The Different Dimensions of Purification

🌸✨بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم
🌹Lecture by the esteemed teacher, Mr. Haj Hedayat Hashemi Mansour
☘️Lecture topic: The many dimensions of purification
🌱Venue: Quran and Ahl al-Bayt Fellowship, Meshkat-e Noor

✳️✅ ❇️ ✨🔆💫🔆 He is the All-Pure

✅The aim of purification: meeting the All-Pure

✅The dimensions of purification: from body to spirit; from each part and component of our being to the whole; cell by cell; the four spirits; the heart’s innermost centre—in a word, the entire realm of our being!
✅The destination of purification: complete detachment from all but God

✅Why purification is needed:
At-Tin: 4 لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنْسانَ في‌ أَحْسَنِ تَقْويمٍ
At-Tin: 5 ثُمَّ رَدَدْناهُ أَسْفَلَ سافِلينَ

✅The system of purification: divine guidance
Al-Insan: 3 إِنَّا هَدَيْناهُ السَّبيلَ إِمَّا شاكِراً وَ إِمَّا كَفُوراً
Al-Balad: 10 وَ هَدَيْناهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ
We showed him the way, whether he be grateful and accept it, or ungrateful!
And guided him to the paths of good and evil!

✅The path of purification:
Al-An‘am: 39 وَ الَّذينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآياتِنا صُمٌّ وَ بُكْمٌ فِي الظُّلُماتِ مَنْ يَشَأِ اللَّهُ يُضْلِلْهُ وَ مَنْ يَشَأْ يَجْعَلْهُ عَلى‌ صِراطٍ مُسْتَقيمٍ
Hud: 56 إِنِّي تَوَكَّلْتُ عَلَى اللَّهِ رَبِّي وَ رَبِّكُمْ ما مِنْ دَابَّةٍ إِلاَّ هُوَ آخِذٌ بِناصِيَتِها إِنَّ رَبِّي عَلى‌ صِراطٍ مُسْتَقيمٍ
I have placed my trust in Allah, my Lord and your Lord. There is no creature that He does not hold in His grasp; yet my Lord is on a straight path. (56)

✅The key to salvation
✨🔆Ash-Shams: 9 قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَنْ زَكَّاها

✅Purification as the catalyst and driving force of divine knowledge
✨🔆Al-Baqarah: 174 إِنَّ الَّذينَ يَكْتُمُونَ ما أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ مِنَ الْكِتابِ وَ يَشْتَرُونَ بِهِ ثَمَناً قَليلاً أُولئِكَ ما يَأْكُلُونَ في‌ بُطُونِهِمْ إِلاَّ النَّارَ وَ لا يُكَلِّمُهُمُ اللَّهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيامَةِ وَ لا يُزَكِّيهِمْ وَ لَهُمْ عَذابٌ أَليمٌ
✨🔆Al ‘Imran: 77 إِنَّ الَّذينَ يَشْتَرُونَ بِعَهْدِ اللَّهِ وَ أَيْمانِهِمْ ثَمَناً قَليلاً أُولئِكَ لا خَلاقَ لَهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ وَ لا يُكَلِّمُهُمُ اللَّهُ وَ لا يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيامَةِ وَ لا يُزَكِّيهِمْ وَ لَهُمْ عَذابٌ أَليمٌ
✨🔆Al ‘Imran: 164 لَقَدْ مَنَّ اللَّهُ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنينَ إِذْ بَعَثَ فيهِمْ رَسُولاً مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ يَتْلُوا عَلَيْهِمْ آياتِهِ وَ يُزَكِّيهِمْ وَ يُعَلِّمُهُمُ الْكِتابَ وَ الْحِكْمَةَ وَ إِنْ كانُوا مِنْ قَبْلُ لَفي‌ ضَلالٍ مُبينٍ
✨🔆Al-Jumu‘ah: 2 هُوَ الَّذي بَعَثَ فِي الْأُمِّيِّينَ رَسُولاً مِنْهُمْ يَتْلُوا عَلَيْهِمْ آياتِهِ وَ يُزَكِّيهِمْ وَ يُعَلِّمُهُمُ الْكِتابَ وَ الْحِكْمَةَ وَ إِنْ كانُوا مِنْ قَبْلُ لَفي‌ ضَلالٍ مُبينٍ
🔆Those who conceal what God has sent down of the Book and sell it for a paltry price consume nothing but fire. (The gifts and wealth they gain in this way are, in truth, a blazing fire.) On the Day of Resurrection, God will neither speak to them nor purify them; theirs will be a painful punishment. (174)
🔆Those who sell God’s covenant and their oaths for a paltry price shall have no share in the Hereafter. God will neither speak to them nor look upon them on the Day of Resurrection, nor will He purify them of sin; theirs will be a painful punishment. (77)
🔆God bestowed a great favour upon the believers when He sent among them a messenger from their own ranks, to recite His revelations to them, purify them, and teach them the Book and wisdom, though before that they had been clearly astray. (164)
🔆And He is the One who sent among an unlettered people a messenger from their own ranks, to recite His revelations to them, purify them, and teach them the Book (the Quran) and wisdom, though before that they had been clearly astray!