Lecture transcript
🌼🔆🌼The Excommunicated from the Guardianship🌼🔆🌼
🔹The Birth of Imam Reza (AS)
📅 Date: 1405/02/09 — 11 Dhu al-Qa‘dah — Dhu al-Hijjah 1447
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some topics discussed in the session:
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “The adornment who adorns”; “Abd al-Azim, Imam Reza’s envoy”; “The secret of the Spirit of Faith and the guardianship of Imam Reza”; “Being cast out of the guardianship of Imam Reza (AS)”; “The eve of Imam Reza’s birth”; and more. Summary with supplement, 1405.02.09, Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat), 110.141 (903) 🌹🔅
✳️✅ ❇️ 🔆✨💫🔆 🌸☘️🌷🌹🌻 🌼 🕋 🌙 🤲 🌙 🕌 📖 🍃🪴
🕋 🌹يَا رَضِيُّ يَا زَكِيُّ يَا بَدِيُّ يَا Be strengthened by the truth of Reza🔆
💫Reza is the ascent to divine pleasure!
✨Reza is the radiant smile of the swiftly pleased One!
☀️Reza is the undying light of the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord!
🤲 May his ever-radiant light be the companion of your hearts, souls, this world and the next!
❇️ A structured summary: The Charter of Imam Reza’s Guardianship (AS)
💫1. The Station of Imam Reza (AS)
Imam Reza (AS) is known as “Muzayyin al-Mu’minin” (“the adornment of the believers”): an adornment that itself adorns. Every believer who comes under the shelter of his guardianship becomes beautiful and luminous.
💫2. The Charter of Guardianship (a hadith transmitted from Abd al-Azim)
Whoever wishes to meet God with a smiling, cheerful face must acknowledge the guardianship of Ali ibn Musa al-Reza (AS).
💫3. Imam Reza’s Counsel to His Friends
Number | Counsel | Explanation
1 | Leave no opening for Satan | Do not give Satan a way to gain access to your soul
2 | Truthfulness | Speak honestly
3 | Trustworthiness | Return trusts to their rightful owners
4 | Silence | Refrain from idle speech
5 | Avoid disputation | Refrain from arguing over matters of no benefit
6 | Visiting one another | Turn toward one another and visit regularly
7 | Avoid division | Refrain from tearing one another down and apart
💫4. Actions That Bring Punishment and Expulsion from the Guardianship
No. | Action | Ruling
1 | Committing shirk of any kind | It will not be forgiven unless one repents
2 | Harming God’s awliya | The Imam’s anger and punishment in this world and the next
3 | Malice concealed in the heart | Forgiveness is withheld until one abandons it
✨ The consequence:
If one does not repent, the Spirit of Faith is torn from one’s heart, and one is cast out of the Imam’s guardianship.
💫5. The Meaning of the “Spirit of Faith”
According to hadiths from the Imams (AS):
Group | Spirits present
Prophets and their successors | 5 spirits: body, holiness, power, desire, faith
Believers | 4 spirits: body, power, desire, faith
Disbelievers | 3 spirits: body, power, desire
✨ Key point:
The Spirit of Faith remains with the body until a grave sin is committed
When the Spirit of Faith is lost, the other three spirits come to serve Iblis
The light of guardianship illuminates the Day of Resurrection
💫6. General Conclusion
The true friends of Imam Reza (AS) are those who:
Speak truthfully, honour trusts and remain silent
Avoid disputation and division
Turn toward one another
Never harm others or harbour concealed malice
Master Ali Saei
(Abdullah Meshkat) Researcher and commentator on Shi‘i wisdom and the foundations of divine unityA researcher specializing in religious studies and divine unity, with a particular focus on the Qur’an and Hadith (the Two Weighty Things). His research has centered primarily on the Qur’an and Hadith; in recent years, he has also explored divine unity and critiques of philosophical viewpoints.
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