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Bismillah-ir Rahman-ir Rahim

In a hadith from Imam Ali peace be with him to his close companion, Kumayl bin Ziyad, the Imam explains why he believes knowledge is better than wealth; he states that "knowledge protects you while you have to protect your wealth".

In the day and age we live in, we are first handedly experiencing an intellectual onslaught on Islam. Today our youth, and even older generations, are faced with great challenges that sometimes bring about major doubt regarding different aspects of religion and God; doubts that slowly erode one’s faith and negatively impact one’s religious devotion. The days where people lived in isolation and didn’t have to worry about addressing what was happening outside are long over. Due to communications, the world has virtually transformed into a small village in which people are connected to one another whether they like it or not.

In the past, it wasn’t too hard to dismiss such intellectual and academic challenges; just the fact that you were born and raised in a certain culture was enough to ignore it all. But now times have changed and something is needed to protect us from these dangers; culture and emotions aren’t enough anymore. We are witnessing more and more questions being raised by our fellow Muslims and how in some cases, these lead to them denouncing their religion, denomination (Shiism), or at the very least, becoming much weaker in their faith. As a matter of fact, this might be what is meant by the famous hadith that discloses to us how in the end of times, preserving one’s faith will be harder than holding on to hot coal; that in the end of times, there will be so many challenges and doubts that one will find it hard to hold on to their faith.

Therefore, we are in need of something to protect us from all of the above, and as the hadith of Imam Ali peace be with him to Kumayl clearly tells us, what protects us is knowledge. It is only with knowledge that such challenges can be countered. It is only with sufficient knowledge that one can fight against intellectual arguments and point out their fallacies. It is only with such that one can reconcile between seemingly conflicting tenants of religion and prove the absence of any discrepancies.
~Sheikh Amin Rastani

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All praise to Allah Almighty that he bestowed his mercy upon us and made us receive his message which was meant to reach to the people of Quran.

The message "man kunto maula-hu fa hadha Ali-yun maula-h." God said O my messenger if you don't announce Ali's succession after you then you haven't done your duty as a prophet.

Then prophet Mohammad announced the succession of Ali among the thousands of new Muslims and appointed Ali as his successor who will have the authority of the propohet of Islam and will have authority to explain and teach Qur'anic laws wisdom and knowledge,and Ali ibne Abi Talib will prevent Islam from any change, omission, and distortion which had happened in previous Abrahamic religions.

Ali and his infallible sons will protect Islam from any distortion with their forbearance, knowlege of Quran, wisdom, sacrifice, and blood.

God in Quran said "Inna nahnu nazzalna-z Zikr wa Inna lahu la hafizoon" indeed we have revealed this Quran on you and indeed we will protect it" that means this Quran will be protected in the hands of Ali and his infallible sons.

Almost one hundred thousand or more Muslims listened carefully to the message of the prophet and accepted it in the last hajj of prophet at the "Ghadeer"

Thousands of companions greeted Ali saying O Ali today you became our leader and leader for all Muslims.

Congratulations to those who listened the messege of Rasool and kept it in their memories and followed the path of love "love of Ahlulbayt" from Ghadeer to Karbala and onward until now... Congratulation and peace with those who will follow the path of Rasool and Ahlulbayt under the guidance of Quran, Sunnah of Rasool and Ahlulbayt and their teachings, wisdom and intellect.

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Ashoura: Reviving the Islamic Values

(Part One - A)

The speech of His Eminence, the Religious Authority Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Husein Fadhlullah in opening the conference held by the Contemporary Islamic Thought Institution, under the title of "Ashoura: The Concept and the Function and the Potentials of Expressing", on 02/02/1430 H., 28/01/2009 A.D

Translated by: Manal Samhat

Is history sacred

Are we a nation that sanctifies history, memorizes and repeats it, and lives in its caves and grottos, while forgetting the present and killing the future? Are we the remains of this history, who live its battles as though they were ours, and adopt its hatred, and move through its narrow lanes?

Why should we consider history, while we live in the present and look forward for the future?

The Quran mentioned a certain issue when it addressed the sacred history of the prophets, and the non-sacred history of the pharos and the tyrants.

This issue is that history is a wave of events that remain in our lives, because these events have contributed to forming the system of life. However, the time during which these events took place did not besiege them, but was a mere framework for these events to occur. After all, time fades away, and the events and causes are those that remain.

There are certain issues that fade away with time, or even before time passes away; they just die in the morning, and we miss them in the evening. Therefore, God wants us to take lessons from the history that survives, through studying the positive and negative elements of the spiritual character or the tyrants: "In their histories there is certainly a lesson for men of understanding." (12:111)

The lesson is to study all the cultural dimensions that accompany the circumstances of the issue, and to reach out to the idea which is rich in cultural values. This idea is thus, transformed to innovation which prompts the mind to innovate and the heart to beat lively. Thus, our movement will be rich with values, and the history is no more restricted to historical events, but rather becomes a renewed life.

So, when we embrace these lively elements that do not die, they might grant us a life, if we manage to overcome the obstructions that prevent us from opening up to these elements, because sometimes life becomes death and death becomes life itself:
He who dies and rests is not dead
The dead is the one who dies while still alive

The body might still beat with life, but the spirit living inside is dead, and vice versa.

Thus, the history of those who gave mankind life and a spiritual movement, must rest on faith and creed, especially when we open up to the lives of the prophets who ascended above, and lives the essence of the spiritual meanings, and granted love to all mankind, even those who do not believe in them and oppress them.

Prophet Muhammad peace be with him and his progeny used to tell those who contested him and his mission: "I gave you good advice, but you do not love those who give good advice" (07:79)

We should consider these humanitarian models that ascended above to the sky, and transformed the world to a sky, whose sun enlightens our lives with spiritual values. As such, we have two suns: one that lights the spaces and objects, and another one that enlightens our minds with reason, fills our hearts with love, and our movement with justice, good, and life.

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✔️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]

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💠"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".
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PROPHET'S HISTORIC GHADIR SERMON

Part Xll

O people! You are more numerous than (it is practical) to shake hands with me all at the same time, and Allah, the Exalted and the Sublime, commanded me to require you to confirm what authority I have vested upon 'Ali Ameerul-Mo'mineen and to whoever succeeds him of the Imams from me and from him, since I have just informed you that my offspring are from his loins.

You, therefore, should say in one voice: "We hear, and we obey; we accept and we are bound by what you have conveyed to us from our Lord and yours with regard to our Imam' Ali (V' Ameerul-Mo'mineen, and to the Imams, your sons from his loins. We swear the oath of allegiance to you in this regard with our hearts, with our souls, with our tongues, with our hands. According to it shall we live, and according to it shall we die, and according to it shall we be resurrected. We shall not alter anything or substitute anything with another, nor shall we doubt nor deny nor suspect, nor shall we violate our covenant nor abrogate the pledge. You admonished us on behalf of Allah with regard to' Ali (V' Ameerul-Mo'mineen, and to the Imams whom you mentioned to be from your offspring from among his descendants after him: al-Hasan and al-Husain and to whoever is appointed (as such) by Allah after them. The covenant and the pledge are taken from us, from our hearts, from our souls, from our tongues, from our conscience, from our hands. Whoever does so by his handshake, it shall be so, or otherwise testified to it by his tongue, and we do not seek any substitute for it, nor shall Allah see our souls deviating there from. We shall convey the same on your behalf to anyone near and far of our offspring and families, and we implore Allah to testify to it, and surely Allah suffices as the Witness and you, too, shall testify for us."

O people! What are you going to say?! Allah knows every sound and the innermost of every soul; "Whoever chooses the right guidance, it is for his own soul that he is rightly guided, and whoever strays, it is only to its detriment that he goes astray" (Qur'an, 17:15).

O people! Swear the oath of allegiance to Allah, and swear it to me, and swear it to' Ali Ameerul-Mo'mineen, and to al-Hasan and al-Husain and to the Imams from their offspring in the life of this world and in the hereafter, a word that shall always remain so. Allah shall annihilate anyone guilty of treachery and be merciful upon everyone who remains true to his word: "Whoever reneges (from his oath), he reneges only to the harm of his own soul, and whoever fulfills what he has covenanted with Allah, He will grant him a mighty reward" (Qur'an, 48:10)

O people! Repeat what I have just told you to, and greet' Ali with the title of authority of "Ameerul-Mo'mineen" and say: "We hear, and we obey, O Lord! Your forgiveness (do we seek), and to You is the eventual course" (Qur'an, 2:285), and you should say: "All praise is due to Allah Who guided us to this, and we would not have found the way had it not been for Allah Who guided us" (Qur'an, 7:43).

O people! The merits of' Ali ibn Abu Talib with Allah, the Exalted and the Sublime, the merits which are revealed in the Qur'an, are more numerous than I can recount in one speech; so, whoever informs you of them and defines them for you, you should believe him.

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This deed is good for their chastity. And it says about the prohibition of entering of the infidels in the mosque of Makkah that:

O you who believe! The idolaters are nothing but unclean, so they shall not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year… [Surah Tauba 9:28]

The infidels are impure and that is why they are not allowed to enter the holy mosque.

The Quran says about the public property and its one part should be spent on the poor people that:

Whatever Allah has restored to His Apostle from the people of the towns, it is for Allah and for the Apostle, and for the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, so that it may not be a thing taken by turns among the rich of you… [Surah Hashr 59:7]

Allah has reserved this wealth for the Prophet (a.s.) and general expenses so that the wealth may not be limited between the rich and wealthy people and that the common people may not remain poor.

And in this way many philosophies of the Islamic laws are explained, to mention all of which would lengthen the book unduly.

We also get such examples from the traditions of the Holy Prophet (a.s.) and Imams (a.s.). The Imams (a.s.) themselves explained the philosophies of the Islamic laws or replied when asked by their companions. The great scholar Shaykh al-Saduq (a.r.) has written a famous book, Ilal al-Shara’i, as the name itself shows the book is the collection of such traditions.

Therefore, when we see that the glorious Quran itself and the Islamic leaders on many occasions have explained the logic behind Islamic laws, it is a proof that they have given us the right to discuss about it. If the situation were opposite, they would have prevented us from contemplation and research in the Islamic laws.

From whatever is said above, we conclude that it is allowed to do research and find the reasons behind Islamic laws.

And in this way the style and explanation of the Holy Prophet (a.s.) and the Holy Imams (a.s.) has given us the right to know the secrets of Islamic laws.

It is wrong to think that by explaining the philosophies of Islamic laws their importance and value is decreased, but in fact explanation of these things satisfies intellect and reason of a person and then he applies laws in his practical life, which makes his life more dynamic. And in this way a person does not follow the Islamic law in a dry way but acts on the laws of Islam with great fervor. This was one side of the question.

The other is that, as the time goes no matter how much our knowledge increases, it shall always be limited. We cannot come to know everything. If man had known all the things of the world, then the caravan of knowledge and research would have been stopped.

Rather the things, which we do not know are like a huge sea and the things, which we know are just like a __drop, or the things, which we know are like one line from a big book. And to know the things, which we do not know, we will require a professor from the other world, then also we will not be able to understand them. In the same way if the people who lived a thousand years ago were taught the scientific knowledge of this age so they would not have been able to understand. They would not have been able to reach the depth through their own thinking and intelligence.

We all know that the source of heavenly wisdom is from the infinite knowledge of the Almighty Allah. He is such a source that He is aware of the whole universe. For Him words like past, future, absent, present have no meaning; rather He is all knowing and aware of everything.

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Ayatollah Mutahhari stated in his speech:

"Life has passed
Fifty years of my life is gone.....

May be your (life is) less or more, (but nonetheless) is gone.....

If we don’t repent is this month then when will we repent??.....

If we don’t turn towards God in this Ramadhan, then when will we turn towards God??...

If we don’t judge and measure our “self” then when will we judge ourselves...

How much (should we be miserable in this) negligence? Until when will we remain in denial and negligence??....

These lectures (Majālis) are for remembrance of God. (They are) For remembrance of the day when we will suffer if we don’t repent now.....

(Woe with the) Negligence, Negligence, Negligence and Negligence

(Woe with the) Offense, Offense, Offense and offence....

And we say Maula Ali will do something (to bail us out)! How is this possible?

Haaj Mirza Ali Shirazi this great pious man once related to me about his spiritual vision (Mokashefeh) (when once he was angry), that he saw his anger in a shape of a (vicious) dog.....

(Compared to that great man) then who are me and you??.....

(In, remembering the resurrection)

""where eagle lose it’s feathers.. (therefore) what (about) the tiny mosquito??""

~(a persian saying)

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""The dates were unable to be savored with thorns that were planted.....""

""And we were unable to weave silk (with) what we (used for) weaving.....""

(If) We are not writing good deeds beside the shortcomings and sins (what we will do when we take place in front of God)??.....

Our youth and aged (days of life) came about through night and day, yet never did we awake (from our slumber)!""

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Whispers of Āyatollāh Allameh Sheikh Mohammad Taqi Ja’farī:

🌕O my God, O my Lord at those moments when we are moving toward destruction (of our eternal life), make us alert and aware of (our mistakes and) that we’re heading astray.

🌕give us a chance to not create few excuses to continue in that path of error and destruction. But instead help us to face the truth.

ايت الله علامه محمد تقي جعفري (رضوان الله عليه): خدايا پروردگارا در آن موقعيتهايي كه ما روبه تباهي ميرويم، ما را آگاه بفرما وقتي احساس كرديم كه رويه تياهي ميرويم، توفيق بده تا خودمان را توجيه نكنيم. ما را با واقعيه ناب و صاف روبرو بفرما

🔹[in that we can perceive the ugliness of sins, and understand the lure of worldly desires, and we can feel the unstableness of the world, (and allow us to realize the) very short period of our life and this entire world.

🔹Where we can put aside our carelessness of continuously doing many small sins, which we think are small and nothing, but when they increase would destroy us like a silkworm who will die into his self made cocoon.

🔹In such enlightenment (of perception and insight) we see your manifestations all around this world. Then we realize that we are blessed by your blessings, support, and sustenances, so we should not betray you

🔹That means we use your blessings and sustenance, but we act in a way in which our deeds lead us to devalue your religion and your values; and our actions lead others to flee from your values, and furthermore, lead them to dislike you and dislike your religion, your prophet and Ahlulbayt (and religious values]

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✔️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]

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🌎 O Allah, You created the universe. You raised the earth and the skies, and made it so that all creatures serve human beings. You made the purpose of life to worship God such that humans repel the Taghoots from themselves and thus only exalt you.

❤️ O Almighty Allah, place your love in our hearts in such a way that there would be no room left for others. Conquer our souls so that they would not want anyone else. Fill our being with Your existence so that we are independent of everyone and everything.

✨ Grant us enough wisdom so that we don’t worship anyone besides you. Grant us enough dignity so that we don’t fall at the hands of any Taghoot. Grant us enough bravery so that we don’t give in to any tyrant.

~ Martyr Mostafa Chamran
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PROPHET'S HISTORIC GHADIR SERMON

Part Xll

O people! You are more numerous than (it is practical) to shake hands with me all at the same time, and Allah, the Exalted and the Sublime, commanded me to require you to confirm what authority I have vested upon 'Ali Ameerul-Mo'mineen and to whoever succeeds him of the Imams from me and from him, since I have just informed you that my offspring are from his loins.

You, therefore, should say in one voice: "We hear, and we obey; we accept and we are bound by what you have conveyed to us from our Lord and yours with regard to our Imam' Ali (V' Ameerul-Mo'mineen, and to the Imams, your sons from his loins. We swear the oath of allegiance to you in this regard with our hearts, with our souls, with our tongues, with our hands. According to it shall we live, and according to it shall we die, and according to it shall we be resurrected. We shall not alter anything or substitute anything with another, nor shall we doubt nor deny nor suspect, nor shall we violate our covenant nor abrogate the pledge. You admonished us on behalf of Allah with regard to' Ali (V' Ameerul-Mo'mineen, and to the Imams whom you mentioned to be from your offspring from among his descendants after him: al-Hasan and al-Husain and to whoever is appointed (as such) by Allah after them. The covenant and the pledge are taken from us, from our hearts, from our souls, from our tongues, from our conscience, from our hands. Whoever does so by his handshake, it shall be so, or otherwise testified to it by his tongue, and we do not seek any substitute for it, nor shall Allah see our souls deviating there from. We shall convey the same on your behalf to anyone near and far of our offspring and families, and we implore Allah to testify to it, and surely Allah suffices as the Witness and you, too, shall testify for us."

O people! What are you going to say?! Allah knows every sound and the innermost of every soul; "Whoever chooses the right guidance, it is for his own soul that he is rightly guided, and whoever strays, it is only to its detriment that he goes astray" (Qur'an, 17:15).

O people! Swear the oath of allegiance to Allah, and swear it to me, and swear it to' Ali Ameerul-Mo'mineen, and to al-Hasan and al-Husain and to the Imams from their offspring in the life of this world and in the hereafter, a word that shall always remain so. Allah shall annihilate anyone guilty of treachery and be merciful upon everyone who remains true to his word: "Whoever reneges (from his oath), he reneges only to the harm of his own soul, and whoever fulfills what he has covenanted with Allah, He will grant him a mighty reward" (Qur'an, 48:10)

O people! Repeat what I have just told you to, and greet' Ali with the title of authority of "Ameerul-Mo'mineen" and say: "We hear, and we obey, O Lord! Your forgiveness (do we seek), and to You is the eventual course" (Qur'an, 2:285), and you should say: "All praise is due to Allah Who guided us to this, and we would not have found the way had it not been for Allah Who guided us" (Qur'an, 7:43).

O people! The merits of' Ali ibn Abu Talib with Allah, the Exalted and the Sublime, the merits which are revealed in the Qur'an, are more numerous than I can recount in one speech; so, whoever informs you of them and defines them for you, you should believe him.

@AbodeofWisdom

🔊Emam Khomeini:

📍“We still haven’t begun journeying. 80 years of our life has passed, but still we haven’t begun.

📍We haven’t migrated yet. We became anchored to this worldly life, and seems to be the case till the end.

📍We have to start the journey. There’s no other way. You, the youth can find this path (of journeying) better. We have aged, our abilities and strengths have withered. You can better self-refine yourselves.

📍You are nearer to the Divine Kingdom than us old ones. The roots of corruption are less in you (youth). Its extensions have decreased. It hasn’t developed.

📍Each day we wait, chances of our development will decrease. Each day we delay and postpone, it gets harder.

📍For an old man it is very difficult to be reformed, however, it’s much easier for a youth. A thousand youth can become reformed and one elder can’t.

📍Don’t postpone for the days when you have aged. Now that you’re young, start your journey, and try your best now.

📍Align yourselves with the teachings of the prophets. That is the the origin. You have to start from there. They’ve shown the path. We do not know the way, they do.

📍They’re the healers, they know the way, the way of well-being. They’ve told it to us. They know. If you want to be preserved and well, you must walk their path.

📍All this attentiveness to our worldly desires, ego, and selfishness should be eliminated. Of course, It will not be an overnight transformation, rather it will take time and require step by step consistency.

📍All of our ambitions and aspirations shall soon be buried underground, annihilated. All this extra attention to our worldly wants and desires will end up against us (and is perishing along with us as we age day by day).

✅Only that will remain which is associated with God.”

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💠بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

❀ كُلُّ مَنْ عَلَيْهَا فَانٍ
❀ وَيَبْقَی وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ ذُو الْـجَلَآلِ وَالْإِكْرَامِ

💠“Whatsoever is on the earth is transient. And only the Essence of your Lord full of Majesty and Honor shall remain forever.” (Qur’an 55: 26-27)

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✔️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]

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Whispers of Āyatollāh Allameh Sheikh Mohammad Taqi Ja’farī:

🌕O my God, O my Lord at those moments when we are moving toward destruction (of our eternal life), make us alert and aware of (our mistakes and) that we’re heading astray.

🌕give us a chance to not create few excuses to continue in that path of error and destruction. But instead help us to face the truth.

ايت الله علامه محمد تقي جعفري (رضوان الله عليه): خدايا پروردگارا در آن موقعيتهايي كه ما روبه تباهي ميرويم، ما را آگاه بفرما وقتي احساس كرديم كه رويه تياهي ميرويم، توفيق بده تا خودمان را توجيه نكنيم. ما را با واقعيه ناب و صاف روبرو بفرما

🔹[in that we can perceive the ugliness of sins, and understand the lure of worldly desires, and we can feel the unstableness of the world, (and allow us to realize the) very short period of our life and this entire world.

🔹Where we can put aside our carelessness of continuously doing many small sins, which we think are small and nothing, but when they increase would destroy us like a silkworm who will die into his self made cocoon.

🔹In such enlightenment (of perception and insight) we see your manifestations all around this world. Then we realize that we are blessed by your blessings, support, and sustenances, so we should not betray you

🔹That means we use your blessings and sustenance, but we act in a way in which our deeds lead us to devalue your religion and your values; and our actions lead others to flee from your values, and furthermore, lead them to dislike you and dislike your religion, your prophet and Ahlulbayt (and religious values]

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Ashoura: Reviving the Islamic Values

(Part One - A)

The speech of His Eminence, the Religious Authority Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Husein Fadhlullah in opening the conference held by the Contemporary Islamic Thought Institution, under the title of "Ashoura: The Concept and the Function and the Potentials of Expressing", on 02/02/1430 H., 28/01/2009 A.D

Translated by: Manal Samhat

Is history sacred

Are we a nation that sanctifies history, memorizes and repeats it, and lives in its caves and grottos, while forgetting the present and killing the future? Are we the remains of this history, who live its battles as though they were ours, and adopt its hatred, and move through its narrow lanes?

Why should we consider history, while we live in the present and look forward for the future?

The Quran mentioned a certain issue when it addressed the sacred history of the prophets, and the non-sacred history of the pharos and the tyrants.

This issue is that history is a wave of events that remain in our lives, because these events have contributed to forming the system of life. However, the time during which these events took place did not besiege them, but was a mere framework for these events to occur. After all, time fades away, and the events and causes are those that remain.

There are certain issues that fade away with time, or even before time passes away; they just die in the morning, and we miss them in the evening. Therefore, God wants us to take lessons from the history that survives, through studying the positive and negative elements of the spiritual character or the tyrants: "In their histories there is certainly a lesson for men of understanding." (12:111)

The lesson is to study all the cultural dimensions that accompany the circumstances of the issue, and to reach out to the idea which is rich in cultural values. This idea is thus, transformed to innovation which prompts the mind to innovate and the heart to beat lively. Thus, our movement will be rich with values, and the history is no more restricted to historical events, but rather becomes a renewed life.

So, when we embrace these lively elements that do not die, they might grant us a life, if we manage to overcome the obstructions that prevent us from opening up to these elements, because sometimes life becomes death and death becomes life itself:
He who dies and rests is not dead
The dead is the one who dies while still alive

The body might still beat with life, but the spirit living inside is dead, and vice versa.

Thus, the history of those who gave mankind life and a spiritual movement, must rest on faith and creed, especially when we open up to the lives of the prophets who ascended above, and lives the essence of the spiritual meanings, and granted love to all mankind, even those who do not believe in them and oppress them.

Prophet Muhammad peace be with him and his progeny used to tell those who contested him and his mission: "I gave you good advice, but you do not love those who give good advice" (07:79)

We should consider these humanitarian models that ascended above to the sky, and transformed the world to a sky, whose sun enlightens our lives with spiritual values. As such, we have two suns: one that lights the spaces and objects, and another one that enlightens our minds with reason, fills our hearts with love, and our movement with justice, good, and life.

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