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1402/12/11 Ethics and Spirituality

Political Humility: How to Treat the Enemy in Faith and Politics

Instructor: Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) • Soroush-e Bamdadan Cultural Center • 60 views
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تواضع سیاسی: بررسی رفتار با دشمن در دیانت و سیاست

Explanatory Audio Response by His Eminence Master Ali Saei (Meshkat-e Noor)
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▫️ Political Humility
◽️ Weekly Session on the Exegesis of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (Supplication 20)
📆 Date: 1402/12/10
📌 Meshkat-e Noor Session
👤 Lecture by Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the topics discussed:
🌼 Humility in matters of religion and politics
🌼 Is it permissible to show humility toward an enemy?
🌼 Recognising and ranking one’s enemies
🌼 Enemies who wage war and those who do not
🌼 Considering whether an enemy is rational or ignorant
🌼 Every enemy’s smile is deceit and treachery
🌼 Smiling at an enemy as a political tactic
🌼 Is it permissible to show humility toward an enemy?
🌼 Trusting an enemy’s smile is foolish
🌼 Different kinds of enemies
🌼 How Moses and Aaron dealt with Pharaoh, their avowed enemy
🌼 The Muhammadan gentleness that guides humanity
🌼 How the Messenger of Compassion treated an enemy who waged war
🌼 Humility as a form of deception
⤴️ Next session’s topic: The strategic benefits of humility

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Master Ali Saei

(Abdullah Meshkat) Researcher and commentator on Shi‘i wisdom and the foundations of divine unity

A researcher specializing in religious studies and divine unity, with a particular focus on the Qur’an and Hadith (the Two Weighty Things). His research has centered primarily on the Qur’an and Hadith; in recent years, he has also explored divine unity and critiques of philosophical viewpoints.

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