The Unity of the Universe’s Song

🌼🔆🌼The Creation: A Monotheistic Gathering🌼🔆🌼
🔹The eve of the martyrdom of Imam Jawad (AS)

📅 Date: 1405/02/26 – 28 Dhu al-Qa‘dah – Dhu al-Hijjah 1447
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some topics discussed in the session:

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “The Geography of Jawadi Knowledge,” “The Consensus of Tongues on Divine Oneness,” “The Mystery of Creation,” “Deep Understanding,” “The Eve of the Martyrdom of Imam Jawad (AS,” and … Summary with supplement, 1405.02.26, Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat), 110.141 (903) 🌹🔅

✨ ❇️Summary: “The Creation, a Monotheistic Gathering”

💫1. Title and central theme
Title: The Monotheistic Music of the Cosmos / The Creation as a Monotheistic Gathering
Occasion: The eve of the martyrdom of Imam Jawad (AS) (26 Ordibehesht 1405)
Central theme: Explaining the relationship between “the Imams’ divinely bestowed knowledge,” “essential monotheism,” and “the innate testimony of all beings” to existence.

💫2. Key thematic strands
A) The geography of Imam Jawad’s (AS) knowledge
Scope of knowledge: Imam Jawad’s (AS) knowledge transcends time and place, encompassing both the “pre-creation” (knowledge before creation) and the “post-creation” (knowledge after annihilation).
Testimony in the Prophet’s Mosque: The account relates that, after his father Imam Reza (AS) was martyred, Imam Jawad (AS), while still a child, mounted the pulpit and spoke of his knowledge of people’s inward and outward secrets and lineages. This knowledge was a divine gift bestowed before the creation of the world.

B) Monotheism as “the consensus of tongues” (cosmic harmony)
Definition of the One: Monotheism is not merely an intellectual concept; it is the “harmonious affirmation of God’s oneness by all tongues and beings.”
The music of existence: Every particle in the cosmos—from stars to subatomic particles—glorifies God and bears witness to His oneness in its own language, through light, sound, or sensation.
Innate nature as interpreter: To perceive this “music of monotheism,” a person needs a heart equipped with deep religious understanding and intuitive reason. Without such understanding, a person is like livestock: alive, yet unable to grasp the truth.

C) The Imams’ (AS) innate testimony at birth
Accounts of birth: Various narrations, including those concerning Imam Mahdi (AJ) and the other Imams, relate that at birth the Imams placed both hands on the ground (symbolizing the reception of knowledge from heaven to earth) and raised their heads toward the sky (symbolizing their connection to the source of revelation).
Divine testimony: After hearing a call from the Throne, they recite verse 18 of Surah Al ‘Imran (“شَهِدَ اللَّهُ أَنَّهُ لَا إِلهَ إِلَّا هُوَ…”). This manifests the highest emblem of monotheism and indicates that, at the moment of birth, they receive both “first knowledge” (divinely bestowed knowledge) and “last knowledge” (acquired knowledge).

D) The meaning of “deep understanding” and the danger of failing to understand
Definition: Deep understanding means grasping religious and ontological truths at a profound level, not merely memorizing outward rulings.
The consequence of lacking understanding: It is equated with blindness of sight, deafness of hearing, and bewilderment of the heart; a person without religious understanding is described as worse than livestock.
Why people fail to understand: Disbelief after faith, defiance, and following one’s own desires cause God to seal hearts and close the way to understanding (verse 7 of Surah Al-Munafiqun).
E) The nature of polytheism and illusion
Polytheism as ignorance: Polytheism assigns identity to “nonexistence” and is a great falsehood at odds with the truth of the universe, in which everything is a sign of God.
Absolute oneness: God is “Ahad” (unique and alone in His essence) and “Wahid” (peerless and one). Every phenomenon in existence bears the monotheistic signature and unique frequency of God’s oneness.

💫3. Philosophical and wisdom principles drawn from the text (10 principles)
The author draws ten foundational principles from the text, which form the article’s theoretical framework:
The principle of innate monotheism and the consensus of tongues: All beings bear witness to God’s oneness.
The principle that the Imams’ knowledge is light: Their knowledge is a manifestation of divine light and the cause of believers’ spiritual life.
The principle that knowing the Imam is spiritual life: Recognizing the Imam is essential to the soul’s survival and prevents spiritual death.
The principle of the heart as the center of light: The heart is the seat of extrasensory perception and divine treasures; its cultivation determines a person’s destiny.
The principle of the language of monotheism: A shared language for communicating with God, existence, and the particles of being, leading to existential unity.
The principle of innate nature as the inner prophet: Innate nature is the fixed, unchanging law of creation and requires constant awakening.
The principle of avoiding negation and anthropomorphism: The way to avoid these two misunderstandings is to use the divine attributes as a means of attaining sincerity.
The principle of holding fast to the Two Weighty Things: Clinging to the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Household is essential to preserving and bringing to fruition one’s innate monotheism.
The principle of reckoning according to knowledge: A person’s success in the Hereafter is measured by the degree of their knowledge of and love for the Imams (especially Imam Mahdi (AS)).
The principle of love at the center: Love for the Imam is the key to the flow of divine blessings and to transforming one’s personal life.

💫4. Final Conclusion
The universe is a “gathering of divine unity,” in which all phenomena, in their own way, are praising God. To perceive this profound truth, human beings need *tafaqquh* (deep understanding) and a connection to the “Light of Imamate.” Without this connection, despite having senses and reason, they remain trapped in the darkness of ignorance and *shirk* (delusion), shut out from the magnificent music of creation. Imam Jawad (AS), the repository of divine knowledge and mystery, guides the way and embodies the manifestation of the “One, the Unique.”