Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼Fatima is the interpretation of beauty🌼
🌼Fatima is the exegesis of tenderness🌼
🌹🔆☘️ The Martyrdom of the Chaste and Truthful Martyr ☘️ 🔆 🌹
A synopsis of a gathering of Meshkat-e Noor, 1401.10.5
🌼 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌼
🌹Fatima سلام الله علیها, queen of divine unity, lady of martyrdom, gateway to the mystery of the journey to God, and the all-encompassing divine book, is the exalted word of divine unity.
🌹The martyrdom of the singular embodiment of divine unity is the soul of divine unity manifesting in the soul of creation.
🌹Fatima must be recited and read, interpreted and brought to its inner meaning. To uncover the reality of Fatima is to uncover the hidden truths and mysteries of existence.
🌹Specializing in the knowledge of Zahra (s) means mastering the means of journeying to God and discovering the secret of reaching one’s goal.
🌹The words of the Lady of divine unity on divine unity are a treasury and precious gifts from this singular martyr to all existence!
🌹The effect of the monotheistic martyr, the one devoted to divine unity, upon all existence is like the effect of the spirit of divine unity upon a life grounded in divine unity.
🌹The mystery of time and the mystery of the universe; the center of all centers of time and the interpretation of time; the center’s influence upon all time and the universe: Fatima’s existence, at the center of temporal separation, encompassed the whole universe and all time.
🌹With the alphabet of divine unity, by which the world inscribes the words of divine unity and makes its melody resound throughout creation! The most beautiful inscriptions of divine unity belong to Fatima, her father, her husband, and her children.
🌹In Zahra’s words, the inner meaning of divine unity, its point of connection, and its intelligible reality reveal the truth of divine unity and disclose the purpose of creation!
🌹Fatima’s words present the face and beauty of divine unity as seen through Zahra, and the beautiful manifestations of divine unity emerging from the soul of the singular woman devoted to God.
🌹What is the secret of the inner meaning of divine unity?
🌹What will it mean for us to reach the inner meaning of divine unity? What is the secret of servitude and sincere worship? Is it the end of the journey, or the true beginning of movement and the bond of servitude? The bonds between servants themselves hold wonders beyond wonders.
🌹Among the secrets of Zahra’s spiritual authority (s) is her connection to the vast system of divine unity and to the source of the monotheistic sensibility.
🌹Connection to divine unity means a heartfelt bond with its pillars and its truth, through both the software and hardware of divine unity.
🌹A vast system of divine unity that unfolds divine unity to its fullest perfection.
🌹The heart reaches perfection by following the pattern of hearts. At the height of perfection, it must attain the full measure of its capacity. The innate disposition toward divine unity lies within the human heart, but only a sound and knowing heart can bring it to its highest perfection in divine unity.
🌹A school and nursery of divine unity is the acquisition of learning and knowledge that, by receiving warmth and light, reaches the fullness of radiance, grows warm, and gives forth light and heat.
🌹Innate learning and knowledge can reveal themselves only through a heart that has attained perfection.
🌹The breath and heartbeat of divine unity guarantee a life grounded in divine unity! From whose soul do this breath and this pulse resound?
🌹A Fatimid passing is different from departing from Fatima. An age of unveiledness and immodesty is an age of departing from Fatima, and of departing from purity, beauty, joy, and serenity.
🌹If Zahra departs from our souls, the real death and metamorphosis of the human being begin.
🌹A departure in divine unity differs from departing from divine unity. To depart from divine unity is real death—the darkest and most shameful kind of death.
🌹The highest sign of Fatima in our hearts is a Fatimid life: to be of Zahra. If Fatima’s spirit is present in our souls, a Fatimid life can be felt; the Fatimid world transforms the very foundations of our being.
🌹One day Fatima will rise once more, and divine unity will shine from Fatima’s heart upon all existence.
🌹Fatima departed this world in anger at an ungrateful community; therefore, the world is under God’s wrath.
🌹 قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَغْضَبُ لِغَضَبِ فَاطِمَةَ وَ يَرْضَى لِرِضَاهَا.
🌹 The struggle in the universe is a struggle between shirk and tawhid. Everyone in this world has a role to play in affirming divine unity; this world is an arena for striving in the cause of tawhid.
🌹 Ali and Fatima together embody the balance and flourishing of creation, and the appearance of wondrous marvels. With Fatima’s untimely passing, the balance of the earthly world was disrupted, and the world was deprived of its highest blessings. Fatima’s martyrdom was an injustice against the earth and the material world.
🌹 Fatima embodied the all-encompassing word of tawhid. Tawhid was attacked at the door; the aim was to destroy the ocean of prophethood and its legacy.
🌹 Behind every corrupt person lies an army of devils, ready to support them! And behind every righteous person lies an army of forces from the All-Merciful.
🌹 Shirk is like the forbidden tree: do not go near it!
🌹 The world is at the moment when reason is setting, when strong convictions in tawhid are waning, and when it stands on the brink of shirk’s triumph and true destruction.
🌹وَ حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ الشِّرْكَ إِخْلَاصاً لَهُ بِالرُّبُوبِيَّةِ، فَ اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقاتِهِ وَ لا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَ أَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ، وَ أَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ فِيمَا أَمَرَكُمْ بِهِ وَ نَهَاكُمْ عَنْهُ فَإِنَّهُ إِنَّما يَخْشَى اللَّهَ مِنْ عِبادِهِ الْعُلَماء
عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: عُرْوَةُ اللَّهِ الْوُثْقَى التَّوْحِيدُ وَ الصِّبْغَةُ الْإِسْلَامُ
عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ فِطْرَتَ اللَّهِ الَّتِي فَطَرَ النَّاسَ عَلَيْها قَالَ فُطِرُوا عَلَى التَّوْحِيدِ .
عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ أُذَيْنَةَ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ع عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ حُنَفاءَ لِلَّهِ غَيْرَ مُشْرِكِينَ بِهِ مَا الْحَنِيفِيَّةُ قَالَ هِيَ الْفِطْرَةُ الَّتِي فَطَرَ النَّاسَ عَلَيْهَا فَطَرَ اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ عَلَى مَعْرِفَتِهِ .
زُرَارَةَ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ع عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ- فِطْرَتَ اللَّهِ الَّتِي فَطَرَ النَّاسَ عَلَيْها قَالَ فَطَرَهُمْ عَلَى مَعْرِفَةِ أَنَّهُ رَبُّهُمْ وَ لَوْ لَا ذَلِكَ لَمْ يَعْلَمُوا إِذَا سَأَلُوا مِنْ رَبِّهِمْ وَ لَا مِنْ رَازِقِهِمْ
عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ- وَ إِذْ أَخَذَ رَبُّكَ مِنْ بَنِي آدَمَ مِنْ ظُهُورِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ وَ أَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلى أَنْفُسِهِمْ أَ لَسْتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ قالُوا بَلى قَالَ ثَبَتَتِ الْمَعْرِفَةُ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ وَ نَسُوا الْمَوْقِفَ سَيَذْكُرُونَهُ يَوْماً مَا وَ لَوْ لَا ذَلِكَ لَمْ يَدْرِ أَحَدٌ مَنْ خَالِقُهُ وَ لَا مَنْ رَازِقُهُ.
عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع أَنَّهُ قَالَ: أَيَّ شَيْءٍ اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ فَقُلْتُ اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَالَ وَ كَانَ ثَمَّ شَيْءٌ فَيَكُونُ أَكْبَرَ مِنْهُ قُلْتُ وَ مَا هُوَ فَقَالَ اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ مِنْ أَنْ يُوصَفَ.
قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَتْ أَسْمَاؤُهُ الَّتِي يُدْعَى بِهَا وَ تَعَالَى فِي عُلُوِّ كُنْهِهِ أَحَدٌ تَوَحَّدَ بِالتَّوْحِيدِ فِي تَوَحُّدِهِ ثُمَّ أَجْرَاهُ عَلَى خَلْقِهِ فَهُوَ أَحَدٌ صَمَدُ قُدُّوسٌ يَعْبُدُهُ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ وَ يَصْمُدُ إِلَيْهِ وَ فَوْقَ الَّذِي عَيْنُنَا تَبْلُغُ وَسِعَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ عِلْماً
عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى كَانَ وَ لَيْسَ شَيْءٌ غَيْرُهُ نُوراً لَا ظَلَامَ فِيهِ وَ صِدْقاً لَا كَذِبَ فِيهِ وَ عِلْماً لَا جَهْلَ فِيهِ وَ حَيَاةً لَا مَوْتَ فِيهِ وَ كَذَلِكَ هُوَ الْيَوْمَ وَ كَذَلِكَ لَا يَزَالُ أَبَداً.
عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَ إِذْ أَخَذَ رَبُّكَ مِنْ بَنِي آدَمَ مِنْ ظُهُورِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ وَ أَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلى أَنْفُسِهِمْ أَ لَسْتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ قالُوا بَلى قَالَ نَعَمْ لِلَّهِ الْحُجَّةُ عَلَى جَمِيعِ خَلْقِهِ أَخَذَهُمْ يَوْمَ أَخَذَ الْمِيثَاقَ هَكَذَا قَبَضَ يَدَهُ .
عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: الْعَجَبُ كُلُّ الْعَجَبِ لِلشَّاكِّ فِي قُدْرَةِ اللَّهِ وَ هُوَ يَرَى خَلْقَ اللَّهِ وَ الْعَجَبُ كُلُّ الْعَجَبِ لِلْمُكَذِّبِ بِالنَّشْأَةِ الْأُخْرَى وَ هُوَ يَرَى النَّشْأَةَ الْأُولَى وَ الْعَجَبُ كُلُّ الْعَجَبِ لِلْمُصَدِّقِ بِدَارِ الْخُلُودِ وَ هُوَ يَعْمَلُ لِدَارِ الْغُرُورِ وَ الْعَجَبُ كُلُّ الْعَجَبِ لِلْمُخْتَالِ الْفَخُورِ الَّذِي خَلَقَ مِنْ نُطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ يَصِيرُ جِيفَةً وَ هُوَ فِيمَا بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ لَا يَدْرِي كَيْفَ يَصْنَع
Al-Maḥāsin, vol. 1, p. 241 al-Barqī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Khālid, *Al-Maḥāsin*, 2 vols., Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, Qom, second edition, 1371 AH.
🌼 Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌼
