Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼The Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, are the anchor of the Quran🌼
🌼A lesson from the mountain🌼
🌼O my “I,” who are you? You, my “I”—who am I? 🌼
🌼A world of conjecture and imagination🌼
🌸🔆🌿 “The Secret of Kazimiyya” “The Mystery of the Greater Weight” “Questions???”
🔅🌹A summary with a supplement to “The Secret of Kazimiyya” “ ” “ ” “ ” “ ” 1402.04.17 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
☘️ 🔅 🌸 O God, make us know the Moses of the Family of Muhammad, peace be upon him 🌸 🔅 ☘️
🌹🔅Moses of the Family of Muhammad, peace be upon him🔅🌹
🌷By God, Imam Musa ibn Ja‘far, peace be upon them both, is the Moses of the Family of Muhammad, may God’s blessings be upon him and his family. How many seas has the Imam parted, of which we know nothing? How many flowing, surging streams has he caused to run by the permission of the All-Merciful, of which we know nothing? How many hearts has he opened, how many paths has he laid bare, how many flourishing places has he built, all beyond our knowing?
🌷Truly, the marvels of Imam Musa ibn Ja‘far, peace be upon them both, lie hidden in his occultation. We must pray with all our hearts for the hastening of his advent, when his wonders and marvels will be revealed.
🌷Knowledge of the Imam, concealed from the world, is the longing of the celestial beings and the cherubim.
🌷The Imam’s forbearance, his Kazimiyya, is not limited to swallowing personal anger; anger would not dare to show itself against his blessed soul. Rather, the Imam truly restrains the wrath of creation;
🌷his Kazimiyya is the secret of tranquility, vitality and delight; the secret of fire growing cool for Abraham and of blazing fires becoming gardens; the secret of springs flowing in the world’s scorched deserts.
🌷He is the director, steward and restrainer of the world’s anger and fire.
🌷Were it not for Musa ibn Ja‘far, peace be upon them both, the world would have been reduced to dust and ashes by the fire it had kindled within itself.
🌷All the Imams of purity, peace be upon them, are Kazim—the Forbearing. Yet it seems Imam Musa ibn Ja‘far, peace be upon them both, was entrusted with a special charge of forbearance: among his particular duties in the realm of existence is to restrain the anger and storms that devastate the outward and inward worlds.
🌹🔅The Prophet’s family is weighty alongside the Quran🔅🌹
🌷The true place where the Quran descended is the blessed heart of the Noble Messenger. His blessed heart is also the place from which the Quran is disseminated and its copies multiplied.
🌷The blessed heart of the Commander of the Faithful, Ali, peace be upon him, is a mirror of the Quran, upon which it shines from the Prophet’s heart into the mirror of the Imam.
🌷The truth of the Quran has no dwelling place but the blessed hearts and souls of the Prophet and his noble family.
🌷The Quran has fourteen true abodes; the written pages of the Quran reflect the radiance of that very, true Quran.
🌷The Quran has a form that will one day be revealed. If it were to appear in human form, it would surely be seen in the beautiful countenance of Ali and his pure descendants.
🌷The Quran is the Word of God, and the immaculate, pure Family are God’s words.
🌷Considered apart from the Quran, the Family are the Lesser Weight. But together with the Quran, the Greater Weight, their rank rises to that of the Greatest Weight, for they bear the Greater Weight.
🌷Surely, the balance itself is not weighed against the weights placed upon it; its weight lies in the burden it bears.
🌷The Family are the sun and light of that very Quran.
🌷The Quran’s weight must be measured by its commentary, interpretation and clarification; its expressions, allusions, subtleties and truths; its outward and inward meanings; and its other wonders and marvels. The Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, bear the Quran in all its dimensions and its full weight.
🌷Even the outward wording of the Quran is difficult for ordinary people to bear, let alone its higher dimensions.
🌷The Quranic codex bears only the Quran’s expressions in Arabic words, whereas the Prophet’s Family bear every dimension of the Quran and are the place where its truth descends.
🌷The Qur’an’s weight must be measured by its rank and station, its comprehensiveness, and its capacity to make all things clear.
🌷The Qur’an in Arabic is only one of its forms.
🌷Until a person becomes a bearer of the Qur’an, they cannot attain its presence.
🌷The revered Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, are the teachers and elucidators of the Qur’an.
🌷The Qur’an’s boundlessness lies in the knowledge hidden within its very essence.
🌷Had the Qur’an been sent down upon a mountain, it could not have borne its majesty and would have been shattered. The firmness and majesty of the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, lie in their bearing the Qur’an in all its grandeur.
🌹🔅How good it is for a person to learn gnosis from a mountain!🔅🌹
🌷Al-Ahzab: 72 إِنَّا عَرَضْنَا الْأَمانَةَ عَلَى السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ وَ الْجِبالِ فَأَبَيْنَ أَنْ يَحْمِلْنَها وَ أَشْفَقْنَ مِنْها وَ حَمَلَهَا الْإِنْسانُ إِنَّهُ كانَ ظَلُوماً جَهُولاً
🌷The heavens, the earth, and the mountains knew the station of wilayah better than human beings did.
🌷Light is inseparable from wilayah: light is creation, and wilayah is sovereignty. Wilayah takes on meaning within the sphere of dominion and authority; by Allah’s creative power alone, it reaches into the souls of His creatures. Wilayah holds sway over their souls. Accepting it implies submission, consent, and obedience; the possibility of transgressing its bounds exists only as a test of one’s sincerity.
🌷Accepting the wilayah of the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, means entering the sphere of obligation and responsibility for all creatures.
🌷By Allah’s permission, the revered ones possess wilayah, and by His will they exercise a kind of dominion and irresistible power over nature.
🌹🔅The world will drain the wind from the sails of those who sin out of caprice.🔅🌹
🌷Amid the sewage of sin, new wonders arise in worship and servitude—wonders beyond the reach of the devils’ calculations.
🌷Even amid the sewage and mire of sin, waves of revulsion against sin grow.
🌷Despite the efforts of those who seek to extinguish it, the divine light continues toward its perfection and fulfillment.
🌹🔅The love of false claimants🔅🌹
🌷The intentions behind ceremonies and rituals shape their inner structure.
🌷Trading in the name of the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, is the worst form of betrayal of them.
🌷Trading on people’s devotion in the name of the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, is to plunder the table of the Infallible Ones.
🌹🔅Who am “I”?🔅🌹
🌷Throughout its existence, from the very dawn of creation, the “I” has been clothed in various garments of light, spirit, seed, earth, the intermediate realm, and more. These garments change with shifts in place, circumstances, and the nature of the test.
🌷The human “I” is not composite but one—one in the numerical and individual sense. It is transformed by all events and actions, and its structure changes.
🌷The unity of existence can only be discussed among beings.
🌷The principal repository of memory is not in the human brain but at a point within the human soul, where every event and occurrence is recorded in complete detail and can be brought forth. At particular moments, such as the experience of death, it is possible to relive all events instantaneously.
🌹🔅The extremist is a rug himself.🔅🌹
🌷A station beyond the human is not the station of divinity. Just as the inhabitants of the unseen realm, though not human, are creatures of God, entering a higher stage, transforming one’s structure, and breaking open new horizons of servitude mean only rising through the degrees of servitude.
🌷In truth, no one can exaggerate the true station of the revered Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them. Only someone who had attained a true understanding of their teachings could exaggerate by elevating them beyond that level—yet creatures remain helpless even to grasp the barest measure of their station.
🌷Elevating the revered ones to the level of divinity betrays the profound ignorance of most extremists: they know neither God nor His friends, but merely shift a name from one place to another. This shifting of names, too, is blameworthy and condemned.
🌷The extremist is himself deficient: even as he goes to excess, he falls short, since his claim stems chiefly from ignorance.
🌹🔅 God’s will is supreme and invincible 🔅🌹
🌷The divine will has no lock; whatever form God wills, it comes to pass.
🌷The transfer of the trusts of the Imamate does not deprive the one who conveys them of knowledge, wisdom, or the exalted station of servitude.
🌹🔅 The devils are on the verge of fully subjugating humanity 🔅🌹
🌷Subjugating the heart merely weakens the will of the one subjugated and drives them toward vile deeds. But a higher degree is total subjugation, extending to a person’s limbs and faculties, in which they become a demonic robot.
🌷When a person is driven mad by the power of devils, it shows that they cannot withstand the subjugation of devils and jinn. The manifestation of demonic deeds without madness signals that the person has become wholly demonic and is completely subjugated by the devils.
🌷The worst form of subjugation is subjugation without madness.
🌷Foolishness and stupidity are the best tools for assisting the devils. Devils prefer fools and simpletons to the insane, because in serving them they stop at nothing and advance their aims.
🌹🔅 The embryo is alive from its very first moment 🔅🌹
🌷The soul—or the “I”—is alive from the earliest stage of the embryo’s formation, because the “I” is connected to that embryo.
🌷The embryo’s life begins and develops through mineral and plant-like forms of life, then continues as animal and human life.
🌷In the first stages, up to four months, the embryo is successively accompanied by the spirit of the body, the spirit of faculty, and the spirit of desire; then it rises to human life. Abortion, from the very first moment of conception, is tantamount to killing a living being.
🌷A living being takes shape from the very first moment one cell joins another.
🌹🔅 Guesswork and imagination have their own world 🔅🌹
🌷Thought, imagination, conjecture, and supposition form a shadowy world, draw a person into it, and make them truly live there.
🌷A person can create a copy of someone else as a shadow figure, much like a scenario they have written and directed.
🌷The world of dreams, too, is a world of its own.
🌷Perhaps a person lies between two temporal fissures; perhaps they pass through the gaps between moments into other worlds—between two forms of life, which, when joined, leave the person unaware of having parted from the former form.
🌷The universe is more complex than we imagine.
🌹🔅 Time, too, has its infancy and maturity 🔅🌹
🌷The vast expanse of time in the higher worlds speaks to an immense complexity.
🔅🌹السجدة : 5 يُدَبِّرُ الْأَمْرَ مِنَ السَّماءِ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ ثُمَّ يَعْرُجُ إِلَيْهِ في يَوْمٍ كانَ مِقْدارُهُ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ مِمَّا تَعُدُّونَ 🔅🌹المعارج : 4 تَعْرُجُ الْمَلائِكَةُ وَ الرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ في يَوْمٍ كانَ مِقْدارُهُ خَمْسينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ
A thousand earthly years equal one heavenly day in the ascent of God’s command.
The ascent of the angels and the Holy Spirit to the threshold of divine majesty takes fifty thousand earthly years.
🌷شَيْخِ الطَّائِفَةِ قُدِّسَ سِرُّهُ بِإِسْنَادِهِ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ فِي كَلَامٍ طَوِيلٍ: فَإِنَّ فِي الْقِيَامَةِ خَمْسِينَ مَوْقِفاً كُلُّ مَوْقِفٍ مِثْلُ أَلْفِ سَنَةٍ مِمَّا تَعُدُّونَ، ثُمَّ تَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ: «فِي يَوْمٍ كانَ مِقْدارُهُ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ».[1]
🌷فِي أَمَالِي شَيْخِ الطَّائِفَةِ قُدِّسَ سِرُّهُ بِإِسْنَادِهِ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ حَدِيثٌ طَوِيلٌ يَقُولُ فِيهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ: أَلَا فَحَاسِبُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ قَبْلَ أَنْ تُحَاسَبُوا، فَإِنَّ فِي الْقِيَامَةِ خَمْسِينَ مَوْقِفاً كُلُّ مَوْقِفٍ مِثْلُ أَلْفِ سَنَةٍ مِمَّا تَعُدُّونَ، ثُمَّ تَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ: «فِي يَوْمٍ كانَ مِقْدارُهُ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ».
🌷رُوِيَ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ آبَائِهِ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلَامُ أَنَّ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ قَالَ: وَ قَدْ ذَكَرَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ أَنَّهُ أُسْرِيَ بِهِ مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَى مَسِيرَةَ شَهْرٍ وَ عُرِجَ بِهِ فِي مَلَكُوتِ السَّماواتِ مَسِيرَةَ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ عَامٍ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثُلُثِ لَيْلَةٍ حَتَّى انْتَهَى إِلَى سَاقِ الْعَرْشِ[2]
🌷This world is a realm of things in outline, while the heavens and the realm of sovereignty are realms of separation and detail.
🌷 In this world, we encounter only a summary of realities; we have no knowledge of their full length and breadth.
🌹🔅 The abode of all things is within the Imam’s soul 🔅🌹
🌷The phrase “He has enumerated all things” can be understood to mean that all things are preserved within the Imam’s soul. The Imam’s soul may likewise be seen as the center that holds statistics and information about the things of the world. The Imam may also be described as the alphabet of all created things, the library of existence, the software of knowledge housed in the hardware of the Imam, and the register, field, and treasury of all things.
🌷The closing of existence’s scroll may likewise be understood as the closing of the Book of Existence in the library of the Imam’s soul. He knows.
🌼 Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Mishkat) 110.141(903) 🌼
[1] Tafsir Nur al-Thaqalayn vol. 4 222
[2] Tafsir Nur al-Thaqalayn vol. 5 413
