alkafi-73Vol. 1, p. 38
مَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ يَمُوتُ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَحَبَّ إِلَى إِبْلِيسَ مِنْ مَوْتِ فَقِيهٍ.
“Of the deaths from among the believers that Satan loves most, is the death of a Faqih (a person knowledgable of islamic laws)."
Chapter on the Loss of a Scholar
Related topics
Chapter on the necessity to seek knowledge and the recommendations to learn9Chapter on Giving Knowledge as Charity4Prohibition on Speaking without Knowledge.9Chapter on Those who Act without Knowledge3Chapter on Utilization of Knowledge7Chapter on Those who use their Knowledge to Fill their Stomach and are Boastful for it6Chapter on the Need for the Existence of a Divine Authority in the World and the Seriousness of this Matter4Chapter on Miscellaneous Issues15Chapter on narrating books and Hadith (The virtue of writing and its preservation)15Chapter on Taqlid, following the opinions of someone3Chapter on Innovations, Personal Opinions and Analogies22Chapter on the quality of knowledge its virtue and the virtue of the scholars9
alkafi-74Vol. 1, p. 38
إِذَا مَاتَ الْمُؤْمِنُ الْفَقِيهُ ثُلِمَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ ثُلْمَةٌ لَا يَسُدُّهَا شَيْءٌ.
“When a believer who is a Faqih dies, it causes irreparable damage in the Islamic system."
alkafi-75Vol. 1, p. 38
سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى بْنَ جَعْفَرٍ ع يَقُولُ إِذَا مَاتَ الْمُؤْمِنُ بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَ بِقَاعُ الْأَرْضِ[1] الَّتِي كَانَ يَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ عَلَيْهَا وَ أَبْوَابُ السَّمَاءِ الَّتِي كَانَ يُصْعَدُ فِيهَا بِأَعْمَالِهِ وَ ثُلِمَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ ثُلْمَةٌ لَا يَسُدُّهَا شَيْءٌ لِأَنَّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الْفُقَهَاءَ حُصُونُ الْإِسْلَامِ كَحِصْنِ سُورِ الْمَدِينَةِ لَهَا.
“(Imam) abu al-Hassan Musa ibn Ja’far (a.s.) has said, ‘When a true believer dies the angels and the parts of earth where he worshipped Allah weep because of his death. Also the doors of the heavens through which his good deeds had been taken up weep and it causes an irreparable damage in the Islamic system. It is beca
alkafi-76Vol. 1, p. 38
مَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ يَمُوتُ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَحَبَّ إِلَى إِبْلِيسَ مِنْ مَوْتِ فَقِيهٍ.
"Of the deaths of the believers that Satan loves most, is the death of a Faqih (a knowledgable person of islamic laws)."
alkafi-77Vol. 1, p. 38
قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع إِنَّ أَبِي كَانَ يَقُولُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَا يَقْبِضُ الْعِلْمَ بَعْدَ مَا يُهْبِطُهُ وَ لَكِنْ يَمُوتُ الْعَالِمُ فَيَذْهَبُ بِمَا يَعْلَمُ فَتَلِيهِمُ الْجُفَاةُ[3] فَيَضِلُّونَ وَ يُضِلُّونَ وَ لَا خَيْرَ فِي شَيْءٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ أَصْلٌ.
“Imam abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) has said, ‘My father used to say, ‘Allah does not take back the knowledge that He has sent down. But when the scholar dies it takes away his knowledge and after this the unjust ones come and they go astray and mislead people and there is no good in things without basis.’”
alkafi-78Vol. 1, p. 38
كَانَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ع يَقُولُ إِنَّهُ يُسَخِّي[4] نَفْسِي فِي سُرْعَةِ الْمَوْتِ وَ الْقَتْلِ فِينَا قَوْلُ اللَّهِ- أَ وَ لَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّا نَأْتِي الْأَرْضَ نَنْقُصُها مِنْ أَطْرافِها[5] وَ هُوَ ذَهَابُ الْعُلَمَاءِ.
that Ali ibn al-Husayn (as) would say, "My soul shows generosity in accepting the quickening of our death or being murdered. It is due to the words of Allah that say, 'Have they not considered that We have taken over the land and reduced its borders?' (13:41) the reference here is to the death of the scholars.”