notifications_active Weekly Meshkat-e Noor Session: Thursdays at 20:30 at Haj Reza Mosque
In light of what we discussed in previous sessions:
1. At the very beginning of creation, did creatures possess the highest degree of knowledge, servitude, and so on, or were there different levels?
2. Did they also stumble or grow slack at that stage?
3. Is the journey and effort now a matter of reaching that initial point—that degree of knowledge?
At the beginning of creation, creatures had the capacity to grow and were meant to move toward a higher station. Some fulfilled this potential, while others fell. Human beings, too, stumbled at this stage; after their fall in rank, they must begin their journey of spiritual growth.
At the beginning of creation, every being was endowed with a particular capacity that called it to progress and grow. Each was thus required to set out towards a higher station. Some creatures fulfilled this calling, while others declined and fell.
Yes, in that initial stage, some of God’s creatures stumbled—especially among human beings.
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Whoever has fallen from their station must begin their journey of development once they have reached the original point from which they began. In other words, reaching the Origin of Origins is only the moment they have arrived at the zero point of their development.