In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
The Lofty Goal
Ma’mun (the Abbasid caliph) did everything to drag Imam Jawad (PBUH) to the grounds of corruption and to tarnish his image in the eyes of people; but he failed every time. One of his tricks was the marriage between his daughter Umm Fadhl and Imam Jawad (PBUH).
One may ask, why did Imam Jawad (PBUH) agree to marry his daughter? To find the answer, we should look into the religious movement which Prophet’s progeny (PBUT) lead and the state of this movement at the time of Imam Reza (PBUH) and his son, Imam Jawad.
During Ma’mun’s rule, the religious movement managed to infiltrae the government and was able to grow well while the Imams (PBUT) did not surrender their principles. In other words, they never accepted to rule, and thus they did not cooperate with the government. For example, Imam Rida (PBUH) accepted to be Ma’mun’s successor with the condition that he (the Imam) would not be involved in the government’s affairs.
When Imam Jawad married Umm Fadhl, he became the son in-law of the caliph and he utilized this opportunity for his mission. One question that may arise is what it really meant to be the caliph’s son in-law?
Whoever was given a position at the palace of caliphs, would find himself as a ruler of some city/area or at least as a judge in the society. But Imam Jawad (PBUH) did not seek any of these positions. In fact, he pursed two objectives through this marriage:
First, becoming son in-law of the caliph made it more difficult for Ma’mun to murder him.
Second, Imam Jawad (PBUH) was able to protect key members of the Shia movement through his influence in the caliph’s palace.
Nonetheless, he would not hide his dissatisfaction with the status quo. Imam Jawad (PBUH) was not happy to live in the Abbasid palace while being far away from the difficulties of his followers and the Islamic society. If he had the possibility to depart from the city of
One of Imam’s companions narrates: I went to
Imam Jawad (PBUH) showed clearly his lack of interest in his life in the Ma’mun palace, but due to his higher goal of protecting the religion of Allah and propagating authentic Islamic knowledge, he decided to stay in
(The above is a selection taken from “Guiders of the Path of Light – The Life of Imam Muhammad Taqi (PBUH)” by Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Taqi al-Mudarresi
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Footnote:
1. Al-Khara’ij, vol. 1, p. 381
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