Book 7: First Corinthians
By the command of Allah, Hozrot Paulus (r.a.), a Companion of Isa al-Mosi, wrote this volume of holy scripture in the form of a letter. It is the first letter written by him to the jamaat at Corinth. It is considered that this letter was written 20 years after Hozrot Isa went to heaven.
Corinth (Korint town), the capital of Greece in the Roman kingdom, was an important city for business. In this city there were many kinds of sexual sin and much prostitution.
Companion Hozrot Paulus first came to this city during his second preaching journey (see Acts ['Sahabi Nama'] chapter 18). When he came to preach in Ephesus (Ifis town), three years after returning from Corinth, elders of the Corinth assembly sent news that the jamaat had been filled with various kinds of disturbances and false teaching.
Within the worship and service of the jamaat the people were giving much esteem to speaking in supernatural languages. So Hozrot Paulus advised them to speak speech like a pir. Both these blessings are gifts of Allah's Holy Spirit, but he gave more esteem to speaking like a pir because by that speech people found God's plan, guidance and warnings.
Hozrot Paulus also learned of excessive factionalism, sexual sins, litigation, tumults, drinking alcohol and hypocrisy going on among the faithful. He compared these abominable deeds with the wicked Israelites of Hozrot Musa's (pbuh) era (see chapter 10). He told them to to repent when he wrote this valuable letter, so that the believers might leave their sin and return in the fear of Allah to the path of holy life, and that they might be seekers of holy love. For the greatest treasure is love.
