Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼🔆🌼The Bride of the City of Knowledge🌼🔆🌼
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “Mother of the Night of Decree” “The Fatimahs of Khadija” “Khadija, the pride of the Messenger and the Guardian” “Marvels of purity” “The night of Khadija al-Kubra’s passing” and … An abstract with an addendum 1403.12.20 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🔅🌼Khadija, the Messenger of Allah’s delight🌼🔅
🌻🔆Al-Furqan: 74 وَ الَّذينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنا هَبْ لَنا مِنْ أَزْواجِنا وَ ذُرِّيَّاتِنا قُرَّةَ أَعْيُنٍ وَ اجْعَلْنا لِلْمُتَّقينَ إِماماً
🔆“And those who say: ‘Our Lord, grant us, in our spouses and children, a joy to our eyes, and make us leaders of the Godwary!’”
🌷🔆وَ رَوَى غَيْرُهُ أَنَّ «أَزْوَاجِنَا» خَدِيجَةُ «وَ ذُرِّيَّاتِنَا» فَاطِمَةُ وَ «قُرَّةَ أَعْيُنٍ» الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ «وَ اجْعَلْنا لِلْمُتَّقِينَ إِماماً» عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ الْأَئِمَّةُ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمْ. انْتَهَى.[1]
🔆The Prophet, peace be upon him, regarding the words of God, Exalted is He: رَبَّنا هَبْ لَنا مِنْ أَزْواجِنا وَ ذُرِّیَّاتِنا قُرَّةَ أَعْیُنٍ وَ اجْعَلْنا لِلْمُتَّقِینَ إِماماً The Prophet said, “Gabriel, who is meant by مِنْ أَزْواجِنا?” He replied, “Khadija.” The Prophet asked, “And who is meant by وَ ذُرِّیَّاتِنا?” He said, “Fatima.” He then asked, “Who is meant by قُرَّةَ أَعْيُنٍ?” He replied, “Hasan and Husayn.” He said, “وَ اجْعَلْنا لِلْمُتَّقِینَ إِماماً; Ali ibn Abi Talib
🌹Khadija, the Messenger’s “قُرَّةَ أَعْيُن الرسول”
🌹Khadija, the answer to the Noble Messenger’s prayer
🌹What extraordinary insight Khadija had: she recognized Muhammad, peace be upon him, before his prophethood.
🌹Khadija bore the weightiest of God’s trusts: Fatima.
🔅🌼Bride of all that is and all that exists🌼🔅
🌹Khadija is the bride of all existence; the cosmos and all its inhabitants rejoice in this bride of creation.
🌹The bride and the wedding have their otherworldly counterparts, too. The celestial, heavenly image of the bride of creation, Khadija al-Kubra, is without peer.
🔅🌼Khadija’s treasury of perfection has yet to be revealed🌼🔅
🌷🔆وَ رَوَى جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ ع أَنَّهُ قَالَ فِي الْعَرْشِ تِمْثَالُ جَمِيعِ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَ الْبَحْرِ قَالَ وَ هَذَا تَأْوِيلُ قَوْلِهِ وَ إِنْ مِنْ شَيْءٍ إِلَّا عِنْدَنا خَزائِنُه[2]
🔆Imam al-Sajjad, peace be upon him: “On the Throne is a likeness of everything God has created on land and sea.” He said: “This is the interpretation of God’s words: ‘The treasuries of all things are with Us, but We send them down only in a measured amount.’”
🔅🌼Khadija’s peerless inner reality defies description🌼🔅
🌷🔆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[3]
🔆Know that every outward form has an inward reality like itself: what is pure and good outwardly is pure and good inwardly, and what is vile and evil outwardly is vile and evil inwardly. The truthful Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, said: “Sometimes God loves a servant but detests his deeds; and sometimes He loves his deeds but detests the person himself.”
Know that every deed bears growth, and no growth can do without water—and waters differ. What is watered with pure water grows into a pure plant and bears sweet fruit; what is watered with impure water grows into an impure plant and bears bitter fruit.
🌹What would become of us if we had no sky, no light, no purity? What if our world had no Fatima?! Had there been no Khadija, there would have been no Fatima.
🌹From which garden did Fatima spring? With what water was she nourished? From which world did she rise? Blessed be Khadija, who became Fatima’s fertile ground.
🌹Khadija, bride of prophethood and the prophetic mission
🌹Khadija, the spouse of the City of Knowledge
🌹Khadija, bride of the Tablet and the Pen
🌹Khadija, companion of creation’s crowns and diadem
🌹Khadija, the exegesis of night; Khadija, the inner meaning of repose
🌻🔆Yunus: 67 هُوَ الَّذي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ اللَّيْلَ لِتَسْكُنُوا in it وَ النَّهارَ مُبْصِراً إِنَّ في ذلِكَ لَآياتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَسْمَعُونَ
🌻🔆Al-Qasas: 73 وَ مِنْ رَحْمَتِهِ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ اللَّيْلَ وَ النَّهارَ لِتَسْكُنُوا in it وَ لِتَبْتَغُوا مِنْ فَضْلِهِ وَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ
🌻🔆Al-Rum: 21 وَ مِنْ آياتِهِ أَنْ خَلَقَ لَكُمْ مِنْ أَنْفُسِكُمْ أَزْواجاً لِتَسْكُنُوا إِلَيْها وَ جَعَلَ بَيْنَكُمْ مَوَدَّةً وَ رَحْمَةً إِنَّ في ذلِكَ لَآياتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
Ghafir: 61 اللَّهُ الَّذي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ اللَّيْلَ لِتَسْكُنُوا in it وَ النَّهارَ مُبْصِراً إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَى النَّاسِ وَ لكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لا يَشْكُرُونَ
🔅🌼 Mother of the Night of Decree 🌼🔅
🌷🔆 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع أَنَّهُ قَالَ: إِنَّا أَنْزَلْناهُ فِي لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ اللَّيْلَةُ فَاطِمَةُ وَ الْقَدْرُ اللَّهُ فَمَنْ عَرَفَ فَاطِمَةَ حَقَّ مَعْرِفَتِهَا فَقَدْ أَدْرَكَ لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ وَ إِنَّمَا سُمِّيَتْ فَاطِمَةَ لِأَنَّ الْخَلْقَ فُطِمُوا عَنْ مَعْرِفَتِهَا.[4]
🔆Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him: “Whoever truly knows Fatima, as she deserves to be known, has undoubtedly apprehended the Night of Decree.”
🔅🌼 حَمَاتُهُ مِثْلُ خَدِيجَةُ 🌼🔅
🌹Khadija, the distinction of the Messenger of God and the Friend of God
🌹Ali, peace be upon him, had a mother-in-law like Khadija. The Messenger of God, peace be upon him: … حَمَاتُهُ مِثْلُ خَدِيجَةُ الْكُبْرَى وَ لَيْسَتْ لِي حَمَاةٌ مِثْلُهَا…
🌷🔆 عَلِيٍّ الرِّيَاحِيِّ قَالَ: كُنَّا بِحَضْرَةِ الْمُتَوَكِّلِ وَ عِنْدَهُ أَرْبَعَةٌ مِنْ وُلْدِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع مِنْهُمُ الْحَسَنُ وَ جَعْفَرٌ أَخُوهُ وَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ وَ عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ فَقَالَ الْمُتَوَكِّلُ لِلْحَسَنِ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ رُوِيَ بِأَنَّهُ كَانَ لِأَبِيكُمْ سِتَّةٌ لَمْ تَكُنْ لِلنَّبِيِّ ص فَمَا هِيَ السِّتَّةُ؟ قَالَ نَعَمْ رَوَيْتُهُ مُسْنَداً عَنْ أَبِي عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُوسَى عَنْ أَبِيهِ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ أَخِيهِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ ع عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ وَ كَانُوا هُمْ أَعْلَمَ وَ أَحْكَمَ وَ إِنَّمَا أَرَدْتُ بِهِ تَأْكِيداً عَلَيْكَ وَ عَلَى النَّاسِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص أَنَّهُ قَالَ أَعْطَى اللَّهُ عَلِيّاً سِتّاً لَمْ تَكُنْ لِي وَ لَا لِلنَّبِيِّينَ مِنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ حَمْوُهُ مِثْلِي وَ لَيْسَ لِي حَمْوٌ مِثْلُهُ وَ حَمَاتُهُ مِثْلُ خَدِيجَةُ الْكُبْرَى وَ لَيْسَتْ لِي حَمَاةٌ مِثْلُهَا وَ زَوْجَتُهُ مِثْلُ فَاطِمَةَ وَ لَيْسَتْ لِي زَوْجَةٌ مِثْلُهَا وَ وَلَدَاهُ مِثْلُ الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ وَ لَيْسَ لِي وَلَدَانِ مِثْلُهُمَا وَ وِلَادَتُهُ فِي بَيْتِ اللَّهِ الْحَرَامِ وَ أَنَا وُلِدْتُ فِي دَارِ جَدِّي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِب[5]
🔅🌼 لَكَ مِثْلُ خَدِيجَةَ أُمِّ أَهْلِكَ 🌼🔅
🌷🔆 عَنِ النَّبِيِّ أَنَّهُ قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ لَكَ أَشْيَاءُ لَيْسَتْ لِي مِنْهَا إِنَّ لَكَ زَوْجَةً مِثْلَ فَاطِمَةَ وَ لَيْسَ لِي مِثْلُهَا وَ لَكَ وَلَدَيْنِ مِنْ صُلْبِكَ وَ لَيْسَ لِي مِثْلُهُمَا مِنْ صُلْبِي وَ لَكَ مِثْلُ خَدِيجَةَ أُمِّ أَهْلِكَ وَ لَيْسَ لِي مِثْلُهَا حَمَاةٌ وَ لَكَ صِهْرٌ مِثْلِي وَ لَيْسَ لِي صِهْرٌ مِثْلِي وَ لَكَ أَخٌ فِي النَّسَبِ مِثْلُ جَعْفَرٍ وَ لَيْسَ لِي مِثْلُهُ فِي النَّسَبِ وَ لَكَ أُمٌّ مِثْلُ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتِ أَسَدٍ الْهَاشِمِيَّةِ الْمُهَاجَرَةِ وَ لَيْسَ لِي مِثْلُهَا[6]
🔅🌼 خَدِيجَةُ وَ أَيْنَ مِثْلُ خَدِيجَةَ 🌼🔅
🌷🔆 … وَ أَعْلَمَتْ نِسَاءَ النَّبِيِّ ص فَاجْتَمَعْنَ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ كَانَ فِي بَيْتِ عَائِشَةَ فَأَحْدَقْنَ بِهِ وَ قُلْنَ فَدَيْنَاكَ بِآبَائِنَا وَ أُمَّهَاتِنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَدِ اجْتَمَعْنَا لِأَمْرٍ لَوْ أَنَّ خَدِيجَةَ فِي الْأَحْيَاءِ لَقَرَّتْ بِذَلِكَ عَيْنُهَا قَالَتْ أُمُّ سَلَمَةَ فَلَمَّا ذَكَرْنَا خَدِيجَةَ بَكَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ثُمَّ قَالَ خَدِيجَةُ وَ أَيْنَ مِثْلُ خَدِيجَةَ صَدَّقَتْنِي حِينَ كَذَّبَنِي النَّاسُ وَ آزَرَتْنِي عَلَى دِينِ اللَّهِ وَ أَعَانَتْنِي عَلَيْهِ بِمَالِهَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أُبَشِّرَ خَدِيجَةَ بِبَيْتٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ مِنْ قَصَبِ الزُّمُرُّدِ لَا صَخَبَ فِيهِ وَ لَا نَصَبَ قَالَتْ أُمُّ سَلَمَةَ فَقُلْنَا فَدَيْنَاكَ بِآبَائِنَا وَ أُمَّهَاتِنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ- إِنَّكَ لَمْ تَذْكُرْ مِنْ خَدِيجَةَ أَمْراً إِلَّا وَ قَدْ كَانَتْ كَذَلِكَ غَيْرَ أَنَّهَا قَدْ مَضَتْ إِلَى رَبِّهَا فَهَنَّأَهَا اللَّهُ بِذَلِكَ وَ جَمَعَ بَيْنَنَا وَ بَيْنَهَا فِي دَرَجَاتِ جَنَّتِهِ وَ رِضْوَانِهِ وَ رَحْمَتِهِ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ هَذَا أَخُوكَ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ ابْنُ عَمِّكَ فِي النَّسَبِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع يُحِبُّ أَنْ تُدْخِلَ عَلَيْهِ زَوْجَتَهُ فَاطِمَةَ ع وَ تَجْمَعَ بِهَا شَمْلَهُ فَقَالَ يَا أُمَّ سَلَمَةَ فَمَا بَالُ عَلِيٍّ لَا يَسْأَلُنِي ذَلِكَ فَقُلْتُ يَمْنَعُهُ الْحَيَاءُ مِنْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَتْ أُمُّ أَيْمَنَ فَقَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص انْطَلِقِي إِلَى عَلِيٍّ فَأْتِينِي بِهِ فَخَرَجْتُ مِنْ عِنْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَإِذَا عَلِيٌّ يَنْتَظِرُنِي لِيَسْأَلَنِي عَنْ جَوَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَلَمَّا رَآنِي قَالَ مَا وَرَاءَكَ يَا أُمَّ أَيْمَنَ قُلْتُ أَجِبْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ وَ قُمْنَ أَزْوَاجُهُ فَدَخَلْنَ الْبَيْتَ وَ جَلَسْتُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مُطْرِقاً نَحْوَ الْأَرْضِ حَيَاءً مِنْهُ فَقَالَ أَ تُحِبُّ أَنْ تَدْخُلَ …[7]
🔆The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, said: “No one like Khadija will ever be found. When people rejected me, Khadija affirmed me, and she supported me with her wealth in advancing God’s religion. God instructed me to give Khadija the glad tidings of a palace of emerald in Paradise, where there is no hardship or toil.”
🌹Khadija’s sacred wealth was so blessed that it became a source of support for God’s religion.
🔅🌼 Purity: The Essence of All Art 🌼🔅
🌹At every moment, a pure woman brings a new work of art into the world.
🌹Purity is the soul of all freshness and renewal.
🌹Purity is the canvas for the art of the Creator.
🌹Beauty, freshness, serenity, wonders, marvels and miracles take shape only on the canvas of purity.
🌹A pure woman is no lifeless canvas; she is a constant display of divine marvels.
🌹A pure woman is among the places where the Most Excellent of Creators displays His artistry.
🌹Without purity, life, beauty and pleasure grow frozen and doll-like; every soulless thing fades from sight and heart.
🌹What we seek is a pure soul; it is the flavor, savor, zest and sweetness of everything.
🌹Purity is the key to mysteries.
🔅🌼 Purity Is the Water of Life 🌼🔅
🌹Who can become the water of beauty and delight, bring forth growth, and be a gift of life?
🌹A pure woman is the water, honor and flourishing of the world; she is the pure water of all existence,
🌹The universe is constantly being nourished, continually watered. Pure human beings are its rain of light, its water and sustenance.
🌹We must draw nourishment from all God’s Most Beautiful Names and His signs, and partake of the food of light and purity.
🌹A pure woman is the Supreme Sign of God in the universe; the world draws light and purity from her.
🌹Woman is God’s special agent: she is herself put to the test, and she is also a means by which others are tested.
🔅🌼 When the truth of a pure woman shines forth 🌼🔅
🌹Virtues take root in a woman’s soul with twice the force.
🌹Modesty surges through a woman’s soul. When modesty comes into its own, pure life shines forth and boundless energy is revealed.
🌹Woman is the bearer of a mighty energy of modesty.
🔅🌼 Woman’s primary and secondary roles in the universe 🌼🔅
🌹What does woman do to the world?
🌹Impure women are God’s silent signs; pure women are His living, radiant signs.
🌹God’s signs, endowed with free will, fall when they turn aside from His law; they grow silent and lifeless. If the sun ceased to shine, it would become a cold, dark, lifeless stone.
🌹A pure woman plays a fundamental role in nurturing the universe;
🌹Woman, through time and across the dimensions of time and beyond the dimensions of this world, is entrusted with a special and singular mission.
🌹A pure woman is God’s Supreme Sign. If she betrays her purity, if she becomes an Azazil, she may turn into the wicked Iblis.
🔅🌼 Betrayal of the entrusted mission 🌼🔅
🌹An impure woman betrays the trust God has placed in her.
🌹If the body’s organs betray it, the body falls apart. An impure woman disrupts the order of the world and betrays the order of creation.
🌹Woman bears a tremendous trust upon her shoulders,
🌻🔆الأحزاب : 72 إِنَّا عَرَضْنَا الْأَمانَةَ عَلَى السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ وَ الْجِبالِ فَأَبَيْنَ أَنْ يَحْمِلْنَها وَ أَشْفَقْنَ مِنْها وَ حَمَلَهَا الْإِنْسانُ إِنَّهُ كانَ ظَلُوماً جَهُولاً
🔆Indeed, We offered the Trust to the heavens, the earth and the mountains, but they refused to bear it and were afraid of it; yet man bore it. He is truly unjust and ignorant,
🌹How many women betray the trust God has placed in them!
🔅🌼 The tumult of God’s field 🌼🔅
🌹What a fertile mine and field a woman is, ready to bring forth wonders and marvels.
🔅🌼 The testing ground of beauty and pleasure 🌼🔅
🌹Beauty and pleasure are two crucial elements in the test of humanity, among the most artfully devised means of trial;
🌹What a testing ground for beauty a woman represents here on earth.
🔅🌼 Woman: a wondrous creation 🌼🔅
🌹Woman is a work of creation in constant motion, always at work and active. With every breath in and out, something new comes to pass.
🔅🌼 The Fatimas of Khadija 🌼🔅
🌹The Hasans, Husayns and Zaynabs of Fatima
🌹The outward and inward forms of her offspring and fruits
🔅🌼 Khadija with Muhammad 🌼🔅
🌹The fruit of this wondrous and mighty divine union
🌹Khadija before, and with, Muhammad
🌹A family is like water.
🌹The majesty of Muhammad surged through Khadija’s soul; from that blessed soul, Fatima’s light flowed forth.
🔅🌼 An instructive perspective on “Khadija, the Bride of Creation” 🌼🔅
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🌻🔆Khadija, Bride of Creation🔆🌻
🌼🔆🌼Bride of the City of Knowledge🌼🔆🌼
🔹 The eve of the passing of Lady Khadija al-Kubra (SA)
📅 Date: 1403/12/20 – 9 Ramadan 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some points discussed in the session:
### The passing of the singular lady in all existence—the Bride of Creation, Lady Khadija al-Kubra (SA) 🌹
Our condolences to the celestial realm, accompanied by blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad
### Khadija: the one who is “like Khadija” ✨
Who is Khadija?
Can anyone like her be found?
❌ Of course not!
Indeed, Khadija (SA) is the Messenger of God’s (PBUH) “prayer answered”!
✅ She is the interpretation of this noble verse:
_«وَالَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا هَبْ لَنَا مِنْ أَزْوَاجِنَا وَذُرِّيَّاتِنَا قُرَّةَ أَعْيُنٍ وَاجْعَلْنَا لِلْمُتَّقِينَ إِمَامًا»_
(And those who say, “Our Lord, grant us from among our spouses and offspring comfort to our eyes, and make us leaders for the God-fearing!”)
✅ Khadija is the interpretation of verse 74 of Surah al-Furqan!
✅ Among all spouses, which wife is the “chosen one”?
✅ “Khadija” is the delight of the Messenger’s (PBUH) eyes!
✅ Indeed, “Khadija” is the Noble Messenger’s prayer, answered!
—
### Khadija: a special divine gift to the Messenger of God (PBUH) 🎁
✅ The Lord bestowed “Khadija” upon His Messenger!
✅ She was “God’s gift”!
✅ Yet Khadija knew Muhammad (PBUH) even before he was commissioned as a messenger!
✅ By what “insight” did Khadija recognise Muhammad for who he was?
✅ She saw the “Light of Muhammad”!
✅ She beheld the “Light of Prophethood” within Muhammad’s soul!
✅ And she fell in love with “Muhammad”!
✅ And became the Prophet’s wife!
✅ Khadija is the “Bride of Existence”!
✅ Indeed, Khadija is the “Bride of Creation”!
✅ Khadija brought joy to “all the worlds and all who dwell in them”!
✅ This is Khadija—the very “bride” whose blessed presence brings joy to all humanity!
✅ Khadija holds this exalted distinction:
✅ She is the “Bride of Prophethood”!
✅ She is the “Bride of the Messengership”!
✅ She is God’s Prophet’s “delight and comfort”!
✅ And this is a lofty station indeed!
✅ She is the wife of the “City of Knowledge”!
✅ The “bride of the Tablet and the Pen”!
✅ The companion of the crowns and diadem of creation!
✅ Indeed, Khadija is the “exegesis of the night”!
✅ She is the “inner meaning of repose”!
✅ She is a being who bears “God’s heaviest trust”!
✅ She nurtured in her heart a “jewel” such as “Fatima (SA)”!
✅ Who could receive such a “weighty and immense trust” in their heart?
✅ Indeed, that lady is “Khadija”!
—
### Bearing the Heaviest Divine Trust 🏔
✅ She bore God’s heaviest trust!
✅ A trust even the mountains could not bear!
✅ This “bride” is truly the “Bride of the Prophet”!
✅ Yet she has a likeness…
✅ An “earthly likeness”
✅ A “heavenly likeness”
✅ A “celestial likeness”
✅ What is the splendour of this “bride of creation” upon God’s Throne?
✅ Can we even begin to imagine?
❌ We cannot!
✅ Indeed, she is God’s “treasure”!
✅ “Khadija” is a “divine mystery”!
✅ Here on earth, we know only “a little” of the “wonders of Khadija”!
✅ But what unfolds upon “God’s Throne”?
✅ There exists a “likeness” of every one of God’s creatures!
✅ Creatures of the desert…
✅ Creatures of the sea…
✅ Can we now imagine the “likeness of Khadija”?
✅ What likeness does she have in the “highest realm”?
✅ What likeness does she have upon the “exalted Throne”?
✅ How does she manifest in the realms of “omnipotence” and “divinity”?
❌ It is beyond our comprehension!
✅ Khadija is one of the divine mysteries!
✅ A “secret” among the secrets of creation!
✅ And tonight, the earth mourns the loss of this singular lady!
✅ May the inhabitants of the celestial realm accept our condolences!
✅ اللهم صل علی محمد و آل محمد!
—### The greatness of Lady Khadija (SA): Mother of the Night of Decree and pillar of Prophethood and Imamate 🌹
✅ Know that everything “outward” has an “inward”!
✅ If the “outward” is pure, the “inward” will be pure as well!
✅ If the “outward” is vile, the “inward” will be vile as well!
Now, can we imagine “Khadija’s inner reality”?
❌ We cannot!
✅ She has a “jewel” such as “Fatima (SA)”!
—
### Khadija (SA): The pure earth that nurtured Fatima (SA) 🌿
✅ “Khadija” bore fruit that was “sweet,” “pure,” and “delicious”—like “Fatima (SA)”!
✅ But what kind of “earth” is this?
✅ What kind of “field” is this?
✅ That could nurture “Fatima” within its very soul?
✅ What can one say in praise of Khadija?
✅ “Khadija” is the “mother of the Night of Decree”!
✅ She is the “mother of the Night of Decree”!
—
### Khadija’s (SA) Station in Understanding the Night of Decree ✨
✅ Whoever truly recognizes “Fatima’s (SA) worth”…
✅ has indeed understood the “Night of Decree”!
✅ Yes, “Fatima” holds such a station!
✅ And “Khadija” is “Fatima’s mother”!
✅ She is the “mother of the Night of Decree”!
✅ Now, if you can, try to measure “Khadija’s greatness”!
❌ You cannot!
✅ “Khadija” is the very embodiment of “tranquility”!
✅ She is the “interpretation of the night”!
### Khadija’s Tranquility in the Prophet’s (PBUH) Soul 💫
✅ How can I reflect on this “noble verse”?
✅ How can I measure and understand “Khadija’s station”?
✅ What came of the “tranquility” Khadija brought into the “soul of God’s Prophet”?
✅ Is there anyone who could claim to bring “tranquility” into the soul of their companion?
✅ This is “God-given tranquility”!
✅ “Khadija” brought this tranquility into the soul of the “Beloved of God”!
—
### Khadija (SA): The Pillar of the Lineage of Prophethood and Imamate 🏡
✅ Who is Khadija?
✅ Who is she, truly?
✅ How can her station be measured?
✅ She held such a station that God’s Prophet, the “Beloved of God,” loved her deeply!
✅ His “eyes” were brightened by her “beauty”!
✅ And he wept at her loss!
✅ If there were no “heavens,” what would we have?
✅ If this world had no “Khadija”…
❌ there would have been no “Fatima”!
❌ no “Hasan and Husayn”!
❌ no “Sajjad, Baqir, Ja‘far, or Kazim”!
❌ no “Ridha, Jawad, or Hadi”!
❌ no “Hasan or Mahdi”!
—
### The Matchless Station of Lady Khadija (SA) ✨
✅ Can “Khadija’s station” be “reckoned”?
❌ It cannot!
✅ “Khadija al-Kubra” was a distinction for the “Messenger of God”!
✅ And a distinction for the “Friend of God”!
✅ She was a source of “pride and honor” for the Messenger of God (PBUH) and the Commander of the Faithful (AS)!
—
### Six Unparalleled Distinctions of the Commander of the Faithful (AS) 🏆
✅ The Messenger of God (PBUH) said to the people:
*”God granted Ali six special distinctions that no one else possesses!”*
❌ Not even I, though I am God’s Prophet, possess these six distinctions!
❌ Nor does any of the prophets who came before me!
✅ Why?
✅ Because no prophet has a father-in-law like mine!
❓ Isn’t that strange?
✅ It is!
✅ At first glance, it seems to be “Ali’s distinction”…
✅ But in truth, it is “the Prophet’s distinction”!
✅ Ali has a father-in-law like mine!
✅ And no one else has such a father-in-law!
✅ Even I, the Messenger of God, have no “father-in-law” like him!
✅ Ali has a mother-in-law like Khadija!
✅ I have no such mother-in-law!
✅ And none of the prophets has a mother-in-law like Khadija!
✅ And what of the other four distinctions?
✅ Ali has a wife like Fatima (SA)!
❌ I have no wife like her!
✅ Ali has children like Hasan and Husayn!
❌ And no one else has children like them!
✅ Ali (AS) was born in the Sacred House of God!
❌ I was born in the home of my grandfather, Abd al-Muttalib!
✅ Indeed, Ali’s (AS) distinctions are the Prophet’s (PBUH) distinctions!
✅ Among all these exalted ranks, Khadija (SA) is the radiant link in this chain!
✅ May God’s blessings and peace be upon the unique lady of all creation!
✅ اللهم صل علی محمد و آل محمد!
### Khadija (SA): A Peerless Lady and the Root of the Light of the Imamate 🌹
✅ Another hadith relates:
“O Ali, this hadith is addressed to you!”
✅ You possess “special distinctions that I do not have”!
✅ You have a wife like Fatima (SA), and I have no wife like her!
✅ You have children like Hasan and Husayn in your loins!
✅ Like me, you have Khadija as your mother-in-law, whom I do not have!
✅ Khadija shines in the soul of the Prophet and the soul of Ali!
✅ Like me, you have a father-in-law, though I have no father-in-law like him!
✅ O Ali, like Ja‘far, you have a brother, and I have no brother like him!
✅ Like Fatima bint Asad, you have a mother, and I do not!
—
### Khadija (SA): The One for Whom the Messenger of God (PBUH) Wept in Her Absence 💔
✅ Who was Khadija?
✅ One must “enter the Prophet’s soul” to grasp “Khadija’s greatness”!
✅ How did the Messenger of God (PBUH) see “Khadija’s greatness”?
The account of “Fatima’s (SA) marriage proposal” relates:
✅ One of the wives of the Messenger of God (PBUH) said:
*“If Khadija were alive, her eyes would be bright with joy at this marriage!”*
✅ Umm Salama relates:
*“When we mentioned Khadija and spoke her name, the Messenger of God (PBUH) wept. Then he said: ‘Khadija… and where can one find another like Khadija? Nowhere! Khadija had no equal; she was one of a kind, without peer!’”*
✅ “When people rejected me, Khadija believed me!”
✅ “She helped me uphold God’s religion!”
✅ “She was my strength in championing God’s religion!”
✅ “She supported me in strengthening the faith with her wealth!”
✅ And God commanded me to give Khadija the glad tidings
✅ of a palace of emerald in Paradise!
✅ Yes, that is the kind of woman Khadija was!
—
### The Light of Khadija (SA) and the Surging Grandeur of Muhammad (PBUH) ✨
✅ The purity of Khadija is beyond comprehension or description!
✅ Who is Khadija?
✅ What came of the union of this sacred light with the magnificent light of Muhammad?
✅ What mighty star shone in this world of existence?
✅ What greatness was made manifest?
✅ What was the sum of these two lights?
✅ What, truly, did Khadija do?
✅ What came of the union of these great—and greatest—elements of creation?
✅ Its fruit was one such as Fatima (SA)!
✅ The surging grandeur of Muhammad within Khadija’s soul brought about God’s creation of wonders both novel and astonishing!
✅ Yes, purity is the highest art!
✅ And purity is Khadija’s art!
✅ Khadija is the very embodiment of art!
✅ All the art of creation was gathered in her blessed soul!
✅ One of her greatest virtues was her purity and cleanliness!
✅ This made her a place of beauty and freshness!
✅ O beauty!
✅ O purity!
✅ The very ground from which freshness, marvels and wonders emerge!
✅ Yes, only from the heart of purity do divine miracles come to pass!
—
### Khadija (SA): A Pure Tablet for the Manifestation of Divine Art 📜
✅ O God!
✅ You draw your wondrous pen only across a pure tablet!
✅ You reveal your sublime majesty only through a pure tablet!
✅ A pure woman is a new work of art in every moment of this world!
✅ A pure woman is no inert tablet!
✅ Rather, she is God’s enduring display!
✅ She displays God’s wonders!
✅ Yes, a pure woman is where the arts of divine mercy are revealed!
What would become of us without purity?
❌ All the “beauties of creation” will become mere “puppets”!
❌ “The pleasures of this world” will be lifeless!
❌ They will stir no one’s “appetite”!
❌ They will be nothing but mirages!
✅ The “spirit” is the “life of the soul”!
✅ If there is no “purity,” upon what “vessel” or “soul” can the “holy spirit” be breathed?
✅ The “ground of purity” must itself be “pure within”…
✅ so that God may breathe His “holy spirit” into it!
✅ Yes, “purity” is what all humanity has lost and longs to find!
✅ “Purity” is the very “spirit, flavor, and savor of creation”!
✅ “Purity” is the “salt” of everything!
✅ “Purity” is the “key to mysteries”!
✅ “Purity” renews this world with “freshness and cleanliness” at every moment!
✅ “Purity” is the “tablet of art” fashioned by the Divine Artist!
—
### The Pure Woman: A Special Sign of God and a Pillar of the World’s Spiritual Life 🌿✨
✅ If the “pure tablet” loses its “sanctity,” it will be “cast down”!
✅ “Purity” is “purer than water”!
✅ It is “purer than water itself”!
✅ The “pure woman” is the world’s “water,” its “honor,” and its “flourishing”!
✅ She is the “purifying water” of existence—or rather, she is “above and beyond it”!
✅ The “land of purity” is a “ground” from which the “world of existence” draws “nourishment” through her “purity”!
✅ The world must be “purified” to attain its “fairest stature”!
✅ Then it can “take flight” and “soar”!
✅ And the “pure woman” has this distinction!
✅ From the heart of this pure sanctuary and precinct, the “light of God” shines forth!
✅ And the people of the worlds draw “nourishment” from it!
✅ “Serenity” wells up from it!
✅ And the inhabitants of the worlds make it “food for their souls”!
✅ The world is “watered” by the “pure woman”!
✅ It is “illuminated”!
✅ It is “filled with blessings”!
✅ Yes, we must “continually” draw “nourishment” from all of God’s “Most Beautiful Names”!
✅ Our “essential sustenance” is God’s “Most Beautiful Names”!
✅ And the “pure woman” has this “mission”!
—
### The Pure Woman: God’s Special Envoy and a Source of the World’s Miracles 🌺
✅ The “pure woman” is truly a “special sign of God”!
✅ And the “whole world” draws nourishment from “God’s signs”!
✅ If they do not “draw nourishment,” they “die” and “expire”!
✅ The “pure woman” is “God’s envoy”!
✅ She bears such a “trust” within her “soul” and scatters it throughout the “world”!
✅ She fills the world with “serenity”!
✅ If the truth of woman were to “shine forth,” the world would “lose its capacity to bear it”!
✅ “Noble virtues” are present in a woman’s “soul” to an “exalted degree”!
✅ It lies in “sublime coefficients”!
✅ And if “noble traits” are “multiplied and compounded” in “the pure soul of a woman,” they bring forth “immense miracles” in this “world of existence”!
✅ Yes, “woman” is “God’s envoy”!
✅ “Woman” is “God’s special envoy”!
✅ “Woman” is both under “God’s test”…
✅ and also “a means of God’s testing” for “God’s creation”!
✅ “Woman” carries “an immense and wondrous energy”!
✅ The “force of modesty” surges like “waves” within “the soul of woman”!
✅ Such a “power” as “the Creator” has breathed into “the soul of woman”!
✅ “Modesty” is “a tremendous force”…
✅ one that surges “tenfold that of man” within “the soul of woman”!
✅ And this “modesty” itself holds “sublime mysteries”!
✅ Should success be granted, I will speak of them “in their own time”!
✅ If that “modesty” were to “manifest”…
✅ “earth and time” would be “made flourishing”!
—
### Modesty: God’s Endless Energy in the Soul of Woman ✨
✅ “Modesty” cannot be “touched,” “described,” or “expressed”!
✅ It is “the endless energy of God”!
✅ And “woman,” in this “world”…
✅ plays “a leading role”…
✅ and also performs “supporting roles”!
✅ “Woman” “nurtures” this “world”!
✅ The “pure woman” makes this “world” “flourish”!
✅ The “impure woman” “lays it to ruin”!
✅ She “demolishes” it!
✅ If we look upon “woman”…
✅ seeing both her “earthly dimension”…
✅ and her “trans-arshic and heavenly dimension”…
✅ then we understand with “which dimension” of her being woman is “carrying out her mission” in this world!
✅ And she can, “at every moment,” grow “wiser”…
✅ and add to “the luminosity of this world of existence”!
—
### Why have most women forgotten their mission? ❓
✅ This verse encompasses “every woman”…
✅ but why are “most women” “silent”?
✅ Why have they “shied away” from “this distinction” of theirs?
✅ Why have they “cast aside” “this trust of God”?
✅ Yes, if the “pure woman” falls “silent”…
✅ it is like “the sun of the sky” “falling silent”!
✅ Yes, if “Azazil” were to “forget” his own “beauty”…
✅ and forget “his own mission”…
✅ he becomes “Iblis”!
✅ and is “hurled down” from “the heights of the seventh heaven”!
✅ The “pure woman” too, if she loses “her purity”…
✅ becomes “lower” even than “Satan”!
—
### Woman: The Bearer of a Trust So Many Women Have Forgotten 💔
✅ Yes, “woman” became a “bearer of the Trust”!
✅ She received the “Trust”!
✅ But “all but a few” failed to understand that they were “bearers of the Trust”!
✅ They “betrayed” “God’s Trust”!
✅ They became “most unjust”!
✅ They became “most ignorant”!
✅ What would happen if “every part and limb” of us strayed from “its duties”?
✅ What would happen if “our brains” strayed from “their duties”?
✅ The “bitter” would seem “sweet”!
✅ “People” would pursue “bitter things”!
✅ And mistake them for “false sweetness”!
✅ They would accept “poison” in place of “sweetness”!
✅ And be “destroyed”!
✅ Their “greater world” would become “lesser”!
✅ What would happen if the “heavenly bodies” strayed from “their duties”?
✅ What would happen if they strayed “from their proper bounds”?
✅ Indeed, if “woman” goes “astray”…
✅ She drives the “world” toward “deviation”!
✅ An “impure, unveiled woman” disrupts “the order of this world”!
✅ “Woman” does not understand “what Trust she bears”…
✅ And “does not know” what “betrayal” she commits against it!
✅ What would happen if God’s sign were “turned upside down”?
❌ Nothing but “ruin” could follow!
✅ اللهم احفظ نساء المؤمنین بحفظک!
—
### The Pure Woman: A Blessed Tree Bearing the Wonders of God 🌿✨
✅ The “pure woman” is “a fertile ground” for “wondrous and extraordinary growth”!
✅ Indeed, “beauty” and “pleasure” are “God’s vast arena”!
✅ Two “profoundly delicate” choices in “humanity’s trial” and “God’s creation”!
✅ What “great and astonishing tests” this world has set before us at “humanity’s examination table”!
✅ And how many “candidates in this test” have “failed” at “the head of this table”!
✅ They do not understand!
✅ If they could not “rise to the challenge,” why did they “volunteer for this test”?
✅ Everything in this world is a “laboratory sample” of “pleasure”!
✅ “Woman” is a “remarkable creation”!
✅ And an “astonishing product”!
✅ The “pure woman” is the “blessed tree”!
✅ The “impure woman” is the “corrupt tree”!
✅ And its fruits are “zaqqum”!
—
### Khadija (SA): A Woman of Endless Mysteries 🌹
✅ We were “speaking of Khadija (SA)”!
✅ By God, “Khadija” holds many “inner dimensions” and “Fatimas”!
✅ We have “still” not “known” even “one fruit” of “Khadija’s fruits”!
✅ Do we know “Fatima (SA)”?
✅ We do not!
—
### The Tree of Wisdom and Knowledge in Khadija’s Soul 📜✨
✅ What kinds of “knowledge” have “grown” from “the soul of this tree”!
✅ And what “fruits of wisdom” have “blossomed”!
✅ How many “Fatimas” Khadija has!
✅ How many “outer” and “inner” dimensions she has!
✅ Until I “know” her “proof”…
✅ I will never attain the “station of apprehending” those “lofty beauties”!
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### There is no end to speaking of Khadija (SA)! 💫
✅ There is much to say about Khadija!
✅ It has no end!
✅ If we are granted success…
✅ God willing, on “earth” and in the “heavens,” may we be granted success in reaching the “station of Khadija”…
✅ and conveying it to the “ears of our dear ones”!
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🌼Ali Saei (Abdollah Meshkat) 110.141(903)🌼
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