Abbas, the Pride of the Martyrs
«Through pure monotheism and sincere devotion, Hazrat Abu’l-Fadl (AS) embodies the meaning of Imam Husayn’s call to divine oneness. With penetrating insight and steadfast faith, he brought the light of monotheism to fruition through the guardianship of God, and proved his love and devotion by giving his life in the service of Imam Husayn (AS).»
🌼🔆🌼Abu’l-Fadl, the Red Rose of the Martyrs🌼🔆🌼
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “The Translator of Divine Unity” “The Journey of Insight” “The Hidden Mystery of Abu’l-Fadl” “The Birth Anniversary of His Eminence Abu’l-Fadl al-‘Abbas, peace be upon him” and more … An abstract, with an addendum 1403.11.15 Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Mishkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🔅🌼Our Imam of the Age seeks one like ‘Abbas🌼🔅
🔅🌼Keep the banner of divine unity raised high 🌼🔅
🌹Abu’l-Fadl is the Husayni interpretation of the word of divine unity: its interpreter and translator.
🌹The proofs of God long for Abu’l-Fadl. Whoever has found the fragrance of Abu’l-Fadl has become a companion and supporter of the Imam of the Age.
🌹The sweetest fruit of creation is divine unity, and Abu’l-Fadl brought this blessed, sweet fruit to life in his blessed heart and soul.
🌹The person who affirms God’s oneness is a precious jewel of the Divine. Through devotion to God and His chosen ones, Abu’l-Fadl brought the light of divine unity to manifestation.
🌹In the person who affirms God’s oneness, intention and action are jewels; his testimony reaches the highest station of honor.
🌹For the one who affirms God’s oneness, his pen, his sword, his gaze—everything about him—is pure, a jewel among jewels.
🌹The one who affirms God’s oneness is foremost in beauty.
🔅🌼The hidden mystery of Abu’l-Fadl🌼🔅
🌹Why did Abu’l-Fadl become Abu’l-Fadl?! The secret lies in his devotion to God and his pure servitude to Him.
🔅🌼Divine unity: the foundation of servitude 🌼🔅
🌹Divine unity is servitude grown tall, and Abu’l-Fadl was its noble, full-grown stature.
🌹Divine unity is the complete tablet, the complete book—a book spanning all eternity; or perhaps it is eternity rising above the everlasting, or eternity coinciding with the everlasting.
🌹True divine unity is the oneness of vessel and contents.
🔅🌼Abu’l-Fadl’s journey of insight 🌼🔅
🌹His vision penetrated deeply: Abu’l-Fadl’s insight pierced through to the heart of realities.
🌹His sight penetrated them: Abu’l-Fadl’s insight passed through the heart of every reality.
🌹To see with penetrating vision is to let one’s gaze travel to the very end of its destination and behold reality as it is: to truly see, uncover hidden knowledge, disclose the sciences, and hunt down exalted wisdom.
🌹Firm in faith—faith brought to the hardness of diamond, utterly unshakable—Abu’l-Fadl was both penetrating in insight and steadfast in faith.
🌹Faith is the beauty of servitude and its light, the radiance of devotion.
🔅🌼Abu’l-Fadl proved the truth of love 🌼🔅
🌹Love must reveal itself through the excellence of servitude, the beauty of obedience, self-sacrifice and martyrdom.
🌹Love is a treasure; it must be spent beautifully.
🌹Love must become the stage on which the majesty of servitude to God is displayed!
🌹Love must turn a person into a field of flowers, a garden of devotion—and Abu’l-Fadl brought all this to fruition.
🌹Love for Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, set a resurrection in motion in ‘Abbas’s heart.
🌹The noble ground of ‘Abbas, nourished by love and obedience, has brought forth—and continues to bring forth—every beauty.
🌹Love is a mirror reflecting the beloved’s face; the purer the love, the more magnificently it echoes the beloved’s inner being.
🌹Abu’l-Fadl is a marvel among mirrors: he displayed the beauty of God’s proofs with such grace.
🌹The lover bears witness to the beloved’s states, traces, beauty and secrets; how beautifully Abu’l-Fadl bore that witness.
🌹The beauty of Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, is eternally inscribed in the depths of ‘Abbas’s heart. Not merely his outward beauty: the spirit and soul of the beloved dwell forever within his blessed being.
🔅🌼Love for Imam Husayn works miracles in ‘Abbas’s soul🌼🔅
🌹The love of Imam Husayn (peace be upon him) in the depths of Abbas’s heart set the lofty Throne in motion.
🌹Abul Fadl drank the wine of love, made the springs of love’s wisdom gush forth, and became a guide for lovers.
🌹Abul Fadl opens the way and shows the path, guiding us along the road of wilayah and revealing the duties of those who follow its guardians.
🌹In Abbas’s heart, love of wilayah is a pledge of protection on the path of truth.
🌹The greatness of Abbas’s heart is a paradise for lovers.
🔅🌼What a magnificent stature Abul Fadl has!🌼🔅
🌹Let us learn from Abbas the secret of tasting the sweetness of servitude through the very soul of wilayah—how he drew the life of the world from Ali, Hasan, and Husayn.
🌹Abul Fadl is the red rose of Karbala.
🌹Abul Fadl is the fragrance of the garden of martyrs.
🌹Abul Fadl is the salt that gives martyrdom its savor.
🌹Abul Fadl is a tapestry woven in the spirit of Husayn. Abul Fadl is a vessel of Husayni wisdom.
🌹How beautifully the foremost of the worshippers praised Abbas:
🌷🔆قَالَ ع رَحِمَ اللَّهُ الْعَبَّاسَ فَلَقَدْ آثَرَ وَ أَبْلَى وَ فَدَى أَخَاهُ بِنَفْسِهِ حَتَّى قُطِعَتْ يَدَاهُ فَأَبْدَلَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ بِهِمَا جَنَاحَيْنِ يَطِيرُ بِهِمَا مَعَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ كَمَا جَعَلَ لِجَعْفَرِ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ إِنَّ لِلْعَبَّاسِ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى مَنْزِلَةً يَغْبِطُهُ بِهَا جَمِيعُ الشُّهَدَاءِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ.[1]
🔆Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him, said: “May God have mercy on Hazrat Abbas! Truly, he put Imam Husayn before himself and gave his life for him, until his blessed hands were severed. In return, the Merciful God bestowed two wings upon Abbas, peace be upon him, so that he may fly with them in Paradise among the angels—just as He granted this blessing to Ja‘far ibn Abi Talib.”
🌼Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141 (903)🌼
[1] Al-Amali (by al-Saduq), text, p. 462Ibn Babawayh, Muhammad ibn Ali, Ketabchi, Tehran, 6th printing, 1376 SH.