The Great Works of Ramadan

🌼🔆🌼The Scientific Reality of Layl🌼🔆🌼
🔹The Martyrdom of Imam Ali (peace be upon him)

📅 Date: 1404/12/20 – 21 Ramadan 1447
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some topics discussed in the session:

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “Making the Most of a Sublime Month” “Awakening the Soul” “The Miracle of the Lawful” “” “” and so on. Summary with supplement, 1404.12.19 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅

🌼🌸☘️🌷🌹 🕋 🌙 ✳️✅ ❇️ ✨🔆💫🔆

✳️Making Use of the Vast Resources of the Blessed Month of Ramadan

❇️Laylat al-Qadr is a vast resource
Laylat al-Qadr is a vast creative apparatus
Understanding Laylat al-Qadr calls for a vision worthy of Laylat al-Qadr!
A constricted heart and Laylat al-Qadr have nothing in common!
How beautiful are these verses on the expansion of the heart and the cultivation of capacity!
✨🔆 Ṭā Hā: 25 قالَ رَبِّ اشْرَحْ لي‌ صَدْري
🔆 My Lord, expand my breast
✨🔆 al-Anʿām: 125 فَمَنْ يُرِدِ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَهْدِيَهُ يَشْرَحْ صَدْرَهُ لِلْإِسْلامِ وَ مَنْ يُرِدْ أَنْ يُضِلَّهُ يَجْعَلْ صَدْرَهُ ضَيِّقاً حَرَجاً كَأَنَّما يَصَّعَّدُ فِي السَّماءِ كَذلِكَ يَجْعَلُ اللَّهُ الرِّجْسَ عَلَى الَّذينَ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ
🔆 Whoever God wills to guide, He opens their breast to Islam; but whoever He wills to leave astray because of their wrongful deeds, He makes their breast constricted and tight, as though they were climbing into the sky. Thus God places defilement upon those who do not believe!
✨🔆 al-Zumar: 22 أَ فَمَنْ شَرَحَ اللَّهُ صَدْرَهُ لِلْإِسْلامِ فَهُوَ عَلى‌ نُورٍ مِنْ رَبِّهِ فَوَيْلٌ لِلْقاسِيَةِ قُلُوبُهُمْ مِنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ أُولئِكَ في‌ ضَلالٍ مُبينٍ
🔆 Is one whose breast God has opened to Islam, and who stands upon a light from his Lord, like the blind and misguided? Woe to those whose hearts have hardened against the remembrance of God! They are in manifest error!

❇️From Laylat al-Qadr to the Night of Knowledge
Without a doubt, Laylat al-Qadr has a scientific reality, and manifests divine will and volition; it also has a dimension of determination, decree, and ratification.
The scientific reality of Laylat al-Qadr is an encompassing realm that embraces every night and all its days; accordingly, it encompasses not only a thousand months but every month in the universe.

❇️The path of the night is the journey to God
✨🔆 al-Isrāʾ: 1 سُبْحانَ الَّذي أَسْرى‌ بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلاً مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَى الَّذي بارَكْنا حَوْلَهُ لِنُرِيَهُ مِنْ آياتِنا إِنَّهُ هُوَ السَّميعُ الْبَصيرُ
🔆 Glory be to God, who took His servant by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, whose surroundings We have blessed, so that We might show him some of Our signs. He is indeed All-Hearing, All-Seeing.
✨🔆 al-Muzzammil: 6 إِنَّ ناشِئَةَ اللَّيْلِ هِيَ أَشَدُّ وَطْئاً وَ أَقْوَمُ قيلاً
🔆 Surely, worship in the night is more steadfast and more firmly established!
🌙 The blessed month of Ramadan and Laylat al-Qadr are a training ground and a place to experience the ways of the Messenger and the Wali.

💫🔆 قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‌ التَّقْدِيرُ فِي لَيْلَةِ تِسْعَ عَشْرَةَ وَ الْإِبْرَامُ‌ فِي لَيْلَةِ إِحْدَى وَ عِشْرِينَ وَ الْإِمْضَاءُ فِي لَيْلَةِ ثَلَاثٍ وَ عِشْرِينَ.
🔆Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him): Decree is determined on the nineteenth night, confirmed on the twenty-first, and ratified on the twenty-third.

❇️Unveiling the Reality of Layl
🔶Layl has an outward and an inward dimension, an exoteric and an esoteric interpretation.
🔶The reality of layl is that to which the Creator of existence has sworn!
✨🔆 al-Muddaththir: 33 وَ اللَّيْلِ إِذْ أَدْبَرَ
✨🔆 al-Takwīr: 17 وَ اللَّيْلِ إِذا عَسْعَسَ
✨🔆 al-Inshiqāq: 17 وَ اللَّيْلِ وَ ما وَسَقَ
✨🔆 al-Fajr: 4 وَ اللَّيْلِ إِذا يَسْرِ
✨🔆 al-Shams: 4 وَ اللَّيْلِ إِذا يَغْشاها
✨🔆 al-Layl: 1 وَ اللَّيْلِ إِذا يَغْشى‌
✨🔆 al-Ḍuḥā: 2 وَ اللَّيْلِ إِذا سَجى‌
🔆 And by the night when it withdraws and turns away, (33)
🔆 And by the night as it recedes and draws to an end, (17)
🔆 And by the night and all that it gathers, (17)
🔆 And by the night as it moves toward the light of day, (your Lord is ever watchful over the wrongdoers)! (4)
🔆 And by the night as it covers the earth, (4)
🔆 By the night as it envelops the world, (1)
🔆 And by the night when it grows still, (2)

❇️The Month of Ramadan: The Highest Gateway to Knowing God
From «عرفنی نفسک» to «الهمنا معرفة فضله و اجلال حرمته», the effort is to open every gateway to knowing God.
The gateways to knowing God are gateways to nearness to and love of the Divine.
The Month of God is a singular and extraordinary gateway to knowing God.
In the heart and cup of divine knowledge, we must drink deeply of the cup of divine love.