Fasting: A Prophetic Grace

🌼🔆🌼The Opening of the Heart of God’s Wali🌼🔆🌼
🔹The Night of Decree

📅 Date: 1404/12/17 — 18 Ramadan 1447
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the topics discussed:

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “A Loving Passage Through Supplication 44 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya” • “The Mystery of Laylat al-Qadr” • “Fatima: The Embodiment of Laylat al-Qadr” • “The Mystery of the Opening of the Heart of God’s Proof” • “The Family of Divine Praise” and more. Summary with supplementary remarks, 1404.12.17 — Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141 (903) 🌹🔅

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❇️Fasting is a divine grace bestowed in the manner of the Messenger
🔸Let us recognise the worth and value of fasting in the blessed month of Ramadan.
🔸A prophetic splendour is meant to emerge from every believer!
🔸Fasting in the blessed month is a distinctive practice and training in servitude to God, preparing us for something supremely exalted and wondrous.
💫🔆 قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ‌ إِنَّ شَهْرَ رَمَضَانَ لَمْ‌ يَفْرِضِ‌ اللَّهُ‌ صِيَامَهُ‌ عَلَى‌ أَحَدٍ مِنَ‌ الْأُمَمِ‌ قَبْلَنَا فَقُلْتُ لَهُ فَقَوْلُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‌ يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ‌ الصِّيامُ كَما كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ‌ قَالَ إِنَّمَا فَرَضَ اللَّهُ صِيَامَ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ عَلَى الْأَنْبِيَاءِ دُونَ الْأُمَمِ فَفَضَّلَ بِهِ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةَ وَ جَعَلَ صِيَامَهُ فَرْضاً عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَلَى أُمَّتِهِ.
💫🔆 Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said: I heard Abu Abdillah (AS) say, “God had not made fasting in Ramadan obligatory for any of the nations before us.” The narrator says, “I asked him: What, then, is the meaning of God Almighty’s words, ‘O you who believe, fasting has been prescribed for you, just as it was prescribed for those before you’ (al-Baqara 2:183)?” The Imam replied, “God had made fasting in Ramadan obligatory only for the prophets, not for their communities. Then He granted this community distinction through this duty and made fasting obligatory for the Messenger of God (PBUH) and his community.”

❇️Ramadan is a month of human elevation
The blessed month of Ramadan is a month of purifying and disciplining the soul, of stripping it of its predatory and harmful traits and nurturing its goodness. It is a month for cultivating the soul’s heavenly nature.

❇️Welcoming the springtime of the Quran in the Quranic way
Reconciliation with the Quran is a sign of reconciliation with God—with worship and obedience, ethics and spirituality, truthfulness and integrity—and of remaining steadfast in them.
The Quran must always hold pride of place in our hearts and souls.

❇️When a wild horse is tamed
A wild horse, once tamed, becomes a useful instrument.
When the ego’s desires are tamed, a nuclear storm is unleashed—a mighty force held in check by the great reactor of a pure heart.
By disciplining and regulating the soul, a person rises from coal-like pleasures to diamond-like ones.
The blessed month of Ramadan is a month of humility: humbling the ego’s desires, taming the soul and bringing it to serenity.
It is a month for practising and training in sublime humility and reverence.

❇️Strengthen within yourself your capacity to grasp the month
Assessing our readiness to enter the blessed month is essential if we are to be present in its blessed heart.
We must learn the language and qualities of the blessed month.
Just as we mind our appearance and manners at gatherings hosted by people, we should make a glorious occasion of the Divine Banquet!

❇️The blessed month is a special journey in servitude to God
The blessed month is the soul’s journey to the beginning and the end of creation.
Ramadan is a month of elevation, refinement, renewal, rebirth, transformation, adornment and repair.
It is a month in which the constraints of time are broken, servitude is elevated, and the human journey of spiritual wayfaring and perfection is accelerated.

❇️The opening of the heart in the heart of Ramadan
The heart of the “man” is opened on Laylat al-Qadr! From its opening, worlds are created, and knowledge and wisdom pour forth!
Whenever God, the Cleaver, splits something open, He brings forth wonders!
The Originator of the heavens and the earth brings beauty, freshness and marvels to light from every seed He splits open!
When the Cleaver of the dawn splits open the morning, He releases its distinctive manifestations of life and breathes new life into the world.
He opens the Muhammadan Light, bringing forth the Alid and Fatimid Lights from within it. This opening gives rise to the arts and technologies of the Best of Creators.