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A Glance At the life of Imam Muhammad Al-Jawad (3) - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief A Glance At the life of Imam Muhammad Al-Jawad (3) 2021-06-22 457 Views Imam Al-Jawad In this part of the article titled “A Glance At the life of Imam Muhammad Al-Jawad”, we shall focus on other relevant points on the topic.

Manners and Virtues In respect of his manners and qualities, Imam Muhammad Taqi (AS) occupied that lofty position of humaneness that is the distinguished characteristic of the Prophet (SAW) and his progeny. The predominant feature of his life style was to meet everybody with humility, to help the needy, to maintain human equality, and observe simplicity.

To offer help to the indigent secretly, to treat not only friends but even adversaries kindly and politely, to be attentive in entertaining the guests and to keep the springs of bounties overflowing for those thirsty for religious and scholarly knowledge, were his chief occupations. His life pattern was the same as that of the other members of this chain of the infallible ones whose life history has already been given in earlier chapters.

The worldly people who did not have a full idea of the greatness of his soul must have certainly been under the impression that the very fact of a small child becoming the son in-law of the emperor of a great Muslim empire must alter his thoughts, nature, behavior, and habits and, thus, completely remold his life style. In fact, this must have been an important objective before Mamun’s shortsighted vision.

The animus of the Abbasids or the Umayyad kings was not so much against the members of the Prophet’ (SAW) progeny as for their extraordinary God-given qualities. They were ever endeavoring to break that centre of lofty manners and humaneness that was established at Medina and had become nucleus of exemplary spirituality against the material power of the realm. Accordingly, in desperation, they devised and tried various means with a view to achieving this objective.

The demand of oath of allegiance from Imam Husain (AS) was one form of it and the appointment of Imam Reza (AS) as heir apparent another. Only outwardly in one case the method of dealing with the situation was hostile and in the other, seemingly devotional. Just as Imam Husain (AS) was martyred when he refused to pledge allegiance, Imam Reza (AS), being out of step with the materialistic objectives of the regime, was silenced forever through poisoning.