The Devil’s Spring (Rabiʿ al-Shayṭān)

🔹 The Devil’s Spring (Rabīʿ al-Shayṭān)
📖 Weekly Session on the Explanation and Commentary of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya (Supplication 20)
📅 Date: 1403/10/20 – 8 Rajab 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:

🌌 The End Times and the Need for Self-Knowledge

We live in the age of the End Times—an age in which we are either envied or accursed. Over the full span of our lives, from eternity past to eternity future, our fate will end either in loss or in a state worthy of envy. In this age, will we see ourselves at the utmost point of loss or of being envied? Will our lives become a delight to the angels—or, God forbid, a delight to the devils?

If we become a delight to the devils, we will turn into their pasture, and then we will be the most wretched of the wretched, and the greatest losers. Accursed and lost is the one whose every day is worse than the day before, and whose loss keeps growing. But worthy of envy is the one whose days are better than yesterday’s and who gains something of real benefit—a benefit that carries them forward to a higher degree of perfection.

In circumstances such as these, are we worthy of envy, even in the eyes of the angels? Or, God forbid, are we among the losers? In this age of the End Times, we must bring our whole lives to a beautiful and excellent conclusion. These final moments of our lives are a passage into eternity, and we must bring them to an end with exalted discernment and God-guided purpose.

🌠 The Worth of Life’s Final Moments

We must recognize the value of these final moments of life. If we knew that we were living the last moment of our existence, what would be our final act of servitude to God? What would be our last service to the Lord Most High? How would we worship in these moments, and what words and phrases would we use?

This is the age of the End Times: the threshold of eternity. We must remind ourselves of this truth at every moment. If we forget, it means that Satan has placed obstacles in our way to keep us from attaining awareness. For if he succeeds in keeping us heedless, he will have gained a tremendous advantage.

We must cherish these final moments. Our lives must be guided by reason, for if we lose our reason, our lives will become Satan’s farmland, and we will become his sustenance. In this age, the devils strive to drive reason from our souls; and when reason departs, wisdom too will vanish.

Without wisdom, everything becomes ignorant—including knowledge. Knowledge without wisdom is more dangerous than ignorance. This is the age of madness: an age in which societies have removed wisdom from their lives, their universities and their social environments. Wisdom, working alongside reason, elevates knowledge. It is the higher-order design and governance of knowledge, and its absence in this age is a calamity.

🌿 Humanity Lost Without Wisdom

Without wisdom, people lose their way in both the real and the virtual worlds. Their disorientation reaches such a point that they can no longer find the path to guidance. Because they have turned away from reason and wisdom, people today lie buried beneath doubts and empty desires, their souls left to decay.

Amid satanic spaces, whether real or so-called virtual, people cannot find themselves. Only wisdom can show them the way, yet they have driven wisdom away by also distancing themselves from reason. The greatest problem facing humanity today is the mind. People imagine their minds to be virtual, whereas the mind is more real than any other reality: it is the very foundation of their actions and the framework of their intentions.

People regard the virtual world as unreal, and in this false assumption, they lose themselves.

🌌 The Way Out of Being Lost

If we have lost our way amid our own thoughts, in the real or virtual world, we must seek God’s help to bring us back to life and deliver us from this blindness. This is the end times, an age known as the springtime of Satan. In the midst of his revelry, Satan imagines he has won the battle for misguidance.

A person who sins is Satan’s sustenance. In this age, humanity has become Satan’s evil tree, bearing the fruits of Zaqqum from within its own soul. Humanity falls into itself—a fall spanning thousands of years.

Life is a vast investment in eternity. These final moments of life are our gateways to eternity—an eternity that leads either to everlasting bliss in Paradise or to the Fire. These last moments are a person’s eternal capital. This is a golden age if we know its worth. Its moments are like diamonds, but if they pass in heedlessness, they will be no better than bronze.

🌠 Managing Our Investment in Eternity

Eternity lies within each person’s keeping. This immense treasure must not be squandered. If we are destined to lose, we should ask God to let us depart from this life. Life is our eternal capital, and we must manage it with beauty and goodness.

In this age, the Dajjal’s appetite is immense. He devours and destroys every human virtue, yet is never satisfied. We do not realize how much we serve the Dajjal and Satan. We must value this capital and guide it towards a radiant eternity.

🌌 Heedlessness and Aiding Satan

We do not realize that we have become allies and helpers of Satan and the Dajjal through our heedlessness, our deeds and thoughts, and the ways we have gone astray. We are on the path to loss, unaware of the truth. This is a time for awakening; we must wake up.

The effects of worshipping our own desires, our own egos, and Satan are plain to see in society. These deviations are flourishing, and many have forgotten that they are servants of God; they have forgotten that they have a God. People today have come to think God owes them, sinking into an advanced state of ignorance.

It is as though humanity summons God to serve it—God forbid! As though we had no duty to obey God, but only demands that, in our eyes, have gone unmet. With every breath, we should have been taking great strides towards God. Instead, we imagine that God is in our debt. We have taken our own desires as our guide, appointed ourselves as our own imam, and imagined that God is our messenger.

🌠 An Age of Misguidance and Self-Worship

Satan has milked humanity dry, and now has reached its decaying bones, determined to milk even those. This is an age of advanced misguidance: humanity has become self-religious, self-absorbed, and self-willed. Blind and lost, it wanders in its own misguidance.

Everyone who follows their desires and everyone who is heedless is prey and delectable food for Satan. Through sincere and wholehearted worship of God, we should have made Satan suffer hunger and thirst. But, God forbid, we have become his food—and even made him drunk.

🌟 Bringing Satan’s End Nearer

We could have brought Satan to his death; we could have hastened his appointed end. How? Do we not pray for the hastening of the advent of Imam al-Zaman (AJ)? To hasten his advent is to hasten Satan’s end, for the Imam, the Proof of God, will execute Satan and put an end to his accursed existence.

Had we called upon our God with pure breaths, we could have brought nearer that “appointed day”—the day God has promised.

🌌 The Wisdom of Pure Breaths and the End of Sin

If we called upon our God with purified souls, God would turn back His decree and destiny. If the bond between us had not been severed, the divine decree, too, would have turned back to us. If only the age of sin would come to an end. If only no trace of sin remained in this world.

If only there were no more wrongdoing or divine entrapment in this world. Sin has distanced us from God. If we broke these chains of sin, a clear path would open before us.

🌌 The Calamities of the End Times and the Blinding of Hearts

What will the calamities of the end times be like? Humanity has become profoundly blind—and takes pride in its blindness. It boasts of its lameness and has fallen into deep misguidance. Following one’s desires compounds humanity’s blindness. Those who obey their own lower selves become blind and deaf, ruin their Hereafter, and meet their destruction.

Will people not travel through the land, so that they may have hearts with which to reason, or ears with which to hear? It is not their eyes that are blind; it is their hearts, which lie within their breasts. How can we journey through God’s earth and attain insight?

🌠 Journeying through God’s Word and Attaining Insight

When we journey attentively through God’s Word, we walk alongside God. This journey leads us to reason, hearing, and life of the heart. Is it time for us to journey through God’s Word?

The Qur’an is the true way to journey alongside God. God leads human beings on a journey alongside Him and shows them the realities of the past, the present, the future, and the Hereafter. Everything is made clear to us in the Qur’an, which explains all things. If we take the time to journey through this divine Word, we will attain clarity.

🌟 The Utmost Blindness and Deliverance from Misguidance

The utmost blindness is for someone to fall into misguidance after having been guided. With the light of the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt shining before them, those who still go astray are the blindest of the blind. The worst blindness is blindness of the heart.

How can we escape this blindness? How can we break free and take flight? The answer lies in freeing ourselves from heedlessness and following our desires, and returning to the truth.

🌌 The Path to Truth in the Words of the Messenger of God (PBUH)

Tlost, [11.01.25 20:24]
The words of the Messenger:

• Attaining knowledge of the Real: Begin with your own self.
• Conforming to the Real: Oppose your own self so that you may conform to the truth.
• Winning God’s pleasure: Anger your own self so that you may bring joy to the Real.
• Union with the truth: Depart from your own self so that you may reach the truth.
• Obedience to the Real: Rise up against your own self.
• Drawing near to the Real: Distance yourself from your own self so that you may draw near to the truth.
• Finding intimacy with the Real: Be wary of your own self and leave it behind, so that you may find intimacy with the Real.

And the final golden point:
O Messenger of God, how can I attain all this?
He replied: Seek help from God. If you cannot overcome your own self, ask God for help, so that He may cleave open its breast and set you free.

🌟 The Secret of Being Human and the Struggle Against Satan

We must free ourselves from heedlessness and misguidance, and turn away from everything besides God. We must not make ourselves delectable to Satan or easy prey for him. We must remain a secret—a secret Satan cannot capture.

Virtual spaces have exposed people’s secrets. A person with no secrets has no capital. Their greatest capital is their spiritual wealth. If they lose it, they will be spiritually impoverished, with no wings left to fly toward the highest heavenly realm. They will become playthings of devils and puppets beneath Satan’s feet.