The Fruit of Humility

🌼🔆🌼The Profound Effects of Humility🌼🔆🌼

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌹 “The appointed time for humility”  “The highest wing”  “The month of humility” “Commentary on Supplication 20 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya”  “Session 215” and … Summary, with an addendum       1402.12.17    Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🔅🌼The deeper one’s humility, the higher one’s rank🌼🔅

🌹Humility is a wing that lifts you higher the lower you bow.

🌹Humility is a wing that spans all things, reaching to the furthest bounds of existence. It is the wing that unfolds and, with every descent, carries you to a higher ascent: the lower it dips, the higher its flight.

🌹One must pass through every arena of humility; humility must extend into every dimension of a person’s being.

🌹Humility and modesty are the alms due on eminence, esteem, and rank.

🔅🌼The most ignorant of the arrogant🌼🔅

🌹Humility that comes only at the hour of pain, calamity, and distress comes too late, and bears no fruit for those without faith.

🌹How often the ignorant and arrogant are immersed in self-admiration, pride, and conceit even amid worldly calamities. Yet this cannot last: at the moment of death, they will finally fall with all their being, sinking lower than the lowliest.

🌻🔆Al-An‘am: 43   فَلَوْ لا إِذْ جاءَهُمْ بَأْسُنا تَضَرَّعُوا وَ لكِنْ قَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَ زَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الشَّيْطانُ ما كانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

🔆Why, then, when Our punishment came upon them, did they not humble themselves and plead? Instead, their hearts hardened, and Satan made their deeds seem fair to them.

🔅🌼Do not let the time for humility pass🌼🔅

🌹Every shipwrecked person is humble and submissive. A believer’s humility and submissiveness are beautiful at all times, but a hypocrite’s have no sweetness or substance.

🌹The submission of the arrogant, when it comes too late, is of no avail. Anyone stricken by severe pain, illness, poverty, or hardship will be humbled. Humility is beautiful when shown at the right time; at the wrong time, it is ugly.

🌻🔆Al-‘Ankabut: 65   فَإِذا رَكِبُوا فِي الْفُلْكِ دَعَوُا اللَّهَ مُخْلِصينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ فَلَمَّا نَجَّاهُمْ إِلَى الْبَرِّ إِذا هُمْ يُشْرِكُونَ

🔆When they embark on a ship, they call upon God, devoting their faith wholly to Him. But when He brings them safely to land, they suddenly associate others with Him.

🌻🔆Luqman: 32   وَ إِذا غَشِيَهُمْ مَوْجٌ كَالظُّلَلِ دَعَوُا اللَّهَ مُخْلِصينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ فَلَمَّا نَجَّاهُمْ إِلَى الْبَرِّ فَمِنْهُمْ مُقْتَصِدٌ وَ ما يَجْحَدُ بِآياتِنا إِلاَّ كُلُّ خَتَّارٍ كَفُورٍ

🔆When waves like mountains overshadow them, they call upon God, devoting their faith and supplication wholly to Him. But when He brings them safely to shore, some of them are moderate. None deny Our signs except every treacherous, ungrateful person.

🔅🌼What else can the afflicted do but humble themselves?🌼🔅

🌹Humility and submission are beautiful when shown at the right time,

🌹One who is insolent and rebellious in good health, but submits through illness, is utterly abased. Such submission cannot make amends for any punishment.

🌹The submission of rebels on the Day of Resurrection is humiliation; the humility of the God-fearing in this world is pure honor.

🌹Though the arrogant must humble themselves on the Day of Resurrection, that submission will do them no good.

🌹On the Day of Resurrection, the arrogant will have no choice but to humble themselves. Their submission will reveal their helplessness, their fear, and their acute distress—and it will benefit them nothing.

🌻🔆An-Nazi‘at: 8   قُلُوبٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ واجِفَةٌ

🔆Hearts will tremble with fear on that Day,

🌻🔆النازعات : 9   أَبْصارُها خاشِعَةٌ

🔆And their eyes will be downcast.

🌹The eyes are a window onto every dimension of a person’s being. Through them, we can see the state of every part of the body. Downcast eyes are a sign that every part of a person’s being is humble before God.

🌻🔆القيامة : 22   وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ ناضِرَةٌ

🔆Some faces that Day will be radiant and joyful,

🌻🔆القيامة : 23   إِلى‏ رَبِّها ناظِرَةٌ

🔆gazing upon their Lord.

🌻🔆القيامة : 24   وَ وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ باسِرَةٌ

🔆And other faces that Day will be grim and drawn,

🌻🔆القيامة : 25   تَظُنُّ أَنْ يُفْعَلَ بِها فاقِرَةٌ

🔆knowing that a crushing punishment awaits them (or that their noses will be seared by fire).

🔅🌼 Humility is a two-way flight 🌼🔅

🌹Submission and humility are the keys to the soul’s flight, to becoming heavenly and celestial, to gaining wealth and knowledge, to beauty and refinement, and to becoming beloved and loving. They are the keys to love and wisdom.

🌹Humility gives you wings; arrogance brings you down and degrades you.

🌹Humility and elevation, greatness and exaltation, go hand in hand.

🌹Humility is not seeking abasement; it is a leap toward true honor.

🌹No one can raise themselves by their own efforts alone; true elevation comes only through God.

🌹Humility is not self-deprecation, but forgetting oneself; through it, one is granted the success of advancement and nobility.

🌹To abase oneself before anyone but God is utter humiliation.

🌹Humility toward God’s creatures, for God’s sake, is simply respect for them.

🌹A noble person is so attentive to God that they see no one besides Him.

🌱🌺Zinat Negari explores humility through the pure words of our master, Amir al-Mu’minin, peace be upon him.🌺🌱

🔅🌼 The heights of humility 🌼🔅

🌸🔅التَّوَاضُعُ يَرْفَعُ التَّكَبُّرُ يَضَعُ

🔅Humility elevates; arrogance brings ruin.

🌸🔅التَّواضُعُ يَرفَعُ الوَضيعَ ،

🔅Humility raises even the lowly.

🌸🔅 التَّكبُّرُ يَضَعُ الرَّفيعَ .

🔅Imam Ali, peace be upon him: Arrogance lowers a person of high rank.

🌸🔅اتَّضِعْ تَرْتَفِعْ

🔅Humble yourself, and you will rise.

🌸🔅 أعظَمُ النّاسِ رِفعَةً مَن وَضَعَ نَفسَهُ

🔅Imam Ali, peace be upon him: The person of greatest stature is the one who lowers himself.

أكثَرُ النّاسِ ضَعَةً مَن تَعاظَمَ في نَفسِهِ . 🌸🔅

🔅The lowliest person is the one who thinks himself great.

🌸🔅إِنَّكَ إِنْ تَوَاضَعْتَ رَفَعَكَ اللَّهُ

🔅If you humble yourself, God will raise you.

🌸🔅بِالتَّوَاضُعِ تَكُونُ الرِّفْعَةُ

🔅Greatness is possible only through humility.

🌸🔅بِالتَّوَاضُعِ تُزَانُ الرِّفْعَةُ

🔅Humility adds to one’s stature.

🌸🔅تَوَاضَعْ لِلَّهِ يَرْفَعْكَ

🔅Be humble before God (and for His sake), and He will raise you up.

🌸🔅تَوَاضُعُ الْمَرْءِ يَرْفَعُهُ

🔅Humility raises a person’s stature.

🌸🔅تَوَاضُعُ الشَّرِيفِ يَدْعُو إِلَى كَرَامَتِهِ

🔅The humility of a noble person reveals his honour and generosity.

🌸🔅كَفَى بِالتَّوَاضُعِ‏ رِفْعَةً

🔅Humility alone is enough to elevate you.

🌸🔅كَمَا تَتَوَاضَعُ تَعْظُمُ.

🔅The more humble you are, the greater you become.

🌸🔅مَنْ تَوَاضَعَ رُفِعَ [مَنْ تَرَفَّعَ وُضِعَ‏]

🔅Whoever is humble is raised in rank.

🌸🔅مَنْ حَقَّرَ نَفْسَهُ عَظُمَ

🔅Whoever humbles himself attains greatness.

🌸🔅مَنْ تَوَاضَعَ عَظَّمَهُ اللَّهُ وَ رَفَعَهُ

🔅Whoever is humble, God grants greatness and elevation.

🌸🔅مَنْ لَمْ يَتَّضِعْ عِنْدَ نَفْسِهِ لَمْ يَرْتَفِعْ عِنْدَ غَيْرِهِ

🔅Whoever does not humble himself in his own eyes will not be held in high regard by others.

🌸🔅وَ تَوَاضَعْ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي رَفَعَكَ

🔅Be humble before the One who raised you up.

🔅🌼 Honour is the companion of humility 🌼🔅

🌸🔅مَا اكْتُسِبَ الشَّرَفُ بِمِثْلِ التَّوَاضُعِ

🔅Nothing leads to honour like humility.

🌸🔅بِكَثْرَةِ التَّوَاضُعِ يَتَكَامَلُ الشَّرَفُ

🔅Through abundant humility, honour reaches its perfection.

🌸🔅حَاصِلُ التَّوَاضُعِ الشَّرَفُ [1]

🔅Honour is the fruit of humility.

🌸🔅مَا تَوَاضَعَ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا زَادَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى جَلَالَةً

🔅No one has ever been humble without God, the Most High, raising his dignity.

🌸🔅نَزِّلْ نَفْسَكَ دُونَ مَنْزِلَتِهَا تُنَزِّلْكَ النَّاسُ فَوْقَ مَنْزِلَتِكَ

🔅Lower yourself from the station you occupy, and you will rise higher than you are among people.

🔅🌼 Love is the fruit of humility 🌼🔅

🌸🔅ثَمَرَةُ التَّوَاضُعِ الْمَحَبَّةُ

🔅Love is the fruit and outcome of humility.

🌸🔅ثَلَاثَةٌ يُوجِبْنَ الْمَحَبَّةَ الدِّينُ وَ التَّوَاضُعُ وَ السَّخَاءُ

🔅Love is realised through faith, humility, and generosity.

🔅🌼 Humility is the key to order 🌼🔅

🌸🔅بِخَفْضِ الْجَنَاحِ تَنْتَظِمُ الْأُمُورُ [2]

🔅With open wings—that is, gentleness and humility—things are set in order.

🔅🌼 Humility is lasting wealth 🌼🔅

🌸🔅A man’s humility in the station he occupies protects him from gloating and reproach when he falls.[3]

🔅A man’s humility in the position he holds shields him from others’ gloating and blame when he suffers a setback.

🔅🌼 A particular humility that is a kind of pride 🌼🔅

🌸🔅التكّبّر على المتكبّرين هو التّواضع In its very essence.[4]

🔅Pride toward the proud is like humility and modesty.

🔅🌼 The humble are safe from the harm of envy 🌼🔅

🌸🔅التّواضع نعمة لا يفطن لها الحاسد.[5]

🔅Humility is a blessing the envious fail to recognise.

🌹Envy cannot reach humility

🔅🌼 Ramadan is the month of humble, wholehearted servitude 🌼🔅

🌹The blessed month of Ramadan is a month for disciplining the soul: for putting an end to its ferocity and its capacity to wound, and for nurturing its kindness.

🌹Let us welcome the spring of the Quran with the Quran.

🌹The Quran must always be enthroned in our hearts and souls.

🌹A month for making peace with the Quran, with God, with worship and obedience, with ethics and spirituality, with truth and sincerity,

🌹The blessed month is like a new life; each Ramadan is a whole lifetime, a stage in our growth. Whoever experiences Laylat al-Qadr has reached the point where boundaries and constraints fall away.

🌸🔅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.[6]

🔅Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him: “Indeed, in the Book of God, the number of months ordained by God is twelve, since the day He created the heavens and the earth. The brightest of these months is Ramadan, and the heart of Ramadan is the Night of Decree. The Quran was revealed on the first night of Ramadan, so welcome this month with the Quran.”

🌹The blessed month of Ramadan is a month of humility: a month for making the soul meek and compliant, and bringing it to rest in assurance.

🌹The blessed month of Ramadan is a month for practising humility and meekness.

🌹We must learn the language and qualities of the blessed month so that we may benefit from it in every way.

🌹When people attend a human gathering, they carefully observe its etiquette and pay special attention to how they dress and conduct themselves. What, then, should they do when they are guests of God? Let us learn the etiquette of being God’s guests and put it into practice.

🌹The blessed month is a journey to the beginning and the end of creation. The blessed month of Ramadan is a month of elevation, refinement, renewal, restoration, transformation, adornment and repair. It is a month in which the constraints of time are broken, servitude is raised to a higher plane, and the human journey towards spiritual maturity is accelerated.

🌹A higher understanding is needed to experience Laylat al-Qadr. During the blessed month of Ramadan, we must attain a direct, lived experience of God’s blessings in every sphere.

🔅🌼 Ramadan is like the Imam Mahdi 🌼🔅

🌸🔆 قُلْتُ نَعَمْ يَا رَبِّ فَنُودِيَتُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ ارْفَعْ رَأْسَكَ فَرَفَعْتُ رَأْسِي فَإِذَا أَنَا بِأَنْوَارِ عَلِيٍّ وَ الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ‏ وَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ وَ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ وَ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ وَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُوسَى وَ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ وَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ وَ الْحُجَّةِ يَتَلَأْلَأُ مِنْ بَيْنِهِمْ كَأَنَّهُ كَوْكَبٌ‏ دُرِّيٌ‏ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَبِّ مَنْ هَؤُلَاءِ وَ مَنْ هَذَا قَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ هُمُ الْأَئِمَّةُ بَعْدَكَ الْمُطَهَّرُونَ مِنْ صُلْبِكَ وَ هُوَ الْحُجَّةُ الَّذِي يَمْلَأُ الْأَرْضَ قِسْطاً وَ عَدْلًا وَ يَشْفِي‏ صُدُورَ قَوْمٍ مُؤْمِنِينَ‏ قُلْنَا بِآبَائِنَا وَ أُمَّهَاتِنَا أَنْتَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ قُلْتَ عَجَباً فَقَالَ ع وَ أَعْجَبُ مِنْ هَذَا أَنَّ قَوْماً يَسْمَعُونَ مِنِّي هَذَا ثُمَّ يَرْجِعُونَ عَلَى أَعْقَابِهِمْ بَعْدَ إِذْ هَدَاهُمُ اللَّهُ وَ يُؤْذُونَنِي فِيهِمْ لَا أَنَالَهُمُ اللَّهُ شَفَاعَتِي.[7]

🌸🔆… وَ الْمَهْدِيِّ ع فِي ضَحْضَاحٍ‏ مِنْ نُورٍ قِيَامٌ يُصَلُّونَ وَ الْمَهْدِيُّ فِي وَسْطِهُمْ كَأَنَّهُ‏ كَوْكَبٌ‏ دُرِّيٌ‏ [8]

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, said: On the night I was taken up to heaven, God, Glorious and Exalted, said, “I created you, Ali, Fatima, Hasan, Husayn, and his descendants, peace be upon them, from a luminous substance of My own light! O Muhammad, would you like to see them?” I replied, “Yes, my Lord!” God said, “Look to the right of the Throne.” When I looked, I saw Ali, Fatima, and the others, up to Hasan ibn Ali, peace be upon them, standing in a place filled with light and praying. Among them, the Mahdi, may God hasten his noble appearance, shone like a brilliant star!

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

[1] Compilation of *Ghurar al-Hikam wa Durar al-Kalim*; p. 249Tamimi Amadi, Abd al-Wahid ibn Muhammad, Office of Islamic Propagation—Iran; Qom, first edition, 1366 SH.

[2] Compilation of *Ghurar al-Hikam wa Durar al-Kalim*; p. 249Tamimi Amadi, Abd al-Wahid ibn Muhammad, Office of Islamic Propagation—Iran; Qom, first edition, 1366 SH.

[3] *Commentary on Nahj al-Balagha* by Ibn Abi al-Hadid; vol. 20; p. 290  Ibn Abi al-Hadid, Ayatollah Marashi Najafi Library—Qom, first edition, 1404 AH.

[4] *Commentary on Nahj al-Balagha* by Ibn Abi al-Hadid; vol. 20; p. 298  Ibn Abi al-Hadid, Ayatollah Marashi Najafi Library—Qom, first edition, 1404 AH.

[5] *Commentary on Nahj al-Balagha* by Ibn Abi al-Hadid; vol. 20; p. 302  Ibn Abi al-Hadid, Ayatollah Marashi Najafi Library—Qom, first edition, 1404 AH.

[6] *Al-Kafi* (Islamic edition); vol. 4; p. 65  Kulayni, Muhammad ibn Yaqub ibn Ishaq, Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya—Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[7] *Kifayat al-Athar fi al-Nass ala al-A’imma al-Ithna Ashar*; p. 72  Khazzaz Razi, Ali ibn Muhammad, Bidar—Qom, 1401 AH.

[8] *Al-Ghayba* (by al-Tusi) / *The Book of Occultation concerning the Proof*; text; p. 148  Tusi, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan, Dar al-Maaref al-Islamiyya—Iran; Qom, first edition, 1411 AH.