The Unity of Love

🌼🔆🌼Husayn, the Source of Love🌼🔆🌼

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌹 “Martyrdom Is Ashamed Before Husayn”  “Beyond Martyrdom”  “Beyond Love” « »  “The Third Night of Muharram” and … Abstract with Addendum       1403.04.18    Ali Saei (Abdullah Mishkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🔅🌼 An Overview and Map of the Discussion on the Unity of Love🌼🔅

🌼 Peace be upon the sovereign of love, the ruler of martyrdom, the adornment of the heavens and the earth, the adornment of the martyrs and of martyrdom: both the Master of Martyrs and the glory of the martyrs, the very ornament of martyrdom.

🌼 The name Husayn is an adornment; it is the very essence of beauty.

🌼 Why does the name Husayn make a person fall in love with martyrdom and become devoted to it? How did Husayn adorn martyrdom? He breathed new life into it.

🌼 Husayn showed that martyrdom is a path of growth. He showed that martyrdom is itself a means, even as it is a destination in its own right: a means and a way to journey towards the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary.

🌼 The cry of the Eminent One, “Is there anyone to help me?”, rings in our ears at every moment. The field of love lies open, calling all humanity to pass through the gate of love.

🌼 From one martyr to the next: from God to God, “Indeed we belong to God, and indeed to Him we return.”

🌼 Husayn has made martyrdom itself a martyr; he has opened a new road in the field of servitude to God.

🌼 Truly, Husayn has made martyrdom ashamed before him. Martyrdom was enamoured of Husayn and takes pride in him.

🌼 God is the Witness, encompassing all. Through “the Witness who encompasses all,” a person reaches “the meeting with God, the Witness.”

🌼 To soar towards the meeting with God, the Witness, and reach the embrace of His affection and love is, in truth, “from God, the Witness, to God, the Witness.”

🌼 The martyr is a sign, a sublime sign of God.

🌼 Whoever seeks martyrdom truly wishes, through martyrdom, to become His Name: to become, in an instant, the Name of God. The Name of God is alive and has no bounds or limits. The martyr, who is the Name of God, is alive and dynamic; it is by this very Name that we must call upon Him.

🌼 Among the wonders of the martyr are the martyr’s oneness and the oneness of love. Love is one because it comes only from the Beloved; whoever has that love enter their heart becomes “the lover.”

🌼 The lover is like a lamp, and its light is “love,” received from the Beloved. Becoming a lamp is what it means to become a lover.

🌼 No one shares in the love of God. This love is not reciprocal; it has only one direction. All love comes from the Beloved. The lover is nothing other than the Beloved’s love; and Husayn is the command centre of divine love.

🌼 Have we attained direct vision of love, or have we perceived only a shadow of it?

🌼 Love means God’s pure will.

🌼 Love is one of the flavours of divine knowledge.

🌼 Knowledge is more delectable than love.

🌼 Serenity is higher than pleasure; pleasure fades away before serenity. Freedom from every attachment (to anything other than God) lies beyond serenity; entrusting everything to God lies beyond freedom (handing back to Him whatever He has given).

🌼 There is something beyond love: love is a means, while beyond love is the Beloved Himself. Love is an instrument and a step on the way to what lies above it.

🌼 The love of God consumes every tale of love. Let us discover the sources of the love of God.

🌼 If, through Husayn, I have experienced the meeting with God, then I have truly understood Husayn.

🌼 Visiting Husayn must lead to the meeting with God. Karbala is God’s appointed place of encounter; Husayn is the path to God.

🌼 Fortunate is the one whose feelings and state of heart do not depend on the opinions of others. In the oneness of God, I am captive to no one.

🌼 The sinner is his own lowest self.

🌼 A name must lead us to what it names. Truly, Husayn is the sacred name of the martyr, through whom we must reach the meeting with God.

🔅🌼 The Adornment of Martyrdom 🌼🔅

🌹Husayn, the adornment of the heavens and the earth, adorned martyrdom too, making it captivating. He made all the world fall in love with martyrdom: whoever hears Husayn’s name longs for martyrdom.

🌹Husayn transformed martyrdom into humanity’s greatest hope and aspiration.

🌹Husayn adorned love as well, leading everyone into the valley of love.

🌹Husayn breathed life into martyrdom—a life in the spirit of Husayn. He nurtured martyrdom and helped it grow.

🔅🌼 Martyrdom Is Humbled Before Husayn 🌼🔅

🌹Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, humbled martyrdom. Husayn made martyrdom itself a martyr; he transformed it. The Master of Martyrs rose to become the master of martyrdom’s martyrs.

🌹Husayn led us from martyrdom to what lies beyond it. He forged a new path, guiding us beyond our hopes and aspirations, beyond all that we desire.

🌹Every destination is a means and a stepping-stone to higher destinations.

🌹Martyrdom is in love with Husayn and devoted to him; it takes pride in having been granted to him.

🌹Martyrdom is enamoured of those who seek it. It beckons those who love God to come to its side.

🌹Martyrdom, too, is a living, dynamic reality, like the Qur’an, prayer and fasting.

🌹The lived experience of martyrdom is of a different, more luminous order: بل احیاء عند ربهم یرزقون.

🔅🌼 The Martyr Is a Name of God 🌼🔅

🌹God Most High is Himself a witness. The martyr is God’s highest sign, a name of God. Who would not wish to be renowned by God’s name? God’s name is beautiful and good. To be worthy of this distinction, then, we must adorn ourselves with holiness, so that the tablet of our soul may be inscribed with His name.

🌹God Most High is the all-encompassing Witness, Lord of body and soul, the nurturing ground of the martyr and of martyrdom.

🌹Through martyrdom, the martyr reaches the Witness. Through martyrdom, we arrive at the meeting-place of martyrdom; to attain the meeting with God, the Witness, the martyr is one of God’s Most Beautiful Names.

🌹A divine name is living, dynamic and growing. The martyr, too, becomes a witness—that is, undertakes a spiritual journey and reaches the fullest measure of growth.

🌹The People of the Household, peace be upon them, are the Most Beautiful Names, and these names are on a path of growth, journeying and ascent. They bring all their fruits to fruition.

🔅🌼 Divine Love Is One 🌼🔅

🌹Divine love is singular, unique; no one shares in it—not even the lover, for it belongs wholly to the Beloved.

🌹The Beloved is the sole possessor of all love.

🌹In truth, the lover is that very love of the Beloved. Think on this!!!!

🌹The lover is the Beloved’s abode of love, its wellspring.

🌹The lover is the Beloved’s love.

🌹“Love is one.” Love is unity; it is diffused only from the Beloved. The lover receives it, is nourished by it and transformed. Love is a divine wave sent forth; it is the most exalted remembrance of God, the highest and most particular form of attention. The lover has no share in love; it belongs wholly to the Beloved. The lover merely receives it as sustenance.

🌹The lover’s growth through the love sent forth is the most beautiful response the lover can make to the Beloved—like a lamp that, lit by love’s electricity, becomes a torch of love.

🌹To reach Him from Him is the secret of creation;  «إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَ إِنَّا إِلَيْهِ راجِعُونَ» to reach Him through Him, through His sign, and together with Him and His sign, is the secret of the spiritual journey.

🌹When nothing had been created besides Him, what could love have meant? We have not yet experienced love; we have glimpsed only a shadow of it.

🌹With the creation of love, love began. Thus love is His creation, His will—the manifestation of His will, ever renewed and yet timeless.

Truly, what reality does the One and Only God interpret and reveal to us through love? What mystery is this?!

🌹Every verse is a gateway to one of the doors of His love.

🔅🌼 Love Is an Outpouring of Divine Knowledge 🌼🔅

🌹Knowledge is dearer than love. Love is a passageway, a window onto knowledge.

🌹Tranquility is higher than pleasure; freedom is more delightful than pleasure and higher than tranquility. Entrusting the wealth of body and soul to their true Owner surpasses them all.

🌹Love is but a ray of knowledge. Let us grasp the majesty of knowledge.

🌹Through love, we taste knowledge and practice encounter. The more knowledge we gain, the greater our love, understanding, and delight.

🔅🌼 From the Shores of Love to Beyond Love 🌼🔅

🌹The sincere lover strives to pass beyond love; martyrdom is a gateway to what lies beyond martyrdom.

🌹Whatever heights we contemplate, there are heights beyond them. There is even what lies beyond love—something not of the nature of “love and being.”

🌹Is love merely a tool?! Love is but a rung, a passage, a step toward finding the way to the goal.

🌹Love of God dispels every mirage of love.

🌹The Prophet’s Household are sources of love.

🌹Husayn is an ever-burning source, forever kindled by the Divine! There is no need for other people’s opinions to make Husayn our master and guide.

🌹How blessed that “love, intimate prayer, calling upon God, reflection, reason, learning, listening, and seeing” are not subject to the opinions of others!

🌹Freely gaze upon the heavenly realms, the highest kingdom, and the vistas and signs of the Beloved.

🌹The beetle belongs in its own Hell; it is in its own lowest realm, fallen there. The rebellious human being is in Hell and the lowest depths.

🌹The honeybee will lead us to the honeycomb and make us guests of flowers, basil, fragrance, and serenity; the beetle and the mouse will offer us a table of filth.

🌹Let us be like butterflies, flowers, honeybees, angels, and Husayn.

🌹Let us help Husayn; once again, he calls to us. “Is there anyone to help me?”—Husayn’s cry reaches our ears, so that the garden of God may bloom with flowers.

🌼 Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141 (903) 🌼