DIVINE CHARACTERSITCS OF MAN

There are divine characteristics in man, such as brevity, generosity, chastity, etc. and if man use them on time, to the definite amount, necessary, it will be correct and suitable and if he exceeds his limits and apply them diversely, it will be harmful and wrong. There are some characteristics quite contrary which means going to the extremities. For example, brevity is a very nice habit, a mean borer, a state of equability between two improper borders of cowardice and audacity.

If there is shortage of brevity, it is cowardice and fear, which are evil characteristics. If there is excess of brevity, it is daring, which is wrong. Man should keep this characteristics balanced. Do not let it fall to reach cowardice or to go up to reach daring.

Chastity is a very good characteristic. If it is weaker than its proper limit, it will reach the state of torpid, dull, languishing which is bad and improper. If it is stronger than its limit, it will reach daring and divulgence which is evil and reprehensible. Man should take care of himself, not to fall, not to reach the stage of divulgence, where the good habit will die and an improper state appears in man and man’s life will change into a rotten life.

But, the force existing in man, through which he keeps balance among the characteristics, is intelligence. And because of being aware of the interests and the loss and due to enjoying the benefits and bothering the harm of the objects, he will chain the evil characteristics and will avoid their movement and their appearance and as long as intelligence performs its job and fulfills its duties which is ordering such powers, none of them will exceed their borders and will emerge, but, since, among all the people, man – with no exception- even in the pious and knowledgeable men- the origin and roots of such characteristics do not remove, but the seeds will stay at the hearts, waiting for proper opportunities and fields to grow, when such a field is found and time is suitable for growth, they will immediately attack to tread the queen of piety, knowledge, and foresight, to rise in man.

Anyhow, if man is content to this limit of knowledge and piety, to avoid crime and fine only for his external benefits, if he can not destroy the principle of corruption in himself and can not uproot bad characteristics such as greed, avarice, cowardice, daring, niggardliness, dissipation, etc. he has not yet reached the rank of a real man. He is obedient and surrounds like an animal which is chained, and when he is free, he will do every act.

If he avoids lie, selling underweight, iniquity, adultery, etc when he is awake, when he sleeps and there is no more any external benefit, such evil characteristics will rise to create a scene of obscenity. For instance, he dreams adultery, expediency, ambition, outrage, crime and when he gets up, he is much surprised, thinking what is the relation of such dreams with him, being unaware of the fact that the roots and origins of corruptions still lie inside himself, hiding themselves among the angels of his soul to emerge at a proper time to attain its destiny.

The prophets and Imams (peace be upon them), the pious men approaching Almighty God will totally empty their hearts of all evil characteristics and corruptions and remove the seeds from the farm of their hearts. Owing to graces of God they have received a type of science and knowledge and enjoying the knowledge there will remain no opportunity for the evil acts. Such a science and foresight will burn immediately the evil characteristics and will remove them totally. The will destroy the principle of greed, avarice, niggardliness, and during the whole term of their lives, even once, even at the highest proper fields, such an evil act will not appear to them. In this way, such a property and substance of the heart, existing in such people, will not let them even dream of sin or imaging sin when they awake.

For the pious men approaching God, the sin will not emerge even in a moment. If they live lonely for many years and if there is possibility of sin at the highest and the most proper points, even if no man would be aware of it, if everything has been  arranged for sin, they shall not by any means think about sin and such people have only been excluded of general emergence of instincts. The science God has bestowed to them for their efforts and for resisting in the path of God, what they have obtained for the light at their hearts, is not of the same type of the ordinary sciences, but it is a special science with a special quality, having been interpreted at holy Koran as the soul of God.

“We also inspired you our order and before that you have not been aware of truth of the Book and the Secrets of the World Created and of the Divine Knowledge, We placed this soul as a light to guide by which whomever of our deserved creatures we wish.”  (Sura: Shora, verse: 52)

This light is the same as soul of God, having entered the heart of man to alter the state of heart. It will keep man of whatever except God and will join him to God and this is the rank of piety and infallibility of the prophets and the pious Imams.

Here it should be known the fact that in such a rank, self is not totally destroyed, but it is quite obedient and will find no opportunity to disobey and to violate. At this state, the people near to God find the best capital from God and the dearest divine grace, because here self is certain and deserves looking towards the tomb of God.

“God has guided them, the guidance of God for His special creatures, whom He wants to guide.”  Sura: Anam, verse: 89

After a verse, He prescribes:

“They are the people, who have been guided by Almighty God and you should guide them too.”   Sura: Anam, verse: 91

These two verses are used to show that God has guided the prophets. Again He prescribes:

“One whom God deviates and does not bestow to him, His graces, shall find no one to guide him and one who is guided by God, shall find no one to deviate him.”  Sura: Zamar, verse: 36

He prescribes: Whomever is guided by God, has found the correct path.”  Sura: Kahf, verse: 17

These two verses are used to show that those who are guided by God have found the correct path and no satanic provoke will effect them. If all the world are gathered, might not deviate them or impact on their will, sciences, options, or shake them.

On the other part, He prescribes:

“Thou! Son of Adam! Did not I ask you not to follow Satan, not to worship him? He is your obvious enemy. Follow Me. Worship Me. This is the direct path. Indeed, Satan has deviated many people, many tribes. Don’t you think? “ (Sura: Yasin, verses: 60-62)

In this verse, following Satan has been interpreted as deviation and fall. Thus, as the aforesaid verses indicate, God guided the prophets, and whomever is guided by God, will not be deviated or corrupted by anyone. According to this verse, deviation means following Satan, being sinful, considering anything not true, being influenced by evil self. Since, no one will misguide the prophets, thus, there is for them no Satanic excitation, no self stimulation, no sin, no guilt and this is the meaning of infallibility.

Thus, these three sets of Koran verses clearly prove guidance to God’s path.