Fatima: A Rainfall of Divine Oneness

🌸🔆🌿🌼   “The Queen of Martyrdom”  “The Tree of Beauty”🌼 🌿🔆🌸

🔅🌹 An abridged account, with an addendum: “The Cradle of the Highest Heavenly Realm”; “The Beauty of the Mahdi in Fatima’s Words”; “The Night of Fatima al-Zahra’s Martyrdom”; “The Fadak Sermon Is a Sermon on Divine Unity”; “The Life-Giving Breath of Divine Unity,” and more…       1402.09.25    Ali Saei (Abdollah Meshkat) 110.141 (903)  🌹🔅

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌼Sovereign of Martyrdom 🌼🔅

🌷Fatima is the queen of martyrdom; she reigns over martyrdom; she is its teacher and mentor; she opens its way and guides those who tread its path. Fatima is the furnace of martyrdom, the eternal exemplar for all who yearn for it, the one who strengthens and nurtures it, who plants it and makes it take root.

🌷Fatima expanded the realm of martyrdom, extending its reach across the earth. The world-illuminating lamp of Zahra’s martyrdom will shine for all eternity; its flame can never be extinguished. Zahra gives martyrdom warmth and makes it flourish. The Lady of the heavens is its fervor, its ardor and its tumult; with Zahra, martyrdom draws breath.

🌷Zahra made martyrdom take deep root.

🌷Zahra makes the marketplace of devotion thrive.

🌷Fatima’s martyrdom is the martyrdom of the Ocean of Prophethood, of the Night of Decree, of purity and sanctity. The effects of Zahra’s martyrdom extend across earth and heaven.

🔅🌼Fatima is the tree of beauty 🌼🔅

🌷Fatima is the foundation of affection, the bedrock of love, the cornerstone of sanctity and the mighty pillar of beauty.

🌷Fatima is one of the pillars of divine majesty and greatness, of divine grandeur and beauty.

🌷Fatima is the great thoroughfare of existence; she is the life of the city of Muhammad and the spirit of the Muhammadan world, the loveliest quarter and lane of the City of the Prophet.

🌷Fatima is the rose garden of existence, and the spirit and very heart of beauty. Fatima is a haven of love, a treasure of tenderness, a cavern of joy, a world of delight, peace and eternal repose.

🌷Fatima is the everlasting exemplar of God’s saints;

🌷“Ali” is the sovereign of space, Fatima the queen of time, and Muhammad the mystery that joins time and space. Neither time can be separated from space nor space from time. He is the supreme mystery, the isthmus between time and space.

🌷To know Fatima and, through her, attain higher knowledge is the work of the world’s sages.

🌷To know Fatima is to know the heavens of the celestial realm! Fatima is the Exalted Word of God.

🌷If we come to know the Spirit of Time, understanding the body of time will be easy.

🔅🌼The Divine Light-Bearer is the standard of Merciful knowledge 🌼🔅

🌷Fatima is a light from the heavens, bestowed by the All-Merciful. Light is God’s messenger, the bearer of knowledge, wisdom, grace, mercy and divine blessings. If God casts Zahra’s light into our hearts, our whole being will be filled with knowledge and illumination.

🌷Only a pure heart will be granted the ability to comprehend Zahra’s light!

🌻🔆الواقعة : 79   لا يَمَسُّهُ إِلاَّ الْمُطَهَّرُونَ

🔆🌹الْعِلْمُ‏ نُورٌ يَقْذِفُهُ اللَّهُ فِي قَلْبِ مَنْ يَشَاء[1]

🌹Knowledge is light, and God casts it into the heart of whomever He wills.

🔆🌹عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: لَمَّا وُلِدَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع أَوْحَى اللَّهُ إِلَى مَلَكٍ فَأَنْطَقَ بِهِ لِسَانَ مُحَمَّدٍ ص فَسَمَّاهَا فَاطِمَةَ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنِّي فَطَمْتُكِ‏ بِالْعِلْمِ‏ وَ فَطَمْتُكِ مِنَ الطَّمْثِ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع وَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ فَطَمَهَا اللَّهُ بِالْعِلْمِ وَ عَنِ الطَّمْثِ فِي الْمِيثَاقِ.[2]

🌹Imam al-Baqir عليه السّلام: When the Prophet’s daughter was born, God, Mighty and Majestic, revealed to one of the angels that he should place the word “Fatima” on the Prophet’s tongue. Thus the Messenger of God named his daughter Fatima and said to her: “I have taken you in through knowledge, and severed you from impurity.”

Then Imam al-Baqir said: “By God, the Exalted took Fatima from the realm of knowledge on the Day of the Covenant and kept her free from impurity.”

🌷Fatima was nurtured on divine knowledge.

🌷Whoever knows the Light will also know what is inscribed in its very soul.

🔅🌼Fatima is the cradle of all existence🌼🔅

🔆🌹عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع أَنَّهُ قَالَ: إِنَّا أَنْزَلْناهُ فِي لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ اللَّيْلَةُ فَاطِمَةُ وَ الْقَدْرُ اللَّهُ فَمَنْ عَرَفَ فَاطِمَةَ حَقَّ مَعْرِفَتِهَا فَقَدْ أَدْرَكَ لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ وَ إِنَّمَا سُمِّيَتْ فَاطِمَةَ لِأَنَّ الْخَلْقَ فُطِمُوا عَنْ مَعْرِفَتِهَا.[3]

🌹“Indeed, We sent it down on the Night of Decree.” The “Night” refers to Fatima, and “Decree” refers to God. Whoever knows Fatima as she ought to be known has truly experienced the Night of Decree. Fatima was given this name because creation has been cut off from attaining true knowledge of her.

🌷Fatima is the Divine Night; through Fatima, God, the Mighty and Majestic, brings repose to the world of creation.

🔅🌼Prophethood floats upon the ocean of Zahra🌼🔅

🌷“Ali” is the ocean of knowledge, “Fatima” the ocean of prophethood, and “Muhammad” the isthmus between these two mighty oceans.

🌷The ocean of prophethood is the ocean of all the prophets and their heavenly scriptures.

🌷The ocean is the center of mysteries and the treasury of the jewels belonging to the Self-Sufficient, the Praiseworthy.

🌷What we receive of Fatima is only a spectral image, only a hologram.

🌷Fatima is a vision of the highest heavenly realm.

🔅🌼Fadak is Fatima’s Qur’an and the Prophet’s Household🌼🔅

🌷The true Fadak is the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Household. The Saqifa faction usurped authority and the Imamate; the faith and beliefs of the Muslim community were being plundered, and Zahra rose up through her words and speech, making her martyrdom the guarantee of her struggle to save the community. Zahra stood against Satan and ignorance.

🔅🌼The Lady of Divine Unity teaches the oneness of God🌼🔅

🌷In the truest sense, Fatima is the Lady of Divine Unity, for neither idolatry nor impurity dares to cross into her precincts or streets.

🌷The words of the Lady of Divine Unity breathe the spirit of divine unity into the souls of those who hear her.

🔆🌹فُطِمَتْ‏ مِنَ‏ الشَّر[4]

🌷Fatima was named Fatima because she was set apart from evil.

🔆🌹فَاطِمَةُ فُطِمَتْ‏ مِنَ‏ الشِّرْكِ وَ فُطِمَ مَنْ أَحَبَّهَا مِنَ النَّارِ.[5]

🌹Fatima was set apart from idolatry, and she will deliver those who love her from the Fire.

🌷Idolatry has no connection with Fatima; her blessed soul is pure divine unity.

🌷We ought to call the Fadak sermon the Sermon of Divine Unity. It is the thunderous cry and lightning of divine unity, and a destroyer of evil and idolatry. 🌷The Sermon of Divine Unity (the Fadak sermon) is a defense of God’s commands and a forceful denunciation of the distortion of divine religion. It defends divine unity, prophethood, the Imamate, truth and integrity.

🌷In the Sermon of Divine Unity (the Fadak sermon), Fatima Zahra leaves symbolic inscriptions. In this sermon, Fatima poses riddles; whoever solves them will discover Zahra’s hidden treasures. This sermon unveils the primordial human nature.

🌷Whoever frequents the precincts of Zahra’s words, authority and love will be imbued with her fragrance. This blessing will serve as a sign by which the Mahdi, peace be upon him, will recognize his companions by their heavenly scent.

🌷The whole expanse of our being, our greater world, needs to be replenished. Our being must be filled like a storehouse, gathering strength and storing energy. Our being needs Zahra’s food and drink. We need a bath of light and knowledge; Zahra is a lofty source for this noble purpose.

🔅🌼Fatima is the life-giving breath of divine unity🌼🔅

🌷The Shi‘a are the leaves of the blessed Muhammadan tree. Its leaves are so firmly joined and bound to it that separating them from the tree is impossible. Whatever the roots of this mighty tree draw from « قاب قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنى‏» is conveyed to every part of it, including its leaves. The Shi‘a must therefore be mindful of their exalted station and keep themselves in a state of complete and continual receptivity.

🌷The Sermon of Divine Unity (Fadakiyya) was Fatima’s words placed in the ears of the Shi‘a, like a mother who fills her child’s ears and heart with the call to prayer and the iqama. Fatima filled the bodies and souls of her Shi‘a with divine unity. And the secret of Fatima, the All-Knowing, has filled the ears of history with divine unity and the Two Weighty Things.

🌷The Sermon of Divine Unity (Fadakiyya), together with the testimony borne, was a guarantee of the faith’s eternal and everlasting survival.

🔆🌹قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ يَا عَلِيُّ خُلِقَ النَّاسُ مِنْ شَجَرٍ شَتَّى وَ خُلِقْتُ أَنَا وَ أَنْتَ مِنْ شَجَرَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ أَنَا أَصْلُهَا وَ أَنْتَ فَرْعُهَا وَ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ أَغْصَانُهَا وَ شِيعَتُنَا أَوْرَاقُهَا فَمَنْ تَعَلَّقَ بِغُصْنٍ مِنْ أَغْصَانِهَا أَدْخَلَهُ اللَّهُ الْجَنَّةَ.[6]

🌹The Messenger of God (PBUH) said: «يا على مردم از درخت‌هاى متعدده خلق شده‏اند و من و تو از يك درخت آفريده‏شده‏ايم من اصل آن درختم و تو فرع و ساق آن و حسن و حسين شاخه‏هاى آن درخت و شيعيان ما برگهاى آن مي‌باشند پس كسى كه بشاخه‌ای از شاخه‏هاى آن درخت آويزد خدا او را داخل بهشت كند.»

🔅🌼The Image of “the Mahdi of Fatima” in Fatima’s Words 🌼🔅

🔆🌹كَلِمَةٌ جُعِلَ الْإِخْلَاصُ تَأْوِيلَهَا، وَ ضُمِّنَ الْقُلُوبُ مَوْصُولَهَا، وَ أَنَارَ فِي الْفِكْرَةِ مَعْقُولُهَا،

🌷The relationship between divine unity and the word of divine unity is that between the destination and the path. The word of divine unity is the supreme sign of divine unity: a complete guide to attaining the purity of servitude to God.

🌷The word of divine unity has manifestations in the self, the heart and the intellect.

🌷The word of divine unity has a spirit, a heart and a core.

🌷In its fullest sense, the word of divine unity in our time is the sacred being of the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him. The spirit, heart and core of the word of divine unity are gathered in his being.

🌷The word of divine unity is a path toward the highest horizon of divine unity, where one may meet the Unique, the One and the Only.

🌷In essence, the esoteric interpretation of the word of divine unity, in relation to the very life of creation, leads back to the sacred being of the Seal of the Prophets, may God’s blessings be upon him and his family. Its connected referent leads back to the sacred being of our master Ali ibn Abi Talib, the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him; and its intelligible referent leads back to the Imam of every age and time. This intelligible reality lives through its connected referent and its esoteric interpretation.

🌷The intelligible referent, connected referent and esoteric interpretation of the word of divine unity are inseparably bound together: they are one word, manifested in three ways.

🌷The word of divine unity has both an outward and an inward manifestation. Its embodied form and its sun are the sacred being of the Imam of the Age. Its likeness and image are perpetually present in the human soul, heart and innate nature. In a person’s inner being and soul, the word of divine unity is an innate sign pointing toward its embodied form. Through allegiance to the embodiment of divine unity, a person is granted success in attaining the essence of divine unity and becomes truly devoted to God’s oneness.

🌷With these three passages, Fatima has portrayed the beauty of the Mahdi for this age.

🌷Our Imam of the Age is a beacon of divine unity. In the truest sense, he is the servant of the One and the servant of the Unique.

🌷The word of divine unity has a niche, a lamp and a glass, corresponding respectively to its “esoteric interpretation, connected referent and intelligible referent.”

🌷These three passages on divine unity are three paths to meeting God.

🔅🌼Fatima in Fatima’s Mirror 🌼🔅

🔆🌹عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ‏ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى أَمْهَرَ فَاطِمَةَ ع رُبُعَ الدُّنْيَا فَرُبُعُهَا لَهَا وَ أَمْهَرَهَا الْجَنَّةَ وَ النَّارَ تُدْخِلُ أَعْدَاءَهَا النَّارَ وَ تُدْخِلُ أَوْلِيَاءَهَا الْجَنَّةَ وَ هِيَ الصِّدِّيقَةُ الْكُبْرَى وَ عَلَى مَعْرِفَتِهَا دَارَتِ‏ الْقُرُونُ‏ الْأُولَى‏[7]

🌹Imam al-Sadiq عليه السّلام: God, Blessed and Exalted, indeed made Fāṭima’s dowry a quarter of the world, so that a quarter of the world belongs to her. He made Paradise and Hell her dowry: her enemies will enter Hell and its Fire, while her friends will enter Paradise. She is al-Ṣiddīqa al-Kubrā, and the first generations were shaped around knowing her.

🌷Yes, the whole cosmos revolves around knowing Zahra. To know Fāṭima is to know God in the fullest way possible. Whoever knows himself knows his Lord; and if one knows Fāṭima, one will unleash a storm in the realm of knowing God.

🌷 Fāṭima’s horizon of majesty and perfection is the highest address for knowing God. Her blessed soul is the vantage point from which God’s names and attributes may be seen.

One must see and know Fāṭima with the vision of the eye of God.

🔅🌼The geography of “Fāṭima’s Fadak” is the whole cosmos, in all its dimensions of divine mercy. 🌼🔅

🌷Fāṭima’s Fadak is not a garden in Medina. The whole cosmos, the guardianship of ʿAlī and the Messenger’s mission—all are Fāṭima’s Fadak. Fāṭima is the truth of Fadak; the Fadak sermon is a sermon of truth.

🌷When a newborn is given a taste of something sweet, the parents beseech God to grant their child the servitude of God.

🌷The newborn’s ears are greeted with the call to prayer and the call to commence prayer. Though the child’s hearing and awareness may not yet seem familiar with them, the newborn’s primordial nature has long known the truth of divine unity; this first taste awakens that innate nature.

🌷In that distant corner of history, Fāṭima al-Zahrā س prompted history’s ear with the message of divine unity. She made a valiant defence of servitude to God. The sermon of divine unity (the Fadak sermon) defends all the heavenly books, all the prophets, and the principles of guardianship and prophetic mission.

🌷The sermon of divine unity (the Fadak sermon) is a wing for soaring toward the One, the Unique, the Singular, the Eternal Refuge. It is the rooftop of heaven and the path to the encounter with God.

🔅🌼The subtle graces of Fāṭimiyya are gifts of divine grace. 🌼🔅

🌷At the source of the soul, we shall see none but God.

🌷Thought is the interpreter of reason.

🌷Let us cast the ego and Satan to the ground, so that we may be guests of Zahra’s lights and words س.

🌷Fāṭima’s sermon reveals the truth and is the testing ground for the Shiʿa.

🌷On the day of the Manifestation, Fāṭima’s Mahdi will seek those who are familiar with him, and Zahra’s seal will be the highest mark of such familiarity. Her seal س is the criterion for confirming the Mahdi’s companions and supporters.

🌷Even if we lack the capacity to understand the Fāṭimiyya sermon, its miraculous words are still a remedy and a cure. Let us sit respectfully at Zahra’s sermon. Let us learn the language of Fāṭima and take on the colour and fragrance of Zahra.

🌷Let us be mindful of our connection to the spirit of guardianship and prophetic mission. The Shiʿa must bring forth the fruits of being nourished by the blessed prophetic tree.

🌷Fāṭima’s storm was a pledge of salvation for the Muslim community, and through her martyrdom she secured it many times over.

🌷Fāṭima is the Night of Decree, reaching toward the heavenly horizons. ʿAlī and Fāṭima are two surging seas, moved by divine love.

🌷Every feature of Fāṭima is the supreme manifestation of the innermost secret.

🌷Fāṭima is the “Great Veil of God,” and the most beautiful divine manifestation in the cosmos. The All-Knowing, All-Wise Creator has drawn this beautiful veil over His own beauty, so that those who love His sanctuary may find the way to His love.

🌷Fāṭima’s light and words work miracles.

🌼 ʿAlī Sāʿī (ʿAbdullāh Mishkāt) 110.141(903) 🌼

[1] Miṣbāḥ al-Sharīʿa, p. 16 Attributed to Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad عليه السلام, Aʿlamī, Beirut, first edition, 1400 AH.

[2] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 1, p. 460 al-Kulaynī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq, Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[3] Biḥār al-Anwār (Beirut edition), vol. 43, p. 65 al-Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, Beirut, second edition, 1403 AH.

[4] Al-Amali (by al-Saduq); text; p. 592  Ibn Babawayh, Muhammad ibn Ali, Ketabchi Publishing House—Tehran, 6th ed., 1376 Shamsi.

[5] Al-‘Idad al-Qawiyyah li-Daf‘ al-Makhawif al-Yawmiyyah; p. 226  Hilli, Razi al-Din Ali ibn Yusuf ibn al-Mutahhar (brother of Allama Hilli), Ayatollah Marashi Najafi Library—Qom, 1st ed., 1408 AH.

[6] ‘Uyun Akhbar al-Rida (peace be upon him); vol. 2; p. 73  Ibn Babawayh, Muhammad ibn Ali, Jahan Publishing—Tehran, 1st ed., 1378 AH.

[7]Al-Amali (by al-Tusi), text, p. 668