The Mahdi, the Adorner of Wisdom

🌻🔆Mahdi, the Embodiment of Wisdom🔆🌻

🌼🔆🌼Mahdi, the Rider of Transcendent Technology🌼🔆🌼

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌹 “The Secret of Connection with Mahdi”  “Reason and Wisdom: The Bridge of Connection”  “The Final Class” “The Capacity for ظهور”  “The Night of Mid-Sha‘ban” and more … An Abstract with an Addendum       1404.11.14    Ali Saei (Abdollah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🌻❇️✳️✅✨💫O نُورَ السَّماواتِ‏ وَ الْأَرْض, by the Proof🔆🔅

🌷Beauty came laughing, and Mahdi’s name took shape

The world of the spirit and the spirit of the world arrived in majesty and glory

Across both worlds, another world came into being

🔅Light lent his beauty yet more color,

🌻And once again, the melody of “So blessed is God” arose

🌼The veil fell from the face of light

💫Honey yearned for the sweetness of his name

🌷His sunrise, never to set, shines eternal in the garden of light

❇️He is the locus of manifestation of God’s Most Beautiful Names

Mahdi is the all-embracing book of God’s Most Beautiful Names

Mahdi is the speaking truth and the beautiful names of God

Mahdi is the sweet melody in the grand symphony of God’s Most Beautiful Names

❇️The veil was drawn from beauty’s splendor, and Mahdi appeared

 The veil fell from the face of the world’s peerless beauty, and truth smiled

Another sweetness came to grace the world’s lips

❇️Beauty smiled, and sweetness broke through

The revelation of a beauty before which all beauties smile

In his light, the world found a new meaning.

 The light of his being tore through the veils, and the refrain “So blessed is God” rang through all existence.

 His sunrise, never to set, promised eternity and liberation in the garden of light.

Peace be upon that promised one of heaven and earth, whose name is the nectar and draught of the world’s soul, and whose presence is the bright, graceful essence of light.

Indeed, peace be upon you, O radiance of light in this darkened age.

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❇️The world searches, seeking existence’s rarest jewel

Mahdi’s beauty, a cherished memory of ages past!

The seven climes of the world are a map of Mahdi’s beauty!

The world’s seekers, each vying with the others, search for Mahdi!

Mahdi is the final tryst with the Beloved; all therefore seek Mahdi, to meet the Beloved at last!

A jewel in whose heart all the sciences of existence are held!

❇️Salman longs to behold the beauty of the Imam of the Age (peace be upon him)

💫🔆قَالَ الصَّادِقُ ع‏ رُوِيَ بِإِسْنَادٍ صَحِيحٍ عَنْ سَلْمَانَ الْفَارِسِيِّ ره قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَلَمَّا نَظَرَ إِلَيَّ فَقَالَ ص يَا سَلْمَانُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَنْ يَبْعَثَ نَبِيّاً وَ لَا رَسُولًا إِلَّا وَ لَهُ اثْنَا عَشَرَ نَقِيباً قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص عَرَفْتُ هَذَا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابَيْنِ قَالَ يَا سَلْمَانُ هَلْ عَرَفْتَ نُقَبَائِيَ الِاثْنَيْ عَشَرَ الَّذِينَ اخْتَارَهُمُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى لِلْإِمَامَةِ مِنْ بَعْدِي فَقُلْتُ اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ فَقَالَ يَا سَلْمَانُ خَلَقَنِيَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى مِنْ صَفْوَةِ نُورِهِ وَ دَعَانِي فَأَطَعْتُهُ فَخَلَقَ مِنْ نُورِي عَلِيّاً وَ دَعَاهُ فَأَطَاعَهُ فَخَلَقَ مِنْ نُورِي وَ نُورِ عَلِيٍّ فَاطِمَةَ وَ دَعَاهَا فَأَطَاعَتْهُ فَخَلَقَ مِنِّي وَ مِنْ عَلِيٍّ وَ فَاطِمَةَ الْحَسَنَ وَ الْحُسَيْنَ فَدَعَاهُمَا فَأَطَاعَاهُ فَسَمَّانَا اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِخَمْسَةِ أَسْمَاءٍ مِنْ أَسْمَائِهِ فَاللَّهُ تَعَالَى الْمَحْمُودُ وَ أَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ وَ اللَّهُ الْعَلِيُّ وَ هَذَا عَلِيٌّ وَ اللَّهُ الْفَاطِرُ وَ هَذِهِ فَاطِمَةُ وَ اللَّهُ ذُو الْإِحْسَانِ وَ هَذَا الْحَسَنُ وَ اللَّهُ الْمُحْسِنُ وَ هَذَا الْحُسَيْنُ وَ خَلَقَ مِنْ نُورِ الْحُسَيْنِ تِسْعَةَ أَئِمَّةٍ فَدَعَاهُمْ فَأَطَاعُوهُ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ يَخْلُقَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى سَمَاءً مَبْنِيَّةً وَ أَرْضاً مَدْحِيَّةً أَوْ هَوَاءً أَوْ مَلَكاً أَوْ بَشَراً وَ كُنَّا أَنْوَاراً نُسَبِّحُهُ وَ نَسْمَعُ لَهُ وَ نُطِيعُ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ بِأَبِي أَنْتَ وَ أُمِّي مَا لِمَنْ عَرَفَ هَؤُلَاءِ حَقَّ مَعْرِفَتِهِمْ فَقَالَ يَا سَلْمَانُ مَنْ عَرَفَهُمْ حَقَّ مَعْرِفَتِهِمْ وَ اقْتَدَى بِهِمْ فَوَالاهُمْ وَ تَبَرَّأَ مِنْ عَدُوِّهِمْ كَانَ وَ اللَّهِ مِنَّا يَرِدُ حَيْثُ نَرِدُ وَ يَكُنْ حَيْثُ نَكُنْ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَهَلْ إِيمَانٌ بِغَيْرِ مَعْرِفَتِهِمْ بِأَسْمَائِهِمْ وَ أَنْسَابِهِمْ فَقَالَ لَا يَا سَلْمَانُ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَأَنَّى لِي بِهِمْ فَقَالَ ص قَدْ عَرَفْتَ إِلَى الْحُسَيْنِ ع قُلْتُ نَعَمْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ثُمَّ سَيِّدُ الْعَابِدِينَ‏ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ثُمَّ ابْنُهُ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ بَاقِرُ عِلْمِ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ الْآخِرِينَ مِنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ ثُمَّ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ لِسَانُ اللَّهِ الصَّادِقُ ثُمَّ مُوسَى بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْكَاظِمُ غَيْظَهُ صَبْراً فِي اللَّهِ تَعَالَى ثُمَّ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُوسَى الرِّضَا الرَّاضِي بِسِرِّ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى ثُمَّ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْمُخْتَارُ مِنْ خَلْقِ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَادِي إِلَى اللَّهِ ثُمَّ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الصَّامِتُ الْأَمِينُ عَلَى سِرِّ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ Muhammad النَّاطِقُ الْقَائِمُ بِحَقِّ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى قَالَ سَلْمَانُ فَبَكَيْتُ‏ ثُمَ‏ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص إِنِّي مُؤَجَّلٌ إِلَى عَهْدِهِمْ قَالَ يَا سَلْمَانُ اقْرَأْ- فَإِذا جاءَ وَعْدُ أُولاهُما بَعَثْنا عَلَيْكُمْ عِباداً لَنا أُولِي بَأْسٍ شَدِيدٍ فَجاسُوا خِلالَ الدِّيارِ وَ كانَ وَعْداً مَفْعُولًا. ثُمَّ رَدَدْنا لَكُمُ الْكَرَّةَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ أَمْدَدْناكُمْ بِأَمْوالٍ وَ بَنِينَ وَ جَعَلْناكُمْ أَكْثَرَ نَفِيراً قَالَ ره فَاشْتَدَّ بُكَائِي وَ شَوْقِي قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص‏ أَ بِعَهْدٍ مِنْكَ فَقَالَ إِي وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَنِي وَ أَرْسَلَنِي لَبِعَهْدٍ مِنِّي وَ بِعَلِيٍّ وَ فَاطِمَةَ وَ الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ وَ تِسْعَةِ أَئِمَّةٍ مِنْ وُلْدِ الْحُسَيْنِ ع وَ بِكَ وَ مَنْ هُوَ مِنَّا وَ مَظْلُومٌ فِينَا وَ كُلُّ مَنْ مَحَضَ الْإِيمَانَ مَحْضاً إِي وَ اللَّهِ يَا سَلْمَانُ ثُمَّ لَيَحْضُرَنَّ إِبْلِيسُ وَ جُنُودُهُ وَ كُلُّ مَنْ مَحَضَ الْكُفْرَ مَحْضاً حَتَّى يُؤْخَذَ بِالْقِصَاصِ وَ Al-Awtād [الْأَوْتَارِ] وَ التُّرَاثِ وَ لَا يَظْلِمُ رَبُّكَ أَحَداً وَ نَحْنُ تَأْوِيلُ هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ- وَ نُرِيدُ أَنْ نَمُنَّ عَلَى الَّذِينَ اسْتُضْعِفُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ نَجْعَلَهُمْ أَئِمَّةً وَ نَجْعَلَهُمُ الْوارِثِينَ. وَ نُمَكِّنَ لَهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ نُرِيَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَ هامانَ وَ جُنُودَهُما مِنْهُمْ ما كانُوا يَحْذَرُونَ‏ قَالَ سَلْمَانُ فَقُمْتُ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ مَا يُبَالِي سَلْمَانُ كَيْفَ لَقِيَ الْمَوْتَ أَوْ He met him [لَقِيَهُ][1]

💫🔆Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said: Salman al-Farsi (may God be pleased with him) reported, through an authentic chain of transmission, that he said: “I came to the Messenger of God (PBUH). When he looked at me, he said, ‘Salmān, God, Mighty and Exalted, has never sent a prophet or messenger without appointing twelve chiefs for him—leaders and chosen ones.’”

I said, “Messenger of God, I learned this from the People of the Two Books (the Torah and the Gospel).”

He said, “O Salman! Do you know my twelve trustees, whom God Most High has chosen to lead the community after me?”

I replied, “God and His Messenger know best.”

He said, “O Salman! God Most High created me from His own light and called me, and I obeyed. Then, from my light, He created Ali, called him, and he obeyed. Then, from my light and Ali’s, He created Fatima, called her, and she obeyed. Then, from me, Ali, and Fatima, He created Hasan and Husayn, called them, and they obeyed.

“Then God Most High named us after five of His own names:

“God is Praiseworthy, and I am Muhammad.

“God is Most High, and this is Ali ibn Abi Talib.

“God is the Creator, and this is Fatima, my daughter.

“God is the Possessor of Goodness, and this is Hasan.

“God is the Beneficent, and this is Husayn.

“From the light of Husayn, He created nine Imams, called them, and they obeyed—all before God raised the heavens, spread out the earth, or created the air, an angel, or a human being. We were lights praising Him, hearing His command, and obeying Him.

Salman said, “I asked, ‘O Messenger of God! May my father and mother be sacrificed for you. What is the reward of one who truly knows them?’”

He said, “O Salman! Whoever truly knows them, follows them, loves them, and disavows their enemies—by God, that person is one of us, and wherever we are, they will be.”

I asked, “O Messenger of God! Can there be faith without knowing their names and lineage?”

He said, “No, Salman.”

I asked, “O Messenger of God! Then how can I know them?”

He said, “You know Husayn (AS), do you not?”

I replied, “Yes.”

The Prophet (PBUH) said, “Then comes the chief of the worshippers, Ali ibn al-Husayn; then his son Muhammad ibn Ali, who brings forth the knowledge of the prophets and messengers, the first and the last; then Ja‘far ibn Muhammad, the truthful tongue of God; then Musa ibn Ja‘far, who patiently restrains his anger for the sake of God; then Ali ibn Musa, who accepts God’s secret; then Muhammad ibn Ali, chosen from among God’s creation; then Ali ibn Muhammad, the guide to God; then Hasan ibn Ali, the silent guardian of God’s secret; and then Muhammad, who speaks and upholds God’s truth.”

Salman said, “I wept and said, ‘O Messenger of God! I will not live to see their time.’”

He said, “O Salman! Recite: ‘When the first of the two promises comes to pass, We will send against you servants of Ours, possessed of great might, and they will search out your homes. This is a promise that will surely be fulfilled. Then We will restore victory to you, support you with wealth and children, and increase your numbers.’”

Salman said, “My weeping and longing grew intense. I asked, ‘O Messenger of God! Is this a promise from you?’”

He said, “Yes! By the One who sent me as a messenger, this is a promise from me, from Ali, Fatima, Hasan, Husayn, and the nine Imams descended from Husayn (AS)—and from you, from everyone who belongs to us, from everyone who has been wronged, and from everyone whose faith is pure.

“By God, O Salman! Then Iblis and his armies, and everyone whose disbelief is pure, will be brought forth to face retribution, and the threads of vengeance and the inheritance of rights that were denied will be reclaimed. Your Lord wrongs no one. We are the interpretation of this verse:

‘We desire to show favour to those who were oppressed in the land, and to make them leaders and inheritors; to establish them firmly in the land; and to show Pharaoh, Haman, and their armies what they feared.’”

Salman said, “After leaving the presence of the Messenger of God (PBUH), I rose, and Salman no longer cared how he met death—or how death met him.”

✅Key points of the hadith:

The principle of the Twelve Imams in earlier religions: The institution of twelve divinely appointed leaders has been a constant tradition in all heavenly religions.

The creation of the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) from light: They were created from divine light before the material world, signifying their sacred station and God-given knowledge.

The Divine Names: The connection between the names of the Five beneath the Cloak and the Most Beautiful Names points to their nearness to God and their role as manifestations of the Divine in the world.

A condition of faith: Knowing and following the Imams (AS) is a necessary condition of true faith.

Naming the Twelve Imams: The Prophet (PBUH) explicitly names each of the twelve Imams and identifies them.

The promise of the advent and retribution: The uprising of the Imam of the Age (AJ) and his vengeance upon history’s oppressors are foretold, with reference to Quranic verses.

Interpreting the verse about the oppressed: The Ahl al-Bayt (AS) are identified as the true oppressed who will ultimately inherit the earth.

The peace that comes from knowledge: For a believer such as Salman, the practical fruit of this recognition is peace of heart and fearlessness in the face of death.

Those who await His Eminence, the Mahdi, have existed throughout the entire universe since its creation.

❇️A great classroom beneath the shadow of occultation

In the age of occultation, the one who is absent is servitude to God.

The age of occultation is an age of spiritual discipline, practice, and preparation for the final stage of servitude to God.

The age of occultation is the eschatological entrance examination.

The curriculum of the age of advent is the final lesson of the end times.

❇️The age of occultation: a pre-advent university

Neglecting pre-advent studies is utter illiteracy in the end times.

We must be prepared and equipped in every respect—intellectually, rationally, spiritually, ethically, and practically. The final seconds of the end times are the most precious moments in creation.

The age of preparation for the presence of the Mahdi (AS) did not begin with the occultation; it began in the time of Adam (AS)—indeed, at the dawn of creation!

❇️The human core will unfold

At the advent, the human computer will be activated to its full capacity! The human soul will be liberated in all its fullness.

❇️The beginning of higher connections

At the advent, missions on Earth and beyond it will begin!

A bond and unity between earthlings and those beyond Earth will come about. An age of meeting our extraterrestrial and cosmic kin will begin!

What astonishing visits and reunions there will be.

❇️The Mahdist heart: the secret of knowing the Imam

Perhaps after the advent you will feel ashamed that, throughout the occultation, you were constantly with your Imam of the Age, in his presence, yet did not know him.

The beauty of our Imam of the Age is like the Quran: everyone sees the Quran, yet fails to truly behold it!

Perhaps you refused your Imam of the Age’s invitation, gave him no welcome, ate none of his food, offered him no food, and did not even count him among those who mattered.

❇️The heart’s advent before the bodily advent

Unless you experience the advent before the advent, it will be hard to understand the advent that follows it.

Drink deeply from the cups offered before His Eminence’s advent.

The beauty of our Imam of the Age is divine oneness! The heart of one who affirms God’s oneness is a cup of tawhid, inscribed with the image of the Imam of the Age.

❇️An awakened heart, listening to the Speaking Quran

A heedless, inattentive heart is captive to darkness.

Behold the beauty of your Imam of the Age with an illumined heart.

Attachment to the world is the root of heedlessness toward the life to come and a cause of blindness to the beauty of the Real.

✨🔆الإسراء : 45   وَ إِذا قَرَأْتَ الْقُرْآنَ جَعَلْنا بَيْنَكَ وَ بَيْنَ الَّذينَ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ حِجاباً مَسْتُوراً

🔆And when you recite the Quran, We place an unseen veil between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter;

❇️Answer the call of your Imam of the Time

An eye that does not know its Imam of the Time is blinded by ignorance; ignorance is the enemy of light.

Keep God’s light aflame in your heart, so that His presence and manifestation may shine there without cease.

✨🔆الأعراف : 198   وَ إِنْ تَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى الْهُدى‏ لا يَسْمَعُوا وَ تَراهُمْ يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَيْكَ وَ هُمْ لا يُبْصِرُونَ

🔆And if you call them to guidance, they do not hear you! You see them looking at you, yet in truth they do not see!

❇️Even the blind can see the beauty of the Joseph of Fatima,

but the sight that cannot behold the beauty of the Joseph of Fatima is blind indeed.

The Imam’s light blazes in a pure heart.

✨🔆يوسف : 58   وَ جاءَ إِخْوَةُ يُوسُفَ فَدَخَلُوا عَلَيْهِ فَعَرَفَهُمْ وَ هُمْ لَهُ مُنْكِرُونَ

🔆(Famine had struck the land of Canaan.) Joseph’s brothers came to Egypt in search of provisions and entered his presence. He recognised them, but they did not recognise him.

❇️Meet your Imam through the light of knowing your Imam of the Time

If the light of the Imam of the Time has gone out in your heart, you will be captive to ignorance and sunk in darkness.

If the Imam’s light is extinguished in your heart, you will be deprived of beholding the beauty of God’s Proof.

You must visit your Imam with the eyes of one who knows the Imam of the Time.

✨🔆 الأعراف : 179   وَ لَقَدْ ذَرَأْنا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثيراً مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لا يَفْقَهُونَ بِها وَ لَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ لا يُبْصِرُونَ بِها وَ لَهُمْ آذانٌ لا يَسْمَعُونَ بِها أُولئِكَ كَالْأَنْعامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ أُولئِكَ هُمُ الْغافِلُونَ

🔆We have surely created many jinn and human beings for Hell: they have hearts with which they do not think or understand, eyes with which they do not see, and ears with which they do not hear. They are like cattle—indeed, even more astray. They are the heedless ones, for despite having every means of guidance, they still go astray.

❇️Whoever’s heart clings to the truth will have the eye that sees truth blinded

He makes the blind see—unless they turn away from the light

✨🔆 يونس : 43   وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْكَ أَ فَأَنْتَ تَهْدِي الْعُمْيَ وَ لَوْ كانُوا لا يُبْصِرُونَ

🔆Some of them gaze toward you, but it is as though they see nothing! Can you guide the blind, even when they cannot see?

❇️God has forbidden His light to those unworthy of it

✨🔆 يس : 9   وَ جَعَلْنا مِنْ بَيْنِ أَيْديهِمْ سَدًّا وَ مِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ سَدًّا فَأَغْشَيْناهُمْ فَهُمْ لا يُبْصِرُونَ

🔆We have set a barrier before them and a barrier behind them, and covered their eyes, so they cannot see.

❇️The proof within us precedes the outward proof

Our Imam of the Time is in our hearts, ever-present; God’s light within us never sets.

Greet the light of God!

💫🔆 عَنْ أَبِي خَالِدٍ الْكَابُلِيِّ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ع عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ- فَآمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ وَ النُّورِ الَّذِي أَنْزَلْنا  فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا خَالِدٍ النُّورُ وَ اللَّهِ- الْأَئِمَّةُ مِنْ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ وَ هُمْ وَ اللَّهِ نُورُ اللَّهِ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ وَ هُمْ وَ اللَّهِ نُورُ اللَّهِ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ اللَّهِ يَا أَبَا خَالِدٍ لَنُورُ الْإِمَامِ‏ فِي قُلُوبِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَنْوَرُ مِنَ الشَّمْسِ الْمُضِيئَةِ بِالنَّهَارِ وَ هُمْ وَ اللَّهِ يُنَوِّرُونَ قُلُوبَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ يَحْجُبُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ نُورَهُمْ عَمَّنْ يَشَاءُ فَتُظْلِمُ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَ اللَّهِ يَا أَبَا خَالِدٍ لَا يُحِبُّنَا عَبْدٌ وَ يَتَوَلَّانَا حَتَّى يُطَهِّرَ اللَّهُ قَلْبَهُ وَ لَا يُطَهِّرُ اللَّهُ قَلْبَ عَبْدٍ حَتَّى يُسَلِّمَ لَنَا وَ يَكُونَ سِلْماً لَنَا فَإِذَا كَانَ سِلْماً لَنَا سَلَّمَهُ اللَّهُ مِنْ شَدِيدِ الْحِسَابِ وَ آمَنَهُ مِنْ فَزَعِ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ الْأَكْبَرِ.[2]

💫🔆 Abū Khālid al-Kābulī narrated: I asked Imam al-Bāqir (AS) about the words of God, the Almighty and Exalted: “So believe in God, His Messenger, and the light that We have sent down.” (Sūrat al-Taghābun, verse 8)

He said: “Abū Khālid, by God, the light is the Imams from the family of Muhammad (PBUH), until the Day of Resurrection. By God, they are the light of God that has been sent down. And by God, they are the light of God in the heavens and the earth.”

“By God, Abū Khālid, the light of the Imam in the hearts of the faithful is brighter than the shining sun by day. By God, they illuminate the hearts of the faithful. And God, the Almighty and Exalted, veils their light from whomever He wills, and so their hearts grow dark.”

“By God, Abū Khālid, no servant loves us and accepts our authority unless God purifies his heart. And God does not purify a servant’s heart until he submits to us and makes peace with us (and obeys us). Once he has made peace with us, God will save him from the severe reckoning and keep him safe from the great terror of the Day of Resurrection.”

✅Key points of the hadith:

Interpretation of the verse about light: This narration clearly interprets the word “light” in verse 8 of Sūrat al-Taghābun as referring to the Imams of the Ahl al-Bayt (AS). It shows that true faith rests on belief in three things: God, the Messenger, and the infallible Imams.

The Imamate as the continuation of prophethood: The Imams are the manifestation and continuation of the very light that dwelt within the Prophet (PBUH) and shone upon the world.

Ontological and guiding light: The radiance of the Imams (AS) has two dimensions:

Ontological (metaphysical) light: They are the light of God in the realms of heaven and earth.

Guiding light (of the heart): They illuminate the hearts of the faithful and are a source of knowledge and spirituality.

The divine veil: Their guiding light is not bestowed on everyone. In keeping with His wisdom, God veils it from the hearts of those who are not worthy of it. This points to human free will and divine wisdom in guidance and misguidance.

The condition of love and acceptance of authority: Love for the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) and acceptance of their authority are neither artificial nor merely emotional. This love is the fruit and sign of a pure heart, which itself comes from submission to their rightful authority. It is a profound inner process.

The ultimate reward: Whoever attains this rank will be saved from the rigours of the reckoning on the Day of Resurrection and shielded from that day’s great terror. This is the greatest reward in the Hereafter.

❇️The Imam of Our Time, the Ever-Traveling Physician of the Age

The Imam of Our Time is the ever-traveling physician of our age. He practices medicine from behind the veils of occultation, tending to us from the depths of the soul and from the clinic of innate human nature.

The burden of practicing the medicine of the City of Knowledge and Wisdom rests on the shoulders of the twelfth Gate of Prophetic Knowledge and Wisdom.

Everyone gathers around the ever-traveling physician of the age, while the physician of the age circles above the heads of those seeking a cure!

💫🔆طَبِيبٌ دَوَّارٌ بِطِبِّهِ قَدْ أَحْكَمَ‏ مَرَاهِمَهُ‏ وَ أَحْمَى مَوَاسِمَهُ يَضَعُ ذَلِكَ حَيْثُ الْحَاجَةُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ قُلُوبٍ عُمْيٍ وَ آذَانٍ صُمٍّ وَ أَلْسِنَةٍ بُكْمٍ مُتَتَبِّعٌ بِدَوَائِهِ مَوَاضِعَ الْغَفْلَةِ وَ مَوَاطِنَ الْحَيْرَةِ لَمْ يَسْتَضِيئُوا بِأَضْوَاءِ الْحِكْمَةِ وَ لَمْ يَقْدَحُوا بِزِنَادِ الْعُلُومِ الثَّاقِبَةِ فَهُمْ فِي ذَلِكَ كَالْأَنْعَامِ السَّائِمَةِ وَ الصُّخُورِ الْقَاسِيَةِ قَدِ انْجَابَتِ السَّرَائِرُ لِأَهْلِ الْبَصَائِرِ وَ وَضَحَتْ مَحَجَّةُ الْحَقِّ لِخَابِطِهَا وَ أَسْفَرَتِ السَّاعَةُ عَنْ وَجْهِهَا وَ ظَهَرَتِ الْعَلَامَةُ لِمُتَوَسِّمِهَا مَا لِي أَرَاكُمْ أَشْبَاحاً بِلَا أَرْوَاحٍ وَ أَرْوَاحاً بِلَا أَشْبَاحٍ وَ نُسَّاكاً بِلَا صَلَاحٍ وَ تُجَّاراً بِلَا أَرْبَاحٍ وَ أَيْقَاظاً نُوَّماً وَ شُهُوداً غُيَّباً وَ نَاظِرَةً عَمْيَاءَ وَ سَامِعَةً صَمَّاءَ وَ نَاطِقَةً بَكْمَاءَ رَايَةُ ضَلَالٍ قَدْ قَامَتْ عَلَى قُطْبِهَا وَ تَفَرَّقَتْ بِشُعَبِهَا تَكِيلُكُمْ بِصَاعِهَا وَ تَخْبِطُكُمْ بِبَاعِهَا قَائِدُهَا خَارِجٌ مِنَ الْمِلَّةِ قَائِمٌ عَلَى [الضَّلَّةِ] الضِّلَّة[3]

❇️The Imam of the Age is a physician who travels the world.

💫طَبِيبٌ دَوَّارٌ بِطِبِّهِ قَدْ أَحْكَمَ‏ مَرَاهِمَهُ‏ وَ أَحْمَى مَوَاسِمَهُ

🔆With the art of healing, this itinerant physician has made his salves firm and heated his lancets.

💫يَضَعُ ذَلِكَ حَيْثُ الْحَاجَةُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ قُلُوبٍ عُمْيٍ وَ آذَانٍ صُمٍّ وَ أَلْسِنَةٍ بُكْمٍ

🔆He applies them wherever they are needed: to blind hearts, deaf ears, and mute tongues.

💫مُتَتَبِّعٌ بِدَوَائِهِ مَوَاضِعَ الْغَفْلَةِ وَ مَوَاطِنَ الْحَيْرَةِ

🔆With his remedies, he seeks out the places of heedlessness and the realms of bewilderment.

💫لَمْ يَسْتَضِيئُوا بِأَضْوَاءِ الْحِكْمَةِ وَ لَمْ يَقْدَحُوا بِزِنَادِ الْعُلُومِ الثَّاقِبَةِ

🔆They have not sought illumination from the lights of wisdom, nor struck fire with the flints of penetrating knowledge.

💫فَهُمْ فِي ذَلِكَ كَالْأَنْعَامِ السَّائِمَةِ وَ الصُّخُورِ الْقَاسِيَةِ

🔆In this state, they are like grazing beasts and hard stones.

💫قَدِ انْجَابَتِ السَّرَائِرُ لِأَهْلِ الْبَصَائِرِ

🔆Surely, the mysteries have been unveiled to those who see.

💫وَ وَضَحَتْ مَحَجَّةُ الْحَقِّ لِخَابِطِهَا

🔆The path of truth has become clear to those who seek it.

💫وَ أَسْفَرَتِ السَّاعَةُ عَنْ وَجْهِهَا

🔆The Resurrection has lifted the veil from its face.

💫وَ ظَهَرَتِ الْعَلَامَةُ لِمُتَوَسِّمِهَا

And the sign has appeared to those who seek signs.

💫مَا لِي أَرَاكُمْ أَشْبَاحاً بِلَا أَرْوَاحٍ وَ أَرْوَاحاً بِلَا أَشْبَاحٍ

🔆What is the matter with me, that I see you as bodies without souls and souls without bodies,

💫وَ نُسَّاكاً بِلَا صَلَاحٍ وَ تُجَّاراً بِلَا أَرْبَاحٍ

🔆as ascetics without righteousness and merchants without profit,

💫وَ أَيْقَاظاً نُوَّماً وَ شُهُوداً غُيَّباً

🔆as wakeful sleepers and present absentees,

💫وَ نَاظِرَةً عَمْيَاءَ وَ سَامِعَةً صَمَّاءَ وَ نَاطِقَةً بَكْمَاءَ

🔆as seeing but blind, hearing but deaf, and speaking but mute?

💫رَايَةُ ضَلَالٍ قَدْ قَامَتْ عَلَى قُطْبِهَا وَ تَفَرَّقَتْ بِشُعَبِهَا

🔆The banner of misguidance has been raised at its center and spread through its branches.

💫تَكِيلُكُمْ بِصَاعِهَا وَ تَخْبِطُكُمْ بِبَاعِهَا

🔆He measures you by his measure and strikes you with his arm

💫قَائِدُهَا خَارِجٌ مِنَ الْمِلَّةِ قَائِمٌ عَلَى الضِّلَّة

🔆His leader is outside the nation and stands firm in error

❇️The ظهور of the Imam of the Age is the ظهور of technologies from beyond the heavens

💫🔆 عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ‏ إِنَّ ذَا الْقَرْنَيْنِ كَانَ عَبْداً صَالِحاً جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ حُجَّةً عَلَى عِبَادِهِ فَدَعَا قَوْمَهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَ أَمَرَهُمْ بِتَقْوَاهُ فَضَرَبُوهُ عَلَى قَرْنِهِ فَغَابَ عَنْهُمْ زَمَاناً حَتَّى قِيلَ مَاتَ أَوْ هَلَكَ بِأَيِّ وَادٍ سَلَكَ ثُمَّ ظَهَرَ وَ رَجَعَ إِلَى قَوْمِهِ فَضَرَبُوهُ عَلَى قَرْنِهِ الْآخَرِ وَ فِيكُمْ مَنْ هُوَ عَلَى سُنَّتِهِ وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَكَّنَ لِذِي الْقَرْنَيْنِ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ جَعَلَ لَهُ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ  سَبَباً وَ بَلَغَ الْمَغْرِبَ وَ الْمَشْرِقَ وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى سَيَجْرِى‏ سُنَّتَهُ‏ فِي الْقَائِمِ مِنْ وُلْدِي فَيُبَلِّغُهُ شَرْقَ الْأَرْضِ وَ غَرْبَهَا حَتَّى لَا يَبْقَى منهلا [مَنْهَلٌ‏] وَ لَا موضعا [مَوْضِعٌ‏] مِنْ سَهْلٍ وَ لَا جَبَلٍ وَطِئَهُ ذُو الْقَرْنَيْنِ إِلَّا وَطِئَهُ وَ يُظْهِرُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَهُ كُنُوزَ الْأَرْضِ وَ مَعَادِنَهَا وَ يَنْصُرُهُ بِالرُّعْبِ فَيَمْلَأُ الْأَرْضَ بِهِ عَدْلًا وَ قِسْطاً كَمَا مُلِئَتْ جَوْراً وَ ظُلْماً.[4]

💫🔆 It is related from Jabir ibn Abdullah al-Ansari, who said: I heard the Messenger of God (PBUH) say:

“Indeed, Dhul-Qarnayn was a righteous servant whom God, Mighty and Exalted, made a proof for His servants. He called his people to God and enjoined them to be mindful of Him, but they struck him on one horn (or side) of his head. He then disappeared from their sight for a time, until they said, ‘Has he died, or into which valley has he gone?’ Then he appeared and returned to his people, but they struck him on the other horn of his head. Among you is one who follows his way and custom”—that is, the Imam of the Age (AJ). God, Mighty and Exalted, surely established Dhul-Qarnayn firmly on earth, granting him a way and means to everything, and he reached the west and east of the earth. And God, Blessed and Exalted, will soon make his way and custom prevail in the Qa’im from among my descendants. He will carry him to the east and west of the earth, until no watering place or location—whether plain or mountain—where Dhul-Qarnayn set foot remains without him also setting foot there. God, Mighty and Exalted, will reveal to him the earth’s treasures and minerals, and aid him through terror (striking fear into the hearts of his enemies); through him, He will fill the earth with justice and equity, just as it has been filled with oppression and tyranny.”

❇️The Mahdi, the tempest of Dhul-Qarnayn, the family of Muhammad

The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, has missions beyond the earth and beyond the cosmos!

The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, will shatter the limits of time, speed and industry.

Let us prepare ourselves for great events!

❇️The Imam of the Age, master of advanced technologies

💫🔆 عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحِيمِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: ابْتَدَأَنِي‏ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع فَقَالَ أَمَا إِنَّ ذَا الْقَرْنَيْنِ‏ قَدْ خُيِّرَ السَّحَابَيْنِ فَاخْتَارَ الذَّلُولَ وَ ذَخَرَ لِصَاحِبِكُمُ الصَّعْبَ‏ قُلْتُ وَ مَا الصَّعْبُ قَالَ مَا كَانَ مِنْ سَحَابٍ فِيهِ رَعْدٌ وَ بَرْقٌ وَ صَاعِقَةٌ فَصَاحِبُكُمْ يَرْكَبُهُ أَمَا إِنَّهُ سَيَرْكَبُ السَّحَابَ وَ يَرْقَى فِي الْأَسْبَابِ أَسْبَابِ السَّمَاوَاتِ السَّبْعِ خَمْسَةٌ عَوَامِرُ وَ اثنين [اثْنَانِ‏] خَرَابٌ.[5]

💫🔆 It is related from Abd al-Rahim, who said: Abu Ja‘far (Imam Muhammad al-Baqir), peace be upon him, began speaking to me and said: “Know this: Dhul-Qarnayn was given a choice between two clouds. He chose the obedient (easy) cloud, while the difficult (formidable) cloud was kept in reserve for your master.”

Abd al-Rahim said: I asked, “What is the difficult cloud?”

He said: “Clouds that contain thunder, lightning, and thunderbolts; your master will ride one of them. Take heed! He will ride the cloud and ascend through the ladders (or paths and means) of the seven heavens. Five are inhabited, and two are desolate.”

✅Key points of the hadith:

💫The imagery of the clouds:

The tame (ذلول) cloud: A symbol of Dhu al-Qarnayn’s earthly and peaceful rule and dominion. This cloud may encompass earthly, heavenly, or even supra-heavenly clouds!

The mighty (صعب) cloud: A symbol of the heavenly, celestial, and awe-inspiring rule of Imam Mahdi (AJ), accompanied by extraordinary signs (thunder, lightning, and thunderbolts). It also represents an immense and highly complex divine technology.

💫Reserved for “your master”:

This stresses the Imam of the Age’s (AJ) superiority and extraordinary rank in relation to earlier prophets and saints.

The rule of Imam Mahdi, peace be upon him, will surpass that of Dhu al-Qarnayn and the Prophet Solomon.

💫Riding the cloud and ascending through the heavens:

This points to supernatural abilities, speed of movement, mastery over the laws of nature, and the possibility of traversing higher realms in the Age of Appearance.

Imam Mahdi, peace be upon him, will master and harness subtle, hidden codes and pure, concealed mysteries of knowledge.

💫The seven heavens:

The five inhabited heavens: These may refer to realms inhabited by beings such as angels.

The two desolate heavens: These may refer to undeveloped realms, realms not presently accessible, or realms being prepared for a particular age, such as the Resurrection.

This passage may point to the breadth of Imam Mahdi’s (AJ) rule and knowledge across all realms of existence.

❇️The final version of the material world

The technologies of our age will be no more than a mirage compared with the technology of God’s Proof.

The Age of Appearance of Imam Mahdi, peace be upon him, will be an age of rule by light.

Active, transformative genetic changes will take place.

The dormant part of human nature and the brain will be fully activated and illuminated.

Existence will be rebooted and will unfold its final blossoms.

And the human being will attain full knowledge and reach their full capacity.

❇️Will the beginning of the Appearance mark the dawn of God’s hidden Name?

Blessed are the people of divine unity, who will ascend alongside the Imam as he rises by means and through the realms.

Woe to those who remain behind on this very earth.

The scroll of creation is to be recited in its entirety through this great wisdom.

❇️The secret of the connection between the cosmos, its constituent parts, and God’s Proof will be revealed

The one who knows the cosmos will acquaint us with its mysteries.

The Most High God will reveal all His majesty and power through the Imam!

❇️Wisdom: the wise bond of connection with Imam Mahdi, peace be upon him

The relationship between wisdom and Imam Mahdi, peace be upon him, is like that between sweetness and honey.

Wisdom is the clear path to Imam Mahdi, peace be upon him!

Wisdom is both light and existence;

wisdom, too, has a body, a soul, and a world;

the mine and treasury of wisdom is Imam Mahdi, and his Shi‘a are the jewels of that treasury!

❇️Imam Mahdi (AJ) armors himself with wisdom

💫🔆أُوصِيكُمْ عِبَادَ اللَّهِ بِتَقْوَى اللَّهِ الَّذِي أَلْبَسَكُمُ الرِّيَاشَ وَ أَسْبَغَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَعَاشَ فَلَوْ أَنَّ أَحَداً يَجِدُ إِلَى الْبَقَاءِ سُلَّماً أَوْ لِدَفْعِ الْمَوْتِ سَبِيلًا لَكَانَ ذَلِكَ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنَ دَاوُدَ ع الَّذِي سُخِّرَ لَهُ مُلْكُ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ مَعَ النُّبُوَّةِ وَ عَظِيمِ الزُّلْفَةِ فَلَمَّا اسْتَوْفَى طُعْمَتَهُ وَ اسْتَكْمَلَ مُدَّتَهُ رَمَتْهُ قِسِيُّ الْفَنَاءِ بِنِبَالِ الْمَوْتِ وَ أَصْبَحَتِ الدِّيَارُ مِنْهُ‏ خَالِيَةً وَ الْمَسَاكِنُ مُعَطَّلَةً وَ وَرِثَهَا قَوْمٌ آخَرُونَ وَ إِنَّ لَكُمْ فِي الْقُرُونِ السَّالِفَةِ لَعِبْرَةً أَيْنَ الْعَمَالِقَةُ وَ أَبْنَاءُ الْعَمَالِقَةِ أَيْنَ الْفَرَاعِنَةُ وَ أَبْنَاءُ الْفَرَاعِنَةِ أَيْنَ أَصْحَابُ مَدَائِنِ الرَّسِّ الَّذِينَ قَتَلُوا النَّبِيِّينَ وَ أَطْفَئُوا سُنَنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ وَ أَحْيَوْا سُنَنَ الْجَبَّارِينَ أَيْنَ الَّذِينَ سَارُوا بِالْجُيُوشِ وَ هَزَمُوا [الْأُلُوفَ‏] بِالْأُلُوفِ وَ عَسْكَرُوا الْعَسَاكِرَ وَ مَدَّنُوا الْمَدَائِنَ وَ مِنْهَا قَدْ لَبِسَ‏ لِلْحِكْمَةِ جُنَّتَهَا وَ أَخَذَهَا بِجَمِيعِ أَدَبِهَا مِنَ الْإِقْبَالِ عَلَيْهَا وَ الْمَعْرِفَةِ بِهَا وَ التَّفَرُّغِ لَهَا فَهِيَ عِنْدَ نَفْسِهِ ضَالَّتُهُ الَّتِي يَطْلُبُهَا وَ حَاجَتُهُ الَّتِي يَسْأَلُ عَنْهَا فَهُوَ مُغْتَرِبٌ إِذَا اغْتَرَبَ الْإِسْلَامُ وَ ضَرَبَ بِعَسِيبِ ذَنَبِهِ وَ أَلْصَقَ الْأَرْضَ بِجِرَانِهِ بَقِيَّةٌ مِنْ بَقَايَا حُجَّتِهِ خَلِيفَةٌ مِنْ خَلَائِفِ أَنْبِيَائِه‏[6]

💫🔆 (The Imam or preacher says:) Servants of God, I urge you to be mindful of God—the God who adorned you with the covering of His blessings and bestowed abundant provision upon you.

If anyone could find a way to escape death or ward it off, surely it would have been Solomon son of David (AS), to whom the dominion of jinn and humankind was subjected, along with the rank of prophethood and immense nearness to God. But when his blessings came to an end and his allotted lifetime was complete, the bows of destruction loosed the arrows of death upon him. The lands were emptied of him, the homes left uninhabited, and another people inherited them.

Learning from those who came before:

Indeed, in the peoples of the past there is a lesson for you:

Where are the Amalekites and the descendants of the Amalekites?

Where are the Pharaohs and the descendants of Pharaoh?

Where are the people of the towns of al-Rass, who killed the prophets, extinguished the ways of God’s messengers, and revived the practices of tyrants?

Where are those who marched with armies, crushed thousands, assembled troops, and built cities?

On the divine proof, the Imam of the Age (AJ):

As for him—your leader—he has donned the armour of wisdom and mastered it in all its disciplines: turning toward it, understanding it, and devoting himself to it. For him, wisdom is a lost treasure he seeks, and a need he strives to meet.

He is a stranger when Islam becomes estranged. He has raised his banner and lies close to the ground; he is a remnant of the remnants of God’s proof and a successor among the successors of His prophets.

He clothed himself in the armour of wisdom and adorned himself with its beauty, making it captivating and stirring to those who behold him.

✅Key points of the sermon:

The emphasis on mindfulness of God: the beginning of all counsel and the foundation of religious life.

The transience of this world: even great prophets such as Solomon (AS) could not escape the grasp of death.

A lesson from history: the fate of all material powers and tyrants throughout history is ruin and decline.

✅Introducing the Imam of the Age (AJ):

A sage and knower: one who seeks and revives wisdom with his whole being.

A stranger: in the age when Islam is estranged, he too is a stranger.

A standard-bearer: resolute and ready to rise.

A remnant of God’s proofs: heir to the prophets and continuer of God’s way.

❇️A Detailed Explanation of the Sermon

💫أُوصِيكُمْ عِبَادَ اللَّهِ بِتَقْوَى اللَّهِ الَّذِي أَلْبَسَكُمُ الرِّيَاشَ وَ أَسْبَغَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَعَاشَ

🔆Servants of God, I urge you to be mindful of God, who clothed you and bestowed abundant provision upon you.

💫فَلَوْ أَنَّ أَحَداً يَجِدُ إِلَى الْبَقَاءِ سُلَّماً أَوْ لِدَفْعِ الْمَوْتِ سَبِيلًا لَكَانَ ذَلِكَ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنَ دَاوُدَ ع

🔆If anyone could have found a ladder to immortality or a way to ward off death, it would surely have been Solomon, son of David (AS),

💫الَّذِي سُخِّرَ لَهُ مُلْكُ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ مَعَ النُّبُوَّةِ وَ عَظِيمِ الزُّلْفَةِ

🔆to whom the dominion of jinn and humankind was made subject, along with prophethood and a lofty station of nearness to God.

💫فَلَمَّا اسْتَوْفَى طُعْمَتَهُ وَ اسْتَكْمَلَ مُدَّتَهُ رَمَتْهُ قِسِيُّ الْفَنَاءِ بِنِبَالِ الْمَوْتِ

🔆But when he had received his full measure of blessings and his appointed term was complete, the bows of destruction loosed the arrows of death upon him.

💫وَ أَصْبَحَتِ الدِّيَارُ مِنْهُ‏ خَالِيَةً وَ الْمَسَاكِنُ مُعَطَّلَةً وَ وَرِثَهَا قَوْمٌ آخَرُونَ

🔆The lands were emptied of him, the homes fell silent, and another people inherited them.

💫وَ إِنَّ لَكُمْ فِي الْقُرُونِ السَّالِفَةِ لَعِبْرَةً

🔆Surely, in the generations of the past, there is a lesson for you.

💫أَيْنَ الْعَمَالِقَةُ وَ أَبْنَاءُ الْعَمَالِقَةِ أَيْنَ الْفَرَاعِنَةُ وَ أَبْنَاءُ الْفَرَاعِنَةِ

🔆Where are the Amalekites and the sons of Amalek? Where are the Pharaohs and the sons of Pharaoh?

💫أَيْنَ أَصْحَابُ مَدَائِنِ الرَّسِّ الَّذِينَ قَتَلُوا النَّبِيِّينَ وَ أَطْفَئُوا سُنَنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ وَ أَحْيَوْا سُنَنَ الْجَبَّارِينَ

🔆Where are the people of the towns of al-Rass, who killed the prophets, extinguished the ways of the Messengers, and revived the ways of tyrants?

💫أَيْنَ الَّذِينَ سَارُوا بِالْجُيُوشِ وَ هَزَمُوا الْأُلُوفَ بِالْأُلُوفِ وَ عَسْكَرُوا الْعَسَاكِرَ وَ مَدَّنُوا الْمَدَائِنَ

🔆Where are those who marched with armies, routed thousands upon thousands, raised camps, and built cities?

💫وَ مِنْهَا قَدْ لَبِسَ‏ لِلْحِكْمَةِ جُنَّتَهَا وَ أَخَذَهَا بِجَمِيعِ أَدَبِهَا مِنَ الْإِقْبَالِ عَلَيْهَا وَ الْمَعْرِفَةِ بِهَا وَ التَّفَرُّغِ لَهَا

🔆Among them was one who donned the armor of wisdom, taking it up with all its proper disciplines, eagerly embracing it, knowing it, and devoting himself to it.

💫فَهِيَ عِنْدَ نَفْسِهِ ضَالَّتُهُ الَّتِي يَطْلُبُهَا وَ حَاجَتُهُ الَّتِي يَسْأَلُ عَنْهَا

🔆For him, wisdom is a lost treasure he seeks, and a need about which he asks.

💫فَهُوَ مُغْتَرِبٌ إِذَا اغْتَرَبَ الْإِسْلَامُ وَ ضَرَبَ بِعَسِيبِ ذَنَبِهِ وَ أَلْصَقَ الْأَرْضَ بِجِرَانِهِ

🔆He is a stranger when Islam becomes a stranger; he unfurls its banner and draws the earth close to its inhabitants.

💫بَقِيَّةٌ مِنْ بَقَايَا حُجَّتِهِ خَلِيفَةٌ مِنْ خَلَائِفِ أَنْبِيَائِه[7]

🔆A remnant from among the remnants of His proof, a successor from among the successors of His Prophets.

❇️The Shia are the wisdom of the Imam of the Age.

💫🔆قَدْ لَبِسَ‏ لِلْحِكْمَةِ جُنَّتَهَا وَ أَخَذَهَا بِجَمِيعِ أَدَبِهَا مِنَ الْإِقْبَالِ عَلَيْهَا وَ الْمَعْرِفَةِ بِهَا وَ التَّفَرُّغِ لَهَا فَهِيَ عِنْدَ نَفْسِهِ ضَالَّتُهُ الَّتِي يَطْلُبُهَا وَ حَاجَتُهُ الَّتِي يَسْأَلُ عَنْهَا[8]

🔆 For the sake of wisdom, he donned its armor and embraced it with the fullest courtesy—turning toward it, knowing it, and devoting himself to it.

🔆Thus wisdom is, for him, a lost treasure he seeks and a need about which he inquires.

✅A closer look at this blessed passage:

He clothed wisdom in armor, placed it within a fortress, equipped it to the utmost, and made it beyond reach. Then he adorned it with every beauty, made it captivating so that all would be drawn to it, made it known to them, devoted himself to that wisdom, and emptied his heart for it—becoming its private sanctuary.

It is as though the Imam of our time (AJ) seeks his Shi‘a as a lost treasure of wisdom. He finds them and grants them special attention, bringing them to such strength that they become impregnable: neither ensnared by the world and its devotees nor known to just anyone, and safe from the dangers of the age. Yet in that private retreat of care, he adorns them with beauty and finery, so that, in time, they may captivate every eye…

✅💫 Wisdom’s armor: safety in plain sight

The Imam (AJ) clothes the true Shi‘a in the armor of wisdom. This armor is not meant simply to conceal, but to safeguard the jewel while it remains in view. He places him like a sword in wisdom’s sheath, preserving its edge while keeping it ever ready to emerge. This armor protects him from the arrows of distortion, superficiality, and enslavement to the outward trappings of the world. Clad in armor, the Shi‘a is present in public, yet empty ideas and worldly attachments cannot penetrate him.

✅💫Adorned with captivating virtues: the appeal of the inner life

The Imam then adorns this protected being with the jewels of “noble character,” “illuminated deeds,” “tranquility of heart,” and “mystical grace.” These adornments are not for boasting, but to draw hearts that seek the truth and reveal the beautiful face of religion. The adorned Shi‘a becomes a mirror reflecting the Imam’s light—without impure eyes seeing its true source—and calling others toward him.

✅💫The Imam’s lost treasure: a reciprocal bond

Here lies the astonishing point: if the Shi‘a regards the Imam as his “proof” and “desired one,” then, in the Imam’s (AJ) eyes, the true Shi‘a is also «ضالَّتُهُ»—his lost treasure. The Imam is always seeking hearts ready to receive him, so that he may place his light within them. It is a bond of mutual love: the Shi‘a seeks the Imam, and the Imam seeks the complete Shi‘a.

✅💫The private retreat of care: a school of devotion

That “sanctuary of wisdom” is the prayer niche of inner communion—attentive turning of the heart, seeking intercession, supplication, and awaiting deliverance—where the Imam directly guides that person, without the intrusion of others. In this retreat, he learns divinely bestowed knowledge, gains insight, and prepares for the Imam’s divine plan. The Imam trains him to serve while remaining hidden, and to have an impact while remaining unknown.

✅💫Emergence at the appointed time: the conquest of hearts

When the time comes for public emergence, this armored and adorned Shi‘a steps out of the retreat of attentive devotion and onto the stage of the world. Then he “captivates every eye”—not by the force of the sword, but through the allure of wisdom, beauty of character, and the radiance of faith. He is a living embodiment of the “Mahdist ideal city,” even before the general advent.

✅💫

Thus, the Shi‘a whose soul is steeped in wisdom is a hidden soldier of the Imam of our time (AJ): protected by the armor of knowledge, captivating through the adornments of virtue and noble qualities, cherished by the Imam, and influential in society. He is the fruit of that luminous passage: one for whom wisdom became a lost treasure, and who devoted all his energies to finding it and clothing himself in it—and who, in turn, became the object of his own Imam’s search and special attention.

O Allah, make us among his supporters and helpers, and among those who are martyred in his presence. 🌿🕊️

❇️He will equip the soul of wisdom with golden armor

He will equip knowledge and wisdom for the final battle to eradicate ignorance completely.

He will safeguard pure wisdom and the true sage from the grasp of hypocrites and the unworthy, so that they do not become captive to the hearts of hypocrites, polytheists and unbelievers.

He himself, the spring of wisdom, is the gate to the City of the Prophet’s wisdom—the twelfth gate to the City of the Prophet’s knowledge.

His words and mysteries, through his Shia, will rend the breasts of hypocrisy and ignorance!

The wisdom of the Mahdi will work wonders!

❇️ Beauty is the splendour of wisdom

With the ظهور of Imam of the Age, every form of wisdom and beauty will return to its treasuries. The pure and faithful person is a treasury of wisdom and beauty!

Beauty, pleasure, rank in beauty, spirit and standing—all are in a state of agitation in the hypocritical and sinful person, and will come to rest in their rightful place: the gracious being of the faithful!

❇️ Wisdom is like a star-filled galaxy

Let us not confuse wisdom with its outward manifestations: wise sayings are stars of wisdom.

Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is the soul and sun of wisdom, and pure, faithful people are rays of that sun.

❇️ “A faithful man and a faithful woman,” like “a wise man and a wise woman”

A faithful man and a faithful woman are to one another as wisdom is to the abode of wisdom: they find peace in each other.

Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, will bring the faithful men to union with the faithful women.

❇️ Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, seeks a home free of hypocrisy

What is the sacred home? It is a place without hypocrisy: the sacred home is the holy precinct of God’s guardian.

The heart of a pure, faithful person, perfumed with wisdom, is the sacred home of Imam of the Age, peace be upon him.

❇️ Imam of the Age is a tempest of divine wisdom

Wisdom adorns the heavens of knowledge, and the Mahdi is the very adornment and ornament of knowledge’s majesty.

Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is wisdom in motion and the soul of the world’s wisdom.

Through the nerve of wisdom, Imam of the Age is felt in the heart.

❇️ Be an engineer of God’s mine of wisdom

Imam of the Age is God’s inexhaustible mine

💫🔆 عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ قَالَ قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ يَا خَيْثَمَةُ نَحْنُ شَجَرَةُ النُّبُوَّةِ وَ بَيْتُ الرَّحْمَةِ وَ مَفَاتِيحُ الْحِكْمَةِ وَ مَعْدِنُ الْعِلْمِ وَ مَوْضِعُ الرِّسَالَةِ وَ مُخْتَلَفُ الْمَلَائِكَةِ وَ مَوْضِعُ سِرِّ اللَّهِ وَ نَحْنُ وَدِيعَةُ اللَّهِ فِي عِبَادِهِ وَ نَحْنُ حَرَمُ اللَّهِ الْأَكْبَرُ وَ نَحْنُ ذِمَّةُ اللَّهِ وَ نَحْنُ عَهْدُ اللَّهِ فَمَنْ وَفَى بِعَهْدِنَا فَقَدْ وَفَى بِعَهْدِ اللَّهِ وَ مَنْ خَفَرَهَا فَقَدْ خَفَرَ ذِمَّةَ اللَّهِ وَ عَهْدَهُ.[9]

🔆 It is related from Khaythama, who said: Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him) told me, “O Khaythama! We are the tree of prophethood, the house of mercy, the keys of wisdom, the mine of knowledge, the abode of the Message, the place where angels come and go, and the repository of God’s secret. We are God’s trust among His servants, His great sanctuary, and God’s protection and covenant. Whoever honours our covenant honours God’s covenant, and whoever breaks it breaks God’s protection and covenant.”

🌸Every kind of fruit grows on the tree of prophethood

Every kind of mercy flows forth from the house of mercy

Through the keys of wisdom, the wisdoms of this world and the next, of earth and heaven, are unlocked. That is, knowledge in all its branches, along with its technology and inventions—beyond wealth and desire

God’s Proof is God’s great trial. If everything at every moment in time were to be revealed from the Imam’s soul, there would be no meaning to the trial.

In the End Times, our world wanders through the desert of ignorance and drives the world of knowledge away from itself!

❇️Set your sights on the House of Wisdom

💫🔆 وَ أَنَا بَيْتُ الْحِكْمَةِ وَ أَنْتَ مِفْتَاحُه‏[10]

🔆 “And I (the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family) am the House of Wisdom, and you (Ali) are its key.”

💫🔆 أَنَا مَدِينَةُ الْحِكْمَةِ وَ عَلِيٌّ بَابُهَا فَمَنْ أَرَادَ الْمَدِينَةَ فَلْيَأْتِهَا مِنْ بَابِهَا[11]

🔆 “I am the City of Wisdom, and Ali is its gate. So whoever seeks the city must enter through its gate.”

❇️Do not drive the Imam of your age from your heart

Whoever turns away from the Qur’an and the narrations turns away from the Imam of their age. The narrations of the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) are the salt of wilayah! Take care that a hypocrite does not outstrip a believer in turning to the subtle wisdom of the Two Weighty Things!

💫🔆 وَ قَالَ ع‏ خُذِ الْحِكْمَةَ أَنَّى كَانَتْ فَإِنَّ الْحِكْمَةَ تَكُونُ فِي صَدْرِ الْمُنَافِقِ فَتَلَجْلَجُ فِي صَدْرِهِ حَتَّى تَخْرُجَ فَتَسْكُنَ إِلَى صَوَاحِبِهَا فِي صَدْرِ الْمُؤْمِنِ:

🔆 And he (AS) said: “Take wisdom wherever you find it, for wisdom may settle in the breast of a hypocrite, where it churns within him until it comes out and finds rest in the breast of his believing companions.”

❇️The Imam of the age turns away from hypocrisy

A pure heart, illumined by the light of faith and wisdom, is the dwelling place of the Imam of the age (AS).

The hypocrite’s heart is a place of torment for the Imam of the age!

A believer’s heart is a place of peace and comfort for the Imam of their age!

Light and wisdom find rest and abiding peace only in a pure heart!

❇️On the meaning of talajluj

☘️🔆“الفهم الفهم فيما تَلَجْلَج فى صدرك ممّا ليس فى كتاب و لا سنّة” — that is, something that stirs and troubles your heart without settling. (The letter “h” marks the end of a section.) The same root appears in the hadith of Ali: “الكلمة من الحكمة تكون فى صدر المنافق فَتَلَجْلَجُ حتى تخرج إلى صاحبها” — that is, it moves restlessly within his breast until a believer hears it, takes it up, and understands it. The intended form is “تَتَلَجْلَجُ”; the imperfect-prefix tāʾ has been omitted for ease of pronunciation. [12]

“الفهم الفهم فيما تَلَجْلَجُ في صدرك ممّا ليس في كتاب ولا سنّة” means that something stirs and troubles your heart and will not settle. (The letter “h” in the text marks the end of a section.) The same root occurs in a hadith of Ali (AS), who said: “A word of wisdom settles in the breast of a hypocrite and تَلَجْلَجُ (churns restlessly within him) until it comes out and reaches its owner—that is, a believer.” In other words, it moves and causes unrest in his breast until a believer hears it, takes it up, and retains it. The original form was “تَتَلَجْلَجُ”; the imperfect-prefix tāʾ was omitted for ease of pronunciation.”

Explanation and Persian equivalent of “تَلَجْلَجُ”:

The word “تَلَجْلَجُ” comes from the root “لَجْلَجَه” and means restless activity: an anxious, unsettled stirring within the breast. In Persian, it is commonly rendered with expressions such as “turning over in the heart,” “being restless,” “feeling troubled,” or “stirring and refusing to settle.”

In brief:

This passage stresses the importance of receiving an understanding or wisdom that wells up in a person’s heart, even if it has not yet been stated explicitly in the Qur’an or Sunnah. It also suggests that even when wisdom finds its way into a hypocrite’s heart, it remains restless until a believer receives it and puts it into practice.

❇️Think with the Imam of your age

Reason and seek understanding with the Imam of your age! The Imam of the age (AS) is the supreme system of reason and wisdom!

The Imam of your age is the very life of the world, wisdom in constant flow!

The Imam of your age can be sensed through reason, understanding, and wisdom!

💫🔆يَا هِشَامُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَقُولُ فِي كِتَابِهِ- إِنَّ فِي ذلِكَ‏ لَذِكْرى‏ لِمَنْ كانَ لَهُ قَلْبٌ‏ يَعْنِي عَقْلٌ وَ قَالَ‏ وَ لَقَدْ آتَيْنا لُقْمانَ الْحِكْمَةَ  قَالَ الْفَهْمَ وَ الْعَقْل‏[13]

🔆O Hisham, God Most High says in His Book: “Indeed, in this is a reminder for whoever has a heart”—that is, whoever has reason. He also says, “Indeed, We gave Luqman wisdom.” He said that what is meant by wisdom is reason and understanding.

A heart without reason is a heart without wisdom—and a heart without a heart.

The cascade of wisdom from the human heart: the Imam of our time, peace be upon him, will visit a sincere heart—*yanābīʿ al-ḥikma*, springs of wisdom.

Is there a wondrous secret between a sincere heart and the Imam of our time, peace be upon him? Most certainly.

💫🔆 قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ مَا أَخْلَصَ عَبْدٌ لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَرْبَعِينَ صَبَاحاً إِلَّا جَرَتْ يَنَابِيعُ‏ الْحِكْمَةِ مِنْ قَلْبِهِ عَلَى لِسَانِهِ.[14]

🔆The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, said: “No servant devotes himself sincerely to God for forty days without springs of wisdom flowing from his heart to his tongue.”

❇️Sincere, discerning love is the impetus for transcendent wisdom.

Sincere wisdom is the secret of our bond with the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them.

💫🔆عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: مَنْ أَحَبَّنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ وَ حَقَّقَ حُبَّنَا فِي قَلْبِهِ جَرَى يَنَابِيعُ‏ الْحِكْمَةِ عَلَى لِسَانِهِ وَ جُدِّدَ الْإِيمَانُ فِي قَلْبِهِ وَ جُدِّدَ لَهُ عَمَلُ سَبْعِينَ نَبِيّاً وَ سَبْعِينَ صِدِّيقاً وَ سَبْعِينَ شَهِيداً وَ عَمَلُ سَبْعِينَ عَابِداً عَبَدَ اللَّهَ سَبْعِينَ سَنَةً.[15]

🔆Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, said: “Whoever loves us, the Ahl al-Bayt, and makes that love take root in his heart, springs of wisdom will flow from his tongue, his faith will be renewed in his heart, and he will be granted the reward of the deeds of seventy prophets, seventy truthful ones, seventy martyrs, and seventy worshippers who worshipped for seventy years.”

❇️The effect of sincere love

The Imam has a particular influence and a universal one. Let us be among the devoted followers of the Imam of our time, so that we may witness the full dawning of the Imamate.

💫🔆عَنْ بِشْرِ بْنِ غَالِبٍ الْأَسَدِيِّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ ع قَالَ: قَالَ لِي يَا بِشْرَ بْنَ غَالِبٍ مَنْ أَحَبَّنَا لَا يُحِبُّنَا إِلَّا لِلَّهِ جِئْنَا نَحْنُ وَ هُوَ كَهَاتَيْنِ وَ قَدَّرَ بَيْنَ سَبَّابَتَيْهِ وَ مَنْ أَحَبَّنَا لَا يُحِبُّنَا إِلَّا لِلدُّنْيَا فَإِنَّهُ إِذَا قَامَ قَائِمُ الْعَدْلِ وَسَّعَ عَدْلَهُ الْبَرَّ وَ الْفَاجِر[16]

🔆Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, said: “Whoever loves us, and loves us solely for God’s sake, will enter [the Day of Resurrection] alongside us, like these two”—the Imam placed his two index fingers side by side. “But whoever loves us only for worldly gain—when the one who upholds justice rises, his justice and fairness will encompass both the righteous and the wicked.”

When reason and understanding depart, wisdom is left without a guardian. Wisdom seeks a pure heart illuminated by the light of faith. Without such a heart, wisdom is left without protection or shield, and finds no safe haven except the Imam’s heart. He is wisdom’s savior.

✅اَینَ قلوبُ الطّاهره

If you wish to share in the Imam of your time’s intimate words of mystery, the path of reason, understanding, and wisdom is the way to that destination.

Reason is the lamp that reveals the beauty of the Imam of our time, peace be upon him.

❇️Strengthen your reason, so that you may become privy to the Imam of your time’s hidden mysteries.

💫🔆 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: مَا كَلَّمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْعِبَادَ بِكُنْهِ‏ عَقْلِهِ‏ قَطُّ وَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّا مَعَاشِرَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ أُمِرْنَا أَنْ نُكَلِّمَ النَّاسَ عَلَى قَدْرِ عُقُولِهِمْ.[17]

🔆 Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: The Prophet never spoke to people from the depths of his own intellect. Rather, he would say: “We prophets have been commanded to speak to people according to their capacity to understand.”

❇️The age of occultation is an age for strengthening the feeling of connection to the Imam of the Time

With reason, your Imam of the Time is present to you; in ignorance, he will remain absent from you forever

💫🔆 قَالَ كَانَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع يَقُولُ‏ بِالْعَقْلِ اسْتُخْرِجَ غَوْرُ الْحِكْمَةِ  وَ بِالْحِكْمَةِ اسْتُخْرِجَ غَوْرُ الْعَقْلِ وَ بِحُسْنِ السِّيَاسَةِ يَكُونُ الْأَدَبُ الصَّالِحُ قَالَ وَ كَانَ يَقُولُ التَّفَكُّرُ حَيَاةُ قَلْبِ الْبَصِيرِ كَمَا يَمْشِي الْمَاشِي فِي الظُّلُمَاتِ بِالنُّورِ بِحُسْنِ التَّخَلُّصِ وَ قِلَّةِ التَّرَبُّصِ.[18]

🔆 Through wisdom, the depths of knowledge are brought to light; through knowledge, the depths of wisdom. And through sound governance (planning and foresight), proper manners are acquired. Reflection gives life to the heart of a discerning person. Just as someone carrying a lamp can make their way through darkness by its light, saving themselves with ease and rarely pausing or faltering,

❇️Knowledge of the Imam is the very soul of divine wisdom

💫🔆 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ وَ مَنْ يُؤْتَ الْحِكْمَةَ فَقَدْ أُوتِيَ خَيْراً كَثِيراً  فَقَالَ طَاعَةُ اللَّهِ وَ مَعْرِفَةُ الْإِمَامِ.[19]

Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said that what is meant by “abundant good” in أُوتِیَ خَیْراً کَثِیراً is obedience to God and knowledge of the Imam (peace be upon him).

❇️With your Imam of the Time, you are the envy of the world

💫🔆 أَمْ يَحْسُدُونَ النَّاسَ‏ عَلى‏ ما آتاهُمُ اللَّهُ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ‏ فَقَدْ آتَيْنا آلَ إِبْراهِيمَ الْكِتابَ وَ الْحِكْمَةَ وَ آتَيْناهُمْ مُلْكاً عَظِيماً فَمِنْهُمْ‏ مَنْ آمَنَ بِهِ‏ وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ صَدَّ عَنْهُ وَ كَفى‏ بِجَهَنَّمَ سَعِيراً  وَ إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ إِذَا اخْتَارَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لِأُمُورِ عِبَادِهِ شَرَحَ صَدْرَهُ لِذَلِكَ وَ أَوْدَعَ قَلْبَهُ يَنَابِيعَ الْحِكْمَةِ وَ أَلْهَمَهُ الْعِلْمَ إِلْهَاماً فَلَمْ يَعْيَ بَعْدَهُ بِجَوَابٍ وَ لَا يُحَيَّرُ فِيهِ عَنِ الصَّوَابِ فَهُوَ مَعْصُومٌ مُؤَيَّدٌ مُوَفَّقٌ مُسَدَّدٌ قَدْ أَمِنَ مِنَ الْخَطَايَا وَ الزَّلَلِ وَ الْعِثَارِ يَخُصُّهُ اللَّهُ بِذَلِكَ لِيَكُونَ حُجَّتَهُ عَلَى عِبَادِهِ وَ شَاهِدَهُ عَلَى خَلْقِهِ وَ ذلِكَ فَضْلُ اللَّهِ يُؤْتِيهِ مَنْ يَشاءُ وَ اللَّهُ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيم‏[20]

💫🔆 Imam al-Rida (peace be upon him) said: When God chooses a servant to take charge of the affairs of His servants, He opens that servant’s heart, places the springs of wisdom within it, and inspires them with complete knowledge. From then on, they are never at a loss for an answer, nor confused about what is right. They are infallible, divinely supported, granted success and guidance, and protected from error, misstep, and falling into ruin. God has singled them out for these qualities so that they may be His proof to His servants and His witness among His creation: “That is God’s grace, which He grants to whomever He wills; and God is the Possessor of immense grace.”

❇️Free your Imam of the Time from the prison of the Haruns of ignorance

An ignorant devotee is the dungeon of their own Imam of the Time

💫🔆 وَ قَالَ ع‏ الْحِكْمَةُ ضَالَّةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ فَخُذِ الْحِكْمَةَ وَ لَوْ مِنْ أَهْلِ النِّفَاق‏[21]

🔆 He also said: “Wisdom is the believer’s lost treasure; so seize it, even if it is found among the people of hypocrisy.”

❇️Without the Imam of the Time, the world is desolate, for he is the soul of God’s wisdom

💫🔆 وَ قَالَ ع إِنَّ هَذِهِ الْقُلُوبَ تَمَلُّ كَمَا تَمَلُّ الْأَبْدَانُ فَابْتَغُوا لَهَا طَرَائِفَ [الْحِكْمَةِ] الْحِكَم‏[22]

🔆 He also said: “Hearts grow weary, just as bodies do; seek out fresh and wondrous wisdom for them.”

❇️Renew your encounter with the Imam of your time at every moment

The Imam of our time, peace be upon him, is the spirit of wisdom and the secret of freshness and vitality.

💫🔆 قَالَ كَانَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع يَقُولُ‏ رَوِّحُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ بِبَدِيعِ الْحِكْمَةِ فَإِنَّهَا تَكِلُّ كَمَا تَكِلُّ الْأَبْدَانُ.[23]

🔆 It is said that the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, used to say: “Refresh your hearts with lofty, new wisdom, for hearts grow weary just as bodies do.”

❇️Circle the Ka‘ba of wisdom

💫🔆 عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: مَا أَخْلَصَ الْعَبْدُ الْإِيمَانَ بِاللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْماً أَوْ قَالَ مَا أَجْمَلَ عَبْدٌ ذِكْرَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْماً إِلَّا زَهَّدَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ بَصَّرَهُ دَاءَهَا وَ دَوَاءَهَا فَأَثْبَتَ الْحِكْمَةَ فِي قَلْبِهِ وَ أَنْطَقَ بِهَا لِسَانَهُ ثُمَّ تَلَا- إِنَّ الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا الْعِجْلَ سَيَنالُهُمْ غَضَبٌ مِنْ رَبِّهِمْ وَ ذِلَّةٌ فِي الْحَياةِ الدُّنْيا وَ كَذلِكَ‏ نَجْزِي الْمُفْتَرِينَ‏  فَلَا تَرَى صَاحِبَ بِدْعَةٍ إِلَّا ذَلِيلًا وَ مُفْتَرِياً عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ عَلَى رَسُولِهِ ص وَ عَلَى أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ ص إِلَّا ذَلِيلًا.[24]

🔆 It is narrated from Abu Ja‘far, peace be upon him, that he said: “No servant has devoted his faith purely to God for forty days—or, he said, no servant has kept the remembrance of God well for forty days—without God making him indifferent to the world and showing him its afflictions and remedies. He then firmly established wisdom in his heart and gave his tongue the power to speak it.” He then recited this verse: “Those who took the calf as a god shall soon be visited by their Lord’s wrath and humiliation in the life of this world. Thus do We recompense those who fabricate lies.” (Al-A‘raf, 7:152) You will find no innovator who is not disgraced, nor anyone who fabricates lies about God, His Messenger, may God bless him and his family, and his Household, peace be upon them, without being disgraced.

❇️Without the Imam of your time, the human mind is blind

The Imam of our time, peace be upon him, is the system through which God’s wisdom operates; thought without wisdom is impossible.

💫🔆 الْفِكْرُ فِي غَيْرِ الْحِكْمَةِ هَوَس‏[25]

🔆 Thinking that is not guided by wisdom is obsessive and confused.

❇️Do not set fire to the tent of your Imam with desire

Desire has no way into wisdom’s pure, clear waters

💫🔆 لَا تَسْكُنُ الْحِكْمَةُ قَلْباً مَعَ شَهْوَة[26]

🔆 Wisdom cannot settle in a heart ruled by desire and passion.

❇️The sweetness of wisdom awakens your palate to the bitterness of the world

The Imam of our time, peace be upon him, is the sweetness of all existence (or: “His remembrance is sweet”).

People are drawn to the world because they have not tasted the sweetness of wisdom. Those immersed in the world are buried beneath its dust, denied the vision of the celestial spheres!

💫🔆 أَوَّلُ الْحِكْمَةِ تَرْكُ اللَّذَّاتِ وَ آخِرُهَا مَقْتُ الْفَانِيَات‏[27]

🔆 The beginning of wisdom is to renounce pleasures, and its end is to turn away from the things of this fleeting world.

❇️Failing to feel the warmth of the Imam’s presence is a sign of manifest hypocrisy

Faith and sincerity are the clear mirror reflecting the sun of wisdom!

💫🔆 الْحِكْمَةُ لَا تَحُلُّ قَلْبَ الْمُنَافِقِ إِلَّا وَ هِيَ عَلَى ارْتِحَال‏[28]

🔆 Wisdom does not take root in a hypocrite’s heart unless it is already on its way out.

❇️Through trust in God, make the presence of your Imam firm in your heart

💫🔆 التَّوَكُّلُ حِصْنُ الْحِكْمَة[29]

🔆 Trust in God is the fortress and stronghold of wisdom.

Wisdom is the strategic use of knowledge,

❇️A pure heart is the shining lamp of wisdom

💫🔆 وَ قَالَ ص‏ نُورُ الْحِكْمَةِ الْجُوعُ وَ التَّبَاعُدُ مِنَ اللَّهِ الشِّبَعُ وَ الْقُرْبَةُ إِلَى اللَّهِ حُبُّ الْمَسَاكِينِ وَ الدُّنُوُّ مِنْهُمْ لَا تَشْبَعُوا فَيُطْفَأَ نُورُ الْمَعْرِفَةِ مِنْ قُلُوبِكُمْ وَ مَنْ بَاتَ فِي خِفَّةٍ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ بَاتَ حُورُ الْعِيْنِ حَوْلَه‏[30]

🔆 The Prophet صلى‌الله‌عليه‌وآله said: “The light of wisdom is hunger, and fullness is distance from God. Drawing near to God means loving the destitute and keeping close to them. Do not eat your fill, lest the light of knowledge be extinguished in your hearts. Whoever spends the night with a light meal will be surrounded by the maidens of Paradise.”

❇️Let wisdom’s bride find rest in your heart

💫🔆 وَ قَالَ حَكِيمٌ‏ إِنَّ الْحِكْمَةَ كَالْعَرُوسِ تُرِيدُ الْبَيْتَ الْخَالِي‏[31]

🔆 A sage once said: “Wisdom is like a bride who seeks an empty house.”

❇️An addition to the bridge of wisdom and reason leading to the Imam of the Age (AJ)

Tracing the existential connection between wisdom, reason, ethics, and the Imam of the Age (AJ)

💫Supplementary chapter: Wisdom, pure reason, and inner advent

💫✅The Occultation is a test of “safeguarding wisdom”

The noble hadith «حکمت ضالۀ المؤمن» and its passage from the breast of a hypocrite to that of a believer is not merely a change of location; it is a symbol of the era of Occultation. In this age, divine wisdom may be concealed among unfamiliar words and writings, beneath the dust of deviations, or even in the words of unworthy people. The believer is the discoverer and rescuer of these scattered gems. They know that these wisdoms are “the trusts of the Imam (AJ)” on earth, and that gathering them is the preparation of a treasury for the Blessed Government. Thus, every wisdom they learn is recorded in the name of its rightful owner, and they know that each teaching is a piece of the puzzle of the Advent.

💫✅Reason: not a tool for analysis, but the locus of the Imam’s manifestation

“The Imam of the Age (AJ) as the supreme system of reason.” This means:

Reason detached from the Imam (AJ) is incomplete: when human reason relies solely on the senses and experience, it falls into materialism. But when it connects itself to the “Universal Intellect,” it breaks free of its limitations and attains true insight.

Thinking with the Imam (AJ) means “guidance-centred thought”: thought without the Imam is like sailing without a compass, even if the ship is the most fully equipped.

 “Think with your Imam of the Age” means weighing every thought against the spirit and touchstone of his authority and divine standards. Does this thought bring me closer to him or take me farther away? This is the simplest test of reason.

💫✅Noble character: the ground in which wisdom takes root

“Wise and sincere love.” Yet this love bears fruit only in the soil of moral virtues. The account «لَا تَسْکُنُ الْحِکْمَةُ قَلْباً مَعَ شَهْوَة» bears witness to this. Noble character is the tending of the heart as a home for wisdom’s guest.

Godwariness: the adornment and garment of the soul, and the high walls of the house that keep doubts and desires from entering.

Truthfulness: the soul’s sweet fragrance and the carpet on which wisdom steps.

Trust in God: the soul’s fortress and the house’s sturdy roof, preserving the serenity of wisdom amid the storms of this world («التَّوَكُّلُ حِصْنُ الْحِکْمَة»).

Without this moral ground, even love will be superficial and fruitless.

💫✅Practising “presence”: a remedy for despondent hearts

In the era of Occultation, when hearts may grow despondent as separation drags on, renewing wisdom is itself a renewal of one’s covenant with the Imam. How can this be done?

Discovering wisdom in new phenomena: contemporary science, social change, and modern art can all serve as vessels for new wisdom. With the Imam-of-the-Age perspective, the believer draws out this wisdom and renews the heart through it.

Purposeful solitude: Set aside forty minutes each day (in remembrance of forty days of sincerity) to reflect on the words of the Imams (AS) and apply them to life today. This practice keeps the “Imam-of-the-Age awareness” alive.

💫✅The bond between knowledge and wisdom: the higher calling of the Age of Occultation

In the narrations, “wisdom” is sometimes interpreted as “understanding” and “reason.” This shows that true knowledge belongs to the realm of wisdom. A believing scholar, then, is one who infuses specialized knowledge with divine wisdom.

An Imam-of-the-Age engineer does not think only about the technical construction of a building, but also considers the justice, harmony, and spirituality it should foster.

An Imam-of-the-Age physician does not focus solely on treating the body, but also attends to the patient’s spiritual solace and moral guidance.

This is the “bridge”: a bridge that carries knowledge beyond the confines of materialism into the wider realm of wisdom and service to humanity, on the path toward the Advent.

💫✅Conclusion: the wise person lays the foundations of a society awaiting the Imam

One who, through this approach, binds reason, wisdom, and ethics to the Imam of the Age (AJ) becomes a living cell of the Mahdist society. Such a person is:

A preserver of wisdom (in keeping with the hadith of the believer’s lost property).

A rational interpreter of religion, able to offer a firm answer to doubts.

A living embodiment of the ethics of the school of awaiting.

A bearer of knowledge devoted to serving humanity and preparing the way for global justice.

So this bridge is more than a theoretical connection: it is a “production line for complete human beings who await the Imam.” Every step in strengthening reason, ethics, and wisdom helps build this bridge; and as each part is brought closer to completion, the Advent of the Promised One draws nearer and becomes more tangible.

💫✅O God, grant us the grace to obey You and worship You well. Make Your wisdom dwell in our hearts, and let our tongues speak of Your remembrance and the recognition of Your Proof. Make us among those who await his noble deliverance, live by his gracious tradition, and remain mindful of his presence at every moment, through the honor of Muhammad and his pure family.

❇️A golden addendum: the light of wisdom in the mirror of wilayah—from theory to realization

Moving beyond the individual to the breadth of history, to creation and the transcendent realm

 This bridge is no mere metaphor; it is the lifeblood of creation.

💫✅Wisdom, the speaking soul of history; wilayah, its heart

Human history is the stage on which humanity has ceaselessly sought the “wisdom of life.” Religions, philosophies, and civilizations have all striven to grasp this wisdom. But the words of the Commander of the Faithful (AS) illuminate the way: “بِالْعَقْلِ اسْتُخْرِجَ غَوْرُ الْحِكْمَةِ”.

The Imamate is the very embodiment of that universal intellect, capable of probing the depths of history and drawing pure wisdom from events that are scattered and at times contradictory. Wilayah is therefore the axis toward which all the strands of wisdom throughout history converge.

The Imam of the Age (AJ), as heir to this history and bearer of that universal intellect, is the only one able to read the “ultimate meaning” of human history and bring all true wisdom to its fullest expression in his governance.

💫✅Wisdom languishing in the hypocrite’s breast: a symbol of the crisis of the Age of Occultation

The precise description of wisdom “languishing” in the hypocrite’s breast is not merely a psychological portrait; it is an image of the contemporary world: a world overflowing with information yet empty of wisdom.

Soulless fields of knowledge, directionless technologies, wealth devoid of blessing, and power devoid of justice are all forms of wisdom that have been driven from the home of the believer’s heart and now languish in anguish in the breast of today’s material civilization.

In this age, the believer’s role is that of one who relieves distress and sets things free. By restoring each fragment of wisdom to its rightful place—that is, to service to God and creation—the believer eases history’s torment and helps usher in the peace that precedes the Advent.

💫✅Finding Wisdom: A Small-Scale Manifestation in the Shadow of Awaiting

When a believer devotes himself sincerely to God for forty days and springs of wisdom well up from his heart, this is more than a personal state. It is a “manifestation on a small scale.” Within himself, he brings to life a model of the Mahdist society:

His personal justice is a small reflection of the universal justice of His Eminence.

His beneficial knowledge is a ray of the Imam’s (AJ) boundless knowledge.

His noble character is a glimpse of that great one’s way of life.

Thus, every wise believer who takes His Eminence as a model is a ray and an imprint of the beauty of the Mahdi. By building a realm of wisdom within himself, he prepares the ground for a greater realm. The awaiting community is made up of these “radiant Mahdist rays,” joined together.

💫✅The Transcendent Realm of Wisdom: Connection to the World of Meaning

Wisdom is not merely a human concept. In the narrations, wisdom is sometimes understood as “knowledge of the Imam.” This means that:

The Imam (AJ) is the channel connecting the natural world to the supernatural world (the realm of the unseen). Every wisdom has its source in that world and reaches this one through the bond of wilāya.

When a person connects to the Imam (AJ) through his intellect, he is, in effect, connecting his intellect to the web of wisdom woven through the cosmos. This is how “بَديع الحکمة” (wondrous and novel wisdoms) come to his lips—wisdoms flowing from the boundless source of divine grace.

Thus, awaiting deliverance means not only awaiting a person; it means awaiting “the opening of the gates of cosmic wisdom” to humanity.

💫✅The Final Union: The Hour When Wisdom Comes to Rest

The narration says that wisdom “comes to rest” in the believer’s heart. This peace offers an image of the world’s final state after the Appearance. In that age:

All scattered wisdoms return to their true home: the hearts of believers and the structure of a just society.

Knowledge and power are no longer put in the service of false identities or domination.

History’s turmoil and restlessness come to an end, and humanity, guided by its God-seeking nature, attains eternal peace.

💫✅A Golden Closing Reflection:

The bridge these essays build from wisdom to the Imam of the Age (AJ) is, in truth, a bridge from:

The part to the whole (from the individual to the promised community)

The outward to the inward (from knowledge to wisdom)

History to metahistory (from the time of Occultation to the time of Appearance)

Nature to the celestial realm (from the material world to the world of meaning)

Every step along this path not only perfects the human character; it also brings the world closer to its ultimate destination. So let us not merely await that Imam; let us build the bridge, carry that wisdom, and offer this troubled world a temporary sanctuary for that light.

اللهم عجّل لولیک الفرج و اجعلنا من أعوانه و أنصاره و المستشهدین بین یدیه.

Lord, hasten the deliverance of our master, and make us among those who help and support him and lay down their lives in his cause.

✳️Prologue💫

❇️First Scene: The Name Rises

When the dust of estrangement had darkened the horizons, a name began to shine from the celestial shore: “Mahdi.” It was more than a name; it was a breeze promising rain to thirsty souls. Each letter opened a door to the lights of “نُورُ السَّماواتِ وَالأرْض”. Pure beauty took shape in a single word, and for the first time, meaning smiled in its fullness upon the world.

❇️Second Scene: A Manifestation of Majesty

The world of the spirit, veiled within the body, and the spirit of the world, imprisoned in the material form, both acknowledged their own “majesty” and “glory” at once, in the radiance of this manifestation. This was no ordinary arrival; it was “the coming of another world.” A new order breathed through the galaxies, and every particle rediscovered its own splendor.

❇️The Third Veil: The Increase of Light

The primordial light of creation, whose rays shone through the sun, moon and stars, now took on the hue of “beauty”—a beauty that does not strike the eyes, but cleanses the hearts. From this union of light and beauty arose a melody that rang out from the heights of the Throne to the earth below: فَتبارَکَ اللهُ أحسَنُ الخالِقین. Existence had begun a new song.

❇️The Fourth Veil: The Lifting of the Veil

The veil that had fallen across the face of truth was not woven of cloth, but of “heedlessness” and “the veil of self-regard.” At the radiance of that light, it was swept aside. Then it became clear what a treasure lay hidden behind these outward appearances. Even “honey,” sweetness itself in nature, longed for the sweetness of that name. All the world’s delights saw themselves as but a faint glimmer of the honeyed sweetness of union with that One.

❇️The Fifth Veil: The Everlasting Garden of Dawn

And now, here is a garden where the sun knows no setting: the “Garden of Light.” Every flower there is a ray from his countenance, and every breeze a whisper of his name. His dawn is “without sunset,” for it reaches beyond the horizon of time. Its radiance is eternal, for it wells up from the source of “light upon light.” Here, waiting comes to an end, and the encounter begins.

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

✳️Sweets and Treats for Mid-Sha‘ban💫

❇️🔆The Night the World Was Reborn

Mid-Sha‘ban is the night of the birth of the entire world of existence, heralded by the great dawning of His Eminence Mahdi—the birth of the spirit of the world of existence, the promised Mahdi (AJ).

❇️🔆Knowing the Proof of God Is Essential to Life

O God! Make Your Proof known to us. If we do not know Your Proof, we will go astray.

We will lose our religion and stray from Your path.

We will drift away from faith and draw near to hypocrisy.

O God! Open the way to Your Proof for us Yourself.

O God! Take hold of our hearts and souls Yourself, and join them to Your Proof.

❇️🔆The Key to Connection: Being Joined to the Lifeline

What, truly, is the key to our connection with God’s Proof?

If even a particle of this universe were separated from God’s Proof, it would be cut off from its lifeline—and would die.

Life without God’s Proof is impossible.

We are with God’s Proof at every moment. So why do we not feel it?

Why do we fail to grasp this profound key? Why do we not taste this profound presence?

Is there a particular bridge of connection? Is there some nerve we have overlooked?

❇️🔆The Bridge of Connection: Purity, the Light of Guidance

What is the key to connection with God’s Proof?

The sublime bridge connecting us to God’s Proof is “purity.” It is wisdom, knowledge, reason and ethics.

A person may acquire knowledge, and may even attain wisdom, yet cannot make their way to God’s Proof.

The key is nothing but “purity.”

Even wisdom is imprisoned in the heart of a hypocrite.

If I attain wisdom, I must not be proud of myself; for I have trapped wisdom within my own soul.

❇️🔆 Keeping Company with the Proof of God in the Light of Purity

The key to connecting with the Proof of God, to keeping company with him, is “purity.”

When joined with wisdom, knowledge, and reason, it works wonders.

Then I will behold the beauty of the Proof of God, both his outward beauty and his inward beauty.

So the exalted bridge of connection is purity, wisdom, knowledge, reason, and good character.

❇️🔆 Awaiting: From the Dawn of Creation to the Present

When did the time of waiting begin?

Wisdom began with the very dawn of life in this universe, and we are its trustees. We came into this world bound by that covenant.

When will the time come to run toward the Proof of God?

Is the time of his appearance the time to start running? It is not.

Whoever sleeps until the time of his appearance will remain asleep forever.

Our waiting began the moment we came into this world. The time has come for us to run.

We should have been running toward the Proof of God from the very beginning of our infancy—or even before. If we have not run, we will be left behind.

❇️🔆 The Era of Occultation: An Era of Trust

The time of occultation is a time of safekeeping.

We are the keepers of a trust. During the occultation, the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt have been entrusted to us, and we must deliver this trust intact to its rightful owner.

Those of us born in the latter days have been charged with safeguarding the legacy of wilayah. We are trustees of the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt, and one day we will return this trust.

In the time of occultation, each person has a particular share and a particular score in the Imam’s appearance and flourishing. The measure of their devotion is shown by these very signs.

What has my share been in hastening his appearance? What is my score in regard to the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt?

❇️🔆 The Ship of Salvation in the Latter Days

Whether we know it or not, we are aboard the ship of the latter days.

We are aboard Noah’s ship of the latter days, journeying through the storm.

Soon the time will come when wisdom and knowledge depart from impure hearts. This is one of the signs of the appearance.

Wisdom, the believer’s lost treasure, is captive in the hands of the unworthy. Knowledge and wisdom are held captive by hypocrisy, disbelief, and idolatry, but soon they will find rest in their true home.

The outward beauty of the hypocrites is due to the very knowledge and wisdom imprisoned within them.

When the chains binding knowledge and wisdom to the hearts of devils are broken, their loathsome faces and foul stench will be laid bare to the world.

Indeed, in this age, knowledge and wisdom are imprisoned. Are we ready to receive that immense power?

❇️🔆 The One Intellect and the Supreme Connection

In this universe, intellect is one. There is a single Intellect, and all other intellects are facets of that same one.

Like a sun whose rays are the intellects of all creation.

The time will come when we connect all at once to the sun of Intellect. Our little computer will no longer be little; it will connect to God’s Great Computer.

Those who lack the capacity will burn.

Have we cultivated that capacity? Have we prepared ourselves for that immense—indeed, supreme—moment?

Those who cannot close their eyes at night, whose hearts beat with love for God, are building the capacity to connect themselves to that Supreme Proof.

❇️🔆 Be Ready for the Storm

The ship of the End Times has no captain. It belongs to God, and with God it will make its way.

Whoever boards before the advent will be safe. Whoever lets the moment pass will drown.

This world is overflowing with sciences and technologies, but because they are disconnected from reason, they bring pain to the soul and misery to the age.

Is it time for us to take stock of ourselves? To measure how ready we are? How lightly we have taken the matter of the advent!

❇️🔆 A Weighty Word and Readiness to Bear It

“Indeed, We shall soon cast upon you a weighty word” (Al-Muzzammil: 5).

The Qur’an is God’s weighty word, revealed to His Messenger. Bearing it is beyond the capacity of just anyone.

But who can bear God’s “Speaking Qur’an”—the Imam of the Age?

Those who could not bear ʿAli al-Murtaḍā (AS) could not bear Imam Hasan, Imam Husayn, or the other Imams (AS), because they lacked the capacity.

The Imam is the Speaking Qur’an, God’s firm word.

Even the mountains could not bear the Silent Qur’an! Do we understand this parable of God’s?

When God’s Proof appears, it will be as though God’s Speaking Qur’an has descended upon us. Are we ready to bear this mighty word?

❇️🔆 Grasping Greatness Requires a Power Beyond

The mountains would not accept God’s great trust, but the human being—so unjust and so ignorant—accepted it.

Now the time will come for God’s final Proof to appear. To grasp who he is, we need a power greater than the seven heavens and the earth and all the mountains.

If I am to grasp the greatness of God’s Proof, my very being must rise above the whole universe. Have I sought this? Have I ever done so?

❇️🔆 Seeing the Proof by the Light of the Heart

Our Imam of the Age is no lesser element; he is God’s greatest element. To see him, we need a power beyond the ordinary.

Until the Proof within me awakens, the outward Proof will not reveal himself to me. If my heart is not lit, I will not sense the light around me.

If the human mind goes dark, it will see no light—not even inside the sun.

So first the innate Proof within me must awaken; only then can I visit the outward Proof.

The light of faith blazes in the believer’s heart. If it does not, that means the person is a hypocrite. The Imam of the Age is within my heart. If I lose faith, the Imam’s light will depart from within me.

I am blind. God’s light never sets. My Imam of the Age smiles upon the world at every moment, but I have closed my eyes to him.

The Imam of the Age is the ever-travelling physician of our times. The whole world turns around him, and he goes from street to street in search of his Shi‘a.

❇️🔆 Visiting the Imam with a Pure Heart

How can I visit my Imam of the Age?

He is the very embodiment of God’s great wisdom, life, beauty, and truth. If I find a trace of wisdom in my heart, I have visited him too.

Wisdom seeks out the faithful heart and flees the hypocrite’s.

Whoever persists in sin while claiming to love the Imam of the Age is as though imprisoning him in the dungeon of their own heart.

The believer’s heart is a sanctuary of wisdom; the hypocrite’s heart is its torture chamber.

To reach the Imam, all I need do is purify my heart.

❇️🔆 Forty Days of Sincerity and the Flow of Wisdom

No one devotes themselves wholly to God for forty days without springs of wisdom flowing from their heart onto their tongue.

The Imam of our time is God’s living wisdom.

Whoever devotes themselves wholly to God for forty days will awaken the flow of wisdom from their heart to their tongue; that is, the Imam of their time will take their heart and soul into his embrace.

This is the key to the hadiths. Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said: Whoever loves us, the Ahl al-Bayt, and fulfils the due of that love will have streams of wisdom flow from their heart onto their tongue.

In other words, the Imam of their time will speak through them. What wondrous secrets these hadiths hold!

In such a person, the faith of seventy prophets and the deeds of seventy people of truth, martyrs and worshippers are renewed.

❇️🔆 The test of solitude and sincere love

Is loving the Imam of my time enough? Does that mean my work is done?

I must examine myself in the darkness of night, alone.

When worldly distractions and sins call to me, that is when I will know myself: am I a lover or an enemy? A believer or a hypocrite?

Whoever loves the Imam of their time flees from sin.

The import of Imam al-Husayn’s (AS) words is this: Whoever loves us for the sake of God—that is, whose heart blazes with the light of divine oneness—is as if [they were one of us].

What an exalted station it is to love the Imam with pure devotion!

❇️🔆 Nurturing the intellect through noble character

To meet the Imam of our time, we must strengthen the intellect.

The intellect is strengthened only through noble character. If I lack good character, the intellect will not dwell in my heart.

A hadith says: The prophets speak with people only at the level of their innermost intellect. We prophets are charged with speaking to people according to their capacity to understand.

Thus, the occultation of the Imam of our time is the occultation of my intellect. My intellect is hidden, so I cannot see the Imam of my time.

Through the intellect, the depths of wisdom are drawn forth; through wisdom, the depths of the intellect.

❇️🔆 The age of occultation: a special preparation class

The age of occultation is a special class for the end times: an age of discipline, training, practice and preparation for a momentous undertaking.

The end times are precisely the time to prepare for the final stage of servitude to God—the last class in this world.

We are therefore in the strangest class of all. Why are we asleep?

The final seconds of the end times are the world’s most precious moments. If anyone lets these diamond-studded instants slip away, how will they ever make up for them?

This is not an age of occultation; it is the age when the human being begins to burst into life. Humanity’s inner reality will be set free.

Whoever is ready for this liberation will be freed. Whoever remains asleep will be left as the charcoal of their own being.

This is an age for meeting our transcendent companions and joining in harmony with the vast constellation of servitude to God.

❇️🔆 Knowing the Imam before his reappearance

Whoever fails to find the Imam of their time before his reappearance will not recognize him afterward either.

Perhaps we have turned him away time and again, rejected him and driven him from us.

When we come to know him, we will see that we have not accepted his invitation. He invited us to his table, and we refused.

Why? Because the beauty of the Imam of our time is like the beauty of the Quran.

I look at God’s signs, but I do not see them! The veil between me and the word of God is the very same veil that lies between me and God’s Proof.

❇️🔆 The main obstacle: disbelief in the Hereafter

This is the secret behind my failure to see the beauty of the Qur’an and the Imam of our time:

I do not believe in the Day of Resurrection. If I did, I would flee from sin and hasten to obey.

But I do not hasten; I am captive to this world. In other words, I do not believe in the Hereafter.

This is the very barrier between me and the word of God and God’s Proof.

The Imam of our time has called us again and again, directly inviting us to come to him and be guided. I have not accepted.

Joseph’s brothers did not recognize him because their hearts were not open to recognition.

Can the blind be guided? May we never reach the point where God places a barrier between us and His Proof!

❇️🔆 The Imam of Our Time in the Words of the Commander of the Faithful (AS)

All the peoples of the world are searching for the Imam of our time.

God will bring about His way through His Qa’im and send him to the east and west of the world.

There will be no river or place that he does not set foot upon.

God will reveal to him the treasures and minerals of the earth, grant him victory through awe, and fill the earth with justice and equity.

The Imam of our time will clothe “Wisdom” in armor and adorn it with every beauty.

What is this Wisdom? It is the “Shia” of the Imam of our time.

He has found his Shia, but keeps them within a fortress and armors them, so that they do not become captives of those devoted to this world.

When their time comes and they emerge from their armor, their beauty will leave the whole world entranced.

❇️🔆 Dhul-Qarnayn and the Fierce Cloud

Dhul-Qarnayn was given a choice between two clouds: a gentle cloud and a fierce one. He chose the gentle cloud.

And God reserved the fierce, wild cloud for “your master” (the Imam of our time).

It is the cloud of thunder, lightning, and bolts. The Imam of our time will ride it and ascend through the “means.”

What are the “means”? The Almighty God says: “Or do they possess the dominion of the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them? Then let them ascend by the means” (Sad: 10).

These means are extraordinary. They make every hardship easy.

We established Dhul-Qarnayn in the land and gave him a means to all things. He pursued the means and traversed the earth and the heavens.

The Imam of our time will ride that fierce cloud and overcome the latest generation of technology.

He will ascend by the means—the means of the seven heavens. Those who can accompany him…

Those devoted to this world will remain on earth, while he travels through the heavens and beyond, carrying out his divine mission.

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

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