Concord in Affirming Divine Unity

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌹 “Strengthening Tawḥīd” “From the Realities of al-Jawād” “A Blessed Birth” “The Secret Behind the Tongues’ Unanimity in Tawḥīd” “The Melody of Tawḥīd” and more … An abstract with an addendum 1403.03.17 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅

🔅🌼 The Imam is the transcendent cause 🌼🔅

🌹The Imam is the means that brings efficacy to its highest degree, raising what is at a minimum to its maximum.

🌹The Imam is the father who lifts a child from the lowest point to the summit, all the while holding the child in his arms.

🌹He is a ladder and escalator that carries a person to the furthest reach of servitude to God.

🌹The Imam is that divine reality which brings human faculties into actuality. He is the essential infrastructure and the initiator of a process of divine growth and fruition.

🔅🌼 Jawād al-Taqī resembles Moses and Jesus 🌼🔅

🌷🔆عُيُونُ الْمُعْجِزَاتِ، عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ كَلِيمِ بْنِ عِمْرَانَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِلرِّضَا ع ادْعُ اللَّهَ أَنْ يَرْزُقَكَ وَلَداً فَقَالَ إِنَّمَا أُرْزَقُ وَلَداً وَاحِداً وَ هُوَ يَرِثُنِي فَلَمَّا وُلِدَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ الرِّضَا ع لِأَصْحَابِهِ قَدْ وُلِدَ لِي شَبِيهُ‏ مُوسَى‏ بْنِ عِمْرَانَ فَالِقِ الْبِحَارِ وَ شَبِيهُ عِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ قُدِّسَتْ أُمٌّ وَلَدَتْهُ قَدْ خُلِقَتْ طَاهِرَةً مُطَهَّرَةً ثُمَّ قَالَ الرِّضَا ع يُقْتَلُ غَصْباً فَيَبْكِي لَهُ وَ عَلَيْهِ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ وَ يَغْضَبُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَلَى عَدُوِّهِ وَ ظَالِمِهِ فَلَا يَلْبَثُ إِلَّا يَسِيراً حَتَّى يُعَجِّلَ اللَّهُ بِهِ إِلَى عَذَابِهِ الْأَلِيمِ وَ عِقَابِهِ الشَّدِيدِ وَ كَانَ طُولُ لَيْلَتِهِ يُنَاغِيهِ فِي مَهْدِهِ.[1]

🌷🔆At the time of the birth of Imam Riḍā’s son, Imam Riḍā, peace be upon him, said of Imam Jawād, peace be upon him: “A son has been born to me who is like Moses son of ʿImrān, who parts the seas, and like Jesus son of Mary, whose mother was pure. Truly, he was created pure and immaculate.”

Then Imam Riḍā, peace be upon him, said: “This son of mine will be killed unjustly and in anger. The inhabitants of heaven will weep for him, and God Most High will be angered with his unjust enemy. Before long, God will seize him with painful torment and severe punishment.”

🌹Imam Jawād, peace be upon him, resembles Moses son of ʿImrān, peace be upon him, in his intimate converse with God and his being God’s interlocutor; he bears a staff—the staff of piety, a miraculous staff that parts the seas, cleaves through lights, knowledge and wisdom, and opens hearts. He delivers people from the evil of Pharaohs, from the Pharaoh of the self to the Pharaoh of Iblīs and the human and jinn devils.

🌹He has a mother like Mary the Great and a father like Riḍā.

🌹Imam Jawād, peace be upon him, is the possessor of the Muḥammadan Mount; he is the possessor of miracles—miracle within miracle.

🔅🌼 The most blessed birth for the Shiʿa 🌼🔅

🌷🔆عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى الصَّنْعَانِيِّ قَالَ: كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا ع فَجِي‏ءَ بِابْنِهِ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع وَ هُوَ صَغِيرٌ فَقَالَ هَذَا الْمَوْلُودُ الَّذِي لَمْ يُولَدْ مَوْلُودٌ أَعْظَمُ‏ بَرَكَةً عَلَى شِيعَتِنَا مِنْهُ.[2]

🌷🔆Yaḥyā al-Ṣanʿānī relates: I was in the presence of Abū al-Ḥasan, Imam Riḍā, peace be upon him, when his son Abū Jaʿfar (Imam Jawād, peace be upon him) came in, still very young. The Imam then said: “This is a newborn more blessed than whom none has ever been born among our Shiʿa.”

🌹The heart of the Shiʿa is a treasury of blessings from Imam Jawād. With Imam Jawād, the Shiʿa continually grow and rise to higher spiritual heights. Imam Jawād is an inexhaustible blessing; with their Imam, the Shiʿa are blessed forever.

🔅🌼 The breath of Jawād infuses the pure soul 🌼🔅

🌹How deeply have we breathed in the spirit of Jawād? How fully have we lived by the life of Jawād?

🌹How truly do we follow our Imam Jawād? How familiar are our bodies and souls with Imam Jawād—with our tastes, our affections, our sense of beauty—

🌹How many profound experiences of servitude have we had with Imam al-Jawad (peace be upon him)?

🌹The Imam is the crane that lifts the burdens of the cosmos; with the Imam, the weight of the whole world can be moved. He draws in every attraction in existence, for the Imam is the Divine Attraction itself. How much of Imam al-Jawad’s attraction have we drawn into ourselves? How deeply have we been steeped in the Jawadi attraction?

🌹The champion of champions is the one who makes use of his abilities, strength, and intellect.

🌹Has our Jawadi strength been put to work? Has our Jawadi intellect been brought into action? Have our Abu Ja‘fari capacities come to fruition? How much have we become Jawadi?

🌹If we do not recognize the very essence of our Jawad, we will be blind to the Jawadi vision—to Jawadi sight and insight. Let us take stock of ourselves: of whether we possess Jawadi vision or lack it, and likewise of whether we possess a Jawadi heart or lack one.

🌹Have we drunk from the refreshing, life-giving waters of the Jawadi way? Have we bathed in the light of the Jawadi way? How well do we know its truth, and how far are we from it?

🌹The guardianship of Imam al-Jawad (peace be upon him) is established. Do we feel it?

🌹One of the worlds within a human being is the world of Jawad. Jawad himself transcends the world.

🔅🌼The unity of language in divine oneness 🌼🔅

🌹Let us soar through the celestial realm of the words of Imam al-Jawad (peace be upon him). His words possess a life-giving spirit: they are alive, dynamic, and guided.

🌷🔆 عَنْ أَبِي هَاشِمٍ الْجَعْفَرِيِّ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ الثَّانِيَ ع مَا مَعْنَى‏ الْوَاحِدِ فَقَالَ إِجْمَاعُ الْأَلْسُنِ عَلَيْهِ بِالْوَحْدَانِيَّةِ كَقَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى‏ وَ لَئِنْ سَأَلْتَهُمْ مَنْ خَلَقَهُمْ لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ‏.[3]

🌷🔆It is narrated from Abu Hashim al-Ja‘fari that he said: I asked Abu Ja‘far the Second, Imam al-Jawad (peace be upon him), “What does ‘One’ mean?” He replied: “The harmony of all tongues in affirming His oneness, just as God, the Exalted, has said: ‘If you ask them who created them, they will surely say, “God.”’

🌹God, the One, the Unique, the Self-Sufficient, has drawn the tongues of all beings into the unity of His oneness.

🌹Oneness requires no study; it need only manifest and come to light. Indeed, it need not even manifest: it is enough simply to keep it radiant.

🌹Darkness cannot be illuminated by darkness; darkness has no light of its own. It is impossible to reveal darkness with light, for darkness has no manifestation. To depict blackness with light is impossible; to establish polytheism is impossible. Knowledge is the clearest sign of divine oneness, and with knowledge, polytheism cannot be established. When all are immersed in the light of divine oneness, no room remains for polytheism.

🔅🌼The voice of divine oneness is a melody without end🌼🔅

🌹The utterance of the glorious name Allah, from its point of origin to the heart, and from there to the throat, the tongue, and its emergence into the world, follows a path from pre-eternity to eternity.

🌹As the voice of divine oneness proceeds from its original source through expression and manifestation, on its way into the earthly realm, its states change; it is rendered and revealed according to its place. The letters and the Word of God descend from the Highest Origin to the realm of material existence, from interpretation to revelation. Its revelation must accord with its interpretation, so that a single language of divine oneness may be formed.

🌹The accents and sounds of this world are but shadows of the voice of the Highest Origin.

🔅🌼The language of water is the language of life in divine oneness🌼🔅

🌹How does water utter the glorious name “Allah”?! And what beauty there is in the harmony of divine oneness shared by clouds, wind, mountains, plains, deserts, flowers, hyacinths, electrons, and protons!!!

🌹Let us join our voices with the particles of existence, and experience unity with complete sincerity.

🌹With every being in existence, let us sing the sweet melody of divine oneness in one voice.

🔅🌼Particles are cries of love and divine oneness🌼🔅

🌹Can we hear the particles of existence cry out in affirmation of divine oneness?!

🌹Through the language of unity, the language of love, the language of precedence, the single language, let us unite with the very soul of existence.

🌹The glorious name Allah, written in different scripts, evokes one and the same meaning. Every melody is a note of unity.

🔅🌼Throats are the painters of divine oneness🌼🔅

🌹Throats write calligraphy like skilled calligraphers; they give voice to the music and melody of existence.

🌹The One God has drawn all tongues into the language of innate nature through His oneness. The glorious name Allah is the seal of divine unity upon the souls of all creatures.

🌹All languages agree: they share a common understanding, speech and expression. They speak the same tongue, in one voice, united in their belief and vision of His oneness!

🔅🌼Associating partners with God is proof of the absence of reason🌼🔅

🌹To associate partners with God is to persist in ignorance out of obstinacy and denial. Denial arises after knowledge; it is like closing one’s eyes to the light, shutting out the innate awareness of divine oneness. To refuse reason is to cast reason out of the soul and shut the heart’s eye against the light of oneness.

🌹Associating partners with God is a deliberate affront to the sacred. Satan embraced unbelief knowingly. To fabricate polytheism is, in truth, to pretend that it exists.

To associate partners with God is to close off the openings: it is to deny the light in broad daylight. Polytheism is the beguiling and delusion of thoughts that have no reality outside the mind.

🔅🌼All are embraced by divine oneness🌼🔅

🌹If knowledge encompasses all things, there is no room for ignorance. In reality, ignorance is fabrication.

🌹All beings are held together by the mortar of divine oneness.

🌹Those who associate partners with God seek, by the light, to prove ignorance.

🔅🌼The language of divine oneness is the language of connectedness and wholeness🌼🔅

🌹To relate to all beings through the language of unity and divine oneness is the highest form of connection.

🌹The language of divine oneness is shared by all beings, a language with every letter and every accent.

🌹The bond of oneness among beings transcends every other connection, every delight and pleasure. It precedes beauty and pleasure; through this bond, beings become one with one another.

🔅🌼What if the one became equal to all!🌼🔅

🌹“All becoming one, and the one becoming all.”

🌹“The one is all, and all are the one; each is at once every other, and all are gathered together as one, each taking the place of every other. This mystery is revealed only through pure divine oneness.”

🔅🌼The oneness of love seeks the oneness of lovers🌼🔅

🌹To join the world of existence is to become one: to share one language, one speech, one understanding, one reason, one love. With the flower and all that is flower, with all that is not, let us unite in love with the One without equal. Let us become one, the sole lover of the One God.

🌹Let us become familiar with the syllables of the highest heavenly realm.

🌹Let us become the throat of the Supreme Origin.

🌹Let us become the throat of the world of existence.

🌹If we attain pure divine oneness—oneness in its purest form—we will become the very essence of every tongue, familiar with them all.

🌹Through pure divine oneness, we will become a flower with the flower, a star with the star, water with water, and the heavenly realm with the heavenly realm.

🌹A bond of divine oneness with the world of existence and all its phenomena means sharing in all its delights, pleasures, sensations, rational truths and knowledge.

🔅🌼Instilling and practising divine oneness🌼🔅

🌹Keep saying «الله»; keep this flame burning.

🌻🔆العنكبوت : 61   وَ لَئِنْ سَأَلْتَهُمْ مَنْ خَلَقَ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ وَ سَخَّرَ الشَّمْسَ وَ الْقَمَرَ لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ فَأَنَّى يُؤْفَكُونَ

🔆And if you ask them, “Who created the heavens and the earth and subjected the sun and the moon?” they will say, “Allah.” How, then, are they turned away from worshipping God?

🔅🌼Reason is the straight path to divine oneness🌼🔅

🌹Turning away from reason is straying from the path of divine unity.

🌻🔆Al-‘Ankabut: 63   وَ لَئِنْ سَأَلْتَهُمْ مَنْ نَزَّلَ مِنَ السَّماءِ ماءً فَأَحْيا بِهِ الْأَرْضَ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَوْتِها لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ قُلِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لا يَعْقِلُونَ

🔆If you ask them, “Who sent down water from the sky and brought the earth back to life after its death?” they will surely say, “اللَّه”! Say, “Praise belongs to God!” Yet most of them do not know.

🔅🌼 Ignorance is a calamity akin to polytheism 🌼🔅

🌹Knowledge is the light that illuminates the path of divine unity.

🌻🔆Luqman: 25   وَ لَئِنْ سَأَلْتَهُمْ مَنْ خَلَقَ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ قُلِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لا يَعْلَمُونَ

🔆If you ask them, “Who created the heavens and the earth?” they will surely say, “اللَّه.” Say, “الحمد للَّه (you admit it yourselves)!” Yet most of them do not know!

🔅🌼 Why turn to anyone but God when you have God? 🌼🔅

🌻🔆Al-Zumar: 38   وَ لَئِنْ سَأَلْتَهُمْ مَنْ خَلَقَ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ قُلْ أَ فَرَأَيْتُمْ ما تَدْعُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ إِنْ أَرادَنِيَ اللَّهُ بِضُرٍّ هَلْ هُنَّ كاشِفاتُ ضُرِّهِ أَوْ أَرادَني‏ بِرَحْمَةٍ هَلْ هُنَّ مُمْسِكاتُ رَحْمَتِهِ قُلْ حَسْبِيَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ يَتَوَكَّلُ الْمُتَوَكِّلُونَ

🔆If you ask them, “Who created the heavens and the earth?” they will surely say, “God.” Say, “Have you considered those you call upon besides God? If God wills harm for me, can they avert His harm? Or if He wills mercy for me, can they hold back His mercy?” Say, “God is sufficient for me; those who trust put their trust in Him alone!”

🔅🌼 Call upon God’s name, and let God sweep you up in the storm of His oneness 🌼🔅

🌻🔆Al-Zukhruf: 9   وَ لَئِنْ سَأَلْتَهُمْ مَنْ خَلَقَ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ لَيَقُولُنَّ خَلَقَهُنَّ الْعَزيزُ الْعَليمُ

🔆If you ask them, “Who created the heavens and the earth?” they will surely say, “The Almighty, the All-Knowing created them

🔅🌼 O God, keep me for Yourself 🌼🔅

🌻🔆Al-Zukhruf: 87   وَ لَئِنْ سَأَلْتَهُمْ مَنْ خَلَقَهُمْ لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ فَأَنَّى يُؤْفَكُونَ

🔆If you ask them who created them, they will surely say, “God.” How, then, do they turn away from worshipping Him?  

🔅🌼 The Creator fashioned us according to His oneness 🌼🔅

🌷🔆عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ)، قَالَ: سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ: حُنَفاءَ لِلَّهِ غَيْرَ مُشْرِكِينَ بِهِ‏، قَالَ: «الْحَنِيفِيَّةُ مِنَ الْفِطْرَةِ الَّتِي فَطَرَ اللَّهُ النَّاسَ عَلَيْهَا، لَا تَبْدِيلَ لِخَلْقِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: فَطَرَهُمْ عَلَى الْمَعْرِفَةِ بِهِ».[4]

Imam al-Baqir (peace be upon him)—Zurarah relates: I asked Imam al-Baqir (peace be upon him) about these words of God, Mighty and Majestic: “Turn to God.” He replied, “Hanifiyyah is part of the primordial nature upon which God created humankind. God’s creation cannot be altered. He created them with an innate knowledge of Him.”

🔅🌼 Knowledge is inscribed in the very soul of every being 🌼🔅

🌷🔆قَالَ زُرَارَةُ: وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ: وَ إِذْ أَخَذَ رَبُّكَ مِنْ بَنِي آدَمَ مِنْ ظُهُورِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ وَ أَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلى‏ أَنْفُسِهِمْ أَ لَسْتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ قالُوا بَلى‏ الْآيَةَ، قَالَ: «أَخْرَجَ مِنْ ظَهْرِ آدَمَ ذُرِّيَّتَهُ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَخَرَجُوا كَالذَّرِّ، فَعَرَّفَهُمْ وَ أَرَاهُمْ نَفْسَهُ، وَ لَوْ لَا ذَلِكَ لَمْ يَعْرِفْ أَحَدٌ رَبَّهُ».

Concerning the words of God, Mighty and Majestic: «وَإِذْ أَخَذَ رَبُّكَ مِن بَنِي آدَمَ مِن ظُهُورِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ وَأَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ أَلَسْتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ ۖ قَالُوا بَلَىٰ» — I asked him about this, and he said: “He brought forth from his [Adam’s] back the offspring of Adam (peace be upon him) until the Day of Resurrection, and they were like specks. Then He made Himself known to them and showed them who He is; and were it not for this, no one would know his Lord.

🔅🌼 The seal of divine oneness is engraved upon the souls of all creatures.🌼🔅

🌷🔆«قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ (صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ): كُلُّ مَوْلُودٍ يُولَدُ عَلَى الْفِطْرَةِ، يَعْنِي الْمَعْرِفَةَ بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ خَالِقُهُ، كَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى: وَ لَئِنْ سَأَلْتَهُمْ مَنْ خَلَقَ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ‏». His saying, exalted be He: اللَّهُ يَتَوَفَّى الْأَنْفُسَ حِينَ مَوْتِها[5]

The Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family) has said: every newborn is created upon the pure primordial nature — that is, upon the knowledge that God, Mighty and Majestic, is his Creator. And this saying of God likewise points to this very meaning: «وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُم مَّنْ خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ».

🌼 Ali Sa’i (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)🌼

[1] Bihar al-Anwar (Beirut edition); vol. 50, p. 15  Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi, Dar Ihya’ al-Turath al-Arabi — Beirut, second edition, 1403 AH.

[2] Al-Kafi (Islamic edition); vol. 1, p. 321  Kulayni, Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya — Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[3] Al-Kafi (Islamic edition); vol. 1, p. 118  Kulayni, Muhammad ibn Ya’qub ibn Ishaq, Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya — Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[4] Al-Burhan fi Tafsir al-Qur’an    vol. 4    712 Bahrani, Hashim ibn Sulayman, Mu’assasat al-Bi’tha, Department of Islamic Studies — Iran — Qom, 1st edition, 1415 AH.

[5] Al-Burhan fi Tafsir al-Qur’an    vol. 4    712 Bahrani, Hashim ibn Sulayman, Mu’assasat al-Bi’tha, Department of Islamic Studies — Iran — Qom, 1st edition, 1415 AH.