Harmony in Divine Oneness: Imam al-Jawad and the Unveiler of the Primordial Nature

🔘 The night of the martyrdom of Imam Muhammad al-Taqi (peace be upon him)
📆 Date: 1403/03/17 – 28 Dhu al-Qa‘dah 1445
📌 Meshkat-e Noor session
👤 Lecture by Master Ali Saei

🗒 Some of the topics discussed in the session:
📌 Please note that the hadiths cited here are paraphrased. For the complete hadiths, please refer to the lecture.

🌼 On the night commemorating the martyrdom of the most blessed child ever born into existence.
🌼 (Hadith) Imam al-Rida (peace be upon him) said of Imam al-Jawad (peace be upon him): “No child as blessed as Imam al-Jawad has ever been born into existence”—a child whose blessing is boundless.
🌼 Imam al-Jawad is like Moses, son of Imran. He carries the Imam’s followers through the seas, saving them from the Pharaohs and from the Pharaoh within the self.
🌼 O God, grant us knowledge of each and every one of Your proofs.
🌼 Moses was taken to Mount Sinai; to what appointed stations does Imam al-Jawad lead us?
🌼 He is the one who lays bare the innate nature; he is the key to divine oneness.
🌼 The Imam is a divinely appointed means. Such a means is what brings our capacities to their fullest potential.
🌼 Imam al-Jawad raises what is low to the highest level, like a father lifting his child and helping him leap upward.
🌼 The Imam is the father of our spirit and soul; he brings us to the heights of Sidrat al-Muntaha.
🌼 What does it mean to seek a means of approach to God?
🌼 The Imam is the hardware and the computer’s operating system; he is the instrument through which divine growth unfolds.
🌼 Like God’s intimate speaker, his gaze and breath do the work of Moses’ staff.
🌼 God is the saviour: He delivers us from evil and guides us to every good.
🌼 We must conquer every peak with the Imam. The Imam is the source of knowledge for all existence.
🌼 We must awaken the generosity of Imam al-Jawad within ourselves.
🌼 The veil Satan has cast between us and the Imams has kept the Imam’s words from bringing us to life.
🌼 (Hadith) Imam al-Jawad was asked what “One” means. He replied: “When all tongues are united in affirming the oneness of the Lord.”
🌼 When all tongues reach agreement, we will understand what “One” means.
🌼 The language of the heart and the unseen realm
🌼 All creation is united in one matter: its innate affirmation of the oneness of the Most High Lord.
🌼 If existence is innately devoted to God’s oneness, how is it that human beings fall into associating partners with Him in the realm of religious law and thereby become liable to punishment?
🌼 Associating partners with God is like denying the light at midday.
🌼 The light of divine oneness is ever shining throughout our being.
🌼 One cannot paint black with light.
🌼 It is impossible to establish polytheism through knowledge.
🌼 Where does the glorious name “Allah” issue from? From the heart? How does it reach the heart?
🌼 The glorious name “Allah” issues from the highest Origin. These are syllables from the unseen realm.
🌼 Through the agreement of all tongues, I can call upon God in the language of all existence.
🌼 The language of oneness is the language of love.
🌼 The polytheist only imagines that there is polytheism; he cannot make it real.
🌼 We ourselves are the signature of God’s melody; this melody of pure oneness has no discord.
🌼 I should have brought the language of innate existence into the language of religious practice, but because I was unjust and ignorant, I could not.
🌼 If we become sincere in our devotion to divine oneness, we can master every language.
🌼 How beautiful it is to love God in a language, with a flower by one’s side!
🌼 The bond of divine oneness among all beings transcends pleasure and beauty; it surpasses them.
🌸 A reference to several verses on turning away from innate devotion to divine oneness
🌼 وَلَئِنْ سَأَلْتَهُمْ مَنْ نَزَّلَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَأَحْيَا بِهِ الْأَرْضَ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَوْتِهَا لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ ۚ قُلِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ ۚ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْقِلُونَ
🌼وَلَئِنْ سَأَلْتَهُمْ مَنْ خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَسَخَّرَ الشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ ۖ فَأَنَّىٰ يُؤْفَكُونَ
🌼 وَلَئِنْ سَأَلْتَهُمْ مَنْ خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ ۚ قُلْ أَفَرَأَيْتُمْ مَا تَدْعُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ إِنْ أَرَادَنِيَ اللَّهُ بِضُرٍّ هَلْ هُنَّ كَاشِفَاتُ ضُرِّهِ أَوْ أَرَادَنِي بِرَحْمَةٍ هَلْ هُنَّ مُمْسِكَاتُ رَحْمَتِهِ ۚ قُلْ حَسْبِيَ اللَّهُ ۖ عَلَيْهِ يَتَوَكَّلُ الْمُتَوَكِّلُونَ
🌼 وَلَئِنْ سَأَلْتَهُمْ مَنْ خَلَقَهُمْ لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ ۖ فَأَنَّىٰ يُؤْفَكُونَ