Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼The Arts of Love in Imam Sajjad’s Teachings🌼
🌼The Struggle of Worship in the Words of Imam Sajjad🌼
🌹🔆☘️ Descending before Ascending: Righteous Guidance ☘️ 🔆 🌹
A summary of discussions at the Meshkat-e Noor gathering, 1401.10.8
🌼 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌼
🔆Imam Sajjad’s Perspective
🌹From Imam Sajjad’s perspective, the highest ranks of noble character range from the finest intentions and an abundance of intentions to an intention for growth, which forms the mighty foundation of intention.
🌹Imam Sajjad’s Supplication for Noble Character is, in truth, an advanced course in noble character. In this supplication, the Imam offers his definitive teaching on the subject.
🌹🔆 اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ لَا تَرْفَعْنِي فِي النَّاسِ دَرَجَةً إِلَّا حَطَطْتَنِي عِنْدَ نَفْسِي مِثْلَهَا، وَ َا ُحْدِثْ لِي عِزّاً ظَاهِراً إِلَّا أَحْدَثْتَ لِي ذِلَّةً بَاطِنَةً عِنْدَ نَفْسِي بِقَدَرِهَا.
الصحيفة السجادية، ص: 94
🌹The human being’s place of ascent is the point of descent from the self. The lower we descend into the depths of the self, the higher we are able to fly. Humility is the launchpad for ascent.
🌹When neither “I” nor “self” remains, a person reaches the ultimate end.
🌹Let us ask for the supplications found in the al-Sajjadiyya, rather than limiting our requests to the level of our own understanding.
🌹The supplications of the al-Sajjadiyya express the highest degree of human need and aspiration that we ask of the Lord of the Worlds.
🌹🔆 (5) اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَ مَتِّعْنِي بِهُدًى صَالِحٍ لَا أَسْتَبْدِلُ بِهِ، وَ طَرِيقَةِ حَقٍّ لَا أَزِيغُ عَنْهَا، وَ نِيَّةِ رُشْدٍ لَا أَشُكُّ فِيهَا،
الخصال ؛ ج1 ؛ ص178 Ibn Bābawayh, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, *al-Khiṣāl*, 2 vols., Qom: Society of Seminary Teachers, first edition, 1362 SH.
🌹O God, grant me the blessing of righteous guidance, so that I never seek a substitute for it; the path of truth, from which I never stray; and an intention for growth, about which I have no doubt.
🌹To be blessed with righteous guidance is to attain complete detachment, like the friends of God, and to reach the summit of servitude. It is to become a bird of the Garden of the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary.
🌹To be blessed with righteous guidance means putting that guidance into practice.
🌹To take flight and gain speed, we need not only righteous guidance but also a road and a path: an earthly path, a heavenly path, and the path of servitude.
🌹If we do not become firmly established on the path of truth, instead of journeying toward God, we will journey toward the self and toward Satan.
🌹To reach an intention for growth after attaining the summit of certainty is to leap from the peak of certainty and step beyond it—to a realm beyond doubt and polytheism.
🌹When we leap from the summit, we reach one height from another.
🌹Learning about growth means undertaking the work of the prophets. Moses, peace be upon him, asked Khidr, peace be upon him, to teach him and help him attain growth, yet he failed the class. Now let us compare our own state with that of our Imam of the Age: how will we fare in his class on growth?
🌹Righteous guidance is the highest degree of guidance. Is it the same as the “straight path” (اهدنا الصراط المستقیم)?
🌹To be blessed with righteous guidance means first becoming its possessor, and then benefiting from it—just as we must first possess wealth before we can enjoy it to the full.
🌹Worthy guidance is guidance with nothing beyond it: the final system, the final version of guidance, requiring no replacement or revision.
🌹Worthy guidance meets all of a person’s need for guidance.
🌹To be blessed with worthy guidance is to spread it through every aspect of life and put it to work in every sphere.
🌹Worthy guidance is like the station of light: complete illumination.
🌹Righteous guidance is a system that must be installed in the human heart and then launched.
🌹🔆☘️ The Embodiment of Righteous Intention
🌹🔆 التحريم : 4 إِنْ تَتُوبا إِلَى اللَّهِ فَقَدْ صَغَتْ قُلُوبُكُما وَ إِنْ تَظاهَرا عَلَيْهِ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ مَوْلاهُ وَ جِبْريلُ وَ صالِحُ الْمُؤْمِنينَ وَ الْمَلائِكَةُ بَعْدَ ذلِكَ ظَهيرٌ
🌹🔆 If you (wives of the Prophet) repent of what you have done, (it will be to your benefit, for) your hearts have turned away from the truth. And if you join forces against him, (you will get nowhere), for God is his Protector, as are Gabriel and the righteous among the believers; and the angels, too, are his supporters.
🌹🔆 قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْهَدْيُ الصَّالِحُ وَ السَّمْتُ الصَّالِحُ وَ الِاقْتِصَادُ جُزْءٌ مِنْ خَمْسَةٍ وَ أَرْبَعِينَ جُزْءاً مِنَ النُّبُوَّةِ.
🌹With these three components—“righteous guidance, a righteous way, and economics”—a human being becomes one forty-fifth of the Prophets.
🌹صالح المومنین is امیر المومنین علیه السلام. His Eminence is both صالح المومنین and باب الهدی, and so on.
🌹Our Master must be connected to our soul like a system. Becoming like Ali, taking Ali as one’s model,
🌹The highest form of guidance is the divine beacon of guidance; it is باب الهدی.
🌹ثقلین is that very righteous guidance, which must be enthroned upon the heart. The surgeon of this system installs and launches it.
🌹The intention to grow brings a person out of stagnation, inertia, and monotony, setting them on a downward slope toward progress, movement, and advancement!
🌹The intention to grow dispels doubt and, consequently, removes polytheism. A person’s movement must be continuous.
🌹Doubt is an obstacle to purity and progress.
🌹To reach our destination, we need light and illumination, a path to travel, the strength and power to move, and knowledge of the world we are heading toward.
🌹Light, the way, and the intention to grow are components of our aims.
🌹The intention to grow is a person’s pure fuel for movement, speed, and precision in reaching the highest aims of servitude.
🌹The intention to grow goes beyond the highest certainty: it is a station where doubt lies beneath one’s feet!
🌹The intention to grow means that a person reaches maturity in their growth and begins a new life of servitude.
🌹🔆 عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ: نَظَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ (ص) إِلَى عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ، فَقَالَ: هَذَا بَابُ الْهُدَى الَّذِي مَنْ دَخَلَهُ كانَ آمِناً وَ هُوَ حُجَّةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى عِبَادِهِ.
Al-Mustarshid fī Imāmat ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (peace be upon him), p. 618. Al-Ṭabarī al-Āmulī al-Kabīr, Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Rustam, *Al-Mustarshid fī Imāmat ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (peace be upon him)*, 1 vol., Kūshānpūr, Iran; Qom, first edition, 1415 AH.
🌹🔆 الحج : 67 لِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ جَعَلْنا مَنْسَكاً هُمْ ناسِكُوهُ فَلا يُنازِعُنَّكَ فِي الْأَمْرِ وَ ادْعُ إِلى رَبِّكَ إِنَّكَ لَعَلى هُدىً مُسْتَقيمٍ
🌹🔆 (16) اللَّهُمَّ وَ أَنْطِقْنِي بِالْهُدَى، وَ أَلْهِمْنِي التَّقْوَى، وَ وَفِّقْنِي لِلَّتِي هِيَ أَزْكَى، وَ اسْتَعْمِلْنِي بِمَا هُوَ أَرْضَى. (17) اللَّهُمَّ اسْلُكْ بِيَ الطَّرِيقَةَ الْمُثْلَى، وَ اجْعَلْنِي عَلَى مِلَّتِكَ أَمُوتُ وَ أَحْيَا. (18) اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ مَتِّعْنِي بِالاقْتِصَادِ، وَ اجْعَلْنِي مِنْ أَهْلِ السَّدَادِ، وَ مِنْ أَدِلَّةِ الرَّشَادِ، وَ مِنْ صَالِحِ الْعِبَادِ، وَ ارْزُقْنِي فَوْزَ الْمَعَادِ، وَ سلَامَةَ الْمِرْصَادِ.
🔆 (113) وَ أَيِّدْنِي بِتَوْفِيقِكَ وَ تَسْدِيدِكَ، وَ أَعِنِّي عَلَى صَالِحِ النِّيَّةِ،
🌹🔆 عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ النَّصْرِيِ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ- كُلُّ شَيْءٍ هالِكٌ إِلَّا وَجْهَهُ قَالَ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ هَالِكٌ إِلَّا مَنْ أَخَذَ طَرِيقَ الْحَقِ.
Al-Tawhid (by al-Saduq); p. 149Ibn Babawayh, Muhammad ibn Ali, Al-Tawhid (by al-Saduq), 1 volume, Society of Seminary Teachers—Qom, Iran, first edition, 1398 AH.
🌹🔆☘️ The Intention to Help Those Who Aspire to Grow
🔆Summary of the Mishkat gathering, with supplements dated 1401.10.15, 1401.10.29, 1401.11.6 and 1401.11.13
Ali Saei (Abdullah Mishkat)
110.141 (903)
🌹A blessed life is one spent in obedience to God. An ill-fated life turns into Satan’s pasture and grazing ground, his orchard and garden, and the person becomes a bomb of corruption, sin and depravity.
🌹Through sin and corruption, a person becomes Satan’s puppet, instrument and tool.
🌹On the path of sin and transgression, a person becomes Satan’s barracks, maternity ward and nursery.
🌹To exchange one’s servitude means changing its colors, changing out of the garment of servitude, and leaving its path.
🌹A doubting person is a fire-temple of disobedience.
🌹Disobedience and doubt are a bundle of fire: wherever they take hold in someone’s soul, they become a fire-temple and a hell, placing hell within that person. One who carries doubt and disobedience carries hell.
🌹A person is caught between exchanging the diamond for coal.
🌹Belittling or magnifying the world is the measure of certainty and doubt. Belittling the world is a clear sign of certainty; magnifying it—that is, regarding it as great—is a clear sign of doubt and uncertainty.
🌹The higher one rises in rank, the more painful the fall. The exhilaration of ascent must not make us forget the calamity of falling.
🌹The higher the rank to which a worthy person rises, the more unworthy their fall will be.
🌹We must never consider ourselves safe; the wing of fear must never be clipped.
🌹The higher we rise, the more our concern must rise with us, lest the deceptive assurance that we have reached our destination take us by surprise.
🌹“Alhimni” means: My God, guide me Yourself and make me speak.
🌹Simply being established on the path of truth is not the same as attaining the truth or reaching the end of the road.
🌹Like a lamp, we must burn, shine and radiate warmth, so that servitude may take on meaning. Servitude lies in radiance.
🌹The only experience of eternity is attaining the station of the Divine Face.
🌹Our blessed fear protects us from the danger of falling. False hope tempts us with the idea that we are safe from a fall. Servitude has two wings: fear and hope.
🌹A soul without doubt is utterly pure, entirely sincere.
🌹Certainty upon certainty means reaching a level beyond even the highest certainty, until not a trace of doubt remains.
🌹To be the greatest loser in faith is the highest degree of bankruptcy.
🌹To be envied in faith is to be bankrupt in servitude and certainty.
🌹The fact that Abraham, peace be upon him, sought a higher degree of certainty is a sign of his humility.
🌹In prayer, the supplicant’s hands and heart reach beyond the Divine Throne. To seek worldly things is a sign of smallness—why not ask for the distance of two bows’ length?
🌹Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him, asks for certainty beyond the Sajjadi level. At every degree of certainty, we must ask for a higher one.
🌹A guess: the intention to grow!
🔆The Guidance of the Righteous
🌸🔆وَ مَتِّعْنِي بِهُدًى صَالِحٍ لَا أَسْتَبْدِلُ بِهِ، وَ طَرِيقَةِ حَقٍّ لَا أَزِيغُ عَنْهَا، وَ نِيَّةِ رُشْدٍ لَا أَشُكُّ فِيهَا
🌹The guidance of the righteous is the highest form of guidance. Yet even if a person reaches this degree, they may still fall from this summit of guidance. Therefore, we must always be concerned about our guidance and ask God, the Guide, to keep us steadfast in the guidance of the righteous!
🌹The guidance of the righteous is a request for guidance like that granted to the righteous among the believers.
🌹 How often a person finds himself on the path of truth, yet fails to walk it—or turns aside from it onto the path of falsehood. He stands, in fact, on the most direct road to meeting his Beloved, yet gains nothing from it.
🌹 One who walks in darkness despite having light is blinder than the blind.
🌹 One who seeks help from other than the Two Weighty Things, despite their presence, is more ignorant and more lost than the ignorant.
🌹 Anyone who, despite sound guidance and the path of truth, seeks help from darkness and the paths of misguidance deserves to have stones rain down upon his head.
🌹 This is why the people of the present age are so lost: they are immersed in sweet, wholesome water, yet not only do they fail to quench their thirst with it, they turn instead to foul water.
🌹 The world stands atop the mountain of wisdom—but alas, where are the wakeful, alert hearts?
🌹 They are within a spring of light, yet imprisoned in the dark cave of their own ignorance.
🌹 The soundness of the path of truth must be judged by reason and discernment. The most ignorant way to judge is by the number of people following it: the path of truth may have no followers, while the path of falsehood may be crowded.
🌷🔅 حَدَّثَنَا فُرَاتُ بْنُ أَحْنَفَ قَالَ: إِنَّ عَلِيّاً ع خَطَبَ النَّاسَ فَقَالَ: «يَا مَعْشَرَ النَّاسِ أَنَا أَنْفُ الْهُدَى وَ عَيْنَاهُ» وَ أَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى وَجْهِهِ «يَا مَعْشَرَ النَّاسِ لَا تَسْتَوْحِشُوا فِي طَرِيقِ الْهُدَى لِقِلَّةِ أَهْلِهِ فَإِنَّ النَّاسَ اجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى مَائِدَةٍ شِبَعُهَا قَصِيرٌ وَ جُوعُهَا طَوِيلٌ وَ اللَّهُ الْمُسْتَعانُ يَا مَعْشَرَ النَّاسِ إِنَّمَا يَجْمَعُ النَّاسَ الرِّضَا وَ السَّخَطُ أَلَا وَ إِنَّمَا عَقَرَ نَاقَةَ ثَمُودَ رَجُلٌ وَاحِدٌ فَأَصَابَهُمُ الْعَذَابُ بِنِيَّاتِهِمْ فِي عَقْرِهَا قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فَنادَوْا صاحِبَهُمْ فَتَعاطى فَعَقَرَ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ: ناقَةَ اللَّهِ وَ سُقْياها فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَعَقَرُوها يَا مَعْشَرَ النَّاسِ أَلَا فَمَنْ سَاءَلَ عَنْ قَاتِلِي فَزَعَمَ أَنَّهُ مُؤْمِنٌ فَقَدْ قَتَلَنِي يَا مَعْشَرَ النَّاسِ مَنْ سَلَكَ الطَّرِيقَ وَرَدَ الْمَاءَ وَ مَنْ خَالَفَ وَقَعَ فِي التِّيهِ يَا مَعْشَرَ النَّاسِ أَ لَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِحَاجِبِي الضَّلَالَةِ تَبْدُو مَخَازِيهَا فِي آخِرِ الزَّمَانِ»
Al-Ghārāt (old edition), vol. 2, p. 398 Thaqafi, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Sa‘id ibn Hilal, 2 vols., Dar al-Kitab al-Islami, Qom, first edition, 1410 AH.
🌹 Those who, despite having access to guidance and the path of truth, travel the road of misguidance are like people who walk in darkness despite the light, or limp along despite having wings spread wide! In our own time, despite the radiant light of the Qur’an, everyone walks with eyes shut, feeling their way with a cane!
🌷🔅 وَ تَعَلَّمُوا الْقُرْآنَ فَإِنَّهُ أَحْسَنُ الْحَدِيثِ وَ تَفَقَّهُوا فِيهِ فَإِنَّهُ رَبِيعُ الْقُلُوبِ وَ اسْتَشْفُوا بِنُورِهِ فَإِنَّهُ شِفَاءُ الصُّدُورِ وَ أَحْسِنُوا تِلَاوَتَهُ فَإِنَّهُ أَنْفَعُ الْقَصَصِ وَ إِنَّ الْعَالِمَ الْعَامِلَ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمِهِ كَالْجَاهِلِ الْحَائِرِ الَّذِي لَا يَسْتَفِيقُ مِنْ جَهْلِهِ بَلِ الْحُجَّةُ عَلَيْهِ أَعْظَمُ وَ الْحَسْرَةُ لَهُ أَلْزَمُ وَ هُوَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ أَلْوَم
Nahj al-Balaghah (ed. Subhi Salih), p. 164 Sharif al-Radi, Muhammad ibn Husayn, 1 vol., Hijrat, Qom, first edition, 1414 AH.
Pure, beneficial knowledge is the sovereign guide on every person’s spiritual journey. To disregard it despite its presence is no different from wandering blindly or riding the mount of ignorance.
🌷🔅 فِيهِمْ كَرَائِمُ الْقُرْآنِ وَ هُمْ كُنُوزُ الرَّحْمَنِ إِنْ نَطَقُوا صَدَقُوا وَ إِنْ صَمَتُوا لَمْ يُسْبَقُوا فَلْيَصْدُقْ رَائِدٌ أَهْلَهُ وَ لْيُحْضِرْ عَقْلَهُ وَ لْيَكُنْ مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ الْآخِرَةِ فَإِنَّهُ مِنْهَا قَدِمَ وَ إِلَيْهَا يَنْقَلِبُ فَالنَّاظِرُ بِالْقَلْبِ الْعَامِلُ بِالْبَصَرِ يَكُونُ مُبْتَدَأُ عَمَلِهِ أَنْ يَعْلَمَ أَ عَمَلُهُ عَلَيْهِ أَمْ لَهُ فَإِنْ كَانَ لَهُ مَضَى فِيهِ وَ إِنْ كَانَ عَلَيْهِ وَقَفَ عَنْهُ فَإِنَّ الْعَامِلَ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ كَالسَّائِرِ عَلَى غَيْرِ طَرِيقٍ فَلَا يَزِيدُهُ بُعْدُهُ عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ الْوَاضِحِ إِلَّا بُعْداً مِنْ حَاجَتِهِ وَ الْعَامِلُ بِالْعِلْمِ كَالسَّائِرِ عَلَى الطَّرِيقِ الْوَاضِحِ فَلْيَنْظُرْ نَاظِرٌ أَ سَائِرٌ هُوَ أَمْ رَاجِعٌ وَ اعْلَمْ أَنَّ لِكُلِّ ظَاهِرٍ بَاطِناً عَلَى مِثَالِهِ فَمَا طَابَ ظَاهِرُهُ طَابَ بَاطِنُهُ وَ مَا خَبُثَ ظَاهِرُهُ خَبُثَ بَاطِنُهُ وَ قَدْ قَالَ الرَّسُولُ الصَّادِقُ ص إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الْعَبْدَ وَ يُبْغِضُ عَمَلَهُ وَ يُحِبُّ الْعَمَلَ وَ يُبْغِضُ بَدَنَهُ وَ اعْلَمْ أَنَّ لِكُلِّ عَمَلٍ نَبَاتاً وَ كُلُّ نَبَاتٍ لَا غِنَى بِهِ عَنِ الْمَاءِ وَ الْمِيَاهُ مُخْتَلِفَةٌ فَمَا طَابَ سَقْيُهُ طَابَ غَرْسُهُ وَ حَلَتْ ثَمَرَتُهُ وَ مَا خَبُثَ سَقْيُهُ خَبُثَ غَرْسُهُ وَ أَمَرَّتْ ثَمَرَتُه
Nahj al-Balāgha (ed. Ṣubḥī Ṣāliḥ), p. 215 al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 1 vol., Hijrat, Qom, first edition, 1414 AH.
🔆The Intention to Grow
🌹 It may happen that a person reaches the station of a sound intention, yet falls from uprightness into baseness. In every situation, then, we should equip ourselves not only with the garment of hope, but also with the garment of fear. Remembrance of God must never be forgotten. The higher we rise, the greater the dangers become.
🌹 Intention springs from a sound heart. A sound heart is one adorned with the beauty of faith, whose senses are attuned to the repugnance of disbelief, transgression and disobedience, and which can abide no such repugnance.
🌹 A sound heart is a true connoisseur of beauty. A flower is complete: it possesses every adornment all at once.
🔆Beloved of Faith
🌹 We must move from loving faith to embodying its beauty.
🌹 When a person falls in love with faith, faith becomes their lover in turn, even as it remains their beloved.
🌹 Faith and love must be put into practice. When love truly manifests, the world is adorned with the pure light of love.
🌷🔅 Al-Ḥujurāt: 7 وَ اعْلَمُوا أَنَّ فيكُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَوْ يُطيعُكُمْ في كَثيرٍ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ لَعَنِتُّمْ وَ لكِنَّ اللَّهَ حَبَّبَ إِلَيْكُمُ الْإيمانَ وَ زَيَّنَهُ في قُلُوبِكُمْ وَ كَرَّهَ إِلَيْكُمُ الْكُفْرَ وَ الْفُسُوقَ وَ الْعِصْيانَ أُولئِكَ هُمُ الرَّاشِدُونَ
🌷🔅 And know that the Messenger of God is among you. If he were to obey you in many matters, you would surely be put to hardship. But God has made faith beloved to you and adorned it in your hearts, and made disbelief, transgression and sin hateful to you. Such people are rightly guided.
🌹 When love manifests, it makes the beloved fall in love with the lover. Otherwise, love remains one-sided: in such a case, the person who claims to love is merely on the path of love; they have not yet reached its destination.
🌷🔅 فَقَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ): «وَ هَلْ الدِّينُ إِلَّا الْحُبُّ؟ قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: حَبَّبَ إِلَيْكُمُ الْإِيمانَ وَ زَيَّنَهُ فِي قُلُوبِكُمْ، وَ قَالَ: إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللَّهُ[1], وَ قَالَ: يُحِبُّونَ مَنْ هاجَرَ إِلَيْهِمْ[2], إِنَّ رَجُلًا أَتَى النَّبِيَّ (صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ) فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أُحِبُّ الْمُصَلِّينَ وَ لَا أُصَلِّي، وَ أُحِبُّ الصَّوَّامِينَ وَ لَا أَصُومُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ (صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ): أَنْتَ مَعَ مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ، وَ لَكَ مَا اكْتَسَبْتُ».
وَ قَالَ: «مَا تَبْغُونَ وَ مَا تُرِيدُونَ، أَمَا إِنَّهَا لَوْ كَانَتْ فُزْعَةٌ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَزِعَ كُلُّ قَوْمٍ إِلَى مَأْمَنِهِمْ، وَ فَزِعْنَا إِلَى نَبِيِّنَا، وَ فَزِعْتُمْ إِلَيْنَا».[3]
Al-Burhān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʾān vol. 5 105
🌹 One who has attained the intention to grow has freed themselves from every degree of shirk and doubt. One’s state and watchfulness, and the effect of remembering death on one’s conduct and on the way one manages one’s state, work, and actions, provide a measure by which to test the soundness of one’s certainty and whether one has attained the intention to grow.
🔆Doubt lies in wait for the intention to grow
🌹The certainty that outruns doubt about one’s own doubting is death.
🌹The certainty that resembles doubt is death.
🌷🔅 وَ قَالَ ع مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَقِيناً لَا شَكَ فِيهِ أَشْبَهَ بِشَكٍّ لَا يَقِينَ فِيهِ مِنَ الْمَوْت
Man lā yaḥḍuruhu al-faqīh; vol. 1; p. 194Ibn Bābawayh, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, 4 vols., Islamic Publications Office, affiliated with the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom, Qom, second edition, 1413 AH.
🌹The worship of any devout worshipper who doubts God’s Proof is cast to the winds.
🌷🔅 فَأَوْحَى اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ إِلَيْهِ يَا عِيسَى إِنَّ عَبْدِي أَتَانِي مِنْ غَيْرِ الْبَابِ الَّذِي أُوتَى مِنْهُ إِنَّهُ دَعَانِي وَ فِي قَلْبِهِ شَكٌ مِنْكَ فَلَوْ دَعَانِي حَتَّى يَنْقَطِعَ عُنُقُهُ وَ تَنْتَثِرَ أَنَامِلُهُ مَا اسْتَجَبْتُ لَهُ قَالَ فَالْتَفَتَ إِلَيْهِ عِيسَى ع فَقَالَ تَدْعُو رَبَّكَ وَ أَنْتَ فِي شَكٍّ مِنْ نَبِيِّهِ فَقَالَ يَا رُوحَ اللَّهِ وَ كَلِمَتَهُ قَدْ كَانَ وَ اللَّهِ مَا قُلْتَ فَادْعُ اللَّهَ لِي أَنْ يَذْهَبَ بِهِ عَنِّي قَالَ فَدَعَا لَهُ عِيسَى ع فَتَابَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ قَبِلَ مِنْهُ وَ صَارَ فِي حَدِّ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ.
Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition); vol. 2; p. 400Kulayni, Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq, 8 vols., Islamic Books Publishing House, Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.
🌹The heart is a king when certainty takes its seat upon its throne; when certainty departs, the heart becomes a ruin.
🌷🔅 عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ ع قَالَ الْإِيمَانُ ثَابِتٌ فِي الْقَلْبِ وَ الْيَقِينِ خَطَرَاتٌ فَيَمُرُّ الْيَقِينُ بِالْقَلْبِ فَيَصِيرُ كَأَنَّهُ زُبَرُ الْحَدِيدِ وَ يَخْرُجُ مِنْهُ فَيَصِيرُ كَأَنَّهُ خِرْقَةٌ بَالِيَة
Kashf al-ghummah fī maʿrifat al-aʾimmah (old edition); vol. 2; p. 131Arbali, ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, 2 vols., Bani Hashimi, Tabriz, first edition, 1381 AH.
🌹No radiance can outshine the brilliance of certainty, and no certainty can be attained without hastening to hold the world in contempt.
🌷🔅 وَ لَا نُورَ كَنُورِ الْيَقِينِ وَ لَا يَقِينَ كَاسْتِصْغَارِكَ الدُّنْيَا
Tuḥaf al-ʿuqūl; text; p. 286 Ibn Shuʿbah al-Ḥarrānī, Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, 1 vol., Society of Seminary Teachers, Qom, second edition, 1404 AH / 1363 SH.
🌹Seek certainty with all your heart and soul: its presence is a precious gain, while its absence is an immediate poverty.
🌹The Imam of wisdom and certainty, who has scaled the summit of certainty, seeks certainty in prostration and lengthens his blessed prostration. The Imam of prostration, who yearns to seek certainty through prostration, points to an open horizon beyond every degree of certainty.
🌷🔅 عَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ: قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فِي خُطْبَةٍ لَهُ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ سَلُوا اللَّهَ الْيَقِينَ وَ ارْغَبُوا إِلَيْهِ فِي الْعَافِيَةِ فَإِنَّ أَجَلَّ النِّعْمَةِ الْعَافِيَةُ وَ خَيْرَ مَا دَامَ فِي الْقَلْبِ الْيَقِينُ وَ الْمَغْبُونُ مَنْ غُبِنَ دِينُهُ وَ الْمَغْبُوطُ مَنْ غُبِطَ يَقِينُهُ قَالَ: وَ كَانَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ع يُطِيلُ الْقُعُودَ بَعْدَ الْمَغْرِبِ يَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ الْيَقِين
Al-Maḥāsin; vol. 1; p. 248Barqī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Khālid, Al-Maḥāsin, 2 vols., Islamic Books Publishing House, Qom, second edition, 1371 AH.
🌹Certainty must be tested, lest the mirage of certainty be mistaken for its water and deprive the human soul of life.
🌷🔅 رَأْسُ الدِّينِ صِحَّةُ الْيَقِينِ وَ تَمَامُ الْإِخْلَاصِ تَجَنُّبُكَ الْمَعَاصِي
Biḥār al-Anwār (Beirut ed.), vol. 74, p. 232 Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, Beirut, 2nd ed., 1403 AH.
🌹When you prefer God’s pleasure over every anger and every other person’s approval, you may hope that your faith is sound and in good health.
🌷🔅 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: مِنْ صِحَّةِ يَقِينِ الْمَرْءِ الْمُسْلِمِ أَنْ لَا يُرْضِيَ النَّاسَ بِسَخَطِ اللَّهِ وَ لَا يَلُومَهُمْ عَلَى مَا لَمْ يُؤْتِهِ اللَّهُ فَإِنَّ الرِّزْقَ لَا يَسُوقُهُ حِرْصُ حَرِيصٍ وَ لَا يَرُدُّهُ كَرَاهِيَةُ كَارِهٍ وَ لَوْ أَنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ فَرَّ مِنْ رِزْقِهِ كَمَا يَفِرُّ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ لَأَدْرَكَهُ رِزْقُهُ كَمَا يُدْرِكُهُ الْمَوْتُ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بِعَدْلِهِ وَ قِسْطِهِ جَعَلَ الرَّوْحَ وَ الرَّاحَةَ فِي الْيَقِينِ وَ الرِّضَا وَ جَعَلَ الْهَمَّ وَ الْحَزَنَ فِي الشَّكِّ وَ السَّخَطِ.
Al-Kāfī (Islamic ed.), vol. 2, p. 57Kulaynī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq, 8 vols., Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, Tehran, 4th ed., 1407 AH.
🌷🔅 ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sinān relates: Imam al-Ṣādiq (peace be upon him) said: “A sign of a Muslim’s sound certainty is that he does not anger God in order to please people, and that if God has not given them something, he does not reproach them for it.”
No one can secure their provision through greed, craving, and effort. And if provision is destined to come to someone’s door, no one has the power to turn it away. If one of you were to flee from their provision as they flee from death, their provision would still reach them, just as death overtakes them.
The Imam (peace be upon him) then said: “By His justice and equity, God has placed peace and ease in certainty and contentment, and grief and sorrow in doubt, misgiving, discontent, and distress.”
🌹One who praises the wealthy and blames the poor has a faith and certainty at the height of sickness, close to death.
🌷🔅 وَ قَالَ ع مِنْ صِحَّةِ يَقِينِ الْمَرْءِ الْمُسْلِمِ أَنْ لَا يُرْضِيَ النَّاسَ بِسَخَطِ اللَّهِ وَ لَا يَحْمَدَهُمْ عَلَى مَا رَزَقَ اللَّهُ وَ لَا يَلُومَهُمْ عَلَى مَا لَمْ يُؤْتِهِ اللَّهُ فَإِنَّ رِزْقَه…
Tuḥaf al-ʿUqūl, text, p. 377 Ibn Shuʿba al-Ḥarrānī, Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, 1 vol., Society of Seminary Teachers, Qom, 2nd ed., 1404/1363 AH.
🔆The Heart: A Vast Media Network
🌹The heart’s news agency is God Almighty, if that heart is a sanctuary of God; the angels and the friends of God are the staff of that divine media network.
🌹When the heart turns toward what is forbidden, Satan and the lower self become its reporters. The human and jinn satans then spread lies, whisperings, and beguilements within it—and the human self will outstrip them all.
🌹A polluted heart is a media hub for beguilement and whisperings.
🌹A vast flood of satans and devils vie with one another to control the network of a corrupted heart and mind.
🌹Whatever occupies our ears and minds is what we delight in worshipping.
🌹Satans strive to alter human identity and innate nature, turning people away from their innate nature and making them disregard it, so that they may triumph in transforming the human being.
🌹Creatures cannot help but worship. If they are heedless of the Creator for even a moment, satans carve idols in the human heart to divert the course of worship.
🌹The Dajjāl is born of vile selves and satans.
🌹The Dajjāl is the all-encompassing idol, or the society of idols.
🌹The thesis of polytheism will reach its conclusion with the Dajjāl.
🌹The ominous call to worship—the most polluted form of polytheism—will soon ring out from the Dajjāl.
🌹The vile Dajjal is preparing people’s minds for his declaration and call. Those who seek out wickedness will answer the filth of his invitation.
🌹The greatest tribulation will begin with the supreme idol, making humanity’s need for the world’s greatest idol-breaker all the more apparent.
🌹Shops selling idols of every kind will open in countless numbers in today’s polluted marketplace.
🌹The Dajjal is a super-advanced sorcerer who casts a spell over people’s identities and innate nature, unlike Pharaoh’s sorcerers, who bewitched people’s powers of imagination.
🌹Hollow, rotten minds are breeding grounds for satanic viruses, where shirk and doubt will be produced.
🌹Lies and the worship of lies are the foundation and basis of modern shirk and idol-worship.
🌹The greatest lie is God’s creatures claiming divinity for themselves.
🌹Taking pleasure in magic tricks reveals a person’s readiness to be deceived—to feel joy instead of sorrow at being fooled—and prepares the ground for accepting idolatrous lies.
🌹Neglecting genuine emotions drives people to chase false and sinister thrills.
🌹In the school of heedlessness and disobedience, the market for lies is always open.
🌹People whose souls have been disfigured lend their minds to devils to ride like steeds.
🌹Our present age is a time when records for sin and transgression are being broken.
🌹In this age, sin has reached saturation point. The revival of old sins is one example.
🌹In the end times, humanity is spending its last reserve of shame.
🌹When the appointed time comes for a person’s lifespan, provision, opportunities and abilities to run out, humanity falls silent.
🌹When the deadline arrives, people will lose their heads.
🌹The deepest sleep of heedlessness in the history of creation is starkly evident in our present age.
🌹Sowing doubt about identity and creation, Creator and created, Lord and those nurtured by Him, lies at the heart of the Dajjal’s satanic psychological operations.
🌹The heedless person in this age is a puppet of devils—a marionette for their puppet theatre, mind games and games of love.
🌹The ignorant person is the devils’ virtual puppet, with a real identity.
🌹When a real person behaves as though living in a virtual world, they reach the ultimate degree of distortion.
🌹World Cups are designed to create worldwide heedlessness, and people are heedless captives of these competitions. Those who have lost heart and mind keep the market for global distractions thriving.
🌹Collective blows, amid collective crowds and collective heedlessness, strike all the harder.
🌹Never believe a magician’s rules: you can understand the trickery of a magician only with an open eye, not a closed one.
🌹Magicians toil day and night to deceive people in their hearts and minds.
🌹The magicians of religion and belief have set their sights on people’s innate nature.
🌹In politics, sleight of hand makes the unripe pass for the mature.
🌹There is little difference between a specious doubt and a conjuring trick, and the distance from sleight of hand to sorcery is slight.
🌹The greatest conjuring trick and sorcery are being devised.
🌹🔆☘️ The Swamp of Flaws
🔆☘️ اللَّهُمَّ لَا تَدَعْ خَصْلَةً تُعَابُ مِنِّي إِلَّا أَصْلَحْتَهَا، وَ لَا عَائِبَةً أُوَنَّبُ بِهَا إِلَّا حَسَّنْتَهَا، وَ لَا أُكْرُومَةً فِيَّ نَاقِصَةً إِلَّا أَتْمَمْتَهَا.
🌹May we become so deeply joined to the path of truth and so wholly united with the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt that separation from them or straying from them becomes impossible; may not even a single grey speck remain within us, and may we be cleansed and free of every form of shirk and doubt.
🌹May the oil of our lives be abundant, until we become a lamp and flame of divine servitude.
🌹O God, set right the flaws in my character and my actions.
🌹O God, do not leave my faults as they are; set them right.
🌹Moral failings include reprehensible traits and the seventy-five troops of ignorance, from evil onward.
🌹The deficient and despised person is one who does not know his own faults; the most ignorant is the one unaware of the flaws of his own soul.
🌹Whoever flees from vices has escaped his faults.
🌹If we master our desires, we will be delivered from our faults and become pure and refined.
🌹Lying and envy are among the ugliest and most disgraceful faults.
🌹Lying is ugly; uglier still is believing a lie, worse than that is worshipping lies, and more repulsive still is cultivating lies and making the marketplace of falsehood thrive.
🌹Among the many forms of deception are the deception of status, beauty, conduct, affectation and mannerisms, and the deception wrought through suggestion, whispering, temptation and embellishment—all of which drag a person into the mire of lies.
🌹The desire to be deceived is a dangerous illness of our age.
🌹Falsehood is a weapon for making the beautiful seem ugly and the ugly seem beautiful.
🌹Discerning falsehood and arriving at truth and honesty is the highest human duty and responsibility.
🌹The test grows more severe to prove the sincerity of faith and certainty throughout the ages, including the end times.
🌹To affirm a lie while knowing it is false is a clear sign of making common cause with Satan and opposing God.
🌹To reject what is truthful, right, good and true, while knowing it to be so, is a clear sign of inner baseness.
🌹The greatest and most momentous lie is associating partners with God, or denying or slandering His messengers and His friends.
🌹The lives of base creatures are sustained by falsehood and lies!
🌹Whisperings, deceptions and embellishments are the most sophisticated weapons of falsehood.
🌹Lying is a powerful means of taking possession of minds and hearts.
🌹Beware the hunters of belief who prey on faith in divine oneness, justice, prophethood, imamate and the Hereafter.
🌹Thieves of sight, hearing, intelligence and heart lie in wait along every path.
🌹The world is prey to those who hunt the senses, affection, appetite and noble virtues—jinn and human devils alike.
🌹Lying brings a person as a guest to the table of schemers.
🌹The devils charged with vile deeds work to strengthen them. They know no rest in protecting their allies.
🌹Base people cannot be at peace unless they do evil.
🌹If base people do not produce ugliness, the devils punish them; and if they do, they become still more degraded, ugly and repulsive. They lose either way, unless they repent.
🌹Beware of every kind of pollution—of the air, hearing, sight and senses.
🌹The death of a beehive is that very abandonment of the queen’s command, which causes the order
of the hive to fall apart and turns the honeycomb into a den for mice and other base creatures.
🌹Whoever’s attention is seized has a soul led into captivity.
🌹As the world is being prepared for the Great Lie, guard your pure beliefs.
🌹If you stand with God, He will help you with a mosquito and bring Nimrod to his knees; with a staff, He will work miracles and part the seas, and with a staff, He will make springs flow.
🌹God is protective of His own: whoever looks askance at the believer from the family of Yasin, He will destroy that people.
بِمِلْكِ الشَّهْوَةِ التَّنَزُّهُ عَنْ كُلِّ عَابٍ 🔆☘️ Master Ali, peace be upon him:
بِتَجَنُّبِ الرَّذَائِلِ تَنْجُو مِنَ الْعَابِ 🔆☘️ Master Ali, peace be upon him:
مَنْ دَاهَنَكَ فِي عَيْبِكَ عَابَكَ فِي غَيْبِكَ 🔆☘️ Master Ali, peace be upon him:
🔆☘️ Master Ali, peace be upon him: مَنْ سَاتَرَكَ عَيْبَكَ وَ عَابَكَ فِي غَيْبِكَ فَهُوَ الْعَدُوُّ فَاحْذَرْه
🔆☘️ Master Ali, peace be upon him: ثَمَرَةُ الْأُخُوَّةِ حِفْظُ الْغَيْبِ وَ إِهْدَاءُ الْعَيْب
🔆☘️ Master Ali, peace be upon him: الْحَسَدُ عَيْبٌ فَاضِحٌ وَ شُحٌّ [شجي] فَادِحٌ لَا يَشْفِي صَاحِبَهُ إِلَّا بُلُوغُ آمَالِهِ [أَمَلِهِ] فِيمَنْ يَحْسُدُه
🔆☘️ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ ص قَالا إِنَّ أَسْرَعَ الْخَيْرِ ثَوَاباً الْبِرُّ وَ أَسْرَعَ الشَّرِّ عُقُوبَةً الْبَغْيُ وَ كَفَى بِالْمَرْءِ عَيْباً أَنْ يَنْظُرَ فِي عُيُوبِ غَيْرِهِ مَا يَعْمَى عَلَيْهِ مِنْ عَيْبِ نَفْسِهِ أَوْ يُؤْذِيَ جَلِيسَهُ بِمَا لَا يَعْنِيهِ أَوْ يَنْهَى النَّاسَ عَمَّا لَا يَسْتَطِيعُ تَرْكَهُ.
Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 2, p. 460. Al-Kulaynī, 8 vols., Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, Tehran, 4th ed., 1407 AH.
🔆☘️ عَنْهُ ع قَالَ إِذَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى بِعَبْدٍ خَيْراً- زَهَّدَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ فَقَّهَهُ فِي الدِّينِ وَ بَصَّرَهُ عُيُوبَهُ وَ مَنْ أُوتِيَ هَذَا فَقَدْ أُوتِيَ خَيْرَ الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَة
Mishkāt al-Anwār fī Ghurar al-Akhbār, text, p. 114 Al-Tabarsī, ʿAlī ibn Ḥasan, 1 vol., al-Maktaba al-Ḥaydariyya, Najaf, 2nd ed., 1385 AH / 1965 CE / 1344 SH.
🔆☘️ وَ قَالَ ع اجْتَهِدُوا فِي أَنْ يَكُونَ زَمَانُكُمْ أَرْبَعَ سَاعَاتٍ سَاعَةً لِمُنَاجَاةِ اللَّهِ وَ سَاعَةً لِأَمْرِ الْمَعَاشِ وَ سَاعَةً لِمُعَاشَرَةِ الْإِخْوَانِ وَ الثِّقَاتِ الَّذِينَ يُعَرِّفُونَكُمْ عُيُوبَكُمْ وَ يُخْلِصُونَ لَكُمْ فِي الْبَاطِنِ وَ سَاعَةً تَخْلُونَ فِيهَا لِلَذَّاتِكُمْ فِي غَيْرِ مُحَرَّمٍ وَ بِهَذِهِ السَّاعَةِ تَقْدِرُونَ عَلَى الثَّلَاثَةِ سَاعَاتٍ- لَا تُحَدِّثُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ بِفَقْرٍ وَ لَا بِطُولِ عُمُرٍ فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ حَدَّثَ نَفْسَهُ بِالْفَقْرِ بَخِلَ وَ مَنْ حَدَّثَهَا بِطُولِ الْعُمُرِ يَحْرِصُ اجْعَلُوا لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ حَظّاً مِنَ الدُّنْيَا بِإِعْطَائِهَا مَا تَشْتَهِي مِنَ الْحَلَالِ وَ مَا لَا يَثْلِمُ الْمُرُوَّةَ وَ مَا لَا سَرَفَ فِيهِ وَ اسْتَعِينُوا بِذَلِكَ عَلَى أُمُورِ الدِّينِ فَإِنَّهُ رُوِيَ لَيْسَ مِنَّا مَنْ تَرَكَ دُنْيَاهُ لِدِينِهِ أَوْ تَرَكَ دِينَهُ لِدُنْيَاهُ.
Biḥār al-Anwār (Beirut edition), vol. 75, p. 321 Al-Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, 111 vols., Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, Beirut, 2nd ed., 1403 AH.
🔆☘️ … يَا رَبِّ كُلُّ هَذَا الْعَيْبِ فِي أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا قَالَ يَا أَحْمَدُ إِنَّ عَيْبَ أَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا كَثِيرٌ فِيهِمُ الْجَهْلُ وَ الْحُمْقُ لَا يَتَوَاضَعُونَ لِمَنْ يَتَعَلَّمُونَ مِنْهُ وَ هُمْ عِنْدَ أَنْفُسِهِمْ عُقَلَاءُ وَ عِنْدَ الْعَارِفِينَ حُمَقَاء
Irshād al-Qulūb ilā al-Ṣawāb (by al-Daylamī), vol. 1, p. 201 Al-Daylamī, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, 2 vols., al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, Qom, 1st ed., 1412 AH.
🔆☘️ The wicked seek out people’s faults and ignore their virtues, just as flies seek out decaying places.
Sharḥ Nahj al-Balāgha by Ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, vol. 20, p. 269 Ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Hibat Allāh, 10 vols., Āyatullāh Marʿashī Najafī Library, Qom, first edition, 1404 AH.
🔆☘️ وَ قَالَ يَا عَبِيدَ السَّوْءِ تَلُومُونَ النَّاسَ عَلَى الظَّنِّ وَ لَا تَلُومُونَ أَنْفُسَكُمْ عَلَى الْيَقِينِ يَا عَبِيدَ الدُّنْيَا تَحْلِقُونَ رُءُوسَكُمْ تُقَصِّرُونَ قُمُصَكُمْ وَ تَنْكِسُونَ رُءُوسَكُمْ وَ لَا تَنْزِعُونَ الْغِلَ مِنْ قُلُوبِكُمْ يَا عَبِيدَ الدُّنْيَا مَثَلُكُمْ كَمَثَلِ الْقُبُورِ الْمُشَيَّدَةِ يُعْجِبُ النَّاظِرَ ظَهْرُهَا وَ دَاخِلُهَا عِظَامُ الْمَوْتَى مَمْلُوءَةٌ خَطَايَا يَا عَبِيدَ الدُّنْيَا إِنَّمَا مَثَلُكُم…
Biḥār al-Anwār (Beirut edition), vol. 14, p. 305 Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, 111 vols., Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, Beirut, second edition, 1403 AH.
🌼 ʿAlī Sāʿī (ʿAbdullāh Mishkāt) 110.141 (903) 🌼
[1]Āl ʿImrān 3:31.
[2]Al-Ḥashr 59:9.
[3]Baḥrānī, Hāshim ibn Sulaymān, Al-Burhān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʾān, 5 vols., Muʾassasat al-Biʿtha, Department of Islamic Studies, Iran, Qom, first edition, 1415 AH.
