The Devil’s Springtime

🌼🔆🌼The Departure of Reason🌼🔆🌼

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌹 “The Theft of a Lifetime”  “The Religious Self”  “The Path to Knowing God” “Session 238”  “A Commentary on Supplication 20 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya” and … An Outline with Supplement       1403.10.20    Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🔅🌼Do Not Let Your Lifetime Be Stolen🌼🔅

🌸🔆☘️وَ عَمِّرْنِي مَا كَانَ عُمُرِي بِذْلَةً فِي طَاعَتِكَ، فَإِذَا كَانَ عُمُرِي مَرْتَعاً لِلشَّيْطَانِ فَاقْبِضْنِي إِلَيْكَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَسْبِقَ مَقْتُكَ إِلَيَّ، أَوْ يَسْتَحْكِمَ غَضَبُكَ عَلَي‏ ☘️ 🔆 🌸

🌹Protect your lifetime! Do not let Satan plunder it! Starve Satan, discipline him, and make him despair!

🌷🔆زَيْدٌ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ يَقُولُ: مَنِ اسْتَوَى‏  يَوْمَاهُ مَغْبُونٌ‏، وَ مَغْبُوطٌ مَحْسُودٌ مَنْ كَانَ يَوْمُه‏ الَّذِي هُوَ فِيهِ خَيْراً مِنْ أَمْسِهِ الَّذِي ارْتَحَلَ‏ زَيْدٌ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ يَقُولُ: مَلْعُونٌ مَغْبُونٌ مَنْ غَبَنَهُ‏ عُمُرُهُ‏ يَوْمٌ بَعْدَ يَوْمٍ‏، وَ مَغْبُوطٌ مَحْسُودٌ مَنْ كَانَ يَوْمُهُ الَّذِي هُوَ فِيهِ خَيْراً مِنْ أَمْسِهِ الَّذِي ارْتَحَلَ عَنْهُ. [1]

🔆Imam al-Ṣādiq, peace be upon him: “Whoever has two days that are alike has suffered a loss; whoever’s today is better than yesterday has gained.”

🌹A person’s lifetime is either a delight to the angels or a delight to the devils; it brings either the greatest gain or the greatest loss.

🔅🌼The Higher Management of Time in the End Times🌼🔅

🌹Management, governance, life and knowledge in the End Times must be shaped by the conditions of the End Times.

🌹If someone knew they were at the final moment of their life, what would they ask for and long for? What would be the last things they did?

🌹Let us recognize the value of the final moments of the End Times!

🌹What will be the final word, the final service, the final state at the last moment of the End Times?

🔅🌼Satan’s Springtime🌼🔅

🌹With sins growing ever more prevalent, the End Times are springtime for Satan.

🌹The sinner is Satan’s flower and sweet basil, a tree of evil from Iblis.

🔅🌼The End of Sin🌼🔅

🌹How long, and how far, can sin continue?!

🌹How will the brakes on sin finally be applied?!

🌹How long can respite and gradual entrapment continue?!

🌹What will become of this people’s affliction?!

🌹In an age of brazen shamelessness, the calamity will come suddenly!

🔅🌼Time Is a Person’s Wealth and Capital🌼🔅

🌹Let us not squander our immense capital. Time is the great capital of everlasting life; it is each person’s treasure-house. Eternity lies in the chest of a person’s lifetime. Our earthly time extends from our primordial lifetime toward our eternal one.

🔅🌼Keep Yourself as a Guarded Secret🌼🔅

🌹A person without secrets is a person without spiritual wealth or riches.

🌹Do not make yourself accessible to anyone. To be accessible is to be plundered; it means losing your lifetime and this world while gaining the Hereafter, and reaching eternal regret. In so-called virtual spaces, all of a person’s secrets are exposed.

🔅🌼The Height of Folly in Self-Admiration🌼🔅

🌹Some have forgotten that they are servants of God and imagine that God is indebted to them—God forbid! They summon God to serve them and, in their self-admiration, reach the uttermost heights of intoxication and folly.

🌹We should seek out God’s new commands, so that we may become more pleasing to Him—not let our demands grow with every breath.

🔅🌼Taking one’s own desires instead of God’s proof and guide🌼🔅

🌹Those who follow their own leadership.

🔅🌼When one’s own desires become a god🌼🔅

🌹Those who proclaim, “I am your supreme lord,” do not realize what they are doing.

🌹Those unable to bear God’s special attention.

🌹The human being is the worst creature in all existence, for it is the only one that claims to be its own imam, prophet, god, religion and scripture—its own object of infatuation and love—and puts itself first.

🔅🌼Self-made religion🌼🔅

🌹In this age, humanity has come to make a religion of itself. It has made its own ignorance the foundation of its beliefs, convictions, religion and laws. Whatever the accursed whisperer whispers, instils and dictates to it, it turns into its own law and religion.

🌹Today’s wayward humanity has made its own desires the basis for framing laws about human society. It drafts legislation from the depths of its base feelings and its meagre, flawed and tainted knowledge.

🌹Today’s wayward humanity has turned its own desires into its constitution.

🔅🌼Bringing Satan’s death closer🌼🔅

🌹The one who worships their own desires is Satan’s choicest prey.

🌹Starve Satan by worshipping God with sincerity and devotion.

🌹How many believers hasten Satan’s appointed end and bring the “known day” closer!

🌻🔆الحجر : 37   قالَ فَإِنَّكَ مِنَ الْمُنْظَرينَ

🔆He said, “You are among those granted respite,

🌻🔆الحجر : 38   إِلى‏ يَوْمِ الْوَقْتِ الْمَعْلُومِ

🔆until the appointed day.”

🌹Why don’t we pray for Satan’s life to be shortened?!

🌷🔆عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ‏ إِنَّ الدُّعَاءَ يَرُدُّ الْقَضَاءَ يَنْقُضُهُ كَمَا يُنْقَضُ السِّلْكُ وَ قَدْ أُبْرِمَ إِبْرَاماً. [2]

🔆Supplication turns back the divine decree and averts it, just as a rope may be unfastened, even after being tightly knotted!

🌷🔆 قَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى ع‏ عَلَيْكُمْ بِالدُّعَاءِ فَإِنَّ الدُّعَاءَ لِلَّهِ وَ الطَّلَبَ إِلَى اللَّهِ يَرُدُّ الْبَلَاءَ وَ قَدْ قُدِّرَ وَ قُضِيَ وَ لَمْ يَبْقَ إِلَّا إِمْضَاؤُهُ- فَإِذَا دُعِيَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ سُئِلَ صَرَفَ الْبَلَاءَ صَرْفَةً. [3]

🔆Imam al-Kazim, peace be upon him: “You must pray, for prayer to God and asking Him can avert a calamity decreed by God, one that is only awaiting its final confirmation. When God, Mighty and Exalted, is called upon and asked to avert a calamity, He turns it back.”

🌷🔆 قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَيَدْفَعُ بِالدُّعَاءِ الْأَمْرَ الَّذِي عَلِمَهُ أَنْ يُدْعَى لَهُ فَيَسْتَجِيبُ وَ لَوْ لَا مَا وُفِّقَ الْعَبْدُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الدُّعَاءِ لَأَصَابَهُ مِنْهُ مَا يَجُثُّهُ مِنْ جَدِيدِ الْأَرْضِ. [4]

🔆Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him: “Indeed, God, Mighty and Exalted, wards off through prayer whatever He knows would come to pass if He were not prayed to—and if a servant were not granted the success to pray and ask God to avert it, a calamity would befall them and uproot them from the face of the earth.”

🌹Some people’s lives may well add to Satan’s lifespan!

🔅🌼A joint-stock company of blindness and misguidance🌼🔅

🌹One’s own desires are Satan’s emissary.

🌷🔆 وَ الْهَوَى‏ شَرِيكُ‏ الْعَمَى‏[5]

🔆Passion is a partner in blindness.

🌷🔆 إِنَّكَ إِنْ أَطَعْتَ هَوَاكَ‏ أَصَمَّكَ‏ وَ أَعْمَاكَ‏ وَ أَفْسَدَ مُنْقَلَبَكَ وَ أَرْدَاكَ.[6]

🔆If you obey your desires, they will make you deaf and blind, ruin your ultimate return (your future and your fate on the Day of Resurrection), and cast you into perdition.

🌻🔆الحج : 46   أَ فَلَمْ يَسيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَتَكُونَ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ يَعْقِلُونَ بِها أَوْ آذانٌ يَسْمَعُونَ بِها فَإِنَّها لا تَعْمَى الْأَبْصارُ وَ لكِنْ تَعْمَى الْقُلُوبُ الَّتي‏ فِي الصُّدُورِ

🔆Have they not journeyed through the land, so that they might have hearts with which to understand the truth, or ears with which to hear? It is not the eyes that are blind, but the hearts within the breasts that are blind.

🌷🔆فِي كِتَابِ الْخِصَالِ‏ وَ سُئِلَ الصَّادِقُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: أَ وَ لَمْ يَسِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ‏ قَالَ: مَعْنَاهُ: أَ وَ لَمْ يَنْظُرُوا فِي الْقُرْآنِ.^[7]

🔆“Have they not journeyed through the land” means, “Have they not reflected on the Qur’an?”

🌹God’s Word is God’s earth. Let us journey and seek our way through that earth. “The Word of God” is “the Earth of God,” extending across the dimensions of “all things.”

🌷🔆فِي تَفْسِيرِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ خُطْبَةٌ لَهُ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ وَ فِيهَا: وَ أَعْمَى الْعَمَى الضَّلَالَةُ بَعْدَ الْهُدَى، وَ شَرُّ الْعَمَى عَمَى الْقَلْبِ.^[8]

🔅🌼A Pure Taste for Pleasure 🌼🔅

🌹Why do some people find sin pleasurable?

🌹Why do some creatures find filth pleasurable?

🌹The loss and decline of reason go hand in hand with taking pleasure in sin; irrationality is the false, inverted sense that makes sin seem pleasurable.

🌹A person without reason feeds on filth.

🌻🔆الأنعام : 125   فَمَنْ يُرِدِ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَهْدِيَهُ يَشْرَحْ صَدْرَهُ لِلْإِسْلامِ وَ مَنْ يُرِدْ أَنْ يُضِلَّهُ يَجْعَلْ صَدْرَهُ ضَيِّقاً حَرَجاً كَأَنَّما يَصَّعَّدُ فِي السَّماءِ كَذلِكَ يَجْعَلُ اللَّهُ الرِّجْسَ عَلَى الَّذينَ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ

🔆Whoever God wills to guide, He opens their breast to Islam; and whoever He wills to lead astray because of their wrongdoing, He makes their breast tight and constricted, as though they were climbing into the sky. Thus God places defilement upon those who do not believe.

🌻🔆يونس : 100   وَ ما كانَ لِنَفْسٍ أَنْ تُؤْمِنَ إِلاَّ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ وَ يَجْعَلُ الرِّجْسَ عَلَى الَّذينَ لا يَعْقِلُونَ

🔆No one can believe except by God’s command (and through His enabling, help, and guidance)! And He places defilement (of disbelief and sin) upon those who do not reflect.

🔅🌼A Wise Life Is Made Possible by Reason 🌼🔅

🌹The death of reason is the death of wisdom.

🌹In the end times, the cause of the frenzied inclination toward sin is the loss and decline of reason and wisdom.

🌹Wisdom is knowledge joined with reason; it is the higher-order design and management of knowledge. The end times are an age in which wisdom is stripped away.

🌹A university without wisdom is dangerous; politics without wisdom is ruinous; life without wisdom is tedious. Knowledge without wisdom breeds depression.

🌹The end times are an age of being lost amid misguidance;

🌹In this age, people bury themselves beneath doubts; the self and Satan’s deceptions rage unchecked, embellishments reach the height of deceit, and humanity’s empty wishes have imprisoned it.

🌹Humanity is bound by mirages, imprisoned in the arenas of Satan.

🌹The greatest problem facing humanity today is the mind. The mind is not imaginary; it is where a person’s character takes shape and plays a structural role in human life.

الإسراء : 84   قُلْ كُلٌّ يَعْمَلُ عَلى‏ شاكِلَتِهِ فَرَبُّكُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ هُوَ أَهْدى‏ سَبيلاً

Say: “Everyone acts according to their own disposition, and your Lord knows best who is better guided.”

🔅🌼The Path to Knowing the Real🌼🔅

🌹How can we awaken our innate nature?!

🌷🔆رُوِيَ فِي بَعْضِ الْأَخْبَارِ أَنَّهُ دَخَلَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص رَجُلٌ اسْمُهُ مُجَاشِعٌ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَيْفَ الطَّرِيقُ إِلَى مَعْرِفَةِ الْحَقِّ فَقَالَ ع مَعْرِفَةُ النَّفْسِ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَيْفَ الطَّرِيقُ إِلَى مُوَافَقَةِ الْحَقِّ قَالَ مُخَالَفَةُ النَّفْسِ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَكَيْفَ الطَّرِيقُ إِلَى رِضَاءِ الْحَقِّ قَالَ سَخَطُ النَّفْسِ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَكَيْفَ الطَّرِيقُ إِلَى وَصْلِ الْحَقِّ قَالَ هَجْرُ النَّفْسِ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَكَيْفَ الطَّرِيقُ إِلَى طَاعَةِ الْحَقِّ قَالَ عِصْيَانُ النَّفْسِ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَكَيْفَ الطَّرِيقُ إِلَى ذِكْرِ الْحَقِّ قَالَ نِسْيَانُ النَّفْسِ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَكَيْفَ الطَّرِيقُ إِلَى قُرْبِ الْحَقِّ قَالَ التَّبَاعُدُ عَنِ النَّفْسِ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَكَيْفَ الطَّرِيقُ إِلَى أُنْسِ الْحَقِّ قَالَ الْوَحْشَةُ مِنَ النَّفْسِ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَيْفَ الطَّرِيقُ إِلَى ذَلِكَ قَالَ الِاسْتِعَانَةُ بِالْحَقِّ عَلَى النَّفْس‏[9]

🔆Some narrations relate that a man named Mujāshiʿ came to the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) and asked, “O Messenger of God, what is the way to know the Lord?” He replied, “Self-knowledge.” The man asked, “O Messenger of God, what is the way to be in accord with the Real?” He replied, “Opposing the self.” He asked, “O Messenger of God, what is the way to attain the Real’s good pleasure?” He replied, “Displeasing and dissatisfying the self.” He asked, “O Messenger of God, what is the way to union with the Real?” He replied, “Abandoning the self and severing oneself from it.” He asked, “O Messenger of God, what is the way to obey the Real?” He replied, “Disobeying the self.” He asked, “O Messenger of God, what is the way to remember the Real?” He replied, “Forgetting the self.” He asked, “O Messenger of God, what is the way to draw near to the Real?” He replied, “Keeping away from the self.” He asked, “O Messenger of God, what is the way to find intimacy with the Real?” He replied, “Not becoming familiar or intimate with the self.” He asked, “O Messenger of God, how can one find the way to it?” He replied, “Seeking the Real’s help against the self.”

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

🔅🌼A student’s perspective on “The Springtime of Satan”🌼🔅

🔹 The Springtime of Satan (Rabīʿ al-Shayṭān)

📖 Weekly session on the commentary and interpretation of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya (Supplication 20)

📅 Date: 1403/10/20 – 8 Rajab 1446

✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor

🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei

📝 Some topics discussed in the session:

### 🌌 The End Times and the Need for Self-Knowledge 

We are living in the End Times, an age in which we are either objects of envy or accursed. Across the whole span of our lives, from pre-eternity to eternity, our fate will end either in loss or in being envied. In this age, will we witness the full extent of our loss or of our being envied? Will our lives be a delight to the angels, or—God forbid—to the devils? 

If we become a delight to the devils, we will become their pasture, and in that state we will be the most utterly lost and wretched of all. Accursed and lost is the one whose life grows worse with each passing day and whose losses increase. But blessed and envied is the one whose days are better than the day before and who gains benefit—benefit that carries them beyond where they have been and enables them to reach a higher degree of perfection. 

In such circumstances, are we blessed and objects of the angels’ longing, or—God forbid—are we lost? In these 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 they must be brought to an end with exalted stewardship and divine purpose.

### 🌠 The Value of Life’s Final Moments 

We must recognize the worth of these final moments of life. If we knew that we were living our very last moment, what would be our final act of servitude? What would be our last service to the Almighty Lord? 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 Satan has put obstacles in our way to keep us from becoming aware. For if he succeeds in keeping us heedless, he will have gained an immense advantage. 

We must cherish these final moments. We must bring reason to bear on how we spend our lives, for if we lose our reason, our lives will become Satan’s field, and we will become his fodder. In this age, the devils are striving to drive reason from our souls; and when reason departs, wisdom will vanish as well. 

Without wisdom, everything becomes foolish—even knowledge. Knowledge without wisdom is more dangerous than ignorance. This is an age of madness, an age in which societies have banished wisdom from their lives, their universities and their social spaces. Wisdom is reason’s companion; it is what elevates knowledge. Wisdom is the art of shaping and directing knowledge toward higher ends, and its absence in this age is disastrous. 

### 🌿 Humanity Lost Without Wisdom 

Without wisdom, people lose their way in both the real world and the virtual one. They become so lost that they can no longer find the path to guidance. Because modern humanity has turned away from reason and wisdom, it lies buried beneath doubts and empty desires, its soul rotting away. 

Amid satanic spaces, whether real or what are called virtual, people cannot find themselves. Only wisdom can show them the way, but they have cast wisdom aside, having first driven reason from themselves. The greatest problem facing humanity today is its own mind. People imagine their minds to be virtual, when the mind is more real than any other reality: it is the raw material of their actions and the very structure of their intentions. 

People take the virtual world to be unreal and, in this false belief, lose themselves.

### 🌌 A Way Out of Being Lost 

If we have lost our way in our own minds, in the real world or in the virtual one, we must seek God’s help, asking Him to bring us back to life and deliver us from this blindness. This is the age of the End Times, an age known as Satan’s springtime. Amid his triumphant dancing and celebration, Satan imagines himself the winner in the contest to mislead humanity. 

The sinful person is Satan’s fodder. In this age, humanity has become a foul tree of Satan, bearing the fruit of zaqqum from within its own soul. People fall into themselves, falling for thousands of years. 

Life is the great capital of eternity. These final moments of our lives are gateways to eternity—an eternity that leads either to abiding bliss in Paradise or to the Fire. These last moments are humanity’s everlasting capital. This is a golden age, if only we know its worth. These moments are like diamonds; but if they pass in heedlessness, they will be no more precious than bronze.

### 🌠 Managing the Capital of Eternity 

Eternity is held within each person. This great capital must not be squandered. If we are destined to lose, we should ask God to take us from this life. Life is a person’s eternal capital, and it must be managed beautifully and well.

In this age, the appetite of the Dajjal is immense. The Dajjal devours and destroys every human virtue, yet is never sated. We do not realize how much we serve the Dajjal and Satan. We must value this capital and direct it toward a radiant eternity.

### 🌌 Heedlessness and Helping Satan 

We do not realize that we have become Satan’s and the Dajjal’s helpers—through our heedlessness, our actions, our thoughts and our misguidance. We are on the path to loss, unaware of the truth. This is a time to awaken; we must wake up. 

The effects of serving our desires, our egos and Satan are plain to see in society. The market for these deviations is booming, and many have forgotten that they are servants of God; they have forgotten that they have a God. Modern humanity has come to feel that God is in its debt, and has sunk into an advanced form of ignorance. 

It is as though humanity is calling God to serve it—God forbid! As though we had no duty to obey God and only demands that, in our view, have gone unmet. With every breath, we should have been taking great strides toward God. Instead, we imagine that God is indebted to us. We have taken our own desires as our proof, appointed ourselves as our own imams, and imagined God to be our messenger. 

### 🌠 An Age of Misguidance and Self-Worship 

Satan has milked humanity dry and now has come to its rotten bones to milk them too. This is an age of advanced misguidance: humanity has become its own religion, enamoured of itself and self-willed. It is blind and lost in its own error. 

Every slave to their desires, every heedless soul, is Satan’s prey and a delectable feast. Through sincere and wholehearted devotion to God, we should have left Satan hungry and thirsty. Instead—God forbid—we have become his food and have even intoxicated him. 

### 🌟 Hastening Satan’s End 

We could have brought Satan to his death; we could have hastened his appointed end. How? Do we not pray for the advent of Imam al-Zaman (AJ) to be hastened? To hasten his advent is to hasten Satan’s end, for the Imam, the Baqiyyat Allah, 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” promised by God. 

### 🌌 The Wisdom of Pure Breaths and the End of Sin 

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 gradual entrapment in this world. Sin has distanced us from God. Had we broken these chains of sin, a clear path would have opened before us. 

### 🌌 The Tribulations of the End Times and the Blinding of Hearts 

What will the tribulations of the End Times be like? Humanity has been utterly blinded—and takes pride in its blindness. It boasts of its lameness and has sunk into profound misguidance. Following one’s desires compounds humanity’s blindness. Whoever obeys their own desires becomes blind and deaf, ruins their Hereafter and meets their destruction. 

Will humanity not travel through the earth and have hearts with which to understand, or ears with which to hear? Humanity’s blindness is not in its eyes; it is in the hearts within its breasts. How can we travel 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, attentive hearing and life of the heart. Is it time for us to journey through God’s Word? 

The Qur’an is the true journey through God’s earth. God guides humanity through His earth and shows us the truths 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 make time to journey through this divine Word, we will attain clarity. 

### 🌟 The Height of Blindness and Deliverance from Misguidance 

The height of blindness is for someone to fall into misguidance after having been guided. Despite the light of the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt, anyone who goes astray is the blindest of the blind. The worst blindness is blindness of the heart. 

How can we escape this blindness? How can we be set free and take flight? The answer lies in freeing ourselves from heedlessness and enslavement to desire, and returning to the truth.

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

The words of the Noble Messenger:

– To attain knowledge of the Real: begin with yourself. 

– To be in accord with the Real: oppose your own self so that you may be in accord with the truth. 

– To win God’s pleasure: anger your own self so that you may gladden the Real. 

– Union with the Real: Emigrate from your own self so that you may reach the Real. 

– Obedience to the Real: Rise up against your own self. 

– Nearness to the Real: Distance yourself from your own self so that you may draw near to the Real. 

– Intimacy with the Real: Be wary of your own self and let it go, so that you may find intimacy with the Real. 

And the final golden point: 

O Messenger of God, how can I attain all of this? 

He replied: Seek help from God. If you cannot overcome your own self, ask God for aid, that He may split open its breast and set you free. 

### 🌟 The Secret of the Human Being and Resisting Satan 

We must free ourselves from heedlessness and error, and turn away from everything apart from God. We must not make ourselves enticing or accessible to Satan. We must remain a mystery—a mystery Satan cannot capture. 

Virtual spaces have exposed the secrets of human beings. A person without secrets has no capital. Their greatest capital is their spiritual wealth. If they lose it, they will be spiritually impoverished and will have no wings left to fly to the Highest Kingdom. They will become playthings of devils and puppets beneath Satan’s feet. 

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