Humility: The Goodly Tree

▫️Humility: A Blessed Tree
◽️Weekly Session on the Exegesis of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (Supplication 20)
📆 Date: 1402/11/26
📌 Meshkat-e Noor session
👤 Lecture by Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:
🔘 We must take charge of the vast world within us; God has made us its stewards.
🔘 I must see both myself and all creatures as signs of God. If I consider myself great, it is as though I have insulted God’s signs.
🔘 Is God’s attention not enough for us? Why, then, do we beg for the attention of others? We should regard only God’s regard as truly important.
🔘 If a person looks at themselves in the mirror of this world, they will see themselves as small.
🔘 Let us plant ourselves in the soil of humility!
🔘 A humble person is like a blessed tree.
🔘 How God comforts the heart
🔘 What does sakina mean?
🔘 Sakina is a special mercy from God.
🔘 God sends sakina down into the hearts of the believers so that their levels of faith may rise.
🔘 Sakina increases the strength of the believers.
🔘 Scholarly humility is the most beautiful kind of humility.
🔘 Knowledge must be joined with forbearance.
🔘 If knowledge is not tempered with forbearance, the scholar becomes ill.
🔘 What are the pillars of justice? Justice has four pillars.
🔘 What are the qualities of the God-fearing?
🔘 Faith with certainty means faith with every limb and faculty.
🔘 The desire to acquire knowledge is the noblest kind of desire.
🔘 When desire rides upon knowledge, it drives knowledge relentlessly.
🔘 Understanding is placed at the heart of jurisprudence.
🔘 Knowledge sees through the eyes of renouncing envy; understanding is knowledge’s ears, and truthfulness is its tongue.
🔘 Humility is the mount of reason.
🔘 We must learn to manage humility (next week’s topic).

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