The Deluge of Divine Oneness

🌼🔆🌼Fatimah: A Divine Technology Like No Other🌼🔆🌼

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌹 “Fatimah, the Foremost in Sanctity”  “The Mystery of Divine Unity in the Words of the Lady of Divine Unity”  “The Mystery of the One Who Received Inspired Words” “The Mystery of the Mushaf of Fatimah”  “The Martyrdom of Fatimah al-Zahra, peace be upon her” and more … An abstract with an addendum       1403.08.24    Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

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

🔅🌼Fatimah, sovereign of the breezes and thunder of divine unity 🌼🔅

🔅🌼O God, who is Fatimah? What is she? 🌼🔅

🌹O God, who is Fatimah? What is Fatimah?

🌹The Prophet’s Household holds many mysteries yet to be unveiled; among its greatest are the Fatimid mysteries, hidden things and matters of the unseen.

🌹Fatimah is one of God’s wonders. How much time would it take to enumerate her, traverse her, read and recite her, understand her, know her?

🌹Every day, every moment, Fatimah was a mystery; one can only imagine the depth of the calamity that befell the earth with her loss.

🌹On earth, Fatimah was like a book, and that book was still being written. Through her, knowledge of the earthly realm grew; she left her mark on human memory. The mystery of the Night of Decree is revealed through divine decrees, changes and transformations. Fatimah was, and is, the Night of Decree of all existence.

🌹The wondrous prayer, «عرفنی نفسک … نبیک … حجتک», reveals its mystery in the unveiling of the secrets of the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Household.

🌹Fatimah is sovereign of earth and heaven, head of sanctity, lady of divine guardianship, mother of the Imams, lady of nobility, embodiment of noble character, lady of martyrdom, mother of believing men and women, grandmother of creation, the jewel among ladies of modesty, reserve and purity, the supreme sign of the Originator of the heavens and the earth, the supreme light of divine unity, the word of sincerity and the perfection of sincerity in divine unity.

🌹Fatimah, sovereign of night and day, the foremost among the women martyrs of all worlds.

🌹From what light-years away does the world gaze upon Fatimah’s lights?

🔅🌼The Mushaf of Fatimah🌼🔅

🌹We have not even come to know one of her books—how much less the reality of Fatimiyyah. The “Mushaf of Fatimah” held memories drawn from the thoughts of her immense heart over seventy-five days.

🌹The “Mushaf of Fatimiyyah” contains comprehensive knowledge of all existence and of the heavenly books. Over the seventy-five days following the Prophet of Islam’s martyrdom, this knowledge was inspired to the Lady of Martyrdom.

🌹The Mushaf of Fatimiyyah is equipped with bespoke software and advanced technology—the least understood technology in all existence. It is a vast source for the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, and a source of knowledge, wisdom and technology.

🌷🔆 عَنِ ابْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ قَالَ: سَأَلَ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنِ الْجَفْرِ فَقَالَ هُوَ جِلْدُ ثَوْرٍ مَمْلُوءٌ عِلْماً فَقَالَ لَهُ مَا الْجَامِعَةُ قَالَ تِلْكَ صَحِيفَةٌ طُولُهَا سَبْعُونَ ذِرَاعاً فِي عَرْضِ الْأَدِيمِ مِثْلُ فَخِذِ الْفَالِجِ فِيهَا كُلُّ مَا يَحْتَاجُ النَّاسُ إِلَيْهِ وَ لَيْسَ مِنْ قَضِيَّةٍ إِلَّا وَ فِيهَا حَتَّى أَرْشُ الْخَدْشِ قَالَ لَهُ فَمُصْحَفُ فَاطِمَةَ فَسَكَتَ طَوِيلًا ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ لَتَبْحَثُونَ عَمَّا تُرِيدُونَ وَ عَمَّا لَا تُرِيدُونَ إِنَّ فَاطِمَةَ مَكَثَتْ بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص خَمْسَةً وَ سَبْعِينَ يَوْماً وَ قَدْ كَانَ دَخَلَهَا حُزْنٌ شَدِيدٌ عَلَى أَبِيهَا وَ كَانَ جَبْرَئِيلُ يَأْتِيهَا فَيُحْسِنُ عَزَاءَهَا عَلَى أَبِيهَا وَ يُطَيِّبُ نَفْسَهَا وَ يُخْبِرُهَا عَنْ أَبِيهَا وَ مَكَانِهِ وَ يُخْبِرُهَا بِمَا يَكُونُ بَعْدَهَا فِي ذُرِّيَّتِهَا وَ كَانَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَكْتُبُ ذَلِكَ فَهَذَا مُصْحَفُ فَاطِمَة[1]

🌷🔆Shaykh Kulayni relates in Usul al-Kafi, from Abu Ubaydah, who said: One of the companions of Imam Ja‘far al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, asked him about al-Jafr. Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, replied: “Al-Jafr is the hide of a cow on which much knowledge has been written.”

He asked, “What is al-Jami‘ah?” He replied: “Al-Jami‘ah is a scroll seventy cubits long (a cubit is half a metre) and as wide as a hide. It contains everything people might need; there is no subject it does not cover, not even compensation or blood money for a scratch.”

He asked, “What is the Mushaf of Fatima?” After a long pause, Imam al-Sadiq said, “You are probing a matter you have no intention of pursuing.”

For seventy-five days after the Messenger of God passed away, Fatima al-Zahra remained alive, overwhelmed with grief. Gabriel would come to her and console her over the Prophet’s passing, tell her where her father was, and inform her of the hardships her descendants would later face. Ali ibn Abi Talib, peace be upon him, wrote these things down. This is what is meant by the Mushaf of Fatima. [2]

One of her achievements during those seventy-five days

🌹The Mushaf descended upon Fatima’s heart, peace be upon her, and was recorded by her master, Ali, the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him. The manner in which the Mushaf of Fatima was written is among its hidden mysteries: With what pen and ink was it written? Upon what mighty tablet was it placed and preserved?

🌹The Mushaf of Fatima was sent from the Most Exalted Source to Fatima’s soul, peace be upon her—the computer of the Ocean of Prophethood—and from there its contents were registered in the computer of the Ocean of Knowledge. The Ocean of Prophethood received the information, and the Ocean of Knowledge recorded it. Its repository is the blessed heart of the Manifest Imam.

🌹The Mushaf of Fatima contains rulings on what is lawful and unlawful; knowledge of the unseen; accounts of the past and future, up to the Day of Resurrection; reports about the heavens and the angels, including their number; descriptions of cities; lists of believers and unbelievers and their qualities; and accounts of the people of Paradise and the Fire. It also contains knowledge of the Qur’an and the heavenly scriptures, along with many other reports and mysteries. It is written in two volumes, on sheets of white pearl, and bound in emerald.

🌹Divine Unity is the key and prerequisite for finding one’s way to the truths of wilayah and the divine treasuries; it is also the key to the Mushaf of Fatima and the Prophet’s Household.

🔅🌼 Fatima, the one spoken to by angels 🌼🔅

🌹That Fatima was spoken to by angels means that she heard the celestial realm, was connected to the highest heaven, and was the listening ear of the universe.

🌷🔆عِيسَى بْنِ زَيْدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ‏ إِنَّمَا سُمِّيَتْ فَاطِمَةُ مُحَدَّثَةً لِأَنَّ الْمَلَائِكَةَ كَانَتْ تَهْبِطُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَتُنَادِيهَا كَمَا تُنَادِي مَرْيَمَ بِنْتَ عِمْرَانَ فَتَقُولُ يَا فَاطِمَةُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ اصْطَفاكِ وَ طَهَّرَكِ وَ اصْطَفاكِ عَلى‏ نِساءِ الْعالَمِينَ‏ يَا فَاطِمَةُ اقْنُتِي لِرَبِّكِ وَ اسْجُدِي وَ ارْكَعِي مَعَ الرَّاكِعِينَ‏  فَتُحَدِّثُهُمْ وَ يُحَدِّثُونَهَا فَقَالَتْ لَهُمْ ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ أَ لَيْسَتِ الْمُفَضَّلَةُ عَلَى نِسَاءِ الْعَالَمِينَ مَرْيَمَ بِنْتَ عِمْرَانَ فَقَالُوا إِنَّ مَرْيَمَ كَانَتْ سَيِّدَةَ نِسَاءِ عَالَمِهَا وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ جَعَلَكِ سَيِّدَةَ نِسَاءِ عَالَمِكِ وَ عَالَمِهَا وَ سَيِّدَةَ نِسَاءِ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ الْآخِرِينَ.[3]

🌷🔆In the book ʿIlal al-Sharaʾiʿ, a report from Imam Jaʿfar al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, relates that Fatima was called “the one spoken to by angels” because angels descended from heaven to earth and called to her, just as they had called to Mary, daughter of ʿImran.

The angels would say to Fatima al-Zahra: “O Fatima, God has purified and sanctified you, and chosen you above the women of the worlds. O Fatima, be devout in worship of your Lord, and bow and prostrate with those who bow.” Fatima would speak with the angels, and the angels with Fatima.

One night, al-Zahra asked the angels, “Is it not the case that Mary was the most excellent of the women of the worlds?” They replied, “Mary was the most excellent and distinguished woman of her time. But God has made you more excellent and distinguished than all women of your time, the women of Mary’s time, and the women of the first and last generations.”[4]

🔅🌼One who knows Fatima 🌼🔅

🌹Who is kin to Fatima?!

🌹Who truly knows Fatima? If you know her words, then you may have hope for yourself; if you feel estranged from them, you have lost!

🔅🌼The cry and tempest of Divine Unity 🌼🔅

🌹Why did Fatima begin the Fadak sermon with Divine Unity? Because until Divine Unity is revived, people’s hearts will not awaken and come alive!

🌹If the innate nature of Divine Unity ends in associating partners with God, the wall of servitude will remain crooked for all eternity.

🔅🌼Divine Unity is the heart of delight and peace🌼🔅

🌹Faith brings peace. Faith begins with tawhid. Tawhid is the root of delight; all other delights are mirages. Everyone seeks pleasure, but they have lost the way to it. No rank or station is higher than tawhid: through tawhid, one can reach the summit of all things.

🌹Whoever does not attain tawhid has, as it were, lost the One they worship and is left wandering and adrift.

🌹Peace is beyond pleasure. Peace, in the fullest sense, embraces every dimension of life. Every state of peace is accompanied by pleasure, but not every pleasure brings peace. True peace arises only from a heart filled with faith. Believing men and women are its wellspring, and tawhid is the first and last secret of faith.

🔅🌼Fatima understood the source of pain🌼🔅

🌹In the Fadak sermon, Fatima began with the central pillar: tawhid. For whoever strays from this pillar falls into the pit of polytheism, doubt and ignorance.

🌹Why, despite scientific progress, do human ignorance and suffering continue to increase? Because the path of polytheism ends in ignorance. Whoever enters the field of knowledge burdened by polytheism is like a blind person stepping into the light, yet gaining no higher benefit from it. With polytheism, light becomes a cause of blindness, and knowledge a means of ignorance.

🔅🌼Safeguarding Fatima’s legacy🌼🔅

🌹Let us sow and tend the little we have, so that it is not wasted.

🌹Let us safeguard our Fatimid legacy; cultivate it.

🔅🌼Purity is one wing of Fatima’s outstretched wings🌼🔅

🌹Purity is one of Fatima’s wings, by which she soars to the heights of purity. Fatima is above purity; she has outstripped it, as she has beauty. Fatima is above holiness and above serenity.

🌹Serenity is a means: we seek serenity for the sake of what comes next. It has a destination, which its means can help us reach. Serenity is not the destination; it is the way. Faith is likewise a means, a force for spiritual journeying and finding the way to an exalted destination. Tawhid, too, is a means: to what end does a person become a believer in divine unity? Tawhid is the exalted means to sincerity and refinement; it is the fragrance of beholding the Beloved.

🔅🌼Wandering through the flower garden of the Fadak sermon (the sermon on divine unity)🌼🔅

🔅🌼Imaginings must not presume to comprehend Him🌼🔅

 🌼وَ مِنَ الْأَوْهَامِ كَيْفِيَّتُهُ🌼

🌹His nature cannot be grasped by the imagination.

🌹To attribute to Him quantity or quality is a failing of the imagination and a sign of the limits of knowledge.

🌹He is not encompassed by quantity or quality; it is He who has given quantity and quality their meaning.

🌷🔆 هُوَ أَيَّنَ الْأَيْنَ بِلَا أَيْنٍ وَ كَيَّفَ‏ الْكَيْفَ‏ بِلَا كَيْفٍ فَلَا يُعْرَفُ بِالْكَيْفُوفِيَّةِ وَ لَا بِأَيْنُونِيَّةٍ وَ لَا يُدْرَكُ بِحَاسَّةٍ وَ لَا يُقَاسُ بِشَيْ‏ء[5]

Imam al-Rida, peace be upon him: … He brought space into being without having a place of His own, and gave things their manner without having a manner of His own. Thus, God is not known through manner or place, is not perceived by any sense, and is not measured against anything.

🌹Imaginings encompass what can be sensed: everything a person apprehends through the senses falls within their reach. “Imagination” constitutes a particular level of knowledge, but its measure cannot attain His qualities—the manner and nature of His Names. What is meant here is, in fact, the qualities of His Names, not the quality of His Essence, for His Essence cannot be described. He is limited neither by attribute nor by quality. His Name: «مَحْجُوبٌ عَنْهُ حِسُّ كُلِّ مُتَوَهِّمٍ»

🌹Seeing, hearing, tasting and understanding are only interpretations, translations, images and conjectures of knowledge.

🔅🌼If existence had been, it would not have been existence🌼🔅

 ابْتَدَعَ الْأَشْيَاءَ لَا مِنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ كَانَ قَبْلَهَا

🌹Existence is a marvel; it is new. Had it not been new, it would not have existed at all. We must understand existence as something wholly new, with no precedent.

🌹When existence was not, what was there? Before existence, there was no being that could come into existence.

🌹So was God not? He who brings “being” into being is more truly “being” than being itself; He transcends “being and existence.”

🌹Why should the Creator have a likeness—be like His creation, His act, His knowledge, His attributes, or His names? Would that not be considered associating partners with God?! Every kind of likeness or description of Him is far removed from Him. سبحان الله عما یشرکون

🌹He originated things—not from something that existed before them. There was no “thing,” yet He made “thing” into “thing.” He did not create “thing” from “thing”; there was no “thing” with which He could bring “thing” into being from nonexistence.

🌹He set no raw material in place from which to originate things.

🌹He did not create things from a thing; He did not create thing from thing.

🌹He originated things from absolute nothingness.

🌹He created time, too—not within time.

🌹He is neither in time, nor in place, nor in any thing; rather, He is the Creator of them all.

🌹Physics has a limp; knowledge is captive to modern ignorance.

🌹What was there before time? There was no time before the time that came before it. We must seek another way to put it: He created before and after.

🌹Cry out, so the ears of the would-be scholars may hear: existence was not, and He brought it into being. The Giver of existence transcends existence.

🔅🌼 Time is nothing but a sensation 🌼🔅

🌹The Giver of existence transcends existence.

🌹Let us not confuse faith in God with faith in ourselves.

🌹Faith in our own thought, our own beliefs, our own philosophy is disbelief in God. Let us not spin philosophies of our own about the truth. Let us uncover our innate nature: the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Household are the spirit of that nature and the key to its unfolding. Our time is not long; it is short. This is no time for trial and error; the final bell is near.

🌹Space, too, is another sensation; through this sense, we must arrive at an interpretation of these perceptions.

🌹The speed of renewal is the speed of timelessness.

🌹Existence is not inside existence.

🌹Time is not inside time.

🌹Space is not inside space.

🌹Expanse is not inside expanse.

🌹Knowledge is not contained within knowledge.

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

🔅🌼 Excerpts from “The Storm of Divine Unity” 🌼🔅

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Fatima Zahra, Lady of Creation, Queen of the Throne and the Earth,

🌺 Fatima Zahra, Leader of Sanctity 

Fatima Zahra is the leader of sanctity, the grandmother of the Imamate, and the lady of nobility. She is the Lady of grace, the mother of believing men and women, and the very embodiment of chastity and modesty.

 Who is Fatima Zahra? O God, make Fatima known to us. Fatima is the greatest sign of the Lord, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, the supreme light of divine unity and the word of sincerity. She is the queen of night and day, the lady of martyrdom, and سيدَةُ النساءِ العالمين.

💫 The Greatness of Fatima 

We are immersed in Fatima’s greatness, yet we do not know her. Fatima is beyond the limits of who and what she is. Within seventy-five days, the Mushaf of Fatima came to light and filled this world of existence. The Mushaf of Fatima is a book in which the mysteries of existence have been written, revealed to her from heaven.

📖 The Mushaf of Fatima 

The Mushaf of Fatima is a book from God, presented to Lady Zahra over the seventy-five days following the passing of the Noble Prophet. It contains the secrets of the past and the future and has been entrusted to Imam al-Zaman (AJ). We have yet to understand even a single page of this divine book; its mysteries remain hidden from us.

🕊️ Fatima’s Connection with the Unseen Realm 

Fatima was a muhadditha, in constant communion with the highest realm. She heard the secrets of existence and inscribed them in her blessed soul. This stream of secrets flowed into the soul of Imam Ali (peace be upon him), for no one else was worthy of understanding them.

👼 The Angels’ Descent upon Fatima 

The angels descended upon Lady Fatima and spoke with her in intimate communion, as they did with Lady Mary. The Mushaf of Fatima is a treasury of divine secrets, its seal still unopened and in the hands of the Imam of the Age (AJ).

“What are people searching for? You have lost Ali and are looking for the sun in its shadow.”

 The Mushaf of Fatima is a ray of Lady Zahra’s light and may be regarded as the most extraordinary divine software.

📜 Fatima and the All-Encompassing Secrets of Existence 

The Mushaf of Fatima contains comprehensive knowledge of existence and the heavenly scriptures. This scroll is a remarkable software of knowledge and wisdom, yet we have been denied access to it. Fatima’s knowledge is something we have been deprived of, a loss for which a great lament must be written, for with Fatima’s loss, a profound injustice was inflicted upon us.

🌠 The Great Tragedy of Fatima’s Loss 

With the loss of Fatima, we suffered a profound injustice. Fatima Zahra was a woman endowed with divine knowledge, a repository of the secrets of existence, every line and word of which was filled with wisdom and learning. Had the Mushaf of Fatima been accessible to us, the whole universe would have benefited from this knowledge and flourished. Fatima Zahra was the source from which knowledge and light flowed into the heart of the world; with her loss, we were cut off from that stream.

🌸 Fatima’s Oppression 

Fatima Zahra was wronged: a woman who bore the greatest of divine secrets. Her Mushaf, that treasury of mysteries, remains sealed in the hands of the Imam of the Age (AJ), while the world is denied access to this immense knowledge.

🌹 Our Loss and Deprivation of Fatima 

We have been deprived of Fatima’s light and her boundless knowledge. Had her Mushaf been in our hands, many of existence’s mysteries and profound questions could have been resolved with ease, and humanity would have attained far greater understanding. Fatima’s loss was not merely a family tragedy; it was a calamity for the whole world and a deprivation for all of existence. For Fatima was an ocean of wisdom and knowledge, and the mother of the world.

💔 Fatima, the Hidden Treasure 

Fatima is a treasure not yet fully known: a scroll bearing all knowledge and the secrets of existence. Many of us have not even read a single line of her sermons and words, and remain unaware of the truth of who she was. We all share in this deprivation, for Fatima was a lamp of guidance for humanity. Had we known her, we would have turned back from misguided paths and been led towards light and understanding.

✨ Fatima’s Legacy for the Imam of the Age (AJ) 

The Mushaf of Fatima remains in the hands of the Imam of the Age (AJ), entrusted to him as a divine trust. This book contains all the knowledge of the past and future, and divine wisdom. When its seal is opened, the whole world will benefit from its light, and humanity will attain knowledge beyond anything it has known. Until that day, this Mushaf will remain in the hands of His Eminence, the Greatest Remnant of God, as one of the world’s mysteries.

🙏 An Ending, and Hope 

We still yearn to know Fatima and gain access to her Mushaf. Yet we hope that one day, with the appearance of the Imam of the Age (AJ), all Fatima’s secrets will be revealed to humanity and we will benefit from her light. On this night commemorating Fatima Zahra’s martyrdom, we ask God to illumine our hearts with Fatima’s light and deliver us from the deprivation and darkness that her loss has brought upon us.

🌼 Deprived of Fatima and Her Mushaf 

Fatima was meant to expound her Mushaf, and we have been deprived of the world’s greatest treasure. We do not know what a peerless gem we have lost. To say that we have lost the whole universe would still be an understatement. Fatima was a divine book in the making, taken away from us.

🌙 The Mystery of Laylat al-Qadr and Divine Decrees 

Do we know the mystery of the Night of Decree, its divine decrees, and the transformations it brings? How can a child be born unlike their parents? The answer lies in Laylat al-Qadr, where divine decrees are determined.

🌺 Fatima’s True Fadak 

Fatima’s Fadak was not merely a material garden; it was the hearts of the Shia that they sought to take from her. Through her martyrdom, she also claimed Fadak—the pure hearts—and love for Fatima lives in those hearts because she conquered them.

💥 Fatima’s Immense Power 

Fatima possessed immense power, like a Fatimid energy that, if unleashed, could transform the world. But they would not let her presence spread through this world. Could she return? If only she would, to save the world from its narrow, dark confines. The distance between us and Fatima is measured in light-years.

🌸 Fatima Is Her Own Description 

Fatima herself is the description of Fatima. She is the greatest description, and no words can convey her fully. Only those who know her words truly know Fatima. She was a tempest of divine oneness, and her Fadak sermon began with divine oneness.

🌌 The Importance of Divine Oneness 

The first key is divine oneness; it unlocks an understanding of prophethood and the Imamate. Fatima sought to kindle the light of divine oneness in people’s hearts, for faith brings tranquillity, and tranquillity begins with divine oneness. True delight lies in a tranquil heart, and it is attained through divine oneness.

☀️ Faith and Tranquillity 

Whoever attains an understanding of divine oneness will experience tranquillity and true delight. If the world were devoid of divine oneness, people would not truly be alive; they would be no more than walking corpses. Fatima knew that without divine oneness, people would sink into the darkness of ignorance and idolatry.

🌍 Fatima and the Path of Knowledge 

Despite all our scientific progress, humanity remains trapped in suffering and ignorance. This is because the path of this knowledge has passed through idolatry, and people have entered the mine of knowledge without divine oneness. Fatima was one of creation’s greatest treasures, yet we have drawn little from it. Have we honoured this treasure?

💧 Fatima’s Purity and Sanctity 

Fatima transcended purity and sanctity. She surpassed beauty, tranquillity, and delight, too. Let us visit Fatima’s garden and breathe in the fragrance of its flowers, so that we may measure how well we know her.

📜 The Fadak Sermon 

Do the words of the Fadak sermon bring tranquillity to our souls? Even if we do not understand their meaning, this sermon itself is a source of peace. For years, we have remained at the foot of Fatima’s sermon. O great God, when will we be able to behold all of Fatima’s garden and enter her codex? When will we understand her mysteries?

🌌 Beyond Imagination and the Senses 

God is neither quantifiable nor describable in terms of quality. If we reflect on His Essence, our thoughts falter and our reason is left behind; if we try to imagine what He is like, we will go mad. We must come to understand that He is beyond quantity and quality: He is the one who gives quantity and quality their meaning.

🏞 Place and Space in Relation to God 

He created place and space without Himself having a place or space. He gives quality to all things without Himself having any quality. Imam Reza (AS) said: “God can in no way be known through quality or place; He cannot be apprehended by the senses or compared with anything.” Imagination is confined to what can be perceived, and everything a person apprehends through the senses is a product of imagination. We must acknowledge the limits of our imagination.

🔍 Grasping God’s Knowledge and Grandeur 

Imagination cannot reach God—not His name, nor His attributes. To say, “What is God?” is to commit idolatry. God transcends every quality and description and cannot be confined to any form.

💡 Existence and Divine Badāʾ 

Fatima al-Zahra (SA) says, “He originated things without anything preceding them.” Philosophers cannot fathom the depth of this statement. Existence is ever new; if it were not, it would not exist at all. For something to be regarded as existence, it must spring from God’s creative origination.

✨ God Is Beyond Existence 

God brought existence into being and is Himself beyond it. To say what God is would be a grave injustice. Faith in God means faith in Him—not in philosophy or in our own ideas. If we put our faith in our own philosophy, we believe in ourselves, not in God.

🕰 Experience and Fitrah 

The time available for experience is limited; we must turn to our fitrah, our innate nature. Space and time are the only things we perceive through the senses, and we must connect with the spirit of time and space. If we fail to understand them, we will fall short of our destination.

💫 Moving Beyond All Degrees

The pace of renewal is the pace of timelessness. We cannot reach the first destination and meet with God until we transcend every kind of movement. To reach beyond all degrees is to attain a state without vibration and one of absolute stillness.

🌺 Fatima’s Station and Supreme Love 

Fatima’s station lies beyond all degrees; beauty, pleasure and love, in their lower forms, stand far beneath her supreme beauty and love. Movement and vibration are signs of our approach to the final destination: stillness. When all movement comes to a halt, we will reach our destination and meet with God.

🌊 Longing to Understand Fatima’s Words 

O God, help us understand Fatima’s words. Though we cannot dive to the depths of Fatima’s sea, we long to be immersed in this vast ocean. Hoping to grasp even a drop of this divine wisdom, we surrender our souls to her.

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

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[3] Bihār al-Anwār (Beirut edition), vol. 43, p. 78Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi, Dar Ihya al-Turath al-Arabi, Beirut, second edition, 1403 AH.

[4] The Life of Her Holiness Fatima (translation of vol. 43 of Bihār al-Anwār), translated by Najafi, p. 97Majlisi, Islamiyya, Tehran, first edition, 1377 SH.

[5] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 1, p. 78Kulayni, Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya, Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.