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🌼🔆🌼Muhammad, Beyond All Description🌼🔆🌼
🔹The Birth Anniversary of the Noble Messenger and Imam Ja‘far al-Sadiq (AS)
📅 Date: 1404/06/18 – 16 Rabi al-Awwal 1447
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:

اللهم صلّ على محمدٍ و آلِ محمد.

Gratitude and Divine Testimonies ( 📜

( 1 ) وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي مَنَّ عَلَيْنَا بِمُحَمَّدٍ نَبِيِّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ دُونَ الْأُمَمِ الْمَاضِيَةِ وَ الْقُرُونِ السَّالِفَةِ ، بِقُدْرَتِهِ الَّتِي لَا تَعْجِزُ عَنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ وَ إِنْ عَظُمَ ، وَ لَا يَفُوتُهَا شَيْ‏ءٌ وَ إِنْ لَطُفَ .( 2 ) فَخَتَمَ بِنَا عَلَى جَمِيعِ مَنْ ذَرَأَ ، وَ جَعَلَنَا شُهَدَاءَ عَلَى مَنْ جَحَدَ ، وَ كَثَّرَنَا بِمَنِّهِ عَلَى مَنْ قَلَّ .( 3 ) اللَّهُمَّ فَصَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ أَمِينِكَ عَلَى وَحْيِكَ ، وَ نَجِيبِكَ مِنْ خَلْقِكَ ، وَ صَفِيِّكَ مِنْ عِبَادِكَ ، إِمَامِ الرَّحْمَةِ ، وَ قَائِدِ الْخَيْرِ ، وَ مِفْتَاحِ الْبَرَكَةِ .

Glad Tidings on the Night of the Birth of the Chosen Prophet ﷺ 🌙

The night of the birth of the pearl of all time, the pride of all existence, possessor of sublime character: His Eminence Muhammad al-Mustafa.
اللهم صلّ على محمدٍ و آلِ محمد.
The possessor of the melody of “سُبحانَ رَبِّیَ الأعلَى»، سبحانَ عالمَ السِّرّ، سبحانَ مَن هو قائمٌ ….
We offer our congratulations to the celestial realm in the sweet strains of blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad.
اللهم صلّ على محمدٍ و آلِ محمد.
And on the night of the birth of “a branch of the olive tree,” “a lamp among the lamps of the House of Prophethood,” and “a man of letters السِّفْر» و «رَبِیبِ البِرّ»، و «مِصباحٍ من مَصابیحِ القُبَّةِ النبویّة,” we offer our congratulations to all the heavens and the earth in the sweet strains of blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad.
اللهم صلّ على محمدٍ و آلِ محمد.

The Key to Blessing: Obedience 🔑

His Eminence Muhammad al-Mustafa, إمامُ الرَّحمة، قائدُ al-khayr, the key to blessing—the secret of the universe. The key to blessing means the key to abundance; it means the safeguard of blessing; it means God’s law of blessing in this existence.
How can we come to know this vast divine order, this land of blessing, this realm of obedience to God, this arena of servitude—and this noble figure?
Until we know him, it means that Allah, the Lord Most High, has not opened to us the gates of knowing Him. Such is the secret expressed in “اللهم عرّفنی نفسَک؛ فإن لم تُعرّفنی نفسَک لم… لم أعرِف نبیّک”. When we come to know Muhammad, we have set out on the path to knowing Allah.
His Eminence is God’s key to blessing: the secret of attaining God’s highest blessings, the secret of obedience to Allah, the secret of attaining Allah’s supreme good pleasure, the secret of divine love at its highest. And Muhammad is “the abode of God’s love.”

Muhammad: Beyond Love, the Lamp of Blessings 💠

اللهم صلّ على محمدٍ و آلِ محمد.
If Muhammad is the “abode of love,” he himself is beyond love. Muhammad is the order of truth, the secret of attaining transcendent love, love’s shining lamp. He is love’s lamp, yet his most exalted essence—his innermost reality—lies beyond love.
The secret of attaining God’s blessings—the blessing of love, knowledge, pleasure, beauty, prosperity, a long life, and every other blessing in this world—is that His Eminence is the gateway to them all. Thus, the secret of attaining blessings lies in obedience to God and in pleasing Allah; they are all joined in the being of Muhammad al-Mustafa.

Obedience, Good Pleasure, Blessing: A Sacred Hadith 📜

اللهم صلّ على محمدٍ و آلِ محمد.
Obedience to God brings His pleasure, while disobedience brings His wrath and closes the gates of His blessing. The opposite of blessing is curse.
We seek to grasp the secret of “the key to blessing”: obedience is the key to blessing, while its opposite is God’s curse, which befalls the disobedient. God’s blessing has no end; whoever passes through the gate of Muhammad has reached the limitless. Muhammad is both the gate to blessing and the gate to obedience to God.
… God, the Almighty, revealed to one of His prophets, saying: “O My prophet, when I am obeyed, I am pleased”—that is, obedience brings Me joy. “و إذا رَضیتُ بارَکتُ”: when I am pleased—when I am content—I bestow blessing, and there is no limit to My blessing. … “و إذا عُصیتُ غضبتُ”: when I am disobeyed, I grow angry. “و إذا غضبتُ لعنتُّ”: when I grow angry, I curse—and لَعنتی تَبلُغُ إلى السّابعِ منَ الذُّرِّیةو My curse reaches down to the seventh generation of Adam’s descendants.”
That is, God’s wrath opens the gates of His curse upon those who incur it. To attain God’s blessing, then, we must please Him; we must make ourselves pleasing to Him. And to attain His pleasure, we must obey Him.

The verse “قل إن کنتم…” and the bond between love and obedience ❤️

… The key to blessing: In His Glorious Qur’an, God, the Exalted, says: “»» Say: If you love God…” God has made obedience to His Messenger the key to His own love and affection.
The Prophet is the surest guide along the path of God’s love; divine love passes through the soul of Muhammad.
اللهم صلّ على محمدٍ و آلِ محمد.
Divine love is bound to obedience to His Messenger. Those who love God must pass through the gate of love for Muhammad. How can we be certain that we are in complete obedience to the Exalted Lord? Without doubt, it is when we become wholly obedient to the Prophet Muhammad.
Whoever makes a covenant of love with God has embarked on the struggle of love. Those who love God must circle His Kaaba; the true circumambulation is obedience to the Messenger of God, the pinnacle of the rites of love for God. To neglect God’s Messenger is to welcome poverty and destitution: spiritual, physical, worldly, and otherworldly.
“Faith and piety” are the keys to God’s blessing: “… and if the people of the towns had believed and been mindful of God, We would have opened up blessings for them from heaven and earth … because of what they used to earn.” That is, faith and piety are the key to divine blessing; faith and piety are the fruit of the “Muhammadan” source (the source is Muhammadan).
They flow from the soul of the faithful and God-fearing. In other words, whoever attains faith and piety has thereby been joined to the sacred being of the Chosen One, Muhammad.

Let us be with Muhammad: embodying the example 🕋

So let us be with Muhammad and become Muhammadan. Let us embody the Muhammadan ideal within ourselves and play his part in this world. If we love acting, let us play the role of the Prophet Muhammad al-Mustafa; let us become like him: «لَقَد کانَ لَکم فی رسولِ اللهِ أُسوةٌ حسنة».
Then our very being will become a vessel for divine blessings, transformed into a Muhammadan land. People are unaware of the sacred secret behind economic and physical well-being, moral flourishing, and peace. They are far from the secret of blessings because they are separated from the Prophet, cut off from him—and so they have become distant from God’s grace.
Do we not know that the Almighty God spoke to all creation through the heart of His Muhammad? Did He not look upon creation through the Prophet? So when we turn towards him, we are looking upon the Ka‘ba of God’s reality; through him, we turn towards the Essence of the Most High Lord.
This is the very secret of the noble verse: «» Take what the Messenger of God has brought you and put it into practice; and abstain from what he has forbidden you. Be mindful of God, for God is severe in punishment.
Whoever holds fast to the Messenger of God has connected to that mighty gateway to God’s blessings. The Most High God sets the universe in motion according to His laws and on their axis. Who can defy God’s laws? Who can deny the law of gravity in this world?
The world is shaped by God’s fixed and changing ways: He keeps a law fixed if He wills, and changes it if He wills. Without these laws—the laws of God’s blessings—who could attain God’s wealth or receive His blessings?
For all its progress, modern humanity suffers from famine: a famine of spirituality, peace, and joy. In every respect, it is impoverished. The law of God’s blessings works like this: its input is obedience to and following the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and his family; its central processor is God’s good pleasure; and its output is God’s boundless blessings from earth and heaven. Its destructive input is sin and disobedience to God; its destructive output is wrath and a curse that pursues a person for seven generations.
Thus, “becoming Muhammadan” is a practical strategy. To reach that sublime destination, we must enter Muhammadan territory and become Muhammadan ourselves; enter the heaven of God’s blessings and journey through it. The secret of serving God through connection to His blessings—serving God with His blessing—is miraculous.
Becoming Muhammadan means following a practical guide to life: becoming Muhammadan—acquiring a Muhammadan way of thinking and a Muhammadan vision of the universe; attaining the Muhammadan light; reaching the gateway of «خُلقِ عظیم»; living by the Prophet’s example; following the Muhammadan spiritual path; and making Muhammadan love our vessel. This is the master key to reaching the highest of heights.
So let us renew our covenant with this beloved, the first and the last. The Prophet’s very being is the first secret and the final one. How can we praise him? His station is beyond the words and understanding we can conceive.

«نفیِ الصفات» and the Station of al-Mustafa in the Words of the Commander of the Faithful 🌟

“”; these same believers will visit their Lord from their own abodes in Paradise.
Imam al-Riḍā, peace be upon him, was asked: What does this mean? How will believers meet their Lord from their abodes? What does it mean for believers to meet the Lord Most High?
He replied: «يا عباس، إنّ الله فَضَّلَ نبیّه محمّداً …»
“God honoured His Prophet Muhammad, giving him precedence over all His creation—prophets and angels alike—and ‘ ’—making obedience to him obedience to Himself.” In other words, whoever obeys him has obeyed God. And “”—whoever pledges allegiance to him has pledged allegiance to God. This is the noble verse: «إنّ الذين یُبایِعونک إنّما یُبایِعونَ الله، یدُ اللهِ فوقَ أیدیهم».
That is the Hand of God above their hands—and the Hand of God is ʿAlī al-Murtaḍā, and the Hand of God is Muhammad al-Muṣṭafā.
His pledge of allegiance is the pledge of God (بيعتُ الله); visiting him in this world and the next is visiting God. What does this mean? I go to visit the Messenger of God so that I may visit my God—what kind of spiritual state is this?
فقال عزّوجل: «مَن أطاعَ الرّسولَ فقد أطاعَ الله»؛ and «إنّ الذين یُبایِعونک إنّما یُبایِعونَ الله، یدُ اللهِ فوقَ أیدیهم». The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, also said: «مَن زارَنی فی حَیاتی أو بعدَ مَماتی فقد زارَ الله».
“And the rank of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, in الجنّة أرفعُ الدّرجات»؛ whoever visits him—فی درجته—has indeed visited God, Blessed and Exalted. We seek to attain this visitation, to reach the meeting with God through visiting him. How? Whoever visits the Messenger has, in truth, visited God.
… «إنّک لعَلى خُلُقٍ عظیم»؛ The Prophet possesses a magnificent character; he is the embodiment of the highest perfection of sincerity. And «کمالُ الإخلاصِ له نَفیُ الصِّفات»—how are we to understand this? If there is any means of connection with the Lord Most High beyond the word, the verse, the name and the attribute, that supreme means is Muhammad al-Muṣṭafā.
God’s greatness—His divine attributes—are themselves the loftiest veils; and these lofty veils rest upon the exalted stature of Muhammad al-Muṣṭafā.
This understanding is grounded in the sacred words of our master, Amīr al-Muʾminīn, peace be upon him: «و کمالُ الإخلاصِ له نفیُ الصِّفات». That is, when we ascend upon his blessed shoulders, we will then scale the summit of the attributes and behold what lies beyond them. In other words, Muhammad is God’s magnificent affair.
… All the attributes in this world are veils concealing the peerless Essence of the Lord, signs of God’s exalted Essence, which cannot be described. These veils have a “beyond”; and beyond God’s attributes is Muhammad al-Muṣṭafā.

Was the Prophet not placed beneath various veils? The veils of power, majesty, favour, mercy, felicity, nobility, rank, guidance, prophethood, exaltedness, awe, intercession … all these are God’s attributes, resting upon the stature of Muhammad.
That is, God adorned him with His beautiful attributes. But what is he himself? Who is his blessed reality? “O God, who is Your Muhammad?” We are still caught up in Your names and attributes, while he is beyond the veil. Once we have traversed all God’s attributes, we will have reached him—at that boundary without bounds, at the “veil of veillessness.” Are the Infallible Imams, peace be upon them, not God’s veils? Those same veils are parallel garments worn by Muhammad al-Muṣṭafā.
Within those sacred veils, the Prophet raised his blessed melodies:
Behind the veil of power—the manifestation of God’s attribute of power—he glorified God in the melodies of Muhammad: «سُبحانَ ربّیَ الأعلَى».
When he was within the veil of majesty, in that exalted station, that attribute of the Most High Lord’s majesty, he sent the melody of «یازده هزار سال» out into the world. مُبارکِ «سُبحانَ عالمَ السِّرّThe melodies of Muhammad’s majesty filled all existence.
And beneath the veil of favour—the manifestation of the Lord’s attribute of favour—with the blessed melody «سُبحانَ مَن هو قائمٌ لا …» O God, what am I saying! This is a personal interpretation, grounded in the sacred words of Amīr al-Muʾminīn, peace be upon him: «و کمالُ الإخلاصِ له نَفیُ الصِّفات».
Muhammad is the living embodiment of that very «کمالُ الإخلاصِ له نَفیُ الصِّفاتِ عنه» (). The world must become Muhammadan to reach the threshold of servitude to God—until it does, it has not worshipped God.

God’s counsel to Jesus about the Seal of the Prophets ✨

When he attained this exalted station, he ought to feel confident in himself, pleased with himself for having reached this lofty rank of servitude.
That is the testament God, the Lord Most High, entrusts to Jesus, son of Mary: «ثُمَّ أُوصیکَ یا ابنَ مریم …»؛ He introduces the noble Messenger to Jesus with these words: «».

«»; the master of the red camel, the master of the moonlit face, the master of the radiant light, the master of the gentle, pure heart; «», and «» on the day he meets me;
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These are mysteries to be unveiled in their appointed time.
«O Jesus, کلُّ ما قرَّبَ منّی …..»
This is the exalted station of the Prophet of Islam in the sight of the Lord Most High. Indeed, he is the living embodiment of «The perfection of sincerity to Him is to deny attributes of Him»; the «highest manifestation of the negation of attributes»—that is, he has gone ahead of «unity» and advanced beyond «attributes». Who is he? By God, none but God and the Commander of the Faithful knows him.
«Praise be to God, who bestowed upon us Muhammad, His Prophet, peace be upon him and his family.»