تحليل حقيقت اصحاب سرّ پيشوايان معصوم و نسبت آن با عارفان

An Inquiry for the Recognition of the Infallible Imam’s (peace be upon them) Secret-bearers

شواهد متقن نقلي و عقلي، دين را برخوردار از سطوح مختلف ظاهري و باطني معرفي مي‌كند؛ و پيامبر و به تبع وي، ديگر پيشوايان معصوم، اين دين را به ميزان فهم و درك افراد عرضه مي‌دارند. بدين ترتيب، زمينه بهره‌مندي افراد مختلف از آن به فراخور استعدادشان فراهم مي‌آيد. روشن است كه همگان به همه سطوح دين دسترسي ندارند و تنها افراد خاصي بنا بر ظرفيت وجودي‌شان شايستگي ارتباط با همه اين سطوح را پيدا مي‌كنند. پيش‌تر و بيش‌تر از همه، آورنده دين و مفسر واقعي آن، حضرت ختمي مرتبت6 با همه سطوح ظاهري و باطني آن مرتبط است و در مرحله بعد كساني كه ساختار وجودي‌شان همانند او است و باب و ميراث‌دار علم او هستند، از ويژگي يادشده برخوردارند. دسته ديگر، كساني‌اند كه هرچند همانند دسته دوم نيستند، در اين زمينه با آنان مشابهت دارند و از قابليت‌هاي خاصي براي ارتباط و پيوند با ساحت‌هاي باطني دين برخوردارند. تعدادي از آن‌ها در زمان حضور پيشوايان معصوم: و از طريق آنان به اين ساحت ها راه يافته‌اند و احياناً خود واسطه اتصال و پيوند ديگران به آن پيشوايان و ساحت‌هاي دين شده‌اند. حال، اينان چه كساني‌اند و چه ويژگي‌هايي دارند؟ اين نوشتار با توصيف شخصيتي و تحليل داده‌هاي تاريخي نشان ‌مي‌دهد كه آنان دسته‌اي از اصحاب و ياران معنوي پيشوايان معصوم: بوده‌اند كه از تيزبيني و خوش‌فهمي خاص و ظرفيت دروني ويژه‌اي براي فراگيري علوم و معارف باطني دين برخوردار بوده‌اند و آن پيشوايان، براي اين امر ايشان را برگزيده بودند. به ايشان اصطلاحاً اصحاب سرّ گفته مي‌شود.

There are definite logical and traditional pieces of evidence indicating that the religion enjoys various outward and inward layers. Accordingly, the Prophet, and hence, the other infallible Imams also presented the religion based on the level of the people’s understanding, thus paving the way for everyone to gain from this knowledge based on their competence and intellectual capacity. Obviously all people do not have access to all levels of the religion, and only the special few, due to their capacity and competence, will have access to all these levels. Long before and more than anyone else, the one who brought and interpreted the religion, i.e. the great Prophet, had access to all outward and inward layers of the religion, and in the next level, other people whose nature is similar to his, who were the door and the heir to his knowledge, had access to the aforementioned areas. Another group, are the people who, though not being exactly like the second group, are similar to them and have special competencies for having access and links to the inward domains of the religion. A number of such people gained access to these domains in the era of the Infallible Imams and by their help, and, possibly, they themselves became the links that connected others with the infallible Imams and the various domains of the religion. Now, the question arises as to who are these people and what are their characteristics? This paper seeks to demonstrate, through a description of their character and an analysis of the historical data, that they were a group of the Infallible Imams’ companions and disciples, who had enjoyed high levels of intelligence, acuity and capacity for leaning the knowledge of the inward levels of the religion, and who had been chosen by the infallible Imams for this purpose. These individuals were called the secret-bearers