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Religious Upbringing and Family 9 March 2024 Reading time: 3 min

A Ramadan Journey

Author: Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) • Soroush-e Bamdadan Cultural Center • Read 82 times
A Ramadan Journey

«The month of Ramadan is a golden opportunity to reach the Garden of Divine Pleasure. The journey comprises forty practical stages, including discovering the spiritual meaning of the month, prayer and intimate supplication, reciting the Quran, giving charity, maintaining family ties, guarding one’s senses and limbs, and renewing one’s pledge of allegiance to our master Ali (AS) and the Imam of our time (AJ).»

🔅🌼A Ramadan Gift🌼🔅
🌹🔅☘️ بسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

The Month of Ramadan

Forty Stages on the Path to the Garden of Divine Pleasure

🌹🔆Forty Guiding Practices: Our Practical Charter for the Blessed Month of Ramadan🔆🌹
🔆Drawn from the Sermon of Sha‘ban by His Eminence رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى‏ اللَّهُ‏ عَلَيْهِ‏ وَ آلِهِ‏ وَ سَلَّم🔆
By the teacher of ethics, #Ustad Ali Sa‘i
🌼Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141 (903)🌼
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1. Knowing the spiritual reality of the blessed month.
2. Becoming truly aware of the blessed month’s due.
3. Striving to fulfil the blessed month’s due.
4. Welcoming the blessed month as an honoured guest and fulfilling our duty toward it.
5. Making the fullest use of the blessed month’s golden, diamond-bright moments.
6. Understanding our place in the blessed month—as people honoured by God—and preserving our dignity.
7. Answering the call to the divine banquet.
8. Fulfilling our duty toward our Host (God).
9. Praying, supplicating and asking with sincere intentions and pure hearts, striving to affirm and purify the heart.
10. Asking for success in observing the fast during the blessed month.
11. Reciting the Quran and coming to know its due.
12. Seeking God’s forgiveness.
13. Remembering the Hereafter, especially the thirst and hunger of the Day of Resurrection.
14. Giving charity to the poor and needy.
15. Honouring the elders.
16. Showing kindness to children.
17. Maintaining family ties and taking this duty seriously.
18. Refraining from severing family ties and repenting for doing so.
19. Guarding the tongue.
20. Guarding the eyes from what is forbidden.
21. Guarding the ears from listening to what is forbidden.
22. Showing compassion and kindness to orphans.
23. Treating orphans with generosity.
24. Repenting.
25. Raising one’s hands at prayer times—praying with all one’s heart.
26. Seeking forgiveness.
27. Prolonging prostration.
28. Providing iftar.
29. Good character.
30. Easing the workload of those under one’s supervision (lightening the duties of workers and employees).
31. Putting an end to harm and refraining from causing distress or injury of any kind.
32. Offering voluntary prayers—bringing prayer to life and performing it wholeheartedly.
33. Attending carefully to the obligatory acts of worship.
34. Sending blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad (peace be upon them).
35. Asking God not to close the gates of Paradise that have been opened.
36. Asking God not to open to us the gates of Hell that have been closed.
37. Asking God not to release the chains that bind the devils.
38. God-conscious restraint.
39. Knowing Ali.
40. Renewing our pledge of allegiance to our master Ali and his noble descendant, the Mahdi—may God hasten his noble appearance.
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Master Ali Saei

(Abdullah Meshkat) Researcher and commentator on Shi‘i wisdom and the foundations of divine unity

A researcher specializing in religious studies and divine unity, with a particular focus on the Qur’an and Hadith (the Two Weighty Things). His research has centered primarily on the Qur’an and Hadith; in recent years, he has also explored divine unity and critiques of philosophical viewpoints.

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