جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « محبت به خدا » در نشریات گروه « فلسفه و کلام »

Love of God the Almighty can bring the eternal happiness and enjoyment. Therefore, it is highly important to study the otherworldly effects of love of God. Using a thematic interpretation method and focusing on the commentaries of the Holy Qur’an particularly Al-Mizan, this paper seeks to study the otherworldly effects of love of God. The findings show that, not only the love of God has several impacts on the worldly life, it has several effects on the otherworldly life. In the eternal house, the lover of God attains blessings such as, forgiveness, rescuing from the hell fire, attaining the heavenly blessings, divine satisfaction and fulfilling the desires.

The present paper elaborates on Imam Sajjad's Munajat al-Muhebbin (intimate supplication of lovers). Those who have not attained the understanding of friendship with God do not understand the value of intimate supplication and spiritual stations, but those who have attained pure monotheistic knowledge not only have a true understanding of love for God, but also believe that there is essentially nothing lovable but God. If they love anything, they love because it is attributed to God. The Most High God has a special relationship with His friends and servants; he talks with them in private and in public, and addresses their spirit with His gentle words. One's friendship with God always leads to friendship with His friends and saints. It is impossible for one to love God without loving His friends and saints. Love for God resides in man's heart when he roots out from his heart the love for other than God.

"Love" for God has some effects and requirements. God's friends suffer discomfort who due to the problems and troubles of worldly life and distance from the beloved, eagerly seek for His neighborhood, good-pleasure and nearness. They, hereby, reach the shore of solace, and turbulent worldly life and the hardships they face in this world never make them attached to this world. They find joy in their obedience to God, invocation and calling upon God in meekness, and they give nothing in return for these spiritual states. Wailing and groaning are sometimes ascribed to the troubles of life and sometimes to joy and happiness. God's pure servants often groan and lament out of yearning to and happiness of meeting the beloved for fear of being bereft of this state, due to the fact that their hearts are replete with the love of God and lurch before His might and majesty.

The present paper which is a commentary on Imam Sajjad's Munajat Al-Muridin (the intimate communication of devotees) by professor 'Allamah Misbah deals with love and attending to it. Some degrees of love which are essential for faith in God are obligatory and some others are recommended. The devotees are those God-seeking individuals who want to draw nigh to God. One of the signs of love towards God is that lover likes to frequently hear his/her beloved's name and is interested in those things attributed to God. The other one is love towards God's saints and prophets. The signs of God's beloved are: repentance, purity, self-sacrifice in the way of God.

The present paper elaborates on Imam Sajjad's Munajat al- Moridin (whispered prayer of the devotees). In this part of the whispered prayer, Imam Sajjad refers to the highest degree of love and ardent love. The question that arises here is: Is the love of God something obligatory or something recommended and a virtue? The answer is: there are different types of love. The first is the belief in God which is of the essence in love. If one claims belief in God but ignores His decrees and does not abide by the obligations, then his belief in God is by no means true.The other type is the love whose obligatory preliminary and desirability has instrumental and unfair aspects. The type of love of God that stimulates one to do the obligations and abstain from sins is, in terms of obligatory preliminary, logically necessary.Also, love of God has recommended levels. However, the highest level of love of God is that in which one believes that all kinds of perfection belong to God and there is no independent beyond the divine perfection.