A Person Can Be Their Own Bitter Enemy

🌼The Journey of Love Leads to God🌼

🌼Near-Death Experiences🌼

🌼The Untold Truths and Mysteries of Creation🌼

🌸🔆🌿   “Subtle Scientific Insights”  “The Themes and Mysteries of Creation” “The Secrets of the Universe ”

🔅🌹 A summary, with supplement: “Subtle Scientific Insights”  “The Themes and Mysteries of Creation” “The Secrets of the Universe”  “ ” “ ”        1402.03.18   Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌹 وَ أَبْدِلْنِي مِنْ بِغْضَةِ أَهْلِ الشَّنَآنِ الْمَحَبَّةَ، وَ مِنْ حَسَدِ أَهْلِ‏ الْبَغْيِ‏ الْمَوَدَّة

🌸🔆Seeking Refuge from Oneself in God

🌸Perhaps I seek refuge in God from myself without realizing it; perhaps I am evil incarnate and do not know it!

☘️Am I among those who love, or among those who hate? I must therefore ask God to transform this inner trait of mine, so that first I may leave the ranks of those who hate, and then seek refuge in God from the evil of those who hate.

🌸My God, I seek refuge in You from my own bitterness; make me sweet!    I was my own sworn enemy and did not know it.

☘️أَعْدَى‏ عَدُوِّكَ‏ نَفْسُكَ الَّتِي بَيْنَ جَنْبَيْك‏

🌸My God, I seek refuge in You from the fire within me, turned against myself. Quench it; make me a garden in bloom.

☘️Self-love is the clearest sign of hostility toward the whole world, and likewise of hostility toward God. To affirm self-love is to deny all else, for there is room for only one heart within a person.

🌸All love, then, must be for God; otherwise, it is association with God.

☘️Self-love is blessed only insofar as it is a sign among God’s signs. One must not stop at a sign; one must follow it toward its highest destination.

🌸Our lower self is the lesser self, while love for God is the greater self; this leads to the Supreme Self, which is none other than the sacred being of the Noble Prophet. This is the blessed highway to pure love of God.

☘️Self-reliance is blessed only when grounded in trust in God; otherwise, it is unblessed.

🌸Once one has spent the measure of one’s capacity and being, it makes sense to seek more.

☘️We should even ask God to help us use our capacity and being well, and seek from Him what lies beyond them—for He is pure goodness.

🌸🔆The Abode of Making Amends

🌸This world is not merely a reenactment of the Realm of ذر; it is an abode where what was missed may be made up.

☘️Fear and hope are necessary for both reason and ignorance, and for the wise and the ignorant: reason can falter, and ignorance can be deemed good.

🌸Change is possible for everyone except those whose hearts have been sealed. Such a person can be transformed only through God’s بداء.

☘️No one is absolutely locked into their state, for the hand of God’s power is open to all things.

🌸Even a child born out of wedlock can be transformed and enter Paradise, since God’s duties apply to that child too. A dog, likewise, can be purified and transformed if it sleeps in a salt cave or becomes a companion of the People of the Cave.

☘️Excess and deficiency lead toward the sealing of hearts.

🌸Our duty toward those whose hearts are sealed is clear: we are not responsible for guiding them, but their case with God remains open at all times.

☘️Foul language is a clear sign of the danger of inner corruption.

🌸Thinking well of someone who violates the sacred is condemned and forbidden.

☘️The life of a corrupt person whose heart is sealed is, as a form of gradual enticement and reprieve, and also as a means of exacting the desired outcome, part of creation’s trial.

🌸A pure-hearted person does not become an agent of corruption, even when under someone else’s control.

☘️The good deeds of wicked people are a kind of evil in disguise, concealing an element of deceit.

🌸Satan magnifies and highlights the lesser virtues of the wicked, while belittling and diminishing the greater virtues of the faithful and magnifying their lesser faults.

☘️Satan’s defence and promotion of the wicked, and his opposition to the faithful, are fundamental to the nature and purpose of his rebellion.

🌸Satan presents the wicked deeds of evil people as admirable, while dismissing and disparaging the virtues of the faithful.

☘️A believer’s controlled anger, when directed towards securing justice and upholding what is right and true, is commendable.

🌸We must respect the habitats of creatures such as ants. We should not destroy their homes; rather, we must take care to protect their territory through appropriate measures.

☘️The creation of life from nothing, and its revival after that nothingness, rest upon the wisdom of the All-Wise.

🌸Divine punishment is not incompatible with Allah, Blessed and Exalted, being the Most Merciful of the merciful. Everyone receives their due and tastes the consequences of their deeds; in this way, they come to know the very core of their own being.

☘️A needle pressed into the eye for a single moment can bring eternal blindness. Such a person should lament their own fate, for they are experiencing the consequences of their deeds. A single spark can set an entire household ablaze. Everyone is held in pledge for what they have done.

🌸Divine punishment is the reflection of the creatures’ own deeds. It arises from their own choices, free will and actions.

Allah brings to light and makes manifest the inner reality of every creature’s deeds.

☘️A threat serves as a deterrent; misplaced compassion is not warranted. If the Creator consigns one of His servants to the fire, it is for that servant’s good, necessary and essential, and an expression of perfect justice.

🌸In any case, divine punishment is the measure of the wickedness in the servants’ own deeds.

☘️If the Creator chooses to set aside His own threats, that is His prerogative. But we must never lose the wings of fear and hope.

🌸The rule is that evildoers are punished—but that is not the end!

☘️Punishment lasts as long as the Creator wills it to endure.

🌸By His will, anything can be erased; by His will, anything can be changed.

☘️If punishment is lightened, the rank of the believers will be elevated, and the distinction between believers and unbelievers will remain.

🌸Had Adam not eaten from the forbidden tree, he would have been more beautiful than a flower, with no need for clothing or concealment.

☘️The human intestine is a sign that this body was not designed solely for the earth and its foods; rather, humanity is exiled to this world.

🌸After eating from the forbidden tree, the human being was transformed to some degree, changing from the most beautiful form.

☘️Al-Aʿrāf: 22 فَدَلاَّهُما بِغُرُورٍ فَلَمَّا ذاقَا الشَّجَرَةَ بَدَتْ لَهُما سَوْآتُهُما وَ طَفِقا يَخْصِفانِ عَلَيْهِما مِنْ وَرَقِ الْجَنَّةِ وَ ناداهُما رَبُّهُما أَ لَمْ أَنْهَكُما عَنْ تِلْكُمَا الشَّجَرَةِ وَ أَقُلْ لَكُما إِنَّ الشَّيْطانَ لَكُما عَدُوٌّ مُبينٌ

🌸The secrets behind the millions of reproductive cells produced in the human body are not meaningless; they are produced for a particular purpose. Human beings remain unaware of the mysteries of their own existence.

☘️Nothing in this world, no ornament or arrangement, is accidental; everything follows an order. The whole universe is knowledge, wisdom, message, sign and expression.

🌸Humanity must solve the greatest riddle of creation. All acts of worship are aimed at reaching its solution.

☘️The veil that falls over those who are wasteful prevents them from attaining the truth.

🌸The experience of death differs from experiences before death. Before death, one may undergo truthful states and witness the unfolding and interpretation of one’s actions and intentions.

☘️As each of the human being’s four spirits departs, particular states arise. Likewise, as human faculties depart from the body’s outer parts to its inner organs, the departure of the human soul brings about death.

🌸The account of the moment of death differs from the states and events that precede it.

☘️As death draws near, the inner reality of life’s experiences comes to light.

🌸Human deeds have different inner dimensions, each with its own manifestations.

☘️When a person’s otherworldly states return to the earthly realm, they are translated into the language of material, perceptible experience. In truth, these states are experienced in terms one can understand, with the translation shaped by each person’s knowledge.

🌸The cosmos can journey between two units of time. Between two units of time, it is possible to experience parallel lives.

☘️Sensation is, in truth, an interpretation of realities; it is not reality itself.

🌸The software of knowledge is planted in the heart of the hard drive of the Imams’ souls.

☘️The secret of “enumerating all things” and of the Clear Imam is the secret of creation’s software paired with its greatest hardware.

🌸Does *iḥṣāʾ* mean counting? Preserving? Knowledge? A shadow? A seed?

☘️Is the Clear Imam the hardware itself—a book, a record, a field, a treasury, and so on?

🌸Love for the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, when founded on true knowledge, is love of God. This is the kind of knowledge that answers the prayer, «اللهم عرفنی رسولک و حجتک».

☘️An error in seeking intercession is a slip towards the swamp of idolatry.

🌸Intercession is the means to God; it is not the destination, but the path. Intercession sought with true insight is accepted by God. Misusing the means God has provided is ingratitude for His blessings; the gravest ingratitude is committed in the matter of intercession.

☘️In Paradise and Hell, there is free will, but no egoistic desire.

🌱🔅The Tale of the Companions of the Coffin🔅🌱

🌸🔅🌿… فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع لَسْتُ بِقَائِلٍ غَيْرَ شَيْ‏ءٍ وَاحِدٍ أُذَكِّرُكُمْ بِاللَّهِ أَيُّهَا الْأَرْبَعَةُ يَعْنِينِي وَ أَبَا ذَرٍّ وَ الزُّبَيْرَ وَ الْمِقْدَادَ سَمِعْتُ  رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ إِنَّ تَابُوتاً مِنْ نَارٍ فِيهِ اثْنَا عَشَرَ رَجُلًا سِتَّةٌ مِنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ سِتَّةٌ مِنَ الْآخِرِينَ فِي جُبٍّ فِي قَعْرِ جَهَنَّمَ فِي تَابُوتٍ مُقَفَّلٍ  عَلَى ذَلِكَ الْجُبِّ صَخْرَةٌ فَإِذَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يُسَعِّرَ جَهَنَّمَ كَشَفَ تِلْكَ الصَّخْرَةَ عَنْ ذَلِكَ الْجُبِّ فَاسْتَعَرَتْ جَهَنَّمُ مِنْ وَهَجِ ذَلِكَ الْجُبِّ وَ مِنْ حَرِّهِ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَسَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَنْتُمْ شُهُودٌ بِهِ عَنِ الْأَوَّلِينَ فَقَالَ أَمَّا الْأَوَّلُونَ فَابْنُ آدَمَ الَّذِي قَتَلَ أَخَاهُ وَ فِرْعَوْنُ الْفَرَاعِنَةِ  وَ الَّذِي حَاجَّ إِبْراهِيمَ فِي رَبِّهِ وَ رَجُلَانِ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ بَدَّلَا كِتَابَهُمْ وَ غَيَّرَا سُنَّتَهُمْ أَمَّا أَحَدُهُمَا فَهَوَّدَ الْيَهُودَ وَ الْآخَرُ نَصَّرَ النَّصَارَى  [وَ إِبْلِيسُ سَادِسُهُمْ‏] وَ فِي الْآخِرِينَ الدَّجَّالُ وَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْخَمْسَةُ  أَصْحَابُ الصَّحِيفَةِ وَ الْكِتَابِ وَ جِبْتُهُمْ وَ طَاغُوتُهُمُ الَّذِي تَعَاهَدُوا عَلَيْهِ وَ تَعَاقَدُوا عَلَى عَدَاوَتِكَ يَا أَخِي وَ تظاهرون [تَظَاهَرُوا] عَلَيْكَ بَعْدِي هَذَا وَ هَذَا حَتَّى سَمَّاهُمْ وَ عَدَّهُمْ لَنَا قَالَ سَلْمَانُ فَقُلْنَا صَدَقْتَ نَشْهَدُ أَنَّا سَمِعْنَا ذَلِكَ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص‏[1]

🌸🔅🌿ʿAli, peace be upon him, said: “I will say only one thing. I adjure you by God, O you four”—he meant me, Abu Dharr, al-Zubayr and al-Miqdad—“I heard the Prophet, may God bless him and his family, say: ‘There is a chest of fire containing twelve people: six from the earlier generations and six from the later ones. It lies in a pit at the bottom of Hell, inside another locked chest. A rock rests over the pit’s entrance. Whenever God wills to set Hell ablaze, He removes the rock from the entrance, and Hell is set ablaze by the flames and heat of that pit.’”

ʿAlī, peace be upon him, said: “You were there when I asked the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, about them and about the ‘first ones.’ He replied: ‘The first ones are Adam’s son, who killed his brother (Abel); the Pharaoh of pharaohs; the one who disputed with Abraham, peace be upon him, about God; and two men from the Children of Israel who altered their Book and changed their tradition—one of them made the Jews Jewish, and the other made the Christians Christian. Satan is the sixth. The last ones are the Antichrist, those five who are the authors of the document and the writing, and the idol and tyrant over which they pledged themselves to one another and swore enmity toward you, my brother. After me, they will unite against you.’ The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, named them for us and counted them out, one by one.”

Salman said: “We replied, ‘You have spoken the truth. We bear witness that we heard this from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family.’”

🌱🔅The Beginning of Creation🔅🌱

🌷🔅Ghāfir: 16 يَوْمَ هُمْ بارِزُونَ لا يَخْفى‏ عَلَى اللَّهِ مِنْهُمْ شَيْ‏ءٌ لِمَنِ الْمُلْكُ الْيَوْمَ لِلَّهِ الْواحِدِ الْقَهَّارِ

🌸🌿فِي نَهْجِ الْبَلَاغَةِ وَ إِنَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ يَعُودُ بَعْدَ فَنَاءِ الدُّنْيَا وَحْدَهُ لَا شَيْ‏ءَ مَعَهُ كَمَا كَانَ قَبْلَ ابْتِدَائِهَا كَذَلِكَ يَكُونُ بَعْدَ فَنَائِهَا بِلَا وَقْتٍ وَ لَا مَكَانٍ وَ لَا حِينٍ وَ لَا زَمَانٍ، عُدِمَتْ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ الْآجَالُ وَ الْأَوْقَاتُ، وَ زَالَتِ السِّنُونَ وَ السَّاعَاتُ، فَلَا شَيْ‏ءَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ الْوَاحِدُ الْقَهَّارُ الَّذِي إِلَيْهِ مَصِيرُ جَمِيعِ الْأُمُورِ، بِلَا قُدْرَةٍ مِنْهَا كَانَ ابْتِدَاءُ خَلْقِهَا، وَ بِغَيْرِ امْتِنَاعٍ مِنْهَا كَانَ فَنَاؤُهَا، وَ لَوْ قَدَرَتْ عَلَى الِامْتِنَاعِ لَدَامَ بَقَاؤُهَا.

🌸🌿عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ يَقُولُ: إِذَا أَمَاتَ اللَّهُ أَهْلَ الْأَرْضِ لَبِثَ كَمِثْلِ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ، وَ مِثْلَ مَا أَمَاتَ أَهْلَ الْأَرْضِ وَ أَهْلَ سَمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا وَ أَضْعَافَ ذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ أَمَاتَ أَهْلَ الْأَرْضِ وَ أَهْلَ السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا الثَّانِيَةِ ثُمَّ لَبِثَ مِثْلَ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ وَ مِثْلَ مَا أَمَاتَ أَهْلَ الْأَرْضِ وَ أَهْلَ السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا وَ السَّمَاءِ الثَّانِيَةِ وَ أَضْعَافَ ذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ أَمَاتَ أَهْلَ السَّمَاءِ الثَّانِيَةِ ثُمَّ لَبِثَ مِثْلَ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ وَ مِثْلَ مَا أَمَاتَ أَهْلَ الْأَرْضِ وَ أَهْلَ السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا وَ السَّمَاءِ الثَّانِيَةِ وَ أَضْعَافَ ذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ أَمَاتَ أَهْلَ السَّمَاءِ الثَّالِثَةِ ثُمَّ لَبِثَ مِثْلَ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ وَ مِثْلَ مَا أَمَاتَ أَهْلَ الْأَرْضِ وَ أَهْلَ سَمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا وَ السَّمَاءِ الثَّانِيَةِ وَ الثَّالِثَةِ وَ أَضْعَافَ ذَلِكَ، فِي كُلِّ سَمَاءٍ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ وَ أَضْعَافَ ذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ أَمَاتَ‏ مِيكَائِيلَ ثُمَّ لَبِثَ مِثْلَ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ وَ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ كُلِّهِ وَ أَضْعَافَ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ أَمَاتَ جَبْرَئِيلَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ ثُمَّ لَبِثَ مِثْلَ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ وَ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ كُلِّهِ وَ أَضْعَافَ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ أَمَاتَ إِسْرَافِيلَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ، ثُمَّ لَبِثَ مِثْلَ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ وَ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ كُلِّهِ وَ أَضْعَافَ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ أَمَاتَ مَلَكَ الْمَوْتِ، ثُمَّ لَبِثَ مِثْلَ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ وَ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ كُلِّهِ وَ أَضْعَافَ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ يَقُولُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ: «لِمَنِ الْمُلْكُ الْيَوْمَ» فَيَرُدُّ اللَّهُ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ‏ «لِلَّهِ الْواحِدِ الْقَهَّارِ» أَيْنَ الْجَبَّارُونَ؟ وَ أَيْنَ الْمُتَكَبِّرُونَ؟ وَ أَيْنَ الَّذِينَ ادَّعَوْا مَعِي إِلَهاً آخَرَ؟ أَيْنَ الْمُتَكَبِّرُونَ وَ نِخْوَتُهُمْ؟ ثُمَّ يَبْعَثُ الْخَلْقَ، قَالَ عُبَيْدُ بْنُ زُرَارَةَ: فَقُلْتُ: إِنَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ كُلَّهُ يَطُولُ بِذَلِكَ؟ فَقَالَ: أَ رَأَيْتَ مَا كَانَ هَلْ عَلِمْتَ بِهِ?

فَقُلْتُ: لَا، قَالَ: فَكَذَلِكَ هَذَا.

🌼 ʿAlī Sāʿī (ʿAbdullāh Mishkāt), 110.141 (903) 🌼

[1]Kitāb Sulaym ibn Qays al-Hilālī, vol. 2, p. 597