The Technologies of Imam Sajjad (AS)

🌼🔆🌼The Celestial Technology of the Cord🌼🔆🌼

🔹On the eve of the birth of Imam Zayn al-Abidin (AS)
📅 Date: 1403/11/15 – 04 Sha‘ban 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:

🌟 The night of Zayn al-Abidin’s birth (AS)

🔹 Zayn al-Abidin, the adornment of those who strive in worship, the Imam of the Godfearing, the guardian of the Muslims, the delight of the eyes of those who behold him, the gnostics!
🔹 Congratulations to the celestial and heavenly realms, accompanied by blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad!

🕌 Knowing the station of Imam Sajjad (AS)

🔹 O God, make Sajjad known to us!
🔹 Who—or what—is Sajjad?
🔹 Reveal Sajjad to us; make him familiar to our hearts!
🔹 Sajjad is the mosque itself: God’s most exalted mosque in all of creation!
🔹 Mosque, prostration, and worshipper—all at once!
🔹 Gather them in one place, and they become “Sajjad”!
🔹 Sajjad is that being who has made the mosque, the prayer niche, prostration, and worshipper one!
🔹 He unites love and lover; he is ardor and rapture!
🔹 Sajjad is the servant, the One worshipped, and the place of worship!
🔹 What perfection Sajjad possesses! What beauty!

💖 The one who unveiled the depths of love and worship

🔹 To call Sajjad—Zayn al-Abidin, the adornment of the righteous—the one who unveiled the depths of love would be an understatement, not an exaggeration!
🔹 By God! Sajjad unveiled the depths of worship and turned servitude upside down!
🔹 Who is Sajjad?
🔹 One must have eyes like Husayn’s to behold Sajjad’s beauty!
🔹 One must look upon Sajjad with the “All-seeing Eye of God” and the “Heart of God that perceives,” and come to know his state!
🔹 One must gaze with the “All-seeing Eye of God” upon the beauty of the “Beautiful Face of God”!
🔹 What a noble master Sajjad is! He is the master of all masters!
🔹 When Imam Husayn (AS) held Sajjad in his arms, he said:

• “How fragrant you are, Sajjad! What a beautiful perfume you carry! How beautiful you are!”
  🔹 What did Husayn (AS) see? What did he receive from Sajjad?
  🔹 He saw the unseen in Sajjad’s beauty!

📖 Knowledge and Imamate in the family of the Master of Those Who Prostrate (AS)

🔹 Abdullah ibn Ataba asked Imam Husayn (AS) about Imam Sajjad (AS):

• “Who is this young man?”
  🔹 Imam Husayn (AS) replied:
• “His son Muhammad will be nine years old when he assumes the Imamate!”
• “And this nine-year-old will unveil the depths of knowledge!”
  🔹 You ask me about Sajjad, yet I tell you of Sajjad’s son!
  🔹 He will unveil the depths of knowledge and open up the truth!
  🔹 What a mighty champion Zayn al-Abidin is!
  🔹 Who is Sajjad? He is the supreme means to God!

🎼 The most beautiful music for the Creator

🔹 O believers! Be mindful of God and seek a means of drawing near to Him!
🔹 Has it ever occurred to us to play a beautiful melody for our Creator?
🔹 The most beautiful music in all of creation, for our Creator!
🔹 How? Through the voice of Imam Sajjad (AS), and with the heart of Imam Zayn al-Abidin (AS)!
🔹 Let us play the most beautiful melody, one that has no equal in this world!
🔹 The wealth of love is free!
🔹 The Sahifa Sajjadiya is the wealth of love!
🔹 Do you wish to love God? The way is short!
🔹 The Sahifa Sajjadiya shortened the path of love!
🔹 It traversed the seven cities of love in a single moment!
🔹 It does not merely take you through one city; in a single moment, it teaches you the way of loving!
🔹 It is Sajjad! We need only enter the garden of the Sajjadiya!
🔹 Then, before we even become lovers, we will become the beloved of the Presence of Love!
🔹 Who is Sajjad?
🔹 O God! Make Sajjad known to us!

✨ Sajjad: the reality of servitude

🌿 Imam Sajjad (AS) is the reality of worship and the essence of servitude. He is a means of connection to God, a path to unveiling the depths of love and attaining divine knowledge!

🌟 Sajjad (AS): the destination of love for God

🔹 Sajjad is the very destination of God’s love!
🔹 Imam Sajjad (AS) was neither a silent imam nor a quiet one!
🔹 He was not sickly; he was eloquent! He was decisive!
🔹 He was constantly on the battlefield against disbelief and polytheism!
🔹 He was at war with disbelief, the disbelievers, and polytheism, the polytheists!
🔹 Let us not imagine that the work was finished after Ashura!
🔹 No, that was the time when the massacre of the Shia began!
🔹 What did Sajjad (AS) do?
🔹 He is veiled behind a curtain! He is a mystery among the mysteries of the Sajjadiyya!
🔹 The special missions of the Sajjadiyya so thoroughly crushed the root of disbelief that one day the veil will be lifted from their secrets!
🔹 Were it not for those hidden missions of the Sajjadiyya, there would be no trace of religion, religiosity, or the Shia in this world!
🔹 The role that Imam Sajjad (AS) played in that era behind an outward appearance of silence is the very role that Imam al-Zaman (AJ) plays in this era!

⚙️ Transcendent technology in the age of Imam Sajjad (AS)

🔹 By God, he employed such transcendent technologies!
🔹 But in such a way that he neutralized all the conspiracies of the disbelievers against religion, the religious, and the Shia!

🏴 Jabir’s complaint about the injustice of the Banu Umayya

🔹 Jabir came into the presence of Imam Sajjad (AS) and complained about the Banu Umayya.
🔹 About the injustice of the Banu Umayya’s supporters, about the tyranny of the oppressors!
🔹 He said to the Imam (AS):

• “O son of the Messenger of God! They kill us in every house, every street, and every quarter!”
• “In every field, every city, and every land, they massacre us and leave us homeless!”
  🔹 And with sorrow he continued:
• “O my master! Openly and publicly, they curse the Commander of the Faithful (AS) in the cities, in the markets, on the roads!”
• “They gather in the Mosque of the Messenger of God (PBUH) and invoke curses upon Ali (AS)!”
• “No one restrains them! No one stops them!”
• “And whoever wishes to defend Ali (AS), they attack him in a mob!”
• “They say this man is a ‘Rafidi,’ this one is an ‘Abu Turabi’!”
• “They drag him before their ruler, they torture him, beat him, imprison him, and kill him!”

🌌 The supplication of Imam Sajjad (AS) and divine forbearance

🔹 Imam Sajjad (AS) heard Jabir’s words, then raised his eyes to the sky and said:

• “How great is Your forbearance! How vast is Your clemency!
• How immense is Your station in forbearance!
• O my Lord! You grant Your servants in the cities such respite that they imagine Your respite for them is eternal!
• Yet all these events are before Your eyes!
• No one overcomes Your decree!
• No one can repel Your inevitable will!
• However You wish, in whatever manner You wish, at whatever time You wish, You act!
• And You are more knowing of us than we are ourselves!”

⚡️ The permission to punish and divine technology in the hands of Baqir al-Ulum (AS)

🔹 It was as though Imam Sajjad (AS), through this supplication, received permission to punish from the court of God!
🔹 Then he called his son Muhammad Baqir (AS)!
🔹 Hazrat Baqir (AS) was a child at that time, perhaps four to seven years old!
🔹 But Imam Sajjad (AS) summoned him!
🔹 Muhammad came! The Imam (AS) said to him:

• “Little warrior of Sajjad, come, for you have a great mission!”
• “Tomorrow you will go to the Mosque of the Messenger of God (PBUH)!”
• “And you will take up that cord which Gabriel brought down for our grandfather!”
• “Move it gently and softly!”
• “Beware lest you shake it violently!”
• “For if you shake that cord forcefully, I fear that all the people will perish!”

🔹 What immense technology is this?!
🔹 What is the ‘cord technology’? A thin thread, yet it holds immense power!
🔹 A divine technology, one of the technologies of Muhammad (PBUH) and the family of Muhammad (AS)!

🌿 Imam Sajjad (AS), outwardly silent but inwardly engaged in a mighty jihad! He who suffered under the greatest of injustices shattered the very foundations of polytheism through trust in God and drawing upon divine knowledge! The day the truth of these hidden missions is revealed, the world will be left in astonishment!

⚡️ The divine mission of Imam Baqir (AS) in childhood

🔹 I will tell the hadith briefly and concisely, passing over many points, but preserving the essence of the truth!
🔹 Jabir grows worried—what mission is this?
🔹 What does Baqir (AS) intend to do? He goes to Imam Baqir (AS) and asks!
🔹 Imam Muhammad Baqir (AS), while still a child, speaks these words:

• “O Jabir! Were it not for that ‘appointed time’…”
• “O Jabir! By God, were it not for that appointed time which God has granted Satan respite—were it not for that…”
• “Were it not for that fixed term and decreed delay, were it not for that accomplished divine decree…”
• “By God! I would have buried this inverted people in the dust and annihilated them! In the blink of an eye!”

🔹 Who is it that speaks these words?
🔹 Baqir (AS)! The three- or four-year-old warrior of Sajjad!
🔹 By God, if this Baqir (AS) had been given the mission at Karbala, he would have destroyed all the enemies in the blink of an eye!
🔹 He had no permission to annihilate, but he was equipped with the highest technologies of the world!
🔹 But since the “appointed day” had not yet come, since the divine decree was not so, the mission was deferred!
🔹 Were it not so, “one breath of Baqir,” “one thread of Baqir,” would have sufficed to destroy the entire inverted people!

🌍 The secret of divine technologies in the hands of the Shi’a of the age of the Advent

🔹 O God! What technology is this?!
🔹 By the divinity of God, in the hands of the small Shi’a of the time (AJ), there are many of these threads!
🔹 But they have no permission!
🔹 If they had permission, they would crush this entire world!

😨 Jabir and his astonishment at the mission of Baqir (AS)

🔹 Jabir is amazed!
🔹 What will these people do? What will they do with the Nasibis, the accursed, the Qadaris?
🔹 Is Imam Baqir (AS) going to destroy them all?
🔹 But no—the Imam only wishes to administer a small chastisement!
🔹 He only wishes to cast a small dread into the hearts of this inverted people!

⚡️ Divine power in the hands of Imam Baqir (AS)

🔹 Imam Baqir (AS) says:

• “I have a command!”
  🔹 What does that mean?
  🔹 It means I have a mission—I am only permitted to cast a “dread” into the hearts of this people!
  🔹 But I wished I could destroy them all!
  🔹 I wished God would cleanse the earth of the existence of this inverted people, so that God’s servants might find peace!

🔹 Jabir asks:

• “O my master! How will you frighten them?
• “When they are so many, beyond counting!”

🔹 So Imam Baqir (AS) enters the mosque!
🔹 To show Jabir the power of God!
🔹 Jabir also enters the mosque alongside the Imam (AS)!
🔹 His Holiness performs two rak’ahs of prayer…
🔹 Then places his blessed face upon the earth…
🔹 He communes with God in special words…
🔹 Then he raises his blessed head…
🔹 From his blessed pocket, he brings out “a delicate thread”…
🔹 A pleasant fragrance wafts from that thread…
🔹 That thread was finer than a thread that passes through the eye of a needle!

🔹 Jabir is astonished!
🔹 He says: “His Holiness did things with that thread… but very gently…”
🔹 “He moved that thread softly, as though he were not moving it at all…”
🔹 But suddenly…

🔹 Cries and clamour rose from every direction!
🔹 An earthquake struck!
🔹 A slight tremor, yet the houses of Medina were destroyed!
🔹 People fled the main roads weeping, terrified!
🔹 Everyone was crying out: «إنا لله و إنا إلیه راجعون!»

🌪 Sajad’s (AS) young warrior caused an upheaval!

🔹 What an upheaval Sajad’s (AS) young warrior caused!
🔹 This was only one of Imam Baqir’s (AS) minor missions!
🔹 What would have happened if Imam Sajad (AS) had revealed all his power?!
🔹 It would have been like Judgment Day! A momentous event would have unfolded!
🔹 People were on the verge of perishing! Everyone cried out, “It’s an earthquake! It’s Judgment Day!”
🔹 Weeping and in tears, they made their way toward the mosque!
🔹 They admitted it themselves:

• “We deserved to be swallowed up by the earth!”
• “Because we had neglected enjoining what is right!”
• “Wickedness, depravity, adultery, usury and sodomy have become widespread!”
• “We deserved a punishment even more severe than this!”

🌿 Even as a child, Imam Baqir (AS) struck terror into the hearts of tyrants, shaking the foundations of falsehood! Those who had neglected enjoining what is right admitted that they deserved divine punishment! This was just one manifestation of the hidden divine power within the Household of Muhammad (AS)!

⚡️ The secret of the cord of divine power

🔹 Jaber asks in amazement:

• “What is this cord? What is this marvel?”
  🔹 Imam Baqir (AS) says:
• “This is only a remnant of the Household of Moses and the Household of Aaron!”
• “In other words, we are using only a small piece of Mosaic technology!”
• “What would happen if we used Muhammadan technology?!”

🏆 The exalted rank of the Household of Muhammad (AS)

🔹 Then he said:

• “O Jaber! We hold a rank and a place of our own!”
• “We hold an exalted rank and place with Allah!”
• “Were it not for us, neither earth nor heaven would have been created; neither Paradise nor plain or desert, neither mountain nor tree, neither sweetness nor bitterness, neither water nor plants!”
• “God chose us, and we are His chosen creation!”

🌍 The governor of Medina’s warning

🔹 When the governor of Medina saw what was happening, he called out:

• “O people! O those of this age! If you wish to be saved…!”
  🔹 But the people stood astonished, trembling and terrified!

🙏 Jaber’s gratitude for the blessing of knowledge

🔹 After witnessing this miracle, Jaber spoke with humility and tears on his lips:

• «الحمدلله الذی هدانا لهذا!»
• “Praise be to God, who granted me knowledge of you!”
• “Praise be to Him, who enabled me to obey you!”
• “And made me an enemy of your enemies!”

📖 What is true knowledge?

🔹 Imam Sajad (AS) said to Jaber:

• “O Jaber! Do you know what knowledge is?”
• “Knowledge is the affirmation of divine unity!”
• “Divine unity must be established!
• “First, you must come to know the meanings; then, the gates!”
• “Then the people; then the pillars, the chiefs and the elect!”
  🔹 Then he recited the noble verse:
• “لَوْ كَانَ فِيهِمَا آلِهَةٌ إِلَّا اللَّهُ لَفَسَدَتَا” (If there were any gods besides Allah in heaven and earth, both would surely have fallen into corruption!)

✨ Divine technologies in the hands of God’s proofs

🔹 Then he said:

• “O Jaber! Affirming divine unity is knowledge. As for the meanings…!”
• “We are those meanings! We are their manifestations!”
  🔹 He went on:
• “This is only one small piece of Sajjadi technology!”
• “If Sajad (AS) is so richly equipped with great technologies, what would happen if we were equipped with Sajad (AS)?!”
• “This world, this universe, is not confined to the planet Earth! We must free ourselves from this earth, pass beyond it, and reach what lies beyond this universe!”
• “We must detach our hearts from this world and become companions of the heavenly beings! Companions of Jabalqa and Jabarsa!”
• “Let us flee from these people and pass beyond, and become companions of our Imam al-Zaman!”
• “And let us know that the rope of divine power lies in the hands of God’s Proofs (hujaj)!”
• “Knowledge, wisdom, technology—whatever exists—God has placed in the hands and blessed hearts of the Ahl al-Bayt (AS)!”

🔥 The absolute authority of Imam al-Zaman (AJ) over the universe

🔹 By God! If God were to forbid air to the disbelievers and hypocrites, what would happen?
🔹 Imam al-Zaman (AJ) possesses this technology!
🔹 If he receives permission from God, he will forbid water and air to the disbelievers!
🔹 Then water will not quench their thirst! Light will not illuminate their eyes!

🌪 Imam al-Zaman (AJ) and the moment of final permission

🔹 If Imam al-Zaman (AJ) wills it, no heart will any longer perceive affection!
🔹 No insolent one will commit sin openly!
🔹 By God! If he raises his hand and receives permission, in a single moment he will cleanse this world of the filth of sinners!
🔹 A day will come when he will receive that permission!
🔹 On that day, what will he do?!
🔹 The glory and grandeur of the technologies of the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) are beyond our imagination!
🔹 Our minds cannot comprehend them!
🔹 A single thin thread holds all this wonder! So how can the hidden technologies of the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) even be imagined?!

🌿 This world does not yet have the capacity for the full power of God’s Proofs to be revealed! But a day will come when all these powers will manifest, and earth and time will submit before the truth!

🌟 God’s Proofs and the technologies of the Quran

🔹 What wonders do God’s Proofs possess!
🔹 If they were to employ the technologies of the Quran, what would happen?!
🔹 The secrets of the Quran, its outward and inner dimensions, are in the hands of His Eminence!
🔹 What do they do? What have they done? And what will they yet do?!
🔹 Sometimes it seems that Imam al-Zaman (AJ) is tugging at that tiny thread!
🔹 He leaves the Shi’a be and casts terror into the hearts of the enemies of the Shi’a!
🔹 But it is not we who are delivered—rather, it is they who fall into perdition!
🔹 What plans they devise!
🔹 They place their thread in the minds and hearts of their Shi’a, making them possessors of their miraculous technologies!
🔹 An Imam who in a single moment opens a path of many years for his Shi’a!
🔹 A path of hundreds of years that the polytheists traversed with great hardship—the Imam, with a single blessing, traverses it in a moment for his Shi’a!

📖 The speaking Quran; equipped with all technologies

🔹 The Quran is speaking!
🔹 It is equipped with “the clarification of all things”!
🔹 It is equipped with every technology!
🔹 His Eminence shatters the habits of the world!
🔹 They see what cannot be seen, and make audible what cannot be heard!
🔹 Through their presence, the universe is transformed!
🔹 If the technology of “supplication” were to manifest, what would happen?!
🔹 Those words that the Imam recites in supplication—if we were to read his Sahifa with a “Sajjadiyya heart,” what tumult would be unleashed in this world?!
🔹 Man would be drowned in wonders!
🔹 We must learn how to ask God with beauty and wisdom!
🔹 We must ask God for the art of “asking beautifully”!
🔹 Let us sit at the feet of the successful ones of this school!
🔹 Let us be students at the feet of the Sajjadiyya technologies!
🔹 By God, all of these are technologies beyond the quantum level!
🔹 Beyond any technology and technique!
🔹 A day will come when this mighty industry will manifest!
🔹 Knowledge will manifest in its true reality!
🔹 Are we ready to receive those mighty technologies?
🔹 If we are under His Eminence’s pledge of allegiance, then we are ready!
🔹 Then we have been accepted in His Eminence’s examination!
🔹 Let us not be among the ignorant and deprived of these sciences!

🔥 God’s Proofs; the wellspring of wondrous technologies

🔹 The Proofs of God are the springtime of mind-boggling technologies!
🔹 For they are the mine of wisdom!
🔹 Imam Sajjad (AS) too invites us to himself!
🔹 He says, “Ask me before you lose me”!
🔹 This Sahifa Sajjadiyya is the secret of attaining divine technologies!
🔹 The path to reaching these technologies lies only in accepting the Imamate and following them!
🔹 Without doubt, Imam Sajjad (AS) has wrought wonders in worlds beyond this earth!
🔹 He has had marvels!
🔹 If only we understood!
🔹 If only we could take up residence in those “Sajjadian worlds”!
🔹 But what did the people of the earth do?!
🔹 They poisoned him, they brought him down to dust and blood!
🔹 Was this the way of loyalty?!
🔹 Was this gratitude for the greatest blessing of God?!
🔹 If we were to attain the “technologies of the Beautiful Names,” what would happen?!
🔹 But this is a path that cannot be traversed without knowledge of the Proofs of God!
🔹 One must pass through the path of “knowledge of the self”!
🔹 اللهم عرفنی نفسک…
🔹 And after passing through these stages, we will reach the technology of the “divine Beautiful Names”!
🔹 That is, the manifestation of “new creations,” the emergence of “unparalleled laws”!
🔹 And by God, such will indeed come to pass!
🔹 On that day, a group will gnash their teeth in such regret!
🔹 Regret that they were deprived of this immense knowledge!
🔹 How familiar are we with computer programs?!
🔹 The more familiar we are, the greater our benefit from computer technologies!
🔹 Are we familiar with the “language of the Beautiful Names,” with the “language of the Quran and the Ahl al-Bayt”?!
🔹 If we are familiar, these divine technologies will manifest within our very being!

⚡️ Sajjadian technologies; of the nature of divine miracles

🔹 Sajjadian technologies are of the nature of “mann and salwa”!
🔹 Of the nature of “the staff of Moses”!
🔹 Of the nature of Sajjadian whispered prayers and glances!
🔹 Of the nature of “the Sajjadian heart”!
🔹 The technology of “Sajjadian Khaybar”; “the Sajjadian Hand of God”!
🔹 Technologies peculiar to humanity!
🔹 Technologies of ethics!
🔹 Technologies of the sublime parables!
🔹 The attributes of the Most Great! The Beautiful Names!
🔹 Technologies special to the ascension!
🔹 Yes! The “appointed time” has not yet come!
🔹 But when the appointed time arrives, Imam Zaman (AJ), like his noble ancestor Imam Sajjad (AS), will raise up a resurrection!
🔹 That “appointed time” will come to pass!
🔹 God has given warning!
🔹 Let us not fall into error!
🔹 When we see the ranks of the sinful, who ceaselessly and openly disobey God, let us not be deceived by them!

🌍 A warning about the deception of the world

🔹 Let not the coming and going and bustling of the disbelievers in the lands deceive us!
🔹 These are a fleeting enjoyment!
🔹 Their share is small!
🔹 But their abode is the fires of hell!
🔹 And what an evil resting place!
🔹 Without doubt, Imam Zaman (AJ) sometimes seeks permission and lays seditions to rest!
🔹 The warp and weft of every technology is in his blessed hands!
🔹 The technology of all the prophets and divine saints is in his blessed hands!

🌿 So we must prepare ourselves! We must pledge allegiance! We must be under the command of our Imam! For one day, these “divine technologies” will manifest upon the world!