True perfection lies in a person’s freedom to be able to do wrong, and yet they choose to refrain from sinning, [all the while] without practically imposing anything on themselves. SOURCE: TAQWA | AYATOLLAH MURTADA MUTAHHARI (R)
Right and wrong each have their own…
Right and wrong each have their own special magnetic attraction, which attracts their own people. In order to be attracted to what is right, one should deserve to be with it in the same way that those who are attracted to the wrong deserve to be with what is wrong. Deserving to be with what…
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He is the First and the Last, and the Manifest…
He is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and the Unseen; and He knows all things”. (Surah al-Hadid, 57:3) Thus the whole world with all its characteristics and systems is an aspect of Allah’s Knowledge. At this stage of knowledge, the known and the knowledge are identical. They are one and not two….
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“The critic who says that Allah knew…
“The critic who says that Allah knew from eternity that he would drink wine, should be asked to explain whether Allah knew that he would drink it of his own will or He knew that he would be compelled by an external force to do so. Evidently what Allah knew from eternity was neither forced…
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The Holy Qur’an says: “It is Allah to leave…
The Holy Qur’an says: “It is Allah to leave in error whom He wills and to guide whom He pleases. He is the Mighty, the Wise”. (Surah Ibrahim, 14:4)… [and many such verses]. But these verses do not deny the intervention of the natural causes. Hence there is no contradiction between them and the other…
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