Misguidance: Causes and Cures
In the series of Muḥarram lectures delivered at Beacon of Hope in Melbourne, Australia, Shaykh Rizwan Arastu speaks about misguidance and its mechanics and then focuses on several key causes of misguidance.
- Lecture 1: Two traditions from Imam al-Riḍā relevant to the eve of the 1st of Muḥarram
- Lecture 2: The way God guides and the danger of being misguided
- Lecture 3: What it means for God to misguide
- Lecture 4: Recap of Lecture 3 with additional points
- Lecture 5: Satan as a cause of misguidance: The vertical relationship between God and all other actors (al-tawḥīd al-afʿālī)
- Lecture 6: Satan as a cause of misguidance: Satan’s responsibility for misguidance and verses about Satan
- Lecture 7: Satan as a cause of misguidance: More verses about Satan
- Lecture 8: Misguided and misguiding ideas as a cause of misguidance
- Lecture 9: The misguided majority as a cause of misguidance
- Lecture 10: The carnal soul and its attraction to the temporal world as a cause of misguidance
- Lecture 11: Telling of the story of Karbalāʾ on the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ