to report Missionary thought and culture base, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Rashad said on Wednesday, December 12, at the “Faqih Salek” national conference: When we focused on the appearance of religion, we did not pay attention to its interior. We gave importance to jurisprudence and principles, but neglected morals and spirituality.
According to IRNA’s report, he added: Our youths have been captured and trapped in this cultural invasion. We see that the one who is wounded or captured is honored, but we reject the captive of the cultural front.
Rashad continued: “We have failed seminarians and I ask for forgiveness.” Although I work day and night and sometimes study and work until morning, I still blame myself.
He added: Agha Mojtabi loved the people. During the revival nights, about 500,000 people would attend Agha Majti’s meetings, and he would tell people about the depth of religion, and sometimes he would close the jurisprudence meetings and talk about ethics.
Rashad added: The most prominent feature of Ayatollah Tehrani was that he had a pure heart. If a person’s heart is sick, his whole being will be sick. God has praised Abraham in two places in the Qur’an as a healthy heart.
This professor added: We are oblivious to the position of the heart. One of the words that have made the most combinations in the Persian language is heart, and it is unique in religious literature because the word heart is mentioned more than 14,000 times in hadiths.
He added: I found 56 descriptions in the Qur’an about the heart, and more than 600 descriptions are mentioned in the hadiths about the heart.
Rashad mentioned the heart as a standard and measure and said: A healthy heart is free from hypocrisy, polytheism, and doubt, and it is in God’s control. It is mentioned in the hadiths that the heart is the sanctuary of God and why do you leave it to others, which is not a higher usurpation than the usurpation of the heart.
He emphasized: “A lot of work has been done in 45 years, but we have paid more attention to the appearance than the heart, and the role of us students in this field is great.” We must have the heart of the people.
Tehran has declined spiritually
The head of seminaries in Tehran Province added: After 12 years, the city of Tehran, which was once called the city of sages and had several jurists with treatises, has experienced spiritual decline. It is said in the narratives that Tehran will decline in the end of time, and now with the rise of such men, we are witnessing the spiritual decline of this city.
Agha Mojtabi was a role model in every sense
Hojjat-ul-Islam Mustafa Pourmohammadi, head of the Islamic Revolution Documentation Center, recited verse 21 of Surah Al-Ahzab and said: The Prophet must be an example and worthy of pity. We need to learn so that we can educate ourselves and become like them. What shakes the society are pious people.
He added: Agha Mojtabi was a role model in every sense of the word. His life was inspiring and instructive. Sincerity was the prominent feature of Agha Mojtabi. Because he never pretended, and if he saw something, he would warn us to be careful that our appearance and inner being are the same, and that our morals should indicate our helper.
Referring to this prophetic hadith that whoever has 40 days of sincerity, God will pour wisdom from his heart to his tongue, he said: Agha Mojtabi was truly a source of wisdom. There was wisdom in each of his lessons and points, and he emphasized that we should show our sincerity in an obvious way and in a way that people can see.
Pourmohammadi added: We are familiar with Agha Mojtabi’s situation and his lessons, but people are less aware of his reaction to sensitive social issues.
He added: In the winter of 2003, when the issues of the presidential elections were discussed, he felt threatened and said that if you do not pay attention and do not understand the depth of the issues and surrender to the tyrants, it will create bad effects and he said that he is worried if this happens, the country and the clergy In the next 50 years, it will suffer damages that cannot be compensated soon.
He added: “Society needs such sincere and insightful scholars who will be a role model and teacher for everyone.”
Agha Mojtabi had practical ethics
Hojjat-ul-Islam Hossein Tehrani, the son of Agha Mojtabi Tehrani, said: The aspects that made my father stand out from other scholars are remarkable in several ways. One of the personal aspects, for example, the father was a religious and religious person, and he was not holy in the literal sense. In fact, he was moderate and avoided extremes and acted on what he believed in.
He added: My father was conscientious and very strict in financial matters. Because he believed that observing these matters will make life brighter. He had a demanding life and practical morals and avoided the treasury.
He also pointed to the social aspects of Agha Mojtabi and said: “Father was not at all interested in the love of leadership and fame or being seen in the media and society, and he did not even love authority.”
Tehrani continued: My father was a real gentleman. He had emptied his heart from the world and it was replaced by the love of God and his family. People saw these situations in Agha Mojtabi and became fascinated by him.
He added: Of course, he was very sharp and intelligent in social issues, and on the other hand, he knew people because he had inner purification. Its whole purpose was to educate the youth.
He referred to Agha Mojtabi as a teacher of ethics and said: “Father was in the hearts of people based on his speech and actions.” That is, in the first stage, he made himself so that he could make others. Therefore, someone can create others who have already created themselves.
We did not use Baitul-Mal to publish Agha Mojtabi’s works
Mohsen Esmaili, a member of the Guardian Council, expressed some characteristics of his teacher and said: The secret of his influence was that he did not consider anything except God.
He added: On the 8th of Bahman 1973, when the Hozva lessons were over for the month of Ramadan, we asked the preacher who said, “Why is it that even though our advertising volume is more than the previous ones, we don’t have the necessary impact.” “Our hearts are not ready to preach, but people are receptive.”
He mentioned Agha Mojtabi’s evasive reputation as one of his teacher’s characteristics and said: I asked the municipality to install a sign on the street to guide people to know where Agha Mojtabi’s office is. When the professor saw the painting, he asked me and said, “Your Highness, do you want to make a copy with the money of the municipality?” I told people to know that this is your office. He said, “Pay it out of your own pocket.”
Esmaili continued: One of his orders in the last nights was not to use the Treasury for my works, and until today we have not used any help from the government to publish Agha Mojtabi’s works.
Expressing a memory, he said: Imam Khomeini allowed him to publish books with khums money, but he never allowed his works to be published with khums money and Bait al-Mal.
This lawyer added: Agha Mojtabi’s asceticism was such that he did not allow his speeches to be broadcast on television. His piety and attachment to God was such that young people are still looking for the lessons of this moral teacher.
Alireza Zakani, Mayor of Tehran, said: Our neighborhood in Khorasan Square has been in the light of great people such as Agha Mojtabi, Haqshanas and Shahabadi, who were the standard bearers of ethics.
He added: Ayatollah Tehrani’s characteristic was that he was among the leaders in jurisprudence and principles, and he had established a clear base in Tehran in the field of ethics. He had placed this moral direction in the path of sacrifice for religion and revolution, and when we were in Agha Mojtabi neighborhood and next to his ethics classes, we had more use of the statements and books of this professor of ethics.
Zakani continued: I ask scholars and professors to arrest those who are thirsty in the field of ethics like me. Increase your effort. Because the enemy has drawn many plans for the youth, and in the last two years, we implemented the Arman plan in more than 700 mosques and 900 schools, and many young people participated in this plan. Even some teenagers and young people have been able to influence their families.
Conferences for the elders of Tehran
Mehdi Rezaiyan, Secretary of the National Conference of Faqih Salek, said: This conference is held as the first conference commemorating great scholars under the initiative of Imam Reza seminary complex to commemorate Ayatollah Agha Mojtabi Tehrani, and in the future congresses will be held to commemorate Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Keni and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Shahabadi, the teacher of Imam Khomeini (RA). ) and we will have other contemporary scholars.
Presenting a report on the performance of this conference, he said: Our first task is to recognize the works of these elders and introduce them to the society. We have talked with four universities and we will gradually make arrangements in other universities to hold the main conference.
Rezaiyan added: simple life and service to the people were important characteristics of Agha Mojtabi, and therefore films have been produced. The Saro Hadith program was prepared about 50 scholars, and in the Agha Mojtabi program, interviews were conducted with 17 scholars, which are used in this program.
He added: Some institutions such as the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, the Radio and Broadcasting Organization, the Islamic Revolution Documentation Center, the Endowments and Charities Organization, the Islamic Propaganda Organization, the Islamic Culture and Communication Organization, and the artistic field have responsibilities. have been accepted for producing products and holding the main conference. Referring to the importance of the heart and reciting the verses about the humility of the heart, Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer Tahriri said: Hazrat Ali said that the price of a human being is both knowledge and religious manners, and the more knowledgeable one is in science and manners, the higher the value of a person is. The river and man are guided by science, but by applying science and being polite to religious rituals, dark veils are removed and man grows.
He added: In fact, divine guidance and closeness is achieved when we remove the dark veils and the light veils
Hojjat-ul-Islam Mohammad Hadi Rahimi Sadegh, the head of Tehran Seminary, said: Morality and behavior based on jurisprudence, mysticism and authentic seminary knowledge, especially insight, is the pinnacle that Agha Mojtabi showed and proved.
In this ceremony, the collection of books on divine ethics translated into Arabic, Urdu and Russian languages in Lebanon, Pakistan and Russia was unveiled.
An overview of the life of Agha Mojtabi Tehrani
Agha Mojtabi Tehrani, who was born in Tehran in 1316 A.H., started his studies in religious sciences and seminary from his childhood and with the guidance and guidance of his honorable father, he migrated to holy Mashhad for four years.
This professor of ethics migrated to Qom after passing the level course in order to attend the fledgling seminary at that time and to complete the high level courses of the seminary, which in this day and age was attended by great scholars such as Imam Khomeini (RA), the late Ayat-e-Azam He understood Seyyed Hossein Boroujerdi, Seyed Mohammad Reza Golpayegani and the late Allameh Seyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabai.
With his genius and perseverance, he reached the level of ijtihad at a young age, and his academic acceptance with Imam Khomeini (RA) was such that the Imam allowed him to collect the narrations of the teaching of sale and publish it as an independent work. During these days, they compiled and published the book Makasab Mahramah of the Imam and two volumes of his basic messages.
After the death of Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi, Hazrat Imam Khomeini (RA) commissioned Agha Mojtabi Tehrani to compile the fatwa and prepare the first edition of his treatise on practices and rituals of Hajj, which was published in the same days and made available to imitators. Three years after the exile of Imam Khomeini (RA), Agha Mojtabi went to Najaf, but it did not last long that the Imam ordered him to be present in Tehran, so he returned to Iran in 1349.
Ayatollah Agha Mojtabi Tehrani, from that time until the victory of the glorious Islamic Revolution, performed congregational prayers in Jame Bazar Mosque and started teaching his higher levels in Tehran religious schools and took over the education and guidance of the people. This rabbinical scholar, after years of teaching for seminary students and conducting public meetings on ethics, joined the meeting of Allah in the morning of January 13, 1391.
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