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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Imam ‘Ali Sunshine of Civilized Islam How And By Which Way Can We Reach The Truth Of Islam? Imam ‘Ali (as) wrote in his will to Imam Hasan: “O my son, know that ...

(if you do not like to follow your ancestors and virtuous people), first you have to preach the truth by the way of understanding and perceiving so that you do not fall into doubts or become involved in disputes...” Nowadays man has progressed in the field of science vastly and is able to think over the whole social problems.

On the other hand we understand from the history the cause of the decline of a great civilization by a small one and for what reason a small nation can obtain a victory over a great nation. We can say that the real cause is believing in the goal and steadfastness in the belief. Now the world is in the same situation that the Muslims were facing at the beginning of Islam. They confronted many widespread corruptions and crimes so that we have to confront them at the present time too.

Although the Muslims were few in number, but they encountered the greatest empires in the history, whose force; men, equipment’s and wealth were incomparable to the force of the Muslims. In spite of the great difference in force, the Muslims could overcome those empires in less than fifty years and the Muslims took the reins of the two great governments of the world. Therefore we have to study how this miraculous advancement took place.

Neither the material powers nor the economic schools can justify this wonderful happening. The only thing that can be said is that the reason behind that was the steadfastness in belief; the same belief that made every Muslim say to the enemy, as the Holy Qur’an says: “Say: Do you await for us but one of two most excellent things?

(Victory or martyrdom in the way of God and eventually the Garden of Eden) And we await for you that Allah will afflict you with punishment from Himself or by our hands. So wait; we too will wait with you” (9:52). Then they attacked the enemy's line fearlessly to get one of the two honors. Yes, the only way to this holy aim is the faith in God and nothing else.

There may be some people, compassionately or in order to destroy the morale of the Muslims, may say that the only way to reach our goals is material tools and specially armaments. Of course we are in need of arms of different kinds but it is of secondary importance.