Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼🔆🌼The Secret of the Jewels🌼🔆🌼
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “Foam on the Flood and Jewels” “The Month of the Quran” “Ignorance Produces Filth and Abomination” “Intellect Fashions Jewels” “Commentary on Supplication 44 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya” and more … Abstract with Supplement 1403.12.23 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🔅🌼The Blessed Land🌼🔅
🌹Let us become acquainted with the vast land of the blessed month of Ramadan. Then, once we know it, let us benefit from all its gifts and travel through all its lanes and alleyways, squares and neighbourhoods.
🔅🌼Lofty Lessons from Supplication 44 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya 🌼🔅
🌹Among the lessons Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him, offers us in Supplication 44 are these: The blessed month of Ramadan is the main road to God’s good pleasure; it is God’s month, the month of standing (fasting), the month of turning away from all but God; the month of Islam, peace and well-being; the month of elevation and nobility; the month of divine religion; the month bearing God’s supreme sign; the month of purification, of cleansing oneself of filth, abominations and impurities; the month of refinement, of becoming pure, pristine and clear; the month of mastering the self and breaking the neck of the commanding soul; the month of order and discipline, of attending to the outward and the inward; the month of the Night of Decree; the month of goodness, blessing and beneficence; the month of self-restraint; the month of supreme, specialised stewardship of the limbs and inner faculties; the month of placing one’s trust in God with sincerity; the month of self-vigilance and self-examination; the month of prayer; the month of expanding and deepening prayer and its pillars; the month of bringing noble traits to blossom and withering away what is hateful; the month of giving zakat from one’s wealth, life, knowledge and deeds; the month of maintaining ties of kinship; the month of love; the month of attentiveness to one’s neighbours; the month of loving communion with God; the month of liberation; the month of divine unity …
🔅🌼The Month of Refinement🌼🔅
🌹To refine a thing is to free it of every flaw.
🌹Ramadan is the month of becoming pure, refined; of brushing the dust from the beauty of the soul’s diamond; the month of flow and sweeping clean.
🌹It is the month of purification, sincerity and deliverance.
🌹In God’s month, it is the month of becoming God’s, of making oneself His; of becoming God’s servant—Ramadan’s servant.
🌹It is the month of entering the furnace of servitude and emerging pure and refined, displaying the artistry of adornment with sincerity; the month of becoming the servant of the All-Holy and the All-Pure.
🌻🔆Ar-Ra‘d: 17 أَنْزَلَ مِنَ السَّماءِ ماءً فَسالَتْ أَوْدِيَةٌ بِقَدَرِها فَاحْتَمَلَ السَّيْلُ زَبَداً رابِياً وَ مِمَّا يُوقِدُونَ عَلَيْهِ فِي النَّارِ ابْتِغاءَ حِلْيَةٍ أَوْ مَتاعٍ زَبَدٌ مِثْلُهُ كَذلِكَ يَضْرِبُ اللَّهُ الْحَقَّ وَ الْباطِلَ فَأَمَّا الزَّبَدُ فَيَذْهَبُ جُفاءً وَ أَمَّا ما يَنْفَعُ النَّاسَ فَيَمْكُثُ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَذلِكَ يَضْرِبُ اللَّهُ الْأَمْثالَ
🔆God sent water down from the sky, and torrents flowed through every valley, each according to its measure. The flood bore foam on its surface. Likewise, from what they heat in the fire to make ornaments or other useful things, foam rises just like it. Thus God sets forth the likeness of truth and falsehood. The foam is cast aside, while what benefits people—pure water or pure metal—remains on the earth. In this way God sets forth examples.
☘️Water is truth, sent down from heaven by the Creator. So when He sent down water, He sent truth down from heaven.
☘️The valleys are hearts; their size and breadth determine how much they can receive of the water of truth and reality.
☘️Alongside every heart is its desire, which is accompanied either by certainty or by doubt.
☘️Heart + desire + certainty: when the heart’s desire is illumined by the light of certainty, it is tamed and placed in the service of intellect.
☘️Heart + desire + doubt: when the heart’s desire is shrouded in the darkness of doubt, it becomes unruly and brazen, serving ignorance.
☘️The flood is desire, flowing through hearts together with the water of truth and reality and the jewels within it. A heart made clear by certainty purifies it, removing its foam and impurities, keeping its jewels and casting the foam aside.
☘️The foam (zabad) is falsehood, or the impurities mixed with the water.
☘️The ornament and useful substance are truth, or the jewels within the water.
☘️The measure of certainty determines how much of the truth one receives.
☘️The measure of doubt determines how much falsehood takes hold. Doubt draws falsehood in: it gathers up the froth and lets the precious truth fall away.
☘️Passion, joined with and abetted by doubt, draws falsehood in. Certainty neutralizes it; doubt strengthens it.
☘️Certainty strengthens the truth and neutralizes falsehood.
☘️Doubt strengthens falsehood and neutralizes the truth.
☘️The present age is an age in which the froth of the flood makes a show of itself—the end-times, an age ruled by the flood’s froth.
☘️Virtual spaces are that froth risen to the surface.
☘️Froth and mirage rule over virtual people.
☘️Those who are truly human, and those who are human only in name and appearance, are mere semblances of men.
🔅🌼Hearts are valleys through which the flood surges.🌼🔅
🌷🔆وَ فِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي الْجَارُودِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع فِي قَوْلِهِ وَ لِلَّهِ يَسْجُدُ مَنْ فِي السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ الْآيَةَ قَالَ أَمَّا مَنْ يَسْجُدُ مِنْ أَهْلِ السَّمَاوَاتِ طَوْعاً فَالْمَلَائِكَةُ يَسْجُدُونَ طَوْعاً وَ مَنْ يَسْجُدُ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ فَمَنْ وُلِدَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ فَهُوَ يَسْجُدُ لَهُ طَوْعاً وَ أَمَّا مَنْ يَسْجُدُ لَهُ كَرْهاً فَمَنْ جُبِرَ عَلَى الْإِسْلَامِ وَ أَمَّا مَنْ لَمْ يَسْجُدْ فَظِلُّهُ يَسْجُدُ لَهُ بِالْغَدَاةِ وَ الْعَشِيِّ وَ قَوْلُهُ هَلْ يَسْتَوِي الْأَعْمى وَ الْبَصِيرُ يَعْنِي الْمُؤْمِنَ وَ الْكَافِرَ أَمْ هَلْ تَسْتَوِي الظُّلُماتُ وَ النُّورُ أَمَّا الظُّلُمَاتُ فَالْكُفْرُ وَ أَمَّا النُّورُ فَهُوَ الْإِيمَانُ وَ قَوْلُهُ أَنْزَلَ مِنَ السَّماءِ ماءً فَسالَتْ أَوْدِيَةٌ بِقَدَرِها يَقُولُ الْكَبِيرُ عَلَى قَدْرِ كِبَرِهِ وَ الصَّغِيرُ عَلَى قَدْرِ صِغَرِهِ قَوْلُهُ اللَّهُ أَنْزَلَ مِنَ السَّماءِ ماءً يَقُولُ أَنْزَلَ الْحَقَّ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَاحْتَمَلَتْهُ الْقُلُوبُ بِأَهْوَائِهَا ذُو الْيَقِينِ عَلَى قَدْرِ يَقِينِهِ وَ ذُو الشَّكِّ عَلَى قَدْرِ شَكِّهِ فَاحْتَمَلَ الْهَوَى بَاطِلًا كَثِيراً وَ جَفَاءً فَالْمَاءُ هُوَ الْحَقُّ وَ الْأَوْدِيَةُ هِيَ الْقُلُوبُ وَ السَّيْلُ هُوَ الْهَوَى وَ الزَّبَدُ هُوَ الْبَاطِلُ وَ الْحِلْيَةُ وَ الْمَتَاعُ هُوَ الْحَقُّ قَالَ اللَّهُ كَذلِكَ يَضْرِبُ اللَّهُ الْحَقَّ وَ الْباطِلَ فَأَمَّا الزَّبَدُ فَيَذْهَبُ جُفاءً وَ أَمَّا ما يَنْفَعُ النَّاسَ فَيَمْكُثُ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَالزَّبَدُ وَ خُبْثُ الْحِلْيَةِ هُوَ الْبَاطِلُ وَ الْمَتَاعُ وَ الْحِلْيَةُ هُوَ الْحَقُّ مَنْ أَصَابَ الزَّبَدَ وَ خُبْثَ الْحِلْيَةِ فِي الدُّنْيَا لَمْ يَنْتَفِعْ بِهِ وَ كَذَلِكَ صَاحِبُ الْبَاطِلِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ لَا يَنْتَفِعُ بِهِ وَ أَمَّا الْحِلْيَةُ وَ الْمَتَاعُ فَهُوَ الْحَقُّ مَنْ أَصَابَ الْحِلْيَةَ وَ الْمَتَاعَ فِي الدُّنْيَا انْتَفَعَ بِهِ وَ كَذَلِكَ صَاحِبُ الْحَقِّ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يَنْفَعُهُ كَذلِكَ يَضْرِبُ اللَّهُ الْأَمْثالَ قَوْلُهُ زَبَداً رابِياً أَيْ مُرْتَفِعاً وَ مِمَّا يُوقِدُونَ عَلَيْهِ فِي النَّارِ ابْتِغاءَ حِلْيَةٍ يَعْنِي مَا يَخْرُجُ مِنَ الْمَاءِ مِنَ الْجَوَاهِرِ وَ هُوَ مَثَلٌ أَيْ يَثْبُتُ الْحَقُّ فِي قُلُوبِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ فِي قُلُوبِ الْكُفَّارِ لَا يَثْبُتُ فَأَمَّا الزَّبَدُ فَيَذْهَبُ جُفاءً يَعْنِي يَبْطُلُ وَ أَمَّا ما يَنْفَعُ النَّاسَ فَيَمْكُثُ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ هَذَا مَثَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ فَقَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ كَذلِكَ يَضْرِبُ اللَّهُ الْأَمْثالَ لِلَّذِينَ اسْتَجابُوا لِرَبِّهِمُ الْحُسْنى إِلَى قَوْلِهِ وَ بِئْسَ الْمِهادُ فَالْمُؤْمِنُ إِذَا سَمِعَ الْحَدِيثَ ثَبَتَ فِي قَلْبِهِ رَجَاءَ رَبِّهِ وَ آمَنَ بِهِ وَ هُوَ مِثْلُ الْمَاءِ الَّذِي يَبْقَى فِي الْأَرْضِ فَيَنْبُتُ النَّبَاتُ وَ الَّذِي لَا يُنْتَفَعُ بِهِ يَكُونُ مِثْلَ الزَّبَدِ الَّذِي تَضْرِبُهُ الرِّيَاحُ فَيَبْطُلُ قَوْلُهُ وَ بِئْسَ الْمِهادُ قَالَ يَتَمَهَّدُونَ فِي النَّارِ قَوْلُهُ أُولُوا الْأَلْبابِ أَيْ أُولُو الْعُقُول[1]
🌷🔆Imam al-Baqir (peace be upon him)— أَنزَلَ مِنَ السَّمَاء مَاء فَسَالَتْ أَوْدِیَةٌ بِقَدَرِهَا God Most High says: “Great rivers [carry] according to their size, and small rivers according to theirs…” Regarding what God Most High says: أَنزَلَ مِنَ السَّمَاء مَاء he said: “God sends down the truth from heaven, and hearts receive it according to what lies within them. Those who believe receive the truth in proportion to their certainty, while hearts touched by doubt receive it in proportion to their doubt. Whims and desires hold much falsehood and injustice. So the water in this verse means the truth, the valleys are hearts, the flood is desire, and the scum is falsehood. The adornment and useful goods are the truth. God says: کَذَلِکَ یَضْرِبُ اللهُ الحَقَّ وَ الْبَاطِلَ فَأَمَّا الزَّبَدُ فَیَذْهَبُ جُفَاء وَ أَمَّا مَا یَنفَعُ النَّاسَ فَیَمْکُثُ فِی الأَرْضِ So the scum and iron dross are falsehood, while useful goods and adornment are the truth. Whoever’s share in this world is scum and iron dross gains no benefit and achieves nothing. Likewise, whoever brings falsehood will gain nothing on the Day of Resurrection. But useful goods and adornment are the truth: whoever possesses them benefits in this world, and whoever holds to the truth will benefit in the Hereafter as well. کَذَلِکَ یَضْرِبُ اللهُ الأَمْثَالَ. زَبَدًا رَّابِیًا that is, lofty and elevated. وَ مِمَّا یُوقِدُونَ عَلَیْهِ فِی النَّارِ ابْتِغَاء حِلْیَةٍ أَوْ مَتَاعٍ زَبَدٌ مِّثْلُهُ What is meant is the precious substance drawn from water; this is a parable. It means that the truth takes root in the hearts of the faithful, but does not become firmly established in the hearts of the unbelievers. فَأَمَّا الزَّبَدُ فَیَذْهَبُ جُفَاء that is, it cancels out وَ أَمَّا مَا یَنفَعُ النَّاسَ فَیَمْکُثُ فِی الأَرْضِ and this is a parable for the believers and the polytheists. God Most High says: کَذَلِکَ یَضْرِبُ اللهُ الأَمْثَالَ.
أَنْزَلَ مِنَ السَّماءِ ماءً فَسالَتْ أَوْدِیَةٌ بِقَدَرِها فَاحْتَمَلَ السَّیْلُ زَبَداً رابِیاً That is, lofty and elevated. وَ مِمَّا یُوقِدُونَ عَلَیْهِ فِی النَّارِ ابْتِغاءَ حِلْیَةٍThat is, the jewel obtained from water; this is a parable. It means that the truth remains firm in the hearts of believers, but not in the hearts of unbelievers. فَأَمَّا الزَّبَدُ فَیَذْهَبُ جُفاءً؛ امّا The scum vanishes. وَ أَمَّا ما یَنْفَعُ النَّاسَ فَیَمْکُثُ فِی الْأَرْضِ. This is a parable for believers and polytheists.
🔅🌼 The Miracle of the Diamond 🌼🔅
🌹Why is a ruby a ruby, an agate an agate, an emerald an emerald, and a diamond a diamond? What happened for such precious, beautiful beings and jewels to emerge from within them?!
🌹All seeds enter the earth. What comes of them? How do seeds filled with knowledge and wisdom split open and bring forth beauty? From within the earth, amid life’s upheavals, they even transform the very nature of the soil.
🌹As we pass through each stage of life, we must become more clear and pure. Creation and trial mean striving for transparency in our servitude to God and bringing forth the jewel of the Divine Beautiful Names.
🌹The essential jewel of existence must emerge from within this world. Who will be granted success? What a tremendous trial!
🌹Are flowers and all their varieties the adornment that emerges from the furnace of this worldly trial? And this journey continues.
🔅🌼 Kinds of Scum and Kinds of Adornment 🌼🔅
🌹At every moment, a person is in the furnace, within the flood: either scum or adornment; either their scum is carried away or their adornment is.
🌹Among the scum on the flood are all kinds of waste, reprehensible conduct, and things deemed undesirable.
🌹In this latter age, humanity is stirring up dust and multiplying scum.
🌹The body’s expulsion of waste is its effort to purify itself, yet people increase and multiply what they produce.
🔅🌼 Ignorance Produces Scum 🌼🔅
🌹Ignorance is a factory that produces scum. It specialises in manufacturing mischief.
🌹The impurities of the soul reveal the intrusion of ignorance. Ignorance is the forefather of mischief and every ugliness.
🌹Ignorance is headed for the lowest of the low.
🔅🌼 Intellect Produces Adornment 🌼🔅
🌹Intellect is a factory for producing jewels, adornment, and beauty. Under the guidance of intellect, jewels take shape.
🔅🌼 A Jewel Made of Fragrance 🌼🔅
🌹Fragrance, nectar, honey, and medicines of every kind lie within plants, as do all sorts of tastes, flavors, and colors. These are the treasures and adornments they bring forth.
🌹Noble thoughts, good deeds, and beautiful qualities are among the adornments.
🌹Human beings should bring forth the innate nature and light hidden within their souls, manifest the Most Beautiful Names of God and the supreme attributes of the All-Merciful, and truly shine like God’s chosen signs.
🔅🌼The Month of Rising🌼🔅
🌹Ramadan is the month for breaking stillness and silence.
🌹The month that sets true servitude in motion.
🌹The month of rising and resurrection.
🌹The month of straightening the stature of servitude.
🌹The month of raising the stature of servitude—and bowing low.
🌹The month of correcting the distortions of servitude; the month of becoming a servant of the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting.
🔅🌼The Month of the Qur’an🌼🔅
🌹The blessed month of Ramadan is the month in which the heavenly scriptures were sent down, from the Scrolls of Abraham, the Torah, the Gospel, and the Psalms to the Noble Qur’an.
🌹The Qur’an is light: it breaks through injustice, darkness, hardship, and ignorance; reveals beauty, delight, and truth; and brings relief.
🔅🌼The Qur’an: a Gentle Guide🌼🔅
🌹The Qur’an is guidance; it is a guide that leads with kindness and compassion, tenderness and care.
🌹The Qur’an comes to people with love and gifts, bearing tokens of affection and bringing joy. It does not charge a price; it gives freely.
🌹The Qur’an is subtle and beloved, a light and a lamp, knowledge and wisdom, a land of wonders and countless mysteries.
🔅🌼The Qur’an’s Universal and Special Guidance🌼🔅
🌹The Qur’an guides everyone: its universal guidance embraces all, while its special guidance is for the people of piety.
🌹It is a light that illumines every eye, yet the people of piety bring the Qur’an’s artistry to light and receive its inner meanings—from its words to its allusions, subtleties, and truths.
🌹Through the Qur’an, the people of piety become lamps of guidance.
🌻🔆Al-Baqarah: 2 ذلِكَ الْكِتابُ لا رَيْبَ فيهِ هُدىً لِلْمُتَّقينَ
🔆That Book—there is no doubt in it—is guidance for the God-conscious.
🌹Guidance through words, allusions, subtleties, and truths.
🌹Guidance away from error and misguidance, and guidance from within guidance: guidance upon guidance.
🌹Guidance for humankind, guidance for the believers, guidance for the God-conscious, guidance for those already guided—light upon light.
🌹The Qur’an is the bride of divine speech.
🌼Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141 (903)🌼
🔅🌼A Learner’s Perspective on “Ramadan, the Month of Becoming Jewels”🌼🔅
🌻🔆Ramadan, the Month of Becoming Jewels🔆🌻
🌼🔆🌼The Secret of Jewels🌼🔆🌼
🔹Weekly sessions on the commentary and interpretation of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (Supplication 44)
📅 Date: 1403/12/23 – 13 Ramadan 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:
### Ramadan: The Highway to Divine Good Pleasure 🌙✨
✅ “وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي جَعَلَ مِنْ تِلْكَ السُّبُلِ شَهْرَهُ شَهْرَ رَمَضَانَ…”
✅ “شَهْرَ الصِّيَامِ”، “شَهْرَ الْإِسْلَامِ”، “شَهْرَ الطَّهُورِ”، “شَهْرَ الَّتمْحِيصِ”، “شَهْرَ الْقِيَامِ”!
✅ “الَّذِي أُنْزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ، هُدًى لِلنَّاسِ، وَ بَيِّنَاتٍ مِنَ الْهُدَى وَ الْفُرْقَانِ”!
✅ In this “Month of God,” let us become “servants of God”!
✅ And become “servants of Ramadan”!
✅ The “blessed month” is the “highway to God’s good pleasure”!
✅ “Imam Sajjad (AS)” introduces us to some of the “greatness of the blessed month”!
✅ Yes, the “blessed month” is that very “highway to God’s good pleasure”!
✅ This “blessed month” is the “Month of God”!
✅ It is the “Month of Fasting”!
✅ The “Month of Standing”!
✅ The “Month of the Great Halt”!
✅ We must “stand apart” from everything “other than God”!
✅ And “stop” only “with Him”!
✅ It is the “Month of Islam”!
✅ The “Month of Peace and Well-being”!
✅ The “Month of Loftiness and Exaltation”!
✅ The “Month of God’s Religion”!
✅ The “Month of Islam’s Radiance”!
✅ The “supreme emblem of the noble religion of Islam”!
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### The Month of Purification: A Time to Cleanse the Soul of Defilement 🕊
✅ This “blessed month” is the “Month of Purification”!
✅ The “Month of being cleansed” of “all defilements and impurities”!
✅ It is the “Month of Refinement”!
✅ The “Month of becoming pure,” “unmixed and clear”!
✅ The “Month of attaining” the “diamond of servitude to God”!
✅ It is the “Month of Rising”!
✅ The “Month of rising and the resurrection of devotion to God”!
✅ The “Month of standing upright”!
✅ In the truest sense, it means “standing firm” in “servitude to God”!
✅ “This month” is the “Month of the Qur’an”!
✅ The “Month of Reverence”!
✅ The “Month of the Sanctuary”!
✅ “This month” is both a “sanctuary” and “a month endowed with sanctity”!
✅ It is the “Month of renowned virtues”!
✅ The “Month of mastering the ego’s desires”!
✅ The “Month of breaking the ego’s desires”!
✅ The “Month of order and discipline”!
✅ In this month, we must “attain that lofty discipline”!
✅ The “blessed month of Ramadan” is the “Month of attentiveness”!
✅ Attentiveness to the “outward,” attentiveness to the “inward”!
✅ It is the “Month of the Night of Decree”!
✅ The “Month of goodness and blessing”!
✅ The “Month of vigilance”!
✅ The “Month of supreme self-management” and “disciplined mastery of one’s inner and outer faculties”!
✅ The “Month of supreme trust” in “God Most High”!
✅ The “Month of watchfulness and self-accounting”!
✅ The “Month of Prayer”!
✅ Prayer in its truest sense!
✅ The “Month of prayer’s expansion and flourishing”!
✅ “The month for upholding the pillars of prayer”!
✅ “The month for bringing noble virtues to blossom”!
✅ And “for rooting out what is vile”!
✅ “The month for giving zakat”!
✅ “The month for maintaining family ties”!
✅ “The month of love”!
✅ “The month for caring for one’s neighbors”!
✅ “All one’s neighbors”…
✅ “Neighbors of the soul,” “neighbors of knowledge,” “neighbors of the body”!
✅ “The month of intimate prayer”!
✅ “The month of liberation and divine unity”!
✅ These are just “some of the lessons taught by Imam Sajjad (AS)”!
✅ He teaches them to us in “the forty-fourth supplication of al-Sahifa”!
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### The City of Purification: A Month of Sincerity and Purity 🌿✨
✅ Yes, we have “arrived” at “the passage on the City of Purification”!
✅ We “praise” God for “His city”!
✅ For “this blessed month”!
✅ And for “this month,” which is “the City of Purification”!
✅ “The month of becoming pure”!
✅ “The month of attaining” “complete sincerity”!
✅ “Of becoming wholly sincere,” free of “every flaw and defect”!
✅ “The month of becoming pure gold”!
✅ “The month of wiping away” every “speck of dust,” “stain” and “impurity” from “the diamond-like beauty of our being”!
✅ “The month of flowing freely”!
✅ “The month of sweeping” every “part of our being”!
✅ “This world” is “the greater one”!
✅ We must “sweep away” its “dust”!
✅ We must “remove its refuse”!
✅ “The month of purification”—of becoming “utterly sincere”!
✅ “Of finding release”!
✅ In this month, “becoming one with God”!
✅ “Becoming a month” devoted “to God”!
✅ Becoming “God’s servant”!
✅ Becoming “the servant of Ramadan”!
✅ This month, we must “enter the furnace of servitude to God”!
✅ We must bring ourselves to “perfect sincerity”!
✅ “The month of artistry”!
✅ We must “serve God with artistry”!
✅ In the truest sense…
✅ We must attain the station of “servanthood to the All-Holy,” of “servanthood to the All-Pure”!
✅ “The month for interpreting and expounding” this “noble verse”:
✅ “He sends down water from the sky…
✅ Then the valleys flow, each according to its measure…
✅ And the torrent bears a swelling foam…
✅ And from what they heat in the fire to make ornaments and goods, foam rises…
✅ Thus God sets forth the example of “truth” and “falsehood”!
✅ But the foam passes away and perishes…
✅ But whatever benefits people remains on the earth…
✅ “And thus Allah sets forth examples.”
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### The Test of Purity: Separating Truth from Falsehood 🌊🔥
✅ Allah sends down “rain” “from the sky”!
✅ He sends down “water”!
✅ The “valleys” take in “that water” according to “their capacity”!
✅ From within those “valleys,” “floods flow”!
✅ When “the flood flows,” “foam rises” “on its surface”!
✅ It “foams”!
✅ Likewise, consider…
✅ “Those precious metals,” with “impurities” within them…
✅ They are “melted” in “a furnace”!
✅ And on their surface, just as on “the flood,” “foam rises”!
✅ “This” is “an example of truth and falsehood”!
✅ “Truth remains”!
✅ And that “rising foam” “must be destroyed”!
✅ The “foam” must be “cleansed away” from the “valleys”!
✅ Likewise, when “those precious metals” are “melted,” and “foam like that rises” on them, “that foam, too, is cast off”!
✅ “Gold and jewels” are “thus” made “pure, clear, and free of dross”!
✅ “Truth remains”!
✅ And “falsehood” “passes away”!
✅ Now, let us “consider ourselves”!
✅ “Our hearts” are those “valleys”!
✅ According to “the capacity of hearts,” Allah sends down “truth” “from the sky”!
✅ He sends down “His truth”!
✅ He sends down “His blessings”!
✅ He sends down “sustenance” “from the sky”!
✅ He sends down “His blessings”!
✅ He sends down “His knowledge and wisdom”!
✅ But…
✅ “Hearts” receive “it” only according to “their capacity”!
✅ Now, what kind of “heart” is this?
✅ If it is “pure,” there will be “no foam”!
✅ If it contains “impurities,” “a flood will flow from it”!
✅ “Truth and falsehood” are “mixed together”!
✅ But “falsehood” will rise like “foam”!
✅ And “must be cast away”!
✅ This “heart” must not only “receive truth”…
✅ “Rather,” “clear light” must take its place within this “heart”!
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### The Test of Becoming a Diamond in the Furnace of This World 💎🔥
✅ “Yes,” here “on earth,” we are being “tested” and “tried” so that we may “fulfil a lofty mission”!
✅ In “the furnace of this worldly realm,” we must “bring forth the gold and jewels of our souls”!
✅ We must “cast off” all the “foam” and “impurities within us”!
✅ This is an age of miracles!
✅ The “diamond within us” must be cut!
✅ It must shine!
✅ Do we know why a diamond became a diamond,
✅ a ruby a ruby,
✅ an agate an agate,
✅ and an emerald an emerald?
✅ Those gems became jewels because…
✅ in the “race of existence,” they held fast to truth and what is real!
✅ They attained a lofty station!
✅ They cast off every impurity!
✅ And the diamond became a diamond!
✅ **And the agate became an agate!
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### **Agate: the jewel of devotion and the light of the eyes 🔴✨
✅ What did agate do to become the “adornment of the eyes”?
✅ How did it become an agate?
✅ It hastened to obey God’s command!
✅ It embraced devotion!
✅ It loved God!
✅ And it loved those who love God!
✅ When the trust was offered to the jewels, including agate…
✅ the trust was offered!
✅ They accepted it!
✅ They raced to say “yes”—to say “yes”!
✅ This agate stone outstripped many human beings!
✅ And so the agate became an agate!
✅ Now it is so exalted that its price is so high!
✅ Genuine agate is worth more than all the other jewels!
✅ It is even more precious than a diamond!
✅ But…
✅ because imitations are made,
✅ imitations are made of every beautiful thing in this world…
✅ yet agate remains what it is!
✅ The connoisseur recognizes it!
✅ Agate loves God’s servants of Ramadan!
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### The test of life’s flood: separating gems from dross 🌊🔹
✅ Yes, when the flood of trials swept in…
✅ all the stones flowed along like a river!
✅ All the foam was cast aside!
✅ They were purified!
✅ They became clear!
✅ How did that beautiful, sweet-voiced bird attain such beauty?
✅ They all came into view!
✅ It is in displaying this very quality!
✅ That inner jewel was revealed!
✅ They loved God!
✅ They brought that love forth in purity!
✅ “Those healing plants”!
✅ Why are they called “healing plants” rather than “medicinal plants”?
✅ That is their very secret!
✅ The “essence of being” has “emerged from the heart of this world of existence”!
✅ In this journey, we are “moving toward clarity”!
✅ We must become “pure” and “clear”!
✅ The “diamond” became “pure” and “clear”!
✅ “Pure human beings” became “clear” and “pure”!
✅ They must “move forward”
✅ to “reveal their inner reality”!
✅ They must manifest those very “Most Beautiful Names” that “reside in their souls”!
✅ They must “cast away from themselves” “all that is” and “all these beauties”…
✅ so that the “Most Beautiful Names” may “become manifest”!
✅ “So, let us move”!
✅ “Let us make ourselves transparent and clear”!
✅ “Let us become like agate, like diamonds, like God’s radiant jewels”!
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### The Trial of Purification in the Furnace of This World 🔥💎
✅ The “Most Beautiful Names” themselves “call out to Him”
✅ for the “voice of the Names” is, in a sense, “the voice and light of God”!
✅ It is, in a sense, “God’s knowledge”!
✅ What an extraordinary “trial” the “Lord” has set in “this world”!
✅ They “emerge from the furnaces of trial”!
✅ “The human being” is, “at every moment”, “in the furnace of trial”!
✅ “In the midst of the flood”!
✅ “In this world”—that is, “within the flood of this world”!
✅ “It flows”!
✅ So one must “cast off love of this world” and “manifest and make visible” love of God!
✅ “The essence must be revealed”!
✅ “Falsehood must be cast away”!
✅ How beautifully the flower carries out this “mission”!
✅ This “flower” is “at the forefront”!
✅ This “flower” has “taken the lead”!
✅ “It lays itself down in the soil”!
✅ “Within the flood” means “within the soil” too!
✅ “Buried alive”!
✅ “It brings itself out from within the soil”!
✅ And it also “purifies” the soil itself!
✅ “What wisdom” this seed possesses!
✅ “Impurities” contaminate the soil!
✅ But “this seed” “purifies it”!
✅ “It drives away impurity and cleanses”!
✅ What an extraordinary companion this soil has!
✅ A companion like “the pure seed”!
✅ “It splits itself open”!
✅ “It is split open”!
✅ “In God’s name”, “it is split open”!
✅ “It splits open” and “blossoms”!
✅ It “casts off all the dross”!
✅ It is a “pure jewel”!
✅ That “beautiful blossom”…
✅ Is anything “more beautiful than that jewel” to be found in this world?
✅ It does not “settle” for this!
✅ It “brings forth” something “more beautiful than that”!
✅ It “brings forth” that “fragrant purity”!
✅ What remarkable “knowledge” it possesses!
✅ Nor does it “stop at” this!
✅ “From within itself,” it “produces divine nectar”!
✅ It is not “satisfied” with this either!
✅ It “turns it into honey”!
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### The Seed of Gnosis: A Jewel That Splits Itself Open 🌱💠
✅ It “adds beauty upon beauty”!
✅ “Where did these seeds acquire” such “knowledge”?
✅ They have “attained this exalted gnosis”!
✅ “Every flavour” found “in this world”…
✅ In “the many kinds of plants”!
✅ In “the many kinds of fruit”!
✅ These are the very “ornaments” and “adornments” that “have emerged”!
✅ “In the furnace of this world’s trials”…
✅ They have “made their way through”!
✅ They have “become a pure jewel”!
✅ And these “human beings”…
✅ Who possess within them a “pure nature”!
✅ A “pure light”!
✅ Why “can they not bring forth from within themselves” that “pure, monotheistic nature”?
✅ Why not “let that light” “shine out” “from within them”?
✅ Why not “reveal the Most Beautiful Names” inscribed on “the tablet of their souls”?
✅ And “shine forth” like “God’s chosen sign”?
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### Recognizing the Dregs and Froth of Life’s Trials 🌊🌀
✅ Let us become “familiar” with the many kinds of “dross”!
✅ The “many kinds of froth that rise up” over “gold and ornaments”!
✅ They are “reprehensible behaviours”!
✅ They are “blameworthy traits”!
✅ They are “disliked things”!
✅ They are the “froth atop the flood”!
✅ They are “on top of the jewels”!
✅ They are the “filth and impurities” that “appear from human beings”!
✅ They are the “froth on the water”!
✅ The “human being” “foams”!
✅ “The body”!
✅ “The soul”!
✅ They must be “expelled”!
✅ The “body” “strives” to “drive every impurity away” “from itself”!
✅ The “soul,” too, “wants” to “rid itself of its impurities”!
✅ “All-out striving” to become “pure”!
✅ The “human being” is “striving” to become “refined”!
✅ To “purify and refine” oneself!
✅ So let us emerge “triumphant from the furnace of trial”!
✅ “Like diamonds, like agate, like divine jewels”!
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### Ramadan: The Month of Devotional Rising and Utter Purity 🌙🔥
✅ Why does modern humanity “outdo itself in multiplying and producing waste”?
✅ In a word: “ignorance” is the “source of scum”!
✅ “Ignorance” is “an expert at producing mischief”!
✅ The “foulest scum produced from the human soul” is “mischief”!
✅ So long as there is “ignorance,” “these impurities and filth” will remain!
✅ “This ignorance must” be “driven from the human heart”!
✅ If it “is not driven out”…
✅ The “human being” will become “a producer of waste,” “impurities,” “filth,” and “abominations”!
✅ “The same bad manners”!
✅ “The same desire for disobedience, sin, and reprehensible acts”!
✅ “This ignorance” is “the forefather of accursed Iblis”!
✅ It is “the forefather of mischief,” “ugliness,” and “reprehensible acts”!
✅ And its destination is “the lowest of the low”!
✅ “Reason,” by contrast, is “the source of adornment”!
✅ “The absolute sovereignty of reason” over “the human soul”…
✅ “refines the human being”!
✅ It “purifies” them!
✅ The blessed month of Ramadan is “our ally and helper”…
✅ In attaining “this rank” and “station”!
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### Verse 17 of Surah al-Ra‘d: The Key to Purification in the Month of Rising 📖✨
✅ “Recite verse 17 of Surah al-Ra‘d” with “all your heart and soul”!
✅ “Recite it with the measured cadence of the soul”!
✅ And let your humble servant, too, “share in the abundance of your noble kindness”!
✅ Indeed, this month is “the month of purification”!
✅ It is “the month of rising”!
✅ It is “the month of rising and resurrection”!
✅ It is “the month of breaking free from stillness and stagnation”!
✅ It is “the month of setting things in motion”!
✅ It is “the month of rising up”!
✅ It is “the month of resurrection”!
✅ It is the month of “raising up a resurrection of devotion”!
✅ It is “the month of rising in love”!
✅ It is “the month of truly falling in love”!
✅ It is “the month of chanting ‘Allah, Allah’”!
✅ It is “the month of proclaiming God’s name”!
✅ It is “the month of becoming one continuous cry of takbir”!
✅ It is “the month of glorifying God”!
✅ It is “the month of declaring God’s oneness”!
✅ It is “the month of praising God”!
✅ It is “the month of extolling God’s perfection”!
✅ It is a month of being praised!
✅ A month for proclaiming, “سبوح و القدوس”!
✅ A month of sowing!
✅ Of planting “the names of God” “in the hearts of the stars in the sky”!
✅ “In the heart of every particle in all existence”!
✅ “We must help them grow”!
✅ “We must tend the garden of our being”!
✅ “We must become the embodiment of God’s remembrance and invocation”!
✅ “A month for straightening ourselves in servitude to God”!
✅ “A month for raising ourselves upright in servitude”!
✅ “For standing tall”!
✅ “For bringing ourselves to full stature”!
✅ “For correcting the ways in which our servitude has gone crooked”!
✅ “A month for becoming a servant of the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting”!
✅ “In this month, we must attain the everlasting life of servitude”!
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### 📖 The Blessed Month of Ramadan: The Month of the Quran and Special Guidance 📖
✅ Yes—it is “the month of the Quran”!
✅ “The month of the Quran”!
✅ “The month in which the heavenly scriptures were revealed”!
✅ All the heavenly scriptures were revealed in this blessed month!
✅ 📜 From the “Scrolls of Abraham” to the “Torah,” the “Gospel,” the “Psalms,” and the “Quran”!
✅ “All the heavenly scriptures” were revealed in “this blessed month”!
✅ “What a share we have” in this “mighty month”!
✅ 📖 “The Quran is light”!
✅ 🕯 It is “proof and evidence”!
✅ 💡 “The Quran is a light that shatters darkness”!
✅ 🚫 “It banishes injustice”!
✅ 🌌 “It dispels constriction”!
✅ ✨ “Light opens up space”!
✅ 🔍 “It breaks through ignorance”!
✅ 🎨 “It reveals beauty and delight”!
✅ If there were “no light”…
✅ 🚫 “Nothing would be manifest”!
✅ 🚫 “No hearing”!
✅ 🚫 “No sight”!
✅ 🚫 “No smell”!
✅ 🚫 “No touch”!
✅ 🚫 “No taste”!
✅ 🚫 “No pleasure”!
✅ 🚫 “No beauty”!
✅ 🚫 “No majesty”!
✅ ✨ “The Quran is light in its fullness”!
✅ 📖 “It is itself an exposition of all things”!
✅ ✨ “Its light, too, reveals the reality of everything in its entirety”!
✅ Can we grasp “the greatness of the Quran”?**
✅ 📖 “What does the Quran do?”
✅ I “cannot see,” because “I do not know light”!
✅ I have not “looked through the Quran” to see “what its reality is”!
✅ It reveals all “delights” to us at once!
✅ All “beauties”!
✅ Because it is “complete light”!
✅ “It reveals the whole truth”!
✅ “Through the Quran, a person comes to know all the truths of existence”!
✅ “This is the word of God”!
✅ “This is the light of God”!
✅ “This is God’s proof, evidence, and testimony”!
✅ “It is light”!
✅ “It is guidance”!
✅ But not just any kind of guidance…
✅ “The Quran’s guidance” comes “as an act of grace”!
✅ It is offered “with kindness”!
✅ It guides with “tenderness and care”!
✅ “It is God’s gift”!
✅ “It brings illumination”!
✅ “It asks for nothing in return”!
✅ “It provides the means and shows the way”!
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### 📖 The Quran’s Guidance: General and Particular 📖
✅ “The Quran offers guidance to all”!
✅ “It encompasses all creation”!
✅ “It extends across all existence”!
✅ “No one is deprived of its blessings”…
✅ whether “unbeliever”!
✅ or “polytheist”!
✅ All benefit from it!
✅ But “for the God-fearing,” its guidance is “particular”!
✅ “It does not merely guide”!
✅ “It is guidance itself”!
✅ “For the God-fearing, this means:”
✅ “When the God-fearing take up the Quran, they take up guidance”!
✅ “That is, the God-fearing become lamps of God’s guidance”!
✅ “This is God’s particular guidance”!
✅ “A guidance that carries a person”…
✅“from the wording to its allusions”!
✅ “and from there to its subtleties”!
✅ “and then brings them to the truths of the Quran”!
✅ “The Quran rescues one person from being lost”!
✅ “And raises another from guidance to its highest heights”!
✅ “It leads from one guidance to deeper guidance”!
✅ “The Quran is the bride of God’s speech”!
✅ “The bride of the heavenly books”!
✅ “A clear exposition for humankind”!
✅ “هذَا بَیَانٌ لِلنَّاسِ…”
✅ “For the God-fearing, it is guidance and admonition”!
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🌼Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141 (903)🌼
[1] Oceans of Light (Beirut edition), vol. 9, p. 216 Majlisi, Dar Ihya al-Turath al-Arabi, Beirut, second edition, 1403 AH.
