Husayn, the Banner of Divine Oneness

🌼🔆🌼The Light of Hussein: The Sublime Address of the Sun of Hussein🌼🔆🌼

🔹 The eve of the birth of the Master of Martyrs, Imam Hussein (AS)
📅 Date: 1403/11/13 – 02 Sha‘ban 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei

📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:

🏴 Speaking of the Prophet’s Household, acting in opposition to them

🔹 They speak of the Prophet’s Household, yet board a vessel other than theirs!
🔹 When we praise and turn toward the Prophet’s Household, we too must first seek refuge in God, for Satan lies in wait.
🔹 After the Imam’s martyrdom, Satan devotes most of his efforts to turning us away from Hussein’s way (AS).
🔹 Why? Because Hussein’s martyrdom is alive; it reigns.
🔹 Satan knows this, and wants to distract us with the outward forms of Hussein’s movement (AS).
🔹 But we must bring Satan to his knees!
🔹 How?

• By boarding Hussein’s vessel (AS).
• By walking the path of servitude to God.
• Through worship and good character.

🌿 Knowing Hussein (AS) truly

🔹 We must know Hussein (AS) as he truly is!
🔹 When we say, «اللهم عرفنی حجتک», we are asking God Himself to show us the way to His Proof.
🔹 Let us not take directions to the Proof from anyone other than God, for that would run counter to God’s Proof.
🔹 The one Satan introduces to us is, by God, not Hussein!
🔹 Only God introduces Hussein (AS) to us.
🔹 The sign that we have reached Hussein’s destination (AS) is that the remembrance of God lives in our hearts, the fragrance of worship and servitude to God envelops us, and we come to love prayer.
🔹 Whoever comes to feel this has found Hussein (AS)!
🔹 Anyone else one might find is, by God, not Hussein!
🔹 That is a satanic embellishment of his blessed being, meant to lead us astray and make us lose the path of servitude to God.

✨ Hussein (AS), the path to God

🔹 We must know Hussein (AS) through God!
🔹 With Hussein (AS), God must remain ever present in our remembrance.
🔹 We must remember God through Hussein, and do so with sweetness.
🔹 With Hussein (AS), we must become the closest of people to the Divine Presence!
🔹 Hussein (AS) is God’s friend.
🔹 «إِنَّمَا وَلِیُّکُمُ اللَّهُ»; your friend and guardian is none other than God, His Messenger, and those who believe.
🔹 Those who remember God in the finest way give all they have in God’s cause, while bowing in prayer!
🔹 And that bowing is not merely outward; it is an inward bowing.
🔹 The sacred being of the Imam is nothing but bowing! A state of perpetual bowing!
🔹 He never leaves the state of bowing, never leaves God’s qunut or prostration for a moment.
🔹 His inner reality is pure prostration! His inner reality is pure bowing before God!
🔹 So if I turn toward God’s friend, my heart must turn toward servitude to God!
🔹 I must bow down in humility, attain the fullness of reverence and awe, and never let the remembrance of God leave my heart.
🔹 Whoever uses God’s Proof to erase God from people’s hearts has done the work of thousands of Satans!
🔹 Hussein (AS) curses him!

🔥 Hussein (AS), divine light and guide

🔹 The path is bright; the way is clear!
🔹 Hussein (AS) is God’s light! God’s lamp!
🔹 He is the way of God, a means of reaching God—not a means of moving away from Him.
🔹 Then why can’t they understand?!
🔹 Why do they want to use Hussein (AS) to distance us from Hussein’s God (AS)?!

🌿 Hussein (AS) is the way, not the destination. The destination is God. Whoever is with Hussein must draw closer to God, not become distant from Him through Hussein!

⚠️ The danger of self-deception and misrepresentation

🔹 Woe to self-deception! Woe to misrepresentation!
🔹 Ignorance is bad enough, but misrepresentation—what havoc it can wreak!
🔹 It sets a person’s faith and all they possess ablaze!
🔹 The self-deception of misrepresentation makes it seem as though we are on the path of truth!
🔹 Yet it has no basis in truth: it is the self’s deception, ignorance, and a distortion of reality!
🔹 Through this very deception, we understand the one we recognize as God’s Proof to be the opposite of what he truly is!
🔹 Knowledge turned upside down, understanding overturned, the path distorted!
🔹 We mistake falling for rising, ugliness for beauty, and polytheism for divine unity—and remain unaware of the truth.

🔥 The secret of love for Hussein (AS)

🔹 What protection is there from the harm of false notions! But what is the secret of our love for Husayn (AS)?
🔹 Why does Husayn (AS) hold sway over our hearts?
🔹 What is the secret of Husayn’s (AS) “conquest of hearts”?
🔹 Why has Husayn (AS) conquered the hearts of the whole world in this way?
🔹 What is the secret of Husayn’s (AS) martyrdom?
🔹 Indeed, the martyr is present, entering people’s souls by God’s permission!
🔹 But Husayn’s (AS) influence is something else.
🔹 His martyrdom has a quality all its own!
🔹 His martyrdom has two dimensions: one universal, the other particular!
🔹 Everyone has drawn benefit from Husayn (AS), but the elect of every age receive a special share.
🔹 This special share depends on how well one knows Husayn (AS)!
🔹 Through Husayn (AS), we must penetrate the hidden realms of existence!
🔹 By God! The radiance of Husayn’s (AS) guidance is stronger and clearer than any other light!
🔹 Its warmth and brilliance prevail over all others!
🔹 If we approach his gate with knowledge, love, and sincerity, the Imam will open up our hearts!
🔹 He will transform our hearts! More tender than a loving father, more devoted than a loving child!

📖 Husayn’s (AS) identity

🔹 How much have we benefited from the Imamate of Imam Husayn (AS)?
🔹 Bring out Husayn’s (AS) identity!
🔹 Open the book of Husayn (AS) from the pages of your heart!
🔹 Then you will know how well you truly know Husayn.
🔹 How much have you drawn from his blessed being?
🔹 Could anyone enter Husayn’s (AS) ocean and not be brought to life by his life?
🔹 Could anyone enter Husayn’s (AS) garden and leave without his fragrance?
🔹 They would become a garden of Husayn themselves!
🔹 Could anyone hold love for Husayn (AS) in their heart and not become heavenly?
🔹 What is its sign?
🔹 Its sign is tawhid!
🔹 Husayn’s (AS) tawhid is devotion to God!
🔹 On the Bridge of Ṣirāṭ, the angels will weigh you!
🔹 The fragrance of tawhid is the measure by which we recognize Husayn (AS)!
🔹 If the fragrance of tawhid does not rise from your being, you are nothing but a pretender!
🔹 You will be cast down! You will be exposed!
🔹 How many people truly know Husayn?

🌞 Husayn (AS), the sun that shines forever

🔹 The Imam is that radiant sun whose light has spread across the world!
🔹 Husayn (AS) himself, and his martyrdom, are light!
🔹 How many of Husayn’s (AS) embraces are we held in?
🔹 Not just one embrace of Husayn (AS), but many!
🔹 This is Husayn (AS)! The martyr of God!
🔹 The one slain for God! The Master of Martyrs! The Light of God!
🔹 Do we feel that we are held in the embrace of Husayn’s (AS) light and love?
🔹 Do we know that we are held in the embrace of Husayn’s (AS) worship?

✨ The Imam’s peerless station in God’s vast creation

🔹 Yet in God’s vast creation, he holds a station beyond the reach of every hand!
🔹 Unless that hand is the Hand of God!
🔹 Without God’s hand, without God’s light, no hand can reach Husayn (AS)!
🔹 With God, we can go to meet God’s Proof.
🔹 Neither hands nor eyes can reach the Imam’s lofty horizon!

🌿 So let us seek intercession through Husayn (AS)—but through his true reality! Husayn (AS) is the way, but God is the destination! In Husayn’s (AS) light, we must attain tawhid!

🌟 The Imam, our guiding star

🔹 The Imam is a guiding star, light within light, lamp within lamp!
🔹 God’s all-prevailing light rules over all things, so why have I not begun to shine?
🔹 I, too, must become a sun through the Imam!
🔹 I have said “Yā Husayn” so many times—has Husayn’s light shone within my soul?
🔹 Has the love of worship welled up within me?
🔹 If not, I have not succeeded!
🔹 I have not yet made myself the wick of Husayn’s (AS) lamp; I have not shone with his light!

🌊 The Imam, our guide along the path of guidance

🔹 The Imam is that sacred being who leads us through cities, deserts, storms, seas, and whirlpools!
🔹 With the Imam, have I made it past doubts?
🔹 Have I left shirk behind? Have I overcome it? Have I overcome the promptings of my lower self?
🔹 Or am I still, even now, captive to my lower self and Satan?
🔹 But refreshing water is for the thirsty!
🔹 Have I drunk? How much of this spring, this wine of God, have I tasted?
🔹 Have I drunk a cup? No? Then why am I still thirsty?
🔹 Why do I go knocking at other people’s doors for water, jug on my shoulder?
🔹 Water surrounds me; I am immersed in it, yet still I seek more water!
🔹 I do not know what I am seeking. But if I look within my heart for this nearness to God, then surely I have drunk of this wine, pure and purifying!

🔥 The Imam, the fire of guidance

🔹 The leader is the path to salvation—the way to escape destruction!
🔹 The Imam is a fire atop a hill!
🔹 Whoever is lost in the cold seeks a fire, just as Moses went in search of one and received his prophetic mission!
🔹 The Imam is the very fire through which Moses became a prophet!
🔹 He warms souls chilled to the bone!

🌧 The Imam, a rain of mercy

🔹 The Imam restores warmth to those frozen by the cold!
🔹 He guides us through places of peril!
🔹 Whoever parts from the Imam is lost!
🔹 The Imam is a rain-bearing cloud, a swift downpour, a gushing spring!
🔹 God’s pool is Ghadir: a garden in bloom, God’s own garden!
🔹 He is a kind and understanding companion, like a mother who gathers her little child into her arms!
🔹 Yet he is more tender still!

🏡 The Imam, a refuge for God’s servants

🔹 The Imam is God’s refuge for His servants in the face of dire hardship!
🔹 Did I know Husayn (AS)? Did I not?
🔹 I was distant from Husayn (AS), yet I went in search of him—and that is where I lost sight of him!
🔹 Husayn (AS) is nearer to me than these outward eyes!
🔹 Why? Because he is “the Eye of God”!
🔹 I have command over my eyes; they are never beyond my reach!
🔹 By God, God’s Proof is nearer to me even than my eyes!
🔹 Through the Imam, I hear, see, and feel more deeply than I do through these eyes!
🔹 Is the Imam not the secret of knowing God?!
🔹 Husayn (AS) is the secret of knowing God!
🔹 He is in our hearts, yet he has not yet returned!
🔹 The computer of my understanding is switched off; it has not yet been started!
🔹 What would happen if this hidden knowledge of Husayn (AS) opened within my heart?
🔹 Husayn (AS) is within my soul, planted there by the Creator of Husayn (AS)!

🌌 The unfolding of Husayn’s (AS) light

🔹 God has placed the hidden knowledge of Husayn (AS) within the hearts of the faithful!
🔹 What would happen if this knowledge were unveiled?!
🔹 What would become of someone captivated by a single hue, if they came to know Husayn (AS)?!
🔹 God unfolded the light of Husayn (AS), and from it, Paradise emerged!
🔹 All the beauty of Paradise emerged from the light of Husayn (AS)!
🔹 What would happen if I unveiled this hidden knowledge of Husayn (AS) in my heart?
🔹 Let us reflect for a moment, and we will understand what truth we are about to reach!
🔹 If someone captivated by a single hue were to encounter every form of pure beauty, how utterly would they lose themselves?!
🔹 Husayn (AS) is within our souls; if his light were unveiled, Paradise would emerge from it!
🔹 What would happen if love for Husayn (AS) were unveiled?!
🔹 A day will come when God unveils the martyrdom of Husayn (AS)—and what will happen on that day?!
🔹 God knows!

🏆 Husayn (AS), the pride of all existence

🔹 Whoever is with Husayn (AS) is exalted!
🔹 The very soil that is with Husayn (AS) is exalted!
🔹 That sacred earth shines so brightly that, among the gardens of Paradise, it is like a radiant star!
🔹 On the Day of Resurrection, that sacred earth will shine for the people of Paradise!
🔹 It will dazzle the eyes of Paradise’s inhabitants and take pride in its glory!

🌱 Husayn (AS), the reviver of hearts

🔹 I am that blessed earth which holds Sayyid al-Shuhada (AS) in its embrace!
🔹 I am God’s own field, in which Husayn (AS) has been planted!
🔹 What will the one who embraces love for Husayn (AS) say on the Day of Resurrection?!
🔹 Love for Husayn (AS) lives; it gives life, makes things grow, and wells forth!
🔹 It lifts a person into flight along the path of servitude to God!
🔹 Husayn (AS) must be known through tawhid!

🌿 Husayn (AS) is the key to knowing God, an Imam who shows the way to serve Him. So if we place ourselves in the light of Husayn (AS), we have placed ourselves in the light of God!

🏴 The words of Husayn (AS), a light for the people of our time

🔹 Listen to his words with the ear of the heart! They are extraordinary!
🔹 It is as though Husayn (AS) is addressing the people of our time.
🔹 O people, be mindful of God!
🔹 Keep away from these renegades who have strayed from religion and liken God to themselves!
🔹 They portray God as being like themselves, and this is the root of every calamity!
🔹 Every calamity stems from shirk!
🔹 By God, it stems from shirk!
🔹 Why are our prayers not answered?
🔹 Because we seek God through shirk!
🔹 We call upon God—whom we must invoke through tawhid—with shirk, and our prayers go unanswered!

✨ A word of light

🔹 God willing, at a suitable opportunity, I will present this beautiful discourse to you in all its beauty.
🔹 By God! I had never seen anything more beautiful than this!
🔹 I had read it before, but I had never tasted its sweetness!
🔹 But Husayn (AS) says:

• “With God are the attributes described! It is by Him that the attributes are described!”
• “The attributes are attributes through Him, not that He is described by the attributes!”
• “Through Him are the sciences known, not that He is known through the sciences!”
  🔹 The words of Husayn (AS) are light! His words are the very essence of tawhid!
  🔹 By God, the first and last principle lies in tawhid!
  🔹 The perfection of interpretation is this: in interpretation, the perfection of tawhid is the negation of attributes from Him!
  🔹 By God, this is it! The word is one!
  🔹 It is not two! They are two manifestations of a single truth!

🏆 Finding God in Tawhid

🔹 If you wish to know God, know Him in this way!
🔹 He must not be compared to anything; there is no hearer for Him—He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing!
🔹 It is through tawhid that Husayn (AS) must be found!
🔹 Whoever loses his tawhidic nature has also lost Husayn (AS)!
🔹 And not only Husayn (AS), but also his pure son, his brother, Fatima (SA), Ali (AS) and Muhammad (PBUH)!

⚖️ Losing the Tawhidic Nature

🔹 Whoever loses his tawhidic nature has lost his entire being and his truth!
🔹 It is a hadith qudsi:

• “I desire a tawhid such that you worship Me in a manner beyond which there is nothing higher!”
  🔹 How shall we worship God in the most excellent manner?
  🔹 God Himself shows the most excellent of acts of worship:
• “O My servants! Perform the most excellent of obediences!”
• “If you wish to expend all your strength on an obedience that is the most excellent, it is this obedience!”
• “If you perform this obedience, I will be lenient with you!”
• “Even if you fall short in all else!”
  🔹 If you avoid the greatest of sins, I will not be strict with you regarding the remaining sins!
  🔹 But know this!
• “The greatest of obediences is tawhid of Me!”
• “And affirmation of the Prophet (PBUH), and obedience to the Guardian, Ali (AS), and his descendants!”
• “And know! The most ugly of sins is disbelief in Me, and in the Prophet (PBUH), and enmity toward the Guardian after Muhammad (PBUH), that is, Ali (AS) and the guardians after him!”

🌟 The Most Excellent Obedience Is Tawhid of God

🔹 So the most excellent of obediences is tawhid of God!
🔹 The most excellent of obediences is affirmation of the Messenger (PBUH) and submission to the proofs of God!
🔹 And the greatest of sins is disbelief in God and the Prophet (PBUH) and enmity toward the friends of God!
🔹 So let us take up the path of tawhid and become Husayni!
🔹 If we wish to become “Husayn-people,” the path of tawhid is the first and the last path!

💖 The Most Beloved Thing to God

🔹 The Exalted God says:

• “No creature among My intimates is more beloved to Me than My tawhid!”

💎 Renew your tawhid!

🔹 “Renew My tawhid!”
🔹 What does this mean? It means: take a path in tawhid that raises you higher!
🔹 It means: move with greater sincerity, become purer!
🔹 The renewal of tawhid is not the repetition of tawhid!
🔹 Rather, it is purifying, advancing, soaring, and becoming more limpid!

🌿 To be Husayni is to be tawhidic! Whoever loses the path of tawhid has also lost Husayn (AS)!