Question No. 3325 2 November 2023 Official answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) verified Content level: Intermediate

How Can We Deepen Our Awareness of the Imams’ Light?

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At the gathering on the night of Lady Fatima al-Zahra’s birth, you said that at dawn, midday and night—the times when she worshipped—white, green and red lights were seen.
Could everyone perceive and see these lights?
What is the wisdom behind their different colors?
How can we deepen our awareness of the Imams’ light?
In the Imams’ teachings, we find: کلنا نور واحد، کلنا محمد، انا محمد و محمد انا، اولنا محمد اوسطنا محمد،آخرنا محمد و...
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Subject category: Ahl al-Bayt and Islamic History Epistemological

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Deepening our awareness of the Imams’ (AS) light depends on holding fast, with sincerity and perseverance, to the Two Weighty Things: the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Household. The Imams’ one light is a complete and perfect light whose expression is a diversity of lights. The changing colors of the lights seen during Lady Fatima’s (SA) worship signify the distinct and varied spiritual states that arose in her acts of worship and intimate prayer.

Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)

Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural Center

The inference is that the manifestation of the Fāṭimid lights continued until a certain point in time and constituted a Fāṭimid miracle, so that Lady Fāṭima سلام الله علیها might be known to all humanity in her rank and station—and, by extension, so might the Ahl al-Bayt علیهم السلام—and the proof thus be made conclusive for them.

The changing colours signify the emergence of distinct and varied states in the soul of Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ سلام الله علیها as she worshipped and supplicated. They also signify the radiance of the Fāṭimid lights from particular layers of the vast world of al-Zahrāʾ al-Murtaḍā, and their reflection from different realms towards the earth.

Put simply, deeper understanding lies in holding fast to the Two Weighty Things through sincere striving and devotion.

The single light of these exalted ones is a light that is complete and perfect; its interpretation is the diversity of lights!

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How Can We Deepen Our Awareness of the Imams’ Light?

The essence and first answer at a glance (60-word summary)

Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)

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