Morality Without Religion, Goodness Without Spirit

Tlost, [12.10.24 16:53]
🔹Ethics Without Religion: Goodness Without a Soul
📅 Date: 1403/07/19 – 6 Rabiʿ al-Thani 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
📖 Weekly session on the commentary and interpretation of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (Supplication 20)
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei

📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:

🌸 If God has granted us the blessing of righteous guidance, it means He has brought our hearts together.

🌿 To receive the full blessing of righteous guidance is to hasten the advent and to receive the full blessing of the Imam of our Time.

🌻 It means beholding the beauty of God’s Proof, the Remnant of God, the Almighty.

🍃 For this passage of the prayer to be answered is to arrive at God’s choice. When I recite this prayer, I am asking for God’s choice.

🌼 O God, I ask You to turn my heart toward accepting the truth, so that I may kiss Your choice and accept Your definition of the way and its destination. This prayer is the same as “اللهم عرفنی نفسک، عرفنی رسولک، عرفنی حجتک”.

🌸 I want to traverse every boundary of servitude to God and, all at once, be immersed in God’s light, immersed in the sun of God.

🍂 May I become a ray of the Sun, the Proof and God; a speck of dust upon that very righteous guidance, through the path of truth and an intention to grow, so that separation may be impossible for all eternity. May I join the blessed tree like a leaf, growing and flourishing with it, never stopping for a moment. May I display the fervour and rapture of love for God.

🌿 Righteous guidance is the highest vision of God’s religion and God’s law.

🌾 Any personal interpretation of God’s religion amounts to creating a sect opposed to it, whether in words or otherwise. The jurist relies on the unequivocal teachings and interprets the ambiguous in light of them, making every personal interpretation forbidden to himself.

🍁 Any personal interpretation gives rise to sects. A jurist guided by reason and innate nature is a jurist who strives in every arena along God’s path.

🌸 A religious jurist is someone who keeps their innate nature alive, for innate nature is the final arbiter. A person must seek sincerely, take their own ego to task and silence its promptings, so they can hear the message of their innate nature.

🍃 Anyone active in religious matters must continually explore their innate nature. Such a person has undoubtedly come to know the true religion. They will not err in recognizing the religion and God’s Messenger; they will receive God’s message from within themselves.

🌸 Our innate nature is the clear, resounding voice of God’s word.

🍃 Anyone who tries to interpret their religion according to their own mind will create as many religions as there are people. But the Friend of God, through righteous guidance, the path of truth and sincere intention, has placed only one way before us, so that we do not go astray in choosing our path.

🌷 Whoever has accepted God’s religion, Islam, must have done so through inquiry—and that inquiry must be sincere and rooted in innate nature—before they can claim to be truly devoted to God’s religion.

🌼 Whoever seeks the truth will be led to it by the Real. How does the honeybee recognize a flower? Did it study at university to distinguish a poisonous flower from a harmless one? Where did it learn the qualities of each and every flower? These are inspirations and divine revelations that God has placed within the honeybee.

🍂 God does not leave His servant alone in the realm of servitude; He teaches them to recognize the flowers. The address and identifying signs of God’s Proof are within us. If we are like the honeybee of wilaya, we will find the Imam of our Time.

🌿 God’s Proof watches over us. He cannot rest if He does not see us. Could He bear to be separated from His Shia?

🌻 Let us be like the honeybee of wilaya, so that we do not fall prey to the replacement of religion.

🍁 Why do some people say that a religion of humanity is enough? Because they do not understand human nature. They have no sound definition of the human being, yet they make laws for humanity and show it the way. If a person does not enter the path laid down by God, they will enter the path of the animals. A person ruled by desire will make laws within that very circle, drawing humanity towards the animal.

🌸 A human being is truly human only when they abide by the laws of humanity, and only the Creator of humanity has the power to determine those laws.

🌾 How can human beings make laws for themselves when they do not know themselves? Who has ever offered a comprehensive definition of the human being?

🌷 What does it mean to be human? How can we know the human being? The definitions people offer are no broader than their own minds. How can someone who is still striving to know themselves make laws for humanity?

🌿 The highest definition people offer is that the human being is a rational animal. Which animal do we know that does not speak? There is not a particle that does not glorify God. All the fundamental particles—even electrons, which are themselves made up of fundamental particles—speak and call upon God. So if my definition of the human being reduces humanity to the level of an animal, then I have understood neither the human being nor speech. What is speech?

🌸 They say that the human being is a tool-making animal, or that human beings are simply one kind of being among others; that a human being is a chemical solution, a physical machine, a kind of robot, or an upright animal. They do not know the human being, yet they make laws for us.

🍃 Did God not say that He created the human being in “the best of forms”? Only the One who created me in the best of orders can make laws for me. Why do I not know myself? There is one reason: I have forgotten my God. Knowledge and understanding flowed to me from God; but when I turned my back on Him and forgot Him, I too fell silent.

🌷 Do not be like those who forgot God, so He caused them to forget themselves.

🌿 This forgetfulness has silenced the human being.

🍂 A person’s worth and value lie in what they regard as good. The highest vibration they can imagine is the vibration of pleasure; they do not realise that this vibration must reach a state beyond vibration. It must rise so high that desire lies beneath it. Sensual pleasure is the lowest kind of pleasure, a trial example meant to help me rise to the highest horizon of pleasure. How? Whoever raises their vibration raises their pleasure too. They reach a point where there is no longer any vibration, and arrive at “trans-vibration.” Is that the same as “trans-pleasure”?

🌾 Every movement has a destination. Weak movement must reach super-acceleration and overtake time. Then it reaches trans-pleasure and sees everything as belonging to the lowest realm.

🍁 Whoever sees the human being as an animal is themselves an animal. With this way of thinking, they cannot give a higher definition of humanity; their definitions will remain within the same circle.

🌸 We must look at ourselves in the mirror of our primordial nature. Then we will see that we are not a small body, but that a greater universe lies within us. I must look at myself in the mirror of wilayah, the true revealer of primordial nature. The Imam says: You are greater than the greater universe; your pain, too, comes from within you, yet you do not see. You are that clear Book through whose letters the hidden, the concealed, and the secret are made manifest.

🍃 God Most High casts every reality from the screen of this human being into the world. Now, if I abandon righteous guidance and fabricate a religion for myself, where will I end up?

🌿 Whoever turns their back on reason turns towards ignorance. Whoever flees the forces of reason becomes a companion of the forces of ignorance. The longer its tail grows, the darker, more ignorant, and more vile it becomes. Let us beware of making a religion for ourselves. In truth, we would imprison the greater universe within animality.

🌻 If there is no religion called humanity, are the good deeds of someone like this rejected? They are not rejected, but they are soulless. They offer a shadow of goodness, but have no spirit, and will fade away. But someone who does good out of religious faith—because God has commanded it, and to win the love of the Eternal Beloved—makes a world of every good deed; each one is alive. The good deeds of someone without faith, however, end with their death. They have set a limit to their goodness, and when it ends, that goodness disappears too. It is like a picture of a flower beside the flower itself: it can never compare with the real thing.

🍂 In today’s world, could humanity itself not be what people have in common? If we take this common ground away from them, are we not bringing them to the threshold of animality?

🌷 Let us suppose someone without religious faith observes every ethical principle. The question is: is belief in an Almighty God the final word in being human, or the first? The first thing a person should turn their attention to is finding their Creator. If someone fails to do this first thing properly, how can they hope to get all that follows right? Surely, if this person investigates God’s religion, they will embrace it.

🌸 Why does this ethical person not accept God as God? Is that not itself unethical?

🌻 People ask, “Isn’t ethics enough?” Is the realm of ethics made up of only one or two elements, for us to observe those and remain unaware of its vast expanse?

🍁 A person without religion accepts only this world, even though human life extends across the whole expanse of existence, and beyond it.

🌿 Whoever invents a religion for themselves will see that religion end with their death. They are like someone who tends a garden but never tastes its fruit. They plant a flower but never enjoy its nectar, because everything ends when they die—even though this world is a path leading to a destination.

🍃 Ethics is not the destination; it is a means of reaching the highest destination. Who determines the principles and rules of the religion of humanity? How is this religion to be formulated? Will all humanity agree on it? What becomes of those who refuse to accept it? Will they be forced to submit to the majority’s view? That is precisely what we see happening today.

🌼 Someone who lives by a non-religious ethic can expect nothing from the Creator, because they do not accept Him. From whom do they expect their reward? How can someone who denies Paradise expect to enter it? They will burn with regret, having done all these good deeds yet refused to accept the One who rewards them.

🍂 They reject the artist but accept his art. I want to reach the artist. These ethics and good deeds are paths that lead me to that unknown Being, to the One who is beyond beauty, and from whom beauty comes. So His approval is essential; I long for His smile.

🍃 People say we should practise ethics for ethics’ sake alone. Does ethics have no author? I show love for the sake of my beloved, so that I may draw near to them, so that my beloved will be pleased with me.

🌿 So whoever turns their back on God’s religion is unjust. Justice means putting everything in its proper place.

🌷 Humanity needs God’s knowledge. People ask, “Are all good principles and rules, in general, invalid?” Is not the first principle to seek the light? If the way is not clear, how can anyone travel it? Can anyone find the way without God’s religion?

🌻 Someone who cannot tell bitter from sweet when they have a common cold—what happens if their faculty of understanding changes its taste? Turning away from one’s innate nature changes that taste.

🍁 Philosophical thought, if it passes through the sphere of innate nature, will take on a divine hue—provided, of course, that it is the original religion, free from distortion.

🌿 First, we must distinguish “reflection” from “disguise.” Reflection has its source in reason; disguise arises from the human ego and its mischief. Disguise resembles reflection and ensnares a person. Sound reflection will ultimately lead to God’s religion.

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