When God Almighty resolves to take you away from this world, He commands all your powers to deteriorate and your perceptive faculties to halt their activities. The mechanism of your life is broken down; your auditory and visual senses, and your energies are taken back from you and you become an inanimate inorganic substance. After…
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Servitude and slavery in society are the results…
Servitude and slavery in society are the results of spiritual slavery. One who is a slave and obedient to wealth and position cannot live free socially. Hence, it is true to say that taqwa gives human beings ‘freedom from all types of slavery.’ SOURCE: TAQWA | AYATOLLAH MURTADA MUTAHHARI (R)
The meanest among the arrogant is the person…
The meanest among the arrogant is the person who is proud of outward matters like: – wealth – position – family – descent This poor fellow is far from all human excellences and moral sense; his hands are empty of all learning and knowledge. SOURCE: FORTY HADITH | IMAM KHOMEINI (R)
The doctrine of predestination encourages…
The doctrine of predestination encourages the oppressors and binds the hands of the credulous oppressed. Those who are able to occupy wrongly a position which they do not deserve or acquire wealth by unlawful means, always talk of the blessing and favour of Allah. They say that He favours whomsoever he likes. His bounty is…
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There might be many who amassed…
There might be many who amassed lots of wealth (whether in a halal (lawful by Islam) or in a haram (unlawful by Islam) way), but did not succeed in using this wealth. Qarun was also rated among such persons. He could not use the immense wealth he had amassed, because Allah’s torment fell upon him…
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