Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼🔆🌼Ramadan Is a Celestial Hour🌼🔆🌼
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “Welcoming the Blessed Month of Ramadan” “Abdullah and the Servant of Ramadan” “The Greater Horoscope of Ramadan” “The Inner Horizons of the Human Being” “Supplication 43 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya” “A Description of the Month” and more … Summary with an addendum 1403.12.11 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🔅🌼 At the Feast of Supplication 43 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya🌼🔅
🌹How deeply God Most High cherishes His servants! Once again, He has sent His beloved to visit them.
🌹Ramadan is the most radiant of God’s messengers, the very embodiment of His invitation, the sovereign of the divine months, the bride among the months.
🔅🌼The Horoscope of the Blessed Month of Ramadan 🌼🔅
🌹Ramadan means passing beyond every veil and attaining the nearness of the Nearer One, reaching the most radiant Light. It is the sign of the supreme unveiling of divine knowledge, wisdom, and mysteries.
🌹The blessed month of Ramadan revives the memory of God’s final Proof, His only remembrance upon the earth.
🌹Ramadan is a month unlike any other; in truth, it is the month of all months.
🌹This year, Ramadan has arrived amid new talk and questions. It has come so that we may not lose our way; this month finds its meaning in the celestial constellation that presides over it.
🔅🌼The Blessed Month of Ramadan: A Field to Cultivate🌼🔅
🌷🔆 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: إِنَّ عِدَّةَ الشُّهُورِ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ اثْنا عَشَرَ شَهْراً فِي كِتابِ اللَّهِ يَوْمَ خَلَقَ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ فَغُرَّةُ الشُّهُورِ شَهْرُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ ذِكْرُهُ وَ هُوَ شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ وَ قَلْبُ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ وَ نَزَلَ الْقُرْآنُ فِي أَوَّلِ لَيْلَةٍ مِنْ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ فَاسْتَقْبِلِ الشَّهْرَ بِالْقُرْآنِ.[1]
🌹Be ready to cultivate: all you need is to take your place in the blessed field of Ramadan and do good!
🌹This is the month to be cherished by God, the month to win the pride and delight of the Beloved without equal.
🔅🌼The Month Is a Celestial Calligrapher 🌼🔅
🌹What new name of God is the blessed month of Ramadan now inscribing?
🌹Through its spiritual journey and discipline, the blessed month of Ramadan adds beauty to the design and pattern of existence.
🌹What pen does the blessed month of Ramadan use to write so beautifully?
🌹The vastness of God’s immense table calls for the greatest appetite!
🌹Have we prepared our vessels and our appetites? Even if our vessel is broken, God Most High is a wondrous mender of what is broken; He can make it better than before. He is «جابر العظم الکسیر».
🔅🌼The Journey of the Blessed Month of Ramadan🌼🔅
🌹O blessed month, may your journey be blessed! You are filled from beginning to end with divine goodness and bounty; may you bring us gladness, and may He make your time with us glad as well.
🌹Ramadan has crossed vast and wondrous lands to reach us. It has circled the greatest and grandest truths.
🌹What lies within this month? We must measure it by its horizons, against the horizons of the seven heavens, the Throne, and Sidrat al-Muntaha.
🌹The blessed month of Ramadan is a vast cosmic memory.
🌹The blessed month of Ramadan is a celestial supercomputer—active, fluid, and manifest. Who is connected and linked to it?
🌹This month is God’s great messenger, a sublime book, a book of wondrous knowledge and wisdom.
🌹This month has fallen in love and come to our home; it has come to make us fall in love.
🔅🌼I Am the Servant of Ramadan🌼🔅
🌹Each month is another month; each cycle makes a celestial journey through every heaven and beyond. In each month, each person is a different servant. We, too, are people of Ramadan in this month; our nature is different from what it was last month. We are servants of Ramadan.
🔅🌼The Month Is the Clock of the Heavens🌼🔅
🌹Every moment is a station on the way to meeting God, with its own particular flavour. Every moment brings a new creation; we, too, are a new creation at every moment.
🌹The month is like the clock of the heavens. It reminds us of time and its passing. To keep an eye on the clock is to make the most of our time.
🌹Do not lose sight of time. Remember its passing, so that you may know you are drawing closer to your destination. The month reminds us of that destination.
🌹The month reminds us that life is passing. Let us remember what we ought to do.
🔅🌼Set Your Clock by the Clock of Existence🌼🔅
🌹Let us set our clocks by the cosmic clock, by the clock of the highest celestial realm. Every particle in the universe, in every dimension, is in harmony with every other; they sound as one. Without this accord and harmony, their order would fall apart.
🌹Let us set our clocks by the moon and the sun. Know that the sun’s clock is set by the Throne; the beginning of the universe is connected to its end.
🌹The clocks within cells, within atoms, within the spirit, must be in harmony with the clock of the highest celestial realm; otherwise, their connections unravel. When the spirit loses the body, the body dies.
🔅🌼Time: The Secret of Life🌼🔅
🌹Clocks, time, numbers and measures are the secret of life.
🌻🔆The All-Merciful: 7 وَ السَّماءَ رَفَعَها وَ وَضَعَ الْميزانَ
🔆And He raised up the heaven and set the Balance,
🌻🔆The All-Merciful: 8 أَلاَّ تَطْغَوْا فِي الْميزانِ
🔆so that you do not transgress in the Balance.
🌹Without the Balance, order, beauty and pleasure would fall apart, and life could not come into being. Whoever opposes the Imam will be brought down.
🌹Let us discern the inner meaning of the verses through their outward meaning. The outward meaning of God’s verses is the gateway to their inner meaning. Let us journey through God’s verses and discover where they lead.
🌷🔆 عَنْ دَاوُدَ الرَّقِّيِّ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ الشَّمْسُ وَ الْقَمَرُ بِحُسْبانٍ قَالَ يَا دَاوُدُ سَأَلْتَ عَنْ أَمْرٍ فَاكْتَفِ بِمَا يَرِدُ عَلَيْكَ أَنَّ الشَّمْسَ وَ الْقَمَرَ آيَتَانِ مِنْ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ يَجْرِيَانِ بِأَمْرِهِ ثُمَّ إِنَّ اللَّهَ ضَرَبَ ذَلِكَ مَثَلًا لِمَنْ وَثَبَ عَلَيْنَا وَ هَتَكَ حُرْمَتَنَا وَ ظَلَمَنَا حَقَّنَا فَقَالَ هُمَا بِحُسْبَانٍ قَالَ هُمَا فِي عَذَابِي قَالَ قُلْتُ وَ النَّجْمُ وَ الشَّجَرُ يَسْجُدانِ قَالَ النَّجْمُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ الشَّجَرُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ الْأَئِمَّةُ ع لَمْ يَعْصُوا اللَّهَ طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ- قَالَ قُلْتُ وَ السَّماءَ رَفَعَها وَ وَضَعَ الْمِيزانَ قَالَ السَّمَاءُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَبَضَهُ اللَّهُ ثُمَّ رَفَعَهُ إِلَيْهِ وَ وَضَعَ الْمِيزانَ وَ الْمِيزَانُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَ نَصَبَهُ لَهُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ- قُلْتُ أَلَّا تَطْغَوْا فِي الْمِيزانِ قَالَ لَا تَطْغَوْا فِي الْإِمَامِ بِالْعِصْيَانِ وَ الْخِلَافِ- قُلْتُ وَ أَقِيمُوا الْوَزْنَ بِالْقِسْطِ وَ لا تُخْسِرُوا الْمِيزانَ قَالَ أَطِيعُوا الْإِمَامَ بِالْعَدْلِ وَ لَا تَبْخَسُوه مِنْ حَقِّهِ.[2]
🌷🔆Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him)—Dawud al-Raqqi relates: I asked Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) about the verse: الشَّمْسُ و القَمَرُ بِحُسْبَانٍ He said: “You have asked about something; be content with what has been conveyed to you. The sun and the moon are two of God’s signs, revolving by His command. Then God gave this as a parable for the one who attacked us, violated our sanctity and wronged us. He said: ‘هما بحسبان’—that is, the sun and the moon are in My punishment.”
And السَّمَاء رَفَعَهَا و وضَعَ المِیزَانَ I asked, “What does it mean?” He replied: “السَّماءَ refers to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), whom God caused to pass away and then raised up to Himself. As for وَوَضَعَ الْمِيزَانَ, the ‘Balance’ refers to the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him), whom the Prophet appointed as his successor.”
“أَلا تَطْغَوا فِی المِیزَانِ, what does it mean?” He replied: “It means: do not rebel against the Imam through disobedience and opposition.”
I asked Imam al-Sadiq about this verse: وَ أَقِیمُوا الوزْنَ بِالقِسْطِ وَلا تُخْسِرُوا الْمِيزَانَ, “What is its interpretation?” He replied: “Obey the just Imam, and do not wrong him.”
🌷🔆Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him)—Dawud al-Raqqi relates: I asked Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him), “أَلا تَطْغَوا فِی المِیزَانِ, what does it mean?” He replied: “It means: do not rebel against the Imam through disobedience and opposition.”
Whoever does not align himself with the Imam becomes a rebel.
🌹 Joy, beauty and delight are realised through order, and order is realised through the Balance.
🌹 The Imam is the very emblem of order and discipline.
🌹 The moon of God is the moon over the whole universe. The moon above us is an image of that same moon; it has an image in every realm. A moon, too, dwells within the world of our souls.
🔅🌼 The horizons within the human being 🌼🔅
🌹 The cycles within the atom and beyond it, earthly and celestial cycles, cycles of the unseen realm, cycles within and beyond time—all must be connected and synchronised like the interlocking gears of a clock, so that the great clock of our universe keeps its balance.
🔅🌼 The outward bears witness to the inward 🌼🔅
🌹 Outward movements have inward counterparts. The outer and inner must be in harmony.
🌹 Let us align our course of servitude with the vessel of the universe.
🌹 That by which time is set is itself beyond time.
🌹 Set yourself in balance with the Imam.
🔅🌼 Blindness to time 🌼🔅
🌹 Blindness to time is a death within time: without any sense of journey or movement, growth or progress, it is a kind of stagnation.
🌹 Blindness to the time of the unseen realm arises when its celestial clock is thrown out of order. If that time is disrupted, its duties, its awareness and its world of the unseen collapse.
🔅🌼 We move with him 🌼🔅
🌹 With him, toward him, let us journey from beginning to end, from outward to inward, from the old to the new—from that which is of God, through that which is in God, toward that which is of God.
🌹 We move and travel with the One who sets us in motion. He moves us, guides our journey, transforms us; He adds to His artistry, and His will is ever increased.
🌹 How beautiful it would be for the human being to become the vessel of all existence: to set the whole universe in motion, guide it on its journey, and stir it into fervour and movement.
🔅🌼 A portrait of the moon 🌼🔅
🌹 The moon is a messenger from God, bearing words and accounts. It is God’s software and hardware, a compendium of knowledge, carrying reports, tales and signs. Among all these, the month of Ramadan is a marvel.
🌹 The moon is a celestial, heavenly and divine supercomputer. Who will set it in motion? The moon is a heavenly book, an emissary of God.
🌹 Converse with the moon. All the verses, created things and dispositions are connected and kin to one another, through their Creator, their object of worship and the One they adore.
🌹 The moon keeps count; it is the calendar of the heavens—not only for earthly hours and the days of our lives, but also for the cycles of earth and sky.
It is earth’s companion; it knows the ways of companionship and is entrusted with its earthly mission.
🌼Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Mishkat), 110.141 (903)🌼
🔅🌼 A student’s perspective on the discussion of “God’s exalted messenger” 🌼🔅
🌻🔆The blessed month of Ramadan: God’s exalted messenger🔆🌻
🌼🔆🌼Ramadan is a celestial hour🌼🔆🌼
🔹 Welcoming the blessed month of Ramadan
📅 Date: 1403/12/12 – 1 Ramadan 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the themes discussed in the session:
### Ramadan: Lifting the Veil from Divine Mysteries 🌙
Having passed through many veils and realms of wonder and marvel, Ramadan has arrived in our land!
This blessed month is to lift the veil from divine mysteries, unveil the beauty of the Real, reveal secrets and disclose the truth!
This month is the blessed countenance of Imam of the Age (AJ)!
It brings the memory of our Imam of the Age to life!
That lonely Imam, that Imam hidden behind the veil of occultation!
Behind the veil of our reason…
Have we looked for its crescent?
As we searched for the crescent of God’s month, did we let our eyes be illumined by its light?
Have our eyes been watchful for that crescent of God—or not?
How eagerly do we await God’s month?
At every moment, we should have been watching for its crescent—for its first appearance!
And now, the blessed month of Ramadan has arrived!
This “messenger of God” has come to us bearing “God’s mysteries”!
O beloved of God!
What service could we possibly have done for God to merit such tenderness toward His servants?⦁
And all this for servants like us, who have not even ceased to be His servants in order to become servants of God!
—
### Ramadan: The Most Radiant Month of God ✨
This is the very “month of God’s invitation”!
It calls us to itself!
This is the very “bride of the months”!
This is the “most radiant month of God”!
—
### Laylat al-Qadr: The Radiant Heart of Ramadan 📖
The most radiant month of God is Ramadan!
And the heart of this blessed month is “Laylat al-Qadr”!
So let us welcome God’s month with the Qur’an!
Have we welcomed it?
Have we kissed it?
We must kiss God’s month with our hearts!
Kiss the beautiful face of God’s month!
God’s vast banquet has been laid out!
Are we ready to sow?
Are we ready to be “sown”?
It is the season of sowing—and God Himself is the Sower!
At His own feast, He sows us!
In this month of God, we too must become “God’s month”!
But this month is the “month of months”!
The most beautiful month of God! The bride of God’s months!
In this month of God, let us become God’s cherished servants!
Let us become a source of pride and joy to God!
But why does God not leave us alone?!
Why, despite all our audacity, does He still refuse to give up on us?!
Why will He not leave us be? Why does He not leave us to our own devices?!
What have we done, after all?!
What “beauty of servitude” have we shown?!
That God showers us from above, from every direction, with such “beauty” of His own?!
—
### Ramadan: A Sign of God’s Love for His Servants ❤️
The blessed month of Ramadan bears witness to God’s love for His servants!
If this “divine love” were to cease,
no one would ever again see the lovely face of God’s month!
What does this month do?
What does this “agent of God” do?
It comes… and goes…
But why does it go? And why does it come?
It does not go away…
It wants to take us along with it!
Did we set out with last year’s Ramadan?!
Did we come along with it?!
Or were we left behind, apart from it?!
If the remembrance of God had been torn from our hearts, then we had already parted ways with this month!
This month is God’s agent!
It inscribes the “patterns and plans of God’s mysteries” upon the tablet of existence!
But what does it inscribe?
If only we could see what “patterns and designs” this month lays down!
If only we could behold its manifestations!
If only we resolved to accompany it, never to be separated from this month for even a moment!
The secret of this month lies in the Imam of Our Time (AJ)!
If we are far from him, we are far from God’s month as well!
We have been distant, and we remain distant!
If we live under the Imam’s leadership, he is our guide!
We will not be separated from him for even a moment!
Through his worship, we worship God!
We rise with his rising!
We prostrate with his prostration!
We remember God with his remembrance!
So we will never be separated from him, not even for a moment!
### Accompanying Ramadan: Returning to God’s Table 🌍
We have journeyed with this month and returned!
We have traversed the world of existence and come back once more!
But not by going around in circles, orbiting ourselves or the world;
rather, we have journeyed with this world, through its vast expanse!
We are not God’s former servants; we are renewed!
We have been made new!
Out of His majesty and grandeur, God has spread a boundless banquet!
A banquet that calls for an immense appetite!
This magnificent banquet requires a magnificent heart, one able to gather in all its offerings!
Is the vessel of our being ready?
Or is it narrow and broken?
If it is narrow, if it is broken,
let us entrust it to the one who mends broken things!
He knows well how to set what is broken!
He is the finest of menders; He is the Restorer!
He mends every broken thing, makes it whole again, and restores it better than it was at first!
—
### Ramadan: Bearer of Divine Secrets 📜
This is the month of God!
A traveler returned from a blessed journey!
It is blessed itself, too!
But what has it brought back from this journey?
It carries a mighty bundle with it!
A “cosmic memory” lies hidden in the soul of this month!
A vast celestial supercomputer—or rather, one beyond the heavens, one of the Throne and the realm of the Intellect!
This month is the “computer of God”!
By God, we must use this computer to bring ourselves online!
So that we may see and understand the wonders of serving God!
So that we may witness the wonders of our God!
But this blindness… this deafness… this voicelessness…
How long must they last?!
Is there no end date?
Will this blindness never end?!
Is it infinite?!
This month is at once an “eye,” an “ear,” a “tongue,” and a “heart”!
But not an ordinary heart: it is the “Eye of God” we are seeking!
This is the “Ear of God”!
This is the “Tongue of God”!
This is the “Heart of God”!
We must reach the highest degree of remembrance and recollection of God!
With this month, we must equip ourselves with the latest divine prescriptions!
So that we may prove our servitude!
So that we may go beyond servitude!
So that we may see what dealings God has in store for us!
And what things lie hidden beyond this servitude, things we do not yet know!
Secrets lie behind this servitude!
Until we prove ourselves, the second class in servitude will not open to us!
—
### The Inner Reality of Ramadan: Beyond Its Outward Form 🌌
This month has both an outward form and an inner reality!
But its inner reality is greater than its outward form!
Its outward form bears witness to the truth!
But its inner reality… until we reach the very soul of this month, we will know nothing of it!
This month has come to make us fall in love overnight!
To revive the weary and the bankrupt!
To make them wealthy again!
We have squandered the capital of our servitude to God!
But this month will make us rich overnight!
We must measure this month against its horizon!
The horizon of its seven heavens! Its Sidrat al-Muntaha!
When we see Ramadan’s crescent in the sky, this is no longer the month that was here the night before!
Above us, this month has a “Ramadan spirit”!
It is another kind of month!
A celestial wonder!
If we look closely, this month is a window onto the heavenly realm!
It will draw us upward!
It will bring us to the highest destination!
What is this month above us?
An empty space left by His Eminence, the Remnant of God, the Great (AJ)!
—
### The Month of Ramadan: A Divine Book for God’s Servants 📖
Let us not remain caught up in this month’s outward form!
Let us not lose sight of its inner reality!
This month is “God’s great messenger”!
It is a “great book”!
In its presence, we must learn this book by heart!
We must come to know this book!
Become learned! Become wise!
This book is “God’s latest”!
God’s newest writing!
One of God’s latest and most wondrous works!
Who can connect themselves to this month?
So they may see, so they may witness, the waves of devotion to God!
So they may experience the true yearning of love!
Yes, it is me!
I, too, am a “servant of Ramadan”!
“Ramadan” means “Allah”!
The month of Ramadan means “the month of Allah”!
How wondrous!
What has this month brought with it?!
What spirits have been breathed into its very soul?!
That same spirit is stirring within us, too!
Let us not be heedless!
Let us awaken!
We, too, are “servants of Ramadan”!
Every turn of this month is a celestial journey!
—
### The Month of Ramadan: Joined to the Throne and the Mysteries of Existence 🌌
This month is connected!
Connected to all the heavens!
Connected to what lies beyond the heavens!
Connected to the Throne!
Connected to the very end of this world!
This month turns with the motion of its farthest point!
Everything encompassed in the “Manifest Imam” begins to turn in this month!
With every turn, something beyond the ordinary happens!
In each month, every person is a different servant!
But in this month, each is a more special servant!
Our very natures are transformed!
Everyone sets out on a path!
A path to its end!
A path to completing a special course in servitude to God!
This month—this “month of God”—is meant to bring that course to an end!
It is meant to make graduates of us, from God’s special classes!
If we succeed, a new class will begin once again…
—
### The Month of Ramadan: Moments and the Mystery of Meeting God ⏳
This month is the “month of God”!
It is forever turning and revolving!
It is a “sign of God”!
A “sign obedient to God”!
It reminds us of every moment!
And every moment has a meaning: the “special station of meeting God”!
A moment has no other meaning!
A moment is a moment!
Moments repeated make “time”!
But a moment itself is not time!
A moment is free of time’s constraints!
They have suffered injustice at my hands!
One day, they will bring me before God to answer for it!
They will become my adversaries!
—
### The Dawn of the Month of God Within Our Souls 🌙
So let us look within, into our innermost selves!
What is happening inside our cells?
Within them, within their fundamental particles, how does “time” pass?
How does the month of God dawn within the atoms of our being?
What is the mood of this blessed month within our “spirit” and our “heart”?
Is it still night within us?
Or is dawn near?
—
### The Month of Ramadan: The Secret of Life and the Divine Balance 🌙
Indeed, this month is the secret of life!
Its time is the spirit of time!
Let us look to the sky!
Let us contemplate the depths of the sky!
God raised the sky and established the balance!
But what is the sky? What is the balance?
“Do not transgress the balance!”
If we transgress the divine balance, our order will fall apart!
The order and harmony of our souls will collapse!
Whoever rebels against their “Imam of the Age” has rebelled against God’s “Balance”!
They have broken the bounds and thrown the order of things into disarray!
And the first to fall will be they themselves!
Their thoughts, their ideas, their actions, their spiritual journey, their growth…
Everything about them will collapse!
For they have no “balance,” no “scales,” no “discipline,” no “reckoning”!
—
### The Sun and the Moon: Divine Signs and the Path of Wilayah 🌞🌙
Know that the “sun” and the “moon” are two of God’s signs!
They move at God’s command!
Then God offers an example…
Let us move from the outward to the inward!
The “star” is the Messenger of God (PBUH)!
The “tree” is Amir al-Mu’minin (AS) and the Imams (AS)!
Not for a single instant—not even for the blink of an eye—did they disobey God!
They foiled sin and left it frustrated!
—
### The Messenger of God and the Divine Balance: Obeying the Imam of Justice ⚖️
Here, “heaven” means the Messenger of God (PBUH)!
And the “Balance” means Amir al-Mu’minin (AS)!
God Himself appointed him to the station of His Messenger!
“Beware of disobeying the Imam!”
“Beware of opposing the Imam!”
That is, obey the Imam of Justice!
And beware of wronging him!
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### Attuning Ourselves to the Imam and Avoiding Rebellion ⏳
Whoever fails to attune themselves to their Imam will become a rebel!
Joy, beauty, and delight lie in order and discipline!
And this order can be achieved only through the “Balance”!
And the “Balance” is the “Imam of the Age”!
The month of Ramadan is God’s month!
It is the “moon” over the whole world!
Above every likeness is a moon of the same kind!
And within our souls, too, there is “a moon”!
But has that “moon within our soul” risen?
Have we sought its first sighting?
Are we aware of the inner and outer realms, of atomic time, celestial time, the time of the unseen realm, and what lies beyond the heavens?
Or have we remained unaware?
Let us align the course of our worship with this “blessed month”!
Let us bring ourselves into balance with the “Imam as Balance”!
Beware of becoming “blind to time”!
To become blind to time is to suffer “death in time”!
And in “death in time,” there can be no journey or movement!
If our “time in the unseen realm” dies, we will no longer journey through that realm!
If only, as this month turned its face toward us, its “face in the unseen realm” might also shine upon the eyes of our hearts!
When someone is “blind to the time of the unseen realm,” their heavenly clock falls out of sync!
Their order and harmony in the unseen realm are shaken!
They lose their spiritual sensitivity!
They take no joy in spiritual things!
And suddenly, their “world of the unseen” comes crashing down!
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### Ramadan: A reminder of the truth “Indeed, we belong to God, and to Him we return” 🌌
This month has come to make us understand that we are “إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ”!
We must not be heedless of God!
We are with Him!
We are moving towards Him!
From beginning to end…
He is the “First” and the “Last”!
If we are with Him, then we are in the “First”!
We are in the “Manifest” and the “Hidden”!
We are in the “Beginningless” and the “New”!
We are “فِي شَأْنِ اللَّهِ”!
We are moving in “وَ إِلَى شَأْنِ اللَّهِ”!
Time is what we perceive when we sense continuity between moments!
Yet in reality, no moment occurs within the bounds of time!
The moment whose repetition lets us count “time” has no dimension, no duration, no limit!
A moment is confined by no constraint!
Is this what it means to be “beyond time”?
I don’t know!
But I am certain it is not “time”!
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### The moments of creation: endless “Be, and it is” 💫
No moment has temporal dimension or duration!
If it did, it would no longer be a “moment”!
So let us measure the moment by “meeting with God”!
God wills, and each act of His will is a new moment!
His will cannot be contained by time!
God’s will is “Be, and it is”!
Every moment is another “Be, and it is”!
Every moment is distinct and unprecedented!
For its Creator is “the Originator”!
For its Creator is “the Innovator”!
For its Creator is forever “new”!
If every moment is itself the “station of meeting with God,”
then every “meeting with God” has a different flavor and sweetness!
Every encounter has a new taste!
But how can we seize these moments and encounters?
I have not been a witness…
because I am not even alive!
Alive enough to understand…
“صُمٌّ، بُکْمٌ، عُمْیٌ”
That is me!
Those who see and hear are alive at heart!
We must ask them!
But to understand it, we still need a “heart”!
We need “reason”!
We need to be “servants of God”!
And I have none of these…
—
### Ramadan: The Heavenly Clock of Existence 🌙
This month is like the clock of the heavens!
The “moon” reminds us of time and the hour!
We keep our eyes on the clock so we can make the most of our time!
Time’s passing reminds us that we are “newly created” in every moment!
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### Time, a Reminder of the Highest Destination ⏳
We must not lose sight of time!
Time and the clock should always remain in our minds!
For they remind us of our “destination”!
Every moment points us toward the “highest destination”!
And at last, we will arrive…
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### Ramadan: Setting Our Clocks to the Clock of Existence ⏳
Each of our “إِنَّ لِلَّهِ” comes to pass in every moment!
In the end, we will reach the “greatest and mightiest source”!
The month of God reminds us that we are servants of God!
It calls us to undertake the “struggle of servitude”!
This month of God came to awaken us!
To remind us to set ourselves to the “clock of existence”!
And to be attuned!
It reminds us that we are connected to all of existence!
We are not separate!
Indeed, we cannot separate ourselves from the very life of this world of existence!
This world is growing!
So we, too, must become “magnificent” alongside the splendor of this world!
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### Setting the Clock of the Soul to the Clock of the Unseen ⏳
Are we attuned to this atmosphere?
Are we in harmony with this world of existence?
Is our clock set to the clock of the heavenly realm?
Or does only our material, bodily clock work, while our heavenly clock lies dormant?
Has the hand of our clock of the divine realm broken, leaving it unable to turn?
We do not grasp the horizon of the heavenly clock!
If we did, our heavenly ears would hear!
We would awaken to the call of the heavenly beings’ prayers!
We would join them!
And add to the fervor of their prayers!
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### Connection to the World of Existence—or Collapse? 🌍
If we fail to maintain that order and connection with this world of existence, we will fall apart!
How many worlds we have scattered within this world of ours!
There is almost nothing left of us!
Just dust, a material shell…
Our celestial spirit has departed!
The blessed month of Ramadan has come, so we can bring ourselves back to life!
Let us set the clock of our soul to the clock of God’s Throne!
Let us not forget our heavenly nourishment!
Let us drink heavenly water!
Let us partake of celestial food!
So that our celestial faculty may awaken!
And we may break free from the captivity of this body!
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### The Beginning and the End of the Universe Are Connected; the Trust We Bear 🌌
Indeed, the beginning of this universe is connected to its end!
Not for a moment is the bond between the two broken!
But we do not know it!
What tumult lies within us!
We look only at ourselves!
At our bellies and our desires!
Unaware of the trusts God has placed within our souls!
And we do not feed them!
We leave them hungry!
This land is filled with celestial beings!
Filled with mighty creatures, earthly and heavenly!
But beyond all that…
Every cell of our soul, every molecule, atom and electron among our fundamental particles, is a trust we must nourish!
I have been made a custodian!
I accepted this trust!
Yet I have left them hungry and thirsty!
Alas for those celestial lions, whom I should have been watering at every moment!
But I never find the time!
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[1] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 4, p. 65 Kulaynī, Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya, Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.
[2] Taʾwīl al-Āyāt al-Ẓāhira fī Faḍāʾil al-ʿItra al-Ṭāhira, p. 613 Astarābādī, ʿAlī, Islamic Publishing, Iran, Qom, first edition, 1409 AH.
