زندگى تحت توفيقات اصول اخلاق - مكارم شيرازى، ناصر - الصفحة ١٣٦ - Mental origin

the form of tourism without luggage and provision with thepurpose of separation from cities and societies and or escaping house and family.

Anyhow, it is deduced from above tradition that monkery andsocial seclusion, either in the form of sitting at home, closing thedoor and leaving the world, or in the form of wandering withoutany means and escaping home, life and society, is condemned inIslam because it is in contradiction with the spirit of Islamicin structions.

Moreover, Holy Quran has called monkery, which is commonamong Christians, a condemned innovation:.

وَ رَهْبانِيَّةً ابْتَدَعُوها ما كَتَبْناها عَلَيْهِمْ الَّا ابْتِغاءَ رِضْوانِ اللَّهِ فَما رَعَوْها حَقَّ رِعايَتِها ..

And monasticism they invented- We did not prescribe it forthem, only seeking the good pleasure of God; but they observed it not as it should be observed.. [١]

The total of these evidences explains the attitude of Islamtowards monkery. And one point remains here unsolved, that is:

Has monkery existed in the other religions? According to the Islamic documents there has been a sort ofmonkery in Christianity, but very different with the presentmonkery and program of monks. Because the appearance ofabove phrase indicates that God has prescribed a sort ofmonkery for them, with the purpose of seeking God's pleasure, but they did not observe its limits, and invented another oneinstead of it that Quran has called it an innovation.

Now, we shall see what this legitimate monkery meant. Certainly, in the original Christianity, as per historical and

[١]TheIronsura (٧٥) ,verse ٧٢