جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « زائر » در نشریات گروه « ادیان و عرفان »

Pilgrimage has been the point of interest to Muslims since the early Islam. The practical and verbal recommendation of the Messenger of Allah the pilgrimage shows the legitimacy and necessity of it from the Islamic viewpoint. The ample of evidence cited from reliable Shia and Sunni sources, particularly the works by Imam Muhammad Ghazali about the Barzakh (purgatory) life, the possibility of bilateral relationships between the deads and linvings mainly during the pilgrimage and the  influence exerted by pilgrim’s praying and charitable deeds on the deceased person on the Mazur (he who the pligrimage is made to) are strong grounds on which the viewpoints of Wahhabi scholars can be criticized. They deny and reject the said relationship and influence even though they acknowledge the existence of purgatory lives of the deads. In the present study, some relevant narratives, which are accepted by Wahhabi scolars will be presented. Then, their stance to reject and deny the relationship between the deceased and living people,particularly the pilgrim and the one to whom the pilgrimage is made, as well as the inconsistency of this view with the said narratives will be critically analyzed.

Using an analytical and theoretical approach, this research aims to demonstrate the status of pilgrimage in Catholicism and in Shi’ism and underlines the similarities and differences between them. According to the Catholic Church, the church is regarded as God’s house and a place for holding religious rituals. The churches, convents and places of pilgrimage are the proper places for man to establish relations with God. In Shi’ism, building shrines in the site of the graves of the friends of God is given special attention and considering God’s friends as a means for intercession and meditation with God, the pious think that they can get God’s blessing through them. Both the Shi’a and the Catholic attempt to make their followers have a deep sense of pilgrimage and perform it as a kind of mystic rite. The main concern of the two religions is dissociation from this world and seeking for the eternal world. The main difference between the Catholic and the Shi’a about the concept of being pilgrim-like to the heavenly city of Jerusalem in Catholic is that pilgrimage in Catholicism, means living strangely on the land which has its root in such beliefs like the First Sin, Jesus Cross and the ascent of Jerusalem to sky. Shi’ism rejects such a doctrine.

Death is a fact that no one can not escape from it. And to save mankind or delay of death has not been detected any way and will not find. But what makes this truth easy is to discover quality and manner of death. Some deaths are proud-making and prosperous like the death in the revival of the religion of Allah that grants the state of martyrdom. Some deaths although are not to the extent and degree of the martyrs of jihad arena, but since occurred on the divine path, God has treated it as a migrated to God, and its reward will be guaranteed by Himself. One of the deaths on the right paths which is hailed and praised in the traditions of the imams (a) is a death in the Hajj way and the Two Holy Mosques of Mecca and Medina. The one who dies with the features is mentioned as forgiven, protected from the Great horror, relaxed, enjoying a heaven death, and having no account and doom of Resurrection day and the cited traits are the features and examples of such a death.