Ali, Slayer of Polytheism and Satan

🔹 Ali, the Slayer of Shirk and Satan
🔹 The Blessed Birth of His Eminence, the Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali (peace be upon him)
📅 Date: 1403/10/25 – 13 Rajab 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei

📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:

🌟 The Eve of the Commander of the Faithful’s Birth

The eve of the birth of the Invincible Lion of God, the point, word and line of all creation, is an occasion to offer congratulations to the inhabitants of the spiritual realms—the Malakut, Jabarut and Lahut—in the sweet refrain of blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad.

💫 The Miraculous Honour of His Birth in the Kaaba

The Kaaba split open, and the soul of wilayah was placed within it. Without doubt, this opening was not confined to the Kaaba: Bayt al-Ma’mur, the exalted Throne and all of existence experienced it. Yet the blessed being of the Commander of the Faithful is so immense that the whole universe cannot contain him, for he is the greatest wali of God and God’s supreme sign.
The Greater Occultation pertains to Imam al-Mahdi (AJ), but the greatest concealment belongs to the Commander of the Faithful. One day this concealment will end, and his sublime virtues will become manifest to all, when hearts are ready and breasts opened wide.

🕊 Taking Stock of Our Wilayah

Let us take stock of ourselves: to what extent do we live under the wilayah of the Commander of the Faithful? If this wilayah is not affirmed, no other wilayah will have any validity.
Each morning and evening, let us examine our state: are we alive through wilayah, or dead? Love for the Imam, joined with knowledge of him, is a sign of life in wilayah. Without this connection, we have departed from wilayah.

✨ The Importance of Knowing the Imam

Anyone who does not know their Imam wanders in misguidance; should they die in that state, their death will be in disbelief and hypocrisy. Their deeds will be like ashes scattered by the wind.
Let us examine ourselves and recognise his wilayah. Whoever partakes of the table of wilayah will feel love for the Imam in their soul. This love transforms a person from within, making them ever more hungry and thirsty for wilayah.

To reach our Master, we must turn away from the desires of the self; otherwise, we will remain in bondage. Let us hear the Imam’s call and answer it, for he is addressing us.

🔗 O Captives of Desire

O captives of desire—you who are enslaved by the lower self and your small, petty ambitions—can you not see that you are lost within these blind desires?
From the beginning of history to its end, the Master’s cry is directed at those held captive by the world and their own whims. Had you freed yourselves from this captivity, his blessed descendant would not be veiled in occultation.
O captives of desire, abandon these blind ambitions and the whims of the self, and listen to the Master’s cry.

🌍 Keeping Worldly Ambitions in Check

What remarkable words! O captives of desire, keep your ambitions in check. Whoever rides the world and embraces it will fear nothing and heed no cry—except the grinding of the teeth of calamities and misfortunes.
This is the Master’s cry: O people, O humankind, take charge of your own selves. Keep them away from their afflictions and habits. Separate them from the rotting carcass of the world. How long will you let your selves grow accustomed to the world’s pleasures? A self steeped in the world will seal its own misery.

✨ Freedom from the Bondage of the Self

O captives of desire, dismount from the steed of this world! Whoever fixes their gaze on this world will blind their heart and soul.
The captives of desire are those so attached to this world that they cannot see beyond it. They have become so sullied by its dust that they have forgotten the heavens.
Free your lower selves from savagery, and find repose in the nurturing care of the Two Weighty Things, for this alone is the path that will bring you to complete spiritual cultivation.
Small worldly ambitions enslave and imprison us. The smaller these ambitions, the smaller a person becomes, confined to the scale of this world. What, after all, is the vastness of this world compared with the Exalted Kingdom?

🕊 Enslaved by the World

Whoever rides upon this world becomes its captive. Whoever mounts filth can have no destination but filth. Whoever rides a fly can land only in filth, for it has nowhere more beautiful to take them.
If we ride upon darkness, we will never reach the light; it is impossible. Whoever rides upon dust will never attain the heavens. The rider of darkness has no destination but blindness.
A person should not even ride upon the heavens; they should guide them—they should lead the way to the light. The only vessel for this person’s journey is the Vessel of God, and their only mount is the Two Weighty Things. It is on this mount that one can reach the highest destination.

🌍 A Healing Remedy for Humanity

Our Master counsels us and speaks of humanity’s present affliction. God is the healing remedy for us and for planet Earth, yet we are suffocating without even knowing it. With each passing day, the suffocation grows worse. Humanity has reached the point of suffocation. What can be done?
No one gives up any part of their religion for the sake of their worldly life without God bringing upon them something whose harm is greater than what they gave up. If we sell our religion for this world, the result will be a loss so heavy that we will never escape its burden. It is a ruinous bargain.
Nor will we taste the pleasures of this world, for we will have taken up the fight against God. This world will not remain forever in a state of respite and deferred punishment; one day it will end, and the time for discipline will come. Let us not burn our religion at the brazier of this world, as so many have done. Selling one’s faith is forbidden, and this is God’s law. God Himself will punish those who sell their faith.

✨ Everything for God’s Good Pleasure

Everything in life should be spent in pursuit of God’s good pleasure, not the other way around: we must not spend God’s good pleasure on this lowly world. Woe to those who feign faith, then turn to disbelief after believing: they will face severe punishment, except for those who act under dissimulation. Those who open their hearts to disbelief will incur God’s wrath and a tremendous torment. Why? Because they have preferred the life of this world to the Hereafter, and God does not guide the unbelieving people.
Whoever cuts back on worship, prayer, or the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of this world gains nothing but loss. Their worldly life will be meagre and lifeless, and they will taste none of its pleasures.

Let us hear our Master’s call:

• Keep your eyes awake.
• Make your bellies lean.
• Put your feet to work; take action.
• Devote yourselves to action, and give generously of your wealth.
  Draw upon your bodies to nourish your souls; do not be miserly in this way.

🔊 Our Master’s Call: Entrust Your Soul to Paradise

Let us hear our Master’s call: Is there no free-hearted person who will leave this leftover food, this last morsel chewed over, to those who have a rightful claim to it?
Your soul has no price but Paradise. Never trade yourself for anything less, for the Paradise of the faithful is God’s good pleasure.

✨ Love of God and Knowledge: Insatiable

I will bargain for nothing but God.
O my Paradise, my quest, my longing, my world and my Hereafter, our Master says:
Two groups of the hungry and thirsty are never sated: those who seek knowledge and those who seek the world. But death brings an end to the worldly seeker’s hunger, while knowledge has no end, and the seeker of knowledge is never sated—not for all eternity.

Now, if a human being never tires of knowledge, can they ever tire of love for God? No, never!
O my master, O my lord, I hunger for Your love and can never be satiated. I thirst and shall never be quenched. How exalted is my longing!
How deeply I yearn for the One who sees me, while I do not see Him. O You who are the beloved of those who extend the hand of friendship toward You.

🕊 Let us speak of the words of the Master

Should I speak of the Master and of his words? I can never have enough!
The Master says:
Fear disobeying God in private, for the witness is the very Judge.
God is witness to every place and every space. Satan has deceived us so thoroughly that we imagine ourselves alone in the so-called virtual spaces.

👁 God, the Watcher and Witness

Does human being not see that God sees them?
Say, O My Messenger: Which thing is the greatest sin?
Answer: الله اکبر and testimony.
By God, before the recording angels become witnesses to our deeds, Allah Himself is the Witness and the One who sees.
Satan has deceived us so thoroughly that we act as though no one sees us and find ourselves alone with him.

O my Master, I can never have enough of Your words. Your wine does not quench my thirst; it only makes me thirstier.
O Master of water and bread, my being yearns.

📜 The Master’s Counsel: The Path of Good and Evil

The Master’s counsel:
God, the Most Glorious, has made good and evil clear in His Book of guidance.

• Follow the path of good, so that you may be guided.
• Keep away from the path of evil, so that you may enter the straight path.
• Fulfil the obligatory duties. The obligatory duties, the obligatory duties!

🌟 Fulfilling God’s Right

Fulfil God’s right, so that you may find your way toward His Paradise.
God specified what is forbidden without making it ambiguous, and made what is lawful clear without any impediment. The lawful is pure and wholesome.
But know that God has placed the sanctity of a Muslim above all other sanctities.

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🌟 The Master’s Words: The Secret of Sincerity and Divine Oneness

I will continue with the Master’s words up to this point and leave the rest to you, dear friends.
Through sincerity and divine oneness, the Master strengthened Muslims’ rights in their covenants and agreements. Remarkable! The first and last secret of politics is plainly visible in these words of the Master.
How can one attain a pure and exalted politics? The answer is clear: by seeking sincerity and divine oneness.
If we want this earth to be governed in the best possible manner, the secret lies in sincerity and divine oneness.

🔗 The Secret of Keeping One’s Word

If you want to know whether someone who makes you a promise will keep it, the secret lies in their sincerity and divine oneness.
God has strengthened covenants through sincerity and divine oneness. Whoever has no share in this bond cannot remain faithful to a covenant or agreement.

💡 Divine Oneness, the Solution to Problems

If divine oneness is absent, polytheism will take its place.
Can divine oneness bring prosperity to our economy? By God, yes! It is divine oneness that makes the world flourish.
If divine oneness is absent from society, Satan will come and ignorance will prevail. Expecting truthfulness from Satan is a mistake.

If divine oneness does not prevail in universities, nothing but ignorance will emerge from within them.
Divine oneness is the solution to every problem, because it brings our primordial nature into balance and opens the way to guidance.

🔑 Tawhid: The Key to Breakthrough and Progress

Our innate nature is bound to God, and it holds within it the first and last of all knowledge. How can we draw on this knowledge? How can we benefit from the Clear Book and the knowledge of the unseen?
Some people seek extraterrestrial beings in the hope of gaining knowledge from them, unaware that all knowledge is already contained within our innate nature.
Tawhid is the key to breakthrough and progress—the key to politics.

If tawhid does not take root on earth and in earthly politics, the rule of Satan will take hold.
To turn your back on tawhid is to turn toward Satan. Through tawhid, reason reaches its fullness, paths to progress open, and pure knowledge comes to light.

🌟 The Station of Sincerity and Tawhid

O Lord, this is the station of one who acknowledged no equal to You in Your oneness and affirmed You as One in Your tawhid.
Many claim to uphold tawhid, but only those who choose the path of the Master will succeed.

Let us beware of the self-deceptions and outward displays of tawhid that conceal shirk within. Tawhid must not be a performance; it must be inward and sincere.

🌟 Love for the Master: The Measure

The Master, the Commander of the Faithful, is the commander of tawhid.
O Abu Tufayl, I want to measure my love for the Master. How great is it?
What is the sign of love for the Master? In the arena of action, the one who claims to love him is put to shame. Do I love him even one billionth as much as I claim?
O my soul, O my claim—prove what you profess. Has this claim caused the Master any hardship? Has my Master wept because of my love for him?
The signs of this love must be evident in my conduct, my words, and my dealings. One who loves the world becomes its captive. But one who loves the Master becomes captive to God.

The lover of Ali has conquered tawhid.
The lover of Ali reaches the summit of tawhid. Not an atom of shirk remains in his soul, for his Master has blinded his eye to shirk.

⚡️ The Master’s Work: Blinding the Eye to Shirk

I blinded the eye of shirk; I wiped it out.
Whoever sees through the lens of shirk is no lover of the Master. The Master cleanses his devotees of the thorns and weeds of shirk. Love for the Master cannot be mixed with love of the world. The Master has vanquished Satan.
The Master has carried out, and continues to carry out, wondrous deeds; he has made our task easy.
He has destroyed Satan and made the whole world hear his trembling heart and anguish. That is the Master!

💡 The Master’s Wonders and the Road of Tawhid

I love my Master, but how far along the road of tawhid have I come? A day will come when the Master’s wonders are revealed.
Muawiya asked Abu Tufayl: “How great is your love for Ali?”
He replied:
“My love is like the love of Moses’ mother for Moses, when she had been parted from him.”
Her heart was so overwhelmed that she nearly lost herself from the intensity of her love and fear of being separated from Moses.
If I, too, cannot bear even a moment’s separation from the Master, that is proof of my love.

🕊 Describing Love for Ali

When asked about his love for Ali, Abu Dharr said:
“My love for Ali is like cool water reaching my parched, burning heart; like the purest honey from the honeybee.”
But no—love for Ali is sweeter still.

Why can Muawiya, the Nasibis, and the ISIS militants not love the Master?
Because darkness cannot love the light.
The angels are measured by the depth of their love for the Master. The angels of the heavens and the veils long so ardently to behold Ali that their longing surpasses even that of a devoted mother for her child.

🌟 A Prayer for Love of Ali

O God, Most High and Almighty, grant this supreme love to all his Shi‘a.