Abode of Wisdom

Question to Allahmah Tabatabai: What is perfect repentance? What is true knowledge?

Answer: Perfect repentance is not possible for everyone, since it is to turn to God's might and glory (Izzah) which amounts to the servant's self restraint. Due to his absolute might, God doesn't like any creature to say "I" and be arrogant before Him. A repentant person is supposed to attain a stage where he sees nobody besides God, not even himself. Similarly, divine knowlegde may not be attained without having reached the stage of "izzah". This is reflected in the supplications for the month of Sha'baan (know as Monajaat e Sha'baniyah), narrated from the infallible imams: "Admit me to the bright light of Your glory, so that I may know You and turn away from whatever is besides You". That is, so that I may turn away from whatever is besides You and not see anything but You.

["In the presence of the Allamah Tabatabai". PG: 127]

Join here👉🏻@AbodeofWisdom

Question to Allahmah Tabatabai: What is perfect repentance? What is true knowledge?

Answer: Perfect repentance is not possible for everyone, since it is to turn to God's might and glory (Izzah) which amounts to the servant's self restraint. Due to his absolute might, God doesn't like any creature to say "I" and be arrogant before Him. A repentant person is supposed to attain a stage where he sees nobody besides God, not even himself. Similarly, divine knowlegde may not be attained without having reached the stage of "izzah". This is reflected in the supplications for the month of Sha'baan (know as Monajaat e Sha'baniyah), narrated from the infallible imams: "Admit me to the bright light of Your glory, so that I may know You and turn away from whatever is besides You". That is, so that I may turn away from whatever is besides You and not see anything but You.

["In the presence of the Allamah Tabatabai". PG: 127]

Join here👉🏻@AbodeofWisdom

🍃🌸🍃🌸🍃🌸🍃🌸🍃🌸🍃🌸🍃

🔷 *Islamic aromatherapy*

Aromatherapy is the practice of using the natural oils extracted from flowers, bark, stems, leaves, roots or other parts of a plant to enhance psychological and physical well-being.

This method is mentioned in Islamic sources. For example about the benefits of smelling Narcissus or Daffodil flower the holy Prophet says:
"Don't forget about smelling Narcissus flower every day. If not possible, do it once a week. If that's not also possible, do it once a month and if that's not possible do it once in a year. If you can't get that also, try to do it at least once in your life since there is something in the heart which is the cause of madness, Leprosy and Vitiligo and smelling Narcissus flower prevents them." and Imam Reza says it prevents depression and flue in the winter.

📚 Bihar Al-Anwar, Vol.62, page299
➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

🌐 @AbodeofWisdom

✔️Ayatollah Fadlullah:

⭕️"Keeping to emotions, but separated from reason, may lead to repeating the tragedy that Imam al- Hussein (a.s.) experienced!

🔹His tragedy did not stem from a lack of emotions amongst the Muslims towards him, for their hearts were beating with love for him, but it was a blind, superficial love that did not stem from a depth of knowledge, will and suffering; therefore when they found themselves facing the sacrifice of their interests, possessions or desires, love went away and interest and possessions had the upper hand. Al-Farazdaq, the poet, described the situation that the people of Kufa, who went out to fight al-Hussein (a.s.), experienced, by saying to al-Hussein (a.s.): ‘Their hearts are with you (but) their swords are against you’(12). We should love al-Hussein (a.s.) with awareness, reason and suffering, not in a superficial and frenzied way that is short-lived, and ends when it faces reality and challenges.

🔸This requires awareness of all content from which Ashoora proceeded, which are the content of Islam. In light of these points that make the aspect of thought in commemoration a vital and necessary matter, and in light of what we have said regarding the necessity of strongly preserving the aspect of emotions of Ashoora, we emphasize again that the emotions issue has human dimensions, and Islamic spirit, rich in effects and benefits, and gives thought vitality, releases it from its stagnation, leads it to activity and turns it from a static state into a state of belief and consciousness, and strengthens the person’s relationship with all its aspects and issues, something that makes the thought – in the particulars of the principle, the individual and one’s stance – become similar to feelings, related to consciousness so that this gives it some strength and firmness inside the soul and outside in life.

🔹We emphasize that adopting both emotions and thought is what achieves for the message its deep content in a man’s awareness and deeds, so that the thought develops into a belief and the belief develops into love or otherwise through the interaction between the mind and the heart.

🔸This is what we can draw from the concept of love towards God’s chosen individuals and hatred towards God’s enemies in Islamic belief as being a proof of seriousness and faithfulness, as it is to be noted that the goal here – which is expressed in the slogans of Ashoora – has to conform with the means of commemoration and that the content acts within the circle of religious adherence. Once again we say:

we have to educate our hearts as we do our minds, to educate our hearts with the culture of emotion, because if the heart fails to find the correct direction in emotions, this can destroy one’s life.

🔹If we proceed from a superficiality in our love and offer it to whomever is not worthy of it, this person might suffer a deeply concealed corruption that would destroy our lives in the future; similarly if we hate someone not on objective basis, he might be a good person in his depth and so our hatred of him would deprive us of the good he can offer. We have to rationalize our emotions so that they operate on the basis of awareness and proceed from the depth, not from the surface, and not allow our emotions to run out of control or to become childish in nature and deed".

📚Reference
-["Ashoora: an Islamic Perspective" by Ayatollah Fadlullah]

@AbodeofWisdom

💠💠💠﷽💠💠 💠

💠"Eid Al Fitr is not the end of the month of Ramadhan. Eid is the the rebirth of the human being from the dust of his (habitual) lifestyle, similar to the birth of the human from his mothers womb.

💠 Ramadhan is an oven in which the essential existence is baked to perfection and a new human is brought about. Eid Fitr is not an event or incident of joy for the passing of Ramadhan, rather it marks the rebirth of a new day and a new life for humans.

💠 It is expected that Ramadhan, with all it's dawns and breaking of fasts  (iftaar) and the significant nights of Qadr and supplications, is destined to make a human out of us.

💠 If we truly feel that we have renewed ourselves spiritually, then be sure that this Eid is not just a means of (only) recognition and understanding, but rather it is based upon the condition that we solely be with God sincerely while in service to (learning and loving) the progeny of Prophet Muhammad (peace be with him and his progeny).

💠 Oh God we are grateful that we were your guests for a month. And you gave us leeway to such privelage from the dawns of love in which we had chances to speak to you and share our heart with you, and now you have blessed us with the first of Shawwal, an Eid of love (to us miserly beings) to which you have blessed us with".
💠@AbodeofWisdom 💠

💠 Ayatollah Dastaghaib Shirazi:

🌳"Do not imagine that your soul is in your head or in your heart. It is not like this. It is neither within the body nor out of it. The encirclement of soul is indeed amazing. Put your hand at any part of your body, the soul is there. It is both positive and negative. It is not in the body. It also is not
out of it.

🌳This is one of the finest (most delicate) things. Have you not experienced that sometimes if a thread or a strand of hair enters your mouth along with food it is at once detected and you push it out. Such signs pertaining to your body are there to make you realize that God encircles
and covers each and every thing and affair.

🌻“Allah is He Who created seven heavens, and of the earth the like of them; the decree continues to descend among them, that you may know that Allah has power over all things and that Allah indeed encompasses all things in (His) knowledge.” (65:12)

🌳The specimen or example is your own soul. O Man! If a snake bites at your foot, your soul knows of it at once. If a thin hair enters the body… If you ponder over the power of remembrance or learning by heart, it is unfathomable. How many things are stored in your brain!"

📚"Moral Values of Quran" by Ayatollah Dastaghaib Shirazi p. 410

@AbodeofWisdom

🔹🔸🔸🔸🔹🔸🔸🔸🔹🔸🔸🔸🔹

🔸 Sixth: The type, value, and conditions of what should be paid of Zakat al-Fitra.

Zakat al-Fitra should be given about three kilos per head of wheat or barley or dates or raisins or rice or millet etc.

It is also sufficient if he pays the price of one of these items in cash. As per obligatory precaution, he should not give from that food which is not staple in his place, even if it be wheat, barley, dates or raisins.

It is necessary that wheat or any other thing which a person gives as fitrah is not mixed with another commodity or dust, and if it is mixed, but in its pure form it equals a sa’a (about 3 kilos) and the quantity of the thing mixed with it is negligible or usable, there is no harm in it.

If a person gives fitrah from a thing which is inferior or defective, it will not be sufficient.

🔸 Seventh:The rulings of payment

🔹 Time of Payment
It is not correct to give fitrah before the month of Ramadhan, and it is better that it should not be given even during the month of Ramadhan. However, if a person gives loan to a poor person before Ramadhan, and adjusts the loan against fitrah, when payment of fitrah becomes obligatory, there is no harm in it.

🔹 Deadline for the Payment
If a person offers Eid ul fitr prayers, he should, on the basis of obligatory precaution, give fitrah before Eid prayers. But if he does not offer Eid prayers, he can delay giving fitrah till Zuhr.

🔹 Delivery time
If a person sets aside fitrah from his main wealth, and does not give it to a person entitled to receive it till Zuhr of Eid day, he should make Niyyat of fitrah as and when he gives it.

If a person does not give fitrah at the time when its payment becomes obligatory, and does not also set it aside, he should give fitrah later on the basis of precaution, without making the Niyyat of ada or qadha.

🔸 Eighth: Exchanging the Amount Earmarked for Zakat al-Fitr

If a person sets aside fitrah, he cannot take it for his own use, and replace it with another sum or thing.

🔸 Ninth: How to Deliver Zakat al-Fitra

It is not necessary that the poor to whom fitrah is given should know that this is as Zakat al-Fitra.

@AbodeOfWisdom
🔹🔸🔸🔸🔹🔸🔸🔸🔹🔸🔸🔸🔹

✔️Ayatollah Fadlullah:

⭕️"Keeping to emotions, but separated from reason, may lead to repeating the tragedy that Imam al- Hussein (a.s.) experienced!

🔹His tragedy did not stem from a lack of emotions amongst the Muslims towards him, for their hearts were beating with love for him, but it was a blind, superficial love that did not stem from a depth of knowledge, will and suffering; therefore when they found themselves facing the sacrifice of their interests, possessions or desires, love went away and interest and possessions had the upper hand. Al-Farazdaq, the poet, described the situation that the people of Kufa, who went out to fight al-Hussein (a.s.), experienced, by saying to al-Hussein (a.s.): ‘Their hearts are with you (but) their swords are against you’(12). We should love al-Hussein (a.s.) with awareness, reason and suffering, not in a superficial and frenzied way that is short-lived, and ends when it faces reality and challenges.

🔸This requires awareness of all content from which Ashoora proceeded, which are the content of Islam. In light of these points that make the aspect of thought in commemoration a vital and necessary matter, and in light of what we have said regarding the necessity of strongly preserving the aspect of emotions of Ashoora, we emphasize again that the emotions issue has human dimensions, and Islamic spirit, rich in effects and benefits, and gives thought vitality, releases it from its stagnation, leads it to activity and turns it from a static state into a state of belief and consciousness, and strengthens the person’s relationship with all its aspects and issues, something that makes the thought – in the particulars of the principle, the individual and one’s stance – become similar to feelings, related to consciousness so that this gives it some strength and firmness inside the soul and outside in life.

🔹We emphasize that adopting both emotions and thought is what achieves for the message its deep content in a man’s awareness and deeds, so that the thought develops into a belief and the belief develops into love or otherwise through the interaction between the mind and the heart.

🔸This is what we can draw from the concept of love towards God’s chosen individuals and hatred towards God’s enemies in Islamic belief as being a proof of seriousness and faithfulness, as it is to be noted that the goal here – which is expressed in the slogans of Ashoora – has to conform with the means of commemoration and that the content acts within the circle of religious adherence. Once again we say:

we have to educate our hearts as we do our minds, to educate our hearts with the culture of emotion, because if the heart fails to find the correct direction in emotions, this can destroy one’s life.

🔹If we proceed from a superficiality in our love and offer it to whomever is not worthy of it, this person might suffer a deeply concealed corruption that would destroy our lives in the future; similarly if we hate someone not on objective basis, he might be a good person in his depth and so our hatred of him would deprive us of the good he can offer. We have to rationalize our emotions so that they operate on the basis of awareness and proceed from the depth, not from the surface, and not allow our emotions to run out of control or to become childish in nature and deed".

📚Reference
-["Ashoora: an Islamic Perspective" by Ayatollah Fadlullah]

@AbodeofWisdom

Ayyaurai and the interviewer state that there is a medical coding conspiracy in order to increase income by claiming that there are deaths caused by COVID. This is false. We code and bill based on levels, depending on the complexity of the case. It has no difference whether it was COVID, chest pain, pneumonia, or anything, since the level is not usually based on the specific diagnosis. Additionally, the coding system takes YEARS to get updated, so I'm not sure where he made this information up saying that we are trying to code things as COVID. Once again, he probably made it up.

Ayyadurai states "Critically ill patients are immediately put on ventilators." They are not. Unlike him, people who practice medicine know that ventilators are a very difficult choice that we try to avoid unless necessary. We know that for many people, including those with COVID, if we were to put them on a ventilator, they may never be weaned. Once again, he is showing his weakness in the practice of medicine.

Ayyadurai states that flattening the curve is a "nonsensical science". If we do not try to reduce the number of hospitalizations, hospitals will run out of resources, resulting in many preventable deaths that would have otherwise been saved. Let's say that a hospital has 100 beds. If you do not try to reduce transmision of COVID, then perhaps after a month, you'll have 80 COVID patients, 20 non-COVID patients. At that point, you will run out of resources such as ventilators, so patients who have otherwise preventable illnesses, may not be able to get a ventilator and may die. If hospitals run out of resources and are overflowing, what if something as simple as IV fluids for dehydrated patients runs out? More deaths that would have been prevented otherwise. I don't understand his claims on this being "nonsensical". Once again, probably made it up.

He emphasises "building up people's immune system" as some sort of defense. He probably did not study, or is intentionally not mentioning, the science behind the immune system. In a properly functional immune system, if there is a foreign invader within the body, the body will recognize the invader, and spend a few days trying to build up defenses and eventually getting rid of it. In the meantime, the body will remember that invader so that the next time it tries to infect you, the body can get rid of it immediately. This is the EXACT science of vaccines. You are given a very small amount of the invasive organism so the body can identify it, then create immunity against it. This is the most natural way to fight an infection, so why are people irrationally against it? Many of these people have their own financial motives, and I suspect the same with this guy.

The role of vitamins in the body are certainly important, but they are not the solutions to everything that he professes them to be. There are toxic levels of vitamins that can result in medical problems. The role of vitamins strengthening the immune system is only semi-valid too. Just because you have a functioning immune system, there is no evidence that increasing vitamin intake will speed up the process to defeat an infection.

He is VERY deceptive with the way he describes things. He claims that scurvy was first thought to be due to germs. The strange thing is, the germ theory that we have today, was barely developed until the late 1800's. Scurvy (lack of vitamin C) was a major issue in the 1600-1700s, and the solution (eating fruits) was discovered in the 1700s. So once again, he provides selective information to make uninformed conclusions. Once again, he likely made it up.

Scurvy and Pellagra are two well-known, although rarely seen, diseases in medicine. I don't understand why he selectively states that they were thought to be due to germs. Even if that's the case, that does not discount the current practice of medicine and the fact that the treatment for them is vitamin supplementation.

Apologies for the long write-up. Please let me know if you have anymore questions.

@AbodeofWisdom

A notable life lesson:

A dog racer once brought a cheetah to add variety in the pool of racers, so that it may not only be dogs who race. However, when the race started, the cheetah merely continued sitting, while the dogs ran their legs out. The cheetah simply stared at them.

When the people asked the man in charge of the race why the cheetah didn’t run, he replied quite interestingly:

“Sometimes, our endeavor to prove to others that we are better is an insult to ourselves. It’s not necessary to prove yourself everywhere and all the time. At times, silence is the best reply.

If you are certain that you’ve chosen the right path, simply continue progressing. It’s not necessary to show others what you think, or to orderly prove yourself”.

@AbodeofWisdom

A notable life lesson:

A dog racer once brought a cheetah to add variety in the pool of racers, so that it may not only be dogs who race. However, when the race started, the cheetah merely continued sitting, while the dogs ran their legs out. The cheetah simply stared at them.

When the people asked the man in charge of the race why the cheetah didn’t run, he replied quite interestingly:

“Sometimes, our endeavor to prove to others that we are better is an insult to ourselves. It’s not necessary to prove yourself everywhere and all the time. At times, silence is the best reply.

If you are certain that you’ve chosen the right path, simply continue progressing. It’s not necessary to show others what you think, or to orderly prove yourself”.

@AbodeofWisdom

✔️Ayatollah Fadlullah:

⭕️"Keeping to emotions, but separated from reason, may lead to repeating the tragedy that Imam al- Hussein (a.s.) experienced!

🔹His tragedy did not stem from a lack of emotions amongst the Muslims towards him, for their hearts were beating with love for him, but it was a blind, superficial love that did not stem from a depth of knowledge, will and suffering; therefore when they found themselves facing the sacrifice of their interests, possessions or desires, love went away and interest and possessions had the upper hand. Al-Farazdaq, the poet, described the situation that the people of Kufa, who went out to fight al-Hussein (a.s.), experienced, by saying to al-Hussein (a.s.): ‘Their hearts are with you (but) their swords are against you’(12). We should love al-Hussein (a.s.) with awareness, reason and suffering, not in a superficial and frenzied way that is short-lived, and ends when it faces reality and challenges.

🔸This requires awareness of all content from which Ashoora proceeded, which are the content of Islam. In light of these points that make the aspect of thought in commemoration a vital and necessary matter, and in light of what we have said regarding the necessity of strongly preserving the aspect of emotions of Ashoora, we emphasize again that the emotions issue has human dimensions, and Islamic spirit, rich in effects and benefits, and gives thought vitality, releases it from its stagnation, leads it to activity and turns it from a static state into a state of belief and consciousness, and strengthens the person’s relationship with all its aspects and issues, something that makes the thought – in the particulars of the principle, the individual and one’s stance – become similar to feelings, related to consciousness so that this gives it some strength and firmness inside the soul and outside in life.

🔹We emphasize that adopting both emotions and thought is what achieves for the message its deep content in a man’s awareness and deeds, so that the thought develops into a belief and the belief develops into love or otherwise through the interaction between the mind and the heart.

🔸This is what we can draw from the concept of love towards God’s chosen individuals and hatred towards God’s enemies in Islamic belief as being a proof of seriousness and faithfulness, as it is to be noted that the goal here – which is expressed in the slogans of Ashoora – has to conform with the means of commemoration and that the content acts within the circle of religious adherence. Once again we say:

we have to educate our hearts as we do our minds, to educate our hearts with the culture of emotion, because if the heart fails to find the correct direction in emotions, this can destroy one’s life.

🔹If we proceed from a superficiality in our love and offer it to whomever is not worthy of it, this person might suffer a deeply concealed corruption that would destroy our lives in the future; similarly if we hate someone not on objective basis, he might be a good person in his depth and so our hatred of him would deprive us of the good he can offer. We have to rationalize our emotions so that they operate on the basis of awareness and proceed from the depth, not from the surface, and not allow our emotions to run out of control or to become childish in nature and deed".

📚Reference
-["Ashoora: an Islamic Perspective" by Ayatollah Fadlullah]

@AbodeofWisdom

Thanks a lot bro but to tell the truth this version I have it 😔 I need an original version because that once when you zoom in the paper the secript isn’t clear at all even if you try to photocopy it it is not clear at all I need an original version or if someone has the book he or she can take clearly photos by the camera 📷 of the cellphone 📱 and make it as a pdf file and send it to me please I really need it in my study and work