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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Pretension and Conceit Call To Sincerity From the Professor of Theology, Imam Al-khomeini, May His Shade Be Prolonged He, may Allah prolong his shade, has said, "Be informed that the real Owner of the domain, the One Who truly grants bounties, the One Who grants us blissful things, having prepared them for us even before we came into this world, prepared the nutritional food that is good and suitable to our weak stomach, the One Who cultures and serves with love as great as mountains, so His service may be obligation-free, with suitable environment and air, in addition to all His apparent and hidden blissful things.

He prepared us for the world of the hereafter and that of the barzakh before we get there. This Master of blessings wants our hearts to love him, to love His Greatness, with sincerity, and the result of this love will be for our own benefit, too. Despite all of this, we do not listen to His commandment but disobey Him and take a path that does not lead us to His pleasure: so, what a great injustice we have committed! How have we argued with the King of Kings?!

And the loss is only our own; His domain is not hurt in the least, nor can we get out of His power and authority. It makes no difference to Him whether we believe in His unity or not. If we are knowledgeable about Allah, fearing Him, pure of souls, all this is for our own good. And if we are unbelievers or polytheists, we only harm our own selves. Allah is independent of the worlds, of their obedience, sincerity and worship. His domain is not harmed by our rebellion.

Our shirk and hypocrisy do not diminish it. But since He is the most Merciful of those who have mercy, His spacious mercy and great wisdom have required that He leads us to the paths of guidance, the ways of distinguishing goodness from evil, beauty from ugliness, and to show us what causes humanity to slip away, what robs it of happiness, and the great boon for such guidance belongs to Allah. The favor belongs to Him for whatever acts of adoration, sincerity and worship we perform.

So long as our visions, and the eyes whereby we can see the barzakh, are not open, we arc unable to comprehend this fact.