The Injustice and Ignorance Wrought by Satan’s Authority

🌼🔆🌼Seeking Refuge: God’s Impregnable Fortress🌼🔆🌼
🔹Weekly sessions on the commentary on Duʿa 20 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya

📅 Date: 1405/03/07 – 11 Dhu al-Hijjah – Muharram 1447–1448
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “Fleeing from sin,” “seeking refuge in God,” “nazgh, waswasa, hamz,” “continuing the commentary on Duʿa 20 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya,” “rawʿ,” and more. Summary with supplement, 1405.03.07, Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅

🌸 🕋🔆 اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْ مَا يُلْقِي الشَّيْطَانُ فِي رُوعِي🔆 🕋 🌸
☘️🌹مِنَ التَّمَنِّي وَ التَّظَنِّي وَ الْحَسَدِ🌹☘️
🤲 🔆ذِكْراً لِعَظَمَتِكَ، وَ تَفَكُّراً فِي قُدْرَتِكَ، وَ تَدْبِيراً عَلَى عَدُوِّك🔆 🤲

❇️A systematic summary of “Oppression and Ignorance: The Effects of Satan’s Dominion”
✨1. Key concept: “rawʿ” (the perceptual-emotional faculty)
Rawʿ is the primary seat of human perception and feeling, and must be guarded like a precious jewel.
Satan’s capture of the rawʿ lies at the root of many psychological problems (depression, obsessive thoughts, anxiety) and moral ills (oppression, ignorance, and darkness in society).
A person’s rawʿ should be connected to the Divine Throne, the manifestation of God’s knowledge, rather than held captive by Satan.

✨2. The main strategy: prevention and fleeing from sin
The best way to stay safe from sin is to flee from it and seek refuge in God.
True courage lies in never committing a sin, not in escaping its consequences after committing it.
A warning: what has been rebuilt after destruction can never be as it was originally.
✨3. Seeking refuge: God’s impregnable fortress
Seeking refuge expresses both rejection of Satan and a defensive shield against him.
Even when it is only an intention, seeking refuge is effective; reciting “بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم” is one form of seeking refuge.
An example is Imam Jaʿfar al-Sadiq (AS) seeking refuge during prayer: “أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ السَّمِيعِ الْعَلِيمِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ وَ أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ أَنْ يَحْضُرُونِ”

✨4. Concepts related to Satan’s attacks:
Nazgh: sowing corruption, resentment, and suspicion, and creating distance between a person and truth, reason, or conscience.
Waswasa: a quiet whisper accompanied by doubt and polytheism, weakening the faculty of reason and stirring the appetites.
Hamz: an assault involving blows and pressure, such as backbiting (in person or in someone’s absence) and corrupting suggestions.

✨5. The effects of Satan’s dominion: oppression and ignorance
Today’s world is afflicted by pseudo-knowledge; when ignorance sets out to teach, it only increases ignorance.
When Satan teaches the lesson of being “enlightened,” illumination departs.
Satan’s capture of the rawʿ of politicians is a cause of oppression and darkness on earth.

✨6. The Quran and the Ahl al-Bayt: the operating system of the perceptual faculty
These two treasures are the only means of activating the hardware of human existence.
Satan lies in wait over these treasures; distorting one’s understanding of the Quran and the Ahl al-Bayt means losing all one’s worldly and eternal capital.
A warning: a reciter of the Quran may be cursed by the Quran itself because of a distorted understanding or subjection to selfish desires.

✨7. Practical remedies for warding off Satan:
Key verses: Surah al-Nahl (98–100), al-Aʿraf (200), al-Muʾminun (97–98), and Fussilat (36).
The remedy for waswasa is to say “آمَنْتُ بِاللَّهِ وَ بِرَسُولِهِ مُخْلِصاً لَهُ الدِّینَ”.
When anger or nazgh arises, invoke God’s protection, for He is All-Hearing and All-Knowing.
A remembrance to recite when frightened in a dream: “بِسْمِ اللَّهِ، أَعُوذُ بِكَلِمَاتِ اللَّهِ التَّامَّةِ مِنْ غَضَبِهِ وَعِقَابِهِ، وَ شَرِّ عِبَادِهِ، وَمِنْ هَمَزَاتِ الشَّيَاطِينِ، وَأَنْ يَحْضُرُونِ”.

✨8. Moral and educational conclusion:
When the whispering of Satan reaches the God-fearing, they remember God and regain their sight.
Remembering God at the moment of deciding whether to sin is the hardest thing to do, yet it is what saves us.
Fleeing from sin and trusting in God render Satan’s dominion powerless.

✨9. Final emphasis:
Protecting the rawʿ, both individually and collectively, is possible only through constant seeking of refuge in God, remembrance of Him, and keeping away from centers of corruption.
Oppression and ignorance are the natural consequences of Satan’s dominion over the human heart and mind.

✅ This text emphasizes a preventive approach: safeguarding the perceptual faculty (rawʿ) and seeking refuge in God as a constant shield against Satan.