{"id":52304,"date":"2022-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/news\/being-ethical-person-does-not-mean-reading-ethical-books-ayatollah-ramazani\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:56:33","slug":"being-ethical-person-does-not-mean-reading-ethical-books-ayatollah-ramazani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/news\/being-ethical-person-does-not-mean-reading-ethical-books-ayatollah-ramazani\/","title":{"rendered":"Being ethical person does not mean reading ethical books: Ayatollah Ramazani"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to the AhlulBayt World Assembly News Portal: <\/strong>On Monday, May 9, 2022, the ethics class of the Secretary-General of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly was held for the students of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) International University.<\/p>\n

In this class, Ayatollah Reza Ramazani stated, \u201cIn the Quran, God says to the Prophet Moses (a.s.): \u2018You raise the dead with my permission.\u2019 The important point to be considered in this type of verses is that it is said that man has such power, and this is part of the realm of human existence. Therefore, if we have completed all educational degrees or become mujtahids, we should not think that we know ourselves well and completely. Because the truth of human nature is far superior to these issues. Everyone has such talent and capacity, while some have used it, and some have not.\u201d<\/p>\n

We need to know our existential capacities<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMan\u2019s inner understanding is very deep and is higher than the understanding of robots made by modern man. Certainly, something like immaterial rational soul will not be made by man, but what is made is related to material and physical matters. We should relate to ourselves. That is, sometimes there are some concepts that we know the generalities of but do not go into detail. Because we have not found the necessary expertise. Just like when it is said that someone has a heart attack, or someone has a liver problem, we only know the generalities of these diseases. But a physician knows the exact details and the cause. Communication with ourselves also means knowing our set of existential capacities and connecting them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuman existence is like a pyramid with a rational soul at the top. But it also has dimensions and aspects that we need to identify, and when we make a connection between these branches and leaves, we will move towards felicity. One of the most important branches of communication with the soul is the knowledge of cognition, power and love. The knowledge of cognition means that man has perception of his various existential levels, including intellectual and intuitive cognition. We can know anything we want, but only as much as we try,\u201d he said about the introduction of the realm of human existence.<\/p>\n

The importance of scientific power in the realm of immateriality<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the thousands of years that have passed since human life, many issues have been raised that humans did not believe in before. But today, with scientific power, these issues have been proven empirically. But another issue is scientific power in the realm of immateriality. That is, to have an understanding of ourselves. We must revive the scientific power in the realm of the immateriality. Some, like Plato, do not see science as learning, but as a means of reminding, and believe that by removing the curtains, everything becomes visible to man and his world becomes wider. One of the differences between Aristotle and Plato was that one considered science to mean reminder, and the other to consider science as learning,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Regarding the unknown realms of man\u2019s existence, Ayatollah Ramazani stated, \u201cThere are some things that a person can achieve without studying anywhere. We have had people who were illiterate but memorized all the Quran. This is one of the things that man has been able to achieve without education. Among the Islamic seminary texts, there is a book entitled \u201cAl-Makasib\u201d in which verses from the Quran are mentioned in some places. The late Nawab Safavi and Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi said that they gave the book to Karbalai Kazem Saruqi (who was illiterate but memorized all Quran) and asked him to read it. But he could only read the verses of the Quran and could not read the rest of the book. Therefore, it must be clarified what is the story of this type of human? Is there a truth in man that if he is well trained, such results will be achieved?\u201d<\/p>\n

Extent of the field of ethics<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is the result of the connection between knowledge, power, and love?\u201d he asked, \u201cI have been interested in such topics since I was fourteen years old. Since then, I have read most of the ethics books, I know their differences well, and I have read the biographies of many ethics\u2019 professors. There are several shelves in my library about the lives of these great people and I still feel I must read them every day. Because the field of ethics is not one of the fields where we can say that someone has specialized and graduated. Since this field is so deep and sweet that it has no end, and with further study, one comes to the conclusion that he is incapable of giving thanks, and no matter how much he gives thanks for the blessings of God Almighty, he still has not done the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are Fiqh al-Asqar (minor jurisprudence), Fiqh al-Awsat (middle jurisprudence) and Fiqh al-Akbar (major jurisprudence), and the Fiqh al-Awsat is the ethics and self-knowledge. Ethics does not mean reading a thousand ethical books, but one may read many ethical books, but he is still far from the comprehensiveness of ethics according to Quranic verses and hadiths. A person may have become a mujtahid in the Fiqh al-Asqar, but there is a great world in relation to the inner self and soul of man, and man must pay attention to this inner self,\u201d he said, explaining the nature of ethics.<\/p>\n

\u201cFiqh al-Akbar (major jurisprudence) means theology. Imam Ali (a.s.) quoted the Prophet (p.b.u.h), \u201cO Ali! No one knew God comprehensively, except you and me.\u201d Imam Ali (a.s.) said in Nahj al-Balaghah, \u201cO God! I praise you for not being able to dive into the boundless ocean of your knowledge yet.\u201d Even the Prophet himself says: \u201c\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u0639\u064e\u0628\u064e\u062f\u0652\u0646\u064e\u0627\u0643\u064e \u0623\u064e\u0642\u064e\u0651 \u0639\u0650\u0628\u064e\u0627\u062f\u064e\u062a\u0650\u0643\u064e \u0648\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u0639\u064e\u0631\u064e\u0641\u0652\u0646\u064e\u0627\u0643\u064e \u062d\u064e\u0642\u064e\u0651 \u0645\u064e\u0639\u0652\u0631\u0650\u0641\u064e\u062a\u064e\u201d (O God! We have not fulfilled your right of knowledge and worship\u201d Because the knowledge of God is infinite. Man is not a small creature, but he has great greatness. If human society were to become acquainted with the reality of its existence, it would not be preoccupied with many trivial matters,\u201d he said, stating that man should look at himself and discover the truth within him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Secretary-General of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly said, \u201cEthics does not mean reading a thousand ethical books. Because one may read many ethical books, but he is far from the comprehensiveness of morality, according to Quranic verses and hadiths.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":408435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,58],"tags":[197,2980],"class_list":["post-52304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-secretary-general","tag-ayatollah-reza-ramazani","tag-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408438,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52304\/revisions\/408438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}