Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼🔆🌼Mahdi: Living and Everlasting Wisdom🌼🔆🌼
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “Mahdi: The Reality of the Greatest and Most Exalted Name” “Knowing the Mahdi” “The Divine Treasurer” “The Joy of the Advent” “The Night of Mid-Sha‘ban” and more … Summary with an addendum 1403.11.25 Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🔅🌼Divine artistry 🌼🔅
🌹The world is immersed and enraptured by his upright stature
🌹What a wondrous sight: the celestial beings circling in devotion around the majesty of the Proof of the Age, bowed in prayer
🌸🔆“بَه بَه» به «بَه The very best”—“How beautiful!”—the Most Excellent of Creators
🔅🌱The whole world, with all its soul, belongs to the Imam of the Age
🌱Mahdi is a testament to the life of beauty, the enduring joy, the promise that truth will triumph over falsehood, and the glad tidings of the reign of light.
🔆May the most blessed blessing of creation be your soul’s companion
🔅🌼He is both the Age and its master🌼🔅
🌹From one perspective, the Imam of the Age is both time and place; from a lower perspective, he is the king, master, spirit, and very substance of the Age.
🌹Thus, while being the master of the Age, the Imam of the Age is both time and place, in all their dimensions.
🌹The Imam of the Age is the sweetness and joy of all our days, ruler of space and commander of time.
🌹The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is God’s sole remembrance and memorial upon the earth.
🌹The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, belongs to God alone; he is God’s enduring presence upon the earth.
🌹The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is the source of peace and well-being for all creation.
🔅🌼The reality of the Imam’s description🌼🔅
🌹The Imam is that reality which all creatures must resemble if they are to experience servitude to God.
🌹The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is not merely a worshipper; he is worship itself, breathing upon the earth.
🌹The greatest ignorance in the world is ignorance of the Imam of the Age—a sign of utter heedlessness.
🌹To be unaware of one’s mother is to be faithless to love and tenderness.
🌹To be unaware of the light is to wrong illumination, dishonour sight, honour blindness, and welcome darkness.
🌹To forget water, bread, air, beauty, and mercy is to forget life and purity.
🌹The Imam is the root and essence of servitude—in truth, servitude in its entirety.
🌹The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is the constitution of servitude to God and the constitution of pure humanity.
🌹The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is the very written codex of divine laws upon the earth.
🌹The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is the special line of communication between the earth and the higher realm.
🔆 🌷أَيْنَ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ الَّذِي إِلَيْهِ تَتَوَجَّهُ الْأَوْلِيَاءُ، أَيْنَ السَّبَبُ الْمُتَّصِلُ بَيْنَ الْأَرْضِ وَ السَّمَاءِ، أَيْنَ صَاحِبُ يَوْمِ الْفَتْحِ وَ نَاشِرُ رَايَةِ الْهُدَى
🌹Without the Imam, sustenance is lost and wandering.
🌻🔆The Winds: 22 وَ فِي السَّماءِ رِزْقُكُمْ وَ ما تُوعَدُونَ
🔆And your provision is in heaven, as is what you are promised.
🌻🔆The Heights: 96 وَ لَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْقُرى آمَنُوا وَ اتَّقَوْا لَفَتَحْنا عَلَيْهِمْ بَرَكاتٍ مِنَ السَّماءِ وَ الْأَرْضِ وَ لكِنْ كَذَّبُوا فَأَخَذْناهُمْ بِما كانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ
🔆Had the people of the towns and villages believed and been mindful of God, We would have opened for them blessings from heaven and earth. But they denied the truth, so We punished them for what they had done.
🌹The Imam is the key to the blessings of the heavens and the earth
🌹The Imam of Our Time, peace be upon him, is that Name which is the Greatest, the Most Mighty, the Most Majestic, and the Most Noble.
🌷🔆اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِاسْمِكَ الْعَظِيمِ الْأَعْظَمِ الْأَعْظَمِ الْأَعَزُّ الْأَجَلُّ الْأَكْرَمُ الَّذِي إِذَا دُعِيتَ بِهِ عَلَى مَغَالِقِ أَبْوَابِ السَّمَاءِ لِلْفَتْحِ بِالرَّحْمَةِ انْفَتَحَتْ وَ إِذَا دُعِيتَ بِهِ عَلَى مَضَايِقِ أَبْوَابِ الْأَرْضِ لِلْفَرْجِ انْفَرَجَت[1]
🔆O God, I ask You by Your greatest Name—the Name that is far mightier, more exalted and majestic, and nobler than all names.
Whenever You are called upon by it, the sealed gates of heaven open to mercy and blessing;
whenever You are called upon by it to ease the trials and constraints of earthly events, they are transformed into spaciousness and ease;
and whenever You are called upon by it in any difficult matter in the world, that matter becomes easy and simple.
When You are called upon by this Name to bring the dead back to life, they all come alive;
and when You are called upon by it to dispel grief, pain, and affliction, they are all removed.
🌹Truly, by what Name are the gates opened? By the Name in all its interpretation and inner meaning.
🌹The Imam of Our Time, peace be upon him, is the recipient of revelation and the living essence of the Night of Decree; he is the key to immense blessings.
🌹The Imam of Our Time, peace be upon him, is the divine road and the path of pure devotion to God.
🌹The Imam of Our Time, peace be upon him, is the map of divine love.
🌹The Imam of Our Time, peace be upon him, is the land of hopes, the home of aspirations.
🌹The Imam of Our Time, peace be upon him, is the salt of creation and the sweetness of existence.
🌹Through wholehearted allegiance, we can acquire the Imam of Our Time’s hue and radiance, magnetism and allure.
🌹Unveil the likeness of the Imam of Our Time, peace be upon him; activate the display of his beauty.
🔅🌼The Imam: God’s design and blueprint for devotion🌼🔅
🌹The Imam of Our Time, peace be upon him, is the recipient of revelation and the recipient of the Night of Decree. Without him, the world and humanity would lose their way. He is the hard drive and CPU—the memory and central processing unit, the very heart of the computer that is the universe.
🌹The Imam of Our Time, peace be upon him, is the road and path of devotion to God.
🌹The Imam of Our Time, peace be upon him, is the map of divine love.
🌹The Imam of Our Time, peace be upon him, is the land of hopes, the home of aspirations.
🌹The Imam of Our Time, peace be upon him, is the salt of creation and the sweetness of existence.
🌹How can we acquire the Imam of Our Time’s hue and radiance, magnetism and allure?
🌹Unveil the likeness of the Imam of Our Time, peace be upon him; activate the display of his beauty.
🔅🌼The sun behind the clouds🌼🔅
🌹If the sun were not behind the clouds, the Earth would leave its orbit and become a wandering rock in the heavens.
🌷🔆 جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَنْصَارِيَّ يَقُولُ لَمَّا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَلَى نَبِيِّهِ مُحَمَّدٍ The thirteenth… أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَ أَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولَ وَ أُولِي الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ عَرَفْنَا اللَّهَ وَ رَسُولَهُ فَمَنْ أُولُو الْأَمْرِ الَّذِينَ قَرَنَ اللَّهُ طَاعَتَهُمْ بِطَاعَتِكَ فَقَالَ ع هُمْ خُلَفَائِي يَا جَابِرُ وَ أَئِمَّةُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ مِنْ بَعْدِي أَوَّلُهُمْ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ثُمَّ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ ثُمَّ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ثُمَّ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْمَعْرُوفُ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ بِالْبَاقِرِ وَ سَتُدْرِكُهُ يَا جَابِرُ فَإِذَا لَقِيتَهُ فَأَقْرِئْهُ مِنِّي السَّلَامَ ثُمَّ الصَّادِقُ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ثُمَّ مُوسَى بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ ثُمَّ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُوسَى ثُمَّ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ ثُمَّ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ثُمَّ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ ثُمَّ سَمِيِّي وَ كَنِيِّي حُجَّةُ اللَّهِ فِي أَرْضِهِ وَ بَقِيَّتُهُ فِي عِبَادِهِ ابْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ ذَاكَ الَّذِي يَفْتَحُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى ذِكْرُهُ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ مَشَارِقَ الْأَرْضِ وَ مَغَارِبَهَا ذَاكَ الَّذِي يَغِيبُ عَنْ شِيعَتِهِ وَ أَوْلِيَائِهِ غَيْبَةً لَا يَثْبُتُ فِيهَا عَلَى الْقَوْلِ بِإِمَامَتِهِ إِلَّا مَنِ امْتَحَنَ اللَّهُ قَلْبَهُ لِلْإِيمَانِ قَالَ جَابِرٌ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَهَلْ يَقَعُ لِشِيعَتِهِ الِانْتِفَاعُ بِهِ فِي غَيْبَتِهِ فَقَالَ ع إِي وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَنِي بِالنُّبُوَّةِ إِنَّهُمْ يَسْتَضِيئُونَ بِنُورِهِ وَ يَنْتَفِعُونَ بِوَلَايَتِهِ فِي غَيْبَتِهِ كَانْتِفَاعِ النَّاسِ بِالشَّمْسِ وَ إِنْ تَجَلَّلَهَا سَحَابٌ يَا جَابِرُ هَذَا مِنْ مَكْنُونِ سِرِّ اللَّهِ وَ مَخْزُونِ عِلْمِهِ فَاكْتُمْهُ إِلَّا عَنْ أَهْلِهِ … .[2]
🔆 After him, the namesake and namesake in kunya of me—the Proof of God on His earth and the Remnant of God among His servants—will be the son of Hasan ibn Ali, the leader of the Muslims. He is the one through whom God, Exalted is He, will open up the East and the West of the earth. He is the one who will be hidden from his Shia and loyal followers, in an occultation during which none will remain steadfast in belief in his imamate save those whose hearts God has tested for faith. Jaber said: I asked, “Messenger of God, will his Shia benefit from him during his occultation?” He replied, “Yes, by the One who sent me as a prophet, they will draw light from his radiance and benefit from his guardianship throughout his occultation, just as people benefit from the sun when it is hidden behind a cloud. O Jaber, this is God’s guarded secret and His hoarded knowledge; keep it from those unworthy of it.”
🌹The sun’s gravitational pull, its light, its ultraviolet and infrared spectra, its magnetic shield, its movements, and so on all affect the earth.
🔅🌼The heart turned toward the horizons of the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him🌼🔅
🌹A pure heart and an open breast are known only through the horizons of the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him.
🌹The heart’s horizons are brought to the sacred presence of the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him; the heart must become a complete screen reflecting the Imam of the Age, so that it may be worthy of divine favor.
🌹Without God’s Proof, we are all silent; without exception, we are all connected to the Imam of the Age’s network, through both general and particular connections.
🌹Without His Eminence, no one can achieve any success.
🌹The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is that very feeling of longing and yearning in the soul and in the world.
🔅🌼Our home is “the Light of God”🌼🔅
🌹In truth, in soul and world, we are the Imam of the Age.
🌹The Imam is the isthmus between time and eternity.
🌹The Imam is the key to devotion, to divine will, and to knowledge.
🌹The Imam is a time tunnel, a series of shortcuts woven through existence, and a passage beyond time.
🌹The Imam is the key to Asif Barkhiya, to Moses, the one who spoke with God, to David, God’s prophet, to Solomon, to Muhammad al-Mustafa, and to Ali al-Murtada, and to all the friends of God.
🌹Without the Imam, all are without innate nature, without conscience, without the spirit of faith, and without reason or understanding.
🔅🌼In which of our dimensions will he manifest?🌼🔅
🌹When the Imam of the Age is absent from any part or dimension of us, that part or dimension ceases to exist.
🌹If Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, were truly absent from the external senses, that faculty would perish. Likewise, if he were absent from the inner senses, from reason and awareness, from every level of our capacity, and from the world and our world, all of them would surely perish.
🌹 Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is absent from the level of vibrations.
🌹During the era of the Infallibles, what proportion of them was present among the community, and how much of them remained absent from it?
🌹The supplication «اللهم عرفنی حجتک» is an effort to bring the Imam’s presence within the reach of reason and awareness.
🔅🌼My soul lives through the soul of the Guardian of the Age 🌼🔅
🌹If God Most High has encompassed all things’ information within the soul of the Imam of the Age, then surely our information, too, is recorded and preserved in his blessed soul.
🌹O God, transform, decree, direct and renew our information in the best of ways and circumstances.
🌹Perhaps we ourselves are the pain and wounds in the Imam’s soul, for we dwell within the soul of the Imam of the Age. We could have been a source of joy to him.
🌹By the truth of the soul of Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, it is a fine place of nurture, habitation and adornment.
🔅🌼Knowing the Proof of God is the foundation of knowing God🌼🔅
🌹Knowledge of Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is the foundation for fulfilling pure servitude to God, for he is God’s mighty means of realizing the aims of divine servitude and of attaining perfection through loving worship of God.
🌹Why must we know God’s Proof fully? So that we may follow his example and transform ourselves into the best of forms.
🌹The Imam is our destination on the spiritual path, so that we may grow and rise in our servitude to God. The Imam is that very destination which leads back to the loftiest Origin.
🔅🌼The longest mission🌼🔅
🌹The importance of this mission is evident from the prolonged duration of the Greater Occultation. A trial is to be brought to its close: a momentous ending for a still greater beginning.
🌹The era of the Greater Occultation does not mean that the office of Imamate has been suspended. In this era, the nature of the Imamate is different. Whether blood is seen or remains hidden, life depends on it; without the Blood of God, there can be neither movement nor life.
🔅🌼It is forbidden to fabricate the state and circumstances of God’s Proof🌼🔅
🌱🔆In this age, anyone who seeks to play the role of spokesman for Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, or to speak on his behalf is, in effect, fabricating a report in the Imam’s name. This can cause harm in the short term, and in the long term may be taken as an authentic document—though fabricated—with disastrous consequences.
🌱🔆An increasingly fierce competition to produce content in the Imam’s name could deepen the tragedy of truth-seekers’ confusion.
🔅🌼Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is the ever-present mine of wisdom🌼🔅
🌹In this era, wisdom seeks its mine and finds no peace except there. It finds rest only in its own abode.
🌹The mine of wisdom lies behind the veil of occultation, yet its light shines upon every heart and causes receptive hearts to flourish.
🌹Wisdom seeks a pure vessel. The breasts of hypocrites, unbelievers and polytheists are impure vessels; knowledge and wisdom are imprisoned in them, suffering anguish, torment, constriction and weariness!
🌹Pure content requires a pure vessel.
🌹Without the Imam, the world is without wisdom. Knowledge is light, but without wisdom, its light is black.
🔅🌼The Imam is wisdom itself, from God🌼🔅
🌹Wisdom means creating art through knowledge, crafting wonders through knowledge.
🌹Beauty, wealth, mercy, knowledge and wisdom belong to the believers; in the breast of a hypocrite they become pain and torment. One day they will return to their rightful owner.
🌹The abode of all wisdom is its mine, and the mine of wisdom is fitting only for the pure hearts of believers.
🌷🔆وَ قَالَ ع خُذِ الْحِكْمَةَ أَنَّى كَانَتْ فَإِنَّ الْحِكْمَةَ تَكُونُ فِي صَدْرِ الْمُنَافِقِ فَتَلَجْلَجُ فِي صَدْرِهِ حَتَّى تَخْرُجَ فَتَسْكُنَ إِلَى صَوَاحِبِهَا فِي صَدْرِ الْمُؤْمِنِ:[3]
🔆Seek wisdom wherever it may be found. Sometimes wisdom lies in the heart of a hypocrite, restless until it emerges and finds peace alongside its companions in the heart of a believer.
🔅🌼The Divine Treasurer🌼🔅
🌹Divine blessings are relished and readily digested by the faithful, while the veins of hypocrites and those who deny God are burdened with pain, hardship, and torment.
🌹The hearts of believers are treasuries for their Imam of the Age. He places every beauty, wisdom, and wonder within them.
🌹The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, carries the Divine treasures on his shoulders as he seeks hearts worthy and ready to receive them. All the treasures of the world rest upon his blessed shoulders.
🔅🌼The Healer of the Age: the Imam of the Age🌼🔅
🌹The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is history’s final heir to the ever-travelling physician, following in the footsteps of his revered forefather as he tends to people wherever he finds them.
🌹The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is the healer of the age; the instruments of his grandfather’s healing rest upon his blessed shoulders.
🔆🌷… مُتَتَبِّعٌ بِدَوَائِهِ مَوَاضِعَ الْغَفْلَةِ وَ مَوَاطِنَ الْحَيْرَةِ لَمْ يَسْتَضِيئُوا بِأَضْوَاءِ الْحِكْمَةِ وَ لَمْ يَقْدَحُوا بِزِنَادِ الْعُلُومِ الثَّاقِبَةِ[4]
🔆He was chosen from the Tree of Prophethood, the source from which light springs: from a noble family, from the heart of al-Baṭḥāʾ, from lamps that dispel darkness, and from springs of wisdom.
He is a physician who goes among the sick to heal their pain. He has prepared his medicines and salves and heated his surgical instruments, ready to place them, whenever the need arises, upon blind hearts, deaf ears, and tongues unable to speak. With his remedies, he seeks out the heedless and those lost in the wilderness of error: people untouched by the light of wisdom and unable to kindle a spark from the firestone of knowledge. In this state, they are like beasts that know no aim beyond grazing, or like hard mountain rocks, mired in cruelty of heart.
🔅🌼The Era of Occultation: the time of the hardest trial🌼🔅
🌹To make the flower of faith bloom in the scorching desert of the end times is a mark of exceptional worthiness.
🌹Choosing the horizon of the end times demanded courage and daring. In the heart of the desert, the cactus cries out with life.
🌹Deeds carry a far greater weight in the end times. The end times offer a winning advantage and an opportunity beyond all comparison.
🔅🌼A new definition of wisdom🌼🔅
🌹When knowledge is blended with divine unity, it gives rise to wisdom.
🌹Wisdom is knowledge scented with the fragrance of divine unity.
🌹When knowledge flows from the heart of the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, it appears as wisdom.
🌹Wisdom is the true fruit of knowledge: knowledge enters the heart of the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, and emerges as beautiful wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge’s honey, drawn from the Imam’s heart as from a hive.
🌹Every wise person receives a share from our Imam of the Age.
🔅🌼The secret to receiving the Imam of the Age’s blessings🌼🔅
🌹In relation to the noble Messenger and Prophet, the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is the gateway to wisdom; and through his blessed spirit, wisdom flows across the expanse of existence. He is a living wellspring of wisdom. Were it not for him, ignorance would rule supreme.
🌹Who can find a way to the wellspring of wisdom?
🔆🌷قَالَ الصَّادِقُ ع الْحِكْمَةُ ضِيَاءُ الْمَعْرِفَةِ وَ مِيرَاثُ التَّقْوَى وَ ثَمَرَةُ الصِّدْقِ وَ مَا أَنْعَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَى عَبْدٍ بِنِعْمَةٍ أَعْظَمَ وَ أَنْعَمَ وَ أَجْزَلَ وَ أَرْفَعَ وَ أَبْهَى مِنَ الْحِكْمَةِ لِلْقَلْبِ قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى يُؤْتِي الْحِكْمَةَ مَنْ يَشاءُ وَ مَنْ يُؤْتَ الْحِكْمَةَ فَقَدْ أُوتِيَ خَيْراً كَثِيراً وَ ما يَذَّكَّرُ إِلَّا أُولُوا الْأَلْبابِ أَيْ لَا يَعْلَمُ مَا أَوْدَعْتُ وَ هَيَّأْتُ فِي الْحِكْمَةِ إِلَّا مَنِ اسْتَخْلَصْتُهُ لِنَفْسِي وَ خَصَصْتُهُ بِهَا وَ الْحِكْمَةُ هِيَ النَّجَاةُ وَ صِفَةُ الْحَكِيمِ الثَّبَاتُ عِنْدَ أَوَائِلِ الْأُمُورِ وَ الْوُقُوفُ عِنْدَ عَوَاقِبِهَا وَ هُوَ هَادِي خَلْقِ اللَّهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِعَلِيٍّ ع لَأَنْ يَهْدِيَ اللَّهُ عَلَى يَدَيْكَ عَبْداً مِنْ عِبَادِهِ خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِمَّا طَلَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسُ مِنْ مَشَارِقِهَا إِلَى مَغَارِبِهَا[5]
🔆Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said: “Wisdom is the light and manifestation of knowledge, the measure and inheritance of piety, and the fruit of truthfulness and integrity. The Exalted Lord has never bestowed a greater, brighter, better, loftier or more precious blessing upon a servant than the blessing that dawns within the human heart.”
The Exalted God says: “He grants wisdom to whom He wills, and whoever is granted wisdom has surely been given abundant good. Yet none takes heed of the greatness of wisdom except those endowed with insight and understanding.”
The meaning is this: God says, “None understands what I have entrusted to wisdom and made available through it except My sincere, specially chosen and elect servants.”
🔅🌼Be a supporter of your Imam of the Age🌼🔅
🌹Let us help the Imam of the Age in his mission of Imamate! How? By following him with sincerity.
🌻🔆Muhammad: 7 يا أَيُّهَا الَّذينَ آمَنُوا إِنْ تَنْصُرُوا اللَّهَ يَنْصُرْكُمْ وَ يُثَبِّتْ أَقْدامَكُمْ
🔆“O you who believe! If you help God’s cause, He will help you and make your steps firm.”
Following means strengthening the senses, limbs and inner faculties—in other words, strengthening our servitude to God and making the best use of the means of worship.
🔅🌼Wisdom is the fragrance of the Imam of the Age’s abode🌼🔅
🔆🌷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 [6]
🔆Imam al-Kazim (AS) said: “O Hisham! God, the Exalted, says in His Book: ‘Surely in this is a reminder for whoever has a heart’—that is, intellect. And He says: ‘We bestowed wisdom upon Luqman’—meaning understanding and intellect.”
🌹A heart without intellect is a heart without wisdom—and a heart without a heart.
🌹A cascade of wisdom flows from the heart of the Imam of the Age. The Imam of the Age (AS) will visit the sincere heart; he is ینابیع الحکمه.
🌹There is a wondrous secret between the sincere heart and the Imam of the Age (AS)!
🔆🌷 قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَا أَخْلَصَ عَبْدٌ لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَرْبَعِينَ صَبَاحاً إِلَّا جَرَتْ يَنَابِيعُ الْحِكْمَةِ مِنْ قَلْبِهِ عَلَى لِسَانِهِ. [7]
🔆The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, said: “No servant spends forty days in sincerity without springs of wisdom flowing from his heart to his tongue.”
🔆🌷 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. [8]
🔆Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: “Whoever loves us, the Ahl al-Bayt, and makes that love real in their heart, springs of wisdom will flow from their tongue and faith will be renewed in their heart. The deeds of seventy prophets, seventy truthful ones, seventy martyrs, and seventy worshippers—each of whom worshipped God for seventy years—will be renewed for them.”
🌹When understanding and reason 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 unprotected, with no safe refuge but the heart of the Imam. The Imam of our time is the saviour of wisdom.
🌹If you wish to share the secrets of your Imam of the time, the path of reason leads to that very destination.
🔅🌼 All rejoice at the ظهور of God’s Proof 🌼🔅
🌹The joy of the ظهور knows no bounds; its blessings recognise no limits.
🌹Those awaiting the ظهور are not confined to the people of earth. The ظهور extends into the realms of Barzakh and the unseen; its effects and blessings reach beyond earthly boundaries.
🔆 🌷قالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع …. وَ لَا يَبْقَى مَيِّتٌ إِلَّا دَخَلَتْ عَلَيْهِ تِلْكَ الْفَرْحَةُ [فِي قَلْبِهِ] وَ هُوَ فِي قَبْرِهِ وَ هُمْ يَتَزَاوَرُونَ فِي قُبُورِهِمْ وَ يَتَبَاشَرُونَ بِقِيَامِ الْقَائِمِ May God’s blessings be upon him.
🔆🌷Not one of the dead will remain without that joy entering their heart. In the world of Barzakh, in their resting places in the graves, they will visit one another and bring one another the glad tidings that the Qa’im of the House of Muhammad has risen.
🔅🌼The Sun Behind the Clouds🌼🔅
🌷If the sun were not behind the clouds, the earth would leave its orbit and become a wandering celestial stone.
🔅🌼 All rejoice at the ظهور of the Proof 🌼🔅
🔆🌷 قالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع …. وَ لَا يَبْقَى مَيِّتٌ إِلَّا دَخَلَتْ عَلَيْهِ تِلْكَ الْفَرْحَةُ [فِي قَلْبِهِ] وَ هُوَ فِي قَبْرِهِ وَ هُمْ يَتَزَاوَرُونَ فِي قُبُورِهِمْ وَ يَتَبَاشَرُونَ بِقِيَامِ الْقَائِمِ May God’s blessings be upon him.[9]
🔆🌷 Not one of the dead will remain without that joy entering their heart. In the world of Barzakh, in their resting places in the graves, they will visit one another and bring one another the glad tidings that the Qa’im of the House of Muhammad has risen.
The ظهور of the Imam of our time encompasses the earthly, celestial, Barzakh, and angelic realms.
The ظهور has celestial manifestations.
The ظهور is a joy without bounds; its blessings recognise no limits.
Those awaiting the ظهور are not confined to the people of earth.
The principal fruit of the tree of prophethood is about to ripen. What tremendous event is about to unfold, that the inhabitants of heaven are even more eager than the people of earth to witness it?
Every gaze across the boundless expanse of existence is turned towards the earth. God’s Proof is about to accomplish a masterpiece of creation.
🌼Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141 (903)🌼
🔅🌼 An earnest student’s perspective on the discussion “Mahdi, the Time of the Master of Time” 🌼🔅
🌻🔆Mahdi, the Time of the Master of Time 🔆🌻
🌼🔆🌼Mahdi: Ever-flowing, abiding wisdom🌼🔆🌼
🔹 The birth of His Eminence al-Qa’im, may God hasten his reappearance, and the Mid-Sha‘ban celebration
📅 Date: 1403/11/25 – 14 Sha‘ban 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some points discussed in the session:
### The Night of Mid-Sha‘ban 🌙
The night of the most beautiful beauties, the night of all nights, the night of Mid-Sha‘ban; the night when the most beautiful star in the sky of divine authority rose; the night of the Master of the Age, the pivot of time, the guardian of the age, the night of the Perfect Word of God, the night of the sanctification of the earth, the night when justice is spread.
Congratulations to the inhabitants of the realm of divine majesty, accompanied by the sweet refrain of blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad.
### God’s Promise on the Night of Mid-Sha‘ban 🌟
The middle of Sha‘ban, the night of the middle of Sha‘ban: the night of God’s promise, the night of the light of the eyes of all creation, the ark of salvation, the wellspring of life, the moon, radiant and manifest.
The night of renewal for all beings, the successor to the Book of God, the reviver of the faithful, the vanquisher of the unbelievers.
Congratulations to the sacred ones throughout the celestial realms, accompanied by blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad.
### The Imam of the Age, sovereign of time 👑
The Imam of the Age is the sovereign of time. The Imam is time itself: both its master and its very soul. The Imam is the master of place, place itself, and the cause of place—time and space in all their dimensions.
We live in time; that is, we dwell in the very heart of the world, the Imam of the Age. How can our Imam of the Age be described? Through time—for he is time itself, and its sovereign.
Who is the Imam of the Age? The most mysterious secret of creation, ruler of time and space—and himself the adornment and place of the Imam of the Age. The sweetness and joy of all days.
### The Imam of the Age, God’s only remembrance on earth 🌍
The Imam of the Age is God’s only remembrance on earth, the one being wholly devoted to God. His sacred being belongs to God alone. He is what remains of God, kept for God—the only one left for God in the passage of time, God’s sole captive, Allah’s captive on earth.
None but God possesses that exalted rank. The Imam of the Age is the secret of comfort and peace.
### God’s precious pearl on earth 💎
Who is our Imam of the Age, God’s precious pearl on earth? He is that reality which all creation falls short of unless it reaches his noble stature and attains that supreme exemplar.
We must bring the full stature of servitude to fruition within ourselves, until we reach the same stature as our Imam of the Age.
### The Imam of the Age and the purpose of creation 🌱
So that the purposes of creation may be fulfilled through us. Our Imam of the Age is not merely the worshipper of his time; he is worship itself—the very worship through which the earth breathes, lives, endures and moves.
To be unaware of this Imam is the utmost ingratitude for the blessings of existence. The gravest ignorance in this world is ignorance of the Imam of the Age.
To be unaware of the mother is to be ungrateful for tenderness and love, the height of betrayal of tenderness and love. To be unaware of the light is to wrong the brightness.
It is to honour sight and honour blindness, and to welcome darkness. How can neglecting God’s light be anything but ingratitude? The Imam is the very foundation and essence of servitude to God—all of servitude to God.
### The Imam, the reality of all existence 🌌
The Imam is that reality in whose blessed soul the knowledge of the whole universe is recorded and gathered. The knowledge of our Imam of the Age, Mahdi, is the constitution of servitude to God—indeed, the constitution of complete and pure humanity.
Our Imam of the Age is the compiled book of God’s laws on earth, the living book of law. All the laws of existence are in the Imam’s soul. The Imam is the special line of communication between earth and the higher realm.
He is God’s vantage point. If your heart yearns for God, if you turn toward the Face, the Proof and the Friend of God, then you have turned toward God.
### The Imam of the Age, conqueror and herald of guidance 🌿
He is the master of the day of victory and the bearer of the banner of guidance.
### To lose the Imam is to lose the way 🚶♂️
Whoever loses the Imam of their age has lost the way to their sustenance and provision. The path to knowledge and wisdom opens through the Imam of the Age.
Without the Imam of the Age, we have no path to heaven. The blessings and sustenance that descend from heaven come through this Imam. The Imam is the unbroken link between earth and heaven.
Without our Imam of the Age, a person’s sustenance remains adrift.
### The Imam of the Age, the secret of heaven’s and earth’s blessings 🌍
By God, our Imam of the Age is the very secret behind the blessings of heaven and earth. Why are the gates of blessing shut and barred?
Because the gateways of piety within us are closed. When the flame of faith burns brightly within us and piety comes to light, this key to blessings begins to work.
Then earth and heaven open their arms to those who belong to them.
### The Greatest Name of God and the Imam of the Age ✨
What is that most exalted and gracious Name which, if we call upon God by it, opens the gates of heaven—the gates of God’s mercy?
It is the Imam of the Age: that sacred, beloved, most gracious Name of God.
How should I call upon God through my Imam? I need only call upon Him once through my Imam of the Age, by that mighty, greatest Name, and see what a commotion it sets off in heaven and earth.
Our Imam of the Age is the very life and world that opens onto all worlds. He is the shortcut through time.
Through the shortcut of time, time blossoms in the presence of the Master of the Age. The shortcut is the path that leads us onward and carries us through to…
### The Imam of the Age Beyond Time and Space ⏳
Beyond time is this very Master of Time; He is time’s very essence, time itself and space itself—indeed, He is the very beyond of time and space.
### The Secret of Goodness and Blessings: The Imam of the Age 🌿
The Imam of the Age is a life alongside all lives and worlds, a passage from the unseen to the innermost secrets.
This is the Imam of the Age: the secret of goodness and blessings, the place where revelation descends, the place where Laylat al-Qadr descends.
The measure of Laylat al-Qadr lies with the Imam of Measure, the Imam of the Age. Without Laylat al-Qadr, everything would be lost. Humankind and the world would lose their way. He is the very processor of creation, its system, the central processing unit of all existence.
In this existence, whoever is connected to this Master of Time and Space is, in the truest sense, set upon the path of servanthood.
The Imam is the very road, the path of God; the very map of God’s love; the very land of our hopes.
### The Imam of the Age: Salt and Sweetness in Creation 🍯
He is the home of all aspirations. Our Imam of the Age is the salt and sweetness of creation.
### The Light of the Imam of the Age and Its Effects 🌞
Rays stream from the heart of the sun. There are rays that reach this side of the earth, and no veil can prevent their light from shining through. How much less could any veil bar the Sun and Light of God?
Hearts are warmed; only those few visible bands remain hidden from sight.
If His sacred light does not shine, if it does not reach the mind, minds fall into delusion.
If it does not reach hearts, hearts die.
They grow harder than the hardest stone.
No one feels any tenderness in their heart, not even a mother.
By God, if that light does not reach the eyes, they go blind; the ears go deaf. If it does not reach the tongue, the tongue falls silent; if it does not reach the spirit, the spirit is at ease.
The mind dies; life departs.
If it does not reach the earth, the earth is destroyed.
If that light does not shine, dimensions come apart. The paths are lost.
No electron or proton can find its way anymore.
### The Imam of the Age, the Greatest Name of God ✨
“We are immersed in Him.” Is He not the Greatest Name of God? The Beautiful Name that embraces all.
The Greatest Name embraces the embrace itself.
This is our Imam of the Age; he is the hidden secret.
### Knowledge and Wisdom Awaiting the Imam of the Age 📖
My sins have distanced me from his presence. Knowledge awaits the Mahdi.
He himself is the very meaning of wisdom, and wisdom awaits its own source, its place of descent. Until it finds rest, all wisdom in these times remains captive and adrift.
How long must it suffer in hypocritical hearts? It searches for its place of descent, its storehouse and its source, so that it may find rest there. It will know no peace until it finds them.
But our Imam of the Age is wisdom itself: the essence and source of wisdom. He is that ever-flowing, ever-moving wisdom.
Were it not for him, by God, confusion would have prevailed completely. There would be no light or illumination in this age.
He is that ever-travelling physician; that wisdom ever on the move.
The means of the ever-travelling physician—the Messenger of God, our master Muhammad al-Mustafa—are borne upon the Imam’s shoulders. He travels in search of those who seek healing, so that he may heal them by God’s leave.
### A World Without the Imam and Wisdom 🌍
He is that ever-moving wisdom. A world without the Imam is a world without wisdom.
Knowledge is light, but without wisdom it is blind. It is black light.
Wisdom is what makes knowledge wholesome; it is knowledge’s flavour and colour. Without it, knowledge becomes a source of suffering.
The source of wisdom is veiled from sight, yet its blessed light embraces every heart. He is the source of wisdom.
### Wisdom in Motion and Its Relationship to Knowledge and Divine Unity 💡
This exalted source calls for worthy hearts. Pure contents seek pure vessels.
This is wisdom in motion. Wisdom is the art of knowledge, its wondrous craft, its beauty.
Wisdom is the blessing of knowledge, veiled from sight. When knowledge is infused with divine unity, it gives rise to wisdom.
If we wish to reach that source of wisdom, its secret lies in divine unity. Knowledge scented with divine unity is wisdom.
Knowledge flows from the heart of our Imam of the Age. Its manifestation is the manifestation of wisdom. Wisdom is the true source from which knowledge flows.
The knowledge that comes from the Imam of the Age’s very being is wisdom. Everything else is a means of pain.
### Wisdom: The Honey of Knowledge That Sweetens the World 🍯
Wisdom is the honey of knowledge, which, flowing from his blessed being, sweetens the palate of the whole world.
Who is our Imam of the Age? When will his sacred appearance take place? Is he truly absent? He is not absent!
If he were absent, all the senses of the world would cease to function. The intellects and awarenesses in this world…
### The Imam of the Age and Nearness to God 🙏
اللهم عرفنی حجتک — to have this secret unveiled is to understand that our Imam of the Age is not absent from us. Could God’s truth ever be far from us?
He is not far away. Our Imam of the Age is near to God; he is God’s closest blessing to our very being.
It is we who must strive to establish a complete connection with our Imam of the Age.
If all the information in this universe resides within the Imam, that means each one of us, too, is known within the Imam of the Age. Is that not a great secret?
If you are capable of love—if you love enough to transform yourself—you are within the being of the Imam of the Age.
### Establishing a Connection with the Imam of the Age 🔑
All you need to do is connect with your Imam of the Age, and you will attain your own finest form.
Resolve to refine your soul and body. By God, it is possible.
This is the secret of attaining completion through the leadership of the Imam.
If I attain completion through the Imam, accept the Imam of our Time wholeheartedly, and become connected to him, then my dwelling place will be the soul of the Imam of our Time.
I will reach God.
### If we are within the Imam’s soul, what is our responsibility? ⚖️
If I am within the Imam’s soul, then “We have recorded all things in a manifest Imam.”
If I am within the Imam’s soul, I am a source of suffering and trouble for him.
If the Imam falls ill, I am the cause. If His Eminence has a fever, I am the cause.
The very Imam who holds the key to our ascension is the key to our rising and ascent. He is our launchpad.
The Imam is there to lift us up and bring us to the highest heavenly realm.
What have I done? What ingratitude for blessings have I fallen into?
I should have been a source of joy and delight for the Imam, but instead I have become a source of pain and sorrow for him.
Whether we accept it or not, we are within the soul of the Imam of our Time, the soul of the universe. He is the tunnel through time, the bridge across time, the passage beyond time.
He is the one before whom everyone has come to a standstill, utterly at a loss.
How did God create time and space? All the mysteries are hidden within the soul of the Imam of our Time.
### The secret of time and the way to reach truth 🔑
He is the shortcut through existence, the key to arriving beyond time.
He is the secret of Asif ibn Barkhiya, the secret of Moses and Jesus, the secret of the Prophet David and the wise Solomon, the secret of Muhammad al-Mustafa.
### The Imam of our Time, the secret of divine will 🌟
He is the same secret embodied by Ali (peace be upon him) and each of the Imams.
What a mystery our Imam of the Time holds: the secret of God’s devotion, the secret of God’s will, the secret of God’s knowledge—the secret behind every mystery.
Our Imam of the Time is the interpretation and exposition of the Muhammadan world; he is the City of Prophetic Knowledge.
### The Imam of our Time, the secret of hearts and innate nature 💖
Our hearts find meaning through the horizons of our Imam of the Time.
Without the Imam of our Time, existence is without innate nature, without conscience, without the spirit of faith.
Without the Imam of our Time, the heart is constricted beyond all measure.
Our Imam of the Time is the secret that opens our breasts; he is the secret of passing through every constriction.
Whether people understand it or not, everyone is connected to the vast network of the Imam of our Time. There is a universal connection and a special connection reserved for his devoted Shi‘a.
Without His Eminence, no one can attain any success in this world.
This is the secret: the Imam is that very feeling, longing, and desire.
What a secret I have revealed! Are we ready and worthy to enter His Eminence’s presence, or are we among those rejected?
Let us prepare ourselves. Together with our Imam of the Time, we are to learn by heart, read, and understand the whole of existence in a single breath. This is the goal:
The All-Knowing God opened this Book so that we might read it. How should we read it? Through His Proof!
If we do not read it, we will be ignorant and blind.
### Prayer and supplication before the Imam of our Time 🙏
Whatever you desire, recite this prayer from the depths of your heart:
اللهم عرفنی نفسک. Recite it hundreds of times!
اللهم عرفنی نبیک.
Recite the complete supplication from the depths of your heart.
Why shouldn’t we ourselves be transformed within the soul of our Imam of the Age, into the fairest form?
We must be transformed in the heart of our Imam of the Age.
Transform us and shape us, in our blessed Imam’s soul, into the best of states.
O God, make us worthy of being in his presence. God knows that if we become worthy, we will add to the joy of our Imam of the Age.
By Your divinity, the joy of our Imam of the Age will be increased.
### The Occultation and the Imam of the Age’s Mission 🕰
Our Imam of the Age has been entrusted with the longest mission in all existence. Its duration and vast scope attest to its importance.
One era is to come to an end, and a new one is to begin.
What must be brought to a close, and what must begin.
The era of occultation is not an era of inactivity; it is a time of learning, of becoming worthy of that great undertaking.
The trumpet of the appearance may yet be sounded.
The blood of God is flowing.
Through this blood, God gives life, though it remains hidden.
Let us make knowledge of God’s Proof the foundation of self-knowledge. We come to know our own souls when we recognise how insignificant they are.
When I understand how small I am, then I will behold the lofty stature of servitude to God.
This is the secret of “اللهم عرفنی حجتک”: the Imam is God’s great means for attaining the lofty ends of servitude, completing this world, and reaching perfection through loving worship.
We must know the Imam fully and set out with him, so that we may achieve the greatest victory on the path of servitude to God.
If I fail to reach him, I am the loser.
### Expectation and the Truth of the Imam of the Age ⏳
I am not waiting for the Imam of the Age, for I am dead; but I am devoted to him.
Neither earth nor heaven knows any bounds. Those we consider dead are alive and waiting for the Imam of the Age.
### The World’s Search for the Imam of the Age 🌍
People in the East and West are searching for the Imam of the Age. All eyes are fixed on the earth, looking for a trace of his presence, hoping to catch a fragrance of him.
What immense event is about to unfold? By God, our Imam of the Age knows no bounds, and his appearance will transcend all borders.
The blessings of his appearance will heal every illness and pain.
### The Appearance of the Imam of the Age and Its Effects 🌠
The Imam of the Age and his appearance have dimensions in the intermediate and celestial realms. Their effects and blessings reach far beyond the earth.
All eyes are turned toward the earth.
An immense event will take place.
The master, Amir al-Mu’minin Ali (peace be upon him), says:
“At the time of the Imam’s appearance, no dead person will remain untouched by joy and gladness. Their soul will be filled with joy, and the appearance will become sweet to them, even if they are in the grave.”
It is not that person in the grave—it is me!
Even a decayed bone will rejoice.
The joy of his appearance will embrace the dead.
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