The Greater Believer: A Channel of Connection

🌼🔆🌼The Secret of Connection with the Proof of God🌼🔆🌼

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌹 “The Taste and Flavour of the Ages”  “The Secret of the Believing Jurist-Warrior”  “The Necessity of Establishing Islamic Government in the Age of Occultation” “Secrets from Supplication 27 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya”  “The Supplication of the People of the Frontiers” and others — Abstract with Addendum      1403.07.12    Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🔅🌼 The Map and Geography of the Discussion: “The Super-Believer, the Highway of Connection to Imam al-Zaman (peace be upon him)”🌼🔅

🌼 Key Concepts Raised in the Session

🔹 Secrets of the Supplication:

A look at the twenty-seventh supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya and the discovery of its secrets.

The Imam prays for the defenders of the frontiers and the warriors, and clarifies their role in the present age.

🔹 The Legitimacy of Islamic Government in the Age of Occultation:

The twenty-seventh supplication gives a positive answer to the legitimacy of Islamic government in the Age of Occultation.

Emphasis on the duty of the Shi’a to defend Muslims.

🔹 The Equipping of the Believers:

In this supplication, the Imam equips the believers with physical and meta-physical weapons.

Physical, meta-physical, and cultural warfare, and the war of perceptions, must be given attention in this age.

🔹 The Bond with Imam al-Zaman (peace be upon him):

The importance of the believers’ bond with Imam al-Zaman (peace be upon him) in the present era.

Emphasis on the role of jurists and warriors in establishing this bond.

🔹 The Role and Importance of Martyrdom:

Teaching how to seek martyrdom and enter the field of battle.

An interpretation of the supplication of Imam Ali concerning complete detachment from the world and connection to God.

🔹 The Spiritual Effects of the Believers:

Emphasis on the role of the believers in warding off affliction and preserving society.

The penetration of hypocrisy and its impact on society, and the importance of recognising the hypocrites.

🔹 Resistance against the Dajjal and the Devils:

A warning about the awakening of the Dajjal and the infiltration of devils.

The necessity of resisting the influences of cyberspace and the enemy’s media.

🔹 Lessons from the Supplication:

Love of martyrdom and its beauties on the path of religion.

An explanation of how the believers must prepare themselves for guardianship (wilaya), and the effects of the loss of an outstanding believer upon society.

🔹 The Super-Believer, the Highway of Connection to the Spirit of God

🌼 We shall make a passage from the twentieth supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya to the twenty-seventh supplication, and, God willing, we shall unveil secrets from these supplications.

🌸 In this supplication, the Imam prays for the people of the frontiers, and by disclosing its secrets, he clarifies the duties of the present age; as though he were depicting in this path the faces of martyrs such as Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah.

🍃 Is Islamic government legitimate in the Age of Occultation? The twenty-seventh supplication gives a positive answer to this question. For whom do we pray? For the people of the frontiers, which clarifies the duties of the Shi’a in this era; the duty of the Shi’a is to defend the Muslims.

🌿 There must be a government and an army so that those warriors for whom the Imam prays may be able to present themselves on the field of battle.

🌷 The Imam unveils secrets for us, among them how we should seek martyrdom from God. He shows us the most beautiful of requests. The Imam depicts an all-out war in which the devils have assailed the believers from every side.

🍂 The Dajjal is awake, and lesser devils have pitched their tents around him; believers, too, must gather around the Imam of their time. How can they connect with their Imam? They must stay connected with the believers of their age. A faithful, learned Shi‘i is a link to the Imam of the Age علیه السلام; the person closest to the Imam of the Age is the most learned jurist.

🌾 People of pure heart must seek out a jurist and a fighter in God’s cause, and through him connect with their Imam of the Age علیه السلام.

🌺 Physical and otherworldly wars, cultural warfare and battles over perception have begun; we must mobilize on every front against the forces of the Dajjal.

🌳 In his supplication, the Imam equips believers with physical and immaterial weapons—weapons beyond human imagination. He shows that the battle is both outward and inward, and that victory is needed on both fronts.

🍀 Imam Sajjad shows that believers must prepare themselves for wilayah. We discover this secret in the final passage of the Supplication for the People of the Frontiers.

🌹 In this passage, the Imam invokes the right of prophethood and wilayah, and stresses that the final rule will belong to Muhammad and the family of Muhammad.

🌼 The Imam shows that the warriors on the battlefield are the fragrance and savor of their age. If they are martyred, grief at their absence will constrict our souls, and joy will depart from us.

🌸 True believers are the perfected people of their age; they fulfil, to the utmost, their duties of devotion, order and discipline. Their prayer, communion with God, pilgrimage, jihad and ethics are all in their proper place. Believers of pure character are the lungs of the world; with their spiritual breath, they bring life and purity to existence.

🍃 Why are we drowning in sin, yet God’s punishment does not descend? For the sake of a single believer, God averts affliction from an entire valley.

🌿 If seven believers live in a valley, it is spared punishment; the seven stand like a fortress against calamities and hardships.

🌸 It is narrated from Imam Sadiq علیه‌السلام that when calamity descends, does it seize the believers as well? The Imam replies: Yes, but God delivers them from it.

🌷 A believer is a healing balm: he enters the midst of calamity, yet keeps it away from earth and sky. Believers are swiftly delivered from illness and hardship, and they deliver others as well.

🍀 Why does our heart grow heavy? Why, when that devout believer was beside us, did we fail to appreciate the peace we received from him? After he is gone, we find it hard to breathe.

🌾 Everything needs something else in order to find peace; a believer finds peace through his believing brother, just as a bird is at ease with one of its own kind.

🌸 Believers are a source of peace for one another.

🌿 If one outstanding believer lives among the believers, his loss affects their bodies, like an injury to one limb causing pain throughout the body. Why? Because the spirit of believers is from the Spirit of God, and their connection to God is stronger than a sunbeam’s connection to the sun.

🌷 An outstanding believer binds the other believers together through the Spirit of God; but when he is gone, the believers, too, are lost.

🌳 If God does not appoint someone to take his place, the believers will give their lives. We think that we have obtained God’s blessings through our own efforts, when in fact it is God who wards off calamity from the community.

🌼 So we must cherish the believers, اَبَرمومنان، اَبَرفقیهان و اَبَرمجاهدانی and recognise those who are the very breath and soul of this world. Without them, all would perish.

🌸 In his blessed twenty-seventh supplication, Imam Sajjad teaches us about martyrdom. How should we enter the battlefield, fearless and wholly committed? The Imam teaches us this.

🌿 How should we seek martyrdom? It seems that His Eminence is interpreting this supplication of Imam Ali: “خدایا کمال قطع شدن به سوی خودت را به من عطا کن.” — that I may reach the perfection of detachment; that I may be cut off from everything except You. If I sever myself from my ego, I will attain martyrdom, and if I am slain in the field of jihad, this martyrdom surpasses all other martyrdoms. We must detach ourselves from everything in order to taste the sweetness of union with the Beloved. What is this union like? If we taste it, no other taste will ever attract us again. Let us reach the perfection of detachment so that only God’s will remains.

🌳 In one of the supplications of the Sahifa it is said: “پروردگارا، من با تمام خود به سوی تو آمده‌ام.” What is my “all”? I must purify my entire being, my entire world, all at once, sincerely for God. When will we reach such a state?

🍃 Every so often a breeze blows and exposes the hypocrites — hypocrites who had withdrawn into their shells. Sayyid Hasani had to step forward so that he would be identified.

🌷 Love admits no imperfection; lovers must be mature and wise. Some outwardly claim to love martyrdom yet flee from the martyrs — why? Because hypocrisy dwells in their hearts.

🌸 We must recognize the hypocrites — those who visit the shrine only in outward form, while their spirit and soul are not with Husayn. To become Husayni is not easy. In this age, the Husaynis are as wronged as Husayn was.

🌿 Let us recognize the hypocrites so that we may discern the believers.

🌼 We must recognize the truth in its time; if its time passes, the losses will be irreparable. Those who dispute self-evident truths should doubt themselves. This is the time for self-examination.

🌾 Whoever trusts the enemy does so because of inner hypocrisy. Those who cannot distinguish truth from falsehood should doubt themselves.

🌸 Many are they who recite the Quran, yet the Quran curses them.

🌿 The effects of Husayn must become manifest in every particle of our being. We must be opponents of oppression and declare our disavowal of the Dajjals and the Yazidis.

🌼 Whatever we have partaken of on this path must be shown in every dimension of our lives — from our work to our studies to enjoining the good.

🌳 Those who praise the people of wrongdoing are the truly disgraced.

🌾 We must first bring the enemy to the utmost weakness.

🍂 (Passages from the Ṣaḥīfa) “O God, when the fighters face the unbelievers, make the unbelievers seem fewer in number to the fighters, and make them appear insignificant in their eyes.”

🌼 If Sayyid Hasan is martyred, it is my fault; I am to blame for not having been able to recite the Twenty-Seventh Supplication for the martyrs. That warrior who rolled in his own blood — I did not even have the chance to offer a supplication for him.

🌿 Those who smile at the enemy and share his thinking should be afraid. They have fallen prey to the whisperings of the devils.

🍂 Let us fear both virtual and real sorcery — such that we see a friend as an enemy and an enemy as a friend.

🌼 An all-out battle against the devils has begun; those who have surrendered their hearts to the enemy must beware of the spellbound heedless, for their heedlessness is all-encompassing. Whoever looks upon them is bewitched.

🌸 The devils penetrate human souls through cyberspace in ways they cannot through the physical world. The enemy’s media battlefields are the devils’ points of entry. Are we not aware of this possession? Are we not aware of the spiritual and psychological illnesses that originate from these channels? By God, no chemical or herbal remedy will cure us.

🍃 Why do we become depressed? The depressions that seep into human souls from cyberspace cause depression and spiritual suffering.

🌿 The Dajjal is the master of Iblis.

🌼 Iblis is the assistant of the Dajjal.

🍂 Let us beware of polluted environments; beware of the impure waves that poison the human spirit and soul.

🌸 Those who take pride in their sin show the penetration of wretchedness into their spirit and soul.

🌿 Let us be careful of the kinds of nourishment that come in the form of waves; the greatest source from which these foods emerge is the virtual world. Every member of the body has its own particular nourishment, and if the soul becomes polluted, there is no longer any need for the body to be polluted. Those who feed on impurities and are unaware of it.

🍃 How does Iblis rejoice? When a believing jurist passes from this world, his celebration and festivity begin, and he sets the human devils to dancing.

🌼 When a believing jurist passes from this world, a breach is made in the heart of Islam that nothing will ever be able to fill. No other Sayyid Hasani will come, and his place will remain forever empty.

🌸 When a believer passes from this world, the angels weep for him. The layers of the earth on which he worshipped begin to weep. The gates of heaven, through which his deeds ascended toward God, weep. A breach is made in Islam that nothing can fill, for believing jurists are like the fortresses of Islam, just as the walls of a city protect it.

🌼 When someone does not pray, he becomes deserving of affliction; but God, by virtue of the one who prays, pardons him.

🌸 For the sake of the fasting Shi’a, God pardons those who do not fast. If all were not fasting, all would perish; and such is the case with zakat and hajj as well.

🍃 So we must take hold of the believers; we must recognise the great believers, the great jurists and the great strivers, who are the breath and soul of this world. If they were not, all would perish.

🌼 We must raise the speed of our discernment; this age is not the age of experience, it is the age of action.

🍀 Whatever we have learned must be shown in every dimension of life, from work to study to enjoining the good.

🍃 Those who praise the people of wrongdoing are the truly disgraced.

🌸 We must first bring the enemy to the utmost weakness.

🔅🌼 The wonders of the “27th” supplication of Ahl al-Thughur 🌼🔅

🌹 An all-out war is underway in every dimension between the believers and the devils, the disbelievers and the hypocrites, under the command of the “final Dajjal.” To confront it, we must add the 27th supplication of Sahifa Sajjadiyya to our military equipment.

🌹 The believers must connect themselves to their command centre, to their Imam of the Time; pure, jurist and striving believers are among the nearest stations for this connection.

🌹 Virtual and real war, physical and metaphysical war, cultural, perceptual, heart- and mind-centred and magical war are all being waged with utmost intensity in the present age.

🌹 The supplication of Ahl al-Thughur cultivates warriors; it is a kind of military and supra-military training.

🔅🌼 The secrets of the Supplication of Ahl al-Thughur 🌼🔅

🌹 The 27th supplication of Sahifa Sajjadiyya delineates the duties of the believers and Muslims toward the boundaries and frontiers of the world of Islam.

🌹 Defence of Islam is necessary and essential, and this defence must be carried out under a single order. That is, His Holiness emphasises the necessity of establishing an Islamic government in the age of the Major Occultation.

🌹 In the age of occultation, an Islamic and religious government must be established in its fullest perfection, order, system and discipline.

🌹 The frontier guards are formed under the Islamic government; Islam must possess a vast and unique army.

🌹 The final passage of the supplication concludes with salawat, which points to the right of prophethood and guardianship.

🌷🔆اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ عَبْدِكَ وَ رَسُولِكَ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ، صَلَاةً عَالِيَةً عَلَى الصَّلَوَاتِ، مُشْرِفَةً فَوْقَ التَّحِيَّاتِ، صَلَاةً لَا يَنْتَهِي أَمَدُهَا، وَ لَا يَنْقَطِعُ عَدَدُهَا كَأَتَمِّ مَا مَضَى مِنْ صَلَوَاتِكَ عَلَى أَحَدٍ مِنْ أَوْلِيَائِكَ، إِنَّكَ الْمَنَّانُ الْحَمِيدُ الْمُبْدِئُ الْمُعِيدُ الْفَعَّالُ لِمَا تُرِيدُ.

🌹 In the 27th supplication of Sahifa Sajjadiyya, His Holiness shows that war has two dimensions, the outward and the inward, and that Muslims must attain help and victory in both dimensions.

🌷🔆اللَّهُمَّ وَ أَيُّمَا غَازٍ غَزَاهُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ مِلَّتِكَ، أَوْ مُجَاهِدٍ جَاهَدَهُمْ مِنْ أَتْبَاعِ سُنَّتِكَ لِيَكُونَ دِينُكَ الْأَعْلَى وَ حِزْبُكَ الْأَقْوَى وَ حَظُّكَ الْأَوْفَى فَلَقِّهِ الْيُسْرَ، وَ هَيِّئْ لَهُ الْأَمْرَ، وَ تَوَلَّهُ بِالنُّجْحِ، وَ تَخَيَّرْ لَهُ الْأَصْحَابَ، وَ اسْتَقْوِ لَهُ، الظَّهْرَ، وَ أَسْبِغْ عَلَيْهِ فِي النَّفَقَةِ، وَ مَتِّعْهُ بِالنَّشَاطِ، وَ أَطْفِ عَنْهُ حَرَارَةَ الشَّوْقِ، وَ أَجِرْهُ مِنْ غَمِّ الْوَحْشَةِ، وَ أَنْسِهِ ذِكْرَ الْأَهْلِ وَ الْوَلَدِ.

🌹In supplication 27 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya, Imam Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn (peace be upon him) teaches a strategy for overcoming the enemy on both the outward and inward fronts. This supplication is a blueprint for all-out warfare.

🔅🌼The mark of faith is oneness with other believers 🌼🔅

🌹Believers feel a oneness with one another because their souls share a common bond. One believer completes another. Every believer shares in the martyrdom of a martyred believer; believers share one another’s pain and joy. They have one enemy and one friend; they are comrades in arms and fellow soldiers, united in heart, borders, and homeland.

🌹The death of any believer sends tremors through the souls of other believers.

🌹Nothing can fill the place left by a believer. Supplication 27 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya reminds us that believers are one: each is a limb, a vein, blood, and spirit to the others.

🔅🌼The taste and fragrance of existence🌼🔅

🌹The fragrance and flavor of life come from people who are pure, holy, and whole, and who carry out all their duties of servitude in every sphere with order and discipline: their prayers, their intimate devotions, their pilgrimages and struggles, their conduct and their thoughts.

🌹Believers of pure character, whole and complete, are the lungs of this world. They are its breath and spirit, its serenity and freshness; without them, the human breath grows short and the heart feels constricted.

🔅🌼The world draws life from the breath of the pure believer🌼🔅

🌹The inhalations and exhalations of the friends of God work miracles. Their breath brings divine healing, serenity, and life; it inspires delight and joy.

🌹The virtuous, whole, and complete believers are the lungs of creation.

🌷🔆 عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَيَدْفَعُ بِالْمُؤْمِنِ الْوَاحِدِ عَنِ الْقَرْيَةِ الْفَنَاءَ. [1]

🔆Imam al-Bāqir (peace be upon him) used to say: God averts destruction from a town by means of a single believer.

🌹That one believer who wards off calamity is, without doubt, truly one.

🌷🔆عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: لَا يُصِيبُ قَرْيَةً عَذَابٌ وَ فِيهَا سَبْعَةٌ مِنَ‏ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ‏.[2]

🔆Imam Muḥammad al-Bāqir (peace be upon him) said: No torment will befall a town in which there are seven believers.

🌹Seven believers are like a fortress against misfortune, calamity, hardship, destruction, and illness.

🌷🔆عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: قِيلَ لَهُ فِي الْعَذَابِ إِذَا نَزَلَ بِقَوْمٍ يُصِيبُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ قَالَ نَعَمْ وَ لَكِنْ يَخْلُصُونَ بَعْدَه‏[3]

🔆It was said to Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (peace be upon him): “When torment descends upon a people, does it reach the believers too?” He replied: “Yes, but afterward they are delivered.”

🌹In light of these reports, the differing ranks of believers among themselves become clear: one believer may stand alone as a mighty fortress; at other times, seven believers together are like that fortress; and at times, the weakness of believers allows calamity to break through. Without doubt, pure, learned, and striving believers are each, on their own, like a strong and steadfast fortress.

🌹Pain, calamity, and hardship soon depart from believers.

🔅🌼Every believer is a source of peace for another🌼🔅

🌷🔆 قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ‏ لِكُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ شَيْ‏ءٌ يَسْتَرِيحُ إِلَيْهِ وَ إِنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ يَسْتَرِيحُ إِلَى أَخِيهِ الْمُؤْمِنِ كَمَا يَسْتَرِيحُ الطَّائِرُ إِلَى شَكْلِهِ أَ وَ مَا رَأَيْتَ ذَاك‏[4]

🔆Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, said: Everything finds comfort in something, and a believer finds comfort in his fellow believer, just as a bird finds comfort among its own kind.

🌹Distance in time and place does not prevent believers from connecting with one another

🔅🌼 Believers are one soul and one body through the “Spirit of God” 🌼🔅

🌷🔆وَ قَالَ الصَّادِقُ peace be upon him: ‏ الْمُؤْمِنُ أَخُو الْمُؤْمِنِ كَالْجَسَدِ الْوَاحِدِ إِنِ اشْتَكَى شَيْئاً وَجَدَ أَلَمَ ذَلِكَ فِي سَائِرِ جَسَدِهِ وَ إِنَّ رُوحَهُمَا مِنْ رُوحِ اللَّهِ وَ إِنَّ رُوحَ الْمُؤْمِنِ لَأَشَدُّ اتِّصَالًا بِرُوحِ اللَّهِ مِنِ اتِّصَالِ شُعَاعِ الشَّمْسِ بِهَا[5]

🔆Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, used to say: A believer is a brother to another believer, like one body: when one part of it suffers, the other parts feel the pain too. Their spirits, too, are from one spirit. Indeed, a believer’s spirit is more closely joined to the Spirit of God than a sunbeam is to the sun.

🌹The “Spirit of God” is one; through this spirit, they attain unity and solidarity, sharing in one another’s joys, pleasures, perceptions, knowledge and wisdom.

🔅🌼 One believer shields another from harm 🌼🔅

🌷🔆 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ peace be upon him قَالَ: إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَدْفَعُ بِمَنْ يُصَلِّي مِنْ شِيعَتِنَا عَمَّنْ لَا يُصَلِّي مِنْ شِيعَتِنَا وَ لَوْ أَجْمَعُوا عَلَى تَرْكِ الصَّلَاةِ لَهَلَكُوا وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَدْفَعُ بِمَنْ يَصُومُ مِنْهُمْ عَمَّنْ لَا يَصُومُ مِنْ شِيعَتِنَا وَ لَوْ أَجْمَعُوا عَلَى تَرْكِ الصِّيَامِ لَهَلَكُوا وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَدْفَعُ بِمَنْ يُزَكِّي مِنْ شِيعَتِنَا عَمَّنْ لَا يُزَكِّي مِنْهُمْ وَ لَوِ اجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى تَرْكِ الزَّكَاةِ لَهَلَكُوا وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَيَدْفَعُ بِمَنْ يَحُجُّ مِنْ شِيعَتِنَا عَمَّنْ لَا يَحُجُّ مِنْهُمْ وَ لَوِ اجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى تَرْكِ الْحَجِّ لَهَلَكُوا وَ هُوَ قَوْلُ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى‏ وَ لَوْ لا دَفْعُ اللَّهِ النَّاسَ بَعْضَهُمْ بِبَعْضٍ لَفَسَدَتِ الْأَرْضُ وَ لكِنَّ اللَّهَ ذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَى الْعالَمِينَ‏  فَوَ اللَّهِ مَا أُنْزِلَتْ إِلَّا فِيكُمْ وَ لَا عُنِيَ بِهَا غَيْرُكُم‏[6]

🔆Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, said: God, through the blessing of our Shia who pray, wards off punishment from those Shia who do not pray. Were they all to abandon prayer, they would surely perish. And through the blessing of our Shia who pay zakat, God wards off punishment from those Shia who do not pay zakat. Through the blessing of our Shia who perform the Hajj, God wards off punishment from those Shia who do not perform it. This is the meaning of the words of God, Mighty and Exalted: “If God did not repel some people by means of others, the earth would surely have fallen into corruption.”

🔅🌼 Believers share one another’s pain 🌼🔅

🌷🔆 عَنْ أَحَدِهِمَا ع أَنَّهُ قَالَ: الْمُؤْمِنُ أَخُو الْمُؤْمِنِ‏ كَالْجَسَدِ الْوَاحِدِ إِذَا سَقَطَ مِنْهُ شَيْ‏ءٌ تَدَاعَى سَائِرُ الْجَسَد[7]

🔆The Imam, peace be upon him, said: A believer is a brother to another believer, like one body: when something befalls one part, the other limbs respond in sympathy.

🔅🌼 Believers share one another’s voice and lament 🌼🔅

🌷🔆 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: الْمُؤْمِنُونَ فِي تَبَارِّهِمْ وَ تَرَاحُمِهِمْ وَ تَعَاطُفِهِمْ‏ كَمَثَلِ الْجَسَدِ إِذَا اشْتَكَى تَدَاعَى لَهُ سَائِرُهُ بِالسَّهَرِ وَ الْحُمَّى‏[8]

🔆Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, said: In goodness and compassion toward one another, believers are like a single body. If one part aches, the other parts are affected too, with wakefulness and fever.

🔅🌼 The hearts of believers draw one another in 🌼🔅

🌷🔆 وَ قَالَ الصادق علیه السلام:‏ إِنَّ سُرْعَةَ ائْتِلَافِ قُلُوبِ الْأَبْرَارِ إِذَا الْتَقَوْا وَ إِنْ لَمْ يُظْهِرُوا التَّوَدُّدَ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ كَسُرْعَةِ اخْتِلَاطِ مَاءِ السَّمَاءِ بِمَاءِ الْأَنْهَارِ وَ إِنَّ بُعْدَ ائْتِلَافِ قُلُوبِ الْفُجَّارِ إِذَا الْتَقَوْا وَ إِنْ أَظْهَرُوا التَّوَدُّدَ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ كَبُعْدِ الْبَهَائِمِ مِنَ التَّعَاطُفِ‏ وَ إِنْ طَالَ اعْتِلَافُهَا عَلَى مِذْوَدٍ وَاحِد[9]

🔆 Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, said: When the righteous meet, their hearts quickly grow close—even if they do not express their affection in words—as rainwater mingles with the waters of rivers. But when the wicked meet, their hearts remain far from one another—even if they profess affection—like beasts that feel no tenderness toward one another, even after feeding from the same manger for a long time.

🔅🌼 Each believer’s sigh rises from the heart of another believer 🌼🔅

🌷🔆عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: تَنَفَّسْتُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ ثُمَّ قُلْتُ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ هَمٌّ يُصِيبُنِي مِنْ غَيْرِ مُصِيبَةٍ تُصِيبُنِي أَوْ أَمْرٍ يَنْزِلُ بِي حَتَّى تَعْرِفُ ذَلِكَ أَهْلِي فِي وَجْهِي وَ يَعْرِفُهُ صَدِيقِي فَقَالَ نَعَمْ يَا جَابِرُ قُلْتُ مَا ذَلِكَ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ‏ قَالَ وَ مَا تَصْنَعُ بِهِ قُلْتُ أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَعْلَمَهُ فَقَالَ يَا جَابِرُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ خَلَقَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْ طِينِ الْجِنَانِ وَ أَجْرَى بِهِمْ مِنْ رِيحِ‏  الْجَنَّةِ رُوحَهُ فَكَذَلِكَ الْمُؤْمِنُ أَخُو الْمُؤْمِنِ‏ لِأَبِيهِ‏ وَ أُمِّهِ‏ فَإِذَا أَصَابَ رُوحاً مِنْ تِلْكَ الْأَرْوَاحِ فِي بَلْدَةٍ مِنَ الْبُلْدَانِ شَيْ‏ءٌ حَزِنَتْ [خَرِبَتْ‏] هَذِهِ الْأَرْوَاحُ لِأَنَّهَا مِنْهَا.[10]

🔆Jabir relates: In the presence of Imam al-Baqir, peace be upon him, I heaved a deep sigh and said, “O son of the Messenger of God, grief and sorrow come over me though no calamity has befallen me. Or some difficulty comes my way, and my family and friends notice it.” The Imam replied, “Indeed, O Jabir.” I asked, “What is the cause of this?” He said, “What would you do with that knowledge?” I replied, “I want to know.” He said, “O Jabir, God created the believers from the clay of the people of Paradise and breathed into them from the breeze of Paradise. Thus, believers are brothers, born of the same father and mother. Whenever something befalls one of their souls in some land, all the souls grow sorrowful and troubled.”

🔅🌼 Believers are made from the same clay and bloom from the same flower 🌼🔅

🌷🔆وَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: الْمُؤْمِنُ أَخُو الْمُؤْمِنِ لِأَبِيهِ وَ أُمِّهِ لِأَنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ خَلَقَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْ طِينِ الْجِنَانِ وَ أَجْرَى فِي صُوَرِهِمْ مِنْ رِيحِ الْجِنَانِ فَلِذَلِكَ هُمْ إِخْوَةٌ لِأَبٍ وَ أُمٍ‏.[11]

🔆Imam al-Baqir, peace be upon him, used to say: “A believer is the full brother of another believer, sharing the same father and mother, for God, Mighty and Glorious, created the believers from the clay of Paradise and breathed into their bodies from the breeze of Paradise. This is why believers are full brothers and sisters to one another.”

🔅🌼 Believers breathe in one another’s fragrance like flowers 🌼🔅

🌷🔆وَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: الْأَرْوَاحُ جُنُودٌ مُجَنَّدَةٌ تَلْتَقِي فَتَتَشَامُّ كَمَا تَتَشَامُّ الْخَيْلُ فَمَا تَعَارَفَ مِنْهَا ائْتَلَفَ وَ مَا تَنَاكَرَ مِنْهَا اخْتَلَفَ وَ لَوْ أَنَّ مُؤْمِناً جَاءَ إِلَى مَسْجِدٍ فِيهِ أُنَاسٌ كَثِيرٌ لَيْسَ فِيهِمْ إِلَّا مُؤْمِنٌ وَاحِدٌ لَمَالَتْ رُوحُهُ إِلَى ذَلِكَ الْمُؤْمِنِ حَتَّى يَجْلِسَ إِلَيْه‏[12]

🔆Souls are like well-ordered armies: they meet and sense one another, just as horses scent one another. Souls that recognize one another are drawn together, while those that feel aversion toward one another remain at odds. If a believer enters a mosque full of people, and there is just one other believer among them, the newcomer’s soul is drawn toward that person, until he goes over and sits beside him.

🔅🌼 With the death of a learned believer, Satan’s festival begins 🌼🔅

🌷🔆عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: مَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ يَمُوتُ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَحَبَّ إِلَى إِبْلِيسَ مِنْ مَوْتِ فَقِيهٍ.[13]

🔆Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him: Nothing pleases Satan more than the death of a believer—except the death of a religious scholar.

 عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: إِذَا مَاتَ الْمُؤْمِنُ الْفَقِيهُ ثُلِمَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ ثُلْمَةٌ لَا يَسُدُّهَا شَيْ‏ءٌ. [14]

🔆Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him: When a learned believer dies, a breach appears in Islam that nothing can repair.

🔅🌼The earth and the heavens mourn the departed believer🌼🔅

🌷🔆عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى بْنَ جَعْفَرٍ ع يَقُولُ‏ إِذَا مَاتَ الْمُؤْمِنُ بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَ بِقَاعُ الْأَرْضِ‏ الَّتِي كَانَ يَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ عَلَيْهَا وَ أَبْوَابُ السَّمَاءِ الَّتِي كَانَ يُصْعَدُ فِيهَا بِأَعْمَالِهِ وَ ثُلِمَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ ثُلْمَةٌ لَا يَسُدُّهَا شَيْ‏ءٌ لِأَنَّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الْفُقَهَاءَ حُصُونُ الْإِسْلَامِ كَحِصْنِ سُورِ الْمَدِينَةِ لَهَا.

🔆Imam al-Kazim, peace be upon him: When a believer dies, the angels, the places where that believer worshipped God, and the gates of heaven through which their deeds ascended all weep for them. A breach appears in Islam that nothing can repair, for learned believers are the strongholds of Islam, just as a city’s ramparts protect it.

🔅🌼The perfection of martyrdom🌼🔅

🌹Among the teachings of Supplication 27 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya is that one should seek martyrdom fully and wholeheartedly.

🌹True martyrdom is total severance: breaking away from everything that exists, from all causes, sensations, and pleasures; relinquishing every choice of one’s own, until one reaches the single soul and the primordial will of God. It is to encounter one’s solitude with the One, the All-Conquering; to experience absolute seclusion. No one knows what it is like to attain perfect detachment.

🌹Martyrdom within martyrdom is the path toward the perfection of martyrdom: that is, perfect detachment from all but God.

🌹One must become detached even from martyrdom itself, in order to reach what lies beyond it.

🌹What is the secret of «الهی هب لی کمال الانقطاع الیک»? Who can attain this perfection—detachment from pleasures, turning to God alone amid desires, and turning to God alone in one’s attention, remembrance, and recollection? In other words, how can a person, in every state, action, and thought, attain complete detachment?

🌹Every severance is accompanied by a joining: this is the meaning of martyrdom.

🔅🌼The greater the detachment, the greater the nearness to God🌼🔅

🌷🔆 (1) اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَخْلَصْتُ بِانْقِطَاعِي إِلَيْكَ (2) وَ أَقْبَلْتُ بِكُلِّي عَلَيْكَ

🔆O God! I have made myself pure and sincere in breaking away from all but You and joining myself to You. With my whole being, I have turned toward Your Presence. 

🌹Only God Himself can bring about perfect detachment.

🔅🌼Husayn is the way to become Husayni🌼🔅

The lesson of martyrdom in Supplication 27 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya is one of complete and healing martyrdom. A person must seek martyrdom and set out on its path; whatever lies at its margins is not Husayni.

One who is deficient in servanthood will not attain martyrdom, nor attain worship and true devotion; such a person will not become Husayni.

Love admits no deficiency; the lover must be mature and discerning.

Let us examine ourselves before God: what lesson have we learned from the exemplar of love and martyrdom?

The hypocrites are deserters from the school of Husayn. They kiss his name but flee from his path. They merely sit in the Husayni academy as spectators, then leave without learning its lessons. They seek another Husayn, one fashioned by their own minds—not Husayn as he truly is, but a Husayn who conforms to their ideas and fits their worldly lives.

Husayn is held captive by hypocritical evildoers; they are thieves who steal his name.

🔅🌼With Husayn, let us worship God well🌼🔅

🌹A pilgrimage to Karbala should lead us to become truly Karbala-inspired; through that, we may attain the lofty aims of Husayn and, in turn, receive the grace of divine support in our servitude to God.

🌹Husayn is the wings of every lover; Husayn is the heart of every free soul; Husayn is the spirit, life, and very being of every devoted servant. Through Husayn, we attain the exalted joy of servitude.

🌹Becoming truly Husayni is difficult, for it is the highest standard in all creation.

🌹The true followers of Husayn, like Husayn himself, are oppressed, yet they reign over hearts.

🌹Whoever stands with Husayn and walks alongside him shares in his tears and captures hearts.

🌹To strain your voice without the broad-heartedness of Husayn is nothing but hollow noise.

🌹The hypocrites were mistaken in their understanding of Husayn; they make the same mistake today, and tomorrow they will repeat it in their understanding of the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him. It may well be that, time and again, the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, will fail to win the people’s support. Perhaps he will come among them unrecognized, and they will reject, banish, and cast him out. Had they recognized him, they might have martyred him.

🌹Could anyone fail to recognize Husayn? Yes—even he may be led to martyrdom.

🌹Whoever is Husayni must also act in a Husayni way.

🌷🔆 عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ ع قَالَ: لَا حَسَبَ لِقُرَشِيٍّ وَ لَا لِعَرَبِيٍّ إِلَّا بِتَوَاضُعٍ وَ لَا كَرَمَ إِلَّا بِتَقْوَى وَ لَا عَمَلَ إِلَّا بِالنِّيَّةِ وَ لَا عِبَادَةَ إِلَّا بِالتَّفَقُّهِ أَلَا وَ إِنَّ أَبْغَضَ النَّاسِ إِلَى‏ اللَّهِ‏ مَنْ‏ يَقْتَدِي‏ بِسُنَّةِ إِمَامٍ وَ لَا يَقْتَدِي بِأَعْمَالِهِ.[15]

🔆 Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him: Nobility does not lie in being Qurayshi or Arab; it lies in humility. No virtue is greater than God-consciousness; no deed is worthwhile without intention, and no worship without piety. Indeed, the person most hateful to God is one who claims to follow an Imam’s way but does not follow his deeds.

🌷🔆 Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him: إنَّ عَمَّتي زَينَبَ مَعَ تِلكَ المَصائبَ و المِحَنِ النّازِلَةِ بِها في طَرِيقِنا إلَى الشّامِ ما تَرَكَتْ His night vigils[16]

🔆 Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him: My aunt Zaynab, despite all the calamities and hardships that befell her on our journey to Syria, never once failed to perform the night prayer.

🌹Examine yourselves; take stock of yourselves and hold yourselves to account.

🔅🌼Those who destroy the truth🌼🔅

🌹Recognizing the truth in time and giving it its due is itself a matter of right. The damage caused by recognizing the truth too late cannot be undone. Evil is evil; worse still are those who follow its ways.

🔅🌼Arguing over what is self-evident🌼🔅

🌹Arguing over what is self-evident is a clear sign of folly.

🔅🌼The nourishment of light is no gift of darkness🌼🔅

🌹The fruits of spiritual knowledge should be evident in a person’s whole being. What is the result of being nourished by the Two Weighty Things? Beware: «رب تال القرآن و القرآن یلعنه» Beware lest the Quran be displeased with us, even as we recite it; beware lest the Prophet’s Household disavow us despite our outward expressions of devotion, our affection and visits, and so on.

🌹Where are the fruits of following Husayn? In a spirit of martyrdom, in being ready to give up oneself, one’s wealth, and one’s standing!

🌹Resisting oppression means disavowing and actively opposing the Dajjal and the Yazidis.

🌹Whoever argues over what is self-evident should fear the seal upon their heart.

🌹We must recognize things with great speed. This is an age of speed; sluggishness is not merely deadly—it kills.

🌹This is no time to accumulate experience, but to put what we have learned into practice. The alarm is ringing …

🌹Show the fruits of the knowledge you have taken in—in worship and obedience, your work, your ethics, your dealings with others, preaching the faith, scholarly and practical striving, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and so on.

🌹Those who seek to whitewash the corrupt should question their own faith and fear for the end that awaits them.

🌹Whoever takes in light gives forth radiance, not darkness. Someone who has not illuminated themselves—how can they illuminate others?

🌹Those who turn their backs on the light see only their own shadow. Those who face away from the light yet imagine they are following it are sunk in compounded ignorance.

🌹The long shadows cast by the ignorant expose the hypocrisy of those who feign knowledge.

🔅🌼 Let those who yearn for martyrdom know this 🌼🔅

🌹Let us rightly aspire to martyrdom. Martyrdom must leave an impact; it must bring the enemy to ruin; it must be the reward for destroying the enemy.

🌷🔆 فَإِذَا صَافَّ عَدُوَّكَ وَ عَدُوَّهُ فَقَلِّلْهُمْ فِي عَيْنِهِ، وَ صَغِّرْ شَأْنَهُمْ فِي قَلْبِهِ، وَ أَدِلْ لَهُ مِنْهُمْ، وَ لَا تُدِلْهُمْ مِنْهُ، فَإِنْ خَتَمْتَ لَهُ بِالسَّعَادَةِ، وَ قَضَيْتَ لَهُ بِالشَّهَادَةِ فَبَعْدَ أَنْ يَجْتَاحَ عَدُوَّكَ بِالْقَتْلِ، وَ بَعْدَ أَنْ يَجْهَدَ بِهِمُ الْأَسْرُ، وَ بَعْدَ أَنْ تَأْمَنَ أَطْرَافُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، وَ بَعْدَ أَنْ يُوَلِّيَ عَدُوُّكَ مُدْبِرِينَ.

🔆“Whenever he faces your enemy and his, make them seem few in his eyes and diminish their standing in his heart. Give him victory over them, and do not let them overcome him. If You have decreed that his life end in felicity through martyrdom, let his martyrdom come only after he has slain and destroyed Your enemy, after he has made them suffer capture and imprisonment, after security and peace have been established along the Muslims’ frontiers, and after Your enemies have turned their backs and fled in defeat.”

🔆 Imam Zayn al-Abidin, peace be upon him, would often relate from the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family: “No drop is dearer to God than a drop of blood shed in God’s cause.”

🌷🔆 Imam Zayn al-Abidin, peace be upon him:قالَ لُقمانُ لاِبنِهِ : يا بُنَيَّ ، إن أشَدَّ العُدمِ عُدمُ القَلبِ ، وإنَّ أعظَمَ المَصائِبِ مُصيبَةُ الدّينِ ، وأسنَى المَرزِئَةِ مَرزِئَتُهُ ، وأنفَعَ الغِنى غِنَى القَلبِ ، فَتَلَبَّث في كُلِّ ذلِكَ ، وَالزَمِ القَناعَةَ وَالرِّضا بِما قَسَمَ اللّه ُ ، وإنَّ السّارِقَ إذا سَرَقَ حَبَسَهُ اللّه ُ مِن رِزقِهِ ، وكانَ عَلَيهِ إثمُهُ ، ولَو صَبَرَ لَنالَ ذلِكَ وجاءَهُ مِن وَجهِهِ .

O بُنَيَّ ، أخلِص طاعَةَ اللّه ِ حَتّى لا يُخالِطَها شَيءٌ مِنَ المَعاصي ، ثُمَّ زَيِّنِ الطّاعَةَ بِاتِّباعِ people الحَقِّ ؛ فَإِنَّ طاعَتَهُم مُتَّصِلَةٌ بِطاعَةِ اللّه ِ ، وزَيِّن ذلِكَ بِالعِلمِ ، وحَصِّن عِلمَكَ بِحِلمٍ لا يُخالِطُهُ حُمقٌ ، وَاخزُنهُ بِلينٍ لا يُخالِطُهُ جَهلٌ ، وشَدِّدهُ بِحَزمٍ لا يُخالِطُهُ الضِّياعُ ، وَامزُج حَزمَكَ بِرِفقٍ لا يُخالِطُهُ العُنفُ . [17]

🔆 Imam Zayn al-Abidin, peace be upon him, recounting Luqman’s counsel to his son: “My son, the hardest poverty is a poverty of the heart; the greatest misfortune is debt; and the greatest deprivation and affliction is likewise debt. The most beneficial wealth is a heart free of need. Reflect on all this, and be content with what God has allotted you. When a thief steals, God, Mighty and Majestic, withholds his provision, and the sin rests upon him. Had he been patient, he would have received that provision by its proper means.”

“My son, perform your worship of God sincerely, so that not even a small sin is mixed into it. Then adorn your worship by following those of true faith, for their worship is joined to the worship of God. Adorn that worship with knowledge, and guard your knowledge with forbearance, lest foolishness enter into it. Preserve your forbearance with gentleness, lest it be accompanied by ignorance. Strengthen your gentleness with sound judgment, lest it come to ruin. Temper your judgment with patience, so that it is not overbearing.”

🔅🌼 The Spellbound, Unaware 🌼🔅

🌹Take the digital sorcery seriously. The infiltration of jinn through virtual spaces is real; jinn possession is rampant in our time, just as mental, psychological and nervous disorders are rampant.

🌹The social signs of being ensorcelled: smiling at the enemy, being taken in by the enemy’s smile; “aligning, conforming, coordinating, speaking with one voice, thinking alike, becoming complementary” with the enemy; the emergence of the enemy’s and devils’ indoctrination and conditioning; ignorant behaviour, shamelessness, unusual illnesses and depression, and so on.

🌹Virtual illnesses cannot be cured with chemical or herbal medicines!

🌹Virtual depressions imprison the truth of a person’s being.

🌹The Antichrist replicates himself in people’s hearts and minds.

🌹The Antichrist spreads, replicates and grows like a virus.

🌹Among the breeding grounds for Antichristian viruses are environments polluted by sin, and the dog-like environments of virtual spaces.

🌹Impure waves have polluted the atmosphere and poisoned the air.

🌹The mind is defiled by filthy, impure waves!

🌹One simple way to recognise virtual and media-induced sorcery is blind trust in and love for the enemy, hatred of friends and homeland, and arguing over self-evident truths, and so on.

🔅🌼The Spirit of Swine-Eating🌼🔅

🌹There is little distance between feeding on the flesh and blood of pigs and dogs and feeding on swinish waves.

🌹Each of the body’s members and organs has its own particular nourishment.

🌹Feeding on the vile spirit of swine is flourishing and widespread.

🌹Feeding on base thoughts and vile, lowly waves is the constant fare of the heedless.

🔅🌼Purification of the Bewitched🌼🔅

…

🌼Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)🌼

🔅🌼The Supplication of the People of the Frontiers🌼🔅

(27) وَ كَانَ مِنْ دُعَائِهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ لِأَهْلِ الثُّغُورِ:

(1) اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ حَصِّنْ ثُغُورَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ بِعِزَّتِكَ، وَ أَيِّدْ حُمَاتَهَا بِقُوَّتِكَ، وَ أَسْبِغْ عَطَايَاهُمْ مِنْ جِدَتِكَ. (2) اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ كَثِّرْ عِدَّتَهُمْ، وَ اشْحَذْ أَسْلِحَتَهُمْ، وَ احْرُسْ حَوْزَتَهُمْ، وَ امْنَعْ حَوْمَتَهُمْ، وَ أَلِّفْ جَمْعَهُمْ، وَ دَبِّرْ أَمْرَهُمْ، وَ وَاتِرْ بَيْنَ مِيَرِهِمْ، وَ تَوَحَّدْ بِكِفَايَةِ مُؤَنِهِمْ، وَ اعْضُدْهُمْ بِالنَّصْرِ، وَ أَعِنْهُمْ بِالصَّبْرِ، وَ الْطُفْ لَهُمْ فِي الْمَكْرِ. (3) اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ عَرِّفْهُمْ مَا يَجْهَلُونَ، وَ عَلِّمْهُمْ مَا لَا يَعْلَمُونَ، وَ بَصِّرْهُمْ مَا لَا يُبْصِرُونَ. (4) اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ أَنْسِهِمْ عِنْدَ لِقَائِهِمُ الْعَدُوَّ ذِكْرَ دُنْيَاهُمُ الْخَدَّاعَةِ الْغَرُورِ، وَ امْحُ عَنْ قُلُوبِهِمْ خَطَرَاتِ الْمَالِ الْفَتُونِ، وَ اجْعَلِ الْجَنَّةَ نُصْبَ أَعْيُنِهِمْ، وَ لَوِّحْ مِنْهَا لِأَبْصَارِهِمْ مَا أَعْدَدْتَ فِيهَا مِنْ مَسَاكِنِ الْخُلْدِ وَ مَنَازِلِ الْكَرَامَةِ وَ الْحُورِ الْحِسَانِ وَ الْأَنْهَارِ الْمُطَّرِدَةِ بِأَنْوَاعِ الْأَشْرِبَةِ وَ الْأَشْجَارِ الْمُتَدَلِّيَةِ بِصُنُوفِ الثَّمَرِ حَتَّى لَا يَهُمَّ أَحَدٌ مِنْهُمْ بِالْإِدْبَارِ، وَ لَا يُحَدِّثَ نَفْسَهُ عَنْ قِرْنِهِ بِفِرَارٍ.

 (5) اللَّهُمَّ افْلُلْ بِذَلِكَ عَدُوَّهُمْ، وَ اقْلِمْ عَنْهُمْ أَظْفَارَهُمْ، وَ فَرِّقْ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَ أَسْلِحَتِهِمْ، وَ اخْلَعْ وَثَائِقَ أَفْئِدَتِهِمْ، وَ بَاعِدْ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَ أَزْوِدَتِهِمْ، وَ حَيِّرْهُمْ فِي سُبُلِهِمْ، وَ ضَلِّلْهُمْ عَنْ وَجْهِهِمْ، وَ اقْطَعْ عَنْهُمُ الْمَدَدَ، وَ انْقُصْ مِنْهُمُ الْعَدَدَ، وَ امْلَأْ أَفْئِدَتَهُمُ الرُّعْبَ، وَ اقْبِضْ أَيْدِيَهُمْ عَنِ الْبَسْطِ، وَ اخْزِمْ أَلْسِنَتَهُمْ عَنِ النُّطْقِ، وَ شَرِّدْ بِهِمْ مَنْ خَلْفَهُمْ وَ نَكِّلْ بِهِمْ مَنْ وَرَاءَهُمْ، وَ اقْطَعْ بِخِزْيِهِمْ أَطْمَاعَ مَنْ بَعْدَهُمْ. (6) اللَّهُمَّ عَقِّمْ أَرْحَامَ نِسَائِهِمْ، وَ يَبِّسْ أَصْلَابَ رِجَالِهِمْ، وَ اقْطَعْ نَسْلَ دَوَابِّهِمْ وَ أَنْعَامِهِمْ، لَا تَأْذَنْ لِسَمَائِهِمْ فِي قَطْرٍ، وَ لَا لِأَرْضِهِمْ فِي نَبَاتٍ. (7) اللَّهُمَّ وَ قَوِّ بِذَلِكَ مِحَالَ أَهْلِ الْإِسْلَامِ، وَ حَصِّنْ بِهِ دِيَارَهُمْ، وَ ثَمِّرْ بِهِ أَمْوَالَهُمْ، وَ فَرِّغْهُمْ عَنْ مُحَارَبَتِهِمْ لِعِبَادَتِكَ، وَ عَنْ مُنَابَذَتِهِمْ لِلْخَلْوَةِ بِكَ حَتَّى لَا يُعْبَدَ فِي بِقَاعِ الْأَرْضِ غَيْرُكَ، وَ لَا تُعَفَّرَ لِأَحَدٍ مِنْهُمْ جَبْهَةٌ دُونَكَ. (8) اللَّهُمَّ اغْزُ بِكُلِّ نَاحِيَةٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ عَلَى مَنْ بِإِزَائِهِمْ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ، وَ أَمْدِدْهُمْ بِمَلَائِكَةٍ مِنْ عِنْدِكَ مُرْدِفِينَ حَتَّى يَكْشِفُوهُمْ إِلَى مُنْقَطَعِ التُّرَابِ قَتْلًا فِي أَرْضِكَ وَ أَسْراً، أَوْ يُقِرُّوا بِأَنَّكَ أَنْتَ اللَّهُ الَّذِي لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ وَحْدَكَ لَا شَرِيكَ لَكَ. (9) اللَّهُمَّ وَ اعْمُمْ بِذَلِكَ أَعْدَاءَكَ فِي أَقْطَارِ الْبِلَادِ مِنَ الْهِنْدِ وَ الرُّومِ وَ التُّرْكِ وَ الْخَزَرِ وَ الْحَبَشِ وَ النُّوبَةِ وَ الزَّنْجِ وَ السَّقَالِبَةِ وَ الدَّيَالِمَةِ وَ سَائِرِ أُمَمِ الشِّرْكِ، الَّذِينَ تَخْفَى أَسْمَاؤُهُمْ وَ صِفَاتُهُمْ، وَ قَدْ أَحْصَيْتَهُمْ بِمَعْرِفَتِكَ، وَ أَشْرَفْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِقُدْرَتِكَ.

 (10) اللَّهُمَّ اشْغَلِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ بِالْمُشْرِكِينَ عَنْ تَنَاوُلِ أَطْرَافِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، وَ خُذْهُمْ بِالنَّقْصِ عَنْ تَنَقُّصِهِمْ، وَ ثَبِّطْهُمْ بِالْفُرْقَةِ عَنِ الاحْتِشَادِ عَلَيْهِمْ. (11) اللَّهُمَّ أَخْلِ قُلُوبَهُمْ مِنَ الْأَمَنَةِ، وَ أَبْدَانَهُمْ مِنَ الْقُوَّةِ، وَ أَذْهِلْ قُلُوبَهُمْ عَنِ الِاحْتِيَالِ، وَ أَوْهِنْ أَرْكَانَهُمْ عَنْ مُنَازَلَةِ الرِّجَالِ، وَ جَبِّنْهُمْ عَنْ مُقَارَعَةِ الْأَبْطَالِ، وَ ابْعَثْ عَلَيْهِمْ جُنْداً مِنْ مَلَائِكَتِكَ بِبَأْسٍ مِنْ بَأْسِكَ كَفِعْلِكَ يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ، تَقْطَعُ بِهِ دَابِرَهُمْ وَ تَحْصُدُ بِهِ شَوْكَتَهُمْ، وَ تُفَرِّقُ بِهِ عَدَدَهُمْ. (12) اللَّهُمَّ وَ امْزُجْ مِيَاهَهُمْ بِالْوَبَاءِ، وَ أَطْعِمَتَهُمْ بِالْأَدْوَاءِ، وَ ارْمِ بِلَادَهُمْ بِالْخُسُوفِ، وَ أَلِحَّ عَلَيْهَا بِالْقُذُوفِ، وَ افْرَعْهَا بِالْمُحُولِ، وَ اجْعَلْ مِيَرَهُمْ فِي أَحَصِّ أَرْضِكَ وَ أَبْعَدِهَا عَنْهُمْ، وَ امْنَعْ حُصُونَهَا مِنْهُمْ، أَصِبْهُمْ بِالْجُوعِ الْمُقِيمِ وَ السُّقْمِ الْأَلِيمِ. (13) اللَّهُمَّ وَ أَيُّمَا غَازٍ غَزَاهُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ مِلَّتِكَ، أَوْ مُجَاهِدٍ جَاهَدَهُمْ مِنْ أَتْبَاعِ سُنَّتِكَ لِيَكُونَ دِينُكَ الْأَعْلَى وَ حِزْبُكَ الْأَقْوَى وَ حَظُّكَ الْأَوْفَى فَلَقِّهِ الْيُسْرَ، وَ هَيِّئْ لَهُ الْأَمْرَ، وَ تَوَلَّهُ بِالنُّجْحِ، وَ تَخَيَّرْ لَهُ الْأَصْحَابَ، وَ اسْتَقْوِ لَهُ، الظَّهْرَ، وَ أَسْبِغْ عَلَيْهِ فِي النَّفَقَةِ، وَ مَتِّعْهُ بِالنَّشَاطِ، وَ أَطْفِ عَنْهُ حَرَارَةَ الشَّوْقِ، وَ أَجِرْهُ مِنْ غَمِّ الْوَحْشَةِ، وَ أَنْسِهِ ذِكْرَ الْأَهْلِ وَ الْوَلَدِ. (14) وَ أْثُرْ لَهُ حُسْنَ النِّيَّةِ، وَ تَوَلَّهُ بِالْعَافِيَةِ، وَ أَصْحِبْهُ السَّلَامَةَ، وَ أَعْفِهِ مِنَ الْجُبْنِ، وَ أَلْهِمْهُ الْجُرْأَةَ، وَ ارْزُقْهُ الشِّدَّةَ، وَ أَيِّدْهُ بِالنُّصْرَةِ، وَ عَلِّمْهُ السِّيَرَ وَ السُّنَنَ، وَ سَدِّدْهُ فِي الْحُكْمِ، وَ اعْزِلْ عَنْهُ الرِّيَاءَ، وَ خَلِّصْهُ مِنَ السُّمْعَةِ، وَ اجْعَلْ فِكْرَهُ وَ ذِكْرَهُ وَ ظَعْنَهُ وَ إِقَامَتَهُ، فِيكَ وَ لَكَ.

 (15) فَإِذَا صَافَّ عَدُوَّكَ وَ عَدُوَّهُ فَقَلِّلْهُمْ فِي عَيْنِهِ، وَ صَغِّرْ شَأْنَهُمْ فِي قَلْبِهِ، وَ أَدِلْ لَهُ مِنْهُمْ، وَ لَا تُدِلْهُمْ مِنْهُ، فَإِنْ خَتَمْتَ لَهُ بِالسَّعَادَةِ، وَ قَضَيْتَ لَهُ بِالشَّهَادَةِ فَبَعْدَ أَنْ يَجْتَاحَ عَدُوَّكَ بِالْقَتْلِ، وَ بَعْدَ أَنْ يَجْهَدَ بِهِمُ الْأَسْرُ، وَ بَعْدَ أَنْ تَأْمَنَ أَطْرَافُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، وَ بَعْدَ أَنْ يُوَلِّيَ عَدُوُّكَ مُدْبِرِينَ. (16) اللَّهُمَّ وَ أَيُّمَا مُسْلِمٍ خَلَفَ غَازِياً أَوْ مُرَابِطاً فِي دَارِهِ، أَوْ تَعَهَّدَ خَالِفِيهِ فِي غَيْبَتِهِ، أَوْ أَعَانَهُ بِطَائِفَةٍ مِنْ مَالِهِ، أَوْ أَمَدَّهُ بِعِتَادٍ، أَوْ شَحَذَهُ عَلَى جِهَادٍ، أَوْ أَتْبَعَهُ فِي وَجْهِهِ دَعْوَةً، أَوْ رَعَى لَهُ مِنْ وَرَائِهِ حُرْمَةً، فَآجِرْ لَهُ مِثْلَ أَجْرِهِ وَزْناً بِوَزْنٍ وَ مِثْلًا بِمِثْلٍ، وَ عَوِّضْهُ مِنْ فِعْلِهِ عِوَضاً حَاضِراً يَتَعَجَّلُ بِهِ نَفْعَ مَا قَدَّمَ وَ سُرُورَ مَا أَتَى بِهِ، إِلَى أَنْ يَنْتَهِيَ بِهِ الْوَقْتُ إِلَى مَا أَجْرَيْتَ لَهُ مِنْ فَضْلِكَ، وَ أَعْدَدْتَ لَهُ مِنْ كَرَامَتِكَ.

 (17) اللَّهُمَّ وَ أَيُّمَا مُسْلِمٍ أَهَمَّهُ أَمْرُ الْإِسْلَامِ، وَ أَحْزَنَهُ تَحَزُّبُ أَهْلِ الشِّرْكِ عَلَيْهِمْ فَنَوَى غَزْواً، أَوْ هَمَّ بِجِهَادٍ فَقَعَدَ بِهِ ضَعْفٌ، أَوْ أَبْطَأَتْ بِهِ فَاقَةٌ، أَوْ أَخَّرَهُ عَنْهُ حَادِثٌ، أَوْ عَرَضَ لَهُ دُونَ إِرَادَتِهِ مَانِعٌ فَاكْتُبِ اسْمَهُ فِي الْعَابِدِينَ، وَ أَوْجِبْ لَهُ ثَوَابَ الْمُجَاهِدِينَ، وَ اجْعَلْهُ فِي نِظَامِ الشُّهَدَاءِ وَ الصَّالِحِينَ. (18) اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ عَبْدِكَ وَ رَسُولِكَ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ، صَلَاةً عَالِيَةً عَلَى الصَّلَوَاتِ، مُشْرِفَةً فَوْقَ التَّحِيَّاتِ، صَلَاةً لَا يَنْتَهِي أَمَدُهَا، وَ لَا يَنْقَطِعُ عَدَدُهَا كَأَتَمِّ مَا مَضَى مِنْ صَلَوَاتِكَ عَلَى أَحَدٍ مِنْ أَوْلِيَائِكَ، إِنَّكَ الْمَنَّانُ الْحَمِيدُ الْمُبْدِئُ الْمُعِيدُ الْفَعَّالُ لِمَا تُرِيدُ.

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[2] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 2, p. 247 Al-Kulaynī, Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya, Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[3] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 2, p. 247 Al-Kulaynī, Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya, Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.

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[5] Al-Ikhtiṣāṣ, text, p. 32 Al-Mufīd, World Congress on the Millennium of Shaykh al-Mufīd, Iran, Qom, first edition, 1413 AH.

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[12] Al-Muʾmin, p. 39 Al-Kūfī al-Ahwāzī, Imam Mahdi Foundation, Qom, 1404 AH.

[13] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 1, p. 38  al-Kulaynī, Islamic Books Publishing House, Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[14] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 1, p. 38  al-Kulaynī, Islamic Books Publishing House, Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[15] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 8, p. 234  al-Kulaynī, Islamic Books Publishing House, Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[16]ʿAwālim al-ʿUlūm wa-l-Maʿārif wa-l-Aḥwāl min al-Āyāt wa-l-Akhbār wa-l-Aqwāl (Supplement on the Mistress of Women, through Imam al-Jawād, vol. 11, part 2, Fāṭima, p. 954)

[17] Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʾ (Stories of the Prophets, by al-Rāwandī), p. 196  Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāwandī, Center for Islamic Research, Mashhad, first edition, 1409 AH.