The principle of concealment of the head of the school of Shiite Imams

Author:
Maryam Ismaili
Level:
Ph.D
Subject(s):
Shia Studies
Language:
Farsi
Faculty:
Faculty of Shi’i Studies
Year:
2018
Publisher:
URD Press
Supervisor(s):
Ali Movahedian Attar
Advisor(s):
Mohammad Hossein Irandoost, Mohammad Ghafouri Nejad

The pure Imams (as) are the bearers of divine secrets; Secrets that have been emphasized and ordered to be hidden due to differences in human capacity, because the tolerance of these secrets is not provided for everyone. Despite the importance of concealing secrets and emphasizing it in the narrations, this important issue has been neglected. In the narrative texts, there are advices about the necessity of taqiyyah, concealment and allusions in the use of gestures, gestures and cryptography on religious issues. In the teachings of the Imams (pbuh), there is a strong emphasis on the application of these methods in scientific and religious interaction with others, as well as the classification of facts at the time of explaining religious teachings. Since the nature of concealment and its difference with taqiyyah and the necessity of its use have not been sufficiently clarified, the present dissertation was motivated to pursue the distinction between taqiyyah and concealment and to answer the question based on the mentioned necessities that What is the importance and position of secrecy in the school of Shiite Imams? What is the essence and nature of secrecy? This article investigates the sayings of the Ahl al-Bayt (PBUH) about this principle, examines it, examines some social, political and cultural problems, and concludes that it has been done in the narrations, and concludes that the Imams Shiites (pbuh) have introduced the principle of secrecy in order to preserve and classify religious secrets and teachings and, consequently, to protect the religious community. Secrecy is a strategic principle that has been implemented in order to protect the faith of the audience and to avoid harming their beliefs in the face of teachings that they do not have the capacity to understand; In such a way that not taking care of this principle will have and will have irreparable consequences. The approach of the principle of secrecy is training and the essence of it is patience, by observing it, the existential capacity of human beings will be able to bear the great secret of the province and as a result, it will lead to the strengthening of the Shiite school. There are subtle differences between the principle of concealment and the principle of taqiyyah in the Shiite narrative literature, which in this study, how the two follow-ups are related and the conclusion that they are two different and different categories, although sometimes used interchangeably. “Taqiyya” seeks to preserve the life and religion of the speaker, and “concealment” seeks to protect the beliefs and faith of the audience, and the continuation of the correct religion in other ages. Other similar teachings, such as Tory, tone, opposition, and noun, are fundamentally different from concealment, and are a way of doing it. The fruits of concealment and its place in the present age have also been written about at the end of this article. The method adopted to achieve the above results is that the narrations related to the secrecy of the secret are extracted and after thematization and categorization, a hadith family is formed and the relevant title is explained.