Seeking the Insight to Know the Mahdi

🌼🔆🌼The Mahdi is forever rising and shining🌼🔆🌼

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌹 “The Mahdi is among us” “The secrets of our bond with the Mahdi” “Attuning the soul to God’s proof” “Guardian of wisdom” “The night of the birth of the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him” and more … An abridged account with an addendum 1402.12.0 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅

🔅🌼An unceasing dawn🌼🔅

🌹O solitary stranger, without you the world is sinking into sunset and nearing madness.

🌻🔆So blessed is God, the Creator of such beauty!

🔆🌻Blessed be the birth of the garden of the prophets and their successors’ one perfect flower, the sole star left to us from the heaven of divine authority and imamate, the peerless and pure servant, the world’s only life-breath, the final gateway to truth, and the one secret that brings peace to creation.

🔅🌼May my life be your ransom🌼🔅

🌸🌹 بِنَفْسِي أَنْتَ مِنْ مُغَيَّبٍ لَمْ يَخْلُ مِنَّا، بِنَفْسِي أَنْتَ مِنْ نَازِحٍ مَا نَزَحَ‏ عَنَّا، بِنَفْسِي أَنْتَ أُمْنِيَّةُ شَائِقٍ يَتَمَنَّى، مِنْ مُؤْمِنٍ وَ مُؤْمِنَةٍ ذَكَرَا فَحَنَّا ، بِنَفْسِي أَنْتَ مِنْ عَقِيدِ عِزٍّ لَا يُسَامَى‏ ، بِنَفْسِي أَنْتَ مِنْ أَثِيلِ‏ مَجْدٍ لَا يُجَازَى‏ ، بِنَفْسِي أَنْتَ مِنْ تِلَادِ نِعَمٍ لَا تُضَاهَى [who is equalled] بِنَفْسِي أَنْتَ مِنْ نَصِيفِ‏ شَرَفٍ لَا يُسَاوَى.

🌷إِلَى مَتَى أَحَارُ فِيكَ يَا مَوْلَايَ، وَ إِلَى مَتَى، وَ أَيَّ خِطَابٍ أَصِفُ فِيك‏[1]

🌷May my life be your ransom: you are the one concealed from view, yet never absent from among us.

🌷May my life be your ransom: though far from us, you are still near, with no distance between us!

🌷May my life be your ransom: you are the longing of every yearning soul among believing men and women, and of all who lament your absence.

🌷May my life be your ransom: you are joined to a majesty none can surpass.

🌷May my life be your ransom: you are a grandeur so exalted that none can rival you.

🌷May my life be your ransom: at the summit of nobility, you possess blessings without equal.

🌷May my life be your ransom: you are the echo of matchless honor.

🔅🌼The bond between the divine proof and those to whom it is given🌼🔅

🌹Let us raise our awareness and awaken our sense of the Imam of our time, so that we may attain the greatest benefit.

🌹The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is a vast divine system, in relation to all creation as though it were a sphere placed in his blessed hands. By divine knowledge and power, he knows the language and attributes of all beings, even those of the fundamental particles.

🌹The veil between us and His Eminence is none other than ourselves! That very veil can become a screen through which he is revealed.

🌹Seeking knowledge of the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is a quest to part the clouds of occultation.

🌹For the blind eye, the sun’s rising and setting, and the clouds’ coming and going, make no difference.

🌹The mighty waves of the presence of the Mahdi, peace be upon him, transform the electronic, atomic, molecular, cellular, material and celestial ordering of soul and world.

🌹The influence of the Mahdi, peace be upon him, on the structure, unfolding and transformation of the universe extends from its beginning to its end. Its reach stretches as far as eternity.

🌹The imamate of the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, has not ceased; it continues.

🌹Let the ear of the soul stay alert for the call of his ظهور.

🌷🔆 قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو حَمْزَةَ نُصَيْرٌ الْخَادِمُ‏  قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا مُحَمَّدٍ غَيْرَ مَرَّةٍ يُكَلِّمُ غِلْمَانَهُ بِلُغَاتِهِمْ- تُرْكٍ وَ رُومٍ وَ صَقَالِبَةٍ فَتَعَجَّبْتُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَ قُلْتُ هَذَا وُلِدَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ وَ لَمْ يَظْهَرْ لِأَحَدٍ حَتَّى مَضَى أَبُو الْحَسَنِ ع وَ لَا رَآهُ أَحَدٌ فَكَيْفَ هَذَا أُحَدِّثُ نَفْسِي بِذَلِكَ فَأَقْبَلَ عَلَيَّ فَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى بَيَّنَ حُجَّتَهُ مِنْ سَائِرِ خَلْقِهِ بِكُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ وَ يُعْطِيهِ اللُّغَاتِ وَ مَعْرِفَةَ الْأَنْسَابِ وَ الْآجَالِ وَ الْحَوَادِثِ وَ لَوْ لَا ذَلِكَ لَمْ يَكُنْ بَيْنَ الْحُجَّةِ وَ الْمَحْجُوجِ‏ فَرْقٌ.[2]

🌷🔆Imam Hasan al-Askari—peace be upon him—said: “God, the Exalted, has made His Proof and vicegerent a model for His servants and a clear sign. He has also distinguished His Proof, teaching him every language and the expressions used by different tribes and peoples. He knows everyone’s lineage, the full span of human life and the lives of other creatures, and all events and occurrences. Had these distinctions not existed, there would be no difference between God’s Proof and those for whom he is the Proof.”

🔅🌼 يَرَوْنَهُ وَ لَا يَعْرِفُونَهُ 🌼🔅

🌹People see the Mahdi, but do not recognize him.

🌹The Imam of our time, peace be upon him, accompanies us on our journeys; he walks beside us, step by step, on pilgrimages and in the Arbaeen procession.

🌹How can a person live without a soul, yet live without the Spirit of God? The Imam of our time, peace be upon him, is the Spirit of God in our age. God’s Proof is the constant companion of our body and soul.

🌹His Eminence the Mahdi, peace be upon him, is among us in our dealings, our sorrows and our joys.

🌹If our power of discernment and insight into truth is awake, we will recognize the Mahdi.

🌹Those who are truly captivated, enthralled and in love with the sights and signs of God: just as we pass by the artistry of creation without a glance, so too we pass by the Mahdi without a glance. The Mahdi is a singular work of God’s creative artistry.

🌹What veil lies between us and our sense of smell, between us and our sight, between us and our hearing, preventing us from sensing his fragrance, beholding his beauty and hearing his words?

🔅🌼 The Cloud of Occultation 🌼🔅

🌹If the horizon of our knowledge rises, we will attain the vision of God’s Proof. If the wings of knowledge soar above the cloud of occultation, the sun’s beauty will be unveiled.

🌹Let us become attuned to the Imam of our time. The form of our relationship with him will change before and after his reappearance, but the bond between the world and its people and God’s Proof will endure.

Let us bring our lives into harmony with the Imam of our time.

Before his reappearance, let us draw as much light and warmth as we can from the sun; when he appears, we must become guests of the living spirit of that advent.

His Eminence the Mahdi, peace be upon him, is among us at our gatherings and religious assemblies, among the people and those in government.

🌷🔆 وَ أَمَّا وَجْهُ الِانْتِفَاعِ فِي غَيْبَتِي فَكَالانْتِفَاعِ بِالشَّمْسِ‏ إِذَا غَيَّبَتْهَا عَنِ الْأَبْصَارِ السَّحَاب‏[3]

🌷🔆 Imam al-Mahdi, peace be upon him: “The way people benefit from my presence during my occultation is like the benefit they receive from the sun when clouds conceal it from view.”

🌷🔆 وَ رُوِيَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ الْعَمْرِيِّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ صَاحِبَ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ لَيَحْضُرُ الْمَوْسِمَ‏ كُلَّ سَنَةٍ يَرَى النَّاسَ وَ يَعْرِفُهُمْ وَ يَرَوْنَهُ وَ لَا يَعْرِفُونَهُ.[4]

🌷🔆 مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ الْعَمْرِي He said: “By God, the master of this cause appears every year during the Hajj season. He sees the people and recognizes them, and they see him, but do not recognize him.”

🌹How can one fail to distinguish clean air from polluted air, sweetness from bitterness, pleasure from pain,

🌷تَاجَرُوا يُوسُفَ وَ بَايَعُوهُ وَ هُمْ إِخْوَتُهُ وَ هُوَ أَخُوهُمْ فَلَمْ يَعْرِفُوهُ حَتَّى قَالَ لَهُمْ‏ أَنَا يُوسُفُ وَ هذا أَخِي‏ فَمَا تُنْكِرُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ أَنْ يَكُونَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِي وَقْتٍ‏ مِنَ الْأَوْقَاتِ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَسْتُرَ حُجَّتَهُ عَنْهُمْ

🌷فَمَا تُنْكِرُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ أَنْ يَكُونَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَفْعَلُ بِحُجَّتِهِ مَا فَعَلَ بِيُوسُفَ أَنْ يَكُونَ يَسِيرُ فِيمَا بَيْنَهُمْ وَ يَمْشِي فِي أَسْوَاقِهِمْ وَ يَطَأُ بُسُطَهُمْ وَ هُمْ لَا يَعْرِفُونَهُ حَتَّى يَأْذَنَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَهُ أَنْ يُعَرِّفَهُمْ نَفْسَهُ كَمَا أَذِنَ لِيُوسُفَ ع حِينَ قَالَ لَهُمْ‏ هَلْ عَلِمْتُمْ ما فَعَلْتُمْ بِيُوسُفَ وَ أَخِيهِ إِذْ أَنْتُمْ جاهِلُونَ قالُوا أَ إِنَّكَ لَأَنْتَ يُوسُفُ قالَ أَنَا يُوسُفُ وَ هذا أَخِي‏

🌷🔆 عَنْ سَدِيرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ‏ إِنَّ فِي الْقَائِمِ سُنَّةً مِنْ يُوسُفَ قُلْتُ كَأَنَّكَ‏ تَذْكُرُ خَبَرَهُ أَوْ غَيْبَتَهُ فَقَالَ لِي وَ مَا تُنْكِرُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ أَشْبَاهُ الْخَنَازِيرِ أَنَّ إِخْوَةَ يُوسُفَ كَانُوا أَسْبَاطاً أَوْلَادَ أَنْبِيَاءَ تَاجَرُوا يُوسُفَ وَ بَايَعُوهُ وَ هُمْ إِخْوَتُهُ وَ هُوَ أَخُوهُمْ فَلَمْ يَعْرِفُوهُ حَتَّى قَالَ لَهُمْ‏ أَنَا يُوسُفُ وَ هذا أَخِي‏ فَمَا تُنْكِرُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ أَنْ يَكُونَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِي وَقْتٍ‏ مِنَ الْأَوْقَاتِ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَسْتُرَ حُجَّتَهُ عَنْهُمْ لَقَدْ كَانَ يُوسُفُ يَوْماً مَلِكَ مِصْرَ وَ كَانَ بَيْنَهُ وَ بَيْنَ وَالِدِهِ مَسِيرَةُ ثَمَانِيَةَ عَشَرَ يَوْماً  فَلَوْ أَرَادَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى أَنْ يُعَرِّفَهُ مَكَانَهُ لَقَدَرَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ وَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ سَارَ يَعْقُوبُ وَ وُلْدُهُ عِنْدَ الْبِشَارَةِ فِي تِسْعَةِ أَيَّامٍ إِلَى مِصْرَ فَمَا تُنْكِرُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ أَنْ يَكُونَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَفْعَلُ بِحُجَّتِهِ مَا فَعَلَ بِيُوسُفَ أَنْ يَكُونَ يَسِيرُ فِيمَا بَيْنَهُمْ وَ يَمْشِي فِي أَسْوَاقِهِمْ وَ يَطَأُ بُسُطَهُمْ وَ هُمْ لَا يَعْرِفُونَهُ حَتَّى يَأْذَنَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَهُ أَنْ يُعَرِّفَهُمْ نَفْسَهُ كَمَا أَذِنَ لِيُوسُفَ ع حِينَ قَالَ لَهُمْ‏ هَلْ عَلِمْتُمْ ما فَعَلْتُمْ بِيُوسُفَ وَ أَخِيهِ إِذْ أَنْتُمْ جاهِلُونَ قالُوا أَ إِنَّكَ لَأَنْتَ يُوسُفُ قالَ أَنَا يُوسُفُ وَ هذا أَخِي‏[5]

🔆 Sudayr al-Sayrafi relates: I heard Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, say, “The Master of the Affair, peace be upon him, bears similarities to Joseph, peace be upon him.” I asked the Imam, “Are you referring to the course of his life, or to his occultation?” He replied, “What is it that the swinish ones of this community deny? Joseph’s brothers were descendants and children of prophets. They traded and spoke with him in Egypt. Moreover, he was their brother, and they were his brothers. Yet they did not recognize him until he himself said, ‘I am Joseph, and this is my brother.’ So why do the accursed ones of this community deny that, at a certain time, God, Mighty and Exalted, will do with His Proof what He did with Joseph? Joseph was the renowned and powerful ruler of Egypt, and the distance between him and his father was eighteen days’ journey. Had he wished to inform his father, he could have done so. Yet after receiving the glad tidings of Joseph, Jacob and his sons covered the distance between their village and the city of Egypt in nine days. So why does this community deny that God—Mighty and Exalted—will do with His Proof what He did with Joseph, such that he will walk through their markets and tread upon their carpets, while they do not recognize him, until God gives him permission to reveal himself? Just as He gave Joseph permission, and Joseph said: ‘Do you know what you did to Joseph and his brother when you were ignorant?’ They said, ‘Are you indeed Joseph?’ He said, ‘I am Joseph, and this is my brother.’”

🌻🔆 Joseph 94   وَ لَمَّا فَصَلَتِ الْعيرُ قالَ أَبُوهُمْ إِنِّي لَأَجِدُ ريحَ يُوسُفَ لَوْ لا أَنْ تُفَنِّدُونِ

🌻🔆 When the caravan departed (from the land of Egypt), their father [Jacob] said, “I can smell Joseph. Do not think me senile or foolish!”

🌷🔆 قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ إِنَّ فِي صَاحِبِ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ سنن [سُنَناً] مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ ع سُنَّةً مِنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عِمْرَانَ وَ سُنَّةً مِنْ عِيسَى وَ سُنَّةً مِنْ يُوسُفَ وَ سُنَّةً مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ ص‏ فَأَمَّا سُنَّتُهُ مِنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عِمْرَانَ فَخَائِفٌ يَتَرَقَّبُ وَ أَمَّا سُنَّتُهُ مِنْ عِيسَى فَيُقَالُ فِيهِ مَا قِيلَ فِي عِيسَى وَ أَمَّا سُنَّتُهُ مِنْ يُوسُفَ فَالسِّتْرُ يَجْعَلُ اللَّهُ بَيْنَهُ وَ بَيْنَ الْخَلْقِ‏ حِجَاباً يَرَوْنَهُ‏ وَ لَا يَعْرِفُونَهُ‏ وَ أَمَّا سُنَّتُهُ مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ ص فَيَهْتَدِي بِهُدَاهُ وَ يَسِيرُ بِسِيرَتِهِ.[6]

🌷🔆 Abu Basir reports that Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, said: “The one who holds this Cause bears the characteristics of certain prophets: one of Moses son of Imran, one of Jesus, one of Joseph, and one of Muhammad, blessings be upon them all.

His characteristic from Moses son of Imran is that he, too, lives in fear and awaits. His characteristic from Jesus is that people will say of him what they said of Jesus. His characteristic from Joseph is that he will remain hidden: God will place a veil between him and His creatures. People will see him but not recognize him. And his characteristic from Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, is that he will guide people to the right path, and they will follow his way.”

🌷🔆 بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ اللَّهُمَّ بَلِّغْ مَوْلَانَا صَاحِبَ الزَّمَانِ أَيْنَمَا كَانَ وَ حَيْثُمَا كَانَ مِنْ‏ مَشَارِقِ‏ الْأَرْضِ‏ وَ مَغَارِبِهَا سَهْلِهَا وَ جَبَلِهَا عَنِّي وَ عَنْ وَالِدَيَّ وَ عَنْ وُلْدِي وَ إِخْوَانِي التَّحِيَّةَ وَ السَّلَامَ عَدَدَ خَلْقِ اللَّهِ وَ زِنَةَ عَرْشِ اللَّهِ وَ مَا أَحْصَاهُ كِتَابُهُ وَ أَحَاطَ عِلْمُهُ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أُجَدِّدُ لَهُ فِي صَبِيحَةِ هَذَا الْيَوْمِ وَ مَا عِشْتُ فِيهِ مِنْ أَيَّامِ حَيَاتِي عَهْداً وَ عَقْداً وَ بَيْعَةً لَهُ فِي عُنُقِي لَا أَحُولُ عَنْهَا وَ لَا أَزُولُ اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْنِي مِنْ أَنْصَارِهِ وَ نُصَّارِهِ الذَّابِّينَ عَنْهُ وَ الْمُمْتَثِلِينَ لِأَوَامِرِهِ وَ نَوَاهِيهِ فِي أَيَّامِهِ وَ الْمُسْتَشْهَدِينَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ اللَّهُمَّ فَإِنْ حَالَ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَهُ الْمَوْتُ الَّذِي جَعَلْتَهُ عَلَى عِبَادِكَ حَتْماً مَقْضِيّاً فَأَخْرِجْنِي مِنْ قَبْرِي مُؤْتَزِراً كَفَنِي شَاهِراً سَيْفِي مُجَرِّداً قَنَاتِي مُلَبِّياً دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِي فِي الْحَاضِرِ وَ الْبَادِي اللَّهُمَّ أَرِنِي الطَّلْعَةَ الرَّشِيدَةَ وَ الْغُرَّةَ الْحَمِيدَةَ وَ اكْحُلْ بَصَرِي بِنَظْرَةٍ مِنِّي إِلَيْهِ وَ عَجِّلْ فَرَجَهُ وَ سَهِّلْ مَخْرَجَهُ اللَّهُمَّ اشْدُدْ أَزْرَهُ وَ قَوِّ ظَهْرَهُ وَ طَوِّلْ عُمُرَهُ اللَّهُمَّ اعْمُرْ بِهِ بِلَادَكَ وَ أَحْيِ بِهِ عِبَادَكَ فَإِنَّكَ قُلْتَ وَ قَوْلُكَ الْحَقُ‏ ظَهَرَ الْفَسادُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَ الْبَحْرِ بِما كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِي النَّاسِ‏ فَأَظْهِرِ اللَّهُمَّ لَنَا وَلِيَّكَ وَ ابْنَ بِنْتِ نَبِيِّكَ الْمُسَمَّى بِاسْمِ رَسُولِكَ صَلَوَاتُكَ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ حَتَّى لَا يَظْفَرَ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ مِنَ الْبَاطِلِ إِلَّا مَزَّقَهُ- وَ يُحِقُّ اللَّهُ الْحَقَّ بِكَلِماتِهِ‏ وَ يُحَقِّقُهُ اللَّهُمَّ اكْشِفْ هَذِهِ الْغُمَّةَ عَنْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ بِظُهُورِهِ- إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُ بَعِيداً وَ نَراهُ قَرِيباً وَ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ.[7]

🌷🔆 In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate. O God, convey my greetings and salutations to our master, the Master of the Age, wherever he may be and in whatever state he may find himself—in the east and west of the earth, across its plains and mountains—on behalf of me, my parents, my children, and my brothers and sisters.

🔅🌼The devils prevent us from beholding the beauty of the sun of the heavenly realm🌼🔅

🌷🔆 وَ قَالَ ص‏ لَوْ لَا أَنَّ الشَّيَاطِينَ يَحُومُونَ‏ عَلَى‏ قُلُوبِ بَنِي آدَمَ لَنَظَرُوا إِلَى مَلَكُوتِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرْض‏[8]

🔆 The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, said: “If devils did not circle around the hearts of human beings, they would surely behold the heavenly realm of the heavens and the earth.”

🌹Let us take care of our hearts, minds, the angels accompanying us, and our conscience, for they strengthen our sense of connection with our Imam, the Master of the Age.

🌹 Satanic forces obstruct our ability to hear and perceive the unseen realm, the realm of the soul. Let us devote ourselves to purifying and refining our souls, for they are the key to our connection with that realm. Let us not forget the supplication in Prayer 17 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya: it works wonders, destroys the devils, and drives them from around our hearts.

🌹 The thunder and lightning of our Mahdi will seize us; let us stay alert! We are immersed in his light and fragrance, his melodies and songs, his whispered prayers and calls, and his waves.

🔅🌼 Let us set the hours and course of our lives by our Imam of the Age 🌼🔅

🌸Politics must be oriented towards the dawn of the appearance.

🌸All politics must be ordered in readiness to welcome the very soul of political life.

🌸Let us align our intentions and deeds so that we may be present with him, both in the age of occultation and in the age of appearance!

🌸Even in the age of occultation, we are connected to our Imam of the Age, though the nature of our connection and our encounter with him is different!

🔅🌼 The Qur’an is the appointed place of encounter with the Mahdi 🌼🔅

🌸The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is like the Qur’an: though people see it and have it within reach, they do not truly see it and remain estranged from it. Reflection, contemplation, pondering, and deep thought on God’s verses will guide us to the Qur’an’s inner meaning, allusions, subtleties, and truths. So let us take the path of the Qur’an to reach its living heart, the speaking Qur’an.

🌸Set your intention to encounter him, and you will see him, even if you do not recognize him. Ask your question, and he will find its answer. Whoever thirsts for an encounter with the water of life, whoever longs for it with all their being, will see the beauty of that water everywhere, awake and asleep!

🌸Purify and open your heart to the Imam of the Age, and he will dwell within it. Soften your heart; it is enough to sweep worldly attachments from it.

🌻🔆Ta-Ha: 25   قالَ رَبِّ اشْرَحْ لي‏ صَدْري

🌻🔆(Moses) said, “My Lord, expand my breast for me,

🌻🔆Ta-Ha: 26   وَ يَسِّرْ لي‏ أَمْري

🌻🔆and make my task easy for me.”

🔅🌼 We are held in the embrace of the Imam of the Age 🌼🔅

🌸For the faithful, our Imam of the Age is mercy and healing; for the unjust, he is loss.

🌸The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is divine knowledge and mercy, encompassing all beings!

🌸🔆 أَنْتَ الَّذِي وَسِعْتَ كُلَّ شَيْ‏ءٍ رَحْمَةً وَ عِلْما

🌻🔆Aal Imran: 103   وَ اعْتَصِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَميعاً وَ لا تَفَرَّقُوا وَ اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَتَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنْتُمْ أَعْداءً فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُمْ بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْواناً وَ كُنْتُمْ عَلى‏ شَفا حُفْرَةٍ مِنَ النَّارِ فَأَنْقَذَكُمْ مِنْها كَذلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ آياتِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ

🔆And hold fast, all together, to the rope of God [the Qur’an and Islam, and every means of unity], and do not become divided. Remember God’s great blessing upon you: you were enemies, and He brought your hearts together, so that by His blessing you became brothers. You stood on the brink of a pit of fire, and He saved you from it. Thus God makes His signs clear to you, so that you may be guided.

🌻🔆Al-Isra: 82   وَ نُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ ما هُوَ شِفاءٌ وَ رَحْمَةٌ لِلْمُؤْمِنينَ وَ لا يَزيدُ الظَّالِمينَ إِلاَّ خَساراً

🌻🔆We send down in the Qur’an that which is healing and mercy for the faithful; but it increases the unjust in nothing but loss.

🌸 The Imam of our time, peace be upon him, is the Quran’s companion and intimate friend. The Quran is the gateway to God’s Proof, and God’s Proof is the gateway to the Quran. Deepening one’s intimacy with either brings one closer to the other; both bring one closer to God.

🔅🌼 Place yourself where the breezes of Hazrat Mahdi may reach you 🌼🔅

🌸 The Merciful God scatters the fragrance of Mahdi upon longing hearts.

🌷🔆 وَ قَالَ ع‏ إِنَّ لِرَبِّكُمْ فِي أَيَّامِ دَهْرِكُمْ نَفَحَاتٍ أَلَا So expose yourselves to them [فَتَعَرَّضُوا] لَهَا بِكَثْرَةِ الِاسْتِعْدَاد[9]

🌷🔆 كَمَا رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّ لِرَبِّكُمْ فِي أَيَّامِ دَهْرِكُمْ نَفَحَاتٍ أَلَا فَتَعَرَّضُوا لَهَا.[10]

🌷🔆 The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, said: (إِنَّ لِرَبِّكُم في أَيَّام دَهْرِكُم‏ نَفَحاتٍ‏ فَتَعَرَّضُوا لَها لعَلَّهُ أَن تُصيبَكُم‏ نَفْحَةٌ so expose yourselves to them, and you will never be wretched) [11]

🌷🔆 The Prophet of God, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, said: “Throughout your lives, breezes from your Lord will blow upon you. So place yourselves in their path, in the hope that one of these breaths may reach you; then you will never again fall into misery.”

🌸 Divine knowledge and mercy do their work, whether or not the one who is known and shown mercy is aware of it. We float in the living waters of God, even as we search for water like fish and forget that we are in it; we are in an ocean of light, searching for illumination.

🌸 Be attentive to the state of your heart. In moments of calm and inward expansiveness, do not forget to greet the soul.

🌸 The Beloved of the heart delights in seclusion. Empty your heart of every hollow attachment and hue.

🌸 The Imam of our time, peace be upon him, is the house of the poor, the house of knowledge, and the house of wisdom.

🌸 His friendship is friendship at its highest. The effect of the waves of his soul is not merely to produce movement; it is to bring forth works that create visions and sublime forms. His pure waves affect both body and soul.

🌸 Let us make our hearts a safe place for the presence of the Imam of our time, peace be upon him; let us make both our souls and our world a place where his love and care leave their imprint—in our work and homes, our surroundings, our places of business and exchange, and every street and alley we frequent.

🌸 Live in such a way that he may set foot upon our hearts.

🔅🌼 The hearts of the faithful, bound together, are the seat of our Imam of the time 🌼🔅

🌸 The gathering of hearts is where our Imam of the time is present. If forty believers, united in heart, gather in one place, why should our Imam not be the forty-first?

🌷🔆 وَ لَوْ أَنَّ أَشْيَاعَنَا  [وَفَّقَهُمُ اللَّهُ لِطَاعَتِهِ‏]  عَلَى‏ اجْتِمَاعِ‏ الْقُلُوبِ لَمَا تَأَخَّرَ عَنْهُمُ الْيُمْنُ بِلِقَائِنَا فَمَا يُحْبَسُ عَنْهُمْ مُشَاهَدَتُنَا إِلَّا لِمَا يَتَّصِلُ بِنَا مِمَّا نَكْرَهُهُ.[12]

🌷🔆 وَ لَوْ أَنَّ أَشْيَاعَنَا وَفَّقَهُمْ اللَّهُ لِطَاعَتِهِ عَلَى اجْتِمَاعٍ مِنَ الْقُلُوبِ فِي الْوَفَاءِ بِالْعَهْدِ عَلَيْهِمْ لَمَا تَأَخَّرَ عَنْهُمُ الْيُمْنُ بِلِقَائِنَا وَ لَتَعَجَّلَتْ لَهُمُ السَّعَادَةُ بِمُشَاهَدَتِنَا عَلَى حَقِّ الْمَعْرِفَةِ وَ صِدْقِهَا مِنْهُمْ بِنَا فَمَا يَحْبِسُنَا عَنْهُمْ إِلَّا مَا يَتَّصِلُ بِنَا مِمَّا نَكْرَهُهُ‏ وَ لَا نُؤْثِرُهُ‏ مِنْهُمْ‏ وَ اللَّهُ الْمُسْتَعانُ‏ وَ هُوَ حَسْبُنَا وَ نِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ‏ [13]

🔆 If our Shi‘a—may God grant them success in obedience to Him—were united in fulfilling the covenant they bear, the blessing of meeting us would not be delayed, and the happiness of seeing us would come to them sooner: a meeting founded on true recognition and their sincerity toward us. Nothing keeps us hidden from them but the deeds of theirs that reach us; we do not expect them to do such things.

🔅🌼 He inscribes our souls with his pure waves 🌼🔅

🌸 Do we tremble with him? Then do not churn. Be the clear water of your Imam of the time, so that his waves may leave their imprint on your face, make you tremble with his own vibration, and shape you in his image.

🌸 The transmission of commands, messages, secrets, knowledge and wisdom takes place through an exalted means. Alongside our physical connections, we must widen our attention to the metaphysical. Every particle of every being—with its dimensions and attachments, its spirit, heart, limbs and life—is interwoven with every other. The Mahdi conveys his news; he is God’s system, God’s self-operating system. Some of it runs automatically, but most of it depends on our choice: we must put ourselves in order. Most of it depends on our worthiness, so let us make ourselves receptive.

🌸 He vibrates with all his vibrations, and his waves encompass everything, by force or by willing submission.

🌸 Let us know ourselves to be in his presence—with our hearts, bodies, souls, minds and brains.

🔅🌼 Make your heart a treasury of your Imam’s secrets. 🌼🔅

🌷🔆 وَ جَعَلْتُ أَتَّبِعُ أَثَرَهُ، فَوَجَدْتُهُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ مُطَّلِعاً فِي‏ الْبِئْرِ إِلَى‏ نِصْفِهِ‏ يُخَاطِبُ الْبِئْرَ وَ الْبِئْرُ تُخَاطِبُهُ، فَحَسَّ بِي وَ الْتَفَتَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ وَ قَالَ: مَنْ، قُلْتُ: مِيثَمٌ، فَقَالَ: يَا مِيثَمُ أَ لَمْ آمُرْكَ أَنْ لَا تَتَجَاوَزَ الْخَطَّةَ، قُلْتُ: يَا مَوْلَايَ خَشِيتُ عَلَيْكَ مِنَ الْأَعْدَاءِ فَلَنْ يَصْبِرَ لِذَلِكَ قَلْبِي‏[14]

🔆 Maytham relates: “I followed the Commander of the Faithful (AS). After we had gone some distance, I saw him with his head and upper body lowered into a well, speaking to it—and the well speaking to him!”

🌸 A believer’s pure heart is a more intimate confidant than even a well. Your Imam is longing for your heart; prepare it.

🔅🌼 The lanes and byways of wisdom are where one meets the treasury of wisdom. 🌼🔅

🌸 The Imam of our time (AS) is the ever-flowing spring of wisdom, a spring that wells up from the depths of every sincere heart.

🌸 The language of the Imam of our time (AS) is the language of knowledge and wisdom.

🌸 Our Imam of the time is the treasury, key and spring of wisdom.

🔅🌼 The Imam of the time defends and safeguards wisdom. 🌼🔅

🌷Our Imam of the time became a shield for wisdom and placed it in a secure fortress. Like someone who keeps jewels in a safe, he stores wisdom in a well-guarded vault so that it will not be stolen.

🌷He embraced wisdom in all its forms and gathered it together. He turned to wisdom with special care and gave himself wholly to it. With his knowledge of wisdom and his undivided attention to it, Imam Mahdi (AS) gave it particular care; 🌷he took wisdom into his embrace with all its qualities, its knowledge and his attentive regard.

🌷The Imam of the time’s knowledge of wisdom is the revelation of wisdom’s secrets.

🌷His Eminence, the Mahdi (AS), saved wisdom from the harm of the hypocrites.

🌷He, the treasury, gateway and key to wisdom, is in search of it—like a mother or father keeping watch over a beloved child, never letting the child out of sight for even a moment.

🌷The sea of wisdom seeks out its drops.

🌷The Imam of the time (AS) gathers wisdom, picking up its jewels.

🌷🔆 قَدْ لَبِسَ‏ لِلْحِكْمَةِ جُنَّتَهَا وَ أَخَذَهَا بِجَمِيعِ أَدَبِهَا مِنَ الْإِقْبَالِ عَلَيْهَا وَ الْمَعْرِفَةِ بِهَا وَ التَّفَرُّغِ لَهَا فَهِيَ عِنْدَ نَفْسِهِ ضَالَّتُهُ الَّتِي يَطْلُبُهَا وَ حَاجَتُهُ الَّتِي يَسْأَلُ عَنْهَا فَهُوَ مُغْتَرِبٌ إِذَا اغْتَرَبَ الْإِسْلَامُ وَ ضَرَبَ بِعَسِيبِ ذَنَبِهِ وَ أَلْصَقَ الْأَرْضَ بِجِرَانِهِ بَقِيَّةٌ مِنْ بَقَايَا حُجَّتِهِ خَلِيفَةٌ مِنْ خَلَائِفِ أَنْبِيَائِه‏[15]

🔆 He clothed wisdom in a shield and embraced it in all its forms, turning toward it, knowing it and devoting himself to it. For in his eyes, wisdom was the very thing he had lost and sought, the need for which he had been asking. Thus he is a stranger when Islam is in exile—an Islam that, worn out and parched, has lowered its body to the ground and pressed its neck against the earth. He is a remnant of the surviving Proofs of God, a successor among the successors of God’s prophets.

🌸 Knowledge without wisdom, knowledge without reason, is captive to ignorance. Such knowledge is enslaved by the Dajjal, held hostage by the ignorant who merely pose as scholars.

🌸 Wisdom suffers and seeks its resting place. In the breast of a hypocrite, an unbeliever or a polytheist, it is imprisoned, enduring pain, anguish, constriction and distress!

🌸 In an unworthy breast, wisdom is restless and unsettled, beset by anxiety, torment, pain and suffering.

🌸 Wisdom is the jewel of knowledge, its delight and beauty.

🌸 Beauty in the face and form of a hypocrite or an unbeliever, and wealth, mercy, knowledge and wisdom in the soul of a hypocrite, are all in pain and torment; they seek their rightful owners. Wealth seeks its true owners in the same way, and beauty and delight do likewise.

🌸 Even God’s blessings, when they enter the mouths, are digested and flow through the veins of hypocrites and unbelievers, bring them pain and suffering, and make them groan.

🌸 True believers are the very garden and shield of wisdom. The Imam of knowledge and wisdom gathers the jewels of wisdom and places them in their hearts—while he himself, needless to say, is its fortress, its mine and its ever-flowing spring.

🌸 The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, like his noble forefather, seeks hearts worthy of him. He is the heir of the prophets and the heir of the physician who roams the world of existence.

🌷🔆 مُتَتَبِّعٌ بِدَوَائِهِ مَوَاضِعَ الْغَفْلَةِ وَ مَوَاطِنَ الْحَيْرَةِ لَمْ يَسْتَضِيئُوا بِأَضْوَاءِ الْحِكْمَةِ وَ لَمْ يَقْدَحُوا بِزِنَادِ الْعُلُومِ الثَّاقِبَةِ

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

[1] المزار الكبير (لابن المشهدي) ؛ ؛ ص581  Ibn Mashhadi, 1 volume, Office of Islamic Publications affiliated with the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom – Qom, first edition, 1419 AH.

[2] الكافي (ط – الإسلامية) ؛ ج‏1 ؛ ص509  Kulayni, Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq, Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya – Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[3] الغيبة (للطوسي)/ كتاب الغيبة للحجة ؛ النص ؛ ص292  Tusi, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan, Dar al-Ma‘arif al-Islamiyya – Iran; Qom, first edition, 1411 AH.

[4] من لا يحضره الفقيه ؛ ج‏2 ؛ ص520  Ibn Babawayh, Muhammad ibn Ali, Office of Islamic Publications affiliated with the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom – Qom, second edition, 1413 AH.

[5] كمال الدين و تمام النعمة ؛ ج1 ؛ ص144  Ibn Babawayh, Muhammad ibn Ali, Islamiyya – Tehran, second edition, 1395 AH.

[6] كمال الدين و تمام النعمة ؛ ج‏2 ؛ ص350  Ibn Babawayh, Muhammad ibn Ali, Islamiyya – Tehran, second edition, 1395 AH.

[7] بحار الأنوار (ط – بيروت) ؛ ج‏83 ؛ ص61  Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi, Dar Ihya al-Turath al-Arabi – Beirut, second edition, 1403 AH.

[8] بحار الأنوار (ط – بيروت) ؛ ج‏60 ؛ ص332  Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi, Dar Ihya al-Turath al-Arabi – Beirut, second edition, 1403 AH.

[9] عوالي اللئالي العزيزية في الأحاديث الدينية ؛ ج‏4 ؛ ص118  Ibn Abi Jumhur, Muhammad ibn Zayn al-Din, Dar Sayyid al-Shuhada for Publishing – Qom, first edition, 1405 AH.

[10] بحار الأنوار (ط – بيروت) ؛ ج‏80 ؛ ص352  Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi, Ihya al-Turath al-Arabi – Beirut, second edition, 1403 AH.

[11] الطراز الأول و الكناز لما عليه من لغة العرب المعول ؛ ج‏5 ؛ ص78  Madani Shirazi, Ali Khan ibn Ahmad, Al al-Bayt Institute for the Revival of Heritage – Mashhad, first edition, 1384 SH.

[12] *Al-Kharāʾij wa-l-Jarāʾiḥ*, vol. 2, p. 903 Qutb al-Din al-Rawandi, Saʿid ibn Hibat Allah, Imam Mahdi Institute, may God hasten his noble advent—Qom, first edition, 1409 AH.

[13] *Al-Iḥtijāj ʿalā Ahl al-Lijāj* (by al-Tabrisi), vol. 2, p. 499 al-Tabrisi, Ahmad ibn Ali, Murtada Publishing—Mashhad, first edition, 1403 AH.

[14] *Al-Mazār al-Kabīr* (by Ibn al-Mashhadi), p. 153 Ibn al-Mashhadi, Muhammad ibn Jaʿfar, Office of Islamic Publications, affiliated with the Qom Seminary Society of Teachers—Qom, first edition, 1419 AH.

[15]*Nahj al-Balāgha* (Ṣubḥī Ṣāliḥ edition), p. 263

al-Sharif al-Radi, Muhammad ibn Husayn, Hijrat—Qom, first edition, 1414 AH.