زندگى تحت توفيقات اصول اخلاق - مكارم شيرازى، ناصر - الصفحة ٤٣ - Arguments of advocators of seclusion and association
This verse indicates that the bounty of children beingprophet was granted to Abraham when he chose seclusion and dissociation.
وَ اذِ اعْتَزَلْتُمُوهُمْ وَ ما يَعْبُدُونَ الَّا اللَّهَ فَأْوُوا الَى الْكَهْفِ يَنْشُرْ لَكُمْ رَبُّكُمْ مِنْ رَحْمَتِهِ.
٢- So, when you have gone apart from them and that theyserve, excepting God, take refuge in the Cave, and your Lord will unfold to you of His mercy.. [١]
This verse shows that People of Cave became liable to divinefavor after seclusion and dissociation..
«قِيلَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه و آله: ايُّ النّاسِ افْضَلُ؟ قالَ: مُؤْمِنٌ مُجاهِدٌ بِنَفْسِهِ وَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ تَعالى. قِيلَ: ثُمَّ مَنْ؟ قالَ: رَجُلٌ مُعْتَزِلٌ فِي شِعْبٍ مِنَ الشِّعابِ يَعْبُدُ رَبَّهُ وَ يَدَعُ النّاسَ فِي شَرِّهِ» ..
٣- They told to Prophet S. A.: who is superior to all people? He said: the believer who struggles in the way of God. It was asked: Then who is even superior to him? He said: one, in a valley, who has dissociated people, worships God and people are secure of his evil!. [٢]
This tradition too has put the position of seclusion anddissociation after holy struggle and has commended it.
٤- In Mesbahol Sharia, it is narrated from Imam SadeghA. S.:
«صاحِبُ الْعُزْلَةِ مُتَحَصِّنٌ بِحِصْنِ اللَّهِ وَ مُحْتَرِسٌ بِحَراسَتِهِ فَياطُوبى لِمَنْ تَفَرَّدَ بِهِ سِرّاً وَ عَلانِيَةً» ..
The isolated people are in the divine castle and under God's
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