Ramadan: A Thriving Marketplace of Devotion

🌼🔆🌼Prayer 44: The Ramadan Treasury🌼🔆🌼
🔹The Third Night of Qadr

📅 Date: 1404/12/21 – 22 Ramadan 1447
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “Transcendent and True Commerce” • “Doing Business with God” • “Tawhid: The Highest Divine Grace” • “The Mystery of Laylat al-Qadr” • “The Night of the 23rd of Ramadan” and more… Summary with supplementary notes, 1404.12.21 — Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅

🌼🌸☘️🌷🌹🌻 🕋 🤲 🌙 ✳️✅ ❇️ ✨🔆💫🔆

✳️The Blessed Month: A Time of Divine Transformation
❇️The month of becoming God’s voice
🔸A person must become the embodiment of the Word of God.
💫🔆وَ لَا تَنْطِقَ أَلْسِنَتُنَا إِلَّا بِمَا مَثَّلْت‌
🔆“So that our tongues speak only of what You have made them exemplify.”
🔸A pure tongue, in constant company with a pure and sincere heart, becomes God’s voice.
🔸A pure tongue reflects divine inspirations.
🔸A pure person is fragrant with the Word of God, and their tongue pours forth God’s pearls.
🔸The blessed month of Ramadan is an exceptional opportunity to become God’s voice and call, to attain the station of being God’s tongue and speaking His words.
🔸Ramadan is a month for fully emulating the majesty and perfection of the Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them).
🔸Sincerity is the gateway to wisdom of the heart and tongue, and Ramadan is the furnace of sincerity.
💫🔆 قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‌ مَا أَخْلَصَ عَبْدٌ لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَرْبَعِينَ صَبَاحاً إِلَّا جَرَتْ يَنَابِيعُ الْحِكْمَةِ مِنْ‌ قَلْبِهِ‌ عَلَى‌ لِسَانِهِ.
💫🔆 The Messenger of God (PBUH) said: “No servant has been sincere to God, Mighty and Exalted, for forty mornings without fountains of wisdom flowing from their heart onto their tongue.
🔸How beautiful it is to undertake forty days of purification before the blessed month of Ramadan—to enter it sincerely and become a source of divine miracles!

❇️Ramadan: the thriving marketplace of devotion to God
🔸Ramadan is the flourishing marketplace of the Almighty Lord, and the greatest transaction of a person’s lifetime should take place in it.
🔸A person receives their capital from God Himself and trades with Him.

❇️The reward for sincere worship is direct
💫🔆 قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ تَعَالَى الصَّوْمُ لِي وَ أَنَا أَجْزِي‌ بِهِ‌ وَ الصَّوْمُ يُمِيتُ مُرَادَ النَّفْسِ وَ شَهْوَةَ الطَّبْعِ وَ فِيهِ صَفَاءُ الْقَلْبِ وَ طَهَارَةُ الْجَوَارِحِ وَ عِمَارَةُ الظَّاهِرِ وَ الْبَاطِنِ وَ الشُّكْرُ عَلَى النِّعَمِ وَ الْإِحْسَانُ إِلَى الْفُقَرَاءِ وَ زِيَادَةُ التَّضَرُّعِ وَ الْخُشُوعِ وَ الْبُكَاءِ وَ حَبْلُ الِالْتِجَاءِ إِلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَ سَبَبُ انْكِسَارِ الْهِمَّةِ وَ تَخْفِيفِ السَّيِّئَاتِ وَ تَضْعِيفِ الْحَسَنَاتِ وَ فِيهِ مِنَ الْفَوَائِدِ مَا لَا يُحْصَى وَ كَفَى بِمَا ذَكَرْنَاهُ مِنْهُ لِمَنْ عَقَلَهُ وَ وُفِّقَ لِاسْتِعْمَالِهِ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى‌
🔆 The Messenger of God (PBUH) said: “God, Exalted is He, has said: ‘Fasting is for Me, and I reward it.’ Fasting also means the death of the ego’s desires and the appetites of our nature. It brings clarity to the heart, purity to the limbs, flourishing to our inner and outer selves, gratitude for blessings, kindness to the poor, and an increase in supplication, humility, and weeping. It is a cord by which we seek refuge with God, Exalted is He; a means of breaking one’s pride and easing the burden of sins; and a way to strengthen good deeds. Its benefits are beyond counting. What we have mentioned is enough for anyone who understands it and is granted the success to benefit from it, if God, Exalted is He, wills.”

❇️Spending one’s whole being for the Giver of life
🔸Weariness in the realm of disliked acts and sins; spending every last ounce of our bodily and spiritual strength in the realm of divine good pleasure
💫🔆 وَ لَا نَتَكَلَّفَ إِلَّا مَا يُدْنِي مِنْ ثَوَابِكَ، وَ لَا نَتَعَاطَى إِلَّا الَّذِي يَقِي مِنْ عِقَابِكَ،
🔆“We do not burden ourselves beyond what brings us closer to Your reward, and we seek nothing but what will protect us from Your punishment.”
🔸What have we grown old for, become tired and worn out for, spent our years on? Let us spend ourselves for none but our God!
🔸The astute trader, in doing business with God, spends all the divine capital on God Himself.
🔸Ramadan is the most prosperous marketplace in all existence; the greatest transaction must be made with the All-Great.