Ali (AS): The Supreme Manifestation of Divine Love and the Gateway to Knowledge

🗓 Date: 1402/11/05
🌸 Meshkat-e Noor session
🌸 Lecture by Master Ali Saei
🍀 Some of the topics raised during the session:

🌻 Ali is the supreme manifestation of God’s love.
🌻 A hidden meaning in the supplication اللهم عرفنی نفسک
🌻 Divine knowledge needs no means.
🌻 The relationship between God and His servant transcends knowledge.
🌻 Those who are in need of You—how could they seek to reach You through reasoning?
🌻 How can Your signs guide us to You?!
🌻 Through God, we come to know His Messenger.
🌻 O God, even Your Messenger and Your Proof came to know You through You.
🌻 O God, if I do not attain Your oneness, I will not attain Your prophethood; and if I fall short of Your prophethood, I will not attain knowledge of Your Proof.
🌻 O God, You are the One who makes the verse a sign.
🌻 God has no need for us to come to know Him through His signs. That God wants me to know Him through His signs is a new way of being devoted in worship.
🌻 We are connected to the Creator of life through what transcends life itself.
🌻 Having passed beyond knowledge, we seek knowledge; having passed beyond the soul, we seek, through the soul and with the soul, to know the Creator of the soul.
🌻 O God, “Make Your Proof known to me” means, “O God, grant me feeling.”
🌻 O God, I was with You without a soul; now I ask You to give me life, so that with it, too, I may be with You.
🌻 O God, I was utterly mute; now I ask You to make me eloquent.
🌻 We ask God to kindle His Messenger, a lamp in our hearts, and make it blaze with His Proof.
🌻 O God, I wish to see with the Eye of God, hear by God’s permission, speak with the Speech of God, and feel with the Heart of God.
🌻 God’s Messenger and His wali usher us into a new realm of being.
🌻 The beautiful communion of Prophet Solomon
🌻 O God, make me mad with gratitude to You.
🌻 How does God add a special flavor to His love?!
🌻 We had no need of a means, yet God gave us one so that we might worship Him with love.
🌻 O God, I wish to worship You as Ali and his children do.
🌻 God is the architect of His own path.
🌻 Until we attain direct knowledge, we cannot attain knowledge through the Messenger.
🌻 God has no need of a road.
🌻 We have moved from a connection beyond connection to connection.
🌻 God’s making a path through His Messengers is a kind of divine tenderness.
🌻 Encountering God behind the veil of God
🌻 Ali is the special seasoning of worshipping God.
🌻 Knowledge is a special manifestation of God’s attention.
🌻 Love for Ali is the gateway to beholding God.
🌻 If there is a veil between God and His servants, it is love for Ali ibn Abi Talib.
🌻 Love for Ali is the gateway to loving the Eternal Beloved.
🌻 God reveals His nearness through love for Ali.
🌻 Ali is the greatest sign of God’s love.
🌻 Ali is the heart and secret of God’s love.
🌻 Love for Ali is the divine kiss upon the hearts of God’s servants.
🌻 Ali is the boundary of divine love.