خلاصة:
Imam Ali ibn al-Husayn was a living embodiment of ‘Ashura as he witnessed his father, brothers, and companions cruelly massacred on the plains of Karbala. While having to live in such sorrow, the Imam lived through a difficult era as he strove to mend the socio-political conditions of his society. Throughout these events, Imam Sajjad tried to prevent corruption, as the rulers inhibited the spread of Islam through crowd manipulation. He also accomplished his role as a guide and benefactor by teaching Islamicprinciples, emphasizing the concept of Imamate, resisting moral corruption, looking after the needy, and setting slaves free. His role as a spiritual guide through his practice of continuous prayers gained him the title Imam Sajjad (The Prostrating Imam) and resulted in a collection titled Al-Sahifah al-Sajj diyyah (The Psalms of Islam). This article offers a brief biography of the Imam, a brief history of the events after ‘Ashura, and the Imam’s accomplishments in reviving the Muslimcommunity.
ملخص الجهاز:
"Social Manipulation The ruling class kept people in a mental, ideological, and political vacuum while spreading propaganda through activities such as 1) preventing the spread of knowledge, both academic and Islamic, 2) limiting and canalizing scholars, 3) fabricating hadiths and offering them to the people, 4) preventing people from meeting the Ahlul Bayt (a), and 5) exiling moral intellectuals from the realm of knowledge, and replacing them with the People of the Book, thus introducing them as the people of knowledge, wisdom, and culture.
Indicators of deviation in the society - Ban on narrating and writing hadiths; - Spread of false stories and politically motivated poems; - Inattentiveness to the Qur'an and abandoning it; - The belief in superiority of hadiths over the Qur'an; - The belief in authority of Companions and giving them the right of legislation and changing Islam laws; - Promoting certain people as chief judges or chief jurists in order to supress independent scholars; - Spreading the idea of determinism and justifying acts of rulers, which were contrary to the Islamic law; - Giving the absolute right of obedience to the rulers, even the oppressive ones; - Spread of corruptions in community such as drinking alcohol, singing, music, and dancing.
1 To explain (رجوع شود به تصویر صفحه) on the Imam Sajj d’s knowledge and its advantage over the scholars, jurists, and narrators of hadith of his time, his awareness of the hidden mysteries of the world and the relationship of people to the sheer source of divine wisdom is beyond the constraints of this article."