Knowledge of Laylat al-Qadr Is the Highest Form of Knowledge

🌼Alawi Mysteries🌼

🌼The Expansion of the Universe through لیلة القدر🌼

🌼The Mahdi Is the Command Post of Divine Decrees🌼

🌼The Commander of the Faithful: Imam of Truth, Reality, Knowledge and Wisdom🌼

🌸🔆🌿 “The Right of لیلة القدر, the Right of the Commander of the Faithful”  

🔅🌹 An Abstract with an Addendum from the “Meshkat-e Noor Gathering”    “The Right of لیلة القدر, the Right of the Commander of the Faithful”   “An Alawi Mystery”      1402.01.20   Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

☘️🔅لیلة القدر is among the most exalted and blessed of God’s decrees for creation.

☘️🔅Every divine command and decree descends upon the blessed spirit of حضرت حجت on the Night of Qadr. The blessed spirit of the Mahdi علیه السلام is the command centre of the Eternal One.

☘️🔅The spirit of the Mahdi علیه السلام is the command post for divine decrees. All things are lodged within his blessed spirit, and divine commands continue to be added to it. In the truest sense, he is the treasury of the innermost mysteries. Each year on لیلة القدر, the pages of the mysteries within his blessed spirit grow in number.

☘️🔅On the Night of Qadr, حضرت مهدی علیه السلام is the sanctuary of the angels, the Holy Spirit, and the exalted celestial beings. The angels stream toward him like a flood. The angels, full of love and longing, attain the grace of seeing him and receive from him a taste of what lies beyond this world. On the Night of Qadr, the angels circle the Kaaba of his beauty. He rests in the embrace of angels, enraptured by their love.

☘️🔅On the Night of Qadr, in the presence of the angels, a new front of truth is formed alongside حضرت, arrayed against falsehood. A momentous event takes place, bringing about immense transformations.

☘️🔅On the Night of Qadr, everyone must rise to an epic feat of Qadr, strengthening the spirit and capacity for worship. Each person must become better than a thousand communities, for this is what لیلة القدر demands.

🌸🔆The Expansion of the Universe through لیلة القدر

☘️🔅The night of لیلة القدر is an extraordinary time for expansion. Whoever fails to attain growth in worship and devotion has wronged لیلة القدر.

☘️🔅Let us connect with لیلة القدر through its master and Imam. Let us join the spirit of لیلة القدر to the very heart of لیلة القدر.

☘️🔅To become attuned to لیلة القدر is to manifest its qualities—just as the feeling of prayer comes through prayer itself, through tasting its sweetness; that is, through experiencing the joy of beholding God.

☘️🔅If we feel no joy in prayer, it means we have killed the heart of prayer within ourselves.

☘️🔅If we unite with fasting and give its true meaning a place in our hearts, we will experience a joy beyond all joy in the presence of the Peerless One.

☘️🔅Union with لیلة القدر is the key to experiencing boundlessness.

☘️🔅The remedy for spiritual negligence in worship lies within the صحیفه سجادیه. The mysteries of the blessed month of Ramadan and the secrets of لیلة القدر, together with the understanding of their realities, have been entrusted to the heart in prayers 44 and 45 of the صحیفه سجادیه.

☘️🔅The life-giving breath of امام سجاد علیه السلام surpasses that of Jesus; it revives dead hearts and restores the nerve of devotion.

☘️🔅The سجادی strength and power set the soul of the world in motion.

☘️🔅To know the virtue of the blessed month of Ramadan is to lift the veil from its face and reveal its beautiful splendour; it is to behold the blessed month, the bride of God’s months, with nothing veiling it.

🌸🔆The Blessed Month of Ramadan Will Reveal Its Face

☘️🔅On the Day of Resurrection, the beauty of the blessed month will take visible form.

☘️🔅When a person beholds the beauty of the blessed month, their soul is renewed.

☘️🔅If we mingle our hearts with knowledge and love of the blessed month, the colour of our devotion will change.

☘️🔅Let us adorn and illuminate ourselves with the blessed month of Ramadan, and through its blessings become the world’s sweetest delight.

☘️🔅With the bride among God’s months, let us become God’s most radiant bride-like servants.

☘️🔅 Guarding oneself against all that is other than God is the key to safety from the snares of devils.

☘️🔅 Our faculties and limbs must advance beyond mere restraint toward growth and refinement.

☘️🔅 The tongue’s journey begins with purification and rises to give voice to divine speech.

☘️🔅 The eye must begin with purification and rise to witness the truth and the mysteries of the whole universe.

☘️🔅 Our faculties and limbs are still in their infancy, at the stage of seed and sprout; they must grow into buds and flowers and reach full flourishing.

☘️🔅 The faculties of body and soul must be purified, awakened, adorned and perfected; then they may attain their deeper meaning.

☘️🔅 To bring our faculties and limbs to maturity is to use their full potential to discover the truth and attain the stations of servitude to God.

☘️🔅 The false pleasure of sin is a swamp that swallows up the true pleasures of life.

☘️🔅 Our most hidden and secret sins divert us from the Straight Path.

☘️🔅 In this age, the people of the world are spellbound by ignorance and sorcery, far removed from the truth.

☘️🔅 Moses’ staff is needed to undo the world’s sorcery.

☘️🔅 The staff of the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt is mightier than the staff of Moses. We must not neglect it, or we will remain bewitched by the ranks of sorcery and ignorance.

☘️🔅 Cast the staff of the Two Weighty Things against any sorcery, and it will undo it.

☘️🔅 If the eye, ear, hands and feet are bewitched, their powers are confined.

☘️🔅 In this world, without knowledge of the Imam, we are no more than the dead.

☘️🔅 Let us take light from the Qur’an, so that we are not imprisoned in the dungeon of ignorance.

🔅🌹 وَ نَوِّرْ بِهِ بَصَرِي وَ أَوْعِهِ سَمْعِي وَ اشْرَحْ بِهِ صَدْرِي وَ فَرِّجْ بِهِ عَنْ قَلْبِي وَ أَطْلِقْ بِهِ لِسَانِي وَ اسْتَعْمِلْ بِهِ بَدَنِي وَ اجْعَلْ فِيَّ مِنَ الْحَوْلِ وَ الْقُوَّةِ مَا يُسَهِّلُ ذَلِكَ عَلَيَّ فَإِنَّهُ لَا حَوْلَ وَ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِك‏

☘️🔅 The light of the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt dispels every darkness and impurity, transforming a person into a treasury of purity, jewels, radiance and serenity.

🔅🌹 ٍ اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْ فِي قَلْبِي نُوراً وَ فِي سَمْعِي نُوراً وَ فِي بَصَرِي نُوراً وَ فِي لَحْمِي وَ دَمِي وَ عِظَامِي وَ عُرُوقِي وَ مَفَاصِلِي وَ مَقْعَدِي وَ مَقَامِي وَ مَدْخَلِي وَ مَخْرَجِي نُوراً وَ أَعْظِمْ لِي نُوراً يَا رَبِّ يَوْمَ أَلْقَاكَ إِنَّكَ عَلى‏ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ قَدِيرٌ.

☘️🔅 If a person’s entrances and exits are illumined, they become a source of divine grace, with nothing but beauty to be found in them, within or without.

☘️🔅 God is the one who sets our faculties and limbs in motion. Let us seek Him, so that their wondrous capacities may be revealed.

☘️🔅 We must make all our faculties and limbs fast and pray. A person is the imam leading their own faculties and limbs in prayer.

🔅🌹 ِ اللَّهُمَّ لَكَ‏ رَكَعْتُ‏ وَ لَكَ خَشَعْتُ وَ بِكَ اعْتَصَمْتُ وَ لَكَ أَسْلَمْتُ وَ عَلَيْكَ تَوَكَّلْتُ أَنْتَ رَبِّي خَشَعَ لَكَ قَلْبِي وَ سَمْعِي وَ بَصَرِي وَ شَعْرِي وَ بَشَرِي وَ مُخِّي وَ لَحْمِي وَ دَمِي وَ عَصَبِي وَ عِظَامِي وَ جَمِيعُ جَوَارِحِي وَ مَا أَقَلَّتِ الْأَرْضُ مِنِّي

🔅🌹 سَجَدَ لَكَ وَجْهِي وَ شَعْرِي وَ بَشَرِي وَ مُخِّي وَ لَحْمِي  وَ دَمِي وَ عَصَبِي وَ عِظَامِي سَجَدَ وَجْهِيَ الْبَالِي الْفَانِي الذَّلِيلِ الْمُهِينِ لِلَّذِي خَلَقَهُ وَ صَوَّرَهُ وَ شَقَّ سَمْعَهُ وَ بَصَرَهُ تَبَارَكَ اللَّهُ أَحْسَنُ الْخالِقِين‏

☘️🔅 Even the dust on a person’s skin and the garment that covers the body should, in their company, remember God and pray and fast alongside them—even the air we breathe.

☘️🔅 The power of our faculties becomes manifest once they have been fully brought into operation.

🌸🔆Weighing the Testimony

☘️🔅 The weight of the testimony of our master Ali, peace be upon him, reveals mysteries hidden behind the veil.

☘️🔅 Accepting martyrdom points to a matter of immense significance.

☘️🔅 Love for Ali, peace be upon him, is a divine veil: his blessed love is the gateway, sign and boundary of the encounter with God.

☘️🔅 The love of Ali, peace be upon him, is of a singular and most exalted kind—the very summit and fullness of love, and beyond it.

☘️🔅 The mark of sincere love for Ali is fleeing from sin and transgression. Through love for our master, the Commander of the Faithful, a person conquers the land of love.

☘️🔅 Abu Dharr, may God be pleased with him, and his love for our master, the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, testify to the clarity, radiance and exaltedness of his insight.

☘️🔅 Abu Dharr’s palate knew the sweetness and savor of God’s verse.

☘️🔅 In Abu Dharr’s heart, love for Ali was احلی من العسل.

☘️🔅 The taste of love for Ali is among the most mysterious of loves. It has no equal, no rival.

☘️🔅 “Ask me” is an invitation from the land of Umm al-Kitab: knowledge calling us to the land of light.

☘️🔅 The beauty of Ali in the seventh heaven, at the Throne, at the Lote Tree, and in the hearts of creation varies according to each one’s capacity.

☘️🔅 Every station in this existence reflects a veil of Ali’s beauty, peace be upon him.

☘️🔅 Ali reveals himself within our hearts in keeping with their purity.

🌼 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌼

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🌸🔆🌿 “The Night of Decree and the Exalted Governance of the Limbs: The Matchless Station of the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him”

🔅🌹 Summary with Supplement, “Meshkat-e Noor Gathering” “The Night of Decree and the Exalted Governance of the Limbs” “The Matchless Station of the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him” 1402.01.22 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat 110.141(903) 🌹🔅

🔅🌹 عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع التَّقْدِيرُ فِي لَيْلَةِ تِسْعَ عَشْرَةَ وَ الْإِبْرَامُ فِي لَيْلَةِ إِحْدَى وَ عِشْرِينَ وَ الْإِمْضَاءُ فِي لَيْلَةِ ثَلَاثٍ وَ عِشْرِينَ.[1]

🌸🔆 The Practice of Divine Love

☘️🔅The blessed month of Ramadan and the Night of Decree are a special time to practise servitude and love, and to attain expertise in the exalted stations of worship.

☘️🔅Every year—and indeed, every moment—a person must cultivate ingenuity and originality in love for and servitude to God.

☘️🔅Reflecting on the station of servitude is essential to attaining exalted knowledge. “My God, I am Your servant, and You are the One I worship.” Truly, contemplating the depths of this statement transforms the human spirit.

☘️🔅The most wondrous mystery of existence is the bond between servant and the One worshipped.

☘️🔅Before there was any will, He created us by His transcendent will, without consulting us. But were we even there for Him to consult, to ask our opinion about being created?! Our creation, then, was accomplished in utmost beauty and majesty, for whatever He has created, He has created well.

☘️🔅O God, You are the Originator; and I, Your servant, am a work of Your originality, Your peerless pearl. My own choices have made my face of clay!

☘️🔅To seek knowledge is to seek the lifting of the veil, and love is the salt of the soul of knowledge.

☘️🔅Love, affection and delight are the only bridge across to the threshold of the One without peer.

☘️🔅The encounter with God is beyond sweetness and beyond pleasure.

🌸🔆Companionship with the Night of Decree

☘️🔅To experience the Night of Decree is to enter the realm where constrictions fall away: the secret of expansion and the breaking of the walls of limitation.

☘️🔅The iftar of those who await will come at the time of the Appearance—the most joyful iftar in all existence. The Occultation of His Eminence, the Mahdi, peace be upon him, is the fast of those who await; their joy will be fulfilled at the Appearance. It will be the most wondrous iftar in all existence, for the people of the world will break their fast with the blessed month of Ramadan itself—with Laylat al-Qadr.

☘️🔅Meeting and truly knowing His Eminence, the Mahdi, peace be upon him, will be a preparation for the encounter with God.

☘️🔅 لِلصَّائِمِ فَرْحَتَانِ‏ فَرْحَةٌ عِنْدَ إِفْطَارِهِ وَ فَرْحَةٌ عِنْدَ لِقَاءِ رَبِّه‏

☘️🔅If we were to feel that this blessed month and Laylat al-Qadr might be our last, we would be driven to strive earnestly to receive their blessings.

☘️🔅I will not settle for little; I will not settle for this world, for it is meagre and insignificant. Nor are we content with the Hereafter, for beside God’s good pleasure it is nothing. To desire anyone but Him is to lose.

☘️🔅To attain the most complete faith and the finest certainty, our limbs and faculties must themselves reach their fullest perfection.

☘️🔅Our sight will not reach its perfection until it is joined to the network of al-Basīr, our hearing to that of al-Samīʿ, our heart to al-Ḥakīm, our mind to al-ʿAlīm, and our spirit to al-Ḥayy al-Qayyūm, and so on. Our outward and inward faculties will not attain their perfection; and if we depart this life in such a state, we will enter the Hereafter imperfectly formed.

☘️🔅O God, You planted my limbs and faculties upon my frame; so keep them flourishing and bring them to their full harvest.

☘️🔅I am God’s field—ah, what joy there is in grasping this truth!

☘️🔅My poor choices and misuse of free will made me a captive to lowliness, imprisoned me in this world, and enslaved me to my own self.

☘️🔅The spiritual journey of our limbs and faculties is essential to any fundamental journey of the spirit. Let us guide them as an imam guides a congregation, until we bring them to their destined home. This can happen only through God’s gracious favour.

☘️🔅Let us behold creation with faculties brought to perfection, so that we may taste the very soul of creation.

☘️🔅As we gaze upon the earth and sky and all who dwell in the world, we must discover their taste, their light, their wisdom, their secret and their essence.

🔅🌹 أَ فَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلىَ الْابِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ(17)

🔅🌹 وَ إِلىَ السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ(18)

🔅🌹 وَ إِلىَ الجبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ(19)

🔅🌹 وَ إِلىَ الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ(20)

🔅🌹 فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ(21)

🌸🔆Transcendent Vision

☘️🔅The world of existence is transformed by the gaze of the one who beholds it—even by the listening of the one who hears, and by the thought of every thinker. So let us make the vision, hearing and presence of our hearts beautiful and whole.

☘️🔅Every faculty of our being has its own image in the realms of the Throne, the Footstool and the Lote Tree of the Furthest Boundary—even its own Muhammadan image. So let us behold existence through the most exalted images of our faculties, worship the Creator of existence, and love Him through these transcendent forms.

☘️🔅If we connect with God’s Proof with our whole being—our eyes joined to his blessed eyes, our hearts to his noble heart, and so on—then we will understand the truth of humanity, the greater universe. The secret of becoming one with His Eminence is the secret of wilayah, of unity in worship and servitude to God.

☘️🔅To become dissolved into the life of His Eminence is like a drop joining the sea: to become not a part of his body, but a part of his world.

☘️🔅When a branch is joined to a tree, it becomes one with it. Whatever grandeur the tree’s roots draw in, the branch joined to it feeds upon too.

☘️🔅The grandeur of standing, prostration, remembrance and divine love can be grasped only through a pure, clear and unclouded bond with the life of wilayah.

☘️🔅Our limbs and faculties decline when a person strays from the straight path.

☘️🔅May not only our limbs and faculties, but the dust of our bodies, the particles of the air—in fact, the whole world—turn with us in the circling dance of divine love.

☘️🔅The great prophets kiss the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya; why, then, should we not entrust our very souls and hearts to it? Perhaps, on the Day of Resurrection, every prophet will hold a Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya close in his arms.

☘️🔅 Moses sought Khidr, but Khidr would not accept him as a student. The Imams, however, are greater than both Khidr and Moses, and the Commander of the Faithful—foremost among the Imams—proclaims, “Ask me before you lose me!” Yet though His Eminence has called out, not a single answer comes. Surely the prophets and angels have claimed the front ranks among His students.

☘️🔅 Ali, peace be upon him, plucked out the eye of idolatry and sedition and cleared the way for divine unity!

☘️🔅The secret of Ali’s title, “Commander of the Faithful,” lies in God’s love for him. The Creator loves Ali, and the heavenly beings are consumed by longing for him. Ali’s charge through the ranks at the Battle of Badr calmed the restless hearts of those love-struck beings of the heavenly realm.

🔅🌹 عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: كُنَّا جُلُوساً مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ص إِذْ دَخَلَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَقَالَ‏ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ وَ عَلَيْكَ السَّلَامُ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَ بَرَكَاتُهُ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ [تَدْعُونِي بِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ‏]  وَ أَنْتَ حَيٌّ  يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ وَ أَنَا حَيٌّ وَ إِنَّكَ يَا عَلِيُّ [قَدْ] مَرَرْتَ بِنَا أَمْسِ وَ أَنَا وَ جَبْرَئِيلُ فِي حَدِيثٍ وَ لَمْ تُسَلِّمْ فَقَالَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع مَا بَالُ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مَرَّ بِنَا وَ لَمْ يُسَلِّمْ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ سَلَّمَ لَسُرِرْنَا وَ رَدَدْنَا عَلَيْهِ  فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ رَأَيْتُكَ وَ دِحْيَةَ  اسْتَخْلَيْتُمَا فِي حَدِيثٍ فَكَرِهْتُ أَنْ أَقْطَعَهُ عَلَيْكُمَا فَقَالَ [لَهُ‏] النَّبِيُّ ص إِنَّهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ دِحْيَةَ وَ إِنَّمَا كَانَ جَبْرَئِيلَ ع فَقُلْتُ يَا جَبْرَئِيلُ كَيْفَ سَمَّيْتَهُ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَقَالَ كَانَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى أَوْحَى إِلَيَّ فِي غَزْوَةِ بَدْرٍ أَنِ اهْبِطْ إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ مُرْهُ  أَنْ يَأْمُرَ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع أَنْ يَجُولَ بَيْنَ الصَّفَّيْنِ فَإِنَّ الْمَلَائِكَةَ يُحِبُّونَ أَنْ يَنْظُرُوا إِلَيْهِ وَ هُوَ يَجُولُ بَيْنَ الصَّفَّيْنِ فَسَمَّاهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى مِنَ السَّمَاءِ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ [ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ‏]  فَأَنْتَ يَا عَلِيُّ أَمِيرُ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاءِ وَ أَمِيرُ مَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ أَمِيرُ مَنْ مَضَى وَ أَمِيرُ مَنْ بَقِيَ فَلَا أَمِيرَ قَبْلَكَ وَ لَا أَمِيرَ بَعْدَكَ لِأَنَّهُ لَا يَجُوزُ أَنْ يُسَمَّى بِهَذَا الِاسْمِ مَنْ لَمْ يُسَمِّهِ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِهِ [2]

🔅🌹 أنا قاتل الأقران و مجدل الشجعان أنا الذي فقأت‏ عين الشرك و ثللت عرشه غير ممتن على الله بجهادي و لا مدل إليه بطاعتي و لكن أحدث بنعمة ربي‏[3]

🔅🌹 قال: و من خطبة له عليه السّلام‏: أما بعد أيها الناس فأنا فقأت‏ عين الفتنة فاسألوني قبل أن تفقدوني، فو الذي نفسي بيده لا تسألوني عن شي‏ء فيما بينكم و بين الساعة، و لا عن فئة تهدي مائة و تضل مائة إلا أنبأتكم بناعقها و قائدها، و سائقها، إلى أن‏ قال: ألا و إن أخوف الفتن عندي عليكم فتنة بني أمية فإنها فتنة عمياء مظلمة عمت خطتها، و خصت بليتها، و أصاب البلاء من أبصر فيها و أخطأ البلاء من عمي منها.[4]

🔅🌹 قَالَ خَطَبَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فَقَالَ: سَلُونِي قَبْلَ أَنْ تَفْقِدُونِي فَأَنَا عَيْبَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص سَلُونِي فَأَنَا فَقَأْتُ‏ عَيْنَ الْفِتْنَةِ بِبَاطِنِهَا وَ ظَاهِرِهَا سَلُوا مَنْ عِنْدَهُ عِلْمُ الْبَلَايَا وَ الْمَنَايَا وَ الْوَصَايَا وَ فَصْلِ الْخِطَابِ سَلُونِي فَأَنَا يَعْسُوبُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ حَقّاً وَ مَا مِنْ فِئَةٍ تَهْدِي مِائَةً أَوْ تُضِلُّ مِائَةً إِلَّا وَ قَدْ أُتِيتُ بِقَائِدِهَا وَ سَائِقِهَا وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَوْ طُوِيَ لِي الْوِسَادَةُ فَأَجْلِسُ عَلَيْهَا لَقَضَيْتُ بَيْنَ أَهْلِ التَّوْرَاةِ بِتَوْرَاتِهِمْ وَ لِأَهْلِ الْإِنْجِيلِ بِإِنْجِيلِهِمْ وَ لِأَهْلِ الزَّبُورِ بِزَبُورِهِمْ وَ لِأَهْلِ الْفُرْقَانِ بِفُرْقَانِهِمْ قَالَ فَقَامَ ابْنُ الْكَوَّاءِ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ هُوَ يَخْطُبُ النَّاسَ فَقَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ نَفْسِكَ فَقَالَ وَيْلَكَ أَ تُرِيدُ أَنْ أُزَكِّيَ نَفْسِي وَ قَدْ نَهَى اللَّهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ مَعَ أَنِّي كُنْتُ إِذَا سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَعْطَانِي وَ إِذَا سَكَتُّ ابْتَدَأَنِي وَ بَيْنَ الْجَوَانِحِ مِنِّي عِلْمٌ جَمٌّ وَ نَحْنُ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ لَا نُقَاسُ بِأَحَدٍ.[5]

Bihār al-Anwār (Beirut edition), vol. 26, p. 152, 111 volumes, Dar Ihya’ al-Turath al-Arabi, Beirut, second edition, 1403 AH.

🔅🌹 عَنْ زِرٍّ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عَلِيّاً ع يَقُولُ‏: أَنَا فَقَأْتُ‏ عَيْنَ الْفِتْنَةِ وَ لَوْ لَا أَنَا مَا قُتِلَ أَهْلُ النَّهْرَوَانِ وَ أَهْلُ الْجَمَلِ وَ لَوْ لَا أَنَّنِي أَخْشَى أَنْ تَتْرُكُوا الْعَمَلَ لَأَنْبَأْتُكُمْ بِالَّذِي قَضَى اللَّهُ عَلَى لِسَانِ نَبِيِّكُمْ ص لِمَنْ قَاتَلَهُمْ مُسْتَبْصِراً ضَلَالَهُمْ عَارِفاً لِلْهُدَى الَّذِي نَحْنُ عَلَيْهِ.[6]

🔅🌹 عَنْ زِرٍّ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عَلِيّاً يَقُولُ‏ أَنَا فَقَأْتُ‏ عَيْنَ الْفِتْنَةِ وَ لَوْ لَا أَنَا مَا قُوتِلَ أَهْلُ النَّهْرَوَانِ وَ أَهْلُ الْجَمَلِ وَ لَوْ لَا أَنَّنِي أَخْشَى أَنْ تَتْرُكُوا الْعَمَلَ لَأَنْبَأْتُكُمْ بِالَّذِي قَضَى اللَّهُ عَلَى لِسَانِ نَبِيِّكُمْ ص لِمَنْ قَاتَلَهُمْ مُبْصِراً بِضَلَالَتِهِمْ عَارِفاً بِالْهُدَى الَّذِي نَحْنُ عَلَيْهِ.[7]

🔅🌹 عَنْ زِرِّ بْنِ حُبَيْشٍ قَالَ: خَطَبَ عَلِيٌّ ع بِالنَّهْرَوَانِ فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَمَّا بَعْدُ أَنَا فَقَأْتُ‏ عَيْنَ الْفِتْنَةِ لَمْ يَكُنْ أَحَدٌ لِيَجْتَرِئَ عَلَيْهَا غَيْرِي وَ فِي حَدِيثِ ابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى لَمْ يَكُنْ لِيَفْقَأَهَا أَحَدٌ غَيْرِي وَ لَوْ لَمْ أَكُ فِيكُمْ مَا قُوتِلَ أَصْحَابُ الْجَمَلِ وَ أَهْلُ النَّهْرَوَانِ وَ ايْمُ اللَّهِ لَوْ لَا أَنْ تَتَّكِلُوا[8]

🔅🌹 مِنْ خُطْبَةٍ لَهُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ: أَمَّا بَعْدُ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ! فَأَنَا فَقَأْتُ‏ عَيْنَ الْفِتْنَةِ، وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ لِيَجْتَرِئَ عَلَيْهَا أَحَدٌ غَيْرِي، بَعْدَ أَنْ مَاجَ غَيْهَبُهَا وَ اشْتَدَّ كَلَبُهَا.[9]

🔅🌹 فَقَأْتُ‏ عَيْنَ الْفِتْنَةِ وَ أَقْتُلُ أُصُولَ الضَّلَالَةِ وَ أَنَا جَنْبُ اللَّهِ وَ كَلِمَتُهُ وَ أَنَا قَلْبُ اللَّهِ يَعْنِي أَنَا سِرَاجُ عِلْمِ اللَّهِ وَ أَنَا بَابُ اللَّه‏[10]

🔅🌹 عَنْ سَيْفٍ التَّمَّارِ قَالَ: كُنَّا مَعَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع جَمَاعَةً مِنَ الشِّيعَةِ فِي الْحِجْرِ فَقَالَ عَلَيْنَا عَيْنٌ فَالْتَفَتْنَا يَمْنَةً وَ يَسْرَةً فَلَمْ نَرَ أَحَداً فَقُلْنَا لَيْسَ عَلَيْنَا عَيْنٌ قَالَ وَ رَبِّ الْكَعْبَةِ وَ رَبِّ الْبَيْتِ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ لَوْ كُنْتُ بَيْنَ‏ مُوسَى‏ وَ الْخَضِرِ لَأَخْبَرْتُهُمَا أَنِّي أَعْلَمُ مِنْهُمَا وَ لَأَنْبَأْتُهُمَا بِمَا لَيْسَ فِي أَيْدِيهِمَا لِأَنَّ مُوسَى وَ الْخَضِرَ أُعْطِيَا عِلْمَ مَا كَانَ وَ لَمْ يُعْطَيَا عِلْمَ مَا هُوَ كَائِنٌ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ وَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أُعْطِيَ عِلْمَ مَا كَانَ وَ مَا هُوَ كَائِنٌ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ فَوَرِثْنَاهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وِرَاثَةً.[11]

🔅🌹 عَنْ حُمْرَانَ بْنِ أَعْيَنَ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع‏ إِنَّ عَلِيّاً ع كَانَ مُحَدَّثاً فَخَرَجْتُ إِلَى أَصْحَابِي فَقُلْتُ جِئْتُكُمْ بِعَجِيبَةٍ فَقَالُوا وَ مَا هِيَ فَقُلْتُ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ع يَقُولُ كَانَ عَلِيٌّ ع مُحَدَّثاً فَقَالُوا مَا صَنَعْتَ شَيْئاً إِلَّا سَأَلْتَهُ مَنْ كَانَ يُحَدِّثُهُ فَرَجَعْتُ‏  إِلَيْهِ فَقُلْتُ إِنِّي حَدَّثْتُ أَصْحَابِي بِمَا حَدَّثْتَنِي فَقَالُوا مَا صَنَعْتَ شَيْئاً إِلَّا سَأَلْتَهُ مَنْ كَانَ يُحَدِّثُهُ فَقَالَ لِي يُحَدِّثُهُ مَلَكٌ قُلْتُ تَقُولُ إِنَّهُ نَبِيٌّ قَالَ فَحَرَّكَ يَدَهُ هَكَذَا أَوْ كَصَاحِبِ سُلَيْمَانَ أَوْ كَصَاحِبِ مُوسَى أَوْ كَذِي‏ الْقَرْنَيْنِ‏ أَ وَ مَا بَلَغَكُمْ أَنَّهُ قَالَ وَ فِيكُمْ مِثْلُهُ‏ [12]

🌼 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat), 110.141(903)  🌼

🌸🔆🌿 “The Timeless Mysteries of Laylat al-Qadr”  “The Secret of Love”

🔅🌹 Abstract, with an addendum, “Meshkat-e Noor Gathering”   “The Timeless Mysteries of Laylat al-Qadr”  “The Secret of Love” “The Night of the 23rd of the Blessed Month of Ramadan”        1402.01.24   Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat), 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

☘️🔅The night of the 23rd of the blessed month of Ramadan is Laylat al-Imda, the Night of the Mahdi (may God hasten his return), the Night of Gifts, the Night of Life, and the Night of Transformations.

☘️🔅One way to visit His Eminence, the Mahdi, peace be upon him, is to seek permission for the visit from the presence of Allah, the Blessed and Exalted.

☘️🔅 The angels’ visit to the one who visits His Eminence, the Mahdi, is an aromatic path to visiting him; for their very being is steeped in the sweetness of the Mahdi’s soul. The night of the 23rd is a precious opportunity to receive the blessing of visiting His Eminence.

☘️🔅 It would be a pity to visit His Eminence with eyes like these. We ought to visit him with the vision of the Eye of God, so that we may truly fulfil the duty of visiting him.

☘️🔅 Through visiting His Eminence, our sight is anointed with kohl, the finest adornment of existence, and the image of his beauty is etched upon the tablets of our eyes and hearts.

☘️🔅 The angels who descend to visit His Eminence know his beauty, for before their descent they were already visitors to his image.

☘️🔅 With each descent, the angels encounter a new aspect of the Mahdi’s countenance, for the branches of his being have grown more abundant.

☘️🔅 As His Eminence expands, his blessed soul expands the world and causes it to burst open. At every moment, the Mahdi is in a state of expansion through the clear waters of divine remembrance and love, and the world expands with him.

☘️🔅 Pure, loving remembrance of God is the source of the vast expansion of the human soul’s world.

☘️🔅 Allah, the All-Great and Exalted, splits the world open through the beautiful states of His servants and lays down a new design.

☘️🔅 What wonders, marvels and novelties the Mighty God brings forth through the ardour and love of the Mahdi!

☘️🔅 Two special wings among the six hundred wings of the noble Gabriel unfold on the Night of Decree, becoming the source of exalted openings.

☘️🔅 As the angels throng to visit His Eminence, the earth’s celestial weight increases.

☘️🔅 The fragrance of the Mahdi’s soul is sustenance for the souls of the angels.

☘️🔅 The sweetness of visiting His Eminence gives rise to special and wondrous transformations in the angels.

☘️🔅 Through the angels’ meeting, greeting and handshake with the faithful on the Night of Decree, celestial life is bestowed upon them.

☘️🔅 As the states of heart and soul are transformed, one may sense the touch of the angels—from the warmth of their hands to the felt experience of their handshakes and embraces.

🌸🔆The Night of Decree is perfumed with the fragrance of the Mahdi

☘️🔅 The truly faithful bear the Mahdi’s fragrance, grace and sweetness.

☘️🔅 In its rank and worth, the Night of Decree is the longest of nights, compressed into the world’s briefest span of time. So let us seize these precious hours and break through the limits of time.

☘️🔅 When the moment of parting from a beloved draws near, the lover’s anguish and restlessness grow; they cannot bear even a moment away from the beloved. The blessed month of Ramadan is nearing its departure, so never leave its blessed bedside empty.

☘️🔅 The dearest of God’s beloved is the blessed month of Ramadan, and the month’s most delicate essence is the Night of Decree.

☘️🔅 إِلَهِي وَ سَيِّدِي مَا أَغَبَّ شَهْرَ الصِّيَامِ [رَمَضَانَ‏] إِلَى جَانِبِ الْفَنَاءِ وَ أَنْتَ الْبَاقِي وَ آذَنَ بِالانْقِضَاءِ وَ أَنْتَ الدَّائِم‏و You are the Everlasting

☘️🔅 The blessed month is a path to Allah—the most beautiful and the most direct. Let us not forget our destination amid this blessed month.

وَ وَفِّقْ لِي لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ عَلَى أَفْضَلِ مَا رَآهَا أَحَدٌ وَ وَفِّقْنِي‏ لِمَا وَفَّقْتَ‏ لَهُ مُحَمَّداً وَ آلَ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَوَاتُكَ عَلَيْهِ وَ عَلَيْهِم‏

☘️🔅 At every moment, our state should be that of the Night of Decree. As the Night of Decree departs, we must mingle its spirit with our own souls.

لَوْ رُفِعَتْ لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ لَرُفِعَ الْقُرْآن‏

☘️🔅 If our hearts are shaped by the Quran and the Ahl al-Bayt, we will always live in the state of the Night of Decree.

☘️🔅 The presence of the Quran and the Ahl al-Bayt is a sign that the Night of Decree is present.

☘️🔅 The navel of the human heart is connected, on one side, to the world, and on the other, to the Most High Origin.

☘️🔅 If the heart is preoccupied with the world, it is feeding on the world and deprived of nourishment from the Most High Origin.

☘️🔅 Severing worldly attachments turns our attention beyond the navel and creates a fitting ground for nourishment from celestial and supra-celestial sustenance.

☘️🔅 If we free ourselves from the constraints of this world, we are freed from the confines of time and place, and every moment becomes Laylat al-Qadr.

☘️🔅 Laylat al-Qadr was not born of time. Creation began with Laylat al-Qadr—that is, time itself began with Laylat al-Qadr. Its place, then, lies beyond time and space.

☘️🔅 Let us awaken in ourselves a hunger for questions. This state can arise only through reflection, deep understanding and reason.

عَلِيِّ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: عِلَّةُ فَضْلِ اللَّيْلِ عَلَى النَّهَارِ أَنَّ بِاللَّيْلِ يَكُونُ الْبَيَاتُ وَ يُرْفَعُ الْعَذَابُ وَ تَقِلُّ الْمَعَاصِي وَ فِيهِ لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ الَّتِي هِيَ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ

☘️🔅 Casting off sin brings peace.

☘️🔅 The earth and heavens are wearied, aggrieved, wounded and crippled by human sin. At night, the heavens and the earth are calmer and more at ease.

☘️🔅 At night, the harm caused by the sinful diminishes, for they fall asleep.

☘️🔅 Even the human body and soul find peace when sin is put on hold.

☘️🔅 The peace of truly human beings comes from the absence of sin.

☘️🔅 A believer’s heart does not sleep; if it sleeps, the person is no believer.

☘️🔅 To awaken, we must put every obstacle to sleep. When worldly desires are set aside, our God-given yearnings awaken.

☘️🔅 To sleep to everything else and awaken to God—these are the secrets of wisdom and immortality.

☘️🔅 Let us not disturb the night’s peace, even by picking flowers, fishing or slaughtering animals.

☘️🔅 Some of the depression we see today can be traced to slaughter carried out at night.

☘️🔅 Let us train our eyes and hearts to stay awake.

☘️🔅 Let us entrust our hearts, bodies and souls to God when we sleep.

☘️🔅 Let us set our intention so that sleep itself becomes an act of worship.

☘️🔅 The only truly living being on earth is His Eminence, the Mahdi, for he is truly «عبدالحی القیوم».

☘️🔅 The earth’s pulse beats with the Mahdi; the signs of earthly life are signs of his pulse.

🔅🌹 وَ قَالَ آخَرُ عَوِّدُوا أَعْيُنَكُمُ‏ الْبُكَاءَ وَ قُلُوبَكُمْ التَّفَكُّرَ وَ قَالَ‏  الْفِكْرُ فِي الدُّنْيَا حِجَابٌ عَنِ الْآخِرَةِ وَ التَّفَكُّرُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ يُورِثُ الحِكْمَةَ وَ يُحْيِي الْقُلُوب‏[13]

🌸🔆Freshness and Stagnation of Thought

☘️🔅 We must let the spring of wisdom flow from the heart and the spring of love from the eyes.

☘️🔅 The true tajwid and pauses of the Qur’an lie in attending to its purpose and reflecting deeply on its verses.

☘️🔅 The thought of modern humanity has been stolen; devils do not allow people to think.

☘️🔅 Modern humanity suffers from constipated thought. The human heart today is dry.

☘️🔅 A tender, gentle heart is possible through reflection and deep understanding.

🔅🌹 قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص‏ عَلَيْكُمْ بِلِبَاسِ الصُّوفِ تَجِدُوا حَلَاوَةَ الْإِيمَانِ وَ قِلَّةِ الْأَكْلِ تُعْرَفُوا فِي الْآخِرَةِ وَ إِنَّ النَّظَرَ إِلَى الصُّوفِ يُورِثُ التَّفَكُّرَ وَ التَّفَكُّرُ يُورِثُ‏ الحِكْمَةَ وَ الْحِكْمَةُ تَجْرِي فِي أَجْوَافِكُمْ مِثْلَ الدَّم‏

Makarim al-Akhlaq, p. 115Sharif Razi—Qom, fourth edition, 1412 AH / 1370 SH.

☘️🔅 Laylat al-Qadr is the night of pledging allegiance to His Eminence, the Mahdi, peace be upon him.

☘️🔅 So let us visit our Imam and meet him in person, for « عَلِيُّ أَمِيرُ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاءِ وَ أَمِيرُ مَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ أَمِيرُ مَنْ‏ مَضَى‏ وَ أَمِيرُ مَنْ بَقِي‏»

☘️🔅 Ignorant love is worse than enmity.

🔅🌹 قَالَ لَهُ يُونُسُ‏ لَوِلَائِي‏ لَكُمْ‏ وَ مَا عَرَّفَنِيَ اللَّهُ مِنْ حَقِّكُمْ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا بِحَذَافِيرِهَا قَالَ يُونُسُ فَتَبَيَّنْتُ الْغَضَبَ فِيهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ ع يَا يُونُسُ قِسْتَنَا بِغَيْرِ قِيَاسٍ مَا الدُّنْيَا وَ مَا فِيهَا هَلْ هِيَ إِلَّا سَدُّ فَوْرَةٍ أَوْ سَتْرُ عَوْرَةٍ وَ أَنْتَ لَكَ بِمَحَبَّتِنَا الْحَيَاةُ الدَّائِمَةُ.

☘️🔅 Everlasting life lies in loving the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them.

🔅🌹 وَ قَالَ الصَّادِقُ ع‏ وَلَايَتِي‏ لِعَلِيِ‏ بْنِ‏ أَبِي طَالِبٍ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ وِلَادَتِي مِنْهُ لِأَنَّ وَلَايَتِي لَهُ فَرْضٌ وَ وِلَادَتِي مِنْهُ فَضْل‏[14]

☘️🔅 Love for Ali, peace be upon him, is a system that must show its effects. Its least sign is sincere worship of the Most High Lord and fleeing from sin.

☘️🔅 Love must be put into practice so that its truth and sincerity become clear.

☘️🔅 Sweetness is the secret of love. The sweetness of fruit and the sweetness of honey have their secret in their love for the Wilaya. The sweetness of character and noble qualities is another sign of sincere love for the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them.

☘️🔅 Love for Ali, peace be upon him, so fills the heart and overflows it that no room remains for petty, worldly affections. If this is not so, then our claim to love our master is false.

☘️🔅 If I am a sinner, then I love sin more than Ali, peace be upon him.

🔅🌹 Al-Ahzab: 4  ما جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لِرَجُلٍ مِنْ قَلْبَيْنِ في‏ جَوْفِهِ وَ ما جَعَلَ أَزْواجَكُمُ اللاَّئي‏ تُظاهِرُونَ مِنْهُنَّ أُمَّهاتِكُمْ وَ ما جَعَلَ أَدْعِياءَكُمْ أَبْناءَكُمْ ذلِكُمْ قَوْلُكُمْ بِأَفْواهِكُمْ وَ اللَّهُ يَقُولُ الْحَقَّ وَ هُوَ يَهْدِي السَّبيلَ

☘️🔅 The destination of love for Ali is love of God.

🔅🌹 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع مَثَلُكَ‏ مَثَلُ‏ قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ قَرَأَهَا مَرَّةً فَكَأَنَّمَا قَرَأَ ثُلُثَ الْقُرْآنِ وَ مَنْ قَرَأَهَا مَرَّتَيْنِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَرَأَ ثُلُثَيِ الْقُرْآنِ وَ مَنْ قَرَأَهَا ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَرَأَ الْقُرْآنَ وَ كَذَلِكَ مَنْ أَحَبَّكَ بِقَلْبِهِ كَانَ لَهُ مِثْلُ ثُلُثِ ثَوَابِ أَعْمَالِ الْعِبَادِ وَ مَنْ أَحَبَّكَ بِقَلْبِهِ وَ نَصَرَكَ بِلِسَانِهِ كَانَ لَهُ مِثْلُ ثُلُثَيْ أَعْمَالِ الْعِبَادِ وَ مَنْ أَحَبَّكَ بِقَلْبِهِ وَ نَصَرَكَ بِلِسَانِهِ وَ يَدِهِ كَانَ مِثْلَ ثَوَابِ أَعْمَالِ الْعِبَاد[15]

☘️🔅 The culmination of love for Ali is to follow his path and way with devotion.

☘️🔅 The recitation of Surat al-Tawhid begins by breaking the idols of the heart, continues with its purification, and concludes with its adornment and perfuming.

☘️🔅 Ali, peace be upon him, is Surat al-Tawhid, the word of tawhid.

🔅🌹 إِنَّ فِي الْجَنَّةِ عَيْناً يُقَالُ‏ لَهَا تَسْنِيمٌ‏ يَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا نَهْرَانِ لَوْ أَنَّ بِهِمَا سُفُنَ الدُّنْيَا بُحِرَتْ‏ وَ عَلَى شَاطِئِ التَّسْنِيمِ أَشْجَارٌ [قُضْبَانُهَا] مِنَ اللُّؤْلُؤِ وَ الْمَرْجَانِ [الرَّطْبِ‏] وَ حَشِيشُهَا مِنَ الزَّعْفَرَانِ عَلَى حَافَتَيْهِمَا كَرَاسِيُ‏  مِنْ نُورٍ عَلَيْهَا أُنَاسٌ جُلُوسٌ مَكْتُوبٌ عَلَى جِبَاهِهِمْ بِالنُّورِ هَؤُلَاءِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ هَؤُلَاءِ مُحِبُّو  عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع [16]

🔅🌹 عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ الْمَدَائِنِيِّ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ ع إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ مِنْ عُرْضِ النَّاسِ يَلْقَانِي فَيَحْلِفُ بِاللَّهِ أَنَّهُ يُحِبُّنِي أَ فَأَحْلِفُ بِاللَّهِ إِنَّهُ لَصَادِقٌ فَقَالَ امْتَحِنْ قَلْبَكَ فَإِنْ كُنْتَ‏ تُحِبُّهُ‏ فَاحْلِفْ وَ إِلَّا فَلا[17]

🔅🌹 …سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ‏ مَنْ وَضَعَ حُبَّهُ فِي غَيْرِ مَوْضِعِهِ فَقَدْ تَعَرَّضَ لِلْقَطِيعَةِ

🔅🌹 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ إِذَا أَحَبَّ أَحَدُكُمْ صَاحِبَهُ أَوْ أَخَاهُ فَلْيُعْلِمْهُ‏

🔅🌹 عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَجُلًا يَسْأَلُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَقُولُ‏ إِنِّي أَوَدُّكَ فَكَيْفَ أَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ يَوَدُّنِي قَالَ امْتَحِنْ قَلْبَكَ فَإِنْ كُنْتَ تَوَدُّهُ فَإِنَّهُ يَوَدُّكَ‏

[18]🔅🌹 قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ يَا عُقْبَةُ لَا يَقْبَلُ اللَّهُ مِنَ الْعِبَادِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِلَّا هَذَا الْأَمْرَ الَّذِي أَنْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ وَ مَا بَيْنَ أَحَدِكُمْ وَ بَيْنَ أَنْ يَرَى مَا تَقَرُّ بِهِ عَيْنُهُ‏ إِلَّا أَنْ تَبْلُغَ نَفْسُهُ إِلَى هَذِهِ ثُمَّ أَهْوَى بِيَدِهِ إِلَى الْوَرِيدِ ثُمَّ اتَّكَأَ وَ كَانَ مَعِيَ الْمُعَلَّى فَغَمَزَنِي أَنْ أَسْأَلَهُ فَقُلْتُ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فَإِذَا بَلَغَتْ نَفْسُهُ هَذِهِ أَيَّ شَيْ‏ءٍ يَرَى فَقُلْتُ لَهُ بِضْعَ عَشْرَةَ مَرَّةً أَيَّ شَيْ‏ءٍ فَقَالَ فِي كُلِّهَا يَرَى وَ لَا يَزِيدُ عَلَيْهَا ثُمَّ جَلَسَ فِي آخِرِهَا فَقَالَ يَا عُقْبَةُ فَقُلْتُ لَبَّيْكَ وَ سَعْدَيْكَ فَقَالَ أَبَيْتَ إِلَّا أَنْ تَعْلَمَ فَقُلْتُ نَعَمْ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ إِنَّمَا دِينِي مَعَ دِينِكَ فَإِذَا ذَهَبَ دِينِي كَانَ ذَلِكَ‏  كَيْفَ لِي بِكَ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ كُلَّ سَاعَةٍ  وَ بَكَيْتُ فَرَقَّ لِي فَقَالَ يَرَاهُمَا وَ اللَّهِ فَقُلْتُ بِأَبِي وَ أُمِّي مَنْ هُمَا قَالَ ذَلِكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَا عُقْبَةُ لَنْ تَمُوتَ نَفْسٌ مُؤْمِنَةٌ أَبَداً حَتَّى تَرَاهُمَا قُلْتُ فَإِذَا نَظَرَ إِلَيْهِمَا الْمُؤْمِنُ أَ يَرْجِعُ إِلَى الدُّنْيَا فَقَالَ لَا يَمْضِي أَمَامَهُ إِذَا نَظَرَ إِلَيْهِمَا مَضَى أَمَامَهُ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ يَقُولَانِ شَيْئاً قَالَ نَعَمْ يَدْخُلَانِ جَمِيعاً عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِ فَيَجْلِسُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عِنْدَ رَأْسِهِ وَ عَلِيٌّ ع عِنْدَ رِجْلَيْهِ فَيُكِبُّ عَلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَيَقُولُ يَا وَلِيَّ اللَّهِ أَبْشِرْ أَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ إِنِّي خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِمَّا تَرَكْتَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا ثُمَّ يَنْهَضُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَيَقُومُ عَلِيٌّ ع‏ حَتَّى يُكِبَّ عَلَيْهِ فَيَقُولُ يَا وَلِيَّ اللَّهِ أَبْشِرْ أَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ الَّذِي كُنْتَ‏ تُحِبُّهُ‏ أَمَا لَأَنْفَعَنَّكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ هَذَا فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قُلْتُ أَيْنَ جَعَلَنِيَ اللَّهُ فِدَاكَ هَذَا مِنْ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ قَالَ فِي يُونُسَ قَوْلُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ هَاهُنَا- الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَ كانُوا يَتَّقُونَ. لَهُمُ الْبُشْرى‏ فِي الْحَياةِ الدُّنْيا وَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ لا تَبْدِيلَ لِكَلِماتِ اللَّهِ ذلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ‏ .[19]

🔅🌹 عَنْ عُقْبَةَ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ‏ إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ إِذَا وَقَعَتْ نَفْسُهُ فِي صَدْرِهِ يَرَى قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ وَ مَا يَرَى قَالَ يَرَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَيَقُولُ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ أَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ أَبْشِرْ ثُمَّ يَرَى عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَيَقُولُ أَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ الَّذِي كُنْتَ‏ تُحِبُّهُ‏ تُحِبُّ أَنْ أَنْفَعَكَ الْيَوْمَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ أَ يَكُونُ أَحَدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ يَرَى هَذَا ثُمَّ يَرْجِعُ إِلَى الدُّنْيَا قَالَ قَالَ لَا إِذَا رَأَى هَذَا أَبَداً مَاتَ وَ أَعْظَمَ ذَلِكَ‏ قَالَ وَ ذَلِكَ فِي الْقُرْآنِ قَوْلُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ- الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَ كانُوا يَتَّقُونَ. لَهُمُ الْبُشْرى‏ فِي الْحَياةِ الدُّنْيا وَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ لا تَبْدِيلَ لِكَلِماتِ اللَّه‏[20]

🔅🌹 عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ فَرْقَدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي يَعْقُوبُ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَجُلًا يَسْأَلُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع- عَنْ لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ فَقَالَ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ كَانَتْ أَوْ تَكُونُ فِي كُلِّ عَامٍ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع لَوْ رُفِعَتْ‏ لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ لَرُفِعَ الْقُرْآن‏[21]

🔅🌹 From Abu ‘Abd Allah (peace be upon him), who said: “Whoever sleeps on the night on which every wise affair is determined will not perform the Hajj that year — and that is the twenty-third night of the month of Ramadan. For on it the pilgrims are inscribed, and on it provisions and lifespans are written, and all that will be from one year to the next.” He said: I said, “So whoever is not written for the Night of Destiny is unable to perform the Hajj?” He replied, “No.” I said, “How can that be?” He said, “I am not here to argue with you about anything; this is simply how it is.”[22]

☘️🔅

🌼 Ali Sa’i (Abdullah Mishkat) 110.141(903)  🌼

🌸🔆🌿 “The Qualities of the End of the Blessed Month”  “Fulfilling the Rights of the Blessed Month”

🔅🌹 Summary with Supplementary Reflections from the “Meshkat-e Noor Gathering”    “The Qualities of the Blessed Month of Ramadan”  “Fulfilling the Month’s Due” “The Night of the 30th of Ramadan”        1402.01.31   Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

☘️🔅As the Blessed Month of Ramadan draws to a close and God’s table is being cleared away, the fruits of this feast and its hospitality should become evident.

☘️🔅Divine nourishment knows no bounds; its flavor endures and grows richer—it never diminishes.

☘️🔅In this blessed month, we should have tasted every kind of divine nourishment; otherwise, we have wronged the hospitality God offered us.

☘️🔅The departure of God’s table fills the hearts of believers with unease.

☘️🔅We will be questioned about our conduct and deeds during Ramadan. Have we left the month with fond memories? Are we saddened by its departure? Is our parting from it painful—or will it be a welcome relief to the month itself?

☘️🔅Have we fulfilled the month’s due? Have we captured the beauty of its face? Have we been captivated and enthralled by its grace? Have its beauty and majesty left us in awe?

☘️🔅How many base people stoned the blessed month with their contemptible deeds—with breaking the fast and the ugliness of their actions and intentions.

☘️🔅This blessed month, the month above all months, the bride and peacock of all the months of the world, has taken our minds and ears captive.

☘️🔅We will be asked about the quality of our deeds during the blessed month. Truly, what will our answer to Ramadan be?

🌸🔆The Court of the Blessed Month

☘️🔅كيف عمل هذا العبد

☘️🔅The taste of the blessed month never fades from the hearts of true believers; it stays with them. We must wait for it, eagerly and impatiently, for another year.

☘️🔅His Eminence the Mahdi, peace be upon him, is God’s most devoted servant and the dearest memory of the blessed month.

☘️🔅What intimacy the blessed month has shared with God’s Guardian and Proof!

☘️🔅Through the sins and fast-breaking of ungrateful servants, the devils are revived and grow stronger. Perhaps, were it not for the sins of the hypocritical and hostile, the devils would have perished and been destroyed in this blessed month.

☘️🔅Sins are brazen arrows and spears hurled at the heart of the blessed month and God’s friends.

☘️🔅The blessed month is a special gateway to journeying toward God’s good pleasure. Have we passed through it and become travelers on the path to God’s good pleasure?

☘️🔅The month of Ramadan was God’s own sacred sanctuary. Have we entered it in consecration?

☘️🔅Has my soul been moistened by the water, light, and blessings of the blessed month?

☘️🔅Have we been the captain and helmsman of the ship of our bodies and limbs on the journey toward God?

☘️🔅The angels who pray for forgiveness and caress us have continually held those who fast in their embrace throughout the blessed month. In this month, a person is touched by the wings of angels.

☘️🔅A peaceful word and a righteous deed make for a gracious and beautiful departure from the blessed month. A righteous word is the declaration of divine unity; a righteous deed is the giving of fitra. A righteous word means making divine unity a reality in our spirit and soul, and a righteous deed means purifying and refining the soul.

☘️🔅A righteous deed is the giving of fitra—from the alms due on one’s wealth to the alms due on one’s soul. Removing love for all that is other than God is the complete alms of the human heart and soul. The heart is God’s sanctuary alone, not a sanctuary for Satan and its colorful idols.

🌸🔆The True Structure of the Human Being

☘️🔅The human being is not made for the planet Earth, and love for anything other than God is not suited to our spirit and soul. The month of Ramadan is an opportunity to break free from this exile.

☘️🔅The bodily and spiritual hardship we feel after eating shows that we do not belong to the earth and that earthly food is not suited to our body and soul. The secret lies in eating from the forbidden tree.

☘️🔅 Eating from the forbidden trees brings hardship; their fruits cause the body and soul to be transformed and bring even greater hardship.

☘️🔅 The human being is an exile, and must return to their true homeland and their true nourishment.

☘️🔅 Forgetting God is the source of all misery and hardship.

☘️🔅 The result of forgetting God is forgetting oneself. When a person forgets God, they lose themselves and remain lost.

☘️🔅 Self-knowledge means striving to seek oneself.

🌹🔅☘️ وَ يُنَادِي مُنَادٍ: يَا رَجَبُ وَ يَا شَعْبَانُ وَ يَا شَهْرَ رَمَضَانَ كَيْفَ عَمَلُ هَذَا الْعَبْدِ فِيكُمْ وَ كَيْفَ كَانَتْ طَاعَتُهُ لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَيَقُولُ رَجَبٌ وَ شَعْبَانُ وَ شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ:

يَا رَبَّنَا مَا تَزَوَّدَ مِنَّا إِلَّا اسْتِعَانَةً عَلَى طَاعَتِكَ، وَ اسْتِمْدَاداً [لِمَوَادِّ] فَضْلِكَ، وَ لَقَدْ تَعَرَّضَ بِجُهْدِهِ لِرِضَاكَ، وَ طَلَبَ بِطَاقَتِهِ مَحَبَّتَكَ.

فَيَقُولُ لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ الْمُوَكَّلِينَ بِهَذِهِ الشُّهُورِ: مَا ذَا تَقُولُونَ فِي هَذِهِ الشَّهَادَةِ لِهَذَا الْعَبْدِ فَيَقُولُونَ: يَا رَبَّنَا صَدَقَ رَجَبٌ وَ شَعْبَانُ وَ شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ، مَا عَرَفْنَاهُ إِلَّا مُتَقَبِّلًا  فِي طَاعَتِكَ مُجْتَهِداً فِي طَلَبِ رِضَاكَ، صَائِراً فِيهِ إِلَى الْبِرِّ وَ الْإِحْسَانِ، وَ لَقَدْ كَانَ بِوُصُولِهِ إِلَى هَذِهِ الشُّهُورِ- فَرِحاً مُبْتَهِجاً وَ أَمَّلَ فِيهَا رَحْمَتَكَ، وَ رَجَا فِيهَا عَفْوَكَ وَ مَغْفِرَتَكَ، وَ كَانَ عَمَّا مَنَعْتَهُ فِيهَا مُمْتَنِعاً، وَ إِلَى مَا نَدَبْتَهُ إِلَيْهِ فِيهَا مُسْرِعاً، لَقَدْ صَامَ بِبَطْنِهِ، وَ فَرْجِهِ، وَ سَمْعِهِ، وَ بَصَرِهِ، وَ سَائِرِ جَوَارِحِهِ [وَ يَرْجُو دَرَجَةً] وَ لَقَدْ ظَمَأَ فِي نَهَارِهَا، وَ نَصَبَ فِي لَيْلِهَا، وَ كَثُرَتْ نَفَقَاتُهُ فِيهَا عَلَى الْفُقَرَاءِ وَ الْمَسَاكِينِ، وَ عَظُمَتْ أَيَادِيهِ وَ إِحْسَانُهُ إِلَى عِبَادِكَ، صَحِبَهَا أَكْرَمَ صُحْبَةٍ، وَ وَدَّعَهَا أَحْسَنَ تَوْدِيعٍ، أَقَامَ بَعْدَ انْسِلَاخِهَا عَنْهُ عَلَى طَاعَتِكَ، وَ لَمْ يَهْتِكْ عِنْدَ إِدْبَارِهَا سُتُورَ حُرُمَاتِكَ، فَنِعْمَ الْعَبْدُ هَذَا.

فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ يَأْمُرُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِهَذَا الْعَبْدِ إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ، فَتَلَقَّاهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ بِالْحِبَاءِ وَ الْكَرَامَاتِ وَ يَحْمِلُونَهُ عَلَى نُجُبِ  النُّورِ، وَ خُيُولِ الْبُرَاقِ  وَ يَصِيرُ إِلَى نَعِيمٍ لَا يَنْفَدُ، وَ دَارٍ لَا تَبِيدُ وَ لَا يَخْرُجُ سُكَّانُهَا، وَ لَا يَهْرَمُ شُبَّانُهَا، وَ لَا يَشِيبُ وِلْدَانُهَا، وَ لَا يَنْفَدُ سُرُورُهَا وَ حُبُورُهَا وَ لَا يَبْلَى جَدِيدُهَا، وَ لَا يَتَحَوَّلُ إِلَى الْغُمُومِ سُرُورُهَا، لا يَمَسُّهُمْ فِيها نَصَبٌ، وَ لَا يَمَسُّهُمْ فِيهَا لُغُوبٌ، قَدْ أَمِنُوا الْعَذَابَ، وَ كُفُّوا سُوءَ الْحِسَابِ، كَرُمَ مُنْقَلَبُهُمْ وَ مَثْوَاهُمْ.

🌸🔆🌿    “Eid al-Fitr”  “”

🔅🌹 A concise account with an addendum from the “Meshkat-e Noor Gathering”   “Eid al-Fitr”  “ ” “ ”        1402.00.00   Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🌷🔅He is the Originator 🔅🌷

☘️🔅 Amid the grief of parting from the blessed month, with the hope of the sweet iftar on the night of the ظهور, the joy of experiencing the presence of divine grace, and the breath of union with the Sublime 🔅☘️

🌿🌱 May the sweetest iftar in all existence, at the table of the Great Divine Banquet (Eid al-Fitr), be blessed 🌱🌿

🌿🔅🌷إنَّا لِلَّهِ وَ إِنَّا إِلَيْهِ راجِعُونَ‏ عَلَى‏ فِرَاقِ‏ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ شَهْرِ الصِّيَامِ وَ شَهْرِ الْقِيَامِ وَ شَهْرِ الْقُرْآنِ وَ غُرَرِ الْأَيَّامِ 🌷🔅🌿

🌱🔅🌱فيَا شَهْرَنَا غَيْرَ مُوَدِّعٍ وَدَّعْنَاكَ لَا بِمَلَلٍ صُمْنَاكَ وَ لَا مَقْلِيّاً 🌱🔅🌱

☘️🔅☘️فارَقْنَاكَ فَلَوْ كَانَ يُقَالُ جَزَى اللَّهُ‏ شَهْراً لَقُلْنَا جَزَاكَ اللَّهُ يَا شَهْرَ رَمَضَانَ عَنَّا خَيْراً فَفِيكَ عُتِقَتِ الْفُرُوجُ وَ النُّفُوسُ وَ صَحَّتِ النِّيَّاتِ وَ الْقُلُوبُ وَ كُنْتَ خَيْرَ زَائِرٍ مَحْبُوبٍ فَلَا جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ آخِرَ الْعَهْدِ مِنْكَ وَ لَا بِكَ وَ خَتَمَ لَنَا فِيكَ بِخَيْرٍ وَ تَقَبَّلْ مِنَّا بِرَحْمَةٍ إِنَّهُ هُوَ أَرْحَمُ الرَّاحِمِين‏☘️🔅☘️

🌷🔅اللَّهُمَ‏ اشْتَرِ مِنِّي نَفْسِيَ الْمَوْقُوفَةَ عَلَيْكَ الْمَحْبُوسَةَ لِأَمْرِكَ بِالْجَنَّةِ مَعَ مَعْصُومٍ مِنْ عِتْرَةِ نَبِيِّكَ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ مَخْزُونٍ لِظُلَامَتِهِ مَنْسُوبٍ بِوِلَادَتِهِ تَمْلَأُ بِهِ الْأَرْضَ عَدْلًا وَ قِسْطاً كَمَا مُلِئَتْ جَوْراً وَ ظُلْماً وَ لَا تَجْعَلْنِي مِمَّنْ تَقَدَّمَ فَمَرَقَ‏  أَوْ تَأَخَّرَ فَمُحِقَ‏  وَ اجْعَلْنِي مِمَّنْ لَزِمَ فَلَحِقَ وَ اجْعَلْنِي شَهِيداً سَعِيداً فِي قَبْضَتِك‏

🌼 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌼

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