CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE SHIITE OF THE WORLD ON THE OCCASION OF BIRTHDAY OF IMAM SADEGH PEACE BE UPON HIM

The prosperous birthday of Imam Jafar Sadegh (peace be upon him) on Monday, 17^th day of Rabiolaval, the year: 83 (lunar calendar) the same with birthday of holy prophet (peace be upon him and his progeny). His sacred name was Jafar, his family name was Abdollah  and he was well known as Saber, Fazel, Taher, Sadegh, mostly known as Sadegh.

Ibn Babouyeh and Ghotb Ravandi have narrated that Hazrat Imam Zeynolabedin was asked who was the Imam coming after him? He prescribed: “Mohammad Bagher who splits sciences, so properly”. Then he was asked, who will be the next Imam? He prescribed: “Jafar, who is named Sadegh at heavens”. He was asked why the Imam was named Sadegh, while all Imams are honest people and tell truths. He stated: “I was announced by my father, who was announced by his father, the prophet who prescribed: “when my son Jafar ibn Mohammad ibn Ali inb Hossein (p.b.u.h.) was born, he was named Sadegh, because his fifth son will be named Jafar who will claim falsely that he is Imam and he will be considered by God as Jafar Kazab (the false)¹.

Imam Sadegh (p.b.u.h.) is the first among all the Islamic leaders who decided to make known God to Muslims through sciences. To make known God to the people, Imam did not suffice to the decrees of religion, but he tried to reflect to the people the field of science so that the Muslims know more about the world where they live, and enjoying knowledge of the new facts of the world², they might know better that a knowledgeable creator had created the world and He administers the world upon fixed regulations. Imam Sadegh (p.b.u.h.) stated in this respect: “Those who deny God or doubt existence of God, are ignorant and the one who is aware, shall not deny God, since science is not limited. The more one is knowledgeable, the more he will know God. Not only the human beings know God, but also all the creatures of the world know God and worship Him, but, each group of creatures of the world, know God in a way ³.”

Further, Imam Sadegh (p.b.u.h.) stated: “Science is the principle of all the good properties and the origin of all the god works, and whoever does not have science and is not aware of decrees of the religion, even if has good acts, but his deed is defective and one who has committed it is gull⁴ and his act will be void⁵.

Whenever he wanted to introduce prophet of Islam or one of his ancestors, Imam Sadegh (p.b.u.h.) would introduce them as an ordinary man and he was never mentioning that they had divine aspects and never said that they were superior to the ordinary men and never exaggerated their spiritual privileges⁶.

Imam Sadegh (p.b.u.h.) prescribed: God of the world will be satisfied if the people love the prophet & Imams and obey them and will be furious if the people deny them. God of the World has ordered all the people to follow the religion of their prophet and prescribed: “I, God, do does not accept any obedience or any step, except for obedience of the prophets, i.e. acceptance of my obedience depends on following the prophets and bending against me depends on bending against the prophets, knowledge of my respect and glory, is related to knowledge of glory and rank of the prophets and knowledge of the fact that what is their rank with me, who is God. So, all the prophets from Adam (p.b.u.h.) to Mohammad (p.b.u.h.) should be respected  and their ranks should not be compared with those of the ordinary people⁷.

Imam Sadegh (p.b.u.h.) asked the people: “Why do you bother prophet of God (p.b.u.h.)? the people asked: “How do we bother him?” he said: “Your actions are presented to him; when he witnesses a sin, he is bothered, do not bother him, make him happy⁸.

In Basaer Aldarajat it has been narrated from Mohammad Ibn Moslem on behalf of Imam Bagher (p.b.u.h.) who said: “I asked him if the prophet (p.b.u.h.) is also subject to performance of the decrees. He said: doubtlessly, haven’t you read in verse: 105 of sura: Toubeh as: do what you wish, make haste because God and his prophet will witness you and your action⁹.

The above verse makes the people take care of their actions and do not forget that there are realities for their good and bad acts which shall by no means keep secret and for all the human beings there are some guards who make aware of their acts and find the reality. The guards include prophet of God and the faithful people, witnesses¹⁰ of actions of the creatures and God will overlook the people. Thus, both Almighty God and they themselves will observe the actions and soon, God will reveal the realities to those who committed it, as he prescribed: You ignored it at this world, now we put out curtains from your heart, so you are surprised today. (sura: Ghaf/verse: 22)¹¹.