Lessons from history

 
Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah Yazdi
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We should try to strengthen our opinions and not take this issue as a joke. If the foundation of our faith is not firm, the devils will steal it. In one of his speeches, the Supreme Leader – Madd Zalleh Alali – mentioned that some internal press have become enemy bases and infiltrators have gained access to them. They have targeted the faith of our young people and by instilling all kinds of doubts, they are trying to gradually destroy the spirit of religion and adherence to religion in society, especially our young generation.
Secondly, we should try to implement Islamic values as much as we can in life and take the rules of Islam seriously and not be short-tempered or lenient about them. All the martyrs who have shed their blood since the time of the Prophets and the early saints and from the beginning of Islam until now, were for the execution of God’s decrees, not that some thugs and thugs found freedom and did whatever they wanted against the law. do We should try to implement Islamic rules in our own lives first and then guide others to this path.
Thirdly, as Shiites and followers of the school of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him), we must always be ready to fight against the enemies of religion. From the beginning of the Great Absence, our great scholars used to carry swords and horses on Fridays and practiced horse riding and swordsmanship around the city, so that if Imam Zaman (peace be upon him) appeared, they would be ready for war. Quran says:
1 Mobilize whatever strength you can.
We must make the necessary preparations; Because if we are ready, the enemy will retreat.
With the blessing of the Imam’s (may God have mercy on him) instructions, our people prepared to fight against the monarchy’s blasphemy apparatus, revolted, gave blood, were tortured and exiled, and their property was destroyed until this revolution was victorious. What did this nation fight for? Imam was shouting: Whoever does not shout today is guilty of a big crime. O quiet Qom! O Najaf, be quiet! Islam has disappeared, I feel a danger for Islam. The people responded to this call of the Imam (may God have mercy on him) and rose up for the revival of Islam. If, God forbid, another time like the Shah’s time, foreign enemies or internal compromisers and deceivers put Islam under threat and danger, and the situation of the Shah’s time is repeated, we should all be ready to fight. The preparation that was found in the Shiites during 1300 years with the blessing of the blood of the martyrs (peace be upon him) gave results on 22 Bahman 57. We have to be careful not to lose this readiness and not make us sleepless with slogans such as tolerance. With these words, they want to take this readiness and spirit of bravery, courage, sacrifice and martyrdom from our nation. These are calculated plans that come from somewhere else and are implemented by people knowingly or unknowingly. I emphasize that we must be careful that this spirit of self-sacrifice and seeking martyrdom does not disappear from the Shiites. We should always try to keep this spirit and pray continuously that: God, let our death be martyrdom in your way!
“Cognitive weakness” and “self-defeating” are important factors
In the deviations of the Islamic society
“Weakness of cognition” and “self-loathing” are important factors in the deviations of the Islamic society, one of the most important tools that is effective in not accepting the rule of law.
Propaganda and abuse of people’s ignorance. Therefore, one of the important duties of all of us, especially the educated class, is to raise the level of people’s thought and culture so that they get out of the state of pure imitation and obedience in political and social issues, and become able to analyze themselves. These are not slogans. We witnessed with our own eyes and are witnessing that thanks to the movement of the Imam (may God have mercy on him) and thanks to this revolution, the level of awareness and insight of our people has grown a lot compared to the people of other countries. Today, the level of political awareness of our people is higher than the people of all countries in the world. But we are still far from the desired level and there is room for work. We still see that sometimes people can use propaganda and propaganda to attract a large group of our people and use their votes to realize their malicious intentions and desires.
This abuse has two main sources: One is the weakness of awareness, and the other is the weakness of character. One is cognitive and the other is personal. A person who has little information and political information is not able to properly analyze social issues and is easily influenced by propaganda. This is a defect. Another defect is related to weak character. Some people do not have an independent opinion and are quickly influenced by others and follow them. Usually, famous people who have money, status, scientific prestige and such privileges are attractive to people, and many people have their eyes on them and follow them. This kind of imitating and following someone is the reason for the weakness of the character and it is not the problem of the weakness of knowing and not knowing. It is possible that a person knows a problem at the beginning and has solved it for himself, but when he sees other people going in the other direction, he follows them.
Weakness of character and weakness of vision are often together and must be fought against. One of the social duties, obligations, and responsibilities that we must strive to fulfill is that we must try to increase people’s awareness and make them feel that they are individuals. We should encourage them to think for themselves about every issue and have a justification between themselves and their God for what they do. It should not be that because they have a good opinion of someone, they follow him. It is even possible for someone to be in the clothes of spirituality, but suffer from deviations and big errors. The fact that someone is spiritual or a great personality is not a proof before God. On the Day of Resurrection, everyone must answer for their actions. On the Day of Resurrection, some people who have opposed the prophets will say that our personalities and elders deceived us; But they do not accept from them and take them to hell:
On the day of turning their faces into the fire, they will say, “Let us pray to God and pray to the Messenger.” And they said, “Our Lord, do not forgive us, and our pride, let us not be righteous; 2. On the day when their faces will be turned upside down in the fire, they will say: “I wish we obeyed God and obeyed the Prophet.” And they say: “Our Lord, we obeyed our leaders and elders and they led us out of the way.”
Those who are caught in such a trap in this world will go to those personalities and elders on the Day of Judgment and say, we followed you, today you will take some of our punishment! They say in response, we didn’t force you, you came yourself:
And those who seek refuge in the fire, so the weak say, “For those who are arrogant, let us not be arrogant to you.” He said: 3 And when they begin to bring evidence in the fire, the subordinates say to those who killed their necks: “We were your followers; So can you repel some of the fire from us?” Those who were hanging their necks say: “[Now] we are all in it. It is God who has judged between the servants.
Of course, those who become the source of seducing others have a double sin:
4 until the Day of Resurrection, they will carry the burden of their sins completely, and [also] a part of the burden of the sins of those who mislead them without knowing. .
However, those who have followed the misguidance do not lose anything from their responsibility and are responsible for their own work. Although those leaders and those who have misled and deceived the people, they have a double sin; One is why they left by themselves and the other is why they misled others. Maybe that day among those “cobras” we will see people whom we had a good opinion of in the world. Yes, the calculations are different there.
In any case, one of our duties is to try to make our work correct from the point of view. Of course, some people may say, since we are not aware of political and social issues, let’s sit aside. In response, we must say that this is what the likes of Saad bin Abi Waqqas, Hassan Basri, and Abu Musa Ash’ari did. Doesn’t withdrawal remove the responsibility from the shoulders of man? Muawiya said to Saad bin Abi Waqqas: Why didn’t you pledge allegiance to me? said: I had a problem. said: what is your problem said: Do not ask. Muawiya insisted. said: Now that you are insisting, I did not pledge allegiance because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Al-haq ma’ al-yi”. When you heard this, why didn’t you follow Ali (peace be upon him)?! Don’t you admit that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Al-Haq with Ali”, so why didn’t you pledge allegiance to Ali (peace be upon him)?!
There are those who think that the precaution is not to say anything, because there may be backbiting! Whose absence? The backbiting of those who wear swords to destroy Islam and root Islam?! At the beginning of the movement, when the Imam (may God have mercy on him) sometimes called the king by name, some people said: This is the absence of the Shia king!!
Man should deepen his understanding. One should recognize the duty and then perform it seriously. In recognizing the duty and acting on it, one should not be short in any way, otherwise the field will remain open for thugs and thugs; As we see more or less these days. It should not be said, it is my opinion, I have the right to it. Yes, the choice of your vote is in your own hands, but we must be careful about the fact that one day we will have to give back the account of every vote and signature. Perhaps this vote of ours will cause the victory of a person who suspends some of the rules of Islam and causes thousands of people to sin. In this case, we are partners in the sin of all of them. Of course, everyone has the right to vote and can do whatever they want with it. But he must also be committed to his responsibility. One day they may say, you are a partner in all the corruption and sins that were committed among several million Iranian people from such and such a year! Why? Because you voted for these people to come to work, if you had not voted, these people would not have been in power and these things would not have happened.
We must understand our grave responsibility. We must see the origin of love
What are our grudges? We have to see what we say if we live and die for someone. May “badr and khaybar grudges” be in our hearts and cause us to do something “la hababa l muaw yah bal baghaha l al yi (peace be upon him)”!
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۱٫ Anfal (8), 60.
2. Parties (33), 66-67.
3. Ghafar (40), 47-48.
4. Nahl (16) 25.
5. See: Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 38, chapter 57, narration 1.