
Translated by: Ahmad Ismaeil Abadi
Source: rasekhoon.net
Source: rasekhoon.net
Imam Ali (PBUH) says: indeed, if the believer thinks, learns, and when remains silent thinks and when speaks, reminds God and when feels needless, begins to thank and when put in the hardship, is patient. In fact, five attributes of the believer's has been proposed at the top of this Hadith that can be said is considered as the main pillars of man's good character. However, these five attributes include: comments, thinking, hint, thanking and patient. The first stage of self-Review is looking; looking at the universe and learning from it, looking at the history and fate of tyrants as well as pure and righteous persons, looking around us, and friends who were with us last year and now are not. Therefore, not only looking at the signs of horizons but also looking at the internal signs and subjective signs as well as flaws and strengths, which then we will speak about the lesson –taking.
The second stage is thinking that if a person really wishes to self-help, he interestingly, the last part of many Quran verses is invitation to thinking or reasoning or warning. There are many of these interpretations in the Quran that call for "reason and wisdom" and praising those who employ their intellect that has been used in many of Quran verse. In Islamic tradition the issue of thought and ideas in the first step is of paramount importance and interesting expressions can be seen, such as ; Imam Reza (AS) says : worshiping of God is not as much as prayer and fasting, but, the real worshiping is pondering over the work supreme God and the mysteries of the universe creator.
Examples of thinking in narration have been stated in this way;
A)- A person questioned Imam Sadeq (PBUH) the fact that people narrates the Prophet (PBUH) that: "one hour worshiping is better than one night worshiping hour, an hour thinking is better than a night of worship." What is its purpose? And how should we think? Imam replied: when passes by the ruin or house (which is deserted) to say: Where did your hesitant go? What happened for its founders, why don't you talk?.
B) Mentioning death suppresses the rebellious lusts within the man one and uproots neglecting powers of the heart and empowers the heart to the divine promises, and gives softness and freshness to the human nature moreover, it breaks signs of whims, turns off fire of greed, and makes the world small to the man's eyes, and this is the meaning of the Prophet's speech (PBUH) said, that "thinking an hour is better than a year of worship". Imam Sadeq (PBUH) narrates: "the most worship of Abuzar was thinking and taking lessons" .
So, if the human dedicate all the time of his life to study and discussion and does not think of self-realization and analyzing of his actions, he will not succeed. The third step is warning. I look and then and I think and I get the results and I should remind these results continually in order not to be forgotten. The fourth step is thanking when the man looks and sees himself immersed in the blessing of God and then thinks and considers the interest of the benefactor who was blessed by this blessing and then continually reminds he or she should be thanksgiving and considers the interest of the benefactor in giving his blesses.
The fifth step is patience, emotions, desires, problems and difficulties and obstacles exist in the way of self –making if not having the patience, fails to pass this process. However, there is a logical relation in these traits that Hazrat and we should grasp the advice of Imam and as much as that characteristic is in us, we are believer to that extent and to the extent we are away from that we are also away from the reality of belief. One of the best and most effective ways is to become aware of the study of history of ancestors and antecedents.
The word "credit" is principally driven from "transit" means which means crossing something toward something else, and the fact that the tear eyes called "Ebreh" because of moving tears through the eyes and expression is called "expression" to this reason that transfers the concepts from one to another and to this reason the events that gives advice to man is called "Ebrate" because guides man to a number of general teachings.
Studying the life history of the Egyptian pharaohs, kings and people of Sheba, and the kings of Chaldea and Assyria, and the life of the legendary Roman Atrium with that opulence and undisciplined life, and then studying the painful consequences that due to infidelity and tyranny wrapped up their lives is a huge pain for many of us and ultimately, the land that was the cradle of their comfort causes their destruction. And according to the Holy Prophet (PBUH), the most ignorant people are those who do not learn from world changes and does not think of changing day and night.
In a hadith mentioned when Imam Ali (PBUH) came toward "Safin" to fight Mo'avieh, passed by Madayen (one of the magnificent monuments of ancient Iran is Ivan Madayen that today its ruin is near Baghdad. Ctesiphon was the capital of ancient Persia which was built during the Sassanid kings, and the wall of Ctesiphon or arch of Kasra is the ruins of that Grand Palace that today only ruins, there is no trace of that great city and historic place. So, one of the companions reads this poem to take lesson. The winds began to blow on their remaining land (and nothing but the wind noise in their palaces was heard as If they all had the appointed place and rushed toward it. Imam Ali (PBUH) said: Why you do not read this verse: they have left so many gardens and springs and these grasslands and valuable blessings that they were drown in was in this way and we left these blessings as heritages for other tribes and neither sky nor the creatures living in the earth cried to them and nor they have been given a chance. So, not crying of the sky and earth to them might be the reason for their contempt and not having a friend and feeling of sympathize for them. Because , among Arab it is tradition that when they want to express the importance of ones position to whom a problem has arrived , they say the sky and earth cried to him and sun and moon went dark for not having it. This possibility also exist that the aim is crying the people of sky and the earth; it is because they cry for the believers and people close to mercy of God. However, some also have said that the cry of sky and the earth is also a real one that is shown like a change and happiness; as we read in a narration; when Imam Hussein martyred the sky cries for him and his cry was a special red color appeared on the horizon.
Imam Sadeq said: the sky cried for Yahiya Ibn Zachariah for forty years and it has not cried for any one like them. The narrator says; I questioned that how was the cry of the sky? Said: at the time of raising and setting a special redness appeared on the sky.
But , we read a Hadith of the prophet (PBUH) who has said: there is no believer unless he has a door on the sky that his action goes up it and the door whose food is sent down and when he dies these two doors cry for him. So, this narration is not against the previous one because concerning the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (AS) the issue has had a general aspect in all the sky and what mentioned in this narration has a propositional aspect.
Among those when passing by this porch have conceptualized his instructive memoirs in the form of an ode is Khagani, the poet of 6th century, who at the time returning from Mecca along with caravan of Hajj from kaaba and while passing Madayen, poetized this well-known ode