Awakening the Fitrah

🌼O Fashioner of my innate nature, bring it to life!🌼

🌸🔆🌿   “The Eleventh Innate Faculty”  “The Night of the Birth of Imam al-Askari, peace be upon him”

🔅🌹 Summary with addendum: “The Eleventh Innate Faculty” — “The Night of the Birth of Imam al-Askari, peace be upon him”  “The Askari Halo upon Our Souls”  “The Askari Intellect of Our Souls” “The Secret of Perfect Divine Servitude” “God’s Supreme Name in the Words of Imam al-Askari, peace be upon him” and more…       1402.08.01    Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌼 وَ الْهَيْبَةِ الْعَسْكَرِيَّة🌼🔅

🌻The authority of Imam al-Askari, peace be upon him, sets the eleventh innate faculty of every human being in motion.

🌻All the treasuries of our innate nature must be opened so that knowledge and the arts may spring forth in our souls in their fullest perfection. The final gate of our innate treasury will be opened through the key of allegiance to the Presence of the Mahdi, peace be upon him.

🌻Once the twelve “treasuries of innate nature” have been opened, divine servitude is fully awakened within us.

🌻The final chapter of our innate nature will be completed through our Imam of the Age, and through it we will experience the sublime truths of existence.

🌻The human intellect has twelve degrees, unlocked by twelve keys. Its highest vision and full function will become manifest only through the Imamate and authority of the Pure Imams, peace be upon them.

🌻The sun of the intellect will shine in its full glory when allegiance to the Twelfth Imam is complete.

🌻The intellect reaches its fullness only through complete connection to the knowledge and authority of the Imams.

🌻To apprehend the truths in their fullness, we must see, hear, smell, touch, and sense by the light of the intellect.

🌻The fullness of delight can be experienced only through the complete intellect.

🌻The perfection of intellectual experience cannot be put into words; it is attainable only through the mysteries of spiritual authority.

🌻To become God’s “servant through the intellect” is to attain true servitude. Without the full awakening of the intellect, divine servitude remains deficient and leads to loss.

🔅🌼 Intellectual Perfection and Unparalleled Experiences

🌻As our intellect reaches completion, we attain fresh experiences of delight, beauty, and knowledge.

🌻We must worship God with our entire innate nature and our entire intellect. Only with the whole intellect and innate nature can we become truly enamoured of God. The lamp of our intellect will shine with the light of allegiance, kindled by the twelve keys.

🌻Each of the twelve mighty divine means and systems possesses its own distinctive marvel. To neglect any one of them is to suffer irreparable loss.

🌻The Pure Imams, peace be upon them, are God’s light, and each light has its own unique radiance, revealing particular truths in keeping with its nature.

🌻Through light, the unseen becomes visible. Behind the Askari light lie particular Askari truths, which can be witnessed only by that light.

🌻The distinct treasury of the Askari is opened only through Askari allegiance and knowledge.

The veil of the Askari is a distinctive adornment bestowed by the Exalted Creator. This adornment is the signpost placed by God, Blessed and Exalted, for those who seek the encounter with Him.

🌻The Askari adornment is the special signpost of Imam Hasan al-Zaki al-Askari, guiding us towards nearness to God.

🌻The orbit of our soul will shine with the Askari light only when it has the capacity unique to it.

🌻The landscape of our soul will be adorned and beautified by the Askari adornment through the magnetism of the Askari.

🌻Imam Hasan al-Askari is a peerless heaven, a flower without equal.

🌻We must shine in existence with twelve halos and twelve layers of the light of spiritual authority. If even one layer is extinguished, our entire being is plunged into darkness.

🌻We are twelve worlds, and through them we are the soul of the universe.

🌻Imam al-Askari, peace be upon him, is the most hidden and least known Imam of the family of spiritual authority.

🌷🔅 وَ خَرَجَ فِي بَعْضِ تَوْقِيعَاتِهِ ع عِنْدَ اخْتِلَافِ قَوْمٍ مِنْ شِيعَتِهِ فِي أَمْرِهِ مَا مُنِيَ‏ أَحَدٌ مِنْ آبَائِي بِمِثْلِ مَا مُنِيتُ بِهِ مِنْ شَكِّ هَذِهِ الْعِصَابَةِ فِيَّ فَإِنْ كَانَ هَذَا الْأَمْرُ أَمْراً اعْتَقَدْتُمُوهُ وَ دِنْتُمْ بِهِ إِلَى وَقْتٍ ثُمَّ يَنْقَطِعُ فَلِلشَّكِّ مَوْضِعٌ وَ إِنْ كَانَ مُتَّصِلًا مَا اتَّصَلَتْ أُمُورُ اللَّهِ فَمَا مَعْنَى هَذَا الشَّكِّ.[1]

🌷🔅 Imam Hasan al-Askari, peace be upon him, said: “None of my forefathers faced doubts among their own followers as I have. If this matter of the Imamate, to which you believe and remain devoted, were temporary and came to an end, there would be reason for doubt. But if the Imamate is continuous and enduring—as it is for as long as the affairs of God continue—what meaning can such doubt have?” 

🌻Introducing the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, to the world was among the most difficult missions of his Imamate.

🌻The oppression of the time was so severe that he asked his companions not to greet him, or even look at or gesture toward him.

🌻Among his miracles were reading a letter written without ink and knowing what people held in their hearts.

🌷🔅 Muhammad ibn Abbas said: “We were discussing the miracles of Imam Hasan al-Askari, peace be upon him, when a man hostile to the Ahl al-Bayt said, ‘If he answers a letter I write without ink, I will know that he is the Imam.’ We wrote a letter with several questions, and the man also wrote one without ink on a sheet of paper. We sent his letter along with ours to the Imam. He answered our questions and, in a separate letter, wrote the man’s name and his father’s name. When the man saw the Imam’s reply, he fainted. When he came to, he believed in his Imamate.”[2]

🌷🔅 مَا رَوَى سَعْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ شَمُّونٍ‏  قَالَ‏ كَتَبْتُ إِلَيْهِ ع أَشْكُو الْفَقْرَ ثُمَّ قُلْتُ فِي نَفْسِي أَ لَيْسَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع الْفَقْرُ مَعَنَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْغِنَى مَعَ غَيْرِنَا وَ الْقَتْلُ مَعَنَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْحَيَاةِ مَعَ غَيْرِنَا فَرَجَعَ الْجَوَابُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُمَحِّصُ‏  أَوْلِيَاءَنَا إِذَا تَكَاثَفَتْ ذُنُوبُهُمْ بِالْفَقْرِ وَ قَدْ يَعْفُوا عَنْ كَثِيرٍ وَ هُوَ مِمَّا حَدَّثَتْكَ‏  نَفْسُكَ الْفَقْرُ مَعَنَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْغِنَى مَعَ غَيْرِنَا وَ نَحْنُ كَهْفٌ لِمَنِ الْتَجَأَ إِلَيْنَا وَ نُورٌ لِمَنِ اسْتَضَاءَ بِنَا وَ عِصْمَةٌ لِمَنِ اعْتَصَمَ بِنَا مَنْ أَحَبَّنَا كَانَ مَعَنَا فِي السَّنَامِ الْأَعْلَى وَ مَنِ انْحَرَفَ عَنَّا فَإِلَى النَّارِ وَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع تَشْهَدُونَ عَلَى عَدُوِّكُمْ بِالنَّارِ وَ لَا تَشْهَدُونَ لِوَلِيِّكُمْ بِالْجَنَّةِ مَا يَمْنَعُكُمْ مِنْ ذَلِكَ إِلَّا الضَّعْفُ‏ [3]

🌷🔅 It is related that Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Shamun said: “I wrote to Imam al-Askari and complained of my poverty. After writing the letter, it occurred to me: What if, on reading my pleading letter, the Imam were to write or say to me, ‘Poverty with us is better than wealth with others, and death with us is better than life with our enemies’? In any case, I sent the letter to him.”

After some time, I received Imam al-Askari’s reply, in which he had written:

“God, the Almighty and Exalted, sometimes brings His friends into poverty so that their sins may be forgiven and removed.

Just as you thought to yourself and said, ‘Poverty with us is better than wealth with others, and death with us is better than life with our enemies.’ We are a refuge for those who seek refuge in us, a light for those who seek insight, and a protection for all who hold fast to us. Whoever loves us will be with us in the highest station in the Hereafter; whoever turns away from us will have the Fire as his abode.”

🌷🔅 And Imam al-Askari, peace be upon him, said: بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ‏ أَقْرَبُ‏ إِلَى‏ اسْمِ‏ اللَّهِ الْأَعْظَمِ مِنْ سَوَادِ الْعَيْنِ إِلَى بَيَاضِهَا.[4]

“ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ” He is closer to the knowledge of God’s Greatest Name than the black of the eye is to its white.

🌻Through the Greatest Name of God, Allah, Blessed and Exalted, we should call upon Him as the Greatest, draw ever nearer to Him, and attain the highest degree of servanthood—not make God’s Greatest Name a means to worldly wishes.

🌻How often a person invokes God’s name while heedless of God.

🌻The greatest effect of the wilayah of the revered ones upon our being is that we take them as our models, guided by their exalted perspective. Our souls must shine with their light.

🌻Among the effects of God’s Greatest Name is the ability to understand the languages of all beings, as the Prophet Solomon, peace be upon him, did.

🌷🔅 وَ فِي حَدِيثِ الصَّادِقِ ع‏” أُعْطِيَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ مَعَ عِلْمِهِ مَعْرِفَةَ النُّطْقِ‏ بِكُلِّ لِسَانٍ، وَ مَعْرِفَةَ اللُّغَاتِ، وَ مَنْطِقَ‏ الطَّيْرِ، وَ الْبَهَائِمِ، وَ كَانَ إِذَا شَاهَدَ الْحُرُوبَ‏ تَكَلَّمَ بِالْفَارِسِيَّةِ، وَ إِذَا قَعَدَ لِعُمَّالِهِ وَ جُنُودِهِ وَ أَهْلِ مَمْلَكَتِهِ تَكَلَّمَ بِالرُّومِيَّةِ، وَ إِذَا خَلَا بِنِسَائِهِ تَكَلَّمَ بِالسُّرْيَانِيَّةِ وَ النَّبَطِيَّةِ، وَ إِذَا قَامَ فِي مِحْرَابِهِ لِمُنَاجَاةِ رَبِّهِ تَكَلَّمَ بِالْعَرَبِيَّةِ وَ إِذَا جَلَسَ لِلْوُفُودِ وَ الْخُصَمَاءِ تَكَلَّمَ بِالْعِبْرَانِيَّةِ”.[5]

🌷🔅 Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, said: In addition to the knowledge of Solomon, son of David, he was granted knowledge of speech in every language and tongue, and of the speech of birds, animals and beasts of prey. Whenever he went to the battlefield, he spoke Persian. When he held court to attend to the affairs of workers, soldiers and the people, he spoke Roman. When he was alone with his wives, he spoke Syriac and Nabataean. When he rose to pray in his sanctuary, he spoke Arabic; and when speaking with guests and enemies, he spoke Hebrew.

🌻God’s Greatest Name is a means of remembrance and mindfulness of God. Remembrance of God is the greatest provision for worship and servanthood. Not one of the beloved beings in this world is ever heedless of His remembrance, even for a moment. To preserve our remembrance of God is to preserve the life of servanthood. Let us not fall behind even creatures such as the ant in remembering God!

🌷🔅 سَمِعْتُ عَلِيَّ بْنَ مُوسَى الرِّضَا ع يَقُولُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ فَتَبَسَّمَ ضاحِكاً مِنْ قَوْلِها وَ قَالَ لَمَّا قَالَتِ النَّمْلَةُ يا أَيُّهَا النَّمْلُ ادْخُلُوا مَساكِنَكُمْ لا يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ سُلَيْمانُ وَ جُنُودُهُ وَ هُمْ لا يَشْعُرُونَ‏  حَمَلَتِ الرِّيحُ صَوْتَ النَّمْلَةِ إِلَى سُلَيْمَانَ ع وَ هُوَ مَارٌّ فِي الْهَوَاءِ وَ الرِّيحُ قَدْ حَمَلَتْهُ فَوَقَفَ وَ قَالَ عَلَيَّ بِالنَّمْلَةِ فَلَمَّا أُتِيَ بِهَا قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّمْلَةُ أَ مَا عَلِمْتِ أَنِّي نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ وَ أَنِّي لَا أَظْلِمُ أَحَداً قَالَتِ النَّمْلَةُ بَلَى قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ ع فَلِمَ حَذَّرْتِهِمْ ظُلْمِي‏ فَقُلْتِ‏ يا أَيُّهَا النَّمْلُ ادْخُلُوا مَساكِنَكُمْ‏ قَالَتِ النَّمْلَةُ خَشِيتُ أَنْ See [يَنْظُرُوا] إِلَى‏ زِينَتِكَ‏ فَيَفْتَتِنُوا بِهَا فَيَبْعُدُونَ عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى ثُمَّ قَالَتِ النَّمْلَةُ أَنْتَ أَكْبَرُ أَمْ أَبُوكَ دَاوُدُ قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ بَلْ أَبِي دَاوُدُ قَالَتِ النَّمْلَةُ فَلِمَ زِيدَ فِي حُرُوفِ اسْمِكَ حَرْفٌ عَلَى حُرُوفِ اسْمِ أَبِيكَ دَاوُدَ قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ مَا لِي بِهَذَا عِلْمٌ قَالَتِ النَّمْلَةُ لِأَنَّ أَبَاكَ دَاوُدَ ع دَاوَى جُرْحَهُ بِوُدٍّ فَسُمِّيَ دَاوُدَ وَ أَنْتَ يَا سُلَيْمَانُ أَرْجُو أَنْ تَلْحَقَ بِأَبِيكَ قَالَتِ النَّمْلَةُ هَلْ تَدْرِي لِمَ سُخِّرَتْ لَكَ الرِّيحُ مِنْ بَيْنِ سَائِرِ الْمَمْلَكَةِ قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ مَا لِي بِهَذَا عِلْمٌ قَالَتِ النَّمْلَةُ يَعْنِي عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِذَلِكَ لَوْ سَخَّرْتُ لَكَ جَمِيعَ الْمَمْلَكَةِ كَمَا سَخَّرْتُ لَكَ هَذِهِ الرِّيحَ لَكَانَ زَوَالُهَا مِنْ يَدِكَ كَزَوَالِ الرِّيحِ فَحِينَئِذٍ تَبَسَّمَ‏ ضاحِكاً مِنْ قَوْلِها[6]

🌷🔅Imam al-Rida (peace be upon him), narrating from his father and grandfather (peace be upon them), related the following about the words of God, the Mighty and Majestic, “He smiled at her words”:

When the ant said, “O ants! Go into your homes, lest Solomon and his armies crush you without even noticing,” the wind carried the ant’s voice to Solomon (peace be upon him), who was travelling through the air on the wind. Solomon said, “Bring that ant to me.” When it was brought before him, he said, “O ant, do you not know that I am a prophet of God and that I wrong no one?” The ant replied, “Yes, I know.” Solomon asked, “Then why did you warn the ants against being wronged by me, saying, ‘O ants! Go into your homes’?” The ant answered, “I feared they might catch sight of your adornments, fall into temptation and turn away from remembrance of God, the Exalted.”

Then the ant asked, “Who is greater—you or your father David (peace be upon him)?” Solomon replied, “My father David is greater.” The ant said, “Then why does your name have one more letter than your father David’s?” Solomon answered, “I do not know.” The ant said, “Because your father David (peace be upon him) healed his wound with affection, and was called David; but you, O Solomon, I hope will follow in your father’s footsteps.”

Then the ant asked, “Why, among all the creatures in your kingdom, has only the wind been placed at your command?” Solomon replied, “I do not know.” The ant said, “God, the Mighty and Majestic, intended by this that if everything in your kingdom were placed at your command like the wind, then losing it would be as easy as losing the wind”—which vanishes in an instant.

It was then that Solomon (peace be upon him) smiled at the ant’s words.

❓Perhaps a question may arise: Does Prophet Solomon (peace be upon him) not have authority over the ants?

🌱Apparently, Prophet Solomon (peace be upon him) does have authority over animals, especially ants!

But!

🌱Authority, too, has degrees!

🌱The scope of Solomon’s authority (peace be upon him) was limited to the bounds of the mission appointed for him by the Almighty Creator!

🌱Yet there is no doubt that within the sphere of his prophetic mission, Prophet Solomon’s authority prevailed over the creatures under his charge!

The fact that the ant knew things of which Solomon (peace be upon him) was unaware in no way diminishes his prophethood. Had it been necessary, God, Blessed and Exalted, would have informed him—just as the story of the hoopoe shows: it, too, had news of which Prophet Solomon was not aware!

🌷🔆Al-Naml: 22   فَمَكَثَ غَيْرَ بَعيدٍ فَقالَ أَحَطْتُ بِما لَمْ تُحِطْ بِهِ وَ جِئْتُكَ مِنْ سَبَإٍ بِنَبَإٍ يَقينٍ

🌿It was not long before (the hoopoe arrived and) said, “I have learned something you have not learned. I have brought you certain news from the land of Sheba!”

🌱In matters of knowledge, each creature possesses knowledge that may be unique to it. But in rank and degree of knowledge, the Messenger and proof of God in each age surpasses all creatures under his authority.

🌷🔆Yusuf: 76  … نَرْفَعُ دَرَجاتٍ مَنْ نَشاءُ وَ فَوْقَ كُلِّ ذي عِلْمٍ عَليمٌ

🌿… We raise in rank whomever We will; and above everyone endowed with knowledge is One who knows more!

🌷🔅 قَالَ الصَّادِقُ ع‏ صَاحِبُ النِّيَّةِ الصَّادِقَةِ صَاحِبُ الْقَلْبِ السَّلِيمِ لِأَنَّ سَلَامَةَ الْقَلْبِ مِنْ هَوَاجِسِ الْمَحْذُورَاتِ بِتَخْلِيصِ النِّيَّةِ لِلَّهِ تَعَالَى فِي الْأُمُورِ كُلِّهَا قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى‏ يَوْمَ لا يَنْفَعُ مالٌ وَ لا بَنُونَ. إِلَّا مَنْ أَتَى اللَّهَ بِقَلْبٍ‏ سَلِيمٍ‏ وَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص نِيَّةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ عَمَلِهِ وَ قَالَ ص إِنَّمَا الْأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّاتِ وَ لِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مَا نَوَى فَلَا بُدَّ لِلْعَبْدِ مِنْ خَالِصِ النِّيَّةِ فِي كُلِّ حَرَكَةٍ وَ سُكُونٍ لِأَنَّهُ إِذَا لَمْ يَكُنْ بِهَذَا الْمَعْنَى يَكُونُ غَافِلًا وَ الْغَافِلُونَ قَدْ ذَمَّهُمُ‏ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فَقَالَ‏ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا كَالْأَنْعامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا وَ قَالَ‏ أُولئِكَ هُمُ الْغافِلُونَ‏ ثُمَّ النِّيَّةُ تَبْدُو مِنَ الْقَلْبِ عَلَى قَدْرِ صَفَاءِ الْمَعْرِفَةِ وَ تَخْتَلِفُ عَلَى حَسَبِ اخْتِلَافِ الْإِيمَانِ فِي مَعْنَى قُوَّتِهِ وَ ضَعْفِهِ وَ صَاحِبُ النِّيَّةِ الْخَالِصَةِ نَفْسُهُ وَ هَوَاهُ مَعَهُ مَقْهُورَتَانِ تَحْتَ سُلْطَانِ تَعْظِيمِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَ الْحَيَاءِ مِنْهُ وَ هُوَ مِنْ طَبْعِهِ وَ شَهْوَتِهِ وَ مُنْيَةُ نَفْسِهِ مِنْهُ فِي تَعَبٍ وَ النَّاسُ مِنْهُ فِي رَاحَة[7]

🌷🔅 al-Baqarah: 74   ثُمَّ قَسَتْ قُلُوبُكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ ذلِكَ فَهِيَ كَالْحِجارَةِ أَوْ أَشَدُّ قَسْوَةً وَ إِنَّ مِنَ الْحِجارَةِ لَما يَتَفَجَّرُ مِنْهُ الْأَنْهارُ وَ إِنَّ مِنْها لَما يَشَّقَّقُ فَيَخْرُجُ مِنْهُ الْماءُ وَ إِنَّ مِنْها لَما يَهْبِطُ مِنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ وَ مَا اللَّهُ بِغافِلٍ عَمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ

🌷🔅 al-Anʿām: 43   فَلَوْ لا إِذْ جاءَهُمْ بَأْسُنا تَضَرَّعُوا وَ لكِنْ قَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَ زَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الشَّيْطانُ ما كانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

🌷🔅 قَالَ الْإِمَامُ ع‏ قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ: ثُمَّ قَسَتْ قُلُوبُكُمْ‏ —  وَ جَفَّتْ‏ وَ يَبِسَتْ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ وَ الرَّحْمَةِ [قُلُوبُكُمْ‏] مَعَاشِرَ الْيَهُودِ مِنْ بَعْدِ ذلِكَ‏ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا بَيَّنْتُ مِنَ الْآيَاتِ الْبَاهِرَاتِ فِي زَمَانِ مُوسَى ع، وَ مِنَ الْآيَاتِ الْمُعْجِزَاتِ- الَّتِي شَاهَدْتُمُوهَا مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ.

فَهِيَ كَالْحِجارَةِ الْيَابِسَةِ لَا تَرْشَحُ بِرُطُوبَةٍ، وَ لَا يَنْتَفِضُ‏ مِنْهَا مَا يُنْتَفَعُ بِهِ، أَيْ أَنَّكُمْ لَا حَقَّ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى تُؤَدُّونَ، وَ لَا [مِنْ‏] أَمْوَالِكُمْ وَ لَا مِنْ مَوَاشِيهَا تَتَصَدَّقُونَ، وَ لَا بِالْمَعْرُوفِ تَتَكَرَّمُونَ وَ تَجُودُونَ، وَ لَا الضَّيْفَ تُقْرُونَ، وَ لَا مَكْرُوباً تُغِيثُونَ، وَ لَا بِشَيْ‏ءٍ مِنَ الْإِنْسَانِيَّةِ تُعَاشِرُونَ وَ تُعَامِلُونَ.

أَوْ أَشَدُّ قَسْوَةً إِنَّمَا هِيَ فِي قَسَاوَةِ الْأَحْجَارِ أَوْ أَشَدُّ قَسْوَةً أَبْهَمَ عَلَى السَّامِعِينَ وَ لَمْ يُبَيِّنْ لَهُمْ، كَمَا يَقُولُ الْقَائِلُ: أَكَلْتُ خُبْزاً أَوْ لَحْماً، وَ هُوَ لَا يُرِيدُ بِهِ أَنِّي لَا أَدْرِي مَا أَكَلْتُ، بَلْ يُرِيدُ [بِهِ‏] أَنْ يُبْهِمَ عَلَى السَّامِعِ- حَتَّى لَا يَعْلَمَ مَا ذَا أَكَلَ، وَ إِنْ كَانَ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ قَدْ أَكَلَ.[8]

🌷🔅 al-Aʿrāf: 176   وَ لَوْ شِئْنا لَرَفَعْناهُ بِها وَ لكِنَّهُ أَخْلَدَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ اتَّبَعَ هَواهُ فَمَثَلُهُ كَمَثَلِ الْكَلْبِ إِنْ تَحْمِلْ عَلَيْهِ يَلْهَثْ أَوْ تَتْرُكْهُ يَلْهَثْ ذلِكَ مَثَلُ الْقَوْمِ الَّذينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآياتِنا فَاقْصُصِ الْقَصَصَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ

🌷🔅 al-Naml: 40   قالَ الَّذي عِنْدَهُ عِلْمٌ مِنَ الْكِتابِ أَنَا آتيكَ بِهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَرْتَدَّ إِلَيْكَ طَرْفُكَ فَلَمَّا رَآهُ مُسْتَقِرًّا عِنْدَهُ قالَ هذا مِنْ فَضْلِ رَبِّي لِيَبْلُوَني‏ أَ أَشْكُرُ أَمْ أَكْفُرُ وَ مَنْ شَكَرَ فَإِنَّما يَشْكُرُ لِنَفْسِهِ وَ مَنْ كَفَرَ فَإِنَّ رَبِّي غَنِيٌّ كَريمٌ

🌼 Ali Saʿi (Abdullah Meshkat), 110.141 (903)  🌼

[1] Tuḥaf al-ʿUqūl, text, p. 487  Ibn Shuʿbah Ḥarrānī, Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom, second edition, 1404/1363 AH.

[2]The Life of Imam al-Jawād and the Two Imams al-ʿAskarī (translation of volume 50 of Biḥār al-Anwār), p. 250

[3] Al-Kharāʾij wa-l-Jarāʾiḥ, vol. 2, p. 739  Quṭb al-Dīn Rāwandī, Imam Mahdi Institute, may God hasten his noble advent—Qom, first edition, 1409 AH.

[4] Tuḥaf al-ʿUqūl, text, p. 487  Ibn Shuʿbah Ḥarrānī, Society of Seminary Teachers—Qom, second edition, 1404/1363 AH.

[5] Majmaʿ al-Baḥrayn, vol. 5, p. 238  Ṭurayḥī, Murtaḍawī—Tehran, third edition, 1375 SH.

[6] ʿUyūn Akhbār al-Riḍā, vol. 2, p. 78  Ibn Bābawayh, Jahān Publications—Tehran, first edition, 1378 AH.

[7] Miṣbāḥ al-Sharīʿah, p. 53  Attributed to Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, al-Aʿlamī—Beirut, first edition, 1400 AH.

[8] The Commentary Attributed to Imam al-Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī, p. 283  Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, Imam Mahdi Seminary, may God hasten his noble advent—Iran, Qom, first edition, 1409 AH.