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Continued from the last post regarding the Four Sermons delivered by Shaheed Ayatollah Mutahari on Ashura..

From Sermon 1:
"Now my point is that we have introduced thousands of distortions in retelling the narrative of Ashura, both in its outward form, that is, in respect of the very episodes and issues relating to the major events and the minor details, as well as in respect of their interpretation and meaning. Most regrettably, this event has been distorted both in its form and content. At times a distorted version has at least some resemblance to the original. But there are times when distortion is so thorough that the corrupted version has not the least resemblance to the original: the matter is not only distorted, but it is inverted and turned into its antithesis. Again I must say with utmost regret that the misrepresentations that have been carried out by us have all been in the direction of degrading and distorting the event and making it ineffective and inert in our lives" . (To be continued)

-Ayatollah Murtudha Mutahari [The Four Sermons on Ashura]

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The Significance of Sincere Deeds
(God doesn't accept deeds mixed with title, name, and logo stamped across it)
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Ayatollah Musawi Ardabili's Barzakh Experience, narrated by his close friend (Asghar Fardi):

Some time later, I heard that Hajj Aghaye (Ardabili) had a brain stroke and was sent to the hospital. I heard that at that time, Agha Ardabili had a heart attack, but he recovered. Then again, after a while, he had another heart attack but lived it, surprising the doctors. It was most likely that his remaining energy would collapse him again. I spoke to Dr. Ghulamreza Shāfi'i, who was the head of the operation, made an appointment with him and so we visited Ayatollah Ardabili (at his home when recovered). Hajj Aghaye (Ardabili) was present in his home in Tehran resting. When we arrived, Agha Muhammadi Gūlpāykāni was also present, having arrived before us. After some time sitting with Hajj Aghaye (Ardabili), we decided to leave because visiting the sick shouldn't be too long. We stood up and Hajj Agha bid farewell to all of us, including Aghaye Shafi'i. As we were all leaving, Hajj Agha told me to stay. So I sat on the pillow mat and Hajj Agha then relayed to me that he wanted to share with me his unique experience.

"When I had the brain stroke, I left the world for a short time but I still remembered what happened in that short time."

Agha then requested at this moment not to disclose his experience to others (now that he has passed away, I will share it, for it was a grand experience and a lesson for all).

He then said: "when I realized I had left this (material) world, I called out my eldest son's name to be (more) certain that I was not in the material world. They (Angels) said he is in the other world. I then called out my second son's name, and they (Angels) replied again that I was in a different realm and he is located in the material realm.

At that time, they asked me what I had brought with me. So I then pondered for a moment, concentrating and wondering, because I had to bring to mind my actions from the (material) world.

I then said, 'I wrote for the first time in Shi'i history, a compilation and analyzation in depth about "Penalty (in islam)". The Angels said, 'you did that in order to brag that you are the first one to write (about that topic) in Shi'a history'. My desperation got intense.

I then said, 'I established the largest university in regards to Islamic Sciences'. They replied, 'you also established that deed because you couldn't attain other (social) ranks'.

I then said that I was the founder of Ameeril Mo'mineen center, and they yet again rejected.

I thought to myself, maybe my life-long years spent guiding the people at Ameeril Mo'mineen mosque would have been my salvation today, but did they?

At that instance, I remembered that one night, as I exited the masjid after Maghrib and Isha prayers, an old lady approached me and pleaded that her daughter had a suitor, and if she wasn't to be married then she and the rest of them would be grounded at home (by their financial situation), and surely she would have no energy to undergo such circumstances. I took the chance right away and invited her to my home where I relayed the situation to my wife, then introduced her. I told my wife to help this old lady from our savings and not from the religious funds (khums), in order that she may arrange her daughters wedding.

As I finished telling the Angels this account, they exclaimed: 'Yes! This is accepted. Because of this (pristinely sincere) deed, we'll forgive all the other (deeds)'.

As Aghaye Ardabili was narrating this experience segment by segment, he was shaking and crying like an orphan. Finally, he said, 'someone after one lifetime of struggle (with the soul and people), preaching, research, quoting of Imams (peace be with them all), did not come to hand (and help me succeed). Instead, one small (sincere) deed was what came to my aid'".

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Imam Ali (pbuh) on importance of history, while addressing to his son imam Hassan (pbuh).

"O my child, even though I have not reached the age which those before me have, yet I looked into their behavior and thought over events of their lives. I walked among their ruins until I was as one of them. In fact , by virtue of those of their affairs that have become known to me it is as though I have lived with them from the first to the last. I have therefore been able to discern the impure from the clean and the benefit from the harm......"

The peak of eloquence,  letter number 31

PROPHET'S HISTORIC GHADIR SERMON

PART IV

O people! Prefer him (' Ali) over all others! There is no knowledge except that Allah has divulged it to me, and all the knowledge I have learned I have divulged to Imam al-Muttaqin (leader of the righteous), and there is no knowledge (that I know) except that I divulged it to' Ali, and he is al-Imam al-Mubin (the evident Imam) whom Allah mentions in Surat ya-Sin: "... and everything We have computed is in (the knowledge of) an evident Imam" (Qur'an, 36:12).

O people! Do not abandon him, nor should you flee away from him, nor should you be too arrogant to accept his authority, for he is the one who guides to righteousness and who acts according to it. He defeats falsehood and prohibits others from acting according to it, accepting no blame from anyone while seeking to please Allah. He is the first to believe in Allah and in His Messenger; none preceded him as such. And he is the one who offered his life as a sacrifice for the Messenger of Allah and who was in the company of the Messenger of Allah while no other man was. He is the first of all people to offer prayers and the first to worship Allah with me. I ordered him, on behalf of Allah, to sleep in my bed, and he did, offering his life as a sacrifice for my sake.

O people! Prefer him (over all others), for Allah has preferred him, and accept him, for Allah has appointed him (as your leader).

O people! He is an Imam appointed by Allah, and Allah shall never accept the repentance of anyone who denies his authority, nor shall He forgive him; this is a must decree from Allah never to do so to anyone who opposes him, and that He shall torment him with a most painful torment for all time to come, for eternity; so, beware lest you should oppose him and thus enter the fire the fuel of which is the people and the stones prepared for the unbelievers.

O people! By Allah! All past prophets and messengers conveyed the glad tiding of my advent, and I, by Allah, am the seal of the prophets and of the messengers and the argument against all beings in the heavens and on earth. Anyone who doubts this commits apostasy similar to that of the early jahiliyya, and anyone who doubts anything of what I have just said doubts everything which has been revealed to me, and anyone who doubts any of the Imams doubts all of them, and anyone who doubts us shall be lodged in the fire.

O people! Allah, the most Exalted and the Almighty, has bestowed this virtue upon me out of His kindness towards' Ali and as a boon to' Ali and there is no god but He; to Him all praise belongs in all times, for eternity, and in all circumstances.

O people! Prefer' Ali (over all others), for he is the very best of all people after me, be they males or females, so long as Allah sends down His sustenance, so long as there are beings. Cursed and again cursed, condemned and again condemned, is anyone who does not accept this statement of mine and who does not agree to it. Gabriel himself has informed me of the same on behalf of Allah Almighty Who he said (in Gabriel's words): " Anyone who antagonizes' Ali and refuses to accept his wilayat shall incur My curse upon him and My wrath." "... and let every soul consider what it has sent forth for the morrow, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah" (Qur'an, 59:18), "And do not make your oaths a means of deceit between you lest a foot should slip after its stability" (Qur'an, 16:94), " Allah is fully aware of all what you do" (Qur'an, 58: 13).

O people! He (' Ali) is janb-Allah mentioned in the Book of Allah, the Sublime One: The Almighty, forewarning his (' Ali's) adversaries, says, "Lest a soul should say: O woe unto me for what I fell short of my duty to Allah, and most surely I was of those who laughed to scorn" (Qur'an, 39:56).

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Spiritual connection of Shias with Ali:

"Rameelah was a Shia of Ali. He says:

'While in Kufa, I suffered from fever and shivering for some days. I was unable to attend prayer behind Amirul Momineen.

It was Friday. I found some relief and experienced that my fever had reduced. I thought how nice if I take Friday bath and go to the mosque to pray behind Ali. So I came to the Mosque of Kufa.

Ali began to give the sermon from the pulpit. My fever returned and I began to tremble again, but I controlled myself. After the completion of the sermon and concluding the prayer, Ali sent someone for me.

I went to him, and He asked
me, 'Rameelah! What had happened to you when I was on the pulpit? You looked very restless and uncomfortable!'

I replied, 'I am suffering from fever for quite some time. I felt somewhat better today and hence I came to the mosque to attend your sermon when again I was disturbed by fever and shivering'.

The summary of Imam Ali's reply is this, 'This fever and shivering of yours has also entered me'.

I asked, 'Is it so with those who are in the Mosque or it is so with those outside too?'

Amirul Momineen said, 'Throughout the world, be it in east or west whenever one of our Shias becomes restless,
we too experience that restlessness'".

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📚"Moral Values of Quran" by Ayatollah Dastaghaib, pg. 314.

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Meeting of the grand Ayatollah Boroujerdi with a great Eastern Philosopher and his visit of Ahlulbayt.

Late Sheikh Muhammad Sharif Rāzi has mentioned in his book “The Treasure of Scholars”:

💢 In the month of Dhi-Hajjah in 1368 hijri, I was at the house of the late Ayatollah Hojjat (RA), and the late Mirza Mahdi Āshtiyani was there.

💢 Ayatollah Borujerdi and Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Taghi Khwansāri came to see him.

💢 After the formalities and compliments, Ayatullah Hojjat said to Ayatollah Boroujerdi: Agha Mirza Mehdi Ashtiani have a beautiful Mokashefah (unveiling into the unseen) and it is appropriate if he himself narrates it.

💢 Agha Mīrza Āshtiyāni said: "I am having jaundice, and so I have been traveling abroad for treatment, but I have not been cured," he said. In 1365 (AH), when the Marxists had dominated the north and west of Iran, I visited Mashhad for pilgrimage.

💢 During the bus (ride there) I suddenly so sick that the passengers and the driver thought I had a stroke. They stopped the bus and took me out for help.

💢 Then I saw (found myself) that I was in Arafāt, and many heavenly lights were coming to the ground. And I saw that the people were attracted to one side.

💢 I asked: what's going on ? They said: Hazrat Rasoul (prophet Mohammad peace be with him and his progeny) has just arrived.

💢 I went to that side and saw few tents next to each other. The big tent belonged to the Prophet (peace be with him and his progeny). I passed over to the tent and visited the Prophet. I wanted to say about my sickness and my other anxieties and needs, but he (Prophet) said: "since you are pilgrimage of my son Reza (peace be with him), go to the tent that belongs to him” to see him.

💢 Then I went to the tent of Hazrat Imām Reza, and I mentioned three of my needs.

🔸 The first about my sickness, he said: It is destined to stay with you until you die.

🔸 Second: about the trial and corruptions of Marxists, He said: "Soon their evils will pass by. And you are all safe until you connect with (our) shrines and mourn in Majaalis of us Ahlulbayt with true recognition of us.

🔸And the third was about my personal issue. Regarding that he said: This will be done also.

🔹 The treasury of Scholars, vol. 4

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The reply of Master of Believers, Imam Ali (peace be with him) to the opponents of distributing public treasury

When they shouted and complained to Imam Ali (peace be with him) as to why he distributes public treasury to the (general mass) people first, and doesn't give more to those who had a role in (the rise of) Islam and have prestige and reputation. He (peace be with him replied):

"Do you command me to trample and oppress the rights of the rest of the people under my government and be victorious regarding it?

I swear by God as long as the night and the day are there, and the stars rise and set, I will never do such a thing.

If this wealth was mine, I would distribute it all equally, while for surely this wealth at the end is the wealth of God.

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Imam Ali (pbuh) on importance of history, while addressing to his son imam Hassan (pbuh).

"O my child, even though I have not reached the age which those before me have, yet I looked into their behavior and thought over events of their lives. I walked among their ruins until I was as one of them. In fact , by virtue of those of their affairs that have become known to me it is as though I have lived with them from the first to the last. I have therefore been able to discern the impure from the clean and the benefit from the harm......"

The peak of eloquence,  letter number 31

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Spiritual connection of Shias with Ali:

"Rameelah was a Shia of Ali. He says:

'While in Kufa, I suffered from fever and shivering for some days. I was unable to attend prayer behind Amirul Momineen.

It was Friday. I found some relief and experienced that my fever had reduced. I thought how nice if I take Friday bath and go to the mosque to pray behind Ali. So I came to the Mosque of Kufa.

Ali began to give the sermon from the pulpit. My fever returned and I began to tremble again, but I controlled myself. After the completion of the sermon and concluding the prayer, Ali sent someone for me.

I went to him, and He asked
me, 'Rameelah! What had happened to you when I was on the pulpit? You looked very restless and uncomfortable!'

I replied, 'I am suffering from fever for quite some time. I felt somewhat better today and hence I came to the mosque to attend your sermon when again I was disturbed by fever and shivering'.

The summary of Imam Ali's reply is this, 'This fever and shivering of yours has also entered me'.

I asked, 'Is it so with those who are in the Mosque or it is so with those outside too?'

Amirul Momineen said, 'Throughout the world, be it in east or west whenever one of our Shias becomes restless,
we too experience that restlessness'".

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📚"Moral Values of Quran" by Ayatollah Dastaghaib, pg. 314.

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.

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PROPHET'S HISTORIC GHADIR SERMON

PART IV

O people! Prefer him (' Ali) over all others! There is no knowledge except that Allah has divulged it to me, and all the knowledge I have learned I have divulged to Imam al-Muttaqin (leader of the righteous), and there is no knowledge (that I know) except that I divulged it to' Ali, and he is al-Imam al-Mubin (the evident Imam) whom Allah mentions in Surat ya-Sin: "... and everything We have computed is in (the knowledge of) an evident Imam" (Qur'an, 36:12).

O people! Do not abandon him, nor should you flee away from him, nor should you be too arrogant to accept his authority, for he is the one who guides to righteousness and who acts according to it. He defeats falsehood and prohibits others from acting according to it, accepting no blame from anyone while seeking to please Allah. He is the first to believe in Allah and in His Messenger; none preceded him as such. And he is the one who offered his life as a sacrifice for the Messenger of Allah and who was in the company of the Messenger of Allah while no other man was. He is the first of all people to offer prayers and the first to worship Allah with me. I ordered him, on behalf of Allah, to sleep in my bed, and he did, offering his life as a sacrifice for my sake.

O people! Prefer him (over all others), for Allah has preferred him, and accept him, for Allah has appointed him (as your leader).

O people! He is an Imam appointed by Allah, and Allah shall never accept the repentance of anyone who denies his authority, nor shall He forgive him; this is a must decree from Allah never to do so to anyone who opposes him, and that He shall torment him with a most painful torment for all time to come, for eternity; so, beware lest you should oppose him and thus enter the fire the fuel of which is the people and the stones prepared for the unbelievers.

O people! By Allah! All past prophets and messengers conveyed the glad tiding of my advent, and I, by Allah, am the seal of the prophets and of the messengers and the argument against all beings in the heavens and on earth. Anyone who doubts this commits apostasy similar to that of the early jahiliyya, and anyone who doubts anything of what I have just said doubts everything which has been revealed to me, and anyone who doubts any of the Imams doubts all of them, and anyone who doubts us shall be lodged in the fire.

O people! Allah, the most Exalted and the Almighty, has bestowed this virtue upon me out of His kindness towards' Ali and as a boon to' Ali and there is no god but He; to Him all praise belongs in all times, for eternity, and in all circumstances.

O people! Prefer' Ali (over all others), for he is the very best of all people after me, be they males or females, so long as Allah sends down His sustenance, so long as there are beings. Cursed and again cursed, condemned and again condemned, is anyone who does not accept this statement of mine and who does not agree to it. Gabriel himself has informed me of the same on behalf of Allah Almighty Who he said (in Gabriel's words): " Anyone who antagonizes' Ali and refuses to accept his wilayat shall incur My curse upon him and My wrath." "... and let every soul consider what it has sent forth for the morrow, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah" (Qur'an, 59:18), "And do not make your oaths a means of deceit between you lest a foot should slip after its stability" (Qur'an, 16:94), " Allah is fully aware of all what you do" (Qur'an, 58: 13).

O people! He (' Ali) is janb-Allah mentioned in the Book of Allah, the Sublime One: The Almighty, forewarning his (' Ali's) adversaries, says, "Lest a soul should say: O woe unto me for what I fell short of my duty to Allah, and most surely I was of those who laughed to scorn" (Qur'an, 39:56).

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Part 2/2

With regard to the women of our age, it can't be denied that they have had real battles to fight: the fight to be seen as having the intelligence to participate in politics; the fight to be able to go to university and to exercise our talents to the best of our ability. Many people these days hark back to a supposedly golden age in the 1950s, but that was also an age where women who were seen as morally deviant were put away in asylums.

There can be no doubt that women have had to fight against different kinds of oppression; but with the throwing off of certain shackles and narrow, shallow interpretations of the prophetic path, and a with the intoxication that has come with that, women have moved out into the open wastelands of existence, an existence whose sacred dimensions have all but disappeared. Women have become economic beings in their scramble to excel in the workplace, and sexual beings in the primeval scramble to find a mate. In a capitalist, individualistic society, they are encouraged to compete with each other in everything.

Women have become ruthless with each other in their battle to find the truth of their existence within the limits of this existence. Interestingly, with my generation, there is now a turnaround. Women are exhausted. The intoxication of breaking free of boundaries has passed, and they find themselves faced with the rather mundane challenge of providing for the family, as men used to do. Just last week I read an article by a woman who goes out and works long hours to support the family, while her husband stays at home and looks after their baby girl. She says, 'I am caught in the age-old male trap of seeing every penny I earn factored away into future nursery fees, roof repairs and supermarket bills and wondering why I bother.' She expresses regret at having to 'rebuild the bond that gets strained by the end of a long week' away from her daughter and she says 'Perhaps this is how working fathers felt all along. But there is one inescapable conclusion: it is what we feminists fought for; the right to do as men do. Be careful what you wish for (“Are Dads the New Mums? London Evening Standard, October 20th, 2011).’

I'm not saying that a woman's place is in the kitchen; but rather' what I learned about my culture as I grew up, and was able to reflect back upon it, is that, as people in European countries have become supposedly more sophisticated and advanced, they have at the same time moved further and further away from their primordial, even cosmic, way of being. We have become obsessed with the world, and with our place in it — that is, with our place in it as individuals, and we have utterly forgotten that there is a deeper and more comprehensive aspect to our being, and a deeper and more beautiful purpose to our being here.

Western women look pityingly at supposedly unsophisticated Muslim women, who have not gone through the whole process of deconstruction. Muslim women appear to be still stuck in an age that Western women have proudly put behind them, even if these very same Western women now find themselves out on a limb, stuck in a state of existential anxiety.


📚”Shi’i Spirituality for the Twenty First Century”, written by Rebecca Masterton, p. 20-23

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Continued from the last post regarding the Four Sermons delivered by Shaheed Ayatollah Mutahari on Ashura..

From Sermon 1:
"Now my point is that we have introduced thousands of distortions in retelling the narrative of Ashura, both in its outward form, that is, in respect of the very episodes and issues relating to the major events and the minor details, as well as in respect of their interpretation and meaning. Most regrettably, this event has been distorted both in its form and content. At times a distorted version has at least some resemblance to the original. But there are times when distortion is so thorough that the corrupted version has not the least resemblance to the original: the matter is not only distorted, but it is inverted and turned into its antithesis. Again I must say with utmost regret that the misrepresentations that have been carried out by us have all been in the direction of degrading and distorting the event and making it ineffective and inert in our lives" . (To be continued)

-Ayatollah Murtudha Mutahari [The Four Sermons on Ashura]

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Peace, mercy and blessings of God Almighty be upon you.
I have many questions.
First: When does the placenta appear and what does it consist of?
Second. If the umbilical cord made a knot or was too long and choked with longing, what is the solution?
Third: Why is the diagnosis of a urine pregnancy test and what is the relationship to that?

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