Satan’s Spies: A Commentary on Supplication 20 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya

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📆 Date: 1403/05/18 – 3 Safar 1446
📌 Meshkat-e Noor session
📌 Weekly session on the commentary and interpretation of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (Supplication 20)
👤 Lecture by Master Ali Saei
🗒 Some of the topics discussed in the session:
🌼 A counterfeit of the truth — What would happen if someone made a substitute for the sun? What would happen to nature? Would beautiful flowers still be able to grow? In that case, our eyes would no longer see clearly.
🌼 If reason were taken from human beings and an artificial notion implanted in them, darkness would take the place of light.
🌼 If a person chose polytheism instead of monotheism, yet imagined himself to be a monotheist, where would his path ultimately lead?
🌼 All of this would happen when the track of servitude to God is switched.
🌼 Those who merely pose as scholars are rightly called Satan’s spies. Satan cannot penetrate the human heart—but woe to those who pose as scholars and make it possible for him to enter the hearts of believers.
🌼 People want to reach their destination quickly, without running or clinging to a cliff as they climb; they want to get to the summit with no effort. If someone comes along, sings them a lullaby, and then gives them instructions, the lazy will flock to these so-called scholars and squander their hereafter.
🌼 The sayings some people repeat—“Do whatever you like, as long as your heart is pure,” or “Do whatever you like, but serve people”—are forms of deception.
🌼 Whoever abandons recommended acts also abandons service to people. Recommended acts bring blessing to the work of serving others; removing them undermines the cause of service.
🌼 The champions of service to people are devoted to night vigils.
🌼 Anyone who speaks against the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt is, in one way or another, calling people to polytheism. No virtuous person will bear another’s burden; no one burdened with sin can carry someone else’s burden. Let us not be deceived by anyone.
🌼 The most impure heart is the heart of a polytheist. The intention to sin sullies the heart—how much more so does the act itself.
🌼 No test is easy. If a test were easy, it would no longer be a test. Heroism is incompatible with laziness and comfort-seeking. To think that I can enjoy the pleasures of this world and, at the same time, become a champion in devotion is impossible.
🌼 A person can be led astray from the path of innate nature. By nature, human beings are monotheists; but if a counterfeit of monotheism and the afterlife is fashioned and presented to them, they may be struck from that direction.
🌼 The pulse of servitude to God is righteous guidance, the path of truth, and the intention to grow.
🌼 We must recognize our Imam of the Age in all his dimensions. If we fail to recognize him, we will fall into the trap of replacement—a pit that is difficult to escape once we have fallen into it.
🌼 One of the most important and obligatory ways to serve people is to enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong.
🌼 Should we serve people’s stomachs, or their minds, beliefs, and convictions? Even our night prayers serve people, because they increase the purity of existence.
🌼 An incomplete understanding of the Two Weighty Things is a betrayal of them. Anyone who measures knowledge outside the Two Weighty Things against them is, in effect, wronging them.
🌼 Beware of wavering scholars—those who have been unable to connect themselves to the truth and constantly move between truth and falsehood. The inexperienced are deceived by them. They will stand against the Imam of the Age, because they will not find him in agreement with their own ideas.
🌼 (Al-A‘raf 7:30) فَريقاً هَدى وَ فَريقاً حَقَّ عَلَيْهِمُ الضَّلالَةُ إِنَّهُمُ اتَّخَذُوا الشَّياطينَ أَوْلِياءَ مِنْ دُونِ اللهِ وَ يَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمْ مُهْتَدُونَ
🌼 The reappearance will come suddenly. For some, it will be an awakening after a nightmare; for others, an awakening after an awakening. For some, it will be all-embracing mercy; for others, the ultimate punishment.
🌼 Let us answer the questions of the One Lord, the All-Compelling, before He asks them!
🌼 Who is the All-Compelling Commander? Who is the Sovereign?
🌼 The hypocrites imagine they can deceive God, while it is God who deceives them. The mere fact that they are left free is itself a great self-deception.