Holding Fast to the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Household

📆 Date: 1403,05,11 — 26 Muharram 1446
📌 Meshkat-e Noor session
📌 Weekly session on the explanation and interpretation of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (Supplication 20)
👤 Lecture by Master Ali Saei
🗒 Some points raised during the session:
🌼 My Lord, grant me the blessing of sound guidance—guidance that cannot be replaced, from whose very life I cannot depart, and from whose path of truth I cannot stray. Grant me such a share in the intention to grow that no doubt can enter it. Otherwise, I will become a pasture for Satan, and You will have to take my life to free me from that state.
🌼 Until our final breath, we must not imagine that we have left the divine testing ground. The Angel of Death will arrive unannounced and will pay no heed to our plans.
Even the questions of Munkar and Nakir are meant to make us see ourselves as we are.
🌼 Losing sound guidance, the path of truth, and the intention to grow leaves our being unripe.
If we falter in sound guidance, the fruit of our soul will not ripen.
🌼 First, we must come to know these three things; then, once we know them, we must make them firmly established within us, and after that, draw benefit from them.
🌼 At the threshold of the End Times, the meanings of noble virtues and vile traits change. I am not the same being I was thousands of years ago; today, my being is saturated with information.
🌼 The fruit of noble virtues, and the fear of the fruit of vile traits
🌼 Nourishment from God’s Most Beautiful Names
🌼 The night of the End Times!
🌼 If we do not attain sound guidance, the path of truth, and the intention to grow, we will become Satan’s puppets. He will first take over our hearts and minds, then turn our whole being into his refuse dump.
🌼 Captives of Dajjal-like and sorcerous realms!
🌼 Captives of virtual spaces, lost in illusory worlds!
🌼 The false cries are being heard! Those who are prepared have readied themselves for the Great Cry.
🌼 Sound guidance, the path of truth, and the intention to grow mean holding fast to the Quran and the Ahl al-Bayt. The Imam speaks of them in this way to deepen our understanding.
🌼 The cultivation of Satan!
🌼 Why has the blaze of satanic sciences spread across the world? Am I, too, among those responsible? Almost everything that passes for knowledge will disappear.
🌼 Woe to those who do not recognize the sun and will draw their swords against it! The depth of our understanding is directly linked to the verses of the Quran.
🌼 This is an age in which corruption and sin have reached saturation point; now people scour the past for forms of corruption they had overlooked.
🌼 If I cannot form an intention alongside my Imam of the Age, then I have not attained the intention to grow. A living intention grows; an intention joined to reason grows.

🌼 The essence of the world rests on a single branch, and we are standing on it now! The final lines of the world’s book are being written.
🌼 I should have been transformed in every aspect—even in how I eat, and in my desires and passions…
🌼 With this degree of attachment to the world, can I ask God to take the world away from me? I should have brought all my desires to perfection—but what have I done?
🌼 What knowledge will I bring to meet my Imam of the Age? Have I journeyed to the sun? Can I bear its light?
🌼 We are destined to meet the Light of God.
🌼 How long are we to walk by candlelight? The Imams are lamps for those who seek to see.
🌼 Who is willing, through Imam Husayn, to see, hear, taste, and worship God?
🌼 One system, with three illuminations: the system of the Quran and the Ahl al-Bayt, shining in three ways—sound guidance, the path of truth, and the intention to grow. The three sides of this triangle converge at a single point.
🌼 When we look at the sun, we see that it is light, that it moves in a circle, that it guides, and that it has a design and a plan.
🌼 The path of growth has been separated from the path of error.
🌼 When I see the path of growth, I do not accept it as a way to follow. I love the Imam of the Age, but I do not accept him as my way.
🌼 Where does this love reside within me? Is it merely a claim? Can a lover ever be separated from the beloved, even for a moment?
🌼سأَصْرِفُ عَنْ آيَاتِيَ الَّذِينَ يَتَكَبَّرُونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ وَإِنْ يَرَوْا كُلَّ آيَةٍ لَا يُؤْمِنُوا بِهَا وَإِنْ يَرَوْا سَبِيلَ الرُّشْدِ لَا يَتَّخِذُوهُ سَبِيلًا وَإِنْ يَرَوْا سَبِيلَ الْغَيِّ يَتَّخِذُوهُ سَبِيلًا ۚ ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا وَكَانُوا عَنْهَا غَافِلِينَ
Let us make this verse our mirror and behold ourselves in it.
🌼 If I were connected to the Heart of God, I would be united with the intention to grow; with my soul, I would journey along the path of growth. The intention to grow issues from the Heart of God.

🌼 If I cannot set my intention alongside the Imam of our time, I have not yet reached an intention for growth. A living intention grows; an intention for the growth of reason grows.
Reason is the Imam of our time.
🌼 The system of intention must grow. As it does, all our feelings, satisfactions and pleasures change.
🌼 If we ask God, He will pour the essence of His verses into our souls.
🌼 If we do not reach an intention for growth, base intentions may take its place.
🌼 When an intention sprouts, we must make it into a tree and not be content with that first sprout.
🌼 The union of righteous guidance, the path of truth and an intention for growth will bring about the most exalted vision of existence.
🌼 When will we attain complete adherence to the Two Weighty Things? They must be brought to life in the world of our souls, so that the soul of my servitude may come alive.
🌼 The Two Weighty Things are both hardware and software.
🌼 We must drink deeply of the Quran and the Ahl al-Bayt to attain the lofty station of sincere servitude.

📽 To watch the full lecture, please visit the link below.
🟠 Eitaa channel: Jām-e Jān
https://eitaa.com/jamejan