Shining Sun; In Memory of ‘Allamah Tabataba’i (A Translation of “Mihr-i Taban”)
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Author: Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Husayni Tehrani
Translator: Tawus Raja
Publisher: ICAS Press
Category: Various Books
ISBN: 978-1-904063-40-7
Author: Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Husayni Tehrani
Translator: Tawus Raja
Publisher: ICAS Press
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Shining Sun; In Memory of ‘Allamah Tabataba’i (A Translation of “Mihr-i Taban”)
- Translator’s Introduction
- About the Book
- About the Author
- Closing Remarks
- Notes
- Part One
- 1. Introduction
- Notes
- 2. Memorial
- My First Encounter with ‘Allamah Tabataba’i
- A course on philosophy by ‘Allamah Tabataba’i
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s style of teaching
- ‘Allamah’s Review of the philosophical and mystical letters of Sayyid Ahmad Karbala’i and Shaykh Muhammad Husayn Gharawi Isfahani
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s eminence in knowledge and practice
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s spiritual master: Ayatollah Qadi
- ‘Allamah’s reverence and passion for Ayatollah Qadi
- ‘Allamah’s mystical education under the tutelage of his master, Mr Qadi
- The late Qadi’s style in spiritual training
- The virtues of Ayatollah Qadi
- The ancestors of the late Qadi and ‘Allamah Tabataba’i
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s brother and their childhood
- ‘Allamah’s wife
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s approach to philosophy
- ‘Allamah’s philosophical views
- The need to learn philosophy
- The verses of the Qur’an suggest the absolute unity of Allah
- Imam ‘Ali’s sermons concerning God’s absolute unity
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s discussion on God’s absolute unity
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s annotations on Bihar al-Anwar by ‘Allamah Majlisi
- The cessation of ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s annotations on Bihar al-Anwar
- Two of ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s annotations on Bihar al-Anwar
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s effort to unite the philosophies of the Orient and the Occident
- The composition and methodology of the al-Mizan exegesis
- The merits of al-Mizan over other exegeses
- Al-Mizan in Islamic schools and academic societies around the world
- Al-Mizan should be taught in the theological schools
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s interviews with Henry Corbin, Chair of Shi’a Studies at Sorbonne
- ‘Allamah’s publications
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s manners, ethics, and modesty
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s approach to mysticism (Sufism)
- ‘Allamah’s conduct and his attainment of divine realities
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s poetic talent
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s epics and odes
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s modesty toward the Infallibles
- ‘Allamah’s patience in difficulties
- Our men of knowledge have always endured insufficient livelihoods
- The reason for ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s immigration to Qum from Tabriz
- Ayatollah Burujirdi’s message to ‘Allamah and ‘Allamah’s reply
- ‘Allamah was a guard and refuge for the students
- Intellect, conscience, and religion
- The Qur’an and Hadith on the necessity to follow the intellect
- The Qur’an and hadith on the necessity to follow the heart and conscience
- Intellect, heart, and religion characterise the same reality
- The necessity to follow the intellect, spirit and religion in the Qur’an, narrations and supplications
- ‘Allamah Tabataba’i was a master of intellect, heart, and religion
- ‘Two parties break my back: an impudent scholar and an ignorant worshiper’
- Imam ‘Ali’s sermon in describing ‘men whom no purchase or sale distracteth from the remembrance of Allah’
- The states of ‘Allamah Tabataba’i toward the end of his noble life
- The passing, funeral and burial of ‘Allamah Tabataba’i
- Notes
- PART 2
- Introduction to Part Two
- Notes
- 3. Qur’anic Discourses
- ‘He frowned and turned away * Because the blind man came to him.’
- Verses of Chapter 74 (al-Muddaththir) about Walid ibn Mughirah
- The second reason why ‘He frowned and turned away’ does not refer to the Messenger of Allah
- Tiwal (‘lengthy’), mi’in (‘hundreds’), and mufassal (‘extended’) chapters
- Mutashabih (analogous) and mathani (repeated)
- Chapters with disjointed (muqatta’ah) letters
- The Messenger of Allah was himself a miracle
- The meaning of ahqaf
- The verse, ‘And of the earth like them’
- ‘And His Throne goes back on water’
- ‘Then a wall will be set up between them...’
- In the Qur’an, ni’mah always refers to wilayah
- Ni’mah and na’im mean wilayah
- ‘For the benefit of you and your livestock’
- The Qur’anic addresses starting with qul (say)
- Ayat al-Kursi is just the first verse
- ‘Say: each behaves according to his formation’
- ‘Truly man was created intolerant..... save those that pray’
- Intercession is for the believers with major sins
- Prophet Abraham’s asking forgiveness for his uncle, Azar
- Azar was Prophet Abraham’s uncle and not his father
- The extermination of the tribe of Thamud and the people of Madyan
- Notes
- 4. Philosophical Discourses
- An intellectual discussion in refutation of the Trinity
- The Qur’an’s rejection of the Trinity
- The contradiction between unity and trinity
- Real unity and plurality cannot apply to the same subject
- The true sense of God’s unity of Essence
- The philosophers’ gradation of being concerning God’s unity
- Gradation of being and unity of the gnostics
- Gradation contradicts the absoluteness of God’s existence
- The personal unity of God’s existence
- Aversion of the infidels’ hearts from God’s unity
- ‘Rivalry in worldly increase distracted you * Until you visited the graves’
- The problem with gradation of being
- Gradation of being and tawhid of the gnostics
- Real tawhid is only that of the gnostics
- The reality of God’s unity
- Adequate elucidation on the gradation and unity of being
- God’s Essence transcends all names, identities, and determinations
- What is meant by manifestation (tajalli)?
- ‘The soul is bodily in origination and spiritual in subsistence’
- Man’s creation originates from the earth
- The stages of man’s transformations in transubstantial motion
- Man’s arcs of ascent and descent toward perfection
- Subsistence of permanent archetypes in God’s Essence upon annihilation
- The meaning of ‘inniyyah’ in Hallaj’s poem
- The verse, ‘Say: my Lord hath only prohibited indecencies, whether inward or outward’
- Every immaterial species is unique
- Gabriel’s unity and his connection with the many beings of this world
- Annihilation, immolation, nonexistence, and relinquishing one’s determination
- All beings proceed to annihilation; there is nothing but Allah; ‘There is no he but Him’
- If the Permanent Archetypes are eradicated, a being cannot exist in God
- ‘Allamah’s own poems regarding annihilation in God
- Annihilation and the burning of the butterfly and the mother in fire
- The realms of blackness, imagination and whiteness prostrate for Allah, Exalted He is
- Gnostic ideas of Muhyi al-Din, Ibn al-Farid, and Hafiz Shirazi
- Subsistence of the noun upon annihilation
- There must be a Zayd when we say, ‘Zayd became annihilated’
- ‘And thou threwest not when thou threwest, but Allah threw’
- Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyyah and the subsistence of the Permanent Archetypes upon annihilation
- Transformation of the quiddities, and ‘Whose is the kingdom today? It is Allah’s, the One, the Dominant’
- The verse, ‘And unto Him you are overturned’
- There is some subject in every type of annihilation, and that is the Permanent Archetype
- Annihilation is one’s obliteration in God’s Being, removal of the determinations, and God’s observation of His own beauty
- The true unity of God’s Essence is beyond all confinements
- The ‘known provision’ of mukhlasin
- The impermanence of physical and spiritual imposed movements
- Notes
- 5. Mystical Discourses
- ‘Unless through revelation or from behind a veil or by sending an emissary’
- Revelation of the Qur’an to the Prophet
- The different types and stages of revelation were due to the different states and circumstances
- ‘And he speaketh not out of desire * It is naught but a revelation that is revealed’
- Imam ‘Ali’s dream of Hadrat Khidr and his teaching of the Greatest Name
- The late Qadi and tawhid
- Monotheistic states of the late Qadi
- God’s Unity of Actions
- The Prophet’s station of subsistence after annihilation
- The marvels (irhas) of the Imams
- The Imams’ playing games in childhood
- The rise of Imam Mahdi
- Notes
- 6. Scientific Discourses
- The creation of the angels and the Holy Spirit
- The spirit and the angels
- The first thing that Allah created
- The impact of supplication and the role of the angels in its acceptance
- Barzakh is for everyone
- The realm of barzakh starts right after one’s death
- Heaven and hell currently exist
- The speaking of ruwaybidah and the emergence of Ya’juj and Ma’juj
- The Messenger of Allah was also the prophet of the jinn
- The science of abjad Letters and its branches
- Tayy al-ard and the beginning of Chapter Ta-Ha
- The late Qadi’s inquiry about Prophet Solomon’s flying in the air
- The stages of tayy al-ard and its reality
- ‘The name should delight you’; ‘And truly of his followers was Abraham’
- Hurr al-’Amili: ‘The Prophet’s knowledge is inherited from the previous prophets’
- The universality of the resolute prophets (ulu al-’azm)
- Prophet Moses was sent to Pharaoh, a non-Israelite
- Attributing actions to the Supreme Truth; ‘So that Allah may know who supporteth Him and His messengers unseen’
- All actions are subject to God’s permission and decree
- Allah attributes actions to people, but denies their independence
- Notes
- 7. Historical Discourses
- Abrogation in the Noble Qur’an and its possibility based on the religion and the intellect
- Islam as the abrogator of the other religions
- The scribes of revelation
- The different recitations of the Qur’an are narrated from the Messenger of Allah
- ‘The King of the Day of Judgment’ is more inclusive and pertinent than ‘The Owner of the Day of Judgment’
- Compilation of the Qur’an by ‘Uthman, and the death of Ibn Mas’ud
- The Qur’an of Imam ‘Ali
- Why is the name of Imam ‘Ali not mentioned in the Qur’an
- The Qur’an has not been distorted
- The displacement of the Verse of Purification
- The change of qiblah, and the Prophet’s qiblah in Mecca
- Revelation of the Torah to Prophet Moses
- Revelation of the Gospel to Prophet Jesus
- The Apostles of Prophet Jesus, and monasticism
- Prophet Joseph was a mukhlas
- Platonism
- Notes
- 8. Epilogue
- ‘Allamah’s endurance of allegations and difficulties in the way of Allah
- ‘Allamah’s brilliant ode on loving Allah
- Notes
- Notes on Prominent Figures Cited in the Book
- Glossary of Key Transliterated Terms
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