Islam Guidance

Chapter One: Severance

Chapter One: Severance

This matter takes place in different ways. Sometimes it is accomplished without the free will of man and sometimes it is exposed to view by free will, endeavour and struggle. On the basis of levels of severance, the granted Ma'refat (gnosis) too are different.

The reason that severance from material attachments becomes the cause of remembrance is this that such kinds of attachments are the most important channel for man's neglectfulness from the innate Ma'refat. By eliminating such attachments, the obstacles and veils are removed from the Fitrat (innate disposition) and the light of innate Ma'refat begins to glow (once again) and this glowing is the same granted Ma'refat which is mentioned in Quran by the word 'Atainaahum' (Nahl: 52 & 53). One of the instances of severance which is accomplished without man's authority and which has been emphasized a lot in verses and a tradition is the state of helplessness and losing of hope in this world. (Which is mentioned in Quran and traditions by the words 'Ba'san we Zarraa'.

Under these circumstances too, the introducer to God and His qualities is God Himself and the real reminder, in the position of proof is the Benevolent God. However, in the position of proving and explaining, whenever the Holy Imams (A.S.) were faced with the real seekers of guidance and Ma'refat then, for reminding the Ma'refat, they would recall the same conditions and manifestations of the Ma'refat of God in the hearts and the people too, by recalling those same conditions, remember the Ma'aref which they had acquired at those moments.

Acquiring and accomplishing such kind of reminding, by way of proof and confirmation, is known as the general guidance ('Aamah').

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