Welcoming Ramadan: Transforming a Believer into a Ruby

◽️ Meshkat-e Noor Session: Welcoming the Month of Ramadan
📆 Date: 1402,12.21
📌 Meshkat-e Noor Session
👤 Lecture by Master Ali Saei

📝 Some points discussed during the session:
🌼 The state in which we enter this month is the state in which we will leave it!
🌼 God has fashioned the month of Ramadan so that we may emerge from it more beautiful.
🌼 This month transforms coal into diamond and a believer into a red ruby.
🌼 Through this month, we should look upon the moon as the moon of moons.
🌼 In Supplication 43 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya: You are constantly in God’s obedience; at every moment, you reveal a new aspect of yourself.
🌼 You move among the stations God has ordained for you, never straying for a moment from His will. You enter the stations God has ordained for you. (Addressed by Imam Sajjad to the moon.)
🌼 Ramadan is a month that illuminates both the inner and outer heart.
🌼 We are servants of change.
🌼 The month traces the sky’s changing states, and through them all, it moves towards what God wills.
🌼 God has made you, O moon, the key to a new beginning.
🌼 We ask God to make you a crescent of blessing.
🌼 We ask God to make you a crescent of purity, untouched by our sins. We ask Him that our deeds cause you no harm.
🌼 We ask God to make you a blessed crescent, free of hardship and suffering—a crescent of goodness unmingled with evil.
🌼 We ask God to make you a crescent of safety and security.
🌼 We ask God to make us among those with whom He is most pleased as this month rises over them.
🌼 Make us among those upon whom your month shines most joyfully.
🌼 O God, grant us the grace to repent this month.
🌼 O God, guard us this month so that we do not commit acts of disobedience to You.

🌼 O God, make us devoted to giving thanks to You.
🌼 O God, clothe us in well-being.
🌼 O God, complete Your favour upon us this month. (A favour is a kindness we have not deserved.)
🌼 Istihlāl means yearning impatiently for the beloved.
🌼 Who is there to greet the Muhammadan moon?
🌼 Ramadan is a sign bearing God’s name, a portrait and likeness of God’s beloved ones; at every moment, it displays a distinctive aspect of God.
🌼 This month is a book already composed, yet still being composed by God.
🌼 This month is a world-reflecting cup.
🌼 This month has come to reveal the many forms of God’s love.
🌼 Whoever gives charity this month, God will forgive.
🌼 This month comes swiftly, in motion and mercy, and departs, erasing misdeeds.
🌼 Praying two rak‘ahs this month brings forgiveness.
🌼 The most wretched person is one who lets this month end without being forgiven.

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