Fatimah: A Treasure House of Grace and Nobility

🔹The night of the birth of Her Holiness 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 points raised in the session:

🌟 The station of Fatima: from radiance to purity

O Lord, of which station of Fatima shall I speak? Of her station of Fatimiyya? Of her station as remedy and healing? Of her flight, or of her who causes flight? Of her station of Zahra’iyya? Of her horizontal and heavenly radiances? Of her subhanic splendor? Of her lofty angelic and celestial lights? Or of her station of Batuliyya?

Shall I speak of her station of purity, she who was kneaded from purity itself? Shall I speak of her station of Laylat al-Qadr, or of her station of “Umm Abiha”? O Lord, when will we partake of this mighty craftsmanship of Yours? Of this creation of Yours beyond time and place—O Lord, when will we attain to Your timeless understanding? Without Your Fatimid proof, we shall never reach that station.

🌼 Fatima, the secret of salvation in the end times

Fatima is that very creation beyond time of the Creator who is without beginning and without end, and she is greater than beginning and end. O God, make Fatima known to us. By God, Fatima is the secret of our deliverance from all the trials of the end times; the blind trials of the Dajjal. Without Fatima, society, life, motherhood and womanhood will be destroyed. So long as the women of the world do not come under Fatima’s radiance, they will not find life. By the divinity of God, we must return to Fatima; we must place ourselves beneath the radiance of this pure divine sun. Let them become Fatimid, that they may be saved from the pits and black swamps of vices and impurities, and emerge from them.

If this does not come to pass, they will be slaughtered at the hand of the Dajjal; they will become carrion. By the divinity of God, we need Fatima more than at any other time. Let us be like Fatima for a moment. How can we be like Fatima, when we cannot? Can we not even wish for it? Let us wish that we might become like Fatima. Let us play the role of Fatima, even if we cannot. Let us beseech God for Fatimid inspirations.

🌟 The role of women and the battle against the Dajjal

If we do not become so, we will be destroyed at the foot of the Dajjal’s gallows. We will taste the flavor of a filthy death. Women and men alike—the virtual and the real Dajjals—assail the seal of mothers. They want to kill motherhood. Not the mother, but motherhood itself they want to kill. They want to kill womanhood. They want to kill the sense of motherhood.

They seek to destroy the sense of being a woman within women. The Dajjals lie in ambush; they lie in ambush for honor. They have placed the essence of honor beneath their poisoned arrows and inject their poison every day. No reputation remains, nor chastity, nor modesty. They parade over the corpses. The time has come to make use of Fatima’s weapon. Until we draw Fatima’s sword, the Dajjal will not sit still.

🌼 The Fatimid weapon and the end of hypocrisy

The sword of chastity must be drawn. The sword of modesty. Until we draw it, we are condemned to destruction and a black death. The false sense of being seen, the haste toward foolish hypocrisy—not toward worship, but toward sins and ugliness—flourishes. The market of the violation of sanctities and of hypocrisy toward the violation of sanctities is among the clear signs of the end times.

🌟 Heedlessness and the infiltration of the devils

Blind and black heedlessness has left the human being constantly being hacked; constantly under influence, constantly exposed to infiltration. The devils infiltrate the human soul, alter it, and make it their puppet; they move him as they please, they teach him what to say. Our hearts and minds are under influence and infiltration. If we do not stop this infiltration and influence, we will be seized by a black and ominous death. Whoever does not reflect upon his own end is under influence, and the time of his destruction has come.

The devils have conquered all hearts and minds and are ready to strike their final blow. Why has this human being handed the password of his soul to the devils, that they may so easily split open his soul? So easily lay open his frame and scatter his heart to pieces.

🌼 The captivity of the Dajjal’s followers

Human hopes and aspirations have been plundered. What a strange ally this human being is to his own enemies. Both our outward and inward selves have fallen captive to the forces of the Dajjal. We have neither an inner world nor an outer one. We have handed our innermost selves over to Satan and the human and jinn devils, and opened up a space more real than the real world.

We have entrusted our deepest inner self, our most inward reality, to Satan. We have no secrets left; every secret of ours is laid bare to the devils. They know us better than we know ourselves. We have become playthings in the hands of the Dajjal’s forces. When will we break free from this captivity?

🌟 Fatima, the Key to Freedom from the Dajjal

Fatima is the secret to thwarting every move of Satan. To vanquish the Dajjal, a single breath from Fatima is enough. If we breathe in purity, the stronghold of the Dajjal’s forces will be destroyed. If we take refuge in God’s fortress, what wonders will unfold!

When someone models themselves on Fatima and follows her example, they enter the fortress of God’s inviolable sanctuary. Fatima is the impregnable fortress of dignity and modesty.

🌼 Fatima’s Enchanting Beauty

Those who seek to captivate hearts need only become Fatimid, by God, and they will win the hearts of all humanity. By God, every heart will be captivated. All we need to do is place ourselves beneath Fatima’s extraordinary, heart-enchanting beauty. If a ray of her being is reflected in us, the hearts of all the world will be drawn to us.

Those who seek Fatima must hasten toward her.

🌟 The Treasury of Beauty and the Secret of Captivation

There is a treasury of beauty, and if we do not draw upon it, we will fall. If someone seeks to captivate mice or cockroaches, they have fallen indeed. Such people are not human, but merely human-shaped beings, lower even than animals. They have put on a mask to conceal their baseness.

I know how to captivate hearts: if Fatima’s breath beats in my heart, I know how to enchant hearts in the depth of night. I do not even seek the beings of the heavenly realm or the realm of divine power. Whoever becomes Fatimid becomes a monotheist and recognizes none but the One.

🌼 The Dajjal’s Forces and the Fatimid Breath

The devils have subdued our inner and outer selves and occupied them. The Dajjal’s sorcery is smokeless, yet it gives off a smoke that reduces us to ash without ever revealing itself. It scatters the ashes of our being to the winds, and only then do we notice the Dajjal’s head.

Our veiling in virtual space must be greater than in the real world. Anyone whose heart has become virtual will imagine that virtual space is permissible. Come, let us breathe—the Fatimid breath—so that we may find life and experience a pure, wholesome life. Let us discover the inner world of exalted human beings. Let us aspire to become Fatima.

🌟 The Longing to Become Fatima

With God, nothing will be taken from Fatima, even if we become like her. Even our men should become like Fatima. Why do we not long to become Fatima? Did He not say: «ادعونی استجب لکم»? Then I want to become like Fatima, to become Muhammad, to become the Family of Muhammad.

Come, let us strive to become Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad. Fatima endured so much suffering for this mission and became our model. We must follow Fatima’s path to conquer pure worlds.

🌼 The Aspiration to Become Fatima

If we make only one wish—that we might become Fatima—it means we have asked God for every wonder in the universe. What gift has God withheld from Fatima that we could ask for anything greater? Fatima came so that we might become like her.

With Fatima, we must reason, reflect, and understand. With Fatima, we must experience life. If we do not, we have wronged her. To experience transcendent love, our souls must become a subtle trace of Fatima, so that we may know the highest attractions.

🌟 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 Household. Our reflection and understanding of religion must be grounded in the Two Weighty Things. A true scholar of religion is one who becomes a screen for the intellect—a servant whose whole being reflects the Two Weighty Things.

Let us not forget this heavenly nourishment. Without it, created beings will perish and never attain true perfection. The Prophet’s Household is the blessed tree. If we do not draw from it, we are doomed to perish. Until we benefit from this blessed tree, we will never attain the heights of worship and perfection.

🌟 Fatima, the Lady of Glorification and Magnification

There is a nourishment beyond all imagining. To be heedless of the Prophet’s Household is to be heedless of the truth; to be heedless of purity, and of Fatima, is to be heedless of all God’s great gifts. Who is Fatima? She is the Lady of glorification and magnification: a woman who has risen from uttering glorifications to embodying glorification itself, and from offering praise to embodying praise itself.

Her blessed soul is praise of God itself, and her exalted spirit is «لا اله الا الله» itself. With utter clarity, she proclaims God’s oneness. She is the resonant voice of magnification, the exalted melody of «الله اکبر» itself. Fatima is creation’s sweetest song, the most beautiful music in this world.

🌼 The Greatness of Fatima’s Tasbih

The blessed being of Fatima is the manifestation of «سبحان الله». Her exalted spirit is the grace of «الحمد لله». Her pure light is the eternal radiance of «لا اله الا الله». Her very being is the cry of «الله اکبر».

Through this Lady’s soul, God pours down His grace. The greatness of her tasbih is like the greatness of the Night of Decree. Even a single recitation of her tasbih carries this tremendous blessing. Whoever neglects it will be wretched.

🌟 The Recommendation to Recite Fatima’s Tasbih

Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said to Abu Harun:
“Abu Harun, we instruct our children to recite Fatima al-Zahra’s tasbih.” What a profound secret this holds! What wonders might unfold if our children took Fatima as their mother!

Imam al-Baqir (peace be upon him) also said:
“Had there been a gift more precious than Fatima’s tasbih, God would have bestowed it upon His Messenger. Had there been a better gift, the Messenger of God would have given it to Fatima.”

🌼 The Standing of Tasbih Before God

The rank of this tasbih is like that of the Night of Decree, like Fatima al-Zahra herself, who is «خیرٌ من ألف شهر». This tasbih is so great that, in God’s sight, its virtue is dearer than a thousand units of prayer.

If Fatima’s tasbih is so great, how magnificent must her sermon on divine unity be? How well do we know Fatima’s tasbih? How familiar are we with her words? How deeply immersed are we in her blessed spirit—not merely close to 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 measure how much you have drawn from Fatima’s words.

Later in the Sermon of Fadak, Fatima al-Zahra teaches the doctrine of divine unity. She depicts the creation of the universe and sows the things of the world through divine will. If “sowing” means creating, then this is a particular kind of creation. Does it mean multiplicity, dispersion, or manifestation? Perhaps so—but that is my interpretation.

🌟 The Mysteries of Creation and Divine Manifestations

From within the very souls of things, God Most High brought other mysteries to light. He created things, and within that creation brought forth another creation. He opened one blossom of His creation, revealing wonders from within things. He laid bare their essences and displayed new realities. He unveiled the things’ form as shaped by His will.

If only we had lived in Fatima’s time. Instead of all those wounds, we would have gone to her words and pleaded with her to reveal their innermost meaning to us. Through divine will, she unveiled another aspect of the countenance of her knowledge.

🌼 Knowledge and Its Particular Worlds

Knowledge, too, has worlds of its own. I hope I am not mistaken in calling them worlds. Knowledge has distinct pages, each one lifting a veil from the mysteries of God. If only those wretches 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 Self-Sufficiency

He brought things into being without needing them. God had no need to bring things into being, and has no need now. Allah created the world and all things while having no need of them.

So why did He create? The very question of why was created by the Creator, too. God’s acts are not driven by need. The divine acts are not a means to an end, for had He wished, He would have brought that end about directly. Did we not say that, for Him, the beginning and the end are one and the same?

He is the one who creates need. If He had not created it, there would be no need. God created need so that His creatures might taste it and find a way to fulfil it. God brought the goal into being and created the foot to walk the path.

🌼 God’s Absolute Self-Sufficiency

God created things without deriving any benefit or gain from them. He is the shaper of the universe and did not create His creatures for His own benefit. There is no pleasure or profit for Him in shaping things. God created both the beloved and the longing for the beloved.

He is the one who creates pleasure, and He has no need to display His grandeur in order to prove His 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 a mistake, for sufficiency, too, is one of 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 unveiled His secrets? If only we had fallen at the feet of His words and pleaded to have His mysteries opened to us. If only that injustice had not been done to the wise lady. Her wisdom is a manifestation of the divine will, and its establishment is the path by which God’s boundless grandeur is revealed.

🌟 Divine Wisdom and Its Manifestation

Why did God wish to establish His wisdom? Why did He will it? God wished for His wisdom to reach its full manifestation. To establish wisdom is to bring it fully into view. He wished His wisdom to be everlasting and, out of grace, to be displayed.

🌼 The Nature of Wisdom

Is wisdom the highest expression of knowledge? I do not know precisely what wisdom means, but perhaps I can grasp some of its qualities. Is wisdom the radiance and beauty of knowledge, which we call wisdom? Is it knowledge manifesting itself in its most perfect form? Or is it the order governing God’s acts?

Can wisdom be separated from knowledge, or is it always its companion, never parted from it for an instant? Perhaps wisdom is the taste of knowledge: its subtlety, its splendour, its beauty, its perfection and its majesty.

🌟 Why God Created and the Arena of Trial

Why did God create? All these whys belong to the realm of claims, and have arisen from the depths of the pit that is the arena of trial and testing. All frowns, injustices and hardships spring 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 competing to serve God. We ourselves made this request of our God, but now we have forgotten it—and perhaps even protest against it.

🌼 Longing to Know Fatima and Divine Grace

If only I could know 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.