{"id":3762,"date":"2020-03-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/3762\/al-gharat\/"},"modified":"2020-02-22T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T10:12:08","slug":"al-gharat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/3762\/al-gharat\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Gharat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al-Gharat<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Written by \u2018Ab\u016b Ish\u0101q, Ibr\u0101h\u012bm son of Muhammad son of Sa\u2019eed son of Hil\u0101l Thaqaf\u012b K\u016bf\u012b Isfah\u0101n\u012b\u2019 (died in 283 Hegira)<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Motive<\/span><\/strong>:
\nThe writer named the book Al-Gh\u0101r\u0101t (Plunders), because he wanted to remind the invasions and plunders made by Mu\u2019\u0101w\u012byah against the territory of the \u2018Commander of the Faithful, Im\u0101m Ali (A.S.)\u2019, after the battle known as \u2018Nahraw\u0101n\u2019. These types of compilations have been common among historians and compilers at that time.<\/h4>\n

About the Biography of His Holiness Im\u0101m Al\u012b (A.S.):<\/strong><\/span>
\nAlthough the main objective of compilation of this book has been reminding of plunders and pillages, but, since the compiler has been a competent and knowledgeable writer and an expert in composition, he has made lots of annotations, which are much more valuable than the main subject itself. These annotations are made in a way that the reader would take better advantage from them comparing to the main subject. Most of these annotations, which are stated as a preface, introduction, or background for going through the main subject, are planning to present a clear picture of the dominating conditions of the era of Im\u0101m Al\u012b (A.S.) as well as Im\u0101m\u2019s way of life and his administrative, ethical, and political approaches, which are really a great lesson for redemption of mankind. All these factors try to incite reader\u2019s awareness and meditation towards the main subject of the book, and to make him understand that the leading motives for all plunders and pillages, result from ignorance, lack of knowledge, violating human rights, annihilation of justice, resorting to worldly desires, and secularism of a nasty group. It would then be easy for the reader to distinguish a borderline between the oppressed and the oppressor, and to recognize the right way from the wrong.<\/h4>\n

Contents:<\/strong><\/span>
\nWe can refer to some significant subjects of the book as follows: the oration of Im\u0101m Al\u012b (A.S.) after \u2018Nahraw\u0101n\u2019 battle, Im\u0101m Al\u012b (A.S.)\u2019s attitude towards the treasury house and public properties, His personal behavior, His agents and delegates, governance of Qays son of Sa\u2019d over Egypt, governance of Muhammad son of Ab\u016bbakr over Egypt, martyrdom of M\u0101lik-e Ashtar, martyrdom of Muhammad son of Ab\u016bbakr, etc.<\/h4>\n

Value of the Book:<\/strong><\/span>
\nSince ancient times this book has been used by the great Ulam\u0101 of Islam, and outstanding scholars of both Shi\u2019a and Sunni have narrated its subjects in their own books. \u2018Ibn-e Abil-Had\u012bd Mo\u2019tazel\u012b Baghd\u0101d\u012b\u2019, giving the first priority to Al-Gh\u0101r\u0101t as a source book, has narrated lots of its stories and narrations in his book \u2018Sharhe Nahj-ul-Bal\u0101ghah\u2019 (explication of Nahj-ul-Bal\u0101ghah).<\/h4>\n

Viewpoints of Shi\u2019a Ulam\u0101:<\/strong><\/span>
\nAccording to All\u0101mah Majles\u012b, Sheikh Hurr-e \u0100mel\u012b, Muhaddith-e N\u016br\u012b, and a number of other luminaries of Shi\u2019a Ulam\u0101 (may Allah vent His blessings upon them all), Al-Gh\u0101r\u0101t is accepted and trusted by the righteous sect of Im\u0101miyyah (Shi\u2019a) unanimously and its narrations have been a dependable source for obtaining pure precepts of Islam. Despite paying this much attention along the centuries, unfortunately all manuscripts of this book have been vanished during the passage of time.<\/h4>\n

Ibn-e Abil-Had\u012bd\u2019s viewpoint:<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u2018Ibn-e Abil-Had\u012bd Mo\u2019tazel\u012b Baghd\u0101d\u012b\u2019, has narrated most of the subjects and narrations of AL-Gh\u0101r\u0101t in his book \u2018Sharhe Nahj-ul-Bal\u0101ghah\u2019. In some cases he has replaced difficult words with the easy ones, and in some other cases he has commented on some of its subjects.<\/h4>\n

All\u0101mah Majles\u012b\u2019s trust in Al-Gh\u0101r\u0101t:<\/strong><\/span>
\nAll\u0101mah Mawl\u0101 Muhammad B\u0101qir Majles\u012b, has quoted all subjects of Al-Gh\u0101r\u0101t in his valuable compilation \u2018Bih\u0101r-ul-Anw\u0101r\u2019 without any alteration in the original text, unless in the summarized cases; even in such cases All\u0101mah Majles\u012b has explicitly pointed to summarization, and interpreted them where necessary.
\nDue to the fact that All\u0101mah Majles\u012b has only narrated from fully reliable sources, it is then cleared that he has had an absolute confidence in the whole text of Al-Gh\u0101r\u0101t.<\/h4>\n

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The writer named the book Al-Gh\u0101r\u0101t (Plunders), because he wanted to remind the invasions and plunders made by Mu’\u0101w\u012byah against the territory of the ‘Commander of the Faithful, Im\u0101m Ali (A.S.)’, after the battle known as ‘Nahraw\u0101n’. These types of compilations have been common among historians and compilers at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7453,7763],"tags":[17897,10822],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bank-of-subjects-of-articles","category-characters","tag-al-gharat","tag-shaistudies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}