Muhammad, the Law of Blessing

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🌼🔆🌼Muhammad: The Law of All Things🌼🔆🌼
🔹The Prophet’s Mission (PBUH)
📅 Date: 1404/10/27 – 27 Rajab 1447
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some topics discussed in the session:
The possessor of sublime character, that subtle essence ✨

On the night of the Prophet’s mission in this great city, the night of the mission of the honored Messenger, the noble Muhammad (PBUH), the gracious master and the subtle essence—his name is احمد in heaven and محمد (PBUH) on earth. The noble Muhammad: possessor of sublime character, subtle essence, wondrous creation, great mystery of mysteries, peerless and singular jewel, veiled by veils, immersed in the oceans of God’s might, majesty and greatness; the beloved of the Beloved, the proof of proofs, the remnant of the Remnant of God, the bearer of sublime character.

O God, let us know Your Muhammad: that magnificent essence whom You nurtured with Your love. O God, what kind of nurturing is this, by which You raised Your beloved, Your cherished one, through Your own love, refined him and called him to Yourself? Muhammad became the recipient of Your special invitation, the hidden sustenance of the Divine. This magnificent essence, this catalyst of beauty, bears sublime character. He hastens the advent of noble virtues and beauty; he quickens them and changes the world’s very hue. O God, if beauty were to change its color, what form would it take? This is the mystery of Muhammad.

The Kaaba of the prophets, the sweetness of the Supreme Pen 🕋

The Kaaba of the prophets: when he fell in prostration, drops of sweat fell from that radiant brow, and from those drops of immense light the prophets blossomed. They gathered around that same great light like a Kaaba and communed with their Lord. He is the Kaaba of the prophets, the sweetness of the Supreme Pen—the pen that swoons and loses itself upon hearing the name Muhammad. His name is so sweet; how wondrous must his blessed soul be! This vast network, this spreading, this Manifest One made manifest: the most extraordinary tree of creation, with worlds hanging from every branch.

By God, Muhammad is the law of all things ⚖️

He is the mystery of knowledge, the mystery of teaching and learning, and the teacher. Muhammad means the law of all things, the law whose discovery all the worlds seek. A single law governs all existence. If we discover that law, we will gain access to every mystery of the universe. What is this law of all things? By God, it is Muhammad.

The day of his mission is a day when all conditions are transformed. Earth and time were changed. Once more, the earth breathed; once more, a spirit was breathed into the soul of the earth, into this world, and it came to life. Once more, the accursed Satan was driven to despair. Satan had nearly finished his work; our world was on the brink of extinction. Then Muhammad came and made Satan cry out. The Master, the Commander of the Faithful, describes that moment: “I saw the radiance of revelation; I beheld the light and brightness of revelation and prophethood; I tasted the fragrance of prophecy. When revelation descended, I heard Satan’s cry. So I asked, ‘O Messenger of Guidance, what is this cry?’ He replied, ‘It is Satan’s cry, for he has despaired of his worship.’” In other words, the Messenger of God drove Satan to despair. Satan’s dominion over the world was almost complete, but the Messenger of God arrived and laid waste to all he had built.

He carries the earth with him to heaven 🌌

This is the same Messenger who, when he was about to soar heavenward on the Night of Ascension, was accompanied, as the Master relates, by that constant companion of prophethood—whether at the descent of revelation, in the course of his mission, or as he ascended to the garden of the Mi‘raj. He says: “I was with the Messenger of God.” That is, on the night when the Messenger of God was about to take wing toward heaven, he was in the Hijr of Ismail, praying. When his prayer had ended, and mine too, I heard a very loud wail and cry. So I asked, “O Messenger of God, what is this cry?” He replied, “It is Satan’s wail and cry, for he knows that I am about to journey to heaven, and so he has despaired of his worship.”

When the Messenger of God ascends to heaven, he takes the earth with him, makes it heavenly, and then brings it back. When His Eminence ascends, in what state does he take flight, and in what state does he descend? And what things he brings back with him when he descends! He brings the whole of Sidrat al-Muntahā, the distance of two bows or nearer, down to earth, making the earth heavenly and the heavens earthly. He carries his own fragrance up to heaven and draws “or nearer” down to earth. Such is this great Messenger of God.

At the Pledge of ʿAqabah, he addresses Satan—who is once again making a display of himself there—and threatens him: “Do you hear, O enemy of God? Know this: by God, I shall soon make time for you; that is, I shall call you to account—an accounting that will serve as a lesson for all history.”

Prophet Muhammad is the key to blessing 🔑

O God, who is the Messenger of God? This great light of God, this key to God’s blessings, this vast system of goodness and blessings, this cipher of wonders, this secret of infinity. By God, all the worlds are searching for Muhammad, and they do not know it. His Eminence is the secret of movement, the secret of emerging from stillness. He is the secret behind the flourishing markets of this world and the next, and the flourishing of love; the secret of the market of religion, of the realm, of the angelic kingdom, of the realm of divine power. His Eminence is God’s city of blessings; His Eminence is God’s city of love. “When I am pleased, I bestow blessings, and there is no end to My blessings.” And His Eminence, Muhammad, is the key to blessing.

That is, the secret of passage into infinity. To be heedless of His Eminence is to be heedless of the City of Knowledge—to be heedless of all reality and arrive at manifest loss. Everything in this universe is immersed in knowledge. Knowledge encompasses everything, all things in this universe; in a word, the entire universe lies within the bounds of the Prophet’s City of Knowledge. His Eminence is all reality, all light and blessing. He is the constitution of blessing, progress, growth, radiance, delight, and beauty. He was sent so that we might become Muhammadan, then pass beyond becoming Muhammadan and become Muhammad. Until we attain that station, we have not attained servitude to God. Until we attain that station, we have not worshipped God as befits Him. This is the highest path of worship and servitude to God.

Riding the mount of sublime character 📜

And now, where is that Muhammad? In which horizons—or beyond which horizons? That Eminence who, in a single Ascension, conquers Sidrat al-Muntahā, reaches the distance of two bows, and is received as a guest at “or nearer”—where has he now arrived? Let us reflect for a moment. And which of His Eminence’s stations do we hope to attain? Which trace of his fragrance do we hope to take in? He is the possessor of sublime character. It is as though His Eminence rides upon sublime character, a rider who spurs on ethics, human qualities, every beauty, every virtue and excellence. He is of sublime character, its possessor; mounted on the steed of sublime character, he drives forth every beauty.

His character, his ethics, is the Quran; that is, the Word of God is the character of Muhammad al-Mustafa. If his character is the Quran, what kind of character is it? It is a character that makes clear all things and contains every beauty, every noble virtue—those we know and those we do not. The heavens of noble virtues dwell in his heart; their constellations dwell in his heart. Every outward and inward manifestation of beauty is gathered in His Eminence’s heart. If only I could express more simply the secret of this blessed hadith. What kind of nurturing is this, brought about through God’s love? Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, cultivated His Prophet and perfected his refinement; and when that refinement reached its fullness, He said… What station is this? Who can cross its threshold and grasp its secret? He is nurtured by God’s love, the fruit and outcome of divine love. Refinement is bestowed and perfected through love; love is bestowed and perfected through love. He refines with love, lets His Prophet drink his fill of love, pours His love into the heart of His beloved, and transforms His beloved into His own love. In the truest sense, he becomes the love of God, the city of God’s love.

Prophethood means divine publishing 📖

This great Messenger of God is God’s very charter, Allah’s constitution. His prophetic station is where knowledge and arts are disseminated, where goodness and blessings are spread abroad. In a word, prophethood means divine publishing. Prophethood is the union of a Book and a learner. When the Book and the learner become one, prophethood takes shape. Prophethood is the Book embodied in the learner who is the teacher’s own. O God, what kind of teacher is He, and what kind of learner is His Eminence? What kind of Book is it that has become God’s knowledge, become God’s City of Knowledge?

Why has learning become difficult for us? Because we have drifted away from becoming Muhammadan. How do we learn? How do we memorise? Why does nothing stay in our minds? Why are we prisoners of forgetfulness? What has happened? The Muhammadan system within us has fallen asleep. We, too, should have been learners, like Muhammad, at the feet of the Supreme Teacher. We are the ones who turned away from manna and quails, from the provision of Heaven, and sought our sustenance in the earth. We lifted our eyes from Heaven and fixed them on the ground, on the dust—and became its captives. We are the ones who sold our souls for a paltry price, unlike those who sold their souls to none but their Lord. O God! I will not sell myself for any price; You alone are my buyer. I sell myself to You, and its price is Your pleasure. The first word and the last. Those who turned away sought their sustenance on earth, in the dust. We are all like this. This is how we address our God: “Moses, we cannot bear one kind of food.” We do not know how to ask; we do not know what to ask of Allah. We ourselves asked God for it: we turned our eyes from manna and quails, fled from the light, and asked God for earthly vegetables. We asked for cucumbers and garlic, lentils and onions. This is the bargain we made: we became prisoners of the dust, thinking like dust, learning like dust. “Would you exchange what is better for you for what is inferior? Would you give up the better and take the worse? Then go down to Egypt; there you will find what you have asked for.” This is the secret of falling. We have fallen. The secret of rising is to become Muhammadan.

God’s way is His unchanging law ⛓️

Muhammad is God’s guarantee of blessing: the laws of compassion and love, of provision and pleasure, of peace. He is the secret by which we can once again discover the easy way to attain what we seek in every sphere. But this human being chose to fight God, challenged Him, rose up against His laws, and laid down laws of his own alongside them—and became wretched from beginning to end. Did he become wretched or not? Who can produce a verse like God’s verse? No one can. When we read one of God’s verses, it contains many inner dimensions and bears wonders. Its wording works miracles; its allusions bind earth and heaven together; its subtleties immerse the whole of existence; and its truths remain hidden. Who can produce a verse like God’s? Who can produce even a single verse like His? Who can make a flower like God’s flowers? Who can devise a law like God’s law? Who can create the law of gravity? So many laws have been discovered—but who can create one? Who can bring forth even a particle? No one can. This human being, who sought to show off in the face of God, brought himself to ruin and destroyed himself, without even realising it. He set up laws against God’s law and became wretched from beginning to end.

It is impossible to escape divine law. Though it may appear possible to get around it, the one who does so does not realise that the very law permitting such evasion is also His, established as a test. Its author is Allah Himself; He has made evasion possible so that His law may be fulfilled. But He has certain ways: that is, His unchangeable laws, which no one can alter. There are other laws that God may change if He so wills, and there is the law that permits transgression, which He Himself established so that testing might be possible.

Muhammad is the key to God’s blessing 💎

O God! Your sovereignty is supreme, Your station exalted, Your design hidden, Your command prevailing, Your might manifest and victorious, and Your power ever at work. There is no escaping Your rule, Your dominion. So who can transgress God’s law? No one can. And the Noble Prophet Muhammad Mustafa is God’s law for all things.

Can we imagine what it means to enjoy a blessing that endures? Who can hold on to pleasure for even a second? Pleasure vanishes so swiftly that one cannot even turn towards it in an instant and taste it. But Muhammad is the key to God’s blessing: the secret of making pleasure endure, the secret of capturing it. What if the taste remained, the pleasure endured and grew stronger, joined to other tastes and pleasures? That secret is with Muhammad. He is the one who embodies the law of all things: ever-growing, ever-flowing, effective, the source of immense effects, and the secret of attaining God’s special gifts. Blessing is the fullest reality, the purest of pure diamonds, the essence of all qualities, the sum of every quality, the very root, the secret of being in God’s presence, the secret of connecting with the Word of God and with His names and attributes. How do I reach that secret? By joining myself to God’s words and His most exalted attributes. The secret of the Key to Blessing is that same treasury of treasures, that same secret of immortality.

Complete detachment from You 🛤

In a word, if we wished to offer an image of his beauty, it would be this noble whispered prayer of the Commander of the Faithful. It is as though they had portrayed for us the beauty of the Prophet Muhammad: «الهی هب لی کمال الانقطاع الیک…» My God, grant me complete detachment in turning toward You, so that the eyes of our hearts may be illumined by the light of gazing toward You—until the eyes of our hearts pierce the veils of light and reach the wellspring of majesty, and our spirits are suspended from Your holy Throne. My God, number me among those whom You called and who answered You; upon whom You gazed, and who, overcome by awe at the majesty of Your glory, lost themselves. Then You spoke openly with them, while they acted for You in secret. Who is it that has attained complete detachment? Is it anyone other than Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad? The Prophet Muhammad himself is the living embodiment of the highest detachment from all but God, turning wholly toward God. He is detached from everything that exists, and this vein of creation draws all things away from whatever is other than God and leads them to Him. This is the secret of secrets, the secret beyond all pleasures, the secret beyond all beauties, the secret at the furthest end of every aim.

What more can I say of him? He is the principle of all things in this realm beyond things. If we attain this station, we will attain everything—or rather, we will be detached from everything and reach Him. Otherwise, like people today, wandering lost in the desert of knowledge, we too will be lost. Muhammad is truly the paradise of knowledge, gnosis and wisdom.