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The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼🔆🌼Fatima Ma’suma (peace be upon her), the Near Path🌼🔆🌼
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “Innate Contemplation” “The Manifest and Hidden Secrets of Fatima Ma’suma” “The Taste of Greatness” “The Loftiest Field of Purity” “The Eve of Fatima Ma’suma’s Martyrdom” and others — Abstract with Addendum 1403.00.00 Ali Sa’i (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🔅🌼 The Near Path to the Jugular Vein🌼🔅
🌹The near path to the Nearness of God is Fatima al-Zahra, peace be upon her. Our airport and our place of ascent is the Ark of God.
🌹Fatima Ma’suma is that very table over which divine generosity, beauty and purity are spread. She is the cup of divine grace and purity.
🌹Fatima Ma’suma (peace be upon her) is a guiding lamp toward the supreme pole of God’s proofs.
🌹If purity and serenity were to smile, the beauty of Fatima Ma’suma (peace be upon her) would become manifest.
🌹The earth breathes a heavenly breath through Fatima Ma’suma (peace be upon her).
🌹Fatima Ma’suma (peace be upon her) is the taste of freshness and honour; the flavour of purity; the pulse and throb of the goodly life; the vein of chastity and modesty, the cause of the endurance of dignity and respect; the life-giving water of the verse of the goodly things; hearts are illumined by the lamp of Fatima Ma’suma;
🌹The visitation of Fatima Ma’suma (peace be upon her) solves the equation of Paradise.
🌹The shrine of Fatima Ma’suma bears her mighty spirit with all its heavenly provision, and perfumes the heavenly life of the earth.
🌹Fatima Ma’suma (peace be upon her) proved that there is no pleasure more delicious than purity; purity prevails over and rules all things.
🔅🌼 The nightingale of the garden of Fatima’s praise 🌼🔅
🌹Fatima Ma’suma is the defender of the Sign of Women; the guardian of the sanctity and respect of women; were it not for such women, womanhood itself would be destroyed.
🌹In this age, womanhood is utterly bereft of sanctity.
🌹War against the Sign of God is fiercely flourishing and widespread in the end of time.
🌹Pseudo-women betray the Sign of Woman. Sinful women are in truth casting off the Sign.
🌹Fatima Ma’suma (peace be upon her) works miracles through her own chastity, and by her blessing the banner of the Sign of Women is raised aloft with full respect.
🔅🌼 Fatima Ma’suma is the loftiest field of divine grandeur 🌼🔅
🌹The pure human being, especially the pure woman, is a field as dynamic and boundless as eternity itself.
🌹The depth of their beauty and grace and character and attractions likewise tends toward the infinite.
🌹Beauty is a vibration that tends toward vibrationlessness; the perception of beauty beyond vibration is difficult and well-nigh impossible, yet it is a truth that can be reached.
🌹The guardians of the trust of beauty are journeying toward the highest destination and will attain the utmost and the beyond of beauty; beauty is but one road and one impulse for movement and the acceleration of servitude.
🌹The creative, all-knowing Creator will plant new members and subtle and wondrous faculties, unperceived before, upon the human frame; the imagining of the human being’s sensation and state in new realms is beyond conception.
🌹In the field of Ma’suma, how many things that might have grown have not grown, and the unworthy will be deprived of beholding and perceiving its sacred harvest; Fatima Ma’suma means the world of art and beauty and purity.
🌹The fragrance and serenity of Fatima Ma’suma bestows serenity. It becomes the cause of the calm and gentleness of the universe; it is the oxygen of tenderness and serenity and purity; if it were cut off, the life of serenity would be constricted.
🔅🌼Fatima Maʿsuma (peace be upon her) is a path close to the way of God🌼🔅
🌹Let us attend to the intermediate means as “the best means of approach.” Intermediate means are steps leading to higher means. Fatima Maʿsuma (peace be upon her) is one such intermediate means, making the way to higher means easier.
🌹Fatima Maʿsuma (peace be upon her) guides us toward the primal means; branches, leaves and fruit are a fine guide to the root. Fragrance is the flower’s highest sign.
🌹We must know in order to benefit; not knowing deprives us of the chance to benefit and make good use.
🌹Why should we not enjoy every fruit and fragrance, and taste what they offer?
🌹The secrets of Maʿsuma are the fulfillment of our worldly and otherworldly needs; Maʿsuma is truly a magnificent divine gift.
🌹In inward connection, the bond between the one who connects and the one connected with entails an exchange of their worlds, states and sensations. The stronger party influences the other.
🌹In every connection, the sensations of the one who connects become perceptible, though to varying degrees.
🔅🌼Fatima Maʿsuma (peace be upon her) reveals beauty in its fullness🌼🔅
🌹Let us not lose sight of all-encompassing love, beauty and attraction. In this world, we encounter love and beauty only in their limited forms.
🌹Worldly desires and beauties are a testing ground.
🌹The road is not the destination; the shadow is not the light; the sign is not the one it signifies.
🔅🌼Fatima Maʿsuma (peace be upon her) is the wings of those who seek ascent🌼🔅
🌹Among the mysteries of the pure is their power to raise others up and carry them aloft: they are like “wings,” and a means of escape from confinement and lowliness.
🌹Purity is essential to attaining higher understanding and a lofty station.
🌹The vibration of purity transcends the absence of vibration.
🌹Purity is essential to sensing beyond time and space.
🌹Time and space becoming one
🌹Lover and beloved becoming one
🔅🌼Who can know Fatima Maʿsuma’s undisclosed secrets?🌼🔅
🌹God, jealous for what is sacred, withholds and neutralizes the attractions of the pure and the virtuous from those unworthy of them.
🔅🌼The All-Wise God has not yet unveiled all the secrets of womanhood🌼🔅
🌹How many hidden enticements there are of which we are unaware.
🌹Woman is a masterpiece of the creative art of the All-Knowing, the All-Wise ; she has a part that is visible and far greater parts that remain unseen, and she offers a space for God to bring forth new creation. Man is so too; so is every one of God’s creations.
🌹God’s artistry has manifest and hidden aspects, and a special art that is revealed only to the elect .
Knowledge may come through sight, hearing, intuition, reason or other faculties of perception; each is a path toward a particular end.
🌹The senses merely read, translate and interpret; what matters is the interpretation of all these translations and interpretations.
🌹Visual attraction encompasses only a part of the divine attractions.
🌹The one who attracts and the one who is attracted are matched to one another. Let us not overlook the particular and hidden attractions.
🔅🌼A gathering of attractions🌼🔅
🌹It is He who creates symbols between the two parties.
🌹Let us find God at the gathering of attractions. Let us leave the gathering of sensual desires.
🌹Who is truly acquainted with pure sensual pleasures?
🌹Purity is a sublime key; it unlocks every mystery and every light.
🔅🌼Only those who seek purity can taste its sweetness 🌼🔅
🌹A person must change their frequency and vibration, attuning them away from the negative, satanic frequency. They must filter out satanic influences so as to remain undisturbed by their clamour and commands..
🌹When people tune their vibrations to the wavelength of devils and the world, they become sensitive only to worldly and satanic sensations.
🌹The reason so many people are influenced by the insinuations of Dajjal-like spaces, both virtual and real, is that they have surrendered control of their brainwaves and frequency to the devils.
🔅🌼Selling what has been entrusted to us is forbidden 🌼🔅
🌹Let us not forget the great and momentous test of being trustworthy.
🌹How dreadful, and how damaging, when a person forgets the exam while seated at the examination desk.
🌹Earning the medal of trustworthiness brings great rewards.
🔅🌼The next edition: women and beauties 🌼🔅
🌹Those who understand nothing beyond dust and earthly pleasures will never appreciate the value of precious jewels.
🌹Jewels belong to those who know how to recognize them.
🌹Which among all creatures cherish flowers and the pure landscapes of nature?.
🌹What will the next edition of the honeybee and the nightingales—and others—be?
🌹And what is the next edition of the human being—the version that ascends, and the version that falls?
🔅🌼Misappropriating God’s property is forbidden 🌼🔅
🌹No one owns themselves. This truth is not hard to understand: no creature owns itself, or its limbs and faculties, feelings, desires, nature, sex, beauty or allure. All of these are materials for its trial.
🌹Whoever betrays the divine trust placed in them will have it taken away; they will also be punished for their betrayal.
🌹How hard it is to fall into poverty after wealth, ugliness after beauty, or into an animal state—or worse—after having been human and noble.
🔅🌼The taste of greatness🌼🔅
🌹Greatness, too, has a taste, though it cannot be described.
🌹The created world and God’s saints are like this as well: they are branches of divine greatness, through whom God Most High shines His greatness upon the worlds. People can sense it, but cannot describe it.
🌹People throughout the world can taste the greatness of Fatima Masumeh, but they cannot describe it.
🔅🌼Reflecting on the sign of woman through innate, heartfelt, intellectual, luminous and jurisprudential thought 🌼🔅
🌻🔆Āl ʿImrān: 191 الَّذينَ يَذْكُرُونَ اللَّهَ قِياماً وَ قُعُوداً وَ عَلى جُنُوبِهِمْ وَ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ في خَلْقِ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ رَبَّنا ما خَلَقْتَ هذا باطِلاً سُبْحانَكَ فَقِنا عَذابَ النَّارِ
🔆Those who remember God standing, sitting, and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth, saying, “Our Lord, You did not create all this in vain. Glory be to You! Protect us from the torment of the Fire!”
🌻🔆Al-Raʿd: 3 وَ هُوَ الَّذي مَدَّ الْأَرْضَ وَ جَعَلَ In it رَواسِيَ وَ أَنْهاراً وَ مِنْ كُلِّ الثَّمَراتِ جَعَلَ In it زَوْجَيْنِ اثْنَيْنِ يُغْشِي اللَّيْلَ النَّهارَ إِنَّ في ذلِكَ لَآياتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
🔆He is the One who spread out the earth and placed mountains and rivers upon it, and created in it pairs of every kind of fruit. He covers the day with the darkness of night. In this are signs for people who reflect.
🌻🔆Al-Rūm: 21 وَ مِنْ آياتِهِ أَنْ خَلَقَ لَكُمْ مِنْ أَنْفُسِكُمْ أَزْواجاً لِتَسْكُنُوا إِلَيْها وَ جَعَلَ بَيْنَكُمْ مَوَدَّةً وَ رَحْمَةً إِنَّ في ذلِكَ لَآياتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
🔆Among His signs is that He created spouses for you from among yourselves, so that you may find tranquillity with them, and placed love and mercy between you. In this are signs for people who reflect.
🌻🔆Al-Mulk: 3 الَّذي خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَماواتٍ طِباقاً ما تَرى في خَلْقِ الرَّحْمنِ مِنْ تَفاوُتٍ فَارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ هَلْ تَرى مِنْ فُطُورٍ
🔆He is the One who created seven heavens, one above another. You will see no flaw or disorder in the creation of the All-Merciful. Look again: can you see any fissure or defect?
🌻🔆Al-Mulk: 4 ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ كَرَّتَيْنِ يَنْقَلِبْ إِلَيْكَ الْبَصَرُ خاسِئاً وَ هُوَ حَسيرٌ
🔆Look once more at the universe: in the end, your eyes will return to you, defeated in their search for flaw or imperfection, weary and worn out.
🔅🌼 The Secret of Reflection 🌼🔅
Every verse stands before us like a riddle. Who can solve the riddles of the divine signs?!
The knowledge of reflection
Learning to reflect
Mastery of reflection
Making the most of reflection
Distinguishing reflection from mere heedlessness
Elevating reflection to understanding and deep insight
The secret of innate reflection
If we make purity a source of pleasure
Tranquillity: a higher pleasure
Keys that unlock one another
One key entangled with another
🌻🔆Al-Ghāshiyah: 17 أَ فَلا يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ
Do they not look at the camel, how it was created?
🌻🔆Al-Ghāshiyah: 18 وَ إِلَى السَّماءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ
وَ إِلىَ الجْبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ 19 Al-Ghāshiyah: 🌻🔆
وَ إِلىَ الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ 20 Al-Ghāshiyah: 🌻🔆
🌻🔆Al-Ghashiyah: 21 فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ
🌻🔆Al-A‘raf: 185 أَ وَ لَمْ يَنْظُرُوا في مَلَكُوتِ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ وَ ما خَلَقَ اللَّهُ مِنْ شَيْءٍ وَ أَنْ عَسى أَنْ يَكُونَ قَدِ اقْتَرَبَ أَجَلُهُمْ فَبِأَيِّ حَديثٍ بَعْدَهُ يُؤْمِنُونَ
🔆Have they not looked carefully at the dominion of the heavens and the earth and all that God has created, taking heed? And have they not considered that the end of their lives may be near? If they do not believe in this clear heavenly Book, what message will they believe in after it?
🌻🔆Qaf: 6 أَ فَلَمْ يَنْظُرُوا إِلَى السَّماءِ فَوْقَهُمْ كَيْفَ بَنَيْناها وَ زَيَّنَّاها وَ ما لَها مِنْ فُرُوجٍ
🔆Have they not looked up at the sky above them and seen how We built it and adorned it with stars, leaving no cracks or flaws in it?
🌼Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)🌼