Mahboubeh Gholami; Masoumeh Gholami; Mohammad Ebrahim Roshanzamir
Abstract
Throughout the history, one of the widely used methods by Imams or their students for the religious teachings when they were faced by Islam’s opponents was debate. Debate is not merely used to silent the other side, nor is it used to force Muslims to religious and cultural arguments between different ...
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Throughout the history, one of the widely used methods by Imams or their students for the religious teachings when they were faced by Islam’s opponents was debate. Debate is not merely used to silent the other side, nor is it used to force Muslims to religious and cultural arguments between different sects of Islam. However, debate is the foundation of Islamic unity and a method to achieve common grounds and truth. The study was based on a descriptive-analytical method and was written in a tactful manner to answer the following general question that “what are the factors which cause the harms of debate, their consequences, and factors for avoiding such harms?” The results indicated that the most important factors for such problems are selfishness, ethnic prejudice, arrogance, ignorance, and so on. Also, their most important consequences are hypocrisy, deprivation from Imam’s help, and so forth. These practical principles can be used as a framework and guideline in order to prepare a proper debate avoiding its possible harm.
seyed hasan bathai golpayegani
Abstract
Monotheism and ikhlās (literally sincerity) have always topped the divine agenda followed by the holy prophets. According to the Holy Qur’an, humans and genies were solely created to worship God sincerely. Not only “sincerity”, but also words and phrases such as “desiring His ...
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Monotheism and ikhlās (literally sincerity) have always topped the divine agenda followed by the holy prophets. According to the Holy Qur’an, humans and genies were solely created to worship God sincerely. Not only “sincerity”, but also words and phrases such as “desiring His goodwill”, “who submits himself entirely to Allah”, “if they were sincere to Allah”, “who sells himself to seek the pleasure of Allah”, “only seeking the countenance of Allah”, “pure”, “devote yourself to Him” all prove this claim. While some scholars denounce worship for the sake of entering paradise or avoiding hell against sincerity, it is hypocrisy and worship for the sake of winning worldly gains which is against sincerity. Therefore, sincerity varies according to the knowledge of the worshipper and has, thus, different stages. This article addresses sincerity in belief, worship, zakāt, khoms, hajj, umrah, jihād, infāq, it’ām, bai’at, hijrat, witnessing, alms-giving, and so on. Allah the Almighty refers to prophets as mukhlīs (literally sincere) servants who asked nothing for their mission.
