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Islam and Spiritualism

Spiritual heritage of Imam Khomeini

Introduction

In the first verses of the second “Surah” of the Quran in describing the condition of the virtuous after explaining the book as guidance, considers their foremost characteristic to be faith in the unseen and spiritualism. “This Book is undoubtedly a book of guidance for the virtuous believers.” Thereafter it states, “Those who believe in the unseen…” it means that this book about whose revelation there is no doubt is a guidance for the virtuous human beings and those that abstain from committing sins and who believe in the unseen world and have made inclination towards spirituality as the basis of their faith. This is a principle whose acceptance and conviction is always essential and necessary for its followers. However, it goes without saying that the consequence of acceptance of faith in the unseen and focus on spirituality does not imply at all disregard for the material world and indifference towards the apparent world and the world of nature. Although in spiritualist doctrines also unfortunately, we come across this idea once in a while so that this inclination is radicalized to such an extent that a human being is deviated and declines to perform his unquestionable duties and responsibilities in this world.

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