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💠The Reality behind Recitation of Quran:

🌷Imam al-Sadiq (peace be with him), with respect to God's words in the Quran: 'Those to whom We have given the Book follow it as it ought to be followed' said: 'They recite its verses and comprehend it's meanings and act according to it's rules and regulations. They hope for it's promise and fear it's punishment,

exemplify and take stand from it's stories, take lesson from it's parables,

perform it's orders, stay away from what it has prohibited.

By Allah, it is not just memorizing it's verses, citing it's words, reciting it's chapters, and learning it's parts. They have memorized it's words and mislaid it's definitions.

That which is important is contemplating into it's verses.

God Almighty says: 'It is a Book that We have relieved for you, is a benignity so that you should contemplate in it's verses".

🌷الامام الصادق في قوله تعالى: "الَّذِين آتيناهم الكتاب يتلونه حقّ تلاوته": يرتّلون آياته، و يتفهّمون معانيه، و يعملون بأحكامه، و يرجون وعده، و يخشون عذابه،

و يتمثّلون قصصه، و يعتبرون أمثاله،

و يأتون أوامره، و يجتنبون نواهيه.

ما هو والله بحفظ آياته و سرد حروفه، و تلاوة سوره و درس أعشاره و أخماسه، حفظوا حروفه و أضاعوا حدوده،

و انّما هو تدبّر آياته، يقول الله تعالى: 'كتابٌ أنزلناه إليك مباركٌ ليدّبّروا آياته'".

📚Mizan ul-Hikmah, pg. 899, no. 5187
📚Tanbih al-Khawatir, vol. 2, pg. 236
📚First verse: Quran 2:121
📚Second verse: Quran 38:29

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Spiritual Wayfaring Topic 3

💠 Sin causes good deeds to be nullified

🍃 If someone performs good deeds abundantly, but considers himself unrestricted with regards to committing sins and does not exercise self-control through constant watchfulness of the self (muraqabah) his good deeds would definitely be eliminated by those sins.

🍃 It is learnt from the Quran and teachings of the Ahlul Bayt (peace be with them) that committing sins destroys the actions that were performed to seek Allah's proximity, such that it nullifies their effect.

🍃 This is just as though someone consumes healthy, nutritious food on one side and at the same time, intakes unhealthy and harmful food. This neutralizes the good effects of the healthy food.

🍃 Hence, the first stage of faith in light of the teachings of Ahlul Bayt is the issue of performing the obligations (Wājib) and refraining from forbidden acts (Harām), with extraordinary emphasis and focus on avoiding the Harām. In one narration, it is said:

💠“Faith is not present in one who commits a sin."

🍃 This means that until one does not seek forgiveness after having committed sins, faith would not enter his heart.

Similarly, Imam Baqir (peace be with him) says:

💠"How great are the good deeds after sins, and how ugly are the bad deeds after good deeds."

The Prophet has also said:

💠"Refraining from sins precedes the performance of good deeds."

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🍃 Sins nullify the good deeds. But it is important to note that if one ends up committing a sin, he should not give in to despair and say to himself, “Now that I have committed a sin, there is no point in performing good deeds!"

🍃 This is a whisper of Shaytan, who wants the servant of Allah to distance himself completely from Him, and through the excuse of having slipped (sinned unintentionally), keep one away from committing good deeds.

🍃 Imam was once asked, “A person commits sins and sometimes performs good deeds as well. Is this beneficial for him?"

Imam (peace be with him) replied,

💠"His good deeds will eventually result in him forsaking his bad deeds.”

🍃 As mentioned earlier, performing good deeds alongside heedlessness and committing sins is like consuming nutritious food alongside harmful foods.

🍃 This is just like a smoker, who doesn’t reduce his intake of healthy food although he is aware of the ills of smoking, for he also understands that the negative effects of the cigarette are reduced by the consumption of healthy food.

🍃 In any case, *the reality of sin is distancing oneself from the Almighty Allah*. This is a warning that sin and transgression deprives man of divine absolute perfection and the acquisition of desirable traits.

🍃 This reality is hard to bear for someone seeking perfection, and for this reason, all the stages have been mentioned in the supplications taught by Ahl al-Bayt so that everyone may benefit from them in accordance to his own level of belief and different states.

📚 Āyatollāh Tahriri, Commentary on Monājāt e Taibeen, pg 52-54

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"Theory of Knowledge, An Islamic Perspective" by Ayatollah Murtuda Mutahhari

A series of lectures conducted by the bright intellectual, theologian, philosopher, thinker, and religious scholar, Ayatollah Murtuda Mutahhari.

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AUDIO: The Theory of Knowledge: An Islamic Perspective by Ayatollah Murtuda Mutahhari CHAPTER 1/10

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XLp0gkcBVqY&list=PLtgH6Xrnh1i392pTexMaQn5zUdybHKxHq

AUDIO: The Theory of Knowledge: An Islamic Perspective by Ayatollah Murtuda Mutahhari CHAPTER 2/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baPLtob6Hl4&list=PLtgH6Xrnh1i392pTexMaQn5zUdybHKxHq&index=2

AUDIO: The Theory of Knowledge: An Islamic Perspective by Ayatollah Murtuda Mutahhari CHAPTER 3/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmeorEAC6f4&list=PLtgH6Xrnh1i392pTexMaQn5zUdybHKxHq&index=3

AUDIO: The Theory of Knowledge: An Islamic Perspective by Ayatollah Murtuda Mutahhari CHAPTER 4/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN2SOG8Rnbg&list=PLtgH6Xrnh1i392pTexMaQn5zUdybHKxHq&index=4

AUDIO: The Theory of Knowledge: An Islamic Perspective by Ayatollah Murtuda Mutahhari CHAPTER 5/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Dz3_fjncU&list=PLtgH6Xrnh1i392pTexMaQn5zUdybHKxHq&index=5

AUDIO: The Theory of Knowledge: An Islamic Perspective by Ayatollah Murtuda Mutahhari CHAPTER 6/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-rS7upU78Q&list=PLtgH6Xrnh1i392pTexMaQn5zUdybHKxHq&index=6