The Narcissist Is in Love with Himself
«Narcissism is a preoccupation with the self and a neglect of realities that drives a person to sacrifice both himself and others. This trait prevents one from recognising the truth, leads to submission to Satan and the lower self, and brings about spiritual and social decline.»
🌼The Narcissist Sacrifices Everyone for Themselves🌼
🌷🔅Attention and Focus
🌿Attention commandeers a person’s focus and makes them oblivious to what lies beyond its reach!
🌿A person inhabits their own attentions, dwells within their focus, and is enslaved to what they love.
🌿In the End Times, people’s attention is taken captive.
🌿The ignorant lover’s beloved is the very essence of ignorance.
🌿Fixating on falsehood leads one to neglect what is true and real.
🌿Fixation on ignorant narcissists draws a person away from the community of truth.
🌿Narcissism allows Satan and the lower self, in the absence of reason—the lamp that guides the human soul toward truth—to distort realities and lead a person’s tastes, judgment, and choices astray.
🌿Focusing on darkness blinds a person and makes them heedless of the light!
🌿How should we view the world? How should we think? How should we distinguish truth from falsehood? We need a heart illumined by God’s radiance, by the light of the Two Weighty Things!
🌿Let us see through the Qur’an and behold the world with our Imam of the Age!
🌿The whole world has arrayed itself against our Imam of the Age, seeking to prevent his light from shining upon the world.
🌿All peoples of every age, with all their wickedness, have united against Imam Mahdi, peace be upon him.
🌿In the age of modern ignorance, the blind have become guides to the blind.
🌿The leaders of disbelief are leaders of ignorance and darkness; their ministers are ignorant people who have made a name for themselves!
🌿The bomb of ignorance is deadlier than any other bomb.
🌿In the End Times, devils tamper with people’s hearts.
🌿The devils strive to turn human nature upside down—or to impose their own course upon it!
🌿When deception is complete, it alters the very structure of a person.
🌿The immediate and gradual poisoning caused by ignorance is among the common afflictions of the End Times.
🌷🔅Vanity and Fame
🌿A scholar’s vanity brings the world to ruin.
🌿Vanity is directly related to ignorance and inversely related to knowledge.
🌿An ignorant narcissist, and admiration for narcissists, are proof of compounded ignorance.
🌿Vanity sets noble virtues ablaze and puts knowledge at risk.
🌿The fame of fame-seekers must be dismantled if society is to find peace.
🌿The pursuit of fame begins with clothing and extends to one’s mount, home, frivolous entertainments, and beyond.
🌿Even the pursuit of fame through worship is blameworthy.
🌿Identifying with celebrities fuels the market for fame.
🌿A society led by fame-seekers sinks toward bestiality.
🌿The pursuit of fame travels from light to darkness, from virtue to vice, and finally to defilement and impurity.
🌸🔅ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص: عَصَى اللَّهَ إِبْلِيسُ، فَهَلَكَ لِمَا كَانَ مَعْصِيَتُهُ بِالْكِبْرِ عَلَى آدَمَ وَ عَصَى اللَّهَ آدَمُ بِأَكْلِ الشَّجَرَةِ، فَسَلِمَ وَ لَمْ يَهْلِكْ لِمَا لَمْ يُقَارِنْ بِمَعْصِيَتِهِ التَّكَبُّرَ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ الطَّيِّبِينَ، وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى قَالَ لَهُ:
“يَا آدَمُ عَصَانِي فِيكَ إِبْلِيسُ، وَ تَكَبَّرَ عَلَيْكَ فَهَلَكَ، وَ لَوْ تَوَاضَعَ لَكَ بِأَمْرِي، وَ عَظَّمَ عِزَّ جَلَالِي لَأَفْلَحَ كُلَ الْفَلَاحِ كَمَا أَفْلَحْتَ، وَ أَنْتَ عَصَيْتَنِي بِأَكْلِ الشَّجَرَةِ، وَ بِالتَّوَاضُعِ لِمُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ تُفْلِحُ كُلَ الْفَلَاحِ، وَ تَزُولُ عَنْكَ وَصْمَةُ الذِّلَّةِ فَادْعُنِي بِمُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ الطَّيِّبِينَ لِذَلِكَ”.
فَدَعَا بِهِمْ، فَأَفْلَحَ كُلَّ الْفَلَاحِ- لِمَا تُمْسِكُ بِعُرْوَتِنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ.
A Commentary Attributed to Imam Hasan al-Askari (peace be upon him); vol. 1, p. 38 Hasan ibn Ali, the eleventh Imam; 1 volume; Imam Mahdi School, may God hasten his noble return—Qom, Iran; first edition, 1409 AH.
🌸🔅 عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ كَانَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع يَقُولُ يَا طَالِبَ الْعِلْمِ إِنَّ الْعِلْمَ ذُو فَضَائِلَ كَثِيرَةٍ فَرَأْسُهُ التَّوَاضُعُ وَ عَيْنُهُ الْبَرَاءَةُ مِنَ الْحَسَدِ وَ أُذُنُهُ الْفَهْمُ وَ لِسَانُهُ الصِّدْقُ وَ حِفْظُهُ الْفَحْصُ وَ قَلْبُهُ حُسْنُ النِّيَّةِ وَ عَقْلُهُ مَعْرِفَةُ الْأَشْيَاءِ وَ الْأُمُورِ وَ يَدُهُ الرَّحْمَةُ وَ رِجْلُهُ زِيَارَةُ الْعُلَمَاءِ وَ هِمَّتُهُ السَّلَامَةُ وَ حِكْمَتُهُ الْوَرَعُ وَ مُسْتَقَرُّهُ النَّجَاةُ وَ قَائِدُهُ الْعَافِيَةُ وَ مَرْكَبُهُ الْوَفَاءُ وَ سِلَاحُهُ لِينُ الْكَلِمَةِ “3” وَ سَيْفُهُ الرِّضَا وَ قَوْسُهُ الْمُدَارَاةُ وَ جَيْشُهُ مُحَاوَرَةُ الْعُلَمَاءِ وَ مَالُهُ الْأَدَبُ وَ ذَخِيرَتُهُ اجْتِنَابُ الذُّنُوبِ وَ زَادُهُ الْمَعْرُوفُ وَ مَاؤُهُ الْمُوَادَعَةُ وَ دَلِيلُهُ الْهُدَى- وَ رَفِيقُهُ مَحَبَّةُ الْأَخْيَارِ.
Al-Kafi (Islamic edition); vol. 1, p. 48 Kulayni, Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq; 8 volumes; Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya—Tehran; fourth edition, 1407 AH.
🌸🔅عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: إِذَا رَأَيْتُمُ الْعَالِمَ مُحِبّاً لِدُنْيَاهُ فَاتَّهِمُوهُ عَلَى دِينِكُمْ فَإِنَّ كُلَّ مُحِبٍّ لِشَيْءٍ يَحُوطُ مَا أَحَبَ وَ قَالَ ص أَوْحَى اللَّهُ إِلَى دَاوُدَ ع لَا تَجْعَلْ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَكَ عَالِماً مَفْتُوناً بِالدُّنْيَا فَيَصُدَّكَ عَنْ طَرِيقِ مَحَبَّتِي فَإِنَّ أُولَئِكَ قُطَّاعُ طَرِيقِ عِبَادِيَ الْمُرِيدِينَ إِنَّ أَدْنَى مَا أَنَا صَانِعٌ بِهِمْ أَنْ أَنْزِعَ حَلَاوَةَ مُنَاجَاتِي عَنْ قُلُوبِهِمْ.
Al-Kafi (Islamic edition); vol. 1, p. 46 Kulayni, Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq; 8 volumes; Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya—Tehran; fourth edition, 1407 AH.
🌸🔅 عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا (عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ)، قَالَ: مَنْ شَهَرَ نَفْسَهُ بِالْعِبَادَةِ فَاتَّهِمُوهُ عَلَى دِينِهِ، فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ (عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ) يَكْرَهُ شُهْرَةَ الْعِبَادَةِ وَ شُهْرَةَ النَّاسِ.
Al-Amali (al-Tusi); text, p. 649 Tusi, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan; 1 volume; Dar al-Thaqafa—Qom; first edition, 1414 AH.
🌸🔅 عَنِ الصَّادِقِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ ع أَنَّهُ قَالَ الِاشْتِهَارُ بِالْعِبَادَةِ رِيبَة
Man la Yahduruhu al-Faqih; vol. 4, p. 394 Ibn Babawayh, Muhammad ibn Ali; 4 volumes; Islamic Publications Office, affiliated with the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom—Qom; second edition, 1413 AH.
🌸🔅 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: كَفَى بِالرَّجُلِ خِزْياً أَنْ يَلْبَسَ ثَوْباً مُشَهِّراً وَ يَرْكَبَ دَابَّةً مُشَهِّرَةً
Bihar al-Anwar (Beirut edition); vol. 76, p. 313 Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi; 111 volumes; Dar Ihya al-Turath al-Arabi—Beirut; second edition, 1403 AH.
🌸🔅 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى يُبْغِضُ شُهْرَةَ اللِّبَاسِ.
🌸🔅 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: كَفَى بِالْمَرْءِ خِزْياً أَنْ يَلْبَسَ ثَوْباً يَشْهَرُهُ أَوْ يَرْكَبَ دَابَّةً تَشْهَرُهُ.
🌸🔅عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: الشُّهْرَةُ خَيْرُهَا وَ شَرُّهَا فِي النَّارِ.
🌸🔅 عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ ع قَالَ: مَنْ لَبِسَ ثَوْباً يَشْهَرُهُ- كَسَاهُ اللَّهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ثَوْباً مِنَ النَّارِ.
Al-Kafi (Islamic edition); vol. 6, p. 445 Kulayni, Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq; 8 volumes; Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya—Tehran; fourth edition, 1407 AH.
🌷🔅Edition on jihad against cognitive and hybrid warfare
🌿In the End Times, one must be equipped with every kind of defense: of the hand, the tongue, the heart, the mind, strategy, and more!
🌿In the End Times, believers need formidable equipment: the hand of God, the tongue of God, the strategy of God, the power of God, God’s proof, God’s protection, obedience to God, and more.
🌸🔅اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ اجْعَلْ لِي يَداً عَلَى مَنْ ظَلَمَنِي، وَ لِسَاناً عَلَى مَنْ خَاصَمَنِي، وَ ظَفَراً بِمَنْ عَانَدَنِي، وَ هَبْ لِي مَكْراً عَلَى مَنْ كَايَدَنِي، وَ قُدْرَةً عَلَى مَنِ اضْطَهَدَنِي، وَ تَكْذِيباً لِمَنْ قَصَبَنِي، وَ سَلَامَةً مِمَّنْ تَوَعَّدَنِي، وَ وَفِّقْنِي لِطَاعَةِ مَنْ سَدَّدَنِي، وَ مُتَابَعَةِ مَنْ أَرْشَدَنِي.
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