A Transquantum Perspective on Night and Day

🌼🔆🌼Discernment from Earth to the Heavens🌼🔆🌼

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌹 “The Power of Discernment in Water”  “The Alchemy of Seed and Soil”  “The Secret of Interweaving” “Discernment from This World to the Hereafter”  “A Commentary on Supplication 6 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya” and more … An outline with supplementary remarks       1405.02.10    Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

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💫🌹 (1) الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي خَلَقَ اللَّيْلَ وَ النَّهَارَ بِقُوَّتِهِ (2) وَ مَيَّزَ بَيْنَهُمَا بِقُدْرَتِهِ🌹💫

❇️Discernment from Earth to the Heavens

He is the cleaver of earth and heavens; the fissures He opens reveal His mysteries and exalted wisdom!

The fissures are the signature of His mighty and powerful hand!

Every moment, a new big bang, a fresh genesis: at every moment, He says “Be,” and it is! A manifestation of His will!

❇️ Discernment in the Soil: Artistry with Earth

Allah, the All-Knowing, infuses knowledge into the very being of His particles and creatures! He has taught them discernment, too!

Knowledge is the chisel in the hand of the creative, All-Knowing Maker!

The knowledge of discernment within the soul of “love and novelty” sets beauty ablaze!

He taught the seed, the kernel, and the dawn to create and build through their artistry—to make masterpieces through the power of discernment—and to bring a whole world forth from within themselves,

A seed works heavenly wonders with the soil!

It turns soil into alchemy.

From within it, it brings forth beauty, flavor, nourishment, sensations, and delights!

To learn is to create!
He made every single particle knowledgeable!

The highest art is remembrance and the expression of love!

❇️Discernment Is the Interpretation of the World

The oyster shell is a workshop for making precious gems; the Creator has endowed it with the power of discernment!

Through its discerning faculties, the oyster produces pearls and coral.

Every cell is a craftsperson, a scientist—what wonders it works through divine knowledge!

What lies hidden within a cell, that it should be so equipped with divine discernment as to organize the vast network of the human body, building it with such diversity, distinct and varied systems, different functions, and countless characteristics?

❇️ Discernment and Purification

The power of discernment is the secret of beauty and purity in existence! Through it, the purifying plant of creation is set in motion—in the natural world and within the human soul alike! Every organ is endowed with this power: the liver, the kidneys, and the body’s other organs, limbs, and glands!

❇️The Craft of Discernment

Two half-cells become a magnificent world!

Nature has outstripped humankind in purification! Amid pollution and filth, it adorns itself with beauty and grace.

✨🔆 يونس : 24   إِنَّما مَثَلُ الْحَياةِ الدُّنْيا كَماءٍ أَنْزَلْناهُ مِنَ السَّماءِ فَاخْتَلَطَ بِهِ نَباتُ الْأَرْضِ مِمَّا يَأْكُلُ النَّاسُ وَ الْأَنْعامُ حَتَّى إِذا أَخَذَتِ الْأَرْضُ زُخْرُفَها وَ ازَّيَّنَتْ وَ ظَنَّ أَهْلُها أَنَّهُمْ قادِرُونَ عَلَيْها أَتاها أَمْرُنا لَيْلاً أَوْ نَهاراً فَجَعَلْناها حَصيداً كَأَنْ لَمْ تَغْنَ بِالْأَمْسِ كَذلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ الْآياتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ

✨🔆The life of this world is like water We have sent down from the sky. By it, plants of every kind grow from the earth, plants that people and livestock eat. Then, when the earth has taken on its beauty and is adorned, and its people are sure they can enjoy its produce, Our command comes upon it, by night or by day, to destroy it. We unleash cold or lightning upon it, and harvest it so completely that it is as though it had never flourished the day before. In this way We make Our signs clear to people who reflect.

❇️Pure, wholesome water is a miracle of divine discernment

✨🔆Ar-Ra‘d: 17   أَنْزَلَ مِنَ السَّماءِ ماءً فَسالَتْ أَوْدِيَةٌ بِقَدَرِها فَاحْتَمَلَ السَّيْلُ زَبَداً رابِياً وَ مِمَّا يُوقِدُونَ عَلَيْهِ فِي النَّارِ ابْتِغاءَ حِلْيَةٍ أَوْ مَتاعٍ زَبَدٌ مِثْلُهُ كَذلِكَ يَضْرِبُ اللَّهُ الْحَقَّ وَ الْباطِلَ فَأَمَّا الزَّبَدُ فَيَذْهَبُ جُفاءً وَ أَمَّا ما يَنْفَعُ النَّاسَ فَيَمْكُثُ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَذلِكَ يَضْرِبُ اللَّهُ الْأَمْثالَ

🔆God sent down water from the sky, and streams flowed through every valley according to its measure. Then the torrent carried froth on its surface. And from what they heat in the fire to make ornaments or household goods, froth like it forms as well. Thus does God set forth the likeness of truth and falsehood: the froth is cast away, but what benefits people—pure water or refined metal—remains in the earth. This is how God sets forth examples.

❇️Pure, wholesome water from the heart of pollution

Nature’s various human and animal wastes, and the emergence of pure, wholesome water from deep within springs, are examples of the miracle of the distinguishing staff!

Without discernment, purity, wholesomeness, freshness, clarity and beauty would have no meaning and could not be found.

❇️The vile could not be distinguished from the pure without discernment

Without the power to distinguish, what is pure would remain buried in filth forever!

Light could not be distinguished from darkness, nor the pure from the vile.

❇️Discernment: the secret behind wonders

Discernment is a manifestation of the majesty of divine power: the carcasses of dogs, pigs and other animals, along with animal waste and filth, are transformed into pure soil!

How beautifully and delicately are bodily waste and toxins expelled! Impurities are traces of darkness lying dormant in the human soul. The human heart and soul, too, are repositories of darkness that must be cast out!

❇️The prison of darkness

A believer mixed in with an unbeliever! True life lies beyond the realm of darkness!

When the veil is lifted from the believer’s face, the believer’s true nature is revealed!

✨🔆Al-Baqarah: 257   اللَّهُ وَلِيُّ الَّذينَ آمَنُوا يُخْرِجُهُمْ مِنَ الظُّلُماتِ إِلَى النُّورِ وَ الَّذينَ كَفَرُوا أَوْلِياؤُهُمُ الطَّاغُوتُ يُخْرِجُونَهُمْ مِنَ النُّورِ إِلَى الظُّلُماتِ أُولئِكَ أَصْحابُ النَّارِ هُمْ فيها خالِدُونَ

🔆God is the Guardian and Protector of those who believe; He brings them out of darkness into light. As for those who disbelieve, their patrons are the false gods, who bring them out of light into darkness. They are the people of the Fire, where they will remain forever.

If darkness were removed from the believer’s soul and light from the unbeliever’s, any resemblance between them would disappear entirely,

❇️Discernment from admixture—distinguishing what is genuine from what is mixed

💫🔆عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ حَدِيثٌ طَوِيلٌ فِي طِينَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِ وَ الْكَافِرِ وَ فِيهِ‏ أَ وَ مَنْ كانَ مَيْتاً فَأَحْيَيْناهُ‏ فَكَانَ مَوْتُهُ اخْتِلَاطَ طِينَتِهِ مَعَ طِينَةٍ الْكَافِرِ، وَ كَانَ حَيَوتُهُ حِينَ فَرَّقَ اللَّهُ بَيْنَهُمَا بِكَلِمَتِهِ، كَذَلِكَ يُخْرِجُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ فِي الْمِيلَادِ مِنَ الظُّلْمَةِ بَعْدَ دُخُولِهِ فِيهَا إِلَى النُّورِ، وَ يُخْرِجُ الْكَافِرَ مِنَ النُّورِ إِلَى الظُّلْمَةِ بَعْدَ دُخُولِهِ إِلَى النُّور^[1]

💫🔆 A lengthy tradition from Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) speaks of the “substance and essence” of the believer and the unbeliever. It says:

“Is one who was dead and whom We brought to life …? His death, then, was his substance (essence) mingling with the substance of the unbeliever; and his life began when God, Mighty and Exalted, used His word to separate the two.

In the same way, when a believer is born, after entering darkness, God, Mighty and Exalted, brings him out of darkness into light; and when an unbeliever is born, after entering light, He brings him out of light into darkness.

❇️The Distinguishing Light

Without the distinguishing light, the believer becomes tainted by disbelief!

The distinguishing light saves the believer from the perilous pitfalls of love for this world!

When the poisoned substance hidden in the believer’s soul is removed, the believer shines like the sun!

✨🔆 Al-Anʿām: 122   أَ وَ مَنْ كانَ مَيْتاً فَأَحْيَيْناهُ وَ جَعَلْنا لَهُ نُوراً يَمْشي‏ بِهِ فِي النَّاسِ كَمَنْ مَثَلُهُ فِي الظُّلُماتِ لَيْسَ بِخارِجٍ مِنْها كَذلِكَ زُيِّنَ لِلْكافِرينَ ما كانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

🔆 Is one who was dead, then We gave him life and bestowed upon him a light by which he walks among people, like one who is in darkness and cannot emerge from it? Thus the deeds they used to do have been made fair-seeming to the unbelievers.

❇️The purer the believer, the more alive he becomes!

A wholesome life is the most beautiful and radiant of lives; it comes only when faith is joined with righteous deeds. And the believer stands out above all others! Through righteous deeds, the believer is distinguished from the rest.

✨🔆 An-Naḥl: 97   مَنْ عَمِلَ صالِحاً مِنْ ذَكَرٍ أَوْ أُنْثى‏ وَ هُوَ مُؤْمِنٌ فَلَنُحْيِيَنَّهُ حَياةً طَيِّبَةً وَ لَنَجْزِيَنَّهُمْ أَجْرَهُمْ بِأَحْسَنِ ما كانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

✨🔆 Whoever does good, whether male or female, and is a believer, We shall surely grant them a wholesome life, and We shall reward them according to the best of what they used to do.

✅The deeds of believers transform their substance!

The supreme interweaving is the blending of the believers’ substance with that of the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them!

The state of the Ahl al-Bayt is transmitted to believers, wherever they may be!

💫🔆عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: إِنَّا وَ شِيعَتَنَا خُلِقْنَا مِنْ‏ طِينَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَ خُلِقَ عَدُوُّنَا مِنْ طِينَةِ خَبَالٍ‏ مِنْ حَمَإٍ مَسْنُونٍ‏[2]

It is narrated that Abu Basir (Ismaʿil ibn Ziyad) was asked about this, and Imam Jaʿfar al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said:

“We and our followers were created from a single clay, while our enemies were created from corrupted, impure clay—from clay made of foul, stagnant water (ḥamaʾ masnūn).”

💫🔆حَدَّثَنِي الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ مَعْرُوفٍ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ رِبْعِيٍّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ ع قَالَ: إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى خَلَقَ النَّبِيِّينَ مِنْ طِينَةِ عِلِّيِّينَ قُلُوبَهُمْ وَ أَبْدَانَهُمْ وَ خَلَقَ قُلُوبَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ‏ مِنْ تِلْكَ الطِّينَةِ وَ خَلَقَ أَبْدَانَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْ دُونِ ذَلِكَ وَ خَلَقَ الْكُفَّارَ مِنْ طِينَةِ سِجِّينٍ قُلُوبَهُمْ وَ أَبْدَانَهُمْ فَخَلَطَ بَيْنَ الطِّينَتَيْنِ فَمِنْ هَذَا يَلِدُ الْمُؤْمِنُ الْكَافِرَ وَ يَلِدُ الْكَافِرُ الْمُؤْمِنَ وَ مِنْ هَاهُنَا  يُصِيبُ الْمُؤْمِنُ السَّيِّئَةَ وَ مِنْ هَاهُنَا يُصِيبُ الْكَافِرُ الْحَسَنَةَ فَقُلُوبُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ تَحِنُّ إِلَى مَا خُلِقُوا مِنْهُ وَ قُلُوبُ الْكَافِرِينَ تَحِنُّ إِلَى مَا خُلِقُوا مِنْهُ. [3]

💫🔆 ʿAbbās ibn Maʿrūf related to me, saying: Ḥammād ibn ʿĪsā related from Rabīʿ ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who said: I heard Imam ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (peace be upon him) say:

“God, Exalted is He, created the prophets from the clay of ʿIlliyyīn—the highest and purest realm—their hearts and their bodies alike. He then created the hearts of the believers from that same clay, though from a lower degree, while their bodies were made from a different substance. And He created the unbelievers from the clay of Sijjīn—the lowest and darkest realm—their hearts and their bodies alike.

Then God mingled these two clays, the pure and the impure. Thus a believer may beget an unbeliever, and an unbeliever may beget a believer. For this reason, a believer may sometimes fall into evil, while an unbeliever may sometimes do good.

The hearts of believers yearn for what they were created from—their pure origin—while the hearts of unbelievers long for what they were created from—their impure origin.”

💫🔆عَنْ جَابِرٍ الْجُعْفِيِّ قَالَ: كُنْتُ مَعَ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ ع فَقَالَ‏  ʿ يَا جَابِرُ خُلِقْنَا نَحْنُ وَ مُحِبِّينَا مِنْ طِينَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ بَيْضَاءَ نَقِيَّةٍ مِنْ أَعْلَى عِلِّيِّينَ فَخُلِقْنَا نَحْنُ مِنْ أَعْلَاهَا وَ خُلِقَ مُحِبُّونَا مِنْ دُونِهَا فَإِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ الْتَفَّتِ الْعُلْيَا بِالسُّفْلَى وَ إِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ ضَرَبْنَا بِأَيْدِينَا إِلَى حُجْزَةِ نَبِيِّنَا وَ ضَرَبَ أَشْيَاعُنَا بِأَيْدِيهِمْ إِلَى حُجْزَتِنَا فَأَيْنَ تَرَى يُصَيِّرُ اللَّهُ نَبِيَّهُ وَ ذُرِّيَّتَهُ وَ أَيْنَ تَرَى يُصَيِّرُ ذُرِّيَّتُهُ مُحِبِّيهَا فَضَرَبَ جَابِرٌ يَدَهُ عَلَى يَدِهِ فَقَالَ دَخَلْنَاهَا وَ رَبِّ الْكَعْبَةِ ثَلَاثاً. [4]

💫🔆 It is related from Jābir al-Juʿfī, who said:

“I was with Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī (Imam al-Bāqir, peace be upon him). He said:

‘O Jābir! We and those who love us were created from one and the same white, pure clay, from the highest realm of ʿIlliyyīn. We were created from its highest part, and those who love us from the part below.

When the Day of Resurrection comes, the higher part will join the lower, and they will become one. On that day, we will place our hands at the sides of our Prophet, and our Shīʿa will place their hands at our sides.

Where do you think God will place the Prophet and his descendants? And where do you think the Prophet’s descendants will place those who love them?’”

Jābir then placed his hand upon the Imam’s hand and said three times, “By the Lord of the Kaʿba, we have entered it”—that is, Paradise and their exalted station.

❇️The believer is the unbeliever’s Paradise, and the unbeliever is the believer’s Hell

In this world, the unbeliever is the believer’s burial place!

The believer’s true life will become manifest once the unbelieving element is distinguished from his own nature!

💫🔆 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ قَالَ فِي حَدِيثٍ طَوِيلٍ‏ وَ قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ «يُخْرِجُ الْحَيَّ مِنَ الْمَيِّتِ وَ مُخْرِجُ الْمَيِّتِ مِنَ الْحَيِّ» فَالْحَيُّ الْمُؤْمِنُ الَّذِي تُخْرَجُ طِينَتُهُ مِنْ طِينَةِ الْكَافِرِ، وَ الْمَيِّتُ الَّذِي يُخْرَجُ مِنَ الْحَيِّ هُوَ الْكَافِرُ الَّذِي يُخْرَجُ مِنْ طِينَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِ، فَالْحَيُّ الْمُؤْمِنُ وَ الْمَيِّتُ الْكَافِرُ، وَ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ «أَ وَ مَنْ كانَ مَيْتاً فَأَحْيَيْناهُ» فَكَانَ مَوْتُهُ اخْتِلَاطَ طِينَتِهِ مَعَ طِينَةِ الْكَافِرِ وَ كَانَ حَيَوتُهُ حِينَ فَرَّقَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بَيْنَهُمَا بِكَلِمَتِهِ، كَذَلِكَ يُخْرِجُ اللَّهُ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ فِي الْمِيلَادِ مِنَ الظُّلْمَةِ بَعْدَ دُخُولِهِ فِيهَا إِلَى النُّورِ، وَ يُخْرِجُ الْكَافِرَ مِنَ النُّورِ إِلَى الظُّلْمَةِ بَعْدَ دُخُولِهِ إِلَى النُّورِ وَ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ «لِيُنْذِرَ مَنْ كانَ حَيًّا وَ يَحِقَّ الْقَوْلُ عَلَى الْكافِرِينَ»^[5]

💫🔆 A long narration from Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) relates that he said:

God, Mighty and Exalted, says: “He brings forth the living from the dead and the dead from the living.”

Thus, the “living” is a believer whose substance—his very nature—has been drawn out from the substance of an unbeliever. The “dead” is the one drawn out from the living: that is, an unbeliever drawn out from the substance of a believer.

So the “living” is the believer, and the “dead” is the unbeliever.

This is also what God, Mighty and Exalted, says: “Is one who was dead, whom We then brought to life?” His death was the mingling of his substance with that of an unbeliever; his life began when God, Mighty and Exalted, used His word to separate the two.

Likewise, at birth God, Glorified and Exalted, brings the believer out of darkness into light, after he has entered darkness; and brings the unbeliever out of light into darkness, after he has entered light.

This is what God, Mighty and Exalted, says: “So that it may warn whoever is alive, and the decree of punishment may be fulfilled against the unbelievers.”

❇️The penalty for unbelief: the clay of Sijjīn

We should understand that the unbeliever’s nature is the result of unbelief: in the pre-worldly realm, because of their unbelief, unbelievers were formed from the clay of Sijjīn!

In truth, the mingling of natures bears witness to the higher trial set before human beings: they must separate the pure essence of their servitude to God from every impure nature. Once the impurity is removed, the pure essence will shine forth—and this depends on a person’s genuine choice!

Thus, a person can make amends for what came before worldly life here in this world!

The believer’s nature is mingled with the unbeliever’s so that the believer does not imagine himself already at the end of the road of trial. And the unbeliever’s nature is mingled with the believer’s so that the unbeliever does not think himself utterly lost, but seeks to make amends and return to his original purity!

The believer must perform a masterstroke, transforming the unbelieving element into faith, just as a seed transforms soil into flowers, plants, and sweet fruit!

The unbeliever, too, must seize the opportunity afforded by the presence of the believer’s nature and dissolve the unbelieving element in faith. Repentance is a good companion in bringing this about!

❇️Human beings are like a hive of freshness and purity

A person’s waste and excrement are signs of the mingling of the unbelieving element with the element of faith within them,

Offal, impurities, and all blameworthy secretions are signs that darkness and death have penetrated the human soul. Once darkness and death are removed from the soul, it will exude not repulsive waste, but light, freshness, and nectars sweeter than honey!

When impurities are taken from the believer and wholesome things from the disbeliever, the believer’s limbs are transformed into the most excellent order, while the disbeliever’s limbs are utterly transfigured into their most debased form.

❇️ Following God’s good pleasure is the key to exalted discernment and purification.

✨🔆 al-Māʾidah: 16   يَهْدي بِهِ اللَّهُ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ رِضْوانَهُ سُبُلَ السَّلامِ وَ يُخْرِجُهُمْ مِنَ الظُّلُماتِ إِلَى النُّورِ بِإِذْنِهِ وَ يَهْديهِمْ إِلى‌ صِراطٍ مُسْتَقيمٍ

🔆Through it, God guides those who follow what pleases Him to the paths of peace; by His command, He brings them out of darkness into light and guides them to a straight path.

❇️ Degrees are determined according to the measure of one’s discernment.

✨🔆 Āl ʿImrān: 179   ما كانَ اللَّهُ لِيَذَرَ الْمُؤْمِنينَ عَلى‌ ما أَنْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى يَميزَ الْخَبيثَ مِنَ الطَّيِّبِ وَ ما كانَ اللَّهُ لِيُطْلِعَكُمْ عَلَى الْغَيْبِ وَ لكِنَّ اللَّهَ يَجْتَبي‌ مِنْ رُسُلِهِ مَنْ يَشاءُ فَآمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَ رُسُلِهِ وَ إِنْ تُؤْمِنُوا وَ تَتَّقُوا فَلَكُمْ أَجْرٌ عَظيمٌ

🔆God would not leave the believers as you are, without separating the impure from the pure. Nor would God disclose the unseen to you, so that you might distinguish believers from hypocrites in this way—for that is contrary to His practice. Rather, God chooses whom He wills from among His messengers, and entrusts them with some of the hidden truths needed for their role as leaders. So believe in God and His messengers! If you believe and remain mindful of God, you will have a great reward.

✨🔆 al-Anfāl: 37   لِيَميزَ اللَّهُ الْخَبيثَ مِنَ الطَّيِّبِ وَ يَجْعَلَ الْخَبيثَ بَعْضَهُ عَلى‏ بَعْضٍ فَيَرْكُمَهُ جَميعاً فَيَجْعَلَهُ في‏ جَهَنَّمَ أُولئِكَ هُمُ الْخاسِرُونَ

🔆All this is so that God may separate the impure from the pure, pile the impure together, heap them all up, and place them together in Hell. They are the losers!

❇️ The Resurrection is the appointed time for the final distinction!

At the appointed time of the Resurrection, purity will be complete and the soul will be wholly enriched!

💫🔆عَنْ عَجْلَانَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ يَقُولُ‏ لَا تُمْضَى الْأَيَّامُ وَ اللَّيَالِي حَتَّى يُنَادِيَ مُنَادٍ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ يَا أَهْلَ الْبَاطِلِ اعْتَزِلُوا فَيُعْزَلُ هَؤُلَاءِ مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ، وَ يُعْزَلُ هَؤُلَاءِ مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ قَالَ: قُلْتُ أَصْلَحَكَ اللَّهُ: يُخَالِطُ هَؤُلَاءِ هَؤُلَاءِ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ النِّدَاءِ؟ قَالَ كَلَّا إِنَّهُ يَقُولُ فِي الْكِتَابِ: ما كانَ اللَّهُ لِيَذَرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلى‏ ما أَنْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى يَمِيزَ الْخَبِيثَ مِنَ الطَّيِّبِ‏.^[6]

🔆It is narrated from ʿAjlān ibn Ṣāliḥ, who said: “I heard Imam al-Ṣādiq (peace be upon him) say:

‘Days and nights will pass until a herald calls from heaven: “O people of falsehood, step aside; separate yourselves from among the believers.”

Then one group will separate from the other, and the other from this group.’

I said: ‘My master, after this call, will these groups mingle again?’

He replied: ‘Never! God has said in His Book: “God would not leave the believers as you are, mingled with falsehood, without transforming things so that He may separate the impure from the pure.”’”

❇️ The Resurrection is where realities are separated.

On the Day of Resurrection, everything will be in its rightful place!

✨🔆 Yā Sīn: 59   وَ امْتازُوا الْيَوْمَ أَيُّهَا الْمُجْرِمُونَ

🔆 (And it will be said to them:) “Set yourselves apart today, you sinners!”

❇️ Water is one of the distinctive features of the transcendent realms.

From the water of nature to the water of the heavenly realm, to the water of creation, to the First Water, “the first thing God created.”

With the First Water, God, the Almighty, ordered all of creation!

💫🔆قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ:

الَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الْأَرْضَ فِراشاً: إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى لَمَّا خَلَقَ‏ الْمَاءَ فَجَعَلَ عَرْشَهُ عَلَيْهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَخْلُقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ، وَ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ:

هُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ- وَ كانَ عَرْشُهُ عَلَى الْماءِ  [يَعْنِي وَ كَانَ عَرْشُهُ عَلَى الْمَاءِ]  قَبْلَ أَنْ يَخْلُقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ.[7]

❇️The Mother of Water

The First Water is the mother of all waters, and God created everything from it!

💫🔆وَ لَكِنَّهُ كَانَ إِذْ لَا شَيْ‏ءَ غَيْرُهُ وَ خَلَقَ الشَّيْ‏ءَ الَّذِي جَمِيعُ الْأَشْيَاءِ مِنْهُ وَ هُوَ الْمَاءُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ الْأَشْيَاءَ مِنْهُ

He existed when there was nothing but Him. Then He created that from which all things derive: water, from which He created all things.

فَجَعَلَ نَسَبَ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ إِلَى الْمَاءِ وَ لَمْ يَجْعَلْ لِلْمَاءِ نَسَباً يُضَافُ إِلَيْهِ

Thus He traced the origin of everything to water, and assigned no origin to water in anything else. [8]

❇️Water delicately separates, like a key.

✨🔆الرعد : 4   وَ فِي الْأَرْضِ قِطَعٌ مُتَجاوِراتٌ وَ جَنَّاتٌ مِنْ أَعْنابٍ وَ زَرْعٌ وَ نَخيلٌ صِنْوانٌ وَ غَيْرُ صِنْوانٍ يُسْقى‌ بِماءٍ واحِدٍ وَ نُفَضِّلُ بَعْضَها عَلى‌ بَعْضٍ فِي الْأُكُلِ إِنَّ في‌ ذلِكَ لَآياتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ

🔆On earth there are adjoining tracts that differ from one another; and gardens of grapevines, fields of crops, and date palms—some growing from a single root, others from two. (More wondrous still,) they are all watered by the same water! Yet We make some of them better than others in the fruit they yield. In this are signs for people who use their reason.

❇️The pre-thing split open, and then the thing itself was split open.

He cleaved the seed, the grain, and the dawn.

He resolved the matter and brought its determination to full elaboration.

He brought every thing from an intermingled state to a separated one.

❇️The fingertip of creation

Divine will is like the foremost sign of divine knowledge.

Every moment of creation is an expression of divine will, as unique as a fingertip.

❇️ Without discernment, the human being would have remained undifferentiated in the past.

❇️The interweaving of time: all time in a single moment (the beginning of timeless experience)

 The primordial interweaving means that, when things are distinguished and differentiated, their differences spread instantaneously throughout the whole in a particular proportion.

 Any change in any separated part gives rise to corresponding changes, in keeping with that part’s structure and the original proportions.

❇️O my God, bring my power of discernment fully to life.

Imam Sajjad’s (AS) prayer is not merely praise for physical creation; it is an invitation to awaken the intellect and to attain knowledge of the soul and what lies beyond the world.

 By activating their faculty of discernment, a believer should read the world not as a habit repeated over and over, but as an “unfolded book” and as “the signs of God.” Such a reading paves the way to *furqān* (the ability to distinguish truth) and, ultimately, to nearness to God.

❇️A Cosmological and Modern-Physics Addendum:

 Revisiting Discernment and *Fatq* in the Light of Contemporary Science

✨ “From Singularity to Unfolding: A Quantum-Physics Perspective on Supplication 6 of the *Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya*” ✨

In the original text, Imam Sajjād (AS) explains creation through “strength” (bringing existence into being) and its discernment through “power” (ordering and separating). In modern physics, these two stages have a striking correspondence with concepts such as:

 “the birth of the universe from a singularity”

 and

 “symmetry breaking.”

💫1. خَلَقَ بِقُوَّتِهِ: The creation of the material universe from “nothing” and pure energy alone

In classical physics, matter is made from matter. But in Einstein’s general relativity and the Big Bang model, the entire universe arose from a point of infinite density and temperature known as a “singularity.”

Connection with the text: The phrase “وَ كَانَ الْخَالِقُ قَبْلَ الْمَخْلُوقِ» و «إِذْ لَا شَيْءَ غَيْرُهُ» دقیقاً ” describes the state before the Big Bang. At that point, time, space and matter did not exist in the usual sense.

The quantum perspective: In quantum field theory (QFT), the “vacuum” is not empty; it is full of zero-point energy and quantum fluctuations. The creation of the material universe is the transformation of this “absolute potential” (pure potential energy) into “material existence” (matter and radiation). This is the divine “strength” that draws existence out of nonexistence.

💫2. مَيَّزَ بَيْنَهُمَا بِقُدْرَتِهِ: Symmetry breaking

The key to discernment in particle physics and cosmology is a phenomenon known as “spontaneous symmetry breaking.”

Yet this breaking is not spontaneous; it occurs by the will of the Almighty, the All-Powerful!

Scientific explanation: In the first moments after the Big Bang, all the fundamental forces—the electromagnetic, weak nuclear, strong nuclear and gravitational forces—were merged into a single force. The universe was in a symmetrical state, without distinctions.

The moment of discernment: As the universe cooled, this symmetry broke. The forces separated from one another. Electromagnetism separated from the weak nuclear force. Electrons became distinct from photons.

Connection with the text: This is precisely an instance of “مَيَّزَ بَيْنَهُمَا بِقُدْرَتِهِ.” If this discernment (symmetry breaking) had not occurred, the universe would have remained a symmetrical, shapeless plasma soup, and no stars, planets or life could have formed. Discernment is essential to the formation of “structure.”

💫3. *Fatq* and cosmic inflation

 The concept of *fatq* in the text corresponds to the theory of cosmic inflation and stellar stability.

*Fatq* as explosion and expansion: The theory of inflation holds that the universe expanded, in a fraction of a second, at a rate far exceeding the speed of light. This is the “splitting open” of spacetime.

*Fatq* of seeds and nuclei: In nuclear physics, fusion reactions in stars turn light nuclei into heavier ones, releasing tremendous energy (nuclear *fatq*). Likewise, in quantum biology, biological processes rest on the separation of electrical charges and on ion pumps (chemical *fatq*).

💫4. Duality in quantum physics: particle and antiparticle (matter–antimatter)

The text emphasizes “duality.” In particle physics, one of the most fundamental conservation laws concerns the creation of particle–antiparticle pairs.

Explanation: Whenever energy is converted into matter, it appears in opposing pairs (for example, an electron and a positron). These are complete “pairs”: one has a positive charge and the other a negative charge; one is matter and the other antimatter.

The wisdom of pairing: This pairing is essential for superposition and the formation of force fields. Without the distinction between positive and negative charges, no atom, molecule, or chemical structure could form. This is the very act of “distinction” that allows “order” to emerge from turbulent “energy.”

💫5. The Faculty of Discernment and Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle

Does the human “faculty of discernment” conflict with the Uncertainty Principle?

Explanation: Heisenberg says that a particle’s position and momentum cannot both be measured with infinite precision at the same time. This does not mean “absolute unknowability”; rather, it means that reality at its most fundamental level holds multiple potentialities.

The role of the observer: In the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, “measurement,” or the observer’s “attention,” causes the wave function to collapse and gives a definite state concrete reality.

The mystical-physical connection: The human “faculty of discernment” is a kind of “conscious measurement.” When we look at phenomena through reflection (the faculty of furqān), we move from quantum possibilities to tangible realities. Discernment is the conversion of “possibility” into “objective truth.”

💫6. Beyond quantum theory and information physics: the universe as code

In more advanced theories, such as quantum information theory and the “holographic principle”:

The universe as information: Existence may be made up of quantum data (qubits). Every particle carries information.

Discernment as information differentiation: “Discernment” means reading this information. When we distinguish night from day, we are processing differences in physical patterns (the frequency of light, the rotation of the Earth).

Elaboration: The phrase “و کُلَّ شَیءٍ فَصَّلْناهُ تَفْصِیلاً” can be read as meaning that God has decoded the single source code of existence across the different layers of reality (microscopic and macroscopic). Every phenomenon is a unique “byte” of information within the whole system of existence.

💫7. Quantum entanglement

The text points to a “single root” that has unfolded into many forms. In quantum physics, there is a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement.

The explanation

: Two particles that once interacted are still considered a single system, even if they are billions of light-years apart. A change in one immediately affects the other.

The mystical connection: This points to an “intuitive unity” amid “apparent multiplicity.” Night and day, earth and sky, though distinct (discernment), are fundamentally connected to a single source of energy (entanglement). This is the secret of “pairing”: apparent separation makes recognition possible, while inner connectedness sustains life.

—Every event in the day affects the night, and vice versa: an understanding of the mystery of īlāj!

💫8. Final summary: discernment—a bridge between matter and meaning

From the perspective of modern physics:

Energy = the conversion of pure energy into matter (E=mc²).

But we cannot define divine power as a measurable energy, since it has no limit and so cannot be equated with anything or expressed in a formula!

Power and discernment = symmetry breaking and the formation of stable structures.

Fataq = the expansion of spacetime and the separation of layers of reality.

Pairing = the balance of charges and forces that makes atomic stability possible.

Thus, “distinction” is not merely a mental or ethical concept; it is the fundamental physical process that guides the universe from chaos (high entropy) toward order (low entropy and structure). By formulating the principle as “creation through force, distinction through power,” Imam Sajjad (AS) offered a precise scientific foretelling of the stages of cosmic evolution—one that found expression centuries later in the equations of quantum physics and relativity.

End of supplementary discussion

Peace be upon those who follow guidance 🌹✨

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

❇️Supplementary discussion: “A Transquantum Perspective on Night and Day”

🔸A philosophical, theological and mystical perspective (internal and traditional), integrated with a scientific and physical perspective (external and comparative)

🔸“Distinction” as an active principle: Unlike static views, the text treats “distinction” as a dynamic process unfolding in each moment (“Be, and it is”).

🔸The particular connection between biological phenomena and spirituality:

Comparing “bodily waste” with “the darkness of the soul” or “toxic secretions” is a comparison between the outward and the inward dimensions of “sin.”

The elimination of toxins from the body, a physiological process, is in fact a biological system of distinction.

Specific systems for expelling sin are likewise embedded in the human soul, such as repentance and turning back to God.

🔸The resemblance between “distinction” and “symmetry breaking”: Both describe a process in which a uniform, symmetrical state becomes differentiated and structured.

🔸The outward world is a manifestation of the inward world. Although quantum entanglement appears to be a statistical and informational phenomenon at the level of subatomic particles, it is also a manifestation of the metaphysical world.

✅Final analysis of “A Transquantum Perspective on Night and Day”

💫1. Resolving the problem of determinism: primordial nature as “potential,” not “inevitability”

Primordial nature is the result of a choice made before earthly existence, not an imposed beginning: the nature of the سجّين or علّیّین is not fixed and unchangeable; rather, it is the “accumulated capital” of conscious choices made in the pre-world. Thus, the nature of an unbeliever is not an eternal sentence of condemnation, but a “more difficult set of initial conditions” for the test.

The possibility of transformation in this world (an alchemical change): This world is where primordial nature is transformed, not merely identified. Just as a seed turns soil into a flower, a believer can, through “repentance and righteous deeds,” transform an unbelieving nature—whether in themselves or in others—into faith.

✨The purpose of intermingling is mutual guidance:

The intermingling of a believer’s nature with that of an unbeliever tests the believer’s power to influence: Can I turn darkness into light?

The intermingling of an unbeliever’s nature with that of a believer tests the unbeliever’s hope and capacity to return: Can I return to my original nature?

✨Conclusion: No human being is an absolute loser. Repentance and turning back to God are a “system of return” embedded in the human soul, making it possible to cleanse an impure nature and reveal the radiance of one’s true essence.

💫2. A more scientific account of the biological analogies: from metaphor to a “system of distinction”

These analogies are not “illogical leaps,” but “structural similarities in the function of systems of distinction”:

✨Comparing the outward with the inward: Bodily waste (the outward) indicates the presence of impurities. Sin (the inward), too, is a kind of “spiritual impurity.”

✨Comparable systems of elimination:

In the body: The kidneys and liver, through their “biological faculty of distinction,” separate toxic substances from the blood and eliminate them in order to preserve physical life.

✨In the soul: “Repentance and turning back to God” form an ethical system of distinction that separates sin (the soul’s poison) from the heart and expels it in order to preserve spiritual life.

✨Conclusion: This analogy does not mean that the processes are identical; it points instead to a “similar algorithmic design” by the wise Creator. God has applied a single “law of differentiation” at different scales, from microbiology to metaphysics.

💫3. A More Precise Rereading of Quantum Physics: From “Scientific Proof” to “Metaphysical Manifestation”

The visible world as a manifestation of the unseen: Quantum physics (including quantum entanglement) is not merely a “mathematical model” of particles; it is also an “objective manifestation” of metaphysical principles.

Structural similarity, not identity:

“Symmetry breaking” in physics bears a particular resemblance to the process of “differentiation” in the Qur’an, whereby a uniform (symmetric) state becomes a structured, differentiated one.

✨ Conclusion: We are not claiming that “the Qur’an is a book of physics”; rather, we say that “the Qur’an explains all things.”

Even if physical theories change, the principle of “differentiation and symmetry breaking” remains as a philosophical truth.

💫 Revised Summary (Final Version)

✨These texts reject determinism: primordial clay is “potential,” while the “human will” in this world is the agent of its “change and transformation.”

✨Biological analogies: The text presents biological analogies as “similarities in the function of systems of differentiation”—the elimination of physical toxins and the removal of spiritual sins.

✨Setting the relationship between contemporary science and religion: Contemporary science “manifests” metaphysical truths; it does not “measure” them.

✨“The world is a workshop for transforming primordial natures: here, through the power of discernment, the believer turns disbelief into faith and soil into clay, while through repentance the unbeliever connects Sijjīn to ʿIlliyyīn. This exalted trial shows that no primordial nature is eternal unless, through a salvific choice, it returns to its original essence.”

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☀️🌹✳️✅ ❇️ ✨🔆💫🔆

✅Presenting and explaining the text in the language of science and philosophy (logic, cosmology, quantum physics, and Islamic theology).

A Philosophical and Scientific Account of “Differentiation” in Creation: From Metaphysics to Quantum Physics

The Sixth Supplication of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya and Modern Concepts in Physics

💫1. Introduction: Framing the Question and the Need for Discussion

The Sixth Supplication of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya and the Fundamental Stages in the Emergence and Organization of the Universe

Al-khalq bi-l-quwwa: Bringing existence into being from nothing (the emergence of matter/energy).

Al-tamyīz bi-l-qudra: Differentiation, ordering, and structuring (emergence of structure).

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this essay explains “differentiation” not merely as a human cognitive process but as a cosmological and ontological principle, aligning it with concepts in modern physics such as symmetry breaking, entropy, and quantum entanglement.

💫2. The Ontological Foundations of Differentiation

2.1 Differentiation as a Condition for the Possibility of “Being”

In philosophy, “nonbeing” is absolute nothingness, while “being” requires definition and distinction. Without any distinction between “layl” and “nahār” (night and day), or between “ṭayyib” (pure) and “khabīth” (impure), no phenomenon can acquire an identity.

Logical argument: Every “thing” is defined by what is “other than itself.” Differentiation is therefore a precondition for the world to have determinate forms and be knowable.

Scientific account: In thermodynamics, the transition from disorder (high entropy) to order (structure) requires a process that separates components from one another. Divine differentiation is the very agency that transforms primordial chaos into cosmic order.

2.2 Differentiation in Biology and Chemistry: The Alchemy of Life

Seed and soil symbolize this process. By receiving solar energy (light) and interacting with soil (matter), the seed uses its intrinsic differentiating power to sort elements and transform them into increasingly complex structures (cells, tissues, and organs).

Key insight: A living cell is an automatic “discriminating system” that processes inputs, expels waste (خبائث), and absorbs beneficial substances (طیبات). This process is a particular manifestation of God’s “power of discernment” within matter.

💫3. A Cosmological and Quantum-Physics Account (Scientific Supplement)

This section connects the text’s mystical concepts with findings from modern physics.

3.1. Stage One: «خَلَقَ… بِقُوَّتِهِ» (Creation from the Singularity)

The textual perspective: Before creation, God had no being other than Himself.

The physics perspective (the Big Bang model): The universe began from a “singularity” with infinite density and temperature. At that moment, time, space and matter did not exist in their usual sense.

The correspondence: Divine “power” is equivalent to the transformation of “zero-point energy” or the “quantum vacuum” into “matter and radiation.” This is the transformation of “absolute potential” into “material existence.”

3.2. Stage Two: «مَيَّزَ… بِقُدْرَتِهِ» (Symmetry Breaking)

The textual perspective: God distinguished between night and day, and between pure and impure.

The physics perspective (spontaneous symmetry breaking): In the earliest moments after the Big Bang, the four fundamental forces—gravity, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force and the strong nuclear force—were unified as a single force. As the universe cooled, this “symmetry” broke, and the forces separated.

The correspondence: This “symmetry breaking” is a concrete instance of “distinction.” Without this differentiation—the separation of the forces—the universe would have been a uniform plasma, with no stars, planets or complex structures forming.

3.3. Quantum Connectedness (Entanglement)

The textual perspective: All creatures share a single root, though their outward forms differ.

The physics perspective: The phenomenon of “quantum entanglement” shows that two particles, even when separated by astronomical distances, can remain part of a single system. A change in one immediately affects the other.

The philosophical correspondence: Outward distinction—the separation of particles—does not preclude inward connectedness.

💫4. Moral and Spiritual Discernment: From Primordial Nature to Light

4.1. Discernment in the Human Spiritual Journey

Human beings, too, have two dimensions: “primordial nature” (their created essence) and “free choice.”

The primordial nature of the believer: According to narrations from the Ahl al-Bayt (AS), believers were created from the “nature of ʿIlliyyīn” (the purest level of creation), while unbelievers were created from the “nature of Sijjīn” (the lowest level).

The function of discernment: The faculty of discernment in human beings is meant to separate these two natures. When, through faith and righteous deeds, a person separates the unbelieving nature—doubts and the desires of the lower self—from the believing nature, they attain “a wholesome life.”

✅ We must understand that an unbeliever’s nature comes after their unbelief: in the pre-worldly realm, their nature was shaped by unbelief, from the nature of Sijjīn!

In truth, the intermingling of natures bears witness to the formation of a transcendent trial among human beings: they must free the true essence of their servitude from every impure nature! Once the impure nature is cleansed away, the pure essence will shine forth—a realization bound to a person’s true choice!

Thus, it is possible to make amends for one’s pre-worldly past in the realm of this world!

The believer’s nature is mingled with the unbeliever’s so that the believer does not assume they have reached the end of the road of trial; and the unbeliever’s nature is mingled with the believer’s so that the unbeliever does not imagine themselves an absolute loser, but instead seeks to make amends and return to their original nature!

The believer must perform a masterstroke, transforming the unbelieving nature into a believing one, just as a seed transforms soil into flowers, plants and sweet fruit!

The unbeliever, too, should make use of the opportunity to be in the company of the believer’s nature, dissolving their unbelieving nature into a believing one. Repentance is a good companion in bringing this about!

4.2. The Light of Discernment in Contrast with Darkness

Verse 122 of Sūrat al-Anʿām: «أَوَ مَن كَانَ مَيْتًا فَأَحْيَيْنَاهُ وَ جَعَلْنَا لَهُ نُورًا يَمْشِي بِهِ فِي النَّاسِ…»

Analysis: “Light” symbolizes knowledge and discernment. Without the power of discernment (light), a person is trapped in the darkness of ignorance and sin. Sound discernment is like a light that illuminates the way and prevents truth from being confused with falsehood.

Psychospiritual conclusion: Mental well-being and spirituality depend on “sound discernment.” Spiritual ailments arise from “confusion”—the blending of values and the inability to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

4.3. The Hereafter: The final arena of discernment

Verse 179 of Sūrat Āl ʿImrān: «ما كانَ اللَّهُ لِيَذَرَ الْمُؤْمِنينَ عَلى‌ ما أَنْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى يَميزَ الْخَبيثَ مِنَ الطَّيِّبِ…»

Explanation: This world is an “abode of trial” and an “abode of relative distinction.” Here, believers and unbelievers, the virtuous and the wicked, live side by side. But the Hereafter is the “abode of final separation.” On the Day of Resurrection, the veils will be lifted and everything will return to its rightful place. This is discernment at its highest: the true nature of everything will be made manifest.

💫5. Summary and conclusion

In the order of creation, “discernment” is a process with several layers:

Physical layer: The breaking of symmetry and the separation of forces, allowing material structures to form.

Biological layer: The separation of beneficial substances from harmful ones in living beings, including cells and organs.

Epistemic layer: The human capacity to distinguish truth from falsehood and purity from impurity.

Eschatological layer: The final separation of believers from unbelievers and the ultimate disclosure of truth.

✨ Final message:

Believers should cultivate their “power of discernment” so that they may not only understand the physical world correctly, but also, along the path of spiritual wayfaring, distinguish the unbelieving disposition and spiritual impurities within themselves from their faithful nature. This discernment is the key to attaining a “wholesome life” and nearness to God. Just as God brought the universe from chaos to order, we too must strive to bring our souls from the chaos of sin to the order of faith.

☀️🌹✳️✅ ❇️ ✨🔆💫🔆

❇️ Summary of “A Trans-Quantum Perspective on Night and Day”

✅Discernment: The governing principle of creation and human development

💫1. Introduction: Two fundamental stages of creation

 The universe came into being through distinct yet connected stages:

✨Creation through potentiality: Bringing existence forth from nothingness (the transformation of pure energy into matter).

✨Ordering through power: Organizing, differentiating and structuring the parts so that life and meaning can emerge.

This “discernment” is not merely a physical process; it is a principle governing every layer of reality, from subatomic particles to the human soul.

💫2. The cosmological layer: Discernment as symmetry breaking

✨From uniformity to structure: In its earliest moments (the Big Bang), the universe was in a symmetrical, uniform state. Symmetry breaking is an interpretation of “divine discernment,” bringing about the separation of forces and the formation of complex structures—stars, planets and life.

✨Connectedness: The phenomenon of quantum entanglement shows that, despite their apparent distinction, particles are fundamentally connected to one common centre and source.

✨Conclusion: The physical universe is a “display” of metaphysical principles. Discernment is a condition for the existence of “form” and “identity.”

💫3. The biological layer: Systems of discernment in life

✨Nature’s alchemy: Living beings, from seeds to human cells, are equipped with intelligent systems of discernment. They take in raw materials, expel impurities and transform beneficial substances into more complex structures—flowers, fruit and organs.

✨The structural parallel between detoxification and sin:

In the body: the kidneys and liver, through biological discrimination, eliminate physical toxins.

In the soul: repentance and turning back to God, through moral discrimination, eliminate spiritual toxins (sin).

Key point: Though these two processes occur on different scales, they follow the same “divine algorithm”: identifying, separating, and removing what is impure.

💫4. The Moral and Spiritual Dimension: Innate Disposition, Free Will, and the Soul’s Development

✨Innate disposition is potential, not determinism:

The disposition of the believer (ʿIlliyyīn) and the unbeliever (Sijjīn) is the result of conscious choices made in the pre-worldly realm.

Innate disposition is not an eternal destiny, but each person’s “initial conditions” and “starting capital.”

✨The world is a workshop for transforming dispositions:

The believer’s role: The believer is like a “seed” that can turn the “soil of disbelief” into the “clay of faith.” Through the power of discernment, the believer must remove impurities and bring the pure essence to radiance.

The unbeliever’s role: The unbeliever is never a total loser. Through repentance and turning back to God, they can cleanse their Sijjīn disposition and return to their original nature (ʿIlliyyīn).

✨The purpose of the mingling of dispositions:

The mingling of a believer’s disposition with an unbeliever’s tests the believer’s power to influence and guide.

The mingling of an unbeliever’s disposition with a believer’s tests the unbeliever’s hope and capacity to return, so that they may know it is possible in this world to make amends for their pre-worldly past.

💫5. The Dimension of the Hereafter: Final Separation and the Disclosure of Truth

✨The world: a place of trial and relative mingling. In this world, believers and unbelievers live side by side so that discernment and choice may be tested.

✨The Hereafter: a realm of definitive separation. At the Resurrection, the veils are lifted and discernment reaches its fullest expression.

Believers return to light and Paradise—their true, original nature.

Unbelievers are consigned to darkness and Hell—the outcome of their own choices.

✨Final conclusion: The Hereafter is where “the final judgment” is delivered and “the true nature of every disposition is fully revealed.”

💫6. A Philosophical and Scientific Synthesis

The concept of “discernment” bridges:

Physics: (symmetry breaking and the formation of structure)

Biology: (cellular purification and the preservation of life)

Ethics: (repentance and the purification of the soul)

The Hereafter: (the separation of truth from falsehood)

✨Central message:

Human beings are free. Their innate disposition may be impure or pure from the outset, but their will in this world determines their ultimate fate. The believer must activate their “faculty of discernment” to transform disbelief into faith, while the unbeliever must, through repentance, forge a link between Sijjīn and ʿIlliyyīn. This is the secret of “a wholesome life” and of human perfection.

🌹✨Peace be upon those who follow guidance.

✨ Title: A Comprehensive Explanation of the Concept of “Discernment” in the Order of Creation

💫1. The Ontological and Cosmological Dimension (From Creation to Structure)

Two stages of creation:  

🔅 الخلق بالقوة: Bringing existence into being from nothing (the transformation of pure energy into matter), which in modern physics corresponds to the “Big Bang” and emergence from a “singularity.”

🔅 التمییز بالقدرت: Ordering and differentiating the components, which in physics corresponds to “symmetry breaking.” Without this differentiation, the universe would remain a uniform, shapeless plasma cloud.

🔅 فتق و تفصیل: “Fataq” means splitting and expansion, consistent with the theory of “cosmic inflation” and the processes of fusion in stars.

🔅 Continuity: The phenomenon of “quantum entanglement” (Entanglement) shows that, despite their apparent distinctness, particles are fundamentally connected to a single centre.

💫2. The Biological and Natural Axis (Nature’s Alchemy)

🔅 The faculty of discernment in matter: Nature and living beings are equipped with systems of discrimination.

🔅 The cell: Like an intelligent factory, it absorbs useful substances and expels waste.

🔅 Seed and soil: The transformation of simple materials into complex, beautiful structures (flowers and fruit) points to knowledge of discernment infused into particles.

🔅 Water as a symbol of discernment: Pure, wholesome water emerges from polluted matter and waste. This process of purification is a manifestation of God’s “staff of discernment,” which separates the impure from the pure.

🔅 Diversity from unity: Though trees and plants drink the same kind of water, they produce different fruits and flavours. This demonstrates nature’s capacity for discernment and differentiation.

💫3. The Epistemic and Ethical Axis (The Human Spiritual Journey)

🔅 The light of discernment: The faculty of discernment is a light that guides human beings from the darkness of ignorance and sin towards illumination.

🔅 The nature of the believer and the disbeliever:

Believers are created from the “clay of ʿIlliyyīn” (the purest realm), while disbelievers are created from the “clay of Sijjīn” (the lowest realm).

We must understand that the disbeliever’s clay comes after disbelief: in the pre-worldly realm, because of their disbelief, the disbeliever’s nature was formed from the clay of Sijjīn!

The death of a believer is that disbelieving clay within them; their life begins when God separates the two.

At times, apparent intermixture (a believer being born to a disbeliever, or vice versa) occurs because the clays become intermingled in the material world.

🔅 Purification of the soul: The aim of ethical discernment is to cast off “impurities” (spiritual contaminants) and preserve what is pure. The more refined a believer becomes, the more vibrant and luminous their life.

💫4. The Axis of the Afterlife and Resurrection (The Final Separation)

🔅 From the abode of trial to the abode of truth: This world is a place where believers and disbelievers are mingled to some degree, but the afterlife is where they are definitively separated.

🔅 The final arena of discernment: On the Day of Resurrection, a caller will cry out from heaven, separating the people of falsehood from the people of truth.

🔅 The ultimate revelation: On that day, everything will return to its true place. Believers will go to Paradise (light) and disbelievers to Hell (darkness). This is the culmination of the process of discernment, in which “the impure is separated from the pure” forever.

💫 Final Conclusion

The concept of “discernment” is the key to the order, beauty and life of the universe. It forms a bridge between:

🔅 Physics: (the breaking of symmetry and the formation of structure)

🔅 Biology: (the purification of cells and the growth of plants)

🔅 Mysticism and ethics: (the separation of the pure soul from its impurities)

🔅 The afterlife: (the final separation of truth from falsehood)

By awakening their own “faculty of discernment,” the believer not only comes to understand the physical world, but also casts off the impurities within their being as they advance spiritually, attaining nearness to God and “a life of purity.”

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

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