زندگى تحت توفيقات اصول اخلاق - مكارم شيرازى، ناصر - الصفحة ٤٥ - Disadvantages of seclusion and dissociation

events deliberately and on purpose ). Thus for acquiring virtuous habits which are considered asthe scale of humanistic values, there is no alternative save livingin the society and associating with people.

And in the other words, such typical attributes are achievedthrough challenge with desires and vicious factors, as resistanceand strength of forest woods is due to growing in the hardstorms of events, and if they are grown in seclusion and in aclosed and restricted environment, lose their resistance, secludedand dissociable individuals will gradually lose their spiritual andmoral powers. The following tradition may refer to this reality:

At the time of Prophet S. A. one of the Moslems went to themountain for worship and secluded. He was brought to ProphetS. A. The Prophet said him:.

«لا تَفْعَلْ انْتَ وَ لا احَدٌ مِنْكُمْ، لَصَبْرُ احَدِكُمْ فِي بَعْضِ مَواطِنِ الْاسْلامِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ عِبادَةِ احَدِكُمْ ارْبَعِينَ عاماً» ..

Neither you, nor none of the Moslems do this, becausepatience and resistance of one of you in the Islamic environments is better than forty years of worship.. [١]

This phrase is a reply to the first reasoning of advocators ofseclusion.

٢- Solitude and seclusion is the source of several menta ldeviations as well as taste distortion, because even if a man isbrainy, virtuosic and tasteful, still he has some mistakes, whichare only revealed when encountering the others. In association, man finds his mistakes very soon, but in seclusion, since there isnot any way for correcting them, he continues his deviatedcourses, and like the one who is going astray, the more he

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