“In the name of freedom, women today have destroyed their homes without having effectively cultivated schools or universities or places of work. As a result of this unrestrainedness and ignoring of any restrictions, the educational efficiency of young people, in general, has decreased. Young people run away from school and education, and sexual crimes have…
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Worldly existence is a lower and…
Worldly existence is a lower and defective realm of being, but since it is a nursery for the training of lofty souls and a school for acquiring higher spiritual stations, it is a field for cultivating the Hereafter. In this sense it is the most sublime of the realms of being and the most profitable…
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Every one of his companions who was killed…
Every one of his companions who was killed, every one of the members of his household who was killed, it was as if a part of the Imam’s blessed body was cut off. And the Imam was patient during each of these events, one by one. He sipped at patience drop by drop. This movement…
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During the Imamate of al-‘Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (A)…
During the Imamate of al-‘Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (A)… Since the government of the Umayyads was weakened due to internal differences and the self-indulgence and inefficiency of government authorities and because the signs of weakness had grown in its governmental structure, the Fifth Imam (A) took advantage of this opportunity and began to disseminate the sciences…
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If destiny means a link of inevitability…
If destiny means a link of inevitability between an event and its causes, then its existence is an undeniable fact. Anyhow, it should be remembered that the belief in destiny is not peculiar to the theists. Every school of thought which believes in the general system of causation has to accept the existence of this…
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