A Mirror of the Greater Universe

🌸🔆🌿   “The Art and Practice of Love”  “A Butterfly in the Garden of the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya”

🔅🌹 A concise overview with an addendum: “The Charter of Love and Loving” “A Commentary on Supplication 20 of the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya”  “Session 215”  “The Nectar of the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya” “A Vantage Point on Noble Character” and more…       1402.09.09    Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌼The worthy are the mirror of our standing. 🌼🔅

🌷The judgment of the worthy lays the wrongdoers low and helps the good flourish.

🌷Any false assumption about the sacred Presence undermines the very foundations of servitude and is tantamount to the gravest form of shirk. Any false assumption about God’s messengers and saints is an act of major disbelief.

🌷Any false assumption about the people of integrity is a grave slander. And the sound judgment of the people of integrity regarding anyone is what brings integrity to that person and society, and safeguards history by discerning the truth.

🌷Any suspicion cast without clear evidence upon a believer destroys faith and is tantamount to manifest disbelief.

🌷The people of integrity are the measure by which every person is weighed. They show us who we are; they know us better than we know ourselves.

🌷The people of integrity are the mirror of every person’s standing.

🔅🌼The Mirror of the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya 🌼🔅

🌷Let us take stock of ourselves by means of the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya! Do we know its true worth? How much have we drunk of the pure, refreshing wine of this mighty ocean? We must drink of the whole sea; otherwise, we will never fully taste the sweetness of servitude and love between the lover and the Beloved.

🌷How much have our hearts opened in the presence of the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya?

🌷How deeply has the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya been reflected in our intentions, deeds and words?!

🌷The Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya teaches us how to ask, what to ask for, and how to ask for it.

🌷The Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya is a surging sea of knowledge, a bubbling spring of love, a ship of salvation, and a wing that carries us toward the highest heaven.

🌷Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him, is the greatest grace of the Greatest God, and the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya is the Imam’s greatest gift.

🌷Our experience of servitude to God must be transformed through the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya.

🌷The Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya is the highest horizon for restless lovers. The loftiest branch of servitude lies within it; from its heights, the ultimate horizon of truth and reality comes into view.

🌷The Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya is the anthology of the names and ways of love.

🌷To do justice to the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya is to spread the wings of servitude through it into the boundless.

🌷The effects of being in the presence of the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya should become manifest in every part of our being.

🌷Let us search our souls for the effects of the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya.

🌷The Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya is love’s most beautiful melody, its sweet tune more delightful than the song of lovebirds. With the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya, our character should be more fragrant than the sweetest flower, and our sincerity in servitude clearer than the water of life.

🌷Whoever makes the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya their garden of delight will be honoured in both worlds.

🌷If the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya does not raise us to a station higher than Luqman’s, we have not done it justice.

🌷Had the wise Luqman experienced the presence of Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him, he would have become wiser than Luqman.

🌷With the Ṣaḥīfa, let us rise to the station of Salman—and beyond.

🌷The Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya is a full-length mirror of the vast world within the human being; it shows us ourselves in our entirety.

🌷We are immersed in the life-giving waters of the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya and do not know it. If only a fish knew the worth of water!

🌷Our life of servitude is sustained by the teachings of the Ahl al-Bayt. Only through the sacred presence of the Ahl al-Bayt does our greater world draw breath.

🌷The Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya is a cup that reveals reality.

🌷Through the *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya*, our scorched inner landscape is laid bare, and we find a clinic for healing the greater world within us.

🌷We have turned medicine into pain and cast the highest part of our soul down to the lowest. Let us turn to the *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya* to heal and set ourselves right.

🔅🌼The Ṣaḥīfa is a cup that reflects the soul 🌼🔅

🌱🌹 دَوَاؤُکَ فِیکَ وَ مَا تَشْعُرُ

وَ دَاؤُکَ مِنْکَ وَ مَا تَنْظُرُ

And you think you are but a small body.

وَ فِیکَ انْطَوَی الْعَالَمُ الْاَکْبَرُ

وَ اَنْتَ الْکِتَابُ الْمُبِینُ الَّذِی

بِاَحْرُفِهِ یَظْهَرُ الْمُضْمَر[1]

‌ 🌱🌹 O human being, the remedy you need lies within you, though you do not know it; your pain, too, comes from within you, but you do not see it.

Do you imagine that you are a small creature, when an immense world lies hidden within you?!

O human being, you are a luminous book whose letters reveal every hidden thing.

🌷Without the Ahl al-Bayt, people bring themselves to ruin. The *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya* is the fire extinguisher for our souls; it grants us spiritual vision.

🌷What kinship could there be between dust and the Lord of lords? « أين التراب و ربّ الأرباب‏» The *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya* brings this connection to life in the most beautiful way.

🌷I was a greater world, yet I was burned; the Ṣaḥīfa soothes my wounds. The *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya* makes the lowly servant a companion of Allah, the Most Great.

🌷Let us cultivate the lands of our being through the *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya*, and plant the heavens and the Throne in the earth of our souls.

🌷To be ungrateful for the blessing of the *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya* is among the most unforgivable acts of ingratitude in the world.

🌷Unless we sense the fragrance and savor the flavor of the *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya*, we will never fall in love with it.

🌷The *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya* is a full-length mirror of the greater world within the human being. In its mirror, we can see ourselves in our full stature: our sevenfold heavenly nature, our celestial countenance, and our light.

🌷Let us behold our own essential reality in the truth-revealing cup of the *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya*, attain knowledge of the soul, and be granted the grace of knowing the Creator of the soul.

🌷Through the *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya*, let us recognize our own worth and spend ourselves worthily in the service of our Beloved.

🌷Let us enter, sincerely, the seas, lands, and skies of the *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya*, and with all our soul and being rise to commune with our Beloved.

🌷The *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya* is the art and language of speaking with the Beloved.

🔅🌼The peerless blessing of the Ṣaḥīfa 🌼🔅

🌷Through the *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya*, we must revive our remembrance of and pledge of allegiance to the Imam of noble virtues, and feel the shelter of his grace with all our heart and soul.

🌷The *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya* holds the secrets of transforming our character and temperament.

🌷The *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya* is a school that teaches us to fly from the summit of the fairest form of creation to the heights of the highest heaven.

🌷Through the *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya*, we must have a transcendent influence on all existence and add to its beauty and adornment.

🌷Through the *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya*, we can influence every being in the world—even change the savage nature of predatory creatures.

🌷The *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya* is a system of reason that enables us to make use of reason.

🌷Through the *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya*, let us prepare ourselves for the uprising of the Awaited One from the House of Muhammad (peace be upon him).

🌱🌹 عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الْبَاقِرِ ع قَالَ: إِذَا قَامَ قَائِمُنَا ع وَضَعَ‏ يَدَهُ‏ عَلَى‏ رُءُوسِ الْعِبَادِ فَجَمَعَ بِهَا عُقُولَهُمْ وَ كَمَلَتْ بِهَا أَحْلَامُهُمْ‏ [2]

🌱🌹 When our Qa’im rises, God will place His hand upon His servants, gather their intellects through it, and bring their understanding to perfection.

🌱🌹 ُ اسْمُهُ اسْمُ النَّبِيِّ يَأْمُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ وَ يَفْعَلُهُ وَ يَنْهَى عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ وَ يَجْتَنِبُهُ يَكْشِفُ اللَّهُ بِهِ الظُّلَمَ وَ يَجْلُو بِهِ الشَّكَّ وَ الْعَمَى‏ يَرْعَى‏ الذِّئْبُ‏ فِي أَيَّامِهِ مَعَ الْغَنَمِ‏  وَ يَرْضَى عَنْهُ سَاكِنُ السَّمَاءِ وَ الطَّيْرُ فِي الْجَوِّ وَ الْحِيتَانُ فِي الْبِحَارِ يَا لَهُ مِنْ عَبْدٍ مَا أَكْرَمَهُ عَلَى اللَّهِ طُوبَى لِمَنْ أَطَاعَه‏[3]

🌱🌹 Through him, God will dispel the darkness; through him, doubt, uncertainty and blindness of heart will be swept away. In his time, the wolf will dwell beside the sheep. The people of heaven, the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea will all rejoice in him. What a good servant he is, one whom God holds in special care! Blessed is whoever obeys him, and woe to whoever disobeys him.

🌷With the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya, let us tame the wolf within us, give the peacock of our soul its full plumage, and raise our hearts to the Divine Throne.

🌷Let us breathe with the Ṣaḥīfa and understand the state of a true lover; let us adorn our souls, our society and our world with the highest virtues.

🌷Let us pray in the spirit of Imam Sajjād, peace be upon him.

🌷The Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya is the wings of the Shiʿa and the very flying carpet of the Household of Muhammad. It is the vessel of Sajjādiyya, carrying us on the journey of spiritual wayfaring through the lanes and byways that lead to the meeting with God.

🌷The Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya is the hearth of lovers, where they draw the warmth of love.

🌷Whoever takes up the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya conquers the seven heavens, the Exalted Throne and the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary.

🌷The Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya is a vessel carrying us from the earthly realm to the Divine Throne.

🌷Let us read the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya with pure, sincere hearts and with the fullness of our greater world within, so that we may absorb all its blessings and effects.

🔅🌼Reflection: The Key to the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya 🌼🔅

🌷Let us enter the sanctuary of the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya in a spirit of reflection, and awaken our minds through the faculty of reason.

🌱🌹 وَ الْفِكْرَةُ مِرْآةُ الْحَسَنَاتِ وَ كَفَّارَةُ السَّيِّئَاتِ‏ وَ ضِيَاءُ الْقَلْبِ وَ فُسْحَةٌ لِلْخَلْقِ وَ إِصَابَةٌ فِي إِصْلَاحِ الْمَعَادِ وَ اطِّلَاعٌ عَلَى الْعَوَاقِبِ وَ اسْتَزَادَةٌ فِي الْعِلْمِ وَ هِيَ خَصْلَةٌ لَا يُعْبَدُ اللَّهُ بِمِثْلِهَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فِكْرَةُ سَاعَةٍ خَيْرٌ مِنْ عِبَادَةِ سَنَةٍ وَ لَا يَنَالُ مَنْزِلَةَ التَّفَكُّرِ إِلَّا مَنْ قَدْ خَصَّهُ اللَّهُ بِنُورِ الْمَعْرِفَةِ وَ التَّوْحِيد[4]

🌱🌹 Imam al-Ṣādiq, peace be upon him, said: “…Reflection and thought are a mirror of goodness, a veil over faults, a light for the hearts, and a source of good character and open-heartedness. Through reflection, a person learns what will serve their good on the Day of Resurrection and at the end of their life; their knowledge grows, and no act of worship is greater than reflection. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family and grant them peace, said: ‘An hour of reflection is better than a year of worship.’ Only those whom God has singled out with the light of knowledge and divine unity attain this station.”

🌷Let us dwell in the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya with our thoughts.

🌷If we read the Ṣaḥīfa with reflection, we will taste its sweetness and delight.

🌷Let us understand the difference between reflection and thoughtlessness: not every thought is reflection. Reflection proceeds through reason, while thoughtlessness is driven by ignorance and Satan.

🌷Knowledge of God and divine unity are gifts from Him. Let us seek them from God with all our hearts, for they are essential to reflection. Reflection is a matter of great consequence.

🌷The Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya is the constitution of human dignity and consummate perfection, the secret of governing the greater soul, and the mystery of revival and awakening.

🌷Let us enter the garden of the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya like butterflies; like honeybees, let us eagerly gather its nectar and fragrance; like diving fish, let us seek out its jewels; and like fertile earth, let us open our souls to new growth.

🌻🔅Al-Furqān: 77   قُلْ ما يَعْبَؤُا بِكُمْ رَبِّي لَوْ لا دُعاؤُكُمْ فَقَدْ كَذَّبْتُمْ فَسَوْفَ يَكُونُ لِزاماً

🌻🔅Say: “My Lord would not care for you were it not for your supplication. You have indeed denied the signs of God and the messengers, and this will cling to you; it will not leave you.”

🔅🌼Supplication 20 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya: A Vantage Point for the Highest Virtues 🌼🔅

🌷Supplication 20 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya is a vast university of noble character. Knowledge must ride upon the steed of noble character if humanity is to attain felicity.

🌷Noble character should have advanced alongside the progress of knowledge. Its decline in our age shows that, instead of reason, knowledge is riding upon ignorance.

🔅🌼 The Crispy Bottom of the Pot | 1402.09.09 🌼🔅

🌷When the heart is occupied with something great, it withdraws from all that is other than it.

🌷Reflection elevates, while turning away brings one low. To substitute heedlessness for reflection is to embrace manifest ignorance—a malady afflicting the world today, where Satan holds sway over human knowledge.

🌷Only when reason rules is reflection possible.

🌷God’s hand points to the special power and grace of God Most High, which may encompass His special attentions and chosen creatures.

🌻🔅Al-Fath: 10   إِنَّ الَّذينَ يُبايِعُونَكَ إِنَّما يُبايِعُونَ اللَّهَ يَدُ اللَّهِ فَوْقَ أَيْديهِمْ فَمَنْ نَكَثَ فَإِنَّما يَنْكُثُ عَلى‏ نَفْسِهِ وَ مَنْ أَوْفى‏ بِما عاهَدَ عَلَيْهُ اللَّهَ فَسَيُؤْتيهِ أَجْراً عَظيماً

🌻🔅Those who pledge allegiance to you are, in truth, pledging allegiance to God. God’s hand is above their hands. So whoever breaks the pledge does so only to his own detriment; and whoever fulfils the covenant he has made with God, He will soon grant him a great reward.

🌻🔅Sad: 75   قالَ يا إِبْليسُ ما مَنَعَكَ أَنْ تَسْجُدَ لِما خَلَقْتُ بِيَدَيَّ أَسْتَكْبَرْتَ أَمْ كُنْتَ مِنَ الْعالينَ

🌻🔅He said, “O Iblis! What prevented you from prostrating to one whom I created with My own power? Was it that you grew arrogant, or that you considered yourself among the exalted? (Too exalted to be commanded to prostrate?)

🌷God’s hand being above the heads of His servants truly signifies the special encompassing of their bodies and souls by His power and grace, bringing about a leap in their intellect.

🌷The elevation of the intellect is essential for perceiving the presence of His Eminence, the Master of the Age, peace be upon him.

🌷Before the Appearance, the true Shi‘a must attain intellectual elevation; after His Eminence appears, they must bring their intellectual capacities to their highest degree.

🌷The provision of food for hyenas and wolves during the time of His presence is connected to the divinely willed blessings of manna and quails.

🌷Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya has veils, passageways, levels and degrees of its own.

🌱🌹 الطَّبْرِسِيُّ، فِي (الْإِحْتِجَاجِ): عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْعَسْكَرِيِّ (عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامُ)، فِي رِسَالَتِهِ إِلَى أَهْلِ الْأَهْوَازِ حِينَ سَأَلُوهُ عَنِ الْجَبْرِ وَ التَّفْوِيضِ- وَ ذَكَرَ الرِّسَالَةَ إِلَى أَنْ قَالَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ):- « [فَإِنْ قَالُوا مَا الْحُجَّةُ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى:] فَيُضِلُّ اللَّهُ مَنْ يَشاءُ وَ يَهْدِي مَنْ يَشاءُ، وَ مَا أَشْبَهَ ذَلِكَ؟ قُلْنَا: فَعَلَى مَجَازِ هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ يَقْتَضِي مَعْنَيَيْنِ:

أَحَدُهُمَا: أَنَّهُ إِخْبَارٌ عَنْ كَوْنِهِ تَعَالَى قَادِراً عَلَى هِدَايَةِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَ ضَلَالَةِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ، وَ لَوْ أَجْبَرَهُمْ عَلَى أَحَدِهِمَا لَمْ يَجِبْ لَهُمْ ثَوَابٌ، وَ لَا عَلَيْهِمْ عِقَابٌ، عَلَى مَا شَرَحْنَاهُ. وَ الْمَعْنَى الْآخَرُ: أَنَّ الْهِدَايَةَ مِنْهُ: التَّعْرِيفُ، كَقَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى:

وَ أَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَهَدَيْناهُمْ فَاسْتَحَبُّوا الْعَمى‏ عَلَى الْهُدى. وَ لَيْسَ كُلُّ آيَةٍ مُشْتَبِهَةً فِي الْقُرْآنِ كَانَتِ الْآيَةُ حُجَّةً عَلَى حُكْمِ الْآيَاتِ اللَّاتِي أُمِرَ بِالْأَخْذِ بِهَا وَ تَقْلِيدِهَا، وَ هِيَ قَوْلُهُ: هُوَ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ عَلَيْكَ الْكِتابَ مِنْهُ آياتٌ مُحْكَماتٌ هُنَّ أُمُّ الْكِتابِ وَ أُخَرُ مُتَشابِهاتٌ فَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ زَيْغٌ فَيَتَّبِعُونَ ما تَشابَهَ مِنْهُ ابْتِغاءَ الْفِتْنَةِ وَ ابْتِغاءَ تَأْوِيلِهِ الْآيَةَ، وَ قَالَ: فَبَشِّرْ عِبادِ* الَّذِينَ يَسْتَمِعُونَ الْقَوْلَ فَيَتَّبِعُونَ أَحْسَنَهُ أُولئِكَ الَّذِينَ هَداهُمُ اللَّهُ وَ أُولئِكَ هُمْ أُولُوا الْأَلْبابِ وَ اللَّهُ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ الرِّياحَ فَتُثِيرُ سَحاباً فَسُقْناهُ إِلى‏ بَلَدٍ مَيِّتٍ فَأَحْيَيْنا بِهِ الْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِها كَذلِكَ النُّشُور[5]

🌻🔅Fāṭir: 8   أَ فَمَنْ زُيِّنَ لَهُ سُوءُ عَمَلِهِ فَرَآهُ حَسَناً فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يُضِلُّ مَنْ يَشاءُ وَ يَهْدي مَنْ يَشاءُ فَلا تَذْهَبْ نَفْسُكَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسَراتٍ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَليمٌ بِما يَصْنَعُونَ

🌱🌹 يَا هَادِي يَا مُضِل‏

Even if the entire universe were to join forces to lead someone astray, that person would not be led astray unless they consented to their own misguidance, were unworthy of guidance, and God gave permission for them to be led astray.

🌷The afflictions that befall a person will be for one of the reasons mentioned: elevation in rank, spiritual gifts, atonement, punishment, or admonition.

🌻🔅al-Nisāʾ: 78   أَيْنَما تَكُونُوا يُدْرِكْكُمُ الْمَوْتُ وَ لَوْ كُنْتُمْ في‏ بُرُوجٍ مُشَيَّدَةٍ وَ إِنْ تُصِبْهُمْ حَسَنَةٌ يَقُولُوا هذِهِ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ وَ إِنْ تُصِبْهُمْ سَيِّئَةٌ يَقُولُوا هذِهِ مِنْ عِنْدِكَ قُلْ كُلٌّ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ فَما لِهؤُلاءِ الْقَوْمِ لا يَكادُونَ يَفْقَهُونَ حَديثاً

🌻🔅Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, even if you are in fortified towers! If some good fortune (or victory) comes to them [the hypocrites], they say, “This is from God”; but if some misfortune (or defeat) befalls them, they say, “This is from you.” Say, “All of it is from God.” What is wrong with these people that they can hardly understand a word?

🌻🔅al-Nisāʾ: 79  As for أَصابَكَ مِنْ حَسَنَةٍ فَمِنَ اللَّهِ وَ ما أَصابَكَ مِنْ سَيِّئَةٍ فَمِنْ نَفْسِكَ وَ أَرْسَلْناكَ لِلنَّاسِ رَسُولاً وَ كَفى‏ بِاللَّهِ شَهيداً

🌻🔅whatever good comes to you is from God, and whatever evil comes to you is from yourself. We have sent you as a messenger to all people, and God is sufficient as a witness to this.

🌻🔅al-Tawbah: 118   وَ عَلَى الثَّلاثَةِ الَّذينَ خُلِّفُوا حَتَّى إِذا ضاقَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَرْضُ بِما رَحُبَتْ وَ ضاقَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ أَنْفُسُهُمْ وَ ظَنُّوا أَنْ لا مَلْجَأَ مِنَ اللَّهِ إِلاَّ إِلَيْهِ ثُمَّ تابَ عَلَيْهِمْ لِيَتُوبُوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ التَّوَّابُ الرَّحيمُ

🌻🔅And [He also turned in mercy] to the three who had stayed behind [from the campaign to Tabuk], until the earth, vast as it is, seemed narrow to them, and they felt constricted within themselves. They knew there was no refuge from God except with Him. Then He turned to them in mercy, enabling them to repent. Surely God is ever Accepting of repentance, Most Merciful.

‌🌷The emergence of sins and ugliness in the universe is always beautiful, because it unfolds within the framework of God’s will as part of the divine trial.

🌷Sins are ugly and unbeautiful insofar as they run contrary to God’s pleasure; insofar as they manifest God’s will in bringing the trial of creation to pass, they are beautiful.

🌷ʿAzrāʾīl is a mirror that reveals each person’s inner reality.

🌷The Dajjāl is chained, but in the End Times his chains will be broken.

🌷The Dajjāl’s principal aim is to bring about polytheism and destroy monotheism.

🌷The Dajjāl is a real person, not an abstract entity. He possesses a particular, highly advanced technology and is equipped with extraordinarily advanced sorcery. He affects people’s wealth, their lives, and their faith.

🌱🌹 ثُمَّ قَالَ لِأَصْحَابِهِ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ مَا بَعَثَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ نَبِيّاً إِلَّا وَ قَدْ أَنْذَرَ قَوْمَهُ الدَّجَّالَ وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قَدْ أَخَّرَهُ إِلَى يَوْمِكُمْ هَذَا فَمَهْمَا تَشَابَهَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ أَمْرِهِ فَإِنَّ رَبَّكُمْ لَيْسَ بِأَعْوَرَ إِنَّهُ يَخْرُجُ عَلَى حِمَارٍ عَرْضُ مَا بَيْنَ أُذُنَيْهِ مِيلٌ يَخْرُجُ وَ مَعَهُ جَنَّةٌ وَ نَارٌ وَ جَبَلٌ مِنْ خُبْزٍ وَ نَهْرٌ مِنْ مَاءٍ أَكْثَرُ أَتْبَاعِهِ‏ الْيَهُودُ وَ النِّسَاءُ وَ الْأَعْرَابُ يَدْخُلُ آفَاقَ الْأَرْضِ كُلَّهَا إِلَّا مَكَّةَ وَ لَابَتَيْهَا وَ الْمَدِينَةَ وَ لَابَتَيْهَا[6]

🌱🌹 People! God sent no prophet on a mission without warning his people about the Dajjal. God Most High has delayed his coming until this day. If the matter seems unclear to you, know that God is not one-eyed. The Dajjal will appear riding a donkey whose ears are a mile apart. Most of his followers will be Jews, women and Arabs. He will enter every region of the earth except Mecca and its outskirts, and Medina and its outskirts.

🌱🌹 Narrated from Ibn Nuwayh [تَوْبَةَ] عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ: سُئِلَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع كَيْفَ بَدَأَ النَّسْلُ مِنْ ذُرِّيَّةِ آدَمَ ع فَإِنَّ عِنْدَنَا أُنَاساً يَقُولُونَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى أَوْحَى إِلَى آدَمَ ع أَنْ يُزَوِّجَ بَنَاتِهِ مِنْ بَنِيهِ وَ إِنَّ هَذِهِ الْخَلْقَ كُلَّهُمْ  أَصْلُهُ مِنَ الْإِخْوَةِ وَ الْأَخَوَاتِ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَ تَعَالَى عَنْ ذَلِكَ عُلُوّاً كَبِيراً يَقُولُ مَنْ يَقُولُ هَذَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ جَعَلَ أَصْلَ صَفْوَةِ خَلْقِهِ وَ أَحِبَّائِهِ وَ أَنْبِيَائِهِ وَ رُسُلِهِ وَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ وَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ الْمُسْلِمَاتِ مِنْ حَرَامٍ وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ مِنَ الْقُدْرَةِ مَا يَخْلُقُهُمْ مِنَ الْحَلَالِ وَ قَدْ أَخَذَ مِيثَاقَهُمْ عَلَى الْحَلَالِ وَ الطُّهْرِ الطَّيِّبِ وَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ تَبَيَّنْتُ  أَنَّ بَعْضَ الْبَهَائِمِ تَنَكَّرَتْ لَهُ أُخْتُهُ فَلَمَّا نَزَا عَلَيْهَا  وَ نَزَلَ كُشِفَ لَهُ عَنْهَا وَ عَلِمَ أَنَّهَا أُخْتُهُ أَخْرَجَ غُرْمُولَهُ ثُمَّ قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ بِأَسْنَانِهِ ثُمَّ قَلَعَهُ ثُمَّ خَرَّ مَيِّتاً قَالَ زُرَارَةُ ثُمَّ سُئِلَ ع عَنْ خَلْقِ حَوَّاءَ وَ قِيلَ لَهُ إِنَّ أُنَاساً عِنْدَنَا يَقُولُونَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ خَلَقَ حَوَّاءَ مِنْ ضِلْعِ آدَمَ الْأَيْسَرِ الْأَقْصَى قَالَ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَ تَعَالَى عَنْ ذَلِكَ عُلُوّاً كَبِيراً يَقُولُ مَنْ يَقُولُ هَذَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ مِنَ الْقُدْرَةِ مَا يَخْلُقُ لآِدَمَ زَوْجَةً مِنْ غَيْرِ ضِلْعِهِ وَ جَعَلَ  لِمُتَكَلِّمٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ التَّشْنِيعِ سَبِيلًا إِلَى الْكَلَامِ يَقُولُ إِنَّ آدَمَ كَانَ يَنْكِحُ بَعْضُهُ بَعْضاً إِذَا كَانَتْ مِنْ ضِلْعِهِ مَا لِهَؤُلَاءِ حَكَمَ اللَّهُ بَيْنَنَا وَ بَيْنَهُمْ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى لَمَّا خَلَقَ آدَمَ مِنْ طِينٍ أَمَرَ الْمَلَائِكَةَ فَسَجَدُوا لَهُ وَ أَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ السُّبَاتَ ثُمَّ ابْتَدَعَ لَهُ خَلْقاً ثُمَّ جَعَلَهَا فِي مَوْضِعِ النُّقْرَةِ الَّتِي بَيْنَ رُكْبَتَيْهِ  وَ ذَلِكَ لِكَيْ تَكُونَ الْمَرْأَةُ تَبَعاً لِلرَّجُلِ فَأَقْبَلَتْ تَتَحَرَّكُ فَانْتَبَهَ لِتَحَرُّكِهَا فَلَمَّا انْتَبَهَ نُودِيَتْ أَنْ تَنَحَّيْ عَنْهُ فَلَمَّا نَظَرَ إِلَيْهَا نَظَرَ إِلَى خَلْقٍ حَسَنٍ يُشْبِهُ صُورَتَهُ غَيْرَ أَنَّهَا أُنْثَى فَكَلَّمَهَا فَكَلَّمَتْهُ بِلُغَتِهِ فَقَالَ لَهَا مَنْ أَنْتِ فَقَالَتْ خَلْقٌ خَلَقَنِيَ اللَّهُ كَمَا تَرَى فَقَالَ آدَمُ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ يَا رَبِّ مَنْ هَذَا الْخَلْقُ الْحَسَنُ الَّذِي قَدْ آنَسَنِي قُرْبُهُ وَ النَّظَرُ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ اللَّهُ هَذِهِ أَمَتِي حَوَّاءُ أَ فَتُحِبُّ أَنْ تَكُونَ مَعَكَ فَتُؤْنِسَكَ وَ تُحَدِّثَكَ وَ تَأْتَمِرَ لِأَمْرِكَ قَالَ نَعَمْ يَا رَبِّ وَ لَكَ بِذَلِكَ الشُّكْرُ وَ الْحَمْدُ مَا بَقِيتُ فَقَالَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى فَاخْطُبْهَا إِلَيَّ فَإِنَّهَا أَمَتِي  وَ قَدْ تَصْلُحُ أَيْضاً لِلشَّهْوَةِ وَ أَلْقَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ الشَّهْوَةَ وَ قَدْ عُلِّمَ قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ الْمَعْرِفَةَ فَقَالَ يَا رَبِّ فَإِنِّي أَخْطُبُهَا إِلَيْكَ فَمَا رِضَاكَ لِذَلِكَ قَالَ رِضَايَ أَنْ تُعَلِّمَهَا مَعَالِمَ دِينِي فَقَالَ ذَلِكَ لَكَ يَا رَبِّ  إِنْ شِئْتَ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قَدْ شِئْتُ ذَلِكَ وَ قَدْ زَوَّجْتُكَهَا فَضُمَّهَا إِلَيْكَ فَقَالَ أَقْبِلِي فَقَالَتْ بَلْ أَنْتَ فَأَقْبِلْ إِلَيَّ فَأَمَرَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لآِدَمَ أَنْ يَقُومَ إِلَيْهَا فَقَامَ وَ لَوْ لَا ذَلِكَ لَكُنَّ النِّسَاءُ هُنَّ يَذْهَبْنَ إِلَى الرِّجَالِ حِينَ خَطَبْنَ عَلَى أَنْفُسِهِنَّ فَهَذِهِ قِصَّةُ حَوَّاءَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهَا.

Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat), 110.141 (903) 

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[2] The Perfection of Religion and the Completion of Blessing; vol. 2, p. 675  Ibn Babawayh, Muhammad ibn Ali, Islamiyya, Tehran, second edition, 1395 AH.

[3] Bihar al-Anwar (Beirut edition); vol. 36, p. 219  Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi, Dar Ihya al-Turath al-Arabi, Beirut, second edition, 1403 AH.

[4] The Lamp of the Sacred Law; p. 114  Attributed to Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad, peace be upon him, Alami, Beirut, first edition, 1400 AH.

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