چکیده:
Concerning purpose of man’s creation there, at least, can be two viewpoints. First, man has no purpose but to participate in the competition of gathering wealth, reaching high ranks in the society, and taking power ignoring all human virtues and principles, as if he would live for good and death would never capture him. This is the practical conduct of human beings in general. The second is that of divine religions which stands in opposition to the first. The present essay is an attempt to describe the second viewpoint in a literally fashion, focusing on the words of the Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali.
در خصوص هدف افرینش انسان حداقل دو دیدگاه می تواند وجود داشته باشد. یکی
اینکه انسان هدفی جز شرکت در مسابقه گرداوری مال، دستیابی به مقامات بالای
اجتماعی، و به دست گرفتن قدرت ندارد و در این راه میتواند تمامی ارزشها و اصول
انسانی را نادیده بگیرد؛ گویی جاودانه خواهد زیست و مرگ هیچگاه بر او چیره نخواهد
شد. دیدگاه دیگر، دیدگاه الهی دینی است که نقطه مقابل دیدگاه اول به شمار
می رود. مقاله حاضر میکوشد با تمرکز بر سخنان امیرالمومنین علیه السلام دیدگاه
دوم و مشخصه های ان را با سبکی ادبی تبیین کند.
خلاصه ماشینی:
First, man has no purpose but to participate in the competition of gathering wealth, reaching high ranks in the society, and taking power ignoring all human virtues and principles, as if he would live for good and death would never capture him.
Such thick dust covering our hearts shall not disappear but with the file of knowledge and cognition, of this world and the hereafter: remembering death.
Indeed, instead of pondering and dealing with such matters that shape the ultimate purpose of his creation, he indulges in the endless longings of this world, and out of avarice he does not feel content by achieving one goal and aims for a greater one, coming to his senses only when the messenger of death knocks on his door and he has lost everything!
Once you think about death and remember it, persist in doing so, engrave upon your heart the truths mentioned so far and shall be said later, and believe that you are a captive in the powerful claws of death and it might unexpectedly take you away and leave for others what you have gathered with much effort, the love for this world shall definitely depart from you heart and be replaced by a feeling of dislike.
It is due to the said truth that the holy Prophet (S) replied thus when asked about the cleverest among believers: “It is one who remembers death more often and is ahead of others in preparing himself for it.