
Verily, the similitude of Jesus with Allah is as the similitude of Adam; Allah created him out of dust, then said to him, ‘Be’, and he became (3:59)
till the verse:
And should anyone argue with you concerning him, after the knowledge that has come to you…. and call down Allah’s curse upon the liars. (3:61)
The Messenger of God said: “So challenge me: if I am telling the truth the curse falls on you, and if I am a liar the curse falls on me”. They said: “You have been just”.
They agreed on a date for ‘mubahala’ (mutual imprecation). [The term 'Mubahala' is derived from its Arabic root 'bahlah' meaning 'curse'. Thus the act of al-Mubahala means that each of the two parties invokes the curse of Allah on the other if the latter is untruthful].
When they returned to the places they were staying in, their leaders al-Sayyid, al-'Aqib and al-Ahtam said: “If he challenges us with his people, we accept the challenge for he is not a Prophet; but if he challenges us with his family in particular we don't challenge him, for he is not going to put forward his family unless he is truthful”.
In the morning, they came to the Messenger of Allah, and there with him were the Commander of the Faithful Ali, Fatimah, Hasan and Husayn peace be with them, so the Christians said: “Who are those”? The people replied: “This is his cousin and successor and son-in-law, and this is his daughter Fatimah, and these are his grandsons, Hasan and Husayn”.
When the Christian delegation saw a woman, two children and only one man with the Prophet, they were frightened and worried and said to the Messenger of Allah: “We will pay tax so excuse us from the ‘mubahala’”. Then the Messenger of Allah made a settlement with them for them to pay the Jizya like muslims were paying zakaat and khums and then they left.’
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This event has been related in both Sunni and Shi’i books of hadith and Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir).
It is related in the al-Tafsir of al-Tha’labi:
When the Prophet called the Christians for the imprecation they said: 'Let us return and think over it.' When they were alone, they asked al-'Aqib - and he was a man of good judgment among them: 'O 'Abd al-Masih! What is your opinion? , He said: ' By Allah! You are well-aware, O Christians, that Muhammad is a prophet sent by Allah, and that he has brought to you the decisive word about your Companion ('Jesus of Nazareth).
By Allah! Whenever a nation has entered into imprecation with a prophet, their elders have perished and their youngsters have died. And if you do it, we shall surely perish; but, if you turn down, for the love of your religion and (want) to remain on what you have at present, then make peace with the man and go back to your towns.
"So they came to the Messenger of Allah; and he had come out in the morning carrying Husayn in his lap, holding the hand of Hasan, with Fatimah walking behind him and 'Ali was behind her; and he was saying: 'When I pray, you say "Amen" '. Then the Bishop of Najran said: 'O Christians! Surely I see the faces that if they ask Allah to remove a mountain from its place, He would surely remove it. Therefore, do not do imprecation, otherwise you will perish, and there will not remain any Christian on the face of the earth, upto the Day of Resurrection’.
"Then they said: 'O Abu'l-Qasim! We have decided that we should not enter into imprecation against you; and that we leave you on your religion and we remain on our religion.'
He said: 'Well, if you ref
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🍃 Sayed Hashim Haddad:
🔹"The presence or absence (of Imam) should not make a difference for you. This is monotheism, (and) this is gnosis".
Commentary: one should remain so close to the values of the infallibles that even if the physical presence of the Imam is not apparent before him, it makes no real difference. This is so, because the believer practiced their teachings and values to such great extent during their occultation that essentially it made no difference if the noble household was seen in view or not.
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حاج سید هاشم حداد: ظهور و غیبت امام نباید برای تو تفاوتی کند. این توحید است، این عرفان است.
دلشده، ص ۲۶۵
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said: "to bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah and that 'Isa (Jesus) (a.s) is created a slave (of Allah), and he used to eat, drink and relieve himself”.
They said: “Then who was his father”? The revelation was then revealed to the Messenger of Allah saying: “Say to them - what do you say about Adam, was he a created servant (of Allah), who would eat, drink, relieve himself and cohabit”?
So the Prophet asked them and they replied: “Yes”. He (Prophet) asked them: “Then who was his father”? They could not answer, so Allah revealed:
Verily, the similitude of Jesus with Allah is as the similitude of Adam; Allah created him out of dust, then said to him, ‘Be’, and he became (3:59)
till the verse:
And should anyone argue with you concerning him, after the knowledge that has come to you…. and call down Allah’s curse upon the liars. (3:61)
The Messenger of God said: “So challenge me: if I am telling the truth the curse falls on you, and if I am a liar the curse falls on me”. They said: “You have been just”.
They agreed on a date for ‘mubahala’ (mutual imprecation). [The term 'Mubahala' is derived from its Arabic root 'bahlah' meaning 'curse'. Thus the act of al-Mubahala means that each of the two parties invokes the curse of Allah on the other if the latter is untruthful].
When they returned to the places they were staying in, their leaders al-Sayyid, al-'Aqib and al-Ahtam said: “If he challenges us with his people, we accept the challenge for he is not a Prophet; but if he challenges us with his family in particular we don't challenge him, for he is not going to put forward his family unless he is truthful”.
In the morning, they came to the Messenger of Allah, and there with him were the Commander of the Faithful Ali, Fatimah, Hasan and Husayn peace be with them, so the Christians said: “Who are those”? The people replied: “This is his cousin and successor and son-in-law, and this is his daughter Fatimah, and these are his grandsons, Hasan and Husayn”.
When the Christian delegation saw a woman, two children and only one man with the Prophet, they were frightened and worried and said to the Messenger of Allah: “We will pay tax so excuse us from the ‘mubahala’”. Then the Messenger of Allah made a settlement with them for them to pay the Jizya like muslims were paying zakaat and khums and then they left.’
= = = = = = = = = = = = = =
This event has been related in both Sunni and Shi’i books of hadith and Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir).
It is related in the al-Tafsir of al-Tha’labi:
When the Prophet called the Christians for the imprecation they said: 'Let us return and think over it.' When they were alone, they asked al-'Aqib - and he was a man of good judgment among them: 'O 'Abd al-Masih! What is your opinion? , He said: ' By Allah! You are well-aware, O Christians, that Muhammad is a prophet sent by Allah, and that he has brought to you the decisive word about your Companion ('Jesus of Nazareth).
By Allah! Whenever a nation has entered into imprecation with a prophet, their elders have perished and their youngsters have died. And if you do it, we shall surely perish; but, if you turn down, for the love of your religion and (want) to remain on what you have at present, then make peace with the man and go back to your towns.
"So they came to the Messenger of Allah; and he had come out in the morning carrying Husayn in his lap, holding the hand of Hasan, with Fatimah walking behind him and 'Ali was behind her; and he was saying: 'When I pray, you say "Amen" '. Then the Bishop of Najran said: 'O Christians! Surely I see the faces that if they ask Allah to remove a mountain from its place, He would surely remove it. Therefore, do not do imprecation, otherwise you will perish, and there will not remain any Christian on the face of the earth, upto the Day of Resurrection’.
"Then they said: 'O Abu'l-Qasim! We have decided that we should not enter into imprecation against you; and that we leave you on your religion and we remain on our religion.'
He said: 'Well, if you ref
🌴Jesus (peace be with him), the son of Mary said:
📜O seeker of knowledge, revere the scholars for their knowledge and stop disputing them. Disrespect the ignorant for their ignorance. Do not dismiss them; you should favor and teach them. O seeker of knowledge, you should know that any grace for which you do not show gratitude is considered as a sin for which you will be judged.
📚Tuhaf al-Uqul, Admonitions and Maxims of Jesus in the Bible
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📄His Description of a Pious Person
The God-fearing are the people of distinction. Their speech is to the point, their dress is modest, and their gait is humble. They keep their eyes closed to what God has made unlawful for them, and they tune their ears to the knowledge that is beneficial to them. During times of trial, they remain calm. The greatness of the Creator is in their hearts, and everything else appears insignificant to them. To them, Paradise and its enjoyments are as if they are visualizing them. To them, the sufferings and punishment of Hell are as if they are actually witnessing them.
Their hearts are grieved (from seeing the suffering around them), they protect themselves from evil, their bodies are lean (due to fasting and eating less), their needs are few, and their souls are chaste. They endure (hardship of this life) for a brief period, and they, in return, secure lasting bliss (of the Hereafter). It is a beneficial transaction, and God made it available to them. The world tried to allure them, but they did not respond to it. It laid its snare for them, but they avoided it.
During the nights, they recite the Holy Scripture (the Qur’an), and through its recitation they seek spiritual (uplifting and) purification. When they come across a verse describing Paradise, they are attracted to it and visualize it in their imagination. When they come across a verse which contains descriptions of Hell, they feel as though the sounds of Hell are reaching their ears. They prostrate themselves and beseech God, the Sublime, for their deliverance.
They downplay their good deeds. They are quick to accept blame. When someone praises them, they say to themselves, “I know myself better than others, and my Lord knows me better than I know.” They then pray: “O’ God, do not deal with me according to what they say, make me better than what they think of me, and forgive me for (those of my shortcomings) which they do not know.”
The characteristic of the pious one is that he has strength in religion, he has firmness along with leniency, he has faith with conviction, eagerness in (seeking) knowledge, moderation in riches, devotion in worship, gracefulness in deprivation, endurance in hardship, desire for the lawful, and dislike for greed. He performs virtuous deeds but still feels fear (for not doing enough). He thanks and praises God morning and evening. The coolness of his eye lies in the gifts that are everlasting (in the Hereafter), in preference to the things of this world.
His worldly hopes and aspirations are few and simple, his spirit is contented, his meals are small and simple, his religion safe, and his anger is suppressed. Only good is expected from him. Evil is far removed from him. He forgives him who wrongs him, and he gives to him who deprives him. He behaves well with him who behaves ill with him.
He is soft-spoken; indecent speech is far removed from him. His sins are nonexistent and his virtues are ever many. His manner is dignified during calamities; he is patient in times of distress and is thankful (to God) during times of ease. He deals justly with people, even if he dislikes them, and does not commit sins for the sake of his loved ones. He admits truth, even before evidence is brought against him. He does not withhold what is in his custody and does not forget his obligation. He does not give bad names to others, nor does he harm his neighbor. He does not feel happy at the misfortunes of others; he avoids what is wrong and adheres to what is right.
If he is wronged, he endures and lets God take revenge on his behalf. People feel safe from him. He endures hardships in this life for the sake of the life in the Hereafter. His keeping away from others is by way of asceticism and purification, and his nearness to those to whom he is near is by way of kindness. His keeping away from people is not by way of vanity or feeling of superiority, nor is his closeness to them just for show.
📚:Sermon 192
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said: "to bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah and that 'Isa (Jesus) (a.s) is created a slave (of Allah), and he used to eat, drink and relieve himself”.
They said: “Then who was his father”? The revelation was then revealed to the Messenger of Allah saying: “Say to them - what do you say about Adam, was he a created servant (of Allah), who would eat, drink, relieve himself and cohabit”?
So the Prophet asked them and they replied: “Yes”. He (Prophet) asked them: “Then who was his father”? They could not answer, so Allah revealed:
Verily, the similitude of Jesus with Allah is as the similitude of Adam; Allah created him out of dust, then said to him, ‘Be’, and he became (3:59)
till the verse:
And should anyone argue with you concerning him, after the knowledge that has come to you…. and call down Allah’s curse upon the liars. (3:61)
The Messenger of God said: “So challenge me: if I am telling the truth the curse falls on you, and if I am a liar the curse falls on me”. They said: “You have been just”.
They agreed on a date for ‘mubahala’ (mutual imprecation). [The term 'Mubahala' is derived from its Arabic root 'bahlah' meaning 'curse'. Thus the act of al-Mubahala means that each of the two parties invokes the curse of Allah on the other if the latter is untruthful].
When they returned to the places they were staying in, their leaders al-Sayyid, al-'Aqib and al-Ahtam said: “If he challenges us with his people, we accept the challenge for he is not a Prophet; but if he challenges us with his family in particular we don't challenge him, for he is not going to put forward his family unless he is truthful”.
In the morning, they came to the Messenger of Allah, and there with him were the Commander of the Faithful Ali, Fatimah, Hasan and Husayn peace be with them, so the Christians said: “Who are those”? The people replied: “This is his cousin and successor and son-in-law, and this is his daughter Fatimah, and these are his grandsons, Hasan and Husayn”.
When the Christian delegation saw a woman, two children and only one man with the Prophet, they were frightened and worried and said to the Messenger of Allah: “We will pay tax so excuse us from the ‘mubahala’”. Then the Messenger of Allah made a settlement with them for them to pay the Jizya like muslims were paying zakaat and khums and then they left.’
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This event has been related in both Sunni and Shi’i books of hadith and Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir).
It is related in the al-Tafsir of al-Tha’labi:
When the Prophet called the Christians for the imprecation they said: 'Let us return and think over it.' When they were alone, they asked al-'Aqib - and he was a man of good judgment among them: 'O 'Abd al-Masih! What is your opinion? , He said: ' By Allah! You are well-aware, O Christians, that Muhammad is a prophet sent by Allah, and that he has brought to you the decisive word about your Companion ('Jesus of Nazareth).
By Allah! Whenever a nation has entered into imprecation with a prophet, their elders have perished and their youngsters have died. And if you do it, we shall surely perish; but, if you turn down, for the love of your religion and (want) to remain on what you have at present, then make peace with the man and go back to your towns.
"So they came to the Messenger of Allah; and he had come out in the morning carrying Husayn in his lap, holding the hand of Hasan, with Fatimah walking behind him and 'Ali was behind her; and he was saying: 'When I pray, you say "Amen" '. Then the Bishop of Najran said: 'O Christians! Surely I see the faces that if they ask Allah to remove a mountain from its place, He would surely remove it. Therefore, do not do imprecation, otherwise you will perish, and there will not remain any Christian on the face of the earth, upto the Day of Resurrection’.
"Then they said: 'O Abu'l-Qasim! We have decided that we should not enter into imprecation against you; and that we leave you on your religion and we remain on our religion.'
He said: 'Well, if you ref
💠An Analysis of "True Men"
🔶"...Chuang Tzu let's Confucius make the following statement. Confucius here, needless to say, is a fictitious figure having nothing to do with the historical person, but there is of course a touch of irony in the very fact that Confucius is made to make such a remark":
🔹'They (true men) are those who freely wander beyond the boundaries (i.e. ordinary norms of proper behavior), while men like myself are those who wander freely only within the boundaries. Beyond the Boundaries and Within the Boundaries are poles asunder from one another. They are those who, being completely unified with the Creator Himself, take delight in being in the realm of the original Unity of the vital energy (pure state of unity [chicken and egg being same and not divided up yet]) before divided into Heaven and Earth. To their minds Life is just the growth of an excrescence, a wart, and Death is the breaking of a boil, the bursting of a tumor. Such being the case, how should we expect them to care about the questions as to which is better and which is worse-- Life or Death?
🔹They simply borrow different elements, and put them together in the common form of the body. Hence they are conscious neither of their living nor of their gall, and they leave aside their ears and eyes (do not pay attention to their physical existence). Abandoning themselves to infinitely recurring waves of Ending and Beginning, they go on revolving in a circle, of which they do not know neither the beginning nor the end"
📚"Sufism and Taoism" by Toshihiko Izutsu, Pg. 314-315
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💠Analysis of Gender
📝Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Ja’fari:
❇️“Despite all the pain and oppression women have undergone throughout history, no mentally sound woman feels sorry about her gender. Women have not begged nature to change their creation, no matter how painful their social pressures have been; there is greatness hidden in women that no man can ever par. Women devote their whole life and soul to men in order to obey the rules of creation and play their part in the rhythm of the universe.
❇️Women should have faith in what they are; they ought to never ignore their distinctive aspects or waste time comparing themselves with men. Men and women should take into consideration the significance of the family, for that is what determines the fate of a society.
❇️Men and women depend upon each other. Men rely on women, and vice versa. They do not differ in humanity. Men are as human as women are. If men do not recognize women, they do not deserve to be called humans; likewise, we cannot regard women human unless they recognize men.”
📚”The Mystery of Life” by Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Ja’fari, p. 247
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💠Analysis of Gender
📝Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Ja’fari:
❇️“Despite all the pain and oppression women have undergone throughout history, no mentally sound woman feels sorry about her gender. Women have not begged nature to change their creation, no matter how painful their social pressures have been; there is greatness hidden in women that no man can ever par. Women devote their whole life and soul to men in order to obey the rules of creation and play their part in the rhythm of the universe.
❇️Women should have faith in what they are; they ought to never ignore their distinctive aspects or waste time comparing themselves with men. Men and women should take into consideration the significance of the family, for that is what determines the fate of a society.
❇️Men and women depend upon each other. Men rely on women, and vice versa. They do not differ in humanity. Men are as human as women are. If men do not recognize women, they do not deserve to be called humans; likewise, we cannot regard women human unless they recognize men.”
📚”The Mystery of Life” by Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Ja’fari, p. 247
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