From the Twentieth Prayer to the Eighth in al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya

🌸 Meshkat-e Noor: A Session on the Interpretation of the Sahifa Sajjadiyya
🌸 Lecture by Master Ali Saei, delivered on 14/10/1402
🌸 Some of the topics discussed in the session:

🌼 The ways we set ourselves alight, turning our very being into a killing ground for virtues
🌼 For my testimony to have an impact, I must first adorn myself with noble virtues
🌼 Returning to the fairest stature
🌼 How can the king of the heavens be brought down to earth?!
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from the frenzy of pruning
🌼 Anything the Imam seeks refuge from with God can, if we fail to seek refuge from it, in one way or another bring about our ruin.
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from bad character (lest I be well-regarded yet ill-tempered)
🌼 O God, bad character will burn away all my merits
🌼 O God, let me not set the whole world ablaze for my own sake
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from overwhelming regret
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from having to take my needs to my fellow human beings
🌼 Let me never become dependent on Your servants
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from turning against guidance
🌼 Let us look at ourselves through the window of the Eighth Supplication: I seek refuge in You from the domination of anger
🌼 I seek refuge in You from weakness of patience; let my patience not run out in times of affliction, leaving me to surrender to it.
🌼 Let my patience not run out in worship
🌼 O God, do not let me become a slave to others
🌼 A human body, an animal spirit
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from burdening myself with undue hardship
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from preferring falsehood to truth
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from pride in my worship
🌼 O God, let me not put my merits on display
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from looking down on the poor
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from mistreating those under my care
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from becoming the strong arm of oppressors
🌼 Let us not speak about knowledge in ignorance!
🌼 O God, we seek refuge in You from laying the groundwork for someone’s treachery
🌼 I seek refuge in You from being impressed by my own deeds
🌼 I seek refuge in You from letting my worldly desires grow ever greater (the more worldly desires grow, the shorter the stature of servitude)
🌼 I seek refuge in You from thinking a sin is insignificant
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from being turned upside down by the passage of time
🌼 I seek refuge in You from the most bitter of misfortunes
🌼 I seek refuge in You from the evil of our final return
🌼 I seek refuge in You from being denied reward and recompense
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from our enemies rejoicing in our sorrows
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from sudden death without provisions
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from dying before completing my mission
🌼 O God, I seek refuge in You from being a child of my age
🌼 We seek refuge in You from a tyrannical ruler gaining power over us
🌼 O God, we seek refuge in You from the many forms of extravagance
🌼 O God, we seek refuge in You from inadequacy