This is a warning lesson to all people that whatever they have like knowledge, health, wealth, position and power is all through the strength and power of Allah, without which all we have is a mirage.
Anwar:Excellent. Thank you so much for all the information, the analysis and the utilizations from the words of he Imam (PBUH).
Hasan:You are most welcome. Let us have a break.
Anwar:Yes, of course.
Symposium 60
On Falsely Claiming Seeing and Representing
Anwar:Salam ‘Alaykom!
Hasan:Alaykom As-Salam Wa Rahmatollah Wa Barakatoh!
Anwar:I asked, last time, about who claims seeing the Imam (PBUH) or representing him, and you said such a claimer is a liar and a falsifier and who claims having a connection with the Imam is nothing but a dissonance voice.
Hasan:Yes, that is right. What Sayyed Sadr Al-Din says in his book, ‘Al-Mahdi’, proves this:“The aim is to refute the claimer of the special representation with
indication to the context”. The author of Bihar Al-Anwar also implies this:“It is probably subject to the claimer of seeing and representing the Imam (PBUH) who also delivers the news from him to the Shi’a like the Ambassador…”.
Anwar:So, the idea here is that to claim seeing the Imam (PBUH) as a special representative is one thing and simply seeing the Imam (AHHR) is another thing and there is no problem with that.
Hasan:As a matter of fact, Shi’ite books are full of stories about the meeting with the Imam (AHHR) like ‘Al-najm Al-Thaqib’ and ‘Jannah Al-Mawa’ of Mirza Al-Nouri – God bless his soul.
Anwar:A question just came to my mind if you don’t mind!
Hasan:Please, go ahead.
Anwar:What are the effects resulted from waiting for the Revelation?
Hasan:I will refer to what the religious scholars mentioned in this regard:
First, the waiting in itself is a spiritual exercise that guides and prepares us for meeting him.
Second, it eases the occurrence of disasters and catastrophes and the impact they have on us, especially when it ends with Revelation of the Imam (AHHR).
Third, one of the requisites of this waiting is the desire to be in the company of the Imam (PBUH) which, in turn, necessitates purifying and refining our souls.
Fourth, to wait for the Imam (AHHR) necessarily leads to getting ourselves prepared and ready for supporting him.
Anwar:Thank you so much for all this information.
Hasan:You are most welcome!
CHATPTER FIVE
The Hereafter
(Mi’ad)
·The Meaning of the Hereafter
·The Holy Verses and Hadith Indicative of the Purgatory (Al-Barzakh) and the Hereafter
·Resurrection of Animals
·Words on the Secrecy (Taqiyeh)
·Words on the Returning (Raj’a)
·Words on Visiting Graves
·What is Shi’ism?
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Symposium 61
The Meaning of the Hereafter (Mi’ad)
Anwar:Salam ‘Alaykom!
Hasan:Alaykom As-Salam Wa Rahmatollah Wa Barakatoh!
Anwar:I think we talked enough about the Imamate and its branches, and it is time to move to the last Pillar of Islam, namely the Hearafter (Mi’ad). What can you tell us about this?
Hasan:First, we have to know the meaning of the Hearafter (Mi’ad) as a term. According to religious experts, the Hearafter (Mi’ad) is the time when the soul returns to the body it was attached to during the worldly existence.
Anwar:What is soul?
Hasan:It is an abstract creature, i.e. it is not material.
Anwar:So, human being is made of a material body and an abstract soul, isn’t it?
Hasan:Yes, it is.
Anwar:Can you support this with a proof?
Hasan:Through witnessing science, we know that there is something part from the body, which is the soul; this Holy Verse from the Noble Quran confirms this fact:
(And do not speak of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead; nay, they are alive, but you do not perceive)2;154.
This Holy Verse is a proof to the fact that the soul stays alive even when it leaves the body.
Anwar:Very Good. This leads to another question; is there a life in the grave?
Hasan:Yes, there is. It is called Purgatory life (Al-Barzakh), which is a life the soul lives between this world and the next world.