Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼🔆🌼The Devil’s Taste
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “A Life Sweet as Honey” “Sacred Death” “Managing Death” “Commentary on Supplication 20 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya” “Session 242” and more … Summary with an addendum 1403.12.02 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🔅🌼 O God, let my life be spent in obedience to You.🌼🔅
🌸☘️وَ عَمِّرْنِي مَا كَانَ عُمُرِي بِذْلَةً فِي طَاعَتِكَ،
☘️🌷 فَإِذَا كَانَ عُمُرِي مَرْتَعاً لِلشَّيْطَانِ فَاقْبِضْنِي إِلَيْكَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَسْبِقَ مَقْتُكَ إِلَيَّ، أَوْ يَسْتَحْكِمَ غَضَبُكَ عَلَيَّ.
🌹O God, let me spend the capital of my life for Your sake.
🌹O God, allot no share of my soul to Satan.
🌹O God, make Satan taste hunger through me.
🌹O God, when I am about to become a morsel for Satan, take my soul to Yourself before Your wrath, Your avenging punishment and discipline hasten toward me, and Your anger against me takes hold.
🌹Divine loathing is fierce anger and vengeance directed at God’s enemy and one who is hateful to Him.
🔅🌼Betraying Oneself🌼🔅
🌹The most ignorant traitor is the one who betrays his own innate nature.
🌹Whoever breaks the laws of their own nature will have no qualms about breaking other laws.
🌹A person can be faithless even to themselves: one who betrays their innate nature also betrays and harms themselves.
🔅🌼A Person Buried in Their Own Mind🌼🔅
🌹In this age, people bury themselves beneath doubts. The clamor of ego-driven and satanic deceptions grows louder; embellishments have reached the height of deceit, and empty desires have made humanity their captive.
🌹Humanity is shackled amid mirages, imprisoned in satanic arenas.
🌹The greatest problem facing people today is the mind: it is not a realm of the unreal; a person’s character takes shape within it, and it plays a formative role in human life.
🌻🔆Al-Isrāʾ: 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 most rightly guided.”
🔅🌼Slow Satan down; do not become his worthless servant🌼🔅
🌹Giving Satan a ride speeds up and invigorates the marketplace of sin.
🌹Be a source of pain, suffering and torment for Satan, not his medicine and cure; be his tears, not his laughter; be a speed bump, not an accelerator; be his death, not his life.
🔅🌼A Life of Great Worth🌼🔅
🌹In the End Times, the worth of a lifetime is immense—whether measured by reason or ignorance, goodness or ugliness.
🌹Every moment is precious: with each one, a person either trades for Paradise and divine favor, or for Hell and the Creator’s anger and wrath.
🔅🌼Death Washes Away Disgrace🌼🔅
🌷🔆مَوْتٌ وَحِيٌّ خَيْرٌ مِنْ عَيْشٍ شَقِيٍّ.[1]
🔆A swift death is better than a life of misery.
🔅🌼Envy Is the Fire Temple of Life🌼🔅
🌷🔆لَا عَيْشَ أَنْكَدُ مِنْ عَيْشِ الْحَسُود[2]
🔆No life is darker than the life of an envious person.
🌹Envy means a life that is satanic from beginning to end.
🔅🌼May My Life Be a Garden for the Angels🌼🔅
🌹Human beings should be a source of nourishment for the universe: pure, delectable divine sustenance for all creation.
🌹Nourish the universe and help it flourish. Be its heart, its highest and most wondrous part, its marvels and peerless beauties.
🔅🌼 Managing Death 🌼🔅
🌹Approach your own death with knowledge and wisdom, so that you may bring your life to an end in purity, dignity and honour.
🌹The greatest success is to meet death in bliss and honour.
🌹One day the fruits of our being will be gathered; they will ripen into either the fruits of divine favour or those of Zaqqum.
🌹The lower self makes a person prey to disgrace and humiliation.
🌹Let us not become Satan’s spittle or serve as his digestive system.
🌹The end-times are an age of fierce competition in sin and transgression; sins are being produced at an ever greater pace and scale.
🌹In this age, peoples combining the traits of ʿĀd, Thamūd, Lot’s people and Pharaoh are fiercely competing with one another.
🔅🌼 Leaving the Land of Misery 🌼🔅
🌷🔆مَوْتٌ وَحِيٌ خَيْرٌ مِنْ عَيْشٍ شَقِيٍّ.[3]
🔆A swift, hasty death is better than a life of misery.
🌹A sinner is a land of miseries.
🔅🌼 An Honourable Death Extinguishes the Fire of Humiliation 🌼🔅
🌷🔆وَ قَالَ ع مَوْتٌ فِي عِزٍّ خَيْرٌ مِنْ حَيَاةٍ فِي ذُل[4]
🔆An honourable death is better than a life of humiliation.
🔅🌼O gateway to bliss and eternity, where are you? 🌼🔅
🌷🔆 [وَ مِنْ دُعَاءِ الْعَلِيلِ] اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلِ الْمَوْتَ خَيْرَ غَائِبٍ نَنْتَظِرُهُ وَ الْقَبْرَ خَيْرَ مَنْزِلٍ نَعْمُرُهُ وَ اجْعَلْ مَا بَعْدَهُ خَيْراً لَنَا مِنْهُ اللَّهُمَّ أَصْلِحْنِي قَبْلَ الْمَوْتِ وَ ارْحَمْنِي عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ وَ اغْفِرْ لِي بَعْدَ الْمَوْت[5]
🔆O God, make death the best thing we await, and the grave the best dwelling we make ready; make what comes after it better still. O God, set me right before death, have mercy on me as I die, and forgive me after death.
🔅🌼 Death Is Pure Good 🌼🔅
🌷🔆الموت خير للمؤمن و الكافر أما المؤمن فيتعجل له النعيم و أما الكافر فيقل عذابه و آية ذلك من كتاب الله تعالى وَ ما عِنْدَ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ لِلْأَبْرارِ وَ لا يَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَنَّما نُمْلِي لَهُمْ خَيْرٌ لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ إِنَّما نُمْلِي لَهُمْ لِيَزْدادُوا إِثْما[6]
🌷🔆عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ، قَالَ: قُلْتُ لَهُ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنِ الْكَافِرِ، الْمَوْتُ خَيْرٌ لَهُ أَمِ الْحَيَاةُ؟ فَقَالَ: الْمَوْتُ خَيْرٌ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ وَ الْكَافِرِ، قُلْتُ: وَ لِمَ؟ قَالَ: لِأَنَّ اللَّهَ يَقُولُ: وَ ما عِنْدَ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ لِلْأَبْرارِ وَ يَقُولُ: وَ لا يَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَنَّما نُمْلِي لَهُمْ خَيْرٌ لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ إِنَّما نُمْلِي لَهُمْ لِيَزْدادُوا إِثْماً وَ لَهُمْ عَذابٌ مُهِينٌ.[7]
🔆In a report, Muhammad ibn Muslim asked Imam al-Baqir, peace be upon him: “Is death or life better for an unbeliever?” The Imam replied: “Death is best for both believer and unbeliever.”
Muhammad ibn Muslim asked: “Why is death better for an unbeliever?”
The Imam replied: “Death is better for the believer because God, the Exalted, says: ‘وَ ما عِنْدَ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ لِلْأَبْرارِ’ And what is with God is better for the righteous.”
Death is better for the unbeliever because, concerning the unbelievers, God, the Exalted, says: “Let not those who disbelieve think that Our granting them respite is good for them. We grant them respite only so that they may increase in sin; and a humiliating punishment awaits them.”
🔅🌼 Holy Death 🌼🔅
🌹Let us not be deprived of an honorable death; let us seize the blessing of a sacred death.
🌷🔆وَ قَالَ ع مَنْ أَتَانَا لَمْ يَعْدَمْ خَصْلَةً مِنْ أَرْبَعٍ آيَةً مُحْكَمَةً وَ قَضِيَّةً عَادِلَةً وَ أَخاً مُسْتَفَاداً وَ مُجَالَسَةَ الْعُلَمَاءِ.
وَ كَانَ ع يَرْتَجِزُ يَوْمَ قُتِلَ ع وَ يَقُولُ
| الْمَوْتُ خَيْرٌ مِنْ رُكُوبِ الْعَارِ | وَ الْعَارُ خَيْرٌ مِنْ دُخُولِ النَّارِ | |
| وَ اللَّه مِنْ هَذَا وَ هَذَا جَارِي[8] |
🔆Imam Husayn (AS) said: Whoever comes to us will not miss out on four qualities: clear and firm signs, just judgment, a beneficial bond of brotherhood, and companionship with the learned.
Imam Husayn (AS) said on the Day of Ashura: “Death with honor is better than riding in disgrace, and disgrace is better than entering the Fire. By God, neither of these two things will come to pass.”
🔅🌼 Husayn gave death its honor 🌼🔅
🌹Imam Husayn (AS) bestowed worth and value upon death.
🌹Death takes pride in Husayn.
🌹A Husayni death is more alive than life itself.
🌷🔆 فَخَرَجَ مُتَّزِراً بِبُرْدَتَيْنِ وَ مَعَهُ هِرَاوَةٌ وَ هُوَ يَرْتَجِزُ وَ يَقُولُ الْمَوْتُ خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِنْ عَيْشٍ بِذُلٍّ [9]
🔅🌼 If a person yields no sweetness or nectar, death is better for him 🌼🔅
🌷🔆مَنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ سَخَاءٌ وَ لَا حَيَاءٌ فَالْمَوْتُ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنَ الْحَيَاةِ.[10]
🔆The Commander of the Faithful (AS): For anyone who has neither generosity nor modesty, death is better than life.
🔅🌼 Death is a safeguard against falling short 🌼🔅
🌷🔆وَ مَنْ كَانَ فِي نَقْصٍ فَالْمَوْتُ خَيْرٌ لَه[11]
🔆For anyone whose life is in decline, death is better than life.
🔅🌼 Death is better than falling from servitude 🌼🔅
🌸🔆قَالَ الصَّادِقُ ع مَنِ اسْتَوَى يَوْمَاهُ فَهُوَ مَغْبُونٌ وَ مَنْ كَانَ آخِرُ يَوْمَيْهِ شَرَّهُمَا فَهُوَ مَلْعُونٌ وَ مَنْ لَمْ يَعْرِفِ الزِّيَادَةَ فِي نَفْسِهِ كَانَ إِلَى النُّقْصَانِ أَقْرَبَ وَ مَنْ كَانَ إِلَى النُّقْصَانِ أَقْرَبَ فَالْمَوْتُ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنَ الْحَيَاةِ.[12]
🔆Imam al-Sadiq (AS): Whoever has two days that are equal has suffered a loss; whoever’s second day is worse than the first is accursed. Whoever sees no prospect of improvement in himself is in decline, and for one who is in decline, death is better than life.
🔅🌼 When wealth becomes a source of harm 🌼🔅
🌸🔆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.[13]
🔆Imam al-Sadiq (AS): Accursed and cheated is the one whose life brings him loss day after day. The one who lives this day better than the day that has passed is worthy of envy and aspiration.
🔅🌼 A honey-sweet life 🌼🔅
🌹A life spent in the service of servitude to God is blessed, honorable, and noble; a life spent serving the self and Satan is ill-starred.
🌹A person’s life should be a beehive of servitude to God, sweetening the palate of both soul and world.
🔅🌼 The Devil’s Taunts and Rebukes 🌼🔅
🌹If Iblis was cast out for refusing to prostrate before Adam, how should his descendants be rebuked if they become the Devil’s grazing ground?! What if they prostrate before the Devil?
🔅🌼 The Human Being’s Diabolical Descent 🌼🔅
🌹A debased human being becomes the Devil’s grazing ground, crossroads, square, street, city, country and world. The human being turns from a path into the Devil’s strategy, and from a birthplace into a nursery for the Devil’s children. Eventually, the human being becomes the Devil’s latrine and cesspool.
🌹A debased human being is a hive of satanic filth and impurity.
🌹A human being must not be a remedy for the Devil, but a source of pain to him; not his medicine, but the poison that destroys him.
🌹A human being must not bring the Devil joy, but distress and torment.
🌹A human being must not be the Devil’s paradise, but his hell.
🌹Not the Devil’s strength and muscle, but the one who breaks his back.
🌹How many people there are who are the Devil’s birthplace, his stronghold, his hospital and his asylum.
🌹Human beings fall from food and drink that are acts of glorification and sanctification to the food and drink of Iblis.
🌹My God, I do not want to fatten the Devil; I do not want to add to the burden of sin.
🌹My God, make my very being not food for the Devil, but a source of pain to him.
🌼Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141 (903)🌼
🌻🔆 A Student’s Perspective on “The Human Being, Paradise for the Celestial Beings” 🔆🌻
🌼🔆🌼 The Devil’s Taste 🌼🔆🌼
🔹 Weekly Sessions on the Commentary and Exegesis of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (Supplication 20)
📅 Date: 1403/12/02 – 21 Sha‘ban 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some points discussed in the session:
### God’s Vengeful Wrath ⚡️
“Or that Your wrath should take hold of me.” My God, let me never become the Devil’s grazing ground! If I do, God’s fierce wrath will rush upon me—that is, His vengeful anger. When a person is seized by such anger, by God’s fierce wrath, there is no escaping it.
### The Intensity of Divine Wrath 🔥
This is a wrath that will not relent until it has burned a person to ashes. May no one incur such wrath from God, for there would be no way to escape it. God’s terrible wrath is His punitive, vengeful anger; it is reserved solely for those who are His enemies.
### How Human Beings Betray Themselves ⚖️
This wrath falls only upon God’s enemies, and no one can escape it. Human beings were once those before whom the angels prostrated, while the Devil was cast out of God’s presence for refusing to do the same. If human beings now become the Devil’s grazing ground, they become the most ignorant betrayers of themselves. Is such betrayal acceptable? Could anyone fall from this lofty station and betray themselves? Yes—this is what human beings do: they betray themselves, break their innate nature, and, by breaking it, disrupt the very constitution of their being.
### The Dark Fate of Betraying One’s Innate Nature 🌑
They set the laws of their innate nature ablaze and distort the very structure of their being. Then they are buried amid all manner of doubts and delusions, enslaved by the self’s beguilement and the Devil. They are deceived by satanic adornments, swim through seas of mirage and drown in empty hopes. Their base minds intoxicate them.
### The Human Being’s Fall from the Highest Station ⚖️
He becomes a captive of his base mind. The human being, who was meant to become a garden for the angels, turns into Satan’s pasture, his grazing ground. Satan grazes there, creeps about, swims, breeds and tends to himself. It becomes Satan’s kitchen. Thus a human being falls from the highest of the high to the lowest of the low. Humanity was meant to nourish the inhabitants of the heavenly realm; the beings of the spiritual world were meant to draw sustenance from us. Yet now this very human being has become a delicacy to Satan! Such pure nourishment turns so foul that this lowly creature becomes prey to the basest being in existence.
### From the wonder of creation to falling into Satan’s trap 🔥
The human being has the capacity to become a source of nourishment for all existence, an exalted part—or the very soul—of this world, and to bring forth wonders beyond measure. Yet now, humanity has become food for Satan, turned into Satan’s fodder! The human being who was meant to brake Satan’s headlong rush has become his accelerator. We should have been Satan’s torment; instead, we have become his cure! Satan finds relief in us. The human being who should have been Satan’s death has now taken on a satanic life and gives Satan breath. The human being who should have made Satan weep has become the cause of his delight and laughter.
Humanity does not realise the position it has reached—especially people in these end times, whose lives carry such weight. They are either with reason or with ignorance: either they rise at the greatest speed, or they plunge down with astonishing force, passing into the deepest depths of the lowest of the low. The human being who should make himself a garden of God’s good pleasure** has become **a hell of divine wrath. From what station to what place he falls!
### Taking charge of death and one’s eternal fate 🕊
We must take charge of our death**; we must not only keep Satan hungry, so that he draws no sustenance from us, but **become nourishment for the inhabitants of the heavenly realm, nourishing and nurturing them. The end of our lives, the end of our earthly existence, should be crowned with the highest mark for serving God—not with our defeat.
We should prize a death of honour and dignity. Our lives should end with honour and grace: lives that conclude in felicity and a blessed end, that end in martyrdom and in the exalted realms—not with a person turning himself into God’s hell.
### The human being’s ultimate fate 🌳
One day, the human being will reap what he has sown. He is like a growing tree, and by the time of his death all its fruit will have ripened. Will the tree of the human being bear the fruits of Paradise—the fruits of the garden of divine good pleasure**? Or will **his cursed tree bear the fruit of Zaqqūm?
### Human life: a source of survival or destruction ⚡️
May the human being never become Satan’s saliva, or the water of Satan’s life! The more corrupt a person becomes, the more he serves as a source of life and vitality for Satan. Perhaps, had humanity not existed, Satan’s life would have run its course. It is the human being who revives his enemy**, gives him **artificial respiration, and injects his own blood into Iblīs to keep him alive, so that he can add to the sins and filth of this world.
### Racing ahead in the field of sin ⚖️
How strangely humanity has entered this strange field of corruption! In these end times, people have raced so far ahead in evil that they have outdone the peoples of ʿĀd, Thamūd and Lot. They encompass all of them—and more besides! They sprint across the field of disobedience to God, compete in the marketplace of sin and overtake their rivals. If their sins diminish, they feel defeated and bankrupt! Woe to humanity—and to the depths of its depravity!
The human being who should have opened the gates of eternity and felicity, who should have taken charge of his life and death, should have fashioned the most beautiful death for himself! Anyone who does not meet the most beautiful death has utterly squandered his life!
### Awaiting the best of deaths 🕊
What a beautiful prayer!
O God! Make death the best of the things absent from me that I await!
O Lord! May death be such that I feel its sweetness—that is, the delicious taste of the meeting with God—so vividly that I long for it at every moment!
### The Taste of Eternity in the Death of the Believer 🌿
O death, where are you?
O death, where are you, that I may taste you?
For the taste of eternity flows from your very heart!
Yes! For believers, death has the taste and flavour of eternity!
O Lord! Make the grave the finest dwelling You ever populate!
O Lord! Be Yourself the architect of my grave; Yourself make my grave flourish!
Who am I to presume to tend the building of my grave?
It is You, O Lord! the finest builder of the grave, who transforms it into Your good pleasure!
### The Death That Is the Best of Absences 🌟
O Lord! After death, make the grave better for me than both of them!
O Lord! The death that is the best of absences is the very one we are to await!
And the grave that is the finest of dwellings is the very one we are to populate!
O Lord! Set me right before death takes hold of me!
And O Lord! At the moment of death, shower Your mercy upon me!
And forgive me after my death, after my passing!
### Death Is Pure Good ✨
Yes, death is pure good; it is among the most beautiful and blessed of God’s creations. God created death and life, and whatever He created, He created beautifully. Whatever God created, He made beautiful. Death, too, is the finest of God’s creations—indeed, it is pure good. It is blessed for the believer, and it is better even for the disbeliever.
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### Death or Life? The Answer of Imam al-Baqir (AS) 📖
Imam al-Baqir (AS) was asked: Is death better or life? What do you say concerning the disbeliever? Is death better for him, or life?
The Imam said: Death is better for both the believer and the disbeliever. He then explained the reason:
For God says:
“Whatever is with God is better for the righteous.”
And He also says:
“The disbelievers should not think that the respite We grant them is better for them; no, it is not so! Rather, We grant them respite so that their sins may increase. This is a kind of punishment and chastisement—a chastisement of the nature of life itself—and for them there will be a humiliating torment.”
Yes, death is better for the believer, for it is the gateway to felicity and the meeting with God. And it is better for the disbeliever too, because it halts the increase of his sin; for the longer he lives, the more his wretchedness and torment grow.
How beautiful, then, is this supplication: that a person ask God to take his soul when he has become a captive and pasture of Satan, when he has fallen prey to the ego!
### A Swift Death Is Better Than a Life in Wretchedness ⚖️
The words of the Master, Amir al-Mu’minin (AS):
“A swift death is better than a life accompanied by wretchedness and misery.”
If death overtakes a person suddenly, that death is better than a life spent in wretchedness and sin. No life is worse or more hideous than the life of the envious; for envy is the mark of a satanic life.
Envy is the very food that delights the palate of Satan—a most delicious dish for Iblis!
### Four Qualities of Those Who Stand with the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) 🏆
How beautiful are the words of Imam al-Husayn, the Master of Martyrs (AS)!
He first reminds us of four important qualities found in believers who stand with the Ahl al-Bayt (AS):
Whoever stands with us will not be without these four qualities:
1. Firm, deep-rooted and steadfast convictions that cannot be overcome.
2. Just judgment (whoever stands with us will be a just judge).
3. A brotherhood that benefits others, sweet as honey and sherbet—not only one’s own brother, but all of creation.
4. Keeping company with the learned and the wise.
Then he said:
“Death is better than riding the mount of disgrace; and disgrace is better than entering the Fire! By God, dishonour and the Fire are far from us!”
### Imam al-Husayn’s (AS) Lesson on Dying with Dignity 🕊
This is the lesson Imam al-Husayn (AS) teaches us:
We must escape disgrace; we must be saved from the Fire!
Death is better than disgrace, and disgrace is better than entering the Fire!
Let us not be deprived of an honourable death!
Let us seize the blessing of a sacred death!
Let us understand what it means to die with dignity!
It is Husayn (AS) who gives death its dignity.
It is Husayn (AS) who ennobled death.
Imam Husayn (AS) gave death a worth and value all its own.
Death takes pride in Husayn (AS); it boasts of him!
Yes—when death becomes more alive than life itself, what a beautiful death it is!
This is the message of Imam al-Husayn (AS):
“Death is better for you than a life of humiliation and disgrace!”
### The Worth of Life in the Service of God 🍯
A person should be a source of sweetness, a beehive of honey; otherwise, death is better for them than life.
For anyone who has neither generosity nor modesty, death is better than life.
For anyone who is of no use and benefits no one, death is better than life.
For the shameless, life brings nothing but ruin and destruction!
For the shameless, life brings downfall and an increase in torment.
Death is better than falling away from servitude to God!
When a person falls into ruin, death can be a great gain!
### The Measure of a Person’s Lifetime ⏳
The year is drawing to a close, and this hadith could not be more fitting:
“Whoever has two days that are alike is at a loss.”
“Whoever is worse today than yesterday is accursed!”
“And whoever sees no growth or progress in themselves, but keeps declining, is a loser; they have suffered loss in their servitude to God!”
For such a person, death is better than life!
### A Lifetime: Capital for Eternity or for Torment? ⚖️
Anyone whose lifetime brings them harm day after day is both at a loss and accursed!
If this eternal endowment becomes an investment in torment and ruin, it is a loss.
But fortunate indeed—and continually gaining, immersed in profit, envied (though not by the faithful, but by the envious!)—is the one whose today is better than yesterday!
### Living in the path of servitude—or sinking into Satan’s mischief? 🏆
Fortunate and envied is the person whose lifetime, sweet as honey, is devoted to serving God!
Their life will be blessed, honoured and noble!
But if this God-given life is put in the service of Satan and the ego, it will become nothing but loss!
A person’s life should become a beehive of servitude to God, sweetening the hearts and the world, bringing comfort to the soul and to all humanity!
But if it turns into Satan’s foul hive, it becomes a source of pain and torment in this world!
In that case, even Satan would be justified in reproaching them!
Satan was commanded to prostrate, but disobeyed and was cast out!
Yet now this human being has turned himself into Satan’s foul hive!
What a reversal of course he has embarked upon!
He should have taken flight from his finest form and reached its highest heights!
But now he has fallen to the lowest of the low!
From Satan’s pasture, he becomes Satan’s crossroads, Satan’s city, Satan’s likeness!
From Satan’s path to Satanic strategy, from Satan’s birthplace to Satan’s nursery, from Satan’s kitchen to Satan’s lavatory—he is transformed!
He has become Satan’s sewer!
### Let no human become Satan’s backbone! 🔥
At every moment, he makes Satan stronger, adds to the world’s burden of sin, and becomes a source of suffering and torment in this world!
He becomes a paradise for devils!
This human being, who should have been Satan’s hell, has now become his strength and muscle!
He should have broken Satan’s back; instead, he has become Satan’s backbone!
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