Ayatollah Seddiqi stated that Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq accepted students into his school without any condition based on age, class or belief and said, “The existence of conditions in the acceptance of students in the Islamic seminaries is contrary to the Ja’fari school of thought.” RNA – Speaking at Tehran’s Ozgol Grand Mosque, Ayatollah Kazem Seddiqi, the head of the Imam Khomeyni Seminary in Tehran, commemorated the anniversary of the martyrdom of the head of the Shi’ah school of thought, Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq, and said, “God commands all believers not to distance themselves from the line of al-sadiqayn [“the two truthful ones” – Imam Muhammad al-Baqir and Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq].”
His Eminence added, “This demonstates that as long as there is a world of creation, there is truth in this world that knows life combined with honesty, death and a guide.”
He stated that the blessed essence of the Commander of the Faithful [Imam Ali] was that he was siddiq al-akbar [the great truthful one] and said, “All the pure Imams were sincere and were at the apex but the one whose table of honesty became famous in the world was the blessed existence of Imam al-Sadiq.”
Ayatollah Seddiqi stated that Imam al-Sadiq had a longer life than the other infallible Imams and the period of his Imamate was longer and for this reason, he was able to spread practical honesty and religious knowledge among the people.
His Eminence emphasized that the Infallible Imams were the repository of divine knowledge and said, “The enemies also knew that the sciences of these great men weren’t acquired and their sea of knowledge benefited from the treasures of divine unseen and for this reason, they constantly restricted the pure Imams and sought to martyr these great men.”
He stated that the first mission of Imam al-Sadiq was to develop knowledge and seize the culture of the society and continued, “Imam al-Sadiq trained 4,000 scholars and the caliphate had to take advantage of the existence of these students, many of them were considered influential by the Imam.”
Ayatollah Seddiqi said that science creates power and noted, “Imam al-Sadiq spread his scientific table spread very widely to practically seize the oppressive government, even if it was in the name of the usurping caliphs, to lower the flag of oppression.”
He went on to say that people could have obtained knowledge in Imam al-Sadiq’s school of science without any conditions and said, “Today, the Islamic seminaries have entrance conditions. They aren’t the schools of Imam al-Sadiq if such a condition exists that if someone is of a certain age, he can no longer enter the school of Imam al-Sadiq. In the school of the Ahl al-Bayt, people from the age of three to ninety participated and benefited from the sea of knowledge and teachings of those nobles.”
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