Diving into the Ocean of Love for Husayn

📆 Date: 1403,06,8 – 24 Muharram 1446
📌 Meshkat-e Noor session
📌 Weekly session on the commentary and interpretation of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (Supplication 20)
👤 Lecture by Master Ali Saei
🗒 Some points raised during the session:
🌼 Imam Husayn is an everlasting miracle of the Divine. This miracle will endure and continue to unfold.
🌼 The supreme sign of love and martyrdom
🌼 Imam Husayn called people toward God. When his supplication could no longer avail, he sacrificed his very life and gave his pure blood.
🌼 Even after his martyrdom, he has saved people from ignorance, heedlessness, and doubt.
🌼 Through Husayn, God bestows upon the world His merciful, compassionate, and generous grace; beyond these, He also has hidden blessings.
Who can attain God’s compassionate grace?
Who receives God’s hidden blessings, and who receives His blessings through trial?
🌼 What share do we have in this aspect of God?
🌼 Through Husayn’s life, God breathes life into souls. For Husayn’s sake, God looks with favour upon the world.
🌼 Everything about Husayn is a miracle: his soil, his mourning, his Arbaeen.
🌼 From grief for him, joy begins to stir within the human being.
🌼 One of the miracles of Husayn, peace be upon him, is the Arbaeen pilgrimage on foot.
🌼 I should have travelled this path with the intention of growing.
🌼 If I did not travel this path with the intention of growth, and now it is too late for me, I should remember that God’s hand is never too short. I should turn to God, who can make up for what I have missed, and say: بسم الله علی اوله و بسم الله علی آخره
🌼 The shrines of the Imams, peace be upon them, are appointed meeting places with God.
🌼 Arbaeen for Husayn, peace be upon him, is a response to the call of love for God. Did you set out intending to reach the love of God?
🌼 The Arbaeen pilgrimage on foot was a practice in loving God. Paradise is strewn with hardships. Lovers know neither heat nor cold; they set out and arrive.
🌼 The road to Paradise passes through Hell.
🌼 How can I open up the greater world within me so that it may reach the highest horizon? I must plunge into the depths of hardship. Unless I enter the sea’s mighty waves, this strength will not be released.
🌼 Had I set out with artistry, had I begun my journey with the life-giving force of noble character, that great storm of servitude to God would have been unleashed within me. The question is whether this power is released within me as coal or as nuclear energy!
🌼 To be released, one must plunge into the heart of hardship.
🌼 There are three kinds of patience: patience in affliction, patience in obedience, and patience in affliction.
🌼 To set the greater world in motion, we need power and fuel. Could there be any fuel more blessed than that of Husayn?
🌼 The lover dives in search of the beloved.
🌼 If I merely gazed at the sea, I would have lost. I must dive for its jewels.
🌼 If I reached Husayn’s ark but did not journey in it, I would have lost.
🌼 In this matter, reaching the destination is only the beginning; I should have travelled aboard Husayn’s ark.
🌼 When I reached the Lamp of Guidance, did I benefit from its guidance? Did I reach the station of the tranquil soul, and what did I gain from it?
🌼 I conquered Husayn’s summit, but returned with my eyes shut. I should have returned with Husayn, yet I came back without him.
🌼 Was this journey not a practice in loving God? Was it not a kind of trial and migration—a leaving behind of the whole world and its pleasures, and setting out toward God?
🌼 Arbaeen shows that the beloved has so completely filled the lover’s heart that the lover knows only how to move toward him.
🌼 A trial comes with hardship; the lover knows nothing sweeter than hardship.
🌼 Every movement is a heartbeat of love; servitude has no meaning without movement.
Movement without love is fruitless.
Knowledge and love are the two wings of complete movement.
🌼 Every beautiful melody signifies movement guided by knowledge and wisdom.
🌼 Every beauty and pleasure signifies movement that is wise and informed.
🌼 Had we travelled the Arbaeen path with understanding, the Imam of our time would have appeared and led the procession from the front.
🌼 The attraction of Husayn is not the end, but the beginning. God has granted us this treasure, without any part on our behalf, so that we may set it flowing.
🌼 When we resolve to visit the Imam, we must truly resolve to turn away from sin. If only our feet had not outpaced our hearts, and our hearts had led the way.
🌼 Husayn is like a book still being written, advancing toward the highest perfection. He is the interpreter of “He is the Beautiful,” “Every day He is engaged in a new task,” and “He is the Originator.” Yet I imagined that this year Husayn was the same as last year’s Husayn. We must know that he has gone far ahead.