A World of Love and Universal Love

🌼The Sublime Management of Love and Enmity🌼

🌼The Sajjadi Discourse: A Sanctified Soul and a Breath of Christ🌼

🌸🔆🌿   “The Global Governance of Love”  “The Secret of the Sajjadi Discourse”

🔅🌹 Abstract, with an addendum: “The Global Governance of Love”  “The Secret of the Sajjadi Discourse” “ ”  “ ” “ ”        1402.02.28   Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🌹🔅 اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَ أَبْدِلْنِي مِنْ بِغْضَةِ أَهْلِ الشَّنَآنِ الْمَحَبَّةَ، وَ مِنْ حَسَدِ أَهْلِ الْبَغْيِ الْمَوَدَّةَ، وَ مِنْ ظِنَّةِ أَهْلِ الصَّلَاحِ الثِّقَةَ، وَ مِنْ عَدَاوَةِ الْأَدْنَيْنَ الْوَلَايَةَ، وَ مِنْ عُقُوقِ ذَوِي الْأَرْحَامِ الْمَبَرَّةَ، وَ مِنْ خِذْلَانِ الْأَقْرَبِينَ النُّصْرَةَ، وَ مِنْ حُبِّ الْمُدَارِينَ تَصْحِيحَ‏ الْمِقَةِ، وَ مِنْ رَدِّ الْمُلَابِسِينَ كَرَمَ الْعِشْرَةِ، وَ مِنْ مَرَارَةِ خَوْفِ الظَّالِمِينَ حَلَاوَةَ الْأَمَنَةِ.

🌸🔆The Miracle of the Sajjadi Discourse

☘️🔅 Imam Sajjad’s words possess inner dimensions and sublime meanings; their outward form conceals profound depths.

☘️🔅 Each time we return to the Imam’s words, a new fragrance reaches us.

☘️🔅 Just as everything is encompassed within the Imam’s being—that is, counted, concealed and preserved—the words of the Imams, too, contain every meaning. Each discerning return to them brings us to particular roots in the Imam’s discourse.

☘️🔅 Hidden within every word of the Imam are secrets and wondrous, immense vistas.

☘️🔅 Within the Imam’s words lie oceans, lands and heavens.

☘️🔅 The Imam’s supplications have many dimensions, all of them sublime. We must uncover their secrets and behold their horizons with insight.

☘️🔅 The Imam’s supplications are not personal; they encompass the entire universe.

🌸🔆The Governance of Love

☘️🔅 The supplication “ أَبْدِلْنِي مِنْ بِغْضَةِ أَهْلِ الشَّنَآنِ الْمَحَبَّةَ ” means the global governance of love.

☘️🔅 Turn the malice of those hostile to me into love.

☘️🔅 When love and hatred are for God’s sake, this love and enmity, solely for God, must extend to others and permeate the whole course of events.

☘️🔅 Enmity toward the enemy must be governed and transformed into love!

☘️🔅 God is “ مُبَدِّلُ السَّيِّئَاتِ‏ بِأَضْعَافِهَا مِنَ الْحَسَنَات‏”; He turns the animosity of spiteful enemies into friendship and bonds of mutual affection.

☘️🔅 A society set ablaze by its enemies’ hatred must see that fire turn into a garden, and enmity into love.

☘️🔅 The aim of human and jinn devils is to make everyone distrustful of religion, its people and its Imams, and to turn them into mortal enemies. But the faithful must not only extinguish their fire and hostility; they must transform them into a beautiful garden, just as the fire became a garden for Abraham, peace be upon him.

🌻🌿 Al-Anbiya: 69   قُلْنا يا نارُ كُوني‏ بَرْداً وَ سَلاماً عَلى‏ إِبْراهيمَ

☘️🔅 A fire that, instead of burning, offers comfort.

☘️🔅 Fire and affliction in the life of society must give way to a garden and healing. The true believer has a duty to bring this about with divine aid.

☘️🔅 By God’s permission, anything can be done: fire can become cool and safe, and fierce hostility can turn into bonds stronger even than the closest friendship.

🌸🔆The Sublime Governance of the Sajjadi Tradition

☘️🔅 The Imam’s words, voice and intimate prayers are a form of sublime governance—that is, the highest policy.

☘️🔅 Devotion is love joined to knowledge and action,

☘️🔅 God has affection for His servants. Though He has always known everything about them, from beginning to end—even their sins and failings—He loves them. This is the divine attribute of al-Wadūd, the All-Loving.

☘️🔅 Parents are devoted to their children: despite the hardships their children bring them, they still love them. This is a bond of affection without bargaining.

☘️🔅 Loving the Ahl al-Bayt is possible only through bringing together love, knowledge, and practice. Their sacred being is a flower of beauty and purity.

☘️🔅 Envy boils within the soul of an enemy. With God’s help, a believer must transform it into affection. A deep-seated pain must become a penetrating cure.

☘️🔅 When people of righteousness think ill of someone, it weakens that person’s spirit and diminishes their strength. To be thought well of is to benefit from the strength and resources of the righteous.

☘️🔅 Even the angels should think well of us; then their celestial powers can be enlisted in the service of our aims as servants of God.

☘️🔅 A bond of wilāya is a friendship marked by intimacy and special affection.

☘️🔅 The enmity of one’s kin and close relations is like having one’s own hands, feet, eyes, and other limbs turn against oneself. Better to be blind and deaf than to face such enmity.

☘️🔅 The intimacy of kin and close relations equips a person fully with the finest resources.

☘️🔅 Self-examination must expand into a collective and global reckoning.

☘️🔅 ʿUqūq encompasses a defiant, malicious severing of ties, accompanied by hurt and harm.

☘️🔅 Affection that merely tolerates is deceptive affection.

☘️🔅 Correcting one’s love means refining a friendship marked by sincerity and profound affection.

☘️🔅 The supplications of Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him, truly bring prosperity to this world and the next.

☘️🔅 Imam Sajjad’s supplication turns the coal of enmity into the diamond of friendship.

☘️🔅 The words of Imam Sajjad hold the secrets of celestial alchemy.

☘️🔅 The supplications of Imam Sajjad embrace the entire universe.

☘️🔅 Let us take care of the stomachs of hearts: not every heart can digest what happens, and not every mind can digest doubts; some are poisoned by them.

☘️🔅 Solving a problem in a spiritual, celestial realm can greatly help solve it in the material realm.

☘️🔅 Just as devils implant enmity in people’s minds, believers can, through divine power, reach into minds and hearts and transform it into love.

☘️🔅 By performing even a few of their duties, human beings connect to God’s inexhaustible power. All it takes is to open the sweet tongue of supplication before the One who answers prayers.

☘️🔅 Hatred and anger lead to unthinking acceptance; they must therefore be managed, controlled, and transformed through the teachings of the Sajjadi supplications.

☘️🔅 Through the blessing of Imam Sajjad, transcendent mysteries smile upon the faces of believers.

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

🌸🔆🌿 “The Transcendent Management of Love and Aversion” “Instilling Love” “ ”

🔅🌹 Summary and Supplement to “The Transcendent Management of Love and Aversion” “Instilling Love” “ ” “ ” 1402.03.11 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat 110.141(903) 🌹🔅

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🌸Understanding love and aversion is the foundation of human life.

☘️Love and aversion are like water and fire: they make things grow and burn!

🌸Loving God’s friends and opposing His enemies is the straight path of God.

☘️Board the ship of divine love and never leave it; outside it lies the fire of divine wrath.

🌸The evils, afflictions and sufferings of this world must be transformed into divine blessings and mercies.

☘️The enemy is intent on destroying faith and piety; you must let their branches and leaves grow ever more abundant.

🌸Religion is nothing other than love and hatred: love and hatred for God and in God’s cause.

☘️Religion can be discerned through love and hatred. They reveal who follows God’s religion and who is governed by the creed of the ego and Satan.

🌸🔆To love sin is to relish filth.

🌸Love of sin and of those who sin is a clear sign of unbelief and godlessness.

☘️The lamp of faith is kindled by true love and hatred, while the radiance of unbelief is extinguished.

🌸Faith is what God deems worthy of honour; unbelief, wickedness and disobedience are what He deems hateful—and these are woven into the human soul.

☘️Love for those who obey God and hatred for those who disobey Him are unmistakable signs of love for God.

🌸Love and hatred are the measure by which the inner realities of people may be discerned.

☘️The enemy must be disarmed of every weapon, and those very weapons seized and turned to the believer’s advantage.

🌸The supplication of Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him, possesses profound depths and subtle, exalted dimensions.

☘️So long as you are with God, let us not fear the fire of the Nimrods, the threats of the Pharaohs, or the storms and terrifying waves.

🌸God, the All-Powerful, the All-Wise, turns the enemy into a faithful servant.

☘️Those who say, “Our Lord is Allah,” must remain steadfast.

🌸Let us not overlook the fine strands of the firm rope of God, for the path leads to the firm rope of God.

🌸🔆The bomb of love must be set off.

🌸The love cast into Moses’ heart, peace be upon him, was the elixir that made all humanity love Moses. The greatest love ever cast into a heart was cast into the heart of the Beloved of the Lord of the Worlds, whose name is joined with the divine Name.

🌹🔅 عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع‏ فِي حَدِيثٍ لَهُ قَالَ يَا زِيَادُ وَيْحَكَ وَ هَلِ‏ الدِّينُ‏ إِلَّا الْحُبُّ أَ لَا تَرَى إِلَى قَوْلِ اللَّهِ‏ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللَّهُ وَ يَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ‏ أَ وَ لَا تَرَى قَوْلَ اللَّهِ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص‏ حَبَّبَ إِلَيْكُمُ الْإِيمانَ وَ زَيَّنَهُ فِي قُلُوبِكُمْ‏ وَ قَالَ‏ يُحِبُّونَ مَنْ هاجَرَ إِلَيْهِمْ‏ فَقَالَ الدِّينُ هُوَ الْحُبُّ وَ الْحُبُّ هُوَ الدِّين‏[1]

🌹🔅Al-Hujurat: 7   وَ اعْلَمُوا أَنَّ فيكُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَوْ يُطيعُكُمْ في‏ كَثيرٍ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ لَعَنِتُّمْ وَ لكِنَّ اللَّهَ حَبَّبَ إِلَيْكُمُ الْإيمانَ وَ زَيَّنَهُ في‏ قُلُوبِكُمْ وَ كَرَّهَ إِلَيْكُمُ الْكُفْرَ وَ الْفُسُوقَ وَ الْعِصْيانَ أُولئِكَ هُمُ الرَّاشِدُونَ

🌹🔅And know that the Messenger of God is among you. Were he to obey you in many matters, you would surely suffer hardship. But God has made faith dear to you and adorned it in your hearts, and has made unbelief, wickedness and disobedience hateful to you. Those are the rightly guided.

🌹🔅Ta Ha: 39   أَنِ اقْذِفيهِ فِي التَّابُوتِ فَاقْذِفيهِ فِي الْيَمِّ فَلْيُلْقِهِ الْيَمُّ بِالسَّاحِلِ يَأْخُذْهُ عَدُوٌّ لي‏ وَ عَدُوٌّ لَهُ وَ أَلْقَيْتُ عَلَيْكَ مَحَبَّةً مِنِّي وَ لِتُصْنَعَ عَلى‏ عَيْني‏

🌹🔅“Place him (Moses) in a chest, then cast the chest into the sea, and the sea will cast it ashore. My enemy and his enemy will take him up.” And I bestowed love from Me upon you, so that you might be fashioned under My watchful eye.

🌹🔅 وَ إِنِّي مُتَكَلِّمٌ‏ بِعِدَةِ اللَّهِ‏ وَ حُجَّتِهِ قَالَ اللَّهُ [جَلَّ ذِكْرُهُ‏] تَعَالَى‏ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ قالُوا رَبُّنَا اللَّهُ ثُمَّ اسْتَقامُوا تَتَنَزَّلُ عَلَيْهِمُ الْمَلائِكَةُ أَلَّا تَخافُوا وَ لا تَحْزَنُوا وَ أَبْشِرُوا بِالْجَنَّةِ  الَّتِي كُنْتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ‏ وَ قَدْ قُلْتُمْ رَبُّنَا اللَّهُ فَاسْتَقِيمُوا عَلَى كِتَابِهِ وَ عَلَى مِنْهَاجِ أَمْرِهِ وَ عَلَى الطَّرِيقَةِ الصَّالِحَةِ مِنْ عِبَادَتِهِ ثُمَّ لَا تَمْرُقُوا مِنْهَا وَ لَا تَبْتَدِعُوا فِيهَا وَ لَا تُخَالِفُوا عَنْهَا فَإِنَّ أَهْلَ الْمُرُوقِ مُنْقَطَعٌ بِهِمْ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَة[2]

🌹🔅 عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلَيٍّ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلَامُ قَالَ: إِنَّ يَهُودِيّاً مِنْ يَهُودِ الشَّامِ وَ أَحْبَارِهِمْ قَالَ لِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ: فَلَقَدْ أَلْقَى اللَّهُ عَلَى مُوسَى عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ مَحَبَّةً مِنْهُ؟ قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ: لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ لَقَدْ أَعْطَى اللَّهُ مُحَمَّداً مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْهُ، لَقَدْ أَلْقَى اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَلَيْهِ مَحَبَّةً مِنْهُ فَمَنْ هَذَا الَّذِي يَشْرَكُهُ فِي هَذَا الِاسْمِ إِذْ تَمَّ مِنَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِهِ الشَّهَادَةُ، فَلَا تَتِمُّ الشَّهَادَةُ إِلَّا أَنْ يُقَالَ: أَشْهَدُ انْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً رَسُولُ اللَّهِ، يُنَادَى بِهِ عَلَى الْمَنَابِرِ فَلَا يُرْفَعُ صَوْتٌ بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ إِلَّا رُفِعَ بِذِكْرِ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ مَعَهُ.[3]

🌹🔅 قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص فِي الْقُلُوبِ نُورٌ لَا يُضِي‏ءُ إِلَّا مِنِ اتِّبَاعِ الْحَقِّ وَ قَصْدِ السَّبِيلِ وَ هُوَ مِنْ نُورِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ مُوَدَّعٌ فِي قُلُوبِ الْمُؤْمِنِين‏[4]

🌹🔅 عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: إِذَا أَرَدْتَ أَنْ تَعْلَمَ أَنَّ فِيكَ خَيْراً فَانْظُرْ إِلَى قَلْبِكَ فَإِنْ كَانَ يُحِبُّ أَهْلَ‏ طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ‏ وَ يُبْغِضُ أَهْلَ مَعْصِيَتِهِ فَفِيكَ خَيْرٌ وَ اللَّهُ يُحِبُّكَ وَ إِنْ كَانَ يُبْغِضُ أَهْلَ‏ طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ‏ وَ يُحِبُّ أَهْلَ مَعْصِيَتِهِ فَلَيْسَ فِيكَ خَيْرٌ وَ اللَّهُ يُبْغِضُكَ وَ الْمَرْءُ مَعَ مَنْ أَحَبَّ.[5]

🌹🔅 إنّ اللَّه يبغض كلّ عالم‏ بالدّنيا جاهل بالآخرة.

🌹🔅 God despises anyone who is knowledgeable about worldly affairs yet ignorant of the Hereafter.[6]

🌹🔅 قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ وُدُّ الْمُؤْمِنِ‏ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ فِي اللَّهِ مِنْ أَعْظَمِ شُعَبِ الْإِيمَانِ وَ مَنْ أَحَبَّ فِي اللَّهِ وَ أَبْغَضَ فِي اللَّهِ وَ أَعْطَى فِي اللَّهِ وَ مَنَعَ فِي اللَّهِ فَهُوَ مِنْ أَصْفِيَاءِ اللَّه‏[7]

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

[1] Al-Mahasin, vol. 1, p. 263  Al-Mahasin, 2 vols., Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya, Qom, second edition, 1371 AH.

[2] Nahj al-Balagha (ed. Subhi Salih), p. 253  Nahj al-Balagha (ed. Subhi Salih), 1 vol., Hijrat, Qom, first edition, 1414 AH.

[3] Tafsir Nur al-Thaqalayn    vol. 3    p. 379  Huwayzi, Abd Ali ibn Jum’a, 5 vols., Ismailian, Iran, Qom, fourth edition, 1415 AH.

[4] Misbah al-Sharia, p. 157  1 vol., A’lami, Beirut, first edition, 1400 AH.

[5] Al-Kafi (Islamic edition), vol. 2, p. 126  Kulayni, Muhammad ibn Ya’qub ibn Ishaq, 8 vols., Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya, Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[6] Nahj al-Fasaha (a collection of the Prophet’s ﷺ brief sayings), p. 316

[7] Al-Maḥāsin, vol. 1, p. 263 2 vols., Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, Qom, second edition, 1371 AH.