Nature Is God’s Revelation

The Lesser and Greater Spring

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ

“Water and Bread for Body and Soul” · “The Secrets of Night and Day” · “The Spring of Noble Virtues” · “The Cultivation of Beauty and Delight” · “A Commentary on the Sixth Supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya” and more… An abridged selection with an addendum
1404.01.21
Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)

A Brief Commentary on the Sixth Supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya

Nature Is God’s Revelation

🌹Nature and its beauty are God’s revelatory speech.

🌹We must receive God’s speech in all its dimensions. Nature is, in truth, a set of divine words, among them the “visible, audible, tactile, spiritual, and heartfelt word.” In reality, nature is God’s speech of being, inscribed across the tablet of creation. All creatures know this speech of God: from the earth and its inhabitants—the seed, the plant, the bird, the honeybee, and all the rest—to the heavens and their inhabitants.

🌹Once received, God’s revelatory speech in nature must be understood deeply; otherwise, one is ranked alongside beasts, or even lower than them.

🌻🔆Al-Aʿrāf: 179 وَ لَقَدْ ذَرَأْنا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثيراً مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لا يَفْقَهُونَ بِها وَ لَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ لا يُبْصِرُونَ بِها وَ لَهُمْ آذانٌ لا يَسْمَعُونَ بِها أُولئِكَ كَالْأَنْعامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ أُولئِكَ هُمُ الْغافِلُونَ

🔆Indeed, We have created for Hell many jinn and humans. They have hearts with which they do not understand, eyes with which they do not see, and ears with which they do not hear. They are like cattle—indeed, even more astray. They are the heedless.

🔅🌼Nourishment for Our Outer and Inner Faculties🌼🔅

🌹Let us fulfil our filial duty toward our outer and inner faculties.

🌹Let us attend to the water and nourishment each of the body’s members and faculties needs.

🌹If we neglect any outward or inward faculty, it will dry up and die!

🌹Why are human beings indifferent to the death of their intellect, heart, and own noble qualities?

🌹We need many kinds of nourishment, including intellectual, wisdom-giving, spiritual, loving, and luminous nourishment.

🔅🌼The Lesser Spring and the Greater Spring🌼🔅

🌹How have we made use of the lesser springs, yet expect the arrival of the greater and greatest Spring? First, we must prove ourselves worthy.

🔅🌼The Springtime of the Soul Is Time🌼🔅

🌹Our physical body needs enough food to sustain it. Too little or too much will ruin and corrupt it. But our heart, soul, and inner faculties need pure nourishment, however much of it may be available.

🌷🔆وَ قَالَ ع‏ كُلُّ وِعَاءٍ يَضِيقُ بِمَا جُعِلَ فِيهِ إِلَّا وِعَاءَ الْعِلْمِ فَإِنَّهُ يَتَّسِعُ‏ بِه‏[1]

🔆Every vessel grows narrower as its contents increase, but the vessel of knowledge expands with what it contains.

🌷🔆 عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُوسَى الرِّضَا peace be upon him: إِنَّ الْجَسَدَ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الْأَرْضِ الطَّيِّبَةِ مَتَى تُعُوهِدَتْ بِالْعِمَارَةِ وَ السَّقْيِ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا تَزْدَادُ فِي الْمَاءِ فَتَغْرِقَ وَ لَا يُنْقَصُ مِنْهُ فَتَعْطَشَ دَامَتْ عِمَارَتُهَا وَ كَثُرَ رَيْعُهَا وَ زَكَا زَرْعُهَا وَ إِنْ تُغُوفِلَ عَنْهَا فَسَدَتْ وَ لَمْ يَنْبُتْ فِيهَا الْعُشْبُ فَالْجَسَدُ بِهَذِهِ الْمَنْزِلَةِ وَ بِالتَّدْبِيرِ فِي الْأَغْذِيَةِ وَ الْأَشْرِبَةِ يَصْلُحُ وَ يَصِحُّ وَ تَزْكُو الْعَافِيَةُ فِيهِ إِلَى أَنْ قَالَ أَمَّا فَصْلُ الرَّبِيعِ فَإِنَّهُ رُوحُ‏ الزَّمَانِ‏[2]

🔆Imam al-Rida, peace be upon him: Know that the human body is like fertile land. If, when you tend and water it, you observe moderation—neither watering it so much that it floods and turns into a swamp of mud, nor withholding water until it is parched and dry—it will remain flourishing and fruitful, yielding abundantly and producing wholesome crops. But if neglected, it will be ruined, and nothing green will grow there.

The body, then, is like that same land: wise moderation in what one eats and drinks keeps it sound and healthy and strengthens its vitality.

But spring is the season of the spirit.

🔅🌼 The Joy of the Seasons 🌼🔅

🌷🔆 السَّلَامُ عَلَى رَبِيعِ‏ الْأَنَامِ‏ وَ نَضْرَةِ الْأَيَّام‏

🔆Peace to the springtime of humanity and the freshness of the seasons

🌹Greet spring
🌹Every greeting carries a tribute. Spring’s tribute is beauty, vitality, freshness, life, and renewal.

🔅🌼 The Secret of Eternal Spring 🌼🔅

🌹The spring we see points to the spring within, the spring of the unseen realm. Union with the spring of the souls in that realm is the secret of reaching the eternity of spring.

🔅🌼Reading the Flowers🌼🔅

🌹Flowers are divine letters written across spring’s beautiful face. The flower and the garden are God’s book: let us be literate and read.

🌹Spring does not disappear; its course changes. As it unfolds, it continues to grow and rise, leaving the shell of this world behind and advancing into open space. Spring lifts, ascends, and guides us toward maturity.

🌹The world is our shell, the cocoon of our souls. Do not forget the butterfly within.

🌹Spring’s butterfly breaks free from the cocoon of this world.

🌹Spring within spring: like light within light, beauty within beauty, life within life.

🌹In its own time and place, spring continues to grow and renew itself.

🌹To become springlike amid spring, and in spring’s own heart, is what it means to render spring its due.

🔅🌼Expanding Beauty and Delight🌼🔅

🌹Beauty and delight are ever-growing; their unfolding and expansion gather pace as they grow. Why, then, are they fading within us? Let us increase our share of them through knowledge, reason, and wisdom.

🌹Let us strengthen our intellectual life, keep reason active and cherish it, and give it the tools it needs. Noble character is reason’s instrument, strength, and arm.

🌹Let us plant noble qualities like flowers in the soil of our hearts, keep our being forever in spring, and bring the garden of reason to full bloom. Let the garden of noble qualities in your heart reach its perfection.

🌹Only reason can nourish, digest, and bring knowledge and wisdom to full and flourishing maturity, ripening their fruits.

🔅🌼The Spring of Noble Qualities🌼🔅

🌹Spring is God’s greeting and blessings upon His creation.

🌹Spring is the flow of life and the surging of existence, the highest sign of divine grace.

🌹Spring is God’s smile, with the face of the earth, to the people of the earth and the stars of the heavens.

🌹Spring flowers are the sweet smiles of God’s love upon earth and sky.

🔅🌼God’s Fresh New Page🌼🔅

🌹Spring is the beginning of a new page in God’s book of creation, a sign of change and movement along the path of growth and unfolding. The child of existence has not fallen behind in its growth for even a moment.

🔅🌼The believers’ spring will one day appear in its fullness🌼🔅

🌹Spring is a sign of the believers’ resurrection!

🌹Who could fear death if the end of their winter is the beginning of their spring?

🌹Spring is God’s promise of a more expansive life, a guiding banner pointing all creation toward the mysteries of the Resurrection, and a special glad tiding for the faithful.

🔅🌼Spring is among the greatest Names of God🌼🔅

🌹One of the invocations of spring is «هو الحی القیوم».

🔅🌼Every moment is a world waiting to be brought to life🌼🔅

🌹Every moment is a treasure, an opportunity, a life, a world! What did I do with that moment? What did I sow in it? Did we lose or win?

🌹Every day is a springtime in human life, a new beginning for growth, transformation, and renewal.

🔅🌼Spring is abiding and unceasing🌼🔅

🌹“Abiding spring” is a spring inseparable from human beings and the world. It is with them, abiding in the soul of humanity and in all creation, like the spirit. Human beings and all creatures continually experience spring within themselves, as spring unfolds into spring—like light within light, knowledge within knowledge, origination within origination, life within life.

🔅🌼The soul’s cold winter🌼🔅

🌹Those frozen and confined in the winter of their own souls will never experience true spring, for all eternity.

🔅🌼The tree of spring in the world of the soul🌼🔅

🌹Within our souls grows a tree of spring, with twelve mighty branches

🔅🌼The divine mystery of mysteries in the Sixth Supplication of the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya🌼🔅

🌹The Sixth Supplication of the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya makes a person’s life springlike each day.

🌹The Sixth Supplication recalls renewal: a new year, a new day, a new moment

🔅🌼A glimpse of the lofty summit of the Sixth Supplication of the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjādiyya🌼🔅

☘️ (وَ كَانَ مِنْ دُعَائِهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ عِنْدَ الصَّبَاحِ وَ الْمَسَاءِ:)

☘️Imam Sajjād’s (AS) intimate prayer at dawn and dusk

🌸☘️ (1) الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي خَلَقَ اللَّيْلَ وَ النَّهَارَ بِقُوَّتِهِ

🌸☘️(1) Praise be to God, who by His power created night and day,

🌹Night and day are not abstract concepts or mere mental constructs; rather, night and day possess existence and identity.

🌹Although night and day become manifest through the rotation of the celestial bodies, the order governing the cosmos, and their movements and courses, we should not attribute night and day themselves to the result of these motions. Rather, all these cycles and movements, these heavenly bodies, are means through which night and day emerge and become manifest—just as we cannot say that human identity is the product of cellular composition or the movements of molecules, atoms, and electrons.

🌹Night and day are repositories of divine power.

🌸☘️ (2) وَ مَيَّزَ بَيْنَهُمَا بِقُدْرَتِهِ

🌸☘️ (2) and by His power set them apart from one another,

🌹The Most Exalted God is the One who cleaves, separates, splits, and interposes; He also distinguishes whatever He wills from whatever He wills.

🌹The immense power of God distinguishes night from day. This distinction is a clear sign of divine power; whoever grasps this truth is endowed with divine power.

🌹By His power, the Most Exalted God has brought the countenance of night and day into view for us.

🌸☘️ (3) وَ جَعَلَ لِكُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا حَدّاً مَحْدُوداً، وَ أَمَداً مَمْدُوداً

🌸☘️  (3) and appointed for each a fixed limit and an extended duration.

🌹Limitation and extension are instruments of God’s beauty; they help created beings discern the divine mysteries.

🌹Were it not for extension and limitation, nothing would be manifest and perceptible to created beings.

🌹The bounds and constraints of space and time are the pen with which God writes.

🌸☘️ (4) يُولِجُ كُلَّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا فِي صَاحِبِهِ، وَ يُولِجُ صَاحِبَهُ فِيهِ بِتَقْدِيرٍ مِنْهُ لِلْعِبَادِ فِيمَا يَغْذُوهُمْ بِهِ، وَ يُنْشِئُهُمْ عَلَيْهِ

🌸☘️ (4) He causes each to enter into the other, and the other into it, by His decree for His servants—in what He provides for them and what He nurtures them with.

🌹Night and day enter into one another; they are like two intimate companions.

🌹God caused night to enter into day and day into night, forging a mysterious bond between them.

🌹Ijlāj is this very particular, mysterious way of connection and encounter; it is an exceptionally special meeting.

🌸☘️  (5) فَخَلَقَ لَهُمُ‏ اللَّيْلَ لِيَسْكُنُوا فِيهِ‏ مِنْ حَرَكَاتِ التَّعَبِ وَ نَهَضَاتِ النَّصَبِ، وَ جَعَلَهُ لِبَاساً لِيَلْبَسُوا مِنْ رَاحَتِهِ وَ مَنَامِهِ، فَيَكُونَ ذَلِكَ لَهُمْ جَمَاماً وَ قُوَّةً، وَ لِيَنَالُوا بِهِ لَذَّةً وَ شَهْوَةً

🌸☘️ (5) He created night for them, so that they might rest from the weariness of movement and striving, and made it a covering in which they could enjoy repose and sleep; that it might bring them comfort and strength, and through it they might know pleasure and desire.

🌹Night is a warmer embrace than that of “parents, a beloved, or any companion.”

🌹Night is an embrace with many layers, like the embrace of “comfort, sleep, rest, strength, pleasure, and desire,” in which created beings are nurtured, delighted, and filled with desire—all that a person needs, outwardly and inwardly.

🌸☘️  (6) وَ خَلَقَ لَهُمُ‏ النَّهارَ مُبْصِراً لِيَبْتَغُوا فِيهِ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ، وَ لِيَتَسَبَّبُوا إِلَى رِزْقِهِ، وَ يَسْرَحُوا فِي أَرْضِهِ، طَلَباً لِمَا فِيهِ نَيْلُ الْعَاجِلِ مِنْ دُنْيَاهُمْ، وَ دَرَكُ الْآجِلِ فِي أُخْرَاهُمْ

🌸☘️ (6) And He made day a source of sight for them, so that they might seek His bounty and obtain their provision in it, and travel through His earth in pursuit of what would bring them an immediate share in this world and secure their attainment in the Hereafter, their ultimate abode.

🌹Night is like the soil, and day what rises above it: roots take hold at night, and blossoms appear by day.

🌹Let us read the book of night by day, and open the book of day at night.

🌹Day makes things visible; it is an outward, exceptional sense for created beings.

🌹Day is a vast field in which to gain great achievements.

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

🔅🌼A supplement to the Lesser and Greater Spring🌼🔅

🌹The flowers of divine letters adorn spring’s beautiful face; flower and garden are God’s book—let us be literate, and read.

🌹Read nature as a sacred text.  

🌹To read the book of nature, forge a bond between science and mysticism.

🌹Spring is eternally bound to resurrection.

🌹Spring is God’s promise of life in greater abundance, a guiding banner leading creation toward the mysteries of the Resurrection, and a special glad tiding for the faithful.

🌹The human body is like fertile, well-tended land… If you observe moderation, it will always flourish.

🌹Reason and ethics are the tools and means by which human beings take flight.

🌹Let us plant noble virtues like flowers in the soil of our hearts, and keep our whole being in perpetual spring.

🌹Do not squander the jewel of time.  

🌹Every moment is a treasure, an opportunity, a life, a world! What did I do with that moment? What did I plant in it? Did I lose or win?

🌹Every moment matters as much as a world.

🌹 Spring is God’s greeting and blessings upon His creation… Spring flowers are the sweet smiles of God’s love upon earth and sky.

🌹 Nature is a direct manifestation of God’s love for His creatures.

🌹 In spring, and in the heart of spring, becoming springlike is how we fulfil spring’s due.

🌹 Only by attuning ourselves to nature’s rhythms—outwardly and inwardly—can we understand the truth of spring.

🌹 Spring within spring is like light within light, beauty within beauty, life within life.

– 🌹 Repeating words conveys a sense of infinity and oneness. 

🌹 Who is afraid of death? One for whom the end of winter does not bring the beginning of spring.

🌹 Death is not an end but a new beginning. This truth consoles the hearts of those who grieve.

🌹 Nature speaks to us not only through what is «visible and audible», but also through the «spiritual and heartfelt» dimensions of our being. 

  🌹 Every natural phenomenon, from a seed to a bird in flight, is a word from the book of existence, understood only by the learned and those of discerning heart. 

🌹 Spiritual nourishment is knowledge, wisdom and understanding—the soul’s everlasting food. The more we partake of it, the wider the vessel of our being becomes. 

🌹 The earthly spring (the lesser) is a mirror of the celestial spring (the greater). Only through worthiness can one enter the eternal spring. 

🌹 «What have we done with the lesser spring that we expect the greater spring to arrive?»

🌹 Imam Reza (AS) calls spring «the spirit of time» in a hadith. This expression presents spring as more than a physical season: it is a symbol of the divine breath moving through existence.

🌹 A human being is like a butterfly, who must flee the cocoon of this world to reach the true spring—the celestial realm.

🌹 Life is a divine symphony. 

🌹 Let us be at peace with existence, so that it may place all its blessings at our disposal.

🌹 Greeting spring, greeting ourselves, and greeting the world are signs of harmony with the divine order. 

🌹 Each person is the gardener of the «tree of spring» within. By cultivating noble virtues, we can keep this tree flourishing and growing towards eternity.

🌹 «Every particle of existence is a letter from God. Live, read, and keep the garden of your heart in springtime with His name.» 

🌹 Just as spring renews itself each year, through remembrance of God we too can experience rebirth in every moment.

🌹 «Seek spring not among the flowers, but within the soul; for true spring is the rising of His name in the cup of the heart.» 🌹 

🌻🔆A student’s perspective on the topic “Nature is God’s revelation”🔆🌻

🌼🔆🌼The Lesser and Greater Spring🌼🔆🌼

🔹 Weekly sessions on the explanation and interpretation of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (Supplication 6)

📅 Date: 1404/01/21 – 11 Shawwal 1446

✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor

🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei

📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:

### Our bodies are God’s earth; let us be its farmers 🌱 

We truly must turn the nectar of servitude into its honey.

Imam Reza (AS) says: “This body is like the earth—a pure land… 

Your body is like pure earth, which you are responsible for; you must care for it…”

If you take care of this body,

and tend to its cultivation and irrigation,

Give it neither too much nor too little, but just as much as it needs…

If you commit to providing this body with water and nourishment, 

this soil of being will become a vast field.

Its yield will be abundant, 

and its crops will grow pure and beautiful.

But if you neglect this body, this fertile earth… 

it will fall into ruin. 

You will destroy it.

Nothing will grow in this body anymore. 

No virtues will emerge from it.

We must tend to this body… 

And if we are committed to our greater inner world, 

do we provide it with water and knowledge?

### Water for the Body, Wisdom for the Soul: Balance or Ruin ⚖️ 

Do we understand that we must keep watering and nourishing it?

The body needs just enough—not more, not less. 

But what of our soul and heart? We must care for them without limit, in all their vastness.

The soul’s water and nourishment are God’s knowledge and wisdom, the knowledge of God.

No matter how much you pour in, 

the heart’s cup is never filled, for it is God’s sanctuary.

We have forgotten this heart… 

We attend to the body.

We give it more water, drown it in it… 

This body rots, by God…

Give it too much water and nourishment, and it will perish.

The body must be watered in due measure. 

But the soul must be watered continually. 

Drown it in water… make it light…

Let it be immersed in light… not merely fed, but dissolved, so that it may arrive.

We pay no heed to the water and nourishment of our greater inner world.

Every one of our faculties and limbs—our eyes, ears, intellect… all need water and nourishment.

Our faculty of hearing… the intellect—forgotten…

We do not know that the intellect is nourished by noble virtues. 

It has seventy-five qualities and must be nourished by them.

We have left the intellect without water or nourishment… 

There is no intellect left in us at all… We have reached intellectual death and do not even know it.

### Fasl al-Rabīʿ: The Spirit of Time, Not Just the Spring of Nature 🌸 

The spirit of faith has departed from us, and we do not know it… 

And now we are searching for spring?!

But… Imam Reza, peace be upon him, says:

“Know that spring is the spirit of time… the life of time…”

Without spring, time loses its life… it dies.

We are searching for the greater spring, 

but what have we done with the lesser spring?

Have we proved ourselves worthy?

Are we ready for the prelude to spring? 

So that we may reach spring itself?

that we do not reach…

Spring does not die; it renews itself. 

In spring, spring comes again.

The spring that has come makes the soul bloom.

It reaches the soul of every living thing. 

All living things become springlike.

Spring has come—that is, it has brought with it cosmic knowledge and sciences.

It has infused the particles with divine knowledge. 

They have all benefited… 

The fruits have ripened.

Fruits are one part of spring’s response… 

their beauty bearing witness to spring.

### A flower withers, but does not die 🌼🕊 

What have we done?

That flower comes into its own… 

It takes flight… its spirit departs… By God, it does not die…

That flower, for all its beauty, 

withers in body…

but continues to live in a greater world…

It continues to grow…

In spring, it comes into bloom… 

but in other worlds…

What have we done? 

Which spring have we truly experienced?

### The uplifting, ascending spring: continual inward growth 🌸📈 

To bloom in spring… 

an ascending, uplifting spring must flow through our being.

Spring is ever-growing, flourishing, and fruitful. 

It grows…

Whatever it may be, the beauty that reveals itself in spring**, 

**is growing and flourishing.

Beauty increases. 

Pleasures multiply. 

As knowledge expands, so do beauty and pleasure.

How much pleasure do I take in this world? 

My pleasure is proportionate to my knowledge. 

The more I understand, the more I enjoy.

My understanding of this world’s beauty 

is proportionate to the knowledge I acquire.

But without reason… 

I am in ruins.

My senses and understanding are confined to worldly perception, 

and even there I will fail.

### Reason: the commander of beauty, the key to pleasure ✨🧠 

When, through reason, I experience beauty and pleasure, 

my pleasure and beauty extend as far as the universe itself, 

and even beyond it.

Why? 

Because I will be connected to the essence of beauty, to the essence of pleasure… 

to the Most Beautiful Names**, to the **Greatest Name**, 

I will explore the truth of **beauty and pleasure.

It is the intellect that digests knowledge. 

It is the intellect that can absorb knowledge and draw nourishment from it.

It acts like a beautiful seed.

Without the intellect, that same beautiful seed 

will never become a beautiful flower. 

No nectar will emerge from it.

Without the intellect, no bee can make honey.

The intellect is the commander of beauty and pleasure. 

Without it, everyone is deprived.

The intellect is God’s first beloved… His first and last beloved.

In this universe,

spring is the spirit of time…

How should we welcome it? 

Let us greet spring…

### Greetings to the Spring of All Creation, the Source of Springtime 💐 

The inner reality of this outward spring is that exalted being, Aqa Baqiyyat Allah al-A‘zam, may my soul be his ransom…

He is:

“ربیع‌الأنام” 

“نضرة الأیّام”

He is the spring of all beauty. 

The spring of knowledge, the spring of wisdom, the spring of light… He is.

He truly is spring. 

He is the source of springtime.

Let us greet that true spring…

For our greeting will be answered…

Whoever greets spring sincerely

will receive an answer to their greeting…

with blossoms of beauty, with growth and progress,

with nectar and honey, with fragrance and beauty.

What does that Spring of All Creation do? 

What is his answer to our greeting?

If we do not recognise spring, we will mistake winter for spring.

If we do not recognise the light, by God… we will take darkness and gloom

for light.

We will mistake blindness itself for sight…

### The Spring of Noble Virtues: A Season for Reading, a Season for Sowing 🌿📖 

Spring is a season for reading. 

A season for reading the Book of God.

Nature is God’s book of revelation…

Let us read:

with measured recitation, with proper articulation, attentively,

with reflection, contemplation and deep understanding…

so that our very being becomes beauty… becomes spring itself.

Let us sow noble virtues within ourselves.

At every moment, we are spring. 

With true spring, we are spring at every instant.

At every instant, the possibility of growth is open to us. 

Let us sow within ourselves as many noble virtues as we can.

If we sow all seventy-five noble qualities… 

By God, it will multiply them.

It goes beyond that number…

The many acts of generosity that God, the Creator of the universe, brings into being

will fill our existence with harvests of virtue.

### The Garden of Virtues: God’s smile upon our souls 🌷💖

Let us bring our hearts to perfection in the garden of virtues…

Spring is God’s greeting…

God’s blessing upon His creation…

A blessing upon that spring of God…

Our spring is the current of life, the wellspring of being.

Spring is the tender smile of God’s grace upon all creation.

These spring flowers** are truly **the loving smiles of God upon His creation.

Spring means a beginning within another beginning…

Spring means beginning to write a new page in God’s book of creation…

The beginning of change… the beginning of transformation…

The beginning of new divine manifestations…

This child, existence, must grow…

It must mature, reach the fullness of its age, and attain its perfection.

Spring is the resurrection of the faithful.

Who is it that fears death?

The one who fears death

is the one whose winter ends without another spring to begin…

Spring heralds a more abundant life.

It is the sweet smile of God’s majesty upon His creation in this world of being…

In one sense, spring is one of the faces of the believers’ faith.

Spring is the remembrance of the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting.

At every moment, this world is a new world.

Every moment is a great treasure.

An exceptional opportunity… a new life… a fresh world…

What have we done with our past souls

to experience new worlds?

### The Sixth Supplication of al-Sahifa: A Time Machine to Spring 🌤

With his sixth supplication, Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him,

makes every day of ours a springtime.

If we are granted the grace to recite this supplication wholeheartedly,

every day will become spring for us.

In truth, every day is spring.

Even if the world around us turns wintry,

through this supplication we turn that winter into spring.

Let us enter this blessed treasury with sincere hearts…

so that we may always be springlike.

### Giving thanks for night and day: The creation of night and day ✨🌙

Yes, it is worthy of praise…

I had forgotten that I should thank my God for night and day.

I had forgotten…

How often I take in the night and day**,

yet **for this great, ever-recurring blessing,

I have not praised my God.

Imam Sajjad was bringing me to realize my heedlessness…

But I was sleeping so deeply in the heart of this heedlessness

that I did not want to wake from that sleep.

Praise be to God for creating night and day…

God created night and day through His power.

If I say “power,” meaning His divine energy and strength…

even then, I have diminished its meaning…

But I have no other way to express it…

It is better to say:

God, through His power, created night and day.

Night and day are God’s creations.

They are not abstractions or mere mental constructs.

We should not think of them as merely mental concepts;

they are real, they have an objective existence.

Each is a system;

a wondrous creation of God.

Just as our existence

is not merely the movement of electrons and protons…

but a vast, living system.

Movement and order are at work in night and day, too.

But night and day are not the movement itself…

Night and day are systems.

They are independent realities.

### Night and day: a manifestation of God’s eternal power ⚡️

And a testimony to God’s everlasting power…

He created them through His might;

that is, night and day are a storehouse of God’s power.

Within night and day, God

has placed His immense power, His might.

Night and day bear witness to God’s power.

By His power, He distinguished between them…

Is power the same as ability?

By God, it is beyond that…

I do not know what it means…

Power is power.

Translation diminishes its meaning.

By His power, God distinguished between night and day.

He set them apart.

If it were not for God’s power:

– there would be no night or day,

– no interval between them,

– no separation.

They would be one…

But God brought about their separation.

Did He split apart a reality?

Did He create a distance between two divisions?

One became night, the other day…

I do not know…

But the Imam’s words bear witness to this truth:

Through night and day, God has displayed His power.

So why can’t I see it?

Because I do not understand.

I have silenced my intellect, sent it into retirement…

I have no time to think and reflect.

By God, night and day are manifestations of God’s power.

I am not saying we should move from the outward to the inward;

let us first understand what is right before us,

then turn to the inward reality of night and day.

God is the One who splits, separates, and cleaves apart… the One who distinguishes night from day.

What has He done?

The very same God who says:

“مرج البحرين یلتقیان…”

He set a barrier between them…

What has He done between this night and day?

I do not know… What is night? What is day?

These two are mighty signs of God.

Until I understand them, I am a loser…

But if I do understand them, what then?

### God’s beautiful script: the designs of night and day ✒️🌓

For each of the two,

night and day, He set a finite limit.

He bounded them,

and gave them an extended span.

For each one,

He defined its own geography of place and time.

He made them bounded and extended.

Did He diminish them?

No… He made them beautiful.

This is God’s beautiful script…

one of the divine lines of writing.

God’s words…

inscribed in beauty…

One design is night…

the other, day.

This boundedness and extension are the work of God’s beautiful pen.

They are lines that appear within precise limits.

### Night and day interweaving: the secret of divine penetration 🔄

Does He make one enter the other? No… I am not saying that.

I say, “He causes them to interweave”…

He makes each of the two,

night and day, interweave with the other.

Night with day…

day with night…

and He makes their Lord, too, interweave with them.

Do they merely enter one another?

No… this interweaving is different from simply “entering.”

It is a mystery.

They sink into one another…

in a particular way…

one of God’s mysteries.

We call it “īlāj.”

They mingle so completely

that they seem to have become one,

yet they are not one.

### Īlāj: a divinely nurturing intermingling 💞🌗

Through a decree of His own, for His servants…

it is a kindness from God…

He has placed this intermingling between night and day, 

so that His grace may reach His servants.

Nourishing them… 

drawing them into one another… 

nurturing them…

### Night and day, in love 💘 

He made night and day fall in love with one another.

I don’t know…

Perhaps this intermingling goes beyond even love and affection.

Night and day are in love with one another.

What is the inner secret of night and day?

### Night: God’s embrace, beyond a mother’s 🌌🕊 

He created night for them, 

so they might find relief from their weariness, 

and enjoy its tranquillity and sleep, 

so that it might bring them comfort and strength…

And even: 

so they might find in it a pure pleasure and delight.

Night is like a warm, motherly embrace… more than motherly… 

a special embrace… 

God’s embrace of comfort for His creation.

All benefit from this night. 

Not only human beings… 

Every particle in the universe benefits from night and day.

From their tranquillity, their comfort, their sleep…

I sleep in one way, 

other creatures in another… 

but all experience the pleasure of sleep.

Plants, animals, even inanimate things sleep…

Such is the horizon of night in the earthly realm… 

But what of its celestial and spiritual horizons? 

It is a secret that will one day be seen…

They are held in the embrace of this night… 

This night is a source of nourishment.

All creatures must draw strength in the heart of this night.

And what of us? 

How far we have lost our way… 

We have lost the night, 

we have let the day slip away…

Satan and the ego have stolen them both from our hearts.

We experience neither night… 

nor day…

We have lost both night and day.

Night is the warm embrace of comfort, sleep, and strength.

We are held within God’s strength, 

in the heart of the night…

Do we experience it?

At what point in the night does that strength enfold us? 

Yes, from beginning to end…

but there are moments when a special tranquillity is infused… 

into those who are worthy of intimacy…

a special strength is infused… 

A special kind of delight and desire… not worldly desire… 

A pure desire, a pure delight…

is infused into pure hearts…

What becomes of them? Where do they arrive? 

How do they perceive the Malakut? 

And the Jabarut?

What wonders this night holds 

—and how unaware we are of them…

We are placed in the many-fold embrace of this night…

We are sown…

amid a sowing of beauty, power, delight, the desire of sleep, and repose…

### Day: the night’s harvest brought to light 🌞📜 

And He made the day a means of sight for them… 

so that they might seek of God’s bounty in it.

And by means of it:

– they may obtain their provision, 

– travel and explore His earth, 

– seek some immediate gain in this world, 

or attain the Hereafter, 

whether paid now or deferred…

This day is our means of sight.

God has appointed this means of sight for us. 

It opens things up, grants vision, brings light, 

shows the way, carries us forward… wakes us…

The sowing we did at night… 

the day reaps.

It lays it out on the table of our hearts… 

and brings it into view.

Have we sown? 

Now it is time to harvest.

What went on during the night… 

the day must make us aware of it.

Whatever we have stored up, 

we must harvest.

The night’s sowing must be reaped by the light of day.

At night, it is not only sleep… 

The sleep of night is wakefulness…

In the other world, we truly sleep—that is, we lapse into heedlessness… 

and sleep takes hold of us in our heedlessness…

and in our heedlessness, we sink into still greater heedlessness.

### The soil of night, the blossom of day 🌱➡️🌼 

Night is like the bed of soil…

in which we sleep…

Day is what lies above the soil… 

where our blossoms should have opened.

At night, we receive knowledge…

By day, we must become an explosion of light. 

We must become an explosion of knowledge… 

and let the splendor of worshipping God be seen.

What have we done at night? 

The day must interpret it.

Night must arrive at its inner meaning… 

and the day must interpret it.

If we do not interpret it, 

We have burned God’s sign,

the sign of His night,

…

and by day we have become ash…

which, with the slightest breeze,

will be scattered… turned upside down…

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[1] Nahj al-Balagha (ed. Subhi Salih), p. 505Sharif al-Radi, Hijrat, Qom, first edition, 1414 AH.

[2] Mustadrak al-Wasa’il wa Mustanbat al-Masa’il, vol. 16, p. 455Nuri, Ahl al-Bayt Foundation, Qom, first edition, 1408 AH.