Prayer Is the Song of Lovers

🌼A Lover’s Commerce with the Beloved🌼

🔅Passages from the Meshkat-e Noor gathering  1401.9.24🔅

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

🌺🌱🔅 (1) اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ بَلِّغْ بِإِيمَانِي أَكْمَلَ الْإِيمَانِ، وَ اجْعَلْ يَقِينِي أَفْضَلَ الْيَقِينِ، وَ انْتَهِ بِنِيَّتِي إِلَى أَحْسَنِ النِّيَّاتِ، وَ بِعَمَلِي إِلَى أَحْسَنِ الْأَعْمَالِ. (2) اللَّهُمَّ وَفِّرْ بِلُطْفِكَ نِيَّتِي، وَ صَحِّحْ بِمَا عِنْدَكَ يَقِينِي، وَ اسْتَصْلِحْ بِقُدْرَتِكَ مَا فَسَدَ مِنِّي. (3) اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ اكْفِنِي مَا يَشْغَلُنِي الِاهْتِمَامُ بِهِ، وَ اسْتَعْمِلْنِي بِمَا تَسْأَلُنِي غَداً عَنْهُ، وَ اسْتَفْرِغْ أَيَّامِي فِيمَا خَلَقْتَنِي لَهُ، وَ أَغْنِنِي وَ أَوْسِعْ عَلَيَّ فِي رِزْقِكَ، وَ لَا تَفْتِنِّي بِالنَّظَرِ، وَ أَعِزَّنِي وَ لَا تَبْتَلِيَنِّي بِالْكِبْرِ، وَ عَبِّدْنِي لَكَ وَ لَا تُفْسِدْ عِبَادَتِي بِالْعُجْبِ، وَ أَجْرِ لِلنَّاسِ عَلَى يَدِيَ الْخَيْرَ وَ لَا تَمْحَقْهُ بِالْمَنِّ، وَ هَبْ لِي مَعَالِيَ الْأَخْلَاقِ، وَ اعْصِمْنِي مِنَ الْفَخْرِ. 

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🌸🌷O God, grant me the blessing of having every passage of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, and every prayer, answered.

🌸🌷If every passage of al-Sahifa were answered on our behalf, what exalted station and state of being would we attain?!

🌸🌷If we attained the fullness of faith, how sublime would the beauty of the tree of faith become? How sweet would its fruit be at its ripest?!

🌸🌷Can we sense the state of the Imam, the friend of God? If the prayers of the Imams on our behalf were answered, would we come to know the sweetness of their spiritual state?!

🌸🌷O God, in the night prayer, I want to reach the state in which Imam Sajjad found himself in that wondrous moment, so that I may taste the delight and joy of serving You.

🌸🌷What is God’s answer in this love affair? O God, when I say, “I love You,” what is Your answer to me? Help me understand the station from which Your answer comes!

🌸🌷O God, I turn to You in utter need, while You regard me with Your absolute richness and generous majesty! Make me aware of that exalted regard of Yours. I turn to You in the fullness of my need, while You approach me with Your grandeur and riches.

🌸🌷The answer to my humble act of devotion is the immense grace of God, the Most Generous of the generous.

🌸🌷O God, let me experience the state of being at the summit of faith.

🌸🌷Let me know the highest reaches of the joy and sweetness of serving You.

🌸🌷O God, bring me to the station of pure light, free of darkness, so that I may behold all truth at once, in the unity of direct vision.

🌸🌷The summit of certainty is like absolute light; its fruit is the vision of the absolute beauty of truth.

🌸🌷I entrust my intention to God. I fear I may set my sights too low; shape my intention Yourself and bring it to perfect goodness.

🌸🌷Bring my deeds to the finest of deeds, the highest art of servitude.

🌸🌷The finest intentions are needed, so that intentions may abound, imbued with and sustained by divine grace.

🌸🌷Imam Zayn al-Abidin, peace be upon him, calls upon God from the very summit of prayer’s sublime genius.

🌸🌷His Eminence Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him, is the prince of prayer; he calls upon God with the utmost beauty.

🌸🌷O God, I offer You the finest intentions, so that You may make them abound!

🌸🌷O God, I ask You, at Your matchless threshold, for the desire held in the Imam’s heart.

🌸🌷O God, imbue my finest intentions with Your grace and let them abound.

🌸🌷Refining certainty after attaining the highest certainty means cutting and polishing the pure diamond of certainty, until its gleam leaves the world’s eyes dazzled.

🌸🌷O God, refine my highest certainty according to what You have kept hidden at Your holy threshold; cut and polish my diamond of certainty to the finest beauty, and adorn it.

🌸🌷O God, make me aware of what is with You. عِنْدَ اللهِ يُرْزَقُونَ وَيُكْرَمُونَ

🌸🌷It may be that all the prayers we offer throughout our lives do not equal in weight a single prayer from the Ṣaḥīfa; let us therefore cherish the Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya.

🌸🌷My God, set right what is corrupt in me.

🌸🌷If a prayer is placed between two accepted prayers of blessing upon the Prophet and his family, it comes close to being answered.

🌸🌷My God, I want my work to be the work of divine love, and to have no other work. Remove whatever stands in the way of working for God.

🌸🌷O God, make me aware of the lessons in tomorrow’s questions, direct my energy toward them, and inspire me with their answers as well.

🌸🌷Grant me, even in this world, knowledge of the answer to the question about bliss.

🌸🌷Place the answer to the question about my deeds within their sweet fragrance.

🌸🌷Set my being in motion Yourself. My being is Your workshop and craft; I am Your handiwork, Your nature. Put Your light to work within my soul, with all its instruments, virtues and attributes.

🌸🌷Bring me to the station of sincere, rapturous and loving worship.

🌸🌷My God, free me from all that is other than You.

🌸🌷Enrich me through Yourself, so that my heart and soul become servants of the All-Rich. Let me become the very essence of richness. My God, You are my richness.

🌸🌷My Lord, keep me from being held captive by any gaze or attention, so that You alone are the focus of my attention, and You alone the object of my gaze and longing.

🌼 Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Meshkat), 110.141 (903) 🌼