The Banner of Laylat al-Qadr

🌼🔆🌼God’s Proof Is the Secret to Knowledge🌼🔆🌼

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌹 “God’s Proof: The Secret of Unity with All Existence”  “The Mysteries of Causes”  “The Inner Kingdom of Created Beings” “Divinely Bestowed Sciences”  “The 23rd of Ramadan” and more … Summary with Supplement       1403.01.14    Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🔅🌼A Comprehensive View of Laylat al-Qadr and Its Causes🌼🔅

🌼 Do the blessings of Qadr end after dawn breaks? No. We must continue to draw on its blessings after dawn. Until dawn breaks, it is time to sow; after dawn, we must tend and reap the blessings of the Night of Qadr.

🌼 A night filled with blessing must be planted in our souls.

🌼 It is as though every sanctuary of God is adorned with His banner. If only our hearts, too, were sanctuaries of God, with His banner raised over them.

🌼 On the Night of Qadr, the ranks of the faithful and the hypocrites are formed, and they engage in battle. At the end of time, all will emerge from their shells: the celestial nature of the believer and the earthly nature of the hypocrite will be revealed.

🌼 Let us examine our faith.

🌼 Our Imam of the Age can face all the devils single-handedly. But what is our part in confronting them?

🌼 The believer will undergo every kind of martyrdom, ultimately meeting death in the path of God: economic, social, positional, personal and class-based martyrdom.

🌼 وأَشْرَقَتِ الْأَرْضُ بِنُورِ رَبِّهَا 

🌼 What is meant by this verse? “The earth shone with the light of its Lord”—when did it shine? Why do translations say that it will shine? Is God’s light ever extinguished? Only at the time of the Manifestation will hearts recognise and behold that light.

🌼 Time and space are the screen on which God’s will and decree are displayed.

🌹Time is a screen—or a display hologram—of the timeless.

🌼 The Imam of the Age is the land of the prophets and the saints; all the prophets shine within his blessed being, and all the heavenly books are rooted in his soul.

🌼 If we do not know the Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali, peace be upon him, and Imams Hasan and Husayn, peace be upon them, we will not know the Imam of the Age either.

🌼 The only difference between human beings and beasts is a difference of spirit: the spirit of faith. This spirit must be joined to the Spirit of God. Without that connection, a person cannot attain perfection.

🌼 Once a person is strengthened by their Imam, they will be connected with all beings in existence.

🌼 أين السَبَبُ المتّصِلُ بين أهلِ الأرضِ والسَّماءِ – What connection does this passage from Du’a Nudba have to the cause under discussion?

🌼 How did Dhul-Qarnayn follow the cause?

🌼 In light of the verse “يَا مَعْشَرَ الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنْسِ إِنِ اسْتَطَعْتُمْ أَنْ تَنْفُذُوا مِنْ أَقْطَارِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ فَانْفُذُوا   لَا تَنْفُذُونَ إِلَّا بِسُلْطَانٍ”, the way to acquire the various sciences is through connection to the Sovereign—and that is the divine Proof.

🌼 Until the Imam of the Age appears, only two of the twenty-seven branches of knowledge will be revealed; after his appearance, the remaining twenty-five will be disclosed.

🌼 In addition to the divinely bestowed sciences, there are also sciences of mercy, generosity, majesty, beauty, the celestial realm, the realm of divine sovereignty and the Lord—granted to the faithful and the elect.

🌼 Truly learned is the one who reaches knowledge—that is, their own Imam of the Age.

🌼 Everything in heaven and earth is made subservient to the human being. But how can the heavens and the earth be made subservient to me when I am captive to my own lower self?

🌼 Just as I am connected to the different parts of my own body—the tongue, eyes, ears, and so on—I must likewise be connected to all existence and put it to use.

🌼 Let us prepare for the appearance—but not in ignorance! The Imam of the Age calls for lights kindled by the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Household.

🔅🌼The Banner of the Night of Decree🌼🔅

🌹On the Night of Decree, make your heart a sanctuary for God, so that its banner may fly above it.

🌸🔆عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص أَنَّهُ قَالَ‏ إِذَا كَانَتْ لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ تَنَزَّلُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ الَّذِينَ هُمْ سُكَّانُ سِدْرَةِ الْمُنْتَهَى وَ فِيهِمْ جَبْرَئِيلُ وَ مَعَهُ‏ أَلْوِيَةٌ فَيُنْصَبَ لِوَاءٌ مِنْهَا عَلَى قَبْرِي وَ لِوَاءَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ وَ لِوَاءٌ عَلَى بَيْتِ الْمَقْدِسِ وَ لِوَاءٌ عَلَى طُورِ سَيْنَاءَ وَ لَا يَدَعُ مُؤْمِناً وَ لَا مُؤْمِنَةً إِلَّا وَ يُسَلِّمُ عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا مُدْمِنَ الْخَمْرِ وَ آكِلَ لَحْمِ الْخِنْزِيرِ الْمُضَمَّخِ بِالزَّعْفَرَان‏[1]

🔆The Prophet of Islam, peace and blessings be upon him: When the Night of Decree arrives, angels from among the inhabitants of the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary descend. Gabriel is among them, carrying banners. One of his banners is set above my grave, one in the Sacred Mosque, one in Jerusalem, and one on Mount Sinai. They greet every believing man and woman they encounter, except those addicted to intoxicating drinks and those who eat pork coated with saffron.

🔅🌼God’s Proof Is the Secret of Knowledge🌼🔅

🌹Meeting our needs for energy, medical care, transport, food supplies, agriculture, comfort and peace; the science of alchemy, calculation, speed, travel between dimensions, interworld travel, and journeys into the microscopic dimensions—all of this is possible only through knowledge: knowledge in the true sense, whose source is divine.

🔅🌼What Can We Do with the Imam?🌼🔅

🌹We must stay connected with the heavens and their beings, come to know one another, and serve one another. We must stand together in a single rank of devotion to God, stirring and surging as one.

🌹The distance between a human being and beasts, monkeys, pigs, and other animals is the distance of a single spirit—not a matter of a few genes or of genetic chance and mutation. The Spirit of Faith is the very secret of this difference, and it goes hand in hand with reason and noble character.

🌹If the Spirit of Faith accompanies and keeps close to the Spirit of God, and is joined to the Spirit of the Imam and the Holy Spirit, the human being becomes a reader of mysteries and is made one with the universe. A person will then be able to communicate, converse, and cooperate with inanimate things, plants, birds, animals, angels, stars, and more.

🔅🌼The Mysteries of Divine Means🌼🔅

🌹If we follow the divine means, we will become like Dhul-Qarnayn—or even surpass him.

🌻🔆Al-Kahf: 84   إِنَّا مَكَّنَّا لَهُ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ آتَيْناهُ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ سَبَباً

🔆We established him in power and authority on earth and placed at his disposal the means to accomplish all things.

🌻🔆Al-Kahf: 85  فَأَتْبَعَ سَبَباً

🔆So he followed a means.

🌹What—or who—is meant by “the means”? What does it mean that Dhul-Qarnayn followed a means?

🌸🔆…لِأَنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى نَصَبَ الْإِمَامَ عَلَماً لِخَلْقِهِ وَ جَعَلَهُ حُجَّةً عَلَى أَهْلِ مَوَادِّهِ وَ عَالَمِهِ‏  وَ أَلْبَسَهُ اللَّهُ تَاجَ الْوَقَارِ وَ غَشَّاهُ مِنْ نُورِ الْجَبَّارِ يُمَدُّ بِسَبَبٍ‏ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ لَا يَنْقَطِعُ عَنْهُ مَوَادُّهُ وَ لَا يُنَالُ مَا عِنْدَ اللَّهِ إِلَّا بِجِهَةِ أَسْبَابِهِ وَ لَا يَقْبَلُ اللَّهُ أَعْمَالَ الْعِبَادِ إِلَّا بِمَعْرِفَتِهِ فَهُوَ عَالِم …‏[2]

🌸🔆For God, Blessed and Exalted, appointed the Imam as leader of His creation and made him a proof for the people of His realms. He crowned him with dignity and surrounded him with the light of His might. He stretched a divine cord to heaven, so that God’s creatures might never be cut off from him, and whatever is with God can be attained only through his means. God accepts the deeds of His servants only through knowledge of him.

🌸🔆 أَيْنَ‏ السَّبَبُ‏ الْمُتَّصِلُ بَيْنَ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ وَ السَّمَاء[3]

🔆(O God,) where is the means that connects earth and heaven?

🌹In a word, God’s Proof is the means through which God is reached, and at the same time the highest of divine means.

🌻🔆المائدة : 35   يا أَيُّهَا الَّذينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَ ابْتَغُوا إِلَيْهِ الْوَسيلَةَ وَ جاهِدُوا في‏ سَبيلِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ

🌻🔆O you who believe! Be mindful of God (and do not disobey His commands). Seek a means of drawing near to Him, and strive in His way, so that you may prosper!

🌹The Imam of our Time, peace be upon him, is the realm of the prophets, their successors, and the saints; he is the highest divine means and intermediary. Ali and the descendants of Ali are present in the very being of our Imam of the Time; His Eminence is the light of all the saints.

🌹The key to benefiting from the Imam of the Time, peace be upon him, is to know the Truth—to know our Imam of the Time.

🌹Everything is encompassed in the Imam; in reality, the Imam is the means behind everything.

🌻🔆آل‏عمران : 103   وَ اعْتَصِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَميعاً وَ لا تَفَرَّقُوا وَ …

🔆Hold fast to the rope of God and do not become divided…

🔅🌼God’s Proof is God’s Sovereign🌼🔅

🌻🔆الرحمن : 33   يا مَعْشَرَ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ إِنِ اسْتَطَعْتُمْ أَنْ تَنْفُذُوا مِنْ أَقْطارِ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ فَانْفُذُوا لا تَنْفُذُونَ إِلاَّ بِسُلْطانٍ

🔆O company of jinn and humankind! If you can pass beyond the bounds of the heavens and the earth, then pass beyond them; but you cannot do so except by authority

🌸🔆 فس، تفسير القمي‏ يا مَعْشَرَ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ إِنِ اسْتَطَعْتُمْ أَنْ تَنْفُذُوا مِنْ أَقْطارِ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ فَانْفُذُوا لا تَنْفُذُونَ إِلَّا بِسُلْطانٍ‏ فَإِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ أَحَاطَتْ سَمَاءُ الدُّنْيَا بِالْأَرْضِ وَ أَحَاطَتِ السَّمَاءُ الثَّانِيَةُ بِسَمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا وَ أَحَاطَتِ السَّمَاءُ الثَّالِثَةُ بِالسَّمَاءِ الثَّانِيَةِ وَ أَحَاطَتْ كُلُّ سَمَاءٍ بِالَّذِي يَلِيهَا ثُمَّ يُنَادِي مُنَادٍ يا مَعْشَرَ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ بِسُلْطانٍ‏ أَيْ بِحُجَّةٍ.[4]

🔆Ali ibn Ibrahim (may God have mercy on him): When the Day of Resurrection comes, the lowest heaven will encompass the earth, the second heaven will encompass the lowest heaven, and the third will encompass the second. Each heaven will encompass the one beside it. Then a herald will call out: يا مَعْشَرَ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ… بِسُلْطانٍ that is, through the Proof

🔅🌼God makes this known🌼🔅

🌹The university of the Prophet Solomon, peace be upon him, was a sacred realm.

🌹If we establish a sound relationship with our Creator, we will find our way to the university of knowledge. Knowledge comes from God, and He bestows it upon whomever He wills.

🌹Among the forms of true knowledge is knowledge of communication and information concerning the entire universe, in all its parts. With God, a person experiences every reality; heedlessness of God is a descent into ignorance and confusion.

🌻🔆الأنبياء : 79   فَفَهَّمْناها سُلَيْمانَ وَ كُلاًّ آتَيْنا حُكْماً وَ عِلْماً وَ سَخَّرْنا مَعَ داوُدَ الْجِبالَ يُسَبِّحْنَ وَ الطَّيْرَ وَ كُنَّا فاعِلينَ

🔆We gave Solomon an understanding of the matter; and to each of them We granted sound judgment and knowledge. We subjected the mountains and the birds to David, so that they might glorify Us; and We did so!

🔅🌼Let us join the universe in prayer and glorification🌼🔅

🌹All beings possess knowledge. Each has its own particular prayer and glorification, which it performs knowingly.

🌻🔆النور : 41   أَ لَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يُسَبِّحُ لَهُ مَنْ فِي السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ وَ الطَّيْرُ صَافَّاتٍ كُلٌّ قَدْ عَلِمَ صَلاتَهُ وَ تَسْبيحَهُ وَ اللَّهُ عَليمٌ بِما يَفْعَلُونَ

🔆Have you not seen that all who are in the heavens and the earth glorify God, as do the birds with their wings outstretched in the sky? Each knows its own prayer and glorification, and God knows well what they do.

🔅🌼 The Angel of the Roosters 🌼🔅

🌹Hens and roosters, too, have a spiritual realm. Every creature that is connected to the spiritual realm of its own soul becomes a source of knowledge and wisdom.

🌹If we accompany the spiritual realm within ourselves, we will reach the spiritual realm of the universe and experience our bond with all of existence.

🌸🔆قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ: إِنَّ لِلَّهِ مَلَكاً فِي صُورَةِ الدِّيكِ الْأَمْلَحِ الْأَشْهَبِ، بَرَاثِنُهُ‏ فِي الْأَرَضِينَ السَّابِعَةِ، وَ عُرْفُهُ‏ تَحْتَ الْعَرْشِ لَهُ جَنَاحَانِ: جَنَاحٌ بِالْمَشْرِقِ وَ جَنَاحٌ بِالْمَغْرِبِ، فَأَمَّا الْجَنَاحُ الَّذِي فِي الْمَشْرِقِ فَمِنْ ثَلْجٍ، وَ أَمَّا الْجَنَاحُ الَّذِي فِي الْمَغْرِبِ فَمِنْ نَارٍ، فَكُلَّمَا حَضَرَ وَقْتُ الصَّلَاةِ قَامَ عَلَى بَرَاثِنِهِ وَ رَفَعَ عُرْفَهُ تَحْتَ الْعَرْشِ، ثُمَّ أَمَالَ أَحَدَ جَنَاحَيْهِ فِي الْآخَرِ يُصَفِّقُ بِهِمَا كَمَا يُصَفِّقُ الدِّيكُ فِي مَنَازِلِكُمْ، فَلَا الَّذِي مِنَ الثَّلْجِ يُطْفِي النَّارَ وَ لَا الَّذِي مِنَ النَّارِ يُذِيبُ الثَّلْجَ، ثُمَّ يُنَادِي بِأَعْلَى صَوْتِهِ: أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ خَاتَمُ النَّبِيِّينَ وَ أَنَّ وَصِيَّهُ خَيْرُ الْوَصِيِّينَ سُبُّوحٌ قُدُّوسٌ رَبُّ الْمَلَائِكَةِ وَ الرُّوحِ، فَلَا يَبْقَى فِي الْأَرْضِ دِيكٌ إِلَّا أَجَابَهُ، وَ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ: وَ الطَّيْرُ صَافَّاتٍ كُلٌّ قَدْ عَلِمَ صَلاتَهُ وَ تَسْبِيحَهُ‏.^[5]

🌸🔆Imam Ali: God has an angel in the form of a grey rooster, whose claws reach the seventh level beneath the earth, while the crown of its head is beneath the Throne. The rooster has two wings: one of fire, in the east, and the other of snow, in the west. When the time for prayer comes, it stands on its claws and raises its crown from beneath the Throne. Then it draws its wings together and beats them as your household roosters do, without the snowy wing extinguishing the fire or the fiery wing melting the snow. Then it calls out in a mighty voice; أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدَهُ وَ رَسُولَهُ خَاتَمُ النَّبِیِّینَ وَ أَنَّ وَصِیَّهُ خَیْرُ الْوَصِیِّینَ سُبُّوحٌ قُدُّوسٌ رَبُّ الْملَائِکَةِ وَ الرُّوح. At this, every rooster on earth answers it. This is what God, the Mighty and Glorious, means by the verse: وَ الطَّیْرُ صَافَّاتٍ کُلٌّ قَدْ عَلِمَ صَلَاتَهُ وَ تَسْبِیحَهُ.

🌹Roosters of faith are in contact with their angel in the spiritual realm and are perfectly attuned to it. Roosters with little or no faith are roosters that crow at the wrong time. The soothing secret of the rooster is better understood when we look to its spiritual realm. Every creature has a spiritual realm; if it follows that realm, it will attain excellence, whatever it may be, and whatever its nature and attributes.

🔅🌼 We are members of one family with all creatures 🌼🔅

🌹The Prophet Solomon, peace be upon him, experienced himself as part of a single family with every creature.

🌻🔆النمل : 17   وَ حُشِرَ لِسُلَيْمانَ جُنُودُهُ مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ وَ الطَّيْرِ فَهُمْ يُوزَعُونَ

🔆Solomon’s armies of jinn, humans and birds were gathered before him—so numerous that they had to be held back until all their ranks had joined together.

🌸🔆 عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ: «فَهُمْ يُوزَعُونَ» قَالَ: يُحْبَسُ أَوَّلُهُمْ عَلَى آخِرِهِمْ.^[6]

🔆“Yūzaʿūn”: to hold back the front of an army until the rear catches up, preventing it from becoming scattered and keeping it in ordered ranks.

🌹“Wazaʿ”: to restrain, detain or hold back, so that things do not intermingle.

🌻🔆سبأ : 10   وَ لَقَدْ آتَيْنا داوُدَ مِنَّا فَضْلاً يا جِبالُ أَوِّبي‏ مَعَهُ وَ الطَّيْرَ وَ أَلَنَّا لَهُ الْحَديدَ

🌻🔆And We bestowed upon David a great favour from Us: “O mountains and birds, join him in glorifying God!” And We made iron pliable for him.

🌻🔆ص : 19   وَ الطَّيْرَ مَحْشُورَةً كُلٌّ لَهُ أَوَّابٌ

🌻🔆We also placed the birds in his service, gathered together, so that they might glorify God with him; all of them turned to Him in praise.

🔅🌼Awaken your spiritual potential🌼🔅

🌹If we prove the sincerity of our devotion and stand alongside God’s Proof, God will grant us experiences like those of Solomon and David—and beyond.

🌹God has placed the universe at our service, but we have forgotten its sciences. With God’s Proof, our memory will return.

🌻🔆النحل : 12   وَ سَخَّرَ لَكُمُ اللَّيْلَ وَ النَّهارَ وَ الشَّمْسَ وَ الْقَمَرَ وَ النُّجُومُ مُسَخَّراتٌ بِأَمْرِهِ إِنَّ في‏ ذلِكَ لَآياتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ

🌻🔆He has subjected the night and the day, and the sun and the moon to your service; and the stars, too, are subject to His command. Surely in this are signs of God’s greatness for people who use their reason.

🌻🔆لقمان : 20   أَ لَمْ تَرَوْا أَنَّ اللَّهَ سَخَّرَ لَكُمْ ما فِي السَّماواتِ وَ ما فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ أَسْبَغَ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعَمَهُ ظاهِرَةً وَ باطِنَةً وَ مِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يُجادِلُ فِي اللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ وَ لا هُدىً وَ لا كِتابٍ مُنيرٍ

🌻🔆Have you not seen that God has subjected to your service all that is in the heavens and the earth, and lavished His blessings upon you, both outward and inward? Yet some people dispute about God without knowledge, guidance or an illuminating Book.

🌻🔆الجاثية : 13   وَ سَخَّرَ لَكُمْ ما فِي السَّماواتِ وَ ما فِي الْأَرْضِ جَميعاً مِنْهُ إِنَّ في‏ ذلِكَ لَآياتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ

🌻🔆He has subjected to your service all that is in the heavens and all that is on the earth, as a gift from Him. Surely in this are important signs for people who reflect.

🔅🌼The Master’s encounter with the partridge🌼🔅

🌸🔆 وَ بِالْإِسْنَادِ يَرْفَعُهُ الْحُسَيْنُ الْعَسْكَرُ عَنِ النَّسَبِ الطَّاهِرِ إِلَى الْحُسَيْنِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ‏ كُنْتُ مَعَ أَبِي عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع يَوْماً عَلَى الصَّفَا وَ إِذَا هُوَ بِدُرَّاجٍ عَلَى وَجْهِ الْأَرْضِ فِي الصَّفَا فَوَقَفَ مَوْلَايَ بِإِزَائِهِ فَقَالَ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ أَيُّهَا الدُّرَّاجُ‏ فَأَجَابَهُ يَقُولُ وَ عَلَيْكَ السَّلَامُ وَ رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَ بَرَكَاتُهُ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَيُّهَا الدُّرَّاجُ‏ مَا تَصْنَعُ فِي هَذَا الْمَكَانِ فَقَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَنَا فِي هَذَا الْمَكَانِ مُنْذُ أَرْبَعِمِائَةِ عَامٍ أُسَبِّحُ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى وَ أُقَدِّسُهُ وَ أَحْمَدُهُ وَ أُهَلِّلُهُ وَ أُكَبِّرُهُ وَ أَعْبُدُهُ حَقَّ عِبَادَتِهِ فَقَالَ ع إِنَّ هَذَا الصَّفَا لَا مَطْعَمَ فِيهِ وَ لَا مَشْرَبَ فَمِنْ أَيْنَ مَطْعَمُكَ وَ مَشْرَبُكَ فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا مَوْلَايَ وَ حَقِّ مَنْ بَعَثَ ابْنَ عَمِّكَ بِالْحَقِّ نَبِيّاً وَ جَعَلَكَ وَصِيّاً إِنِّي كُلَّمَا جُعْتُ دَعَوْتُ اللَّهَ لِشِيعَتِكَ وَ مُحِبِّيكَ فَأَشْبَعُ وَ إِذَا عَطِشْتُ دَعَوْتُ اللَّهَ عَلَى مُبْغِضِيكَ وَ ظَالِمِيكَ فَأَرْوَى‏[7]

🌸🔆One day, the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, saw a partridge walking near the route between Safa and Marwa. He said to it, “O partridge, peace be upon you. What are you doing here?” The bird replied, “O Commander of the Faithful, I have been here for four hundred years, glorifying, sanctifying and praising God, and worshipping Him as He truly deserves to be worshipped.” The Commander of the Faithful said, “O partridge, this is Mount Safa. Where do you get your food and water?” The partridge replied, “Through your kinship with the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family, I find a way to meet my needs. O Commander of the Faithful, when I grow hungry, I pray for your Shia and those who love you, and I am filled; when I grow thirsty, I curse those who hate you and usurp your rights, and my thirst is quenched.”

🔅🌼The Qur’an confirms that birds can converse🌼🔅

🌻🔆النمل : 16   وَ وَرِثَ سُلَيْمانُ داوُدَ وَ قالَ يا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ عُلِّمْنا مَنْطِقَ الطَّيْرِ وَ أُوتينا مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ إِنَّ هذا لَهُوَ الْفَضْلُ الْمُبينُ

🌻🔆And Solomon inherited David, and said, “O people, we have been taught the language of birds, and have been given a share of everything. This is indeed a manifest favour.”

🔅🌼By God’s will, a human being can converse with any creature🌼🔅

🌻🔆النمل : 18   حَتَّى إِذا أَتَوْا عَلى‏ وَادِ النَّمْلِ قالَتْ نَمْلَةٌ يا أَيُّهَا النَّمْلُ ادْخُلُوا مَساكِنَكُمْ لا يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ سُلَيْمانُ وَ جُنُودُهُ وَ هُمْ لا يَشْعُرُونَ

🌻🔆(They proceeded) until they came to the Valley of the Ants. An ant said, “O ants, go into your dwellings, lest Solomon and his army crush you without realizing it!”

🔅🌼The hoopoe served as an intelligence agent for His Eminence Solomon, peace be upon him🌼🔅

🌻🔆النمل : 20   وَ تَفَقَّدَ الطَّيْرَ فَقالَ ما لِيَ لا أَرَى الْهُدْهُدَ أَمْ كانَ مِنَ الْغائِبينَ

(Solomon) searched for the bird [the hoopoe] and said, “Why do I not see the hoopoe? Is it among the absent?”

🔅🌼The Imam understands every language🌼🔅

🌸🔆فَوَ اللَّهِ مَا لَبِثْتُ أَنْ دَخَلَ عَلَيْنَا رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ خُرَاسَانَ، فَتَكَلَّمَ الْخُرَاسَانِيُّ بِالْعَرَبِيَّةِ فَأَجَابَهُ هُوَ بِالْفَارِسِيَّةِ، فَقَالَ لَهُ الْخُرَاسَانِيُّ: أَصْلَحَكَ اللَّهُ، مَا مَنَعَنِي أَنْ أُكَلِّمَكَ بِكَلَامِي إِلَّا أَنِّي ظَنَنْتُ أَنَّكَ لَا تُحْسِنُ.

فَقَالَ: «سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ، إِذَا كُنْتُ لَا أُحْسِنُ أُجِيبُكَ، فَمَا فَضْلِي عَلَيْكَ؟! ثُمَّ قَالَ: يَا بَا مُحَمَّدٍ، إِنَّ الْإِمَامَ لَا يَخْفَى عَلَيْهِ‏ كَلَامُ‏ أَحَدٍ مِنَ النَّاسِ، وَ لَا طَيْرٍ وَ لَا بَهِيمَةٍ وَ لَا شَيْ‏ءٍ فِيهِ رُوحٌ، بِهَذَا يُعْرَفُ الْإِمَامُ فَإِنْ لَمْ تَكُنْ فِيهِ هَذِهِ الْخِصَالُ فَلَيْسَ هُوَ بِإِمَامٍ” [8]

🔆…Nothing that any person says is hidden from the Imam; nor is anything said by any bird, animal, or other living creature. Anyone who does not possess this quality is not an Imam.

🌹It is astonishing that human beings do not understand one another’s words and languages.

🌹Humanity remains trapped in ignorance and has not attained knowledge, having strayed from the means by which knowledge is gained.

🌹Of the twenty-seven letters of knowledge, only two will have appeared before the advent of His Eminence, the Proof of God. The remaining twenty-five will come to fruition after his advent. Those two letters that have appeared, too, have rained down upon the world of existence from the summit of the world of God’s friends.

🌸🔆 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ‏ الْعِلْمُ سَبْعَةٌ وَ عِشْرُونَ جُزْءاً  فَجَمِيعُ مَا جَاءَتْ بِهِ الرُّسُلُ جُزْءَانِ فَلَمْ يَعْرِفِ النَّاسُ حَتَّى الْيَوْمِ غَيْرَ الْجُزْءَيْنِ فَإِذَا قَامَ الْقَائِمُ أَخْرَجَ‏ الْخَمْسَةَ وَ الْعِشْرِينَ‏ جُزْءاً.  فَبَثَّهَا فِي النَّاسِ وَ ضَمَّ إِلَيْهَا الْجُزْءَيْنِ حَتَّى يَبُثَّهَا سَبْعَةً وَ عِشْرِينَ جُزْءا[9]

🌸🔆Knowledge consists of twenty-seven letters. All that the divine messengers have brought up to this day amounts to only two letters, and people know nothing beyond these two. When the Qa’im—may Allah hasten his noble advent—rises, he will bring forth the other twenty-five letters in addition to those two, and spread and teach them among the people.

🌹Through Lordly knowledge, knowledge rains down upon everyone; but through Merciful, Generous, Wise, Lordly, Majestic and Beauteous knowledge, only certain people are granted its benefits.

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

[1] Ta’wil al-Ayat al-Zahira fi Fada’il al-‘Itrat al-Tahira, p. 790Astarabadi, Ali; Islamic Publishing Institute, Iran, Qom; first edition, 1409 AH.

[2] Al-Kafi (Islamic edition), vol. 1, p. 203Kulaynī, Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq; Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya, Tehran; fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[3] Iqbal al-A‘mal (old edition), vol. 1, p. 297Ibn Tawus, Ali ibn Musa; Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya, Tehran; second edition, 1409 AH.

[4] Bihar al-Anwar (Beirut edition), vol. 7, p. 103Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi; Dar Ihya al-Turath al-Arabi, Beirut; second edition, 1403 AH.

[5] Tafsir Nur al-Thaqalayn    vol. 3    612 Huwaizi, Abd Ali ibn Jum‘a; Isma‘iliyan, Iran, Qom; fourth edition, 1415 AH.

[6] Tafsir Nur al-Thaqalayn    vol. 4    82 Huwaizi, Abd Ali ibn Jum‘a; Isma‘iliyan, Iran, Qom; fourth edition, 1415 AH.

[7] Al-Fada’il (by Ibn Shadhan al-Qummi), p. 162Ibn Shadhan al-Qummi; 1 volume; Razi, Qom; second edition, 1363 SH.

[8] Qurb al-Isnad (modern edition), text, p. 339Humayri, Abdullah ibn Ja‘far; Ahl al-Bayt Institute, peace be upon them, Qom; first edition, 1413 AH.

[9] Al-Khara’ij wa al-Jara’ih, vol. 2, p. 841Qutb al-Din al-Rawandi, Sa‘id ibn Hibat Allah; Imam Mahdi Institute, may Allah hasten his noble advent, Qom; first edition, 1409 AH.