فصلنامه فرهنگ رضوی
سال یکم شماره 4 (زمستان 1392)

A glance at Razavi narratives shows that Imam Reza rectified people’s false beliefs regarding God. Most people had humanly perceptions of divine attributes. For them, God would become angry the way men did. Negating anthropomorphism of God, Imam Reza defined attributes such as guile, ridicule, ruse, knowledge, etc in a way that they would not create any imperfection in God. Besides, a practical method is evident for proof of God in Razavi narratives. He also answered the question of secrecy and divine Ehtejab and ascribed it to human sins. Today in religious philosophy, discussions such as proof of God, language of religion and divine secrecy are among the most dynamic ones and various theories are presented about them. These indicate that taking into account the Prophet (PBUH) and Imams’ narratives including Razavi ones can provide grounds for more accurate presentation of theoretical beliefs in modern language.

One of Shia’s most important questions is Imams’ positions toward Alavian’s political movements against various Abbasid caliphs. This article examines the contexts for the rise of Abbasid and the situations under their Caliphate. It also explores Imam Reza’s position toward Alavian political movements. To analyze Imam Reza’s position, an understanding of political and historical conditions during the Abbasid and the situation of Alavian during this period is required. Thus, Alavian’s most important political movements since the rise of the Abbasid (including Mansour’s caliphate and the uprising of Nafs Zakia, establishment of advocacy organization, Hadi’s caliphate and the uprising of Hossein-ibn-Ali-Ibn-Hassan, Haroun’s caliphate and the foundation of Edrissian government, Alavian during Amin’s and Mamoun’s caliphates) as well as Imams’ positions toward these movements are explored. At the end of this discussion, Alavian’s movements during Imam Reza’s Imamate are particularly explored.

Imam Reza Cultural and Artistic Festival is held annually with the presence of national and international participants in various fields. Its blogging field can be a suitable subject for communication study. This article first explores blogging section in Razavi Festival and introduces density of information resulting from large number of blogs as damage. It then examines and analyses the presented criteria and shows that message and its subsidiary indicators are ignored by officials in charge and as a result, some blogs that are not rich enough in terms of content are awarded as the select ones which has led to a gap between the elite youth and such festivals.

Ahl-al-Bayt’s behavior and speech are the best source for understanding the true nature of Ashura, Imam Hussein’s personality aspects and the duties of Muslims and Shiites. Imam Reza endeavored a lot to reveal religious identity, Ashura lessons and messages and duties and responsibilities of Muslims. Therefore, Razavi Hadiths regarding Ashura are credible and reliable sources for studying and benefiting from the revolution of Ashura. With a descriptiveanalytical method, this article seeks to reveal aspects to Imam Hussein’s personality and the responsibilities of Muslims regarding him according to Imam Reza’s Hadiths. Translations and analyses of these Hadiths are presented into two categories of “Imam Hussein’s Characteristics” and “Responsibilities and Duties of Imam Hussein’s Followers” and offered to researchers of Imam Hussein’s uprising. The purpose of this article is to recognize Imam Hussein’s epic according to Imam Reza’s Hadiths in reliable hadith sources, to model Imam Hussein’s words and actions and to move in the direction of growth and perfection.

Betrayal and also dissension, which was once synonymous with betrayal and is regarded as “the peak of betrayal” in narratives, are highly denounced and condemned in Islamic culture. This indicates Islam’s emphasis on sincerity among Muslims. Encouraging and directing to bailment as in contrary with betrayal in Islamic teachings are measurements to prevent such behavior among individuals and to maintain integrity of the society. The question this article raises is as people’s guide and leader appointed by God, “how did Imam Reza (PBUH) deter people from this damage” especially since the Islamic society was experiencing an atmosphere of severe repression during his Imamate. This article reviews the concepts and instances of betrayal from Imam Reza’s viewpoint and introduces his helpful guidelines in this regard. The significance of this issue comes from the fact that protecting religious and cultural boundaries is as essential as geographic ones and preventing this condemned behavior from spreading in the society is in fact protecting cultural boundaries of the society, strengthening social relations and maintaining people’s spiritual health.

Although it was not an unprecedented issue to name a person from Ahl-al-Bayt as the last Imam and Expected Mahdi, a group of Shiites considered Imam Kazem (PBUH) as Expected Mahgi and Qa’em and thus rejected his demise and refused to accept Imam Reza as the next Imam. They were known as Waqifite. Since they posed a serious threat to Shia’s noble mentality, Imam Reza paid special attention to them and allocated much time and effort to deal with their issue. Thus, analyzing the nature of this incident and those involved has been a subject of interest for the researchers and analysts of Islamic studies. Although remarkable and valuable literature has so far been authored regarding introducing this faction, an analysis on the mutual relations and positions between Imam Reza and Waqifite is less accounted for. With descriptive -analytical method and in library-collection manner, this article examines the issue of Waqifite on two main bases: 1) What Waqifite is and who they are; 2) how Imam Reza confronted them.