Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼🔆🌼 Fatima’s Weapon 🌼🔆🌼
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “Celestial Breathing” “The Nature of the Divine Will” “Fatima Is God’s Praise” “The Fatimid Weapon: The Secret to Overcoming the Antichrist” “The Night of Fatima al-Zahra’s Birth, peace be upon her” and more … Abstract with Supplement 1403.10.02 Ali Saei (Abdollah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🔅🌼 My God, I am at a loss for words to describe Your Fatima 🌼🔅
🌹Fatima, the sweet fragrance of worship and devotion to God
🌹Fatima, the red rose of divine unity
🌹Fatima, queen of knowledge, wisdom and virtue
🌹Fatima, mother of the sun and moon, of night and day
🌹Fatima, mistress of honey, lady of salt, sweetness and grace of earth and heaven
🌹Fatima, mother of lofty aspirations, the loving and compassionate lady of creation
🌹Fatima, the very taste of creation
🌹Fatima, eternity’s smile
🌹Fatima, the Surah of Abundance
🌹Fatima, the supreme sign of God among the faithful and the pure
🌹Fatima, the glad tidings of the One, All-Powerful God
🔅🌼Beginning to describe Fatima 🌼🔅
🌹Which of Fatima’s stations and virtues should we speak of?!
🌹Her exalted Fatimid station, the station from which she takes flight, the station of her healing and remedy, or her victorious, piercing station
🌹Or Fatima’s radiant station, her earthly and heavenly brilliance, her light in the visible and celestial realms
🌹Or her heroism and singularity
🌹Or her station as a proof of God
🌹Or her purity, and her precedence in purity and cleanliness
🌹Or her station as the Night of Decree
🌹Or her station as the Mother of her father
🌹Or her station as the ocean of prophethood, and as the meeting place of the two seas
🔅🌼 Deprived of the Fatimid art 🌼🔅
🌹When will we draw upon Fatima, this immense divine art?!
🌹A creation beyond time, fashioned by the Eternal Creator, who is without beginning or end, greater than eternity itself
🔅🌼 The Antichrist at the gallows of maternal integrity 🌼🔅
🌹Becoming Fatimid is the key to salvation from the Antichrist’s trials, especially in the end times.
🌹The Antichrist’s sorcery works without smoke: it turns things to ashes without giving off a wisp.
🌹The Fatimids, and “Where are the Fatimids?”, will outshine beauty; Fatima is beauty’s queen, its unrivalled treasure-house.
🌹Virtual and real Antichrists kill a mother’s love; they kill the maternal instinct and extinguish a woman’s sense of herself as a woman. They destroy the sanctity of family honour, and obliterate dignity, modesty and chastity.
🌹When is the time to make use of the Fatimid weapon?! Let us not neglect this mighty divine weapon!
🌹The spread of satanic imitation in the end times, driven by a false need to be seen: ignorant showmanship—not ostentation in worship, but flaunting “sins, ugliness, bad manners and violations of what is sacred,” taking pride in them, and seeking fame through shamelessness.
🌹Blind, dark heedlessness of the hacking (breaching and infiltration) of hearts and minds; heedlessness of what lies ahead is the same as a black and ominous death.
🌹Beware of Satan’s infiltration of your hearts and minds. Do not invite Satan into your hearts and souls.
🌹Do not let the devils crack your code; do not make yourselves accessible to them.
🔅🌼Captivity of the outward and the inward 🌼🔅
🌹Let us seek refuge in the divine fortress. Fatima is the mighty stronghold of God: a fortress of chastity, modesty, purity, honour, perfection, and beauty.
🌹The inner and outer realms are in the hands of the enemy. The devils’ virtual world and Dajjal-like spaces are more intimate than a person’s own private spaces. This is what the theft of honour and modesty looks like.
🌹Devils have found their way into everyone’s inner and outer worlds.
🌹Virtual veiling is even more necessary than veiling in the physical world.
🌹The virtual world is designed to lull virtual minds into complacency.
🔅🌼Breathing the Celestial🌼🔅
🌹A breath of Fatimian life is essential to revive the blessed life within the souls of women and men throughout the world.
🌹Let us nurture within ourselves the desire to become Fatimian; let us beseech God to make us like Fatima.
🌹«ادعونی استجب لکم» Let us ask to become Fatimian—to become Fatima herself, to be with her and become one with her. We need not fear that this will diminish Fatima in any way.
🔅🌼The Portrait of the Queen of Women🌼🔅
🌹The Lady of Muslim women, believing women, pure women, righteous women, learned women, and wise women; queen of women, crowned among women, the pride of women; the lady of mystery and secrets, hidden, concealed, and unknown.
🌹All the aspirations we hold in our hearts, God, the All-Knowing and All-Wise, has gathered in this magnificent Fatimian creation. So let us yearn for it.
🔅🌼The Fatimian Experience🌼🔅
🌹With Fatima, reason, seek understanding, perceive, comprehend, and reflect.
🌹If beauty has a veil or an image, it should be traced upon the face; but Fatima is its spirit and reality. Let us hasten toward Fatima, for in doing so we hasten toward all that is.
🌹Experience life with Fatima. To be Fatimian surpasses every kind of experience.
🌹The experience of transcendent love and subtle raptures—through which we reach the creativity and innovation of servanthood, enter its hidden depths, and attain the great reality of devotion—is possible only through the mighty system of the Ahl al-Bayt.
🌹With this heart, let us put life to the test. With this eye, let us measure our vision. Let listening bring us news.
🌹A leaf connected to the whole tree draws upon the whole tree and all its blessings.
🌹Everyone is connected in this way to the whole world, and to the Two Weighty Things. If severed, they wither.
🌹Those who separate themselves from the Two Weighty Things are dry and withered, deprived of the great bounty of the Quran and the Ahl al-Bayt. Why?
🔅🌼The Greatest Feast, the Greatest Share: The Two Weighty Things🌼🔅
🌹What are reflection and reason? Without the heart, understanding is impossible.
🌹The joy of servanthood, and its greatest joy, are impossible without the Two Weighty Things.
🌹A true jurist is one who becomes a screen for the display of reason and its commands. A wholly devoted servant is one who becomes a screen for the Two Weighty Things, displaying the most beautiful image and scene in all creation.
🌹The Two Weighty Things are God’s greatest banquet, a feast of divine majesty. Without this supreme nourishment, the human soul will perish of thirst and hunger for servanthood. The Ahl al-Bayt are God’s blessed tree. If we feed from this blessed tree, we will be imprinted with its image and take on its flavour and colour. Unless we feed fully from this tree, we will never reach the highest station of servanthood. Through this “most blessed tree,” we must become the greatest showcase of the blessed tree. How are we to feed from it?!!! One way is to be transformed within the life of this blessed tree.
🌹Fatima is God’s hidden nourishment.
🔅🌼When the Lady of Glorification glorifies God🌼🔅
🌹Fatima embodies glorification, praise, the declaration of divine oneness, and magnification. Fatima is creation’s sweetest melody, the loveliest music in all existence.
🌹Fatima’s blessed body manifests «سبحان الله»; her exalted being embodies the delicacy of «الحمدلله»; her pure light is the radiance of «لا اله الا الله»; and her innermost soul is the ringing cry of «الله اکبر».
🌹The Lady of the Night of Decree: the greatness of her glorification, too, is a Night of Decree.
🌷🔆 قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع مَنْ سَبَّحَ تَسْبِيحَ فَاطِمَةَ الزَّهْرَاءِ ع قَبْلَ أَنْ يَثْنِيَ رِجْلَيْهِ مِنْ صَلَاةِ الْفَرِيضَةِ غَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ وَ لْيَبْدَأْ بِالتَّكْبِيرِ.[1]
🔆Imam al-Sadiq (AS): Whoever recites the Tasbih of Fatima al-Zahra (SA) before rising from the spot where they performed the prayer—that is, before turning to anything else after an obligatory prayer—will be forgiven by God. The tasbih should begin with “Allahu akbar.”
🌷🔆عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: مَنْ سَبَّحَ اللَّهَ فِي دُبُرِ الْفَرِيضَةِ تَسْبِيحَ فَاطِمَةَ الزَّهْرَاءِ ع الْمِائَةَ مَرَّةٍ وَ أَتْبَعَهَا بِلَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ غَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ. [2]
🔆It is narrated from Imam al-Sadiq (AS): “Whoever glorifies God a hundred times after an obligatory prayer using Fatima’s tasbih, and then says ‘لا اِلهَ اِلَّا اللَّه’ once, will be forgiven.”
🌷🔆عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُذَافِرٍ قَالَ: دَخَلْتُ مَعَ أَبِي عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع فَسَأَلَهُ أَبِي عَنْ تَسْبِيحِ فَاطِمَةَ ص فَقَالَ اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ حَتَّى أَحْصَاهَا أَرْبَعاً وَ ثَلَاثِينَ مَرَّةً ثُمَّ قَالَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ حَتَّى بَلَغَ سَبْعاً وَ سِتِّينَ ثُمَّ قَالَ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ حَتَّى بَلَغَ مِائَةً يُحْصِيهَا بِيَدِهِ جُمْلَةً وَاحِدَةً. [3]
🌷🔆عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: فِي تَسْبِيحِ فَاطِمَةَ ص يُبْدَأُ بِالتَّكْبِيرِ أَرْبَعاً وَ ثَلَاثِينَ ثُمَّ التَّحْمِيدِ ثَلَاثاً وَ ثَلَاثِينَ ثُمَّ التَّسْبِيحِ ثَلَاثاً وَ ثَلَاثِينَ. [4]
🌷🔆قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع إِذَا شَكَكْتَ فِي تَسْبِيحِ فَاطِمَةَ الزَّهْرَاءِ ع فَأَعِدْ. [5]
🌷🔆عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَمَّنْ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع أَنَّهُ كَانَ يُسَبِّحُ تَسْبِيحَ فَاطِمَةَ ص فَيَصِلُهُ وَ لَا يَقْطَعُهُ. [6]
🌹 Whoever is deprived of the blessing of Fatima’s tasbih will be wretched throughout their days.
🌷🔆عَنْ أَبِي هَارُونَ الْمَكْفُوفِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: يَا أَبَا هَارُونَ إِنَّا نَأْمُرُ صِبْيَانَنَا بِتَسْبِيحِ فَاطِمَةَ ع كَمَا نَأْمُرُهُمْ بِالصَّلَاةِ فَالْزَمْهُ فَإِنَّهُ لَمْ يَلْزَمْهُ عَبْدٌ فَشَقِيَ. [7]
🔆Abu Harun al-Makfuf says: Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said to me, “O Abu Harun, we instruct our children to recite the tasbih of Lady Fatima (SA) just as we instruct them to pray. So make a habit of this remembrance, for any servant who persists in it will never be wretched.”
🌹 The tasbih of Fatima al-Zahra, peace be upon her, is God’s most precious gift to His dearest beloved. May we never be deprived of its boundless blessings.
🌷🔆عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: مَا عُبِدَ اللَّهُ بِشَيْءٍ مِنَ التَّحْمِيدِ أَفْضَلَ مِنْ تَسْبِيحِ فَاطِمَةَ ع وَ لَوْ كَانَ شَيْءٌ أَفْضَلَ مِنْهُ لَنَحَلَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَاطِمَةَ A. [8]
🔆It is narrated from Imam al-Baqir (AS): “In giving praise and remembrance, God has not been worshipped with anything better than the tasbih of Lady Fatima al-Zahra (SA). Had there been any deed better than it, the Messenger of God would have given it to Fatima.”
🌹 Just as Laylat al-Qadr is “خیر من الف شهر,” its tasbih, too, is “احب الی الله من صلاة الف رکعة فی کل یوم.”
🌷🔆عَنْ أَبِي خَالِدٍ الْقَمَّاطِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ تَسْبِيحُ فَاطِمَةَ ع فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ فِي دُبُرِ كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ صَلَاةِ أَلْفِ رَكْعَةٍ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ. [9]
🔆Imam al-Sadiq (AS): “The tasbih of Fatima, recited every day after every prayer, is dearer to me than a thousand rak‘ahs of prayer each day.”
🌷🔆وَ لَا تَدَعْ تَسْبِيحَ فَاطِمَةَ ع بِعَقِبِ كُلِّ فَرِيضَةٍ وَ هِيَ الْمِائَةُ وَ الِاسْتِغْفَارَ بِعَقِبِهَا وَ هُوَ سَبْعُونَ مَرَّةً قَبْلَ أَنْ تَثْنِيَ رِجْلَيْكَ يَغْفِرُ اللَّهُ لَكَ جَمِيعَ ذُنُوبِكَ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّه[10]
A Stroll through the Garden of Fatima’s Words
🔅🌼 The Relation between *Dharʾ* and Divine Will 🌼🔅
☘️🌷🔆 وَ ذَرَأَهَا بِمَشِيَّتِهِ
🌹 The peerless God brought things into being through His will; He multiplied them and scattered them abroad.
🌹He originated, brought forth, formed, created and fashioned things, clothing them in diverse garments.
🌹From the very life of things, He revealed other mysteries.
🌹From within things, He brought forth His marvels.
🌹He revealed the essence of things.
🌹He displayed other realities through things.
🌹He made manifest the form of things as willed, drawing another veil across their faces.
🌹He lifted another veil from the countenance of His knowledge.
الذَّرْءُ: إظهار اللّه تعالى ما أبداه، يقال: ذَرَأَ اللّه الخلق، أي: أوجد أشخاصهم. قال تعالى:
*Dharʾ* means God Most High giving outward form to what He has brought forth. It is said: “God created the creatures”—that is, He brought their individual beings into existence.
🔅🌼 Manifestations of Knowledge 🌼🔅
🌹Divine knowledge has its own particular manifestations, abundant beyond count.
🌹Knowledge, too, has worlds of its own—if it is right to call them worlds.
🌹Divine will, volition, determination, decree, and the like are forms of knowledge.
🌹Each of these, in turn, has its own levels and degrees, its own pages of knowledge not yet made manifest.
🔅🌼 The One Who Brings into Being Has No Need to Form Things 🌼🔅
☘️🌷🔆 مِنْ غَيْرِ حَاجَةٍ مِنْهُ إِلَى تَكْوِينِهَا
🌹God, Blessed and Exalted, created things without any need to bring them into being. So why did He create them? Surely not to meet some need of His! Divine acts are not driven by need.
🌹Divine acts are not undertaken to attain an end, as though God had some goal to accomplish. Had He willed it, that goal would have been realised from the outset.
🌹He is the One who creates the goal, lays down the way and the means to walk it, and brings movement and time into existence. All these are His masterpieces. لا يسئل عما يفعل
🔅🌼 Seeking Benefit Is Meaningless for the Divine Fashioner 🌼🔅
☘️🌷🔆 وَ لَا فَائِدَةٍ لَهُ فِي تَصْوِيرِهَا
🌹In fashioning things, He gained no benefit; He did not do so for His own advantage.
🌹He did not create in order to take pleasure in it. It is not that He creates, then gazes upon His creation and basks in pride over it. What need could He have for pride? He is the Creator of pride, mystery, and supplication.
🌹He is the One who creates benefit and pleasure; He has no need even to manifest His greatness.
🌹We cannot even say that He is sufficient unto Himself, for He is the One who brought sufficiency into being for His servants.
🔅🌼 He Willed It So That His Wisdom Might Be Established 🌼🔅
☘️🌷🔆 إِلَّا تَثْبِيتاً لِحِكْمَتِهِ
🌹All the “whys” belong to the realm of claims. All questions lie in the arena of trial and testing, arising from the hardship of the test and from forgetting that one is being tested.
🌹Every protest, frown, injustice, darkness, bitterness and hardship arises from the heart of the contests of the world: minds ensnared by forgetfulness, minds that have forgotten they are charged with completing the questions in the very test they chose for themselves—the test they persistently asked their Lord to give them.
🌹The One and Only God willed to establish His wisdom, to bring it fully into manifestation, and to make it everlasting and eternal.
🌹Wisdom is a wondrous manifestation of the wonders of His knowledge. We have no share in God’s knowledge. Even to call knowledge a secret is a mistake, for knowledge unveils secrets.
🌹Wisdom is displayed out of grace, love and mercy—not out of need or self-interest.
🌹In one sense, wisdom is knowledge at its highest expression: its radiance, effects, marvels, wonders and beauty; knowledge manifest as it truly is; its supreme self-disclosure; the highest order of action.
🌹We may consider wisdom distinct from knowledge—as its companion, beside it. When knowledge and wisdom stand together, marvels, wonders, delights and virtues come to light.
🌹Wisdom is displayed out of grace, love and mercy—not out of need or self-interest.
🌹Wisdom is the taste and flavor of knowledge, its splendor, beauty, perfection, majesty and adornment.
🌹فالحكمة من اللّه تعالى: معرفة الأشياء و إيجادها على غاية الإحكام، و من الإنسان: معرفة الموجودات و فعل الخيرات.(مفردات راغب)
🌻🔆الأنبياء : 23 لا يُسْئَلُ عَمَّا يَفْعَلُ وَ هُمْ يُسْئَلُونَ
🔆 He is not questioned about what He does, but they will be questioned.
🌹If only we could ask Fatima to interpret and explain her words, or ask her to impart to us her flowing knowledge. Surely the magnetism of her words would lead us to their truth.
🌹All we can do is expend our limited capacity—and that is all! Until we reach the sublime grace of the All-Merciful: والذین جاهدوا فینا لنهدینهم سبلنا
🌼Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141 (903)🌼
🔅🌼A student’s perspective on “Fatima: Treasure-house of grace and nobility” 🌼🔅
🔹 Fatima: Treasure-house of grace and nobility
🔹The night of the birth of Hazrat Fatima Zahra, peace be upon her (Women’s Day)
📅 Date: 1403/10/02 – 20 Jumada al-Thani 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
Some of the topics discussed in the session:
🌟 Fatima’s station: from radiance to purity
O God, which of Fatima’s stations should I speak of? Her station as Fatima? Her station as remedy and healing? Her flight, or the One who made her fly? Her station as Zahra? Her earthly and heavenly radiance? Her divine light? Her exalted manifestations in the angelic and celestial realms? Or her station as Batul?
Should I speak of her purity, which she attained before all others? Of her station as the Night of Decree, or of her being “the mother of her father”? O God, when shall we benefit from this mighty creation of Yours? When, O God, shall we attain an understanding beyond time and place of this creation of Yours that transcends time and space? Without Your Fatimid proof, we will never reach that station.
🌼 Fatima, the key to salvation in the End Times
Fatima is the creation beyond time of the Eternal Creator, the Creator who is greater than eternity and perpetuity. God, make Fatima known to us. By God, Fatima is the key to our salvation from all the trials of the End Times—the blind, Dajjal-like trials. Without Fatima, society, life, motherhood and womanhood will be destroyed. Women across the world will not come alive until they stand in Fatima’s light. By God, we must return to Fatima; we must place ourselves in the light of this pure, divinely given sun. They must become Fatimid, so that they may be saved from the pits and black swamps of vice and impurity, and emerge from them.
If this does not happen, they will be slaughtered by the Dajjal and left for dead. By God, we need Fatima more than ever. Let us be like Fatima, if only for a moment. How can we be like Fatima when we cannot? Can we not even wish for it? Let us wish to become like Fatima. Let us play Fatima’s part, even if we cannot fully embody it. Let us beseech God for Fatimid inspiration.
🌟 The Role of Women and the Battle Against the Dajjal
If we do not become like this, we will be destroyed at the Dajjal’s gallows. We will taste a vile death. Dajjals, both virtual and real, assail the tenderness of mothers, whether their targets are women or men. They want to kill motherhood—not the mother, but the very state of being a mother. They want to kill womanhood, to kill the maternal instinct.
They seek to destroy women’s sense of womanhood. The Dajjals lie in wait, targeting women’s honour. They have placed the very foundation of honour under a barrage of poisoned arrows, injecting their poison day after day. Nothing will remain of dignity, chastity or modesty. They march over corpses. This is the time to wield Fatima’s weapon. Until we draw Fatima’s sword, the Dajjal will not rest.
🌼 Fatimid Arms and the End of Hypocrisy
We must draw the sword of chastity, the sword of modesty. If we do not, we are doomed to destruction and a dark death. The false desire to be seen and the reckless rush into ignorant hypocrisy are flourishing—not in worship, but in sin and obscenity. So too are the markets of desecration and hypocrisy in the face of desecration, among the most conspicuous signs of the End Times.
🌟 Neglect and the Infiltration of Devils
Blind, dark heedlessness has left people constantly being hacked—perpetually infiltrated, perpetually exposed to intrusion. Devils penetrate the human being, alter them and turn them into puppets; they make them move as they please and teach them what to say. Our hearts and minds are under their influence, breached from within. If we do not stop this infiltration, we will meet a dark and dreadful death. Anyone who gives no thought to their own fate is under such influence, and their destruction is at hand.
The devils have taken possession of every heart and mind and are ready to deliver their final blow. Why has humankind handed the devils the key to its soul, allowing them to tear it open so easily? They lay open its very being with ease and shatter its heart.
🌼 Captive to the Dajjal’s Followers
Humanity’s hopes and aspirations have been plundered. What a willing ally this human being has become to their own enemies. Both our outward and inward selves have fallen captive to the Dajjal’s followers. We have neither an inner world nor an outer one. We have handed our innermost selves to Satan and the devils among jinn and humankind, and opened up a space more real than the real world.
We have entrusted our deepest interior, the innermost core of our being, to Satan. We have no secrets left; the devils know them all. They know us better than we know ourselves. We have become playthings of the Dajjal’s followers. When will we break free of this captivity?
🌟 Fatima, the Key to Freedom from the Dajjal
Fatima is the key to thwarting every move of Satan. To destroy the Dajjal, a single breath of Fatima is enough. If we breathe with purity, the stronghold of the Dajjal’s followers will be brought down. If we take refuge in God’s fortress, what wonders might unfold!
When someone makes themselves like Fatima and takes her as their model, they enter the fortress of God’s impregnable stronghold. Fatima is an invincible fortress of honour and modesty.
🌼 Fatima’s Enchanting Beauty
Those who seek to captivate hearts—by God, it is enough to become Fatimid, and they will win the hearts of the world. By God, every heart will be captivated. We need only place ourselves beneath Fatima’s extraordinary, captivating beauty. If a ray of her being is reflected in us, the hearts of all creation will be drawn to us.
Those who seek Fatima must hasten after her.
🌟 The Treasury of Beauty and the Secret of Captivating Hearts
There is a treasury of beauty which, if we fail to draw upon it, we will fall into ruin. Anyone who seeks to charm a mouse or a cockroach has already fallen. Such people are not human beings, but mere human semblances, lower even than animals. They have put on a mask to conceal their baseness.
I know how to charm: if the Fāṭimid spirit beats in my heart, I know how to charm in the depths of night. Nor am I seeking the beings of the celestial realm or the realm of divine power. Whoever becomes Fāṭimid becomes a believer in divine unity and knows none but the One.
🌼 The Dajjālī Infiltration and Fāṭimid Breath
The devils within and without have taken hold of us and occupied us. The Dajjālī sorcery gives off no smoke; it carries a fire that reduces us to ashes without leaving a trace. It scatters the ashes of our being to the winds, and only then do we notice the Dajjālī head.
Our veil in the virtual world should be more complete than in the real one. Whoever’s heart becomes virtual will mistake the virtual world for the real. Come, let us breathe—breathe in the Fāṭimid way, so that we may come alive and experience a pure, wholesome life. Let us enter into the spirit of those who have attained spiritual heights. Let us aspire to become Fāṭima.
By God, nothing will be diminished in Fāṭima, even if we become like her.
Even our men should become like Fāṭima. Why do we not yearn to become Fāṭima? Did she not say: *«ادعونی استجب لکم»*? So I wish to become like Fāṭima, to become Muḥammad, to become the family of Muḥammad.
Come, let us race towards becoming like Muḥammad and his family. Fāṭima endured so much suffering for this mission and became our model. We must follow Fāṭima’s path to conquer worlds of purity.
🌼 The Aspiration to Become Fāṭima
If we make just one wish—that we might become Fāṭima—it is as though we have asked God for all the wonders of the universe. What excellence has God withheld from Fāṭima that we could ask for something greater? Fāṭima came so that we might become like her.
With Fāṭima, we must reason, reflect and understand. With Fāṭima, we must experience life. If we do not, we have wronged her. To experience transcendent love, our souls must become a subtle trace of Fāṭima, so that we may come to know the highest raptures.
🌟 The Blessed Tree and Connection to the Two Weighty Things
To flourish, we must connect ourselves to the Two Weighty Things: the Qur’an and the Prophet’s family. Our thought and understanding must be grounded in them. A true jurist is one who becomes a screen on which reason is displayed—a servant whose entire being reflects the Two Weighty Things.
Let us not forget this divine nourishment. Without it, beings will perish and never attain true perfection. The Prophet’s family is the blessed tree. If we do not draw sustenance from this tree, we are doomed to perish. Until we partake of this blessed tree, we will never attain the heights of worship and perfection.
🌟 Fāṭima, Lady of the Tasbīḥs and Takbīrs
There is nourishment beyond anything we can imagine. To neglect the Prophet’s family is to neglect truth; to neglect purity. To neglect Fāṭima is to neglect all of God’s great gifts.
Who is Fāṭima? The lady of the tasbīḥs and the takbīrs. A lady who has risen from uttering tasbīḥ to becoming tasbīḥ itself, and from uttering praise to becoming praise itself.
Her blessed breath is praise of God itself, and her exalted soul is «لا اله الا الله». With crystal clarity, she proclaims God’s oneness. She is the resounding voice of magnification, the exalted melody of «الله اکبر» itself. Fāṭima is creation’s sweetest song, the loveliest music in all the universe.
🌼 The Grandeur of Fāṭima’s Tasbīḥs
Fāṭima’s blessed being is the manifestation of «سبحان الله». Her exalted soul is the tender grace of «الحمد لله». Her pure light is the eternal radiance of «لا اله الا الله». Her very being cries out «الله اکبر».
Through this lady’s soul, God showers down His gracious gifts. The grandeur of her tasbīḥ is like the grandeur of the Night of Decree. This immense blessing is found in just one of her tasbīḥs. Whoever neglects this tasbīḥ will be wretched.
🌟 A recommendation to recite the Tasbihat of Fatima
What a profound secret! What wonders might unfold if our children took Fatima as their mother!
🌼 The standing of the Tasbihat of Fatima before God
The rank of this glorification is like that of Laylat al-Qadr, just as Fatima al-Zahra herself is “خیرٌ من ألف شهر”. This glorification is so exalted that, in God’s sight, its merit is dearer than that of a thousand rakʿahs of prayer.
If the Tasbihat of Fatima is so exalted, how magnificent must her sermon on divine unity be? How well do we know the Tasbihat of Fatima? How well do we know her words? How deeply immersed are we in her blessed spirit—as opposed to merely being near it?
🌟 Testing ourselves through Fatima’s words
If we are strangers to her words, we are strangers to her blessed being. We must examine ourselves: how well do we know her words and her blessed being? You, too, should take stock of what you have gained from Fatima’s words.
Later in the Fadak Sermon, in her lesson on divine unity, Fatima al-Zahra portrays the creation of the universe. By God’s will, she sows the things of this world. If “sowing” means creating, then this is a particular kind of creation. Does it mean multiplication, dispersion or manifestation? Perhaps it does—but that is my interpretation.
🌟 The mysteries of creation and divine manifestations
From within the very being of things, Almighty God brought forth further mysteries. He created things and, within that creation, brought another creation to light. He opened a blossom among the blossoms of His creation and revealed wonders from within things. He made their essences manifest and brought new realities into view. He unveiled the form things take through His will. Through divine will, He revealed another glimpse of the countenance of His knowledge.
If only we had lived in Fatima’s time. Instead of all those wounds, we would have gone to sit at her feet and begged her to reveal to us the heart of her words.
🌼 Knowledge and its distinct worlds
Knowledge, too, has worlds of its own. I hope I am not mistaken in calling them worlds. Knowledge has its own pages, each one lifting a veil from the mysteries of God.
If only those wretched people had not stood in the way, so that God’s light might have manifested itself more fully.
🌟 The bringing of things into being and God’s independence
He brought things into being without needing them. God neither needed nor needs to bring things into being. Allah created the universe and all things without having any need of them.
Why, then, did He create? He created even the very “why.” God’s acts are not governed by need. Divine acts are not performed to attain an end, for had He willed it, He would have brought that end about directly. Have we not said that, for Him, the beginning and the end are one?
He is the One who creates need. Had He not created need, there would be no need at all. God created need so that His creatures might taste it and find a way to satisfy it. God brought the goal into being and created the foot to travel the path toward it.
🌼 God’s absolute independence
God created things without deriving any benefit or advantage from them. He is the shaper of the universe and did not create His creatures for His own benefit. In shaping things, He finds neither pleasure nor gain. God created both self-sufficiency and need.
He is the One who creates pleasure; He has no need to display His majesty in order to prove His supreme greatness. We cannot even say that He is sufficient unto Himself; rather, He is sufficient for His creation. To say that He is sufficient unto Himself would be mistaken, for sufficiency, too, is among God’s creations. He is sufficient for His servant, not for Himself.
🌟 Wisdom and its establishment
Was it not to establish His wisdom that He revealed His mysteries? If only we had fallen at her feet and pleaded with her to unlock those mysteries for us. If only that injustice had not been done to the wise Lady.
Her wisdom is a manifestation of divine will, and its establishment opens the way for God’s endless greatnesses to be revealed.
🌟 Divine Wisdom and Its Manifestation
Why did God will His wisdom to be established? Why did He will it? God willed that His wisdom should reach its fullest manifestation. To establish wisdom is for it to be fully manifested. He willed His wisdom to be eternal and, out of His mercy, to be revealed.
🌼 The Nature of Wisdom
Is wisdom the highest form of knowledge? I do not know the precise meaning of wisdom, but perhaps I can grasp some of its qualities. Is wisdom the light and beauty of knowledge, which we call wisdom? Is it knowledge manifested in its most perfect form? Or is it the order underlying God’s acts?
Can wisdom be separated from knowledge, or is it its constant companion, never parted from it for a moment? Perhaps wisdom is the very taste of knowledge—its subtlety, radiance, beauty, perfection, and majesty.
🌟 The Purpose of Creation and the Arena of Trial
Why did God create? All these *whys* belong to the realm of claims, and have arisen from the pit at the heart of the arena of trial and testing. All the furrowed brows, injustices, and hardships come from this arena of trial. Our minds and hearts have been so battered that we have fallen into forgetfulness.
We are in the midst of a trial, in the arena of the contest to serve God. We ourselves asked our God for this, but now we have forgotten—and perhaps even object to it.
🌼 Longing to Know Fatima and the Grace of God
If only I knew Fatima al-Zahra as she truly deserves to be known. Our God is the Most Compassionate, and He will grant this blessing to us all.
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