Since man considers this world as a place of pleasure and luxury, and death as the end of these activities, even if he is led to believe in the Hereafter, its states, conditions, and rewards via the arguments of the hukama’ or the traditions of the prophets (A), yet his heart remains unfamiliar with them…
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Expecting to recognize the truth of human perfection…
Expecting to recognize the truth of human perfection prior to reaching it in the same way that we recognize our own moral perception, is totally out of place. We have no choice other than finding a subjective, and not an intuitive knowledge towards it by way of reasoning and realizing its specifications by the aid…
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Imam Ali (A), in one of his sermons delivered…
Imam Ali (A), in one of his sermons delivered on hearing a person abuse ‘the world’: Indeed this world is the abode of truth for him who appreciates its truthfulness, a place of safety for him who understands it, a mine of treasures for him who collects provisions from it [for the next world], and…
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The modest dress in Islam is rooted…
The modest dress in Islam is rooted in a more general and basic issue. That is, Islamic precepts aim at limiting all kinds of sexual enjoyment to the family and the marital environment within the bounds of marriage so that society is only a place for work and activity. It is opposite of the Western…
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The best place for us to use the ability…
The best place for us to use the ability to control our mind is when praying. The Prophet (S) said: “If a person’s thinking and heart are focused on God during his prayer (and he controls his mind), he will be (pure) like the day when he came into this world when he finishes his…
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