Esra NEWS Agency: Hojjat al-Islam wal-Muslimin Dr. Mehdi Imanipour, head of the Organization of Islamic Culture and Communication and a group of members of the scientific council of the book "Introduction of Shia Islam to the International society in the Contemporary World met and talked with Grand Ayatollah Javadi Amoli at his house.

In this meeting Grand Ayatollah Javadi Amoli stated, "Allah revealed in the first verses descended to beloved Prophet of Islam: ﴿اقْرَأْ وَ رَبُّكَ الْأَكْرَمُ﴾; In the first verses, when he wants to introduce himself, he says: I am the honorable God, not the knowledgeable or wise God! When you see there is a jurist in a certain class, you understand that he teaches jurisprudence, a doctor teaches medicine and an engineer teaches engineering, this means from the description of a teacher, it is clear what he teaches. Allah in the first verses when he introduces himself He said: I am the honorable God, and you should also participate in the class of dignity and learn the lesson of dignity."

He continued, "In the final verses of this same Surah Al-Alaq, in a tone that is full of dignity, Allah says﴿أَلَمۡ يَعلَم بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَرَىٰ﴾; It does not say, "Don't sin because you will be deprived of heaven" or "don't sin because you will go to hell and God will punish you", but don't sin because you know that Allah "the Karim" the honorable sees, this surah is very elegant. Therefore, the first surah that was revealed is not about reward and punishment, it is about becoming an angel, it means, it is based on dignity, and this dignity is the description of angels; Religion wants people to be dignified."

He said: "The world without an afterlife means moving without a goal, it means rambel, it means a game, and we are not playing! One should always think about the hereafter, while the words of Kant and Western philosophers was this. when they said that our life is the excitement of the world and the death and materialistic life of nature, and nothing but nature kills us. God has mentioned in the Holy Quran that the disbelievers used to say ﴿مَا هِيَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا الدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا وَمَا يُهْلِكُنَا إِلَّا الدَّهْرُ﴾ This is what western philosophers say, and this is what happened in our universities! What should be discussed in the scientific setting and universities is that we rot with death or we grow out of our skin?! The Holy Qur'an says that you are not like a tree that after bearing fruit, becomes firewood and that's it! Rather, you are like a bird, death is like a release from a cage, death is not decay, but growing out of skin."

Grand Ayatollah Javadi Amoli, in another part of his speech regarding the compilation of the book on "the introduction of Shiite Islam" , said: If the Howzah wants to do something has the capability to do it! This Tasnim commentary, which has reached 80 volumes, is the work of the Howzeh! Because at the beginning when we started interpreting the Qur'an, we did not anticipate that the Tasnim interpretation book would reach 80 volumes, but we had access to the interpretation of the verses, but we did not have the ability to cover all the subject related to that subject, and because of the many scholars and researchers at the classes and raised their queries and questions so that the topics could be fully explained! So, if the Howzeh wants to do something, it can do it precisely and scientifically."

He continued, "It is a good thing that you want to write a book about the introduction of Shia Islam, but don't say that you are an absolute Shia! Because Shia also has different sects, but from the very beginning, say Twelver Shia.  know that Twelver Shia does not have a anything but Islam, it does not have a word other than the Qur'an and Ahl al-Bayt. What Shia says is the same word as Islam. Our sources are the Qur'an and Ahl al-Bayt. Therefore, if we recognize with the Qur'an that this ruling is Islamic, surely the same is true of the Shia!"

Saying that Ahl al-Bayt infallibility and purity are the partner of the Qur'an, His Holiness stated, "Considering the original sources we have, we should not look for second rated sources, so we must always see what the Qur'an said, what the Nahj al-Balagheh and the Sahifa Sajjadiyya said! He stated, "First of all, about Nahj al-Balagha, which is the focus of Shiism. With the help of researchers and professors, scientific, research works should be done on the topics of Nahj al-Balagha, as well as about the topics discussed in the Sajjadiyyah and supplications, which are the main sources for us."

By stating that religious topic includes all earthly and heavenly affairs, he said, "In the book of "Mafatih Al-Hayat", we have talked about the three principles of worldview, maintaining world, and world decoration. This means from the throne of Allah to the bottom of the earth, it is the realm of our religion. All the geology and astronomy issue are all part of Shia knowledge. First of all, what is our epistemology, which is our standard and scale, and then who created the world should be researched, and in this case, it is not necessary to have several volumes of books. if the word is mature and scientific, a small treatise is enough!"

His Holiness said, "The scientific questions makes the book scientific and eternal, as the word﴿یسألونک﴾  is mentioned several times in the Holy Quran in various verses, so start your work with trust in Allah and the infallible and pure Ahl al-Bayt, and with your best effort. Proceed the work in steps; make sure that the questions you are asking are scientific and precise, and discuss only the Shia of the Twelve Imams, and ask for help from the Ahl al-Bayt and say, «انی محقق لما حققتم» We have come to you to comeback with scholarly achievements. We are here to come back as researchers.  «و محتمل لعلمکم»we have come to be your students and to convey your knowledge, although these sentences are expressed as news sentences, but there is a ask behind it; it means we ask them to grant us this capacity.

At the beginning of this meeting, Dr. Imanipour, head of "the Organization of Islamic Culture and Communication", presented a report on the project "introducing Shiite Islam" to Grand Ayatollah Javadi Amoli and asked for his permission to continue these scientific meetings with him.

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