The Mystery of Nearness and Sacrifice

🌼🔆🌼The Most Beautiful Adornment🌼🔆🌼

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌹 “The spiritual journey of nearness and sacrifice”  “The jugular vein of sacrifice”  “The practice of sacrifice” “The final sacrifice”  “The Night of Eid al-Adha” and more … A brief summary with an addendum       1403.03.27    Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🔅🌼 I would sacrifice myself for You, O Sacrifice; make me Your sacrifice🌼🔅

🌹Let us manage and reflect thoughtfully on our nearness and sacrifice, so that we may shape the most beautiful act of nearness and sacrifice. Sacrifice is the thesis that brings human life to its culmination.

🔅🌼 Accept me as Your sacrifice🌼🔅

🌹O God, adorn me with the grace of the Godfearing and accept me as Your sacrifice.

🔅🌼 The spiritual journey of sacrifice🌼🔅

🌹From Arafat to Mina, the journey leads from the valley of gnosis to the valley of nearness and sacrifice.

🌹A person must offer the perfection, purity, and sincerity of their soul as a sacrifice to the One they worship. Humanity’s greatest purity and beauty lie in perfect sincerity in affirming divine oneness. The summit of human attainment is the station of the Face of God, which is the highest station of servanthood to God. At this station, it is God alone who offers His servant as a sacrifice to Himself.

🌹When a servant of God lets all that they possess pass away on the path to divine nearness, only their God-facing aspect remains.

🌻🔆الرحمن : 26   كُلُّ مَنْ عَلَيْها فانٍ

🌻🔆الرحمن : 27   وَ يَبْقى‏ وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ ذُو الْجَلالِ وَ الْإِكْرامِ

🔅🌼 The jugular vein of «نفی الصفات»🌼🔅

🌹The worthy human station of being sacrificed is to attain perfect sincerity toward the One worshipped. This station is the realization of the truth of «نفی الصفات» in relation to the Divine Essence. At this station, because the servant of God is so close to the One they worship, they are guided to the truth that their Lord transcends beauty and majesty, and every perfection and greatness. They come to understand that the One, the Unique, is beyond all «کمّ و کیف» and «وصف و توصیف», and that even the stature of the highest attributes cannot reach the matchless threshold of the One worshipped.

🌹As the servant advances through the degrees of servanthood, in their relation to the One worshipped through attributes, they reach a horizon of understanding and wisdom where neither tongue nor heart can describe their Lord any longer; they become pure instruments of the Lord’s will, with no will or choice of their own. This state can be attained only by severing the jugular vein of attributes in describing the Lord, تبارک و تعالی.

🌷🔆أَوَّلُ‏ الدِّينِ‏ مَعْرِفَتُهُ وَ كَمَالُ مَعْرِفَتِهِ التَّصْدِيقُ بِهِ وَ كَمَالُ التَّصْدِيقِ بِهِ تَوْحِيدُهُ وَ كَمَالُ تَوْحِيدِهِ الْإِخْلَاصُ لَهُ وَ كَمَالُ الْإِخْلَاصِ لَهُ نَفْيُ الصِّفَاتِ عَنْه‏[1]

🌷🔆The first principle of religion is knowledge of God; the perfection of knowing Him is to affirm Him; the perfection of affirming Him is to affirm His oneness; the perfection of affirming His oneness is sincerity toward Him; and the perfection of sincerity toward Him is to deny attributes of Him.

🌹Thus, the most beautiful nearness to the court of الله, «واحد و احد», is perfect sincerity toward Him, whose sign is the denial of every attribute of His Essence. In truth, the person who affirms God’s oneness reaches unity in that affirmation: their affirmation of oneness attains perfect purity.

🌹When the servant of God severs the jugular vein of attributes in knowing the Most Exalted Lord, they come to know the One they worship directly: they know Him through Him Himself. Although calling this “knowledge” is not entirely free of error, necessity permits us to use the term.

🌹Our relationship with and knowledge of the One we worship through attributes is, in truth, a practice and a test for God’s servant on the way to meeting the One they worship. Attaining the reality of directness—and the truth that He is the intermediary between every intermediary—brings the servant closer to the «ذبح اعظم». A subtle point is that the Creator stands as a veil between the attributes ascribed to Him and His creation.

🌹Thus, when a servant of God sacrifices their will in every act, and especially in knowing the Lord, they become God’s pure sacrifice.

🔅🌼 God’s sacrifice must be perfectly adorned🌼🔅

🌹Affirming God’s oneness is the highest adornment of servanthood.

🌹First, we must sever the veins of doubt and associating partners with God. Then the time comes to sever the veins of our pure, delicate soul. The height of purity and clarity is «وتر الموتور»: its being becomes one vein, one hue; the servant becomes utterly alone.

🌹A pure, sincere and devoted person is that solitary servant in worship of God. Only the servant who stands alone is worthy of being sacrificed to Allah, «فرد المتفرد».

🌷🔆 وَ وَسِيلَتِي إِلَيْكَ التَّوْحِيدُ، وَ ذَرِيعَتِي أَنِّي لَمْ أُشْرِكْ بِكَ شَيْئاً، وَ لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ مَعَكَ إِلَهاً، وَ قَدْ فَرَرْتُ إِلَيْكَ بِنَفْسِي,[2]

🔆 My means of approach to You is tawhid, and my firmest hold is that I have associated nothing with You and taken no other god alongside You; with my whole being, I have fled to You,

🌷🔆 أَنْتَ اللَّهُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ، الْأَحَدُ الْمُتَوَحِّدُ الْفَرْدُ الْمُتَفَرِّدُ  وَ أَنْتَ اللَّهُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ، الْكَرِيمُ الْمُتَكَرِّمُ، الْعَظِيمُ الْمُتَعَظِّمُ، الْكَبِيرُ الْمُتَكَبِّر[3]

🔆 You alone are God; there is no god but You, the One, unique in Your oneness; the Singular, alone in Your singularity—none is singular but You. You alone are God; there is no god but You, the Generous, unmatched in generosity—none is generous but You; the Great, unique in greatness; the Majestic, alone in majesty.

🔅🌼O God, prepare me to be sacrificed for You.🌼🔅

🌹This world keeps us from tasting the joy of nearness to God; it dulls our sense of drawing close «الی الله»;

🌹O God, adorn for me the bridal chamber of intimate seclusion in Your nearness.

🌷🔆وَ انْزِعْ مِنْ قَلْبِي حُبَّ دُنْيَا دَنِيَّةٍ تَنْهَى عَمَّا عِنْدَكَ، وَ تَصُدُّ عَنِ ابْتِغَاءِ الْوَسِيلَةِ إِلَيْكَ، وَ تُذْهِلُ عَنِ التَّقَرُّبِ مِنْكَ. وَ زَيِّنْ لِيَ‏ التَّفَرُّدَ بِمُنَاجَاتِكَ بِاللَّيْلِ وَ النَّهَار[4]

🔆 (O God,) uproot from the depths of my heart my love for this lowly world, which keeps me from what is with You, prevents me from seeking a way to You, and distracts me from Your nearness. Adorn me with solitude and seclusion for intimate communion with You, at night and in the early morning.

🔅🌼Offering tawhid is the prelude to sacrifice.🌼🔅

🌷🔆 وَ إِنِّي وَ إِنْ لَمْ أُقَدِّمْ مَا قَدَّمُوهُ مِنَ الصَّالِحَاتِ فَقَدْ قَدَّمْتُ‏ تَوْحِيدَكَ‏ وَ نَفْيَ الْأَضْدَادِ وَ الْأَنْدَادِ وَ الْأَشْبَاهِ عَنْكَ,[5]

🔆 Though I have not sent ahead the good deeds that they sent ahead, I have sent ahead Your oneness, and the denial of any equal, counterpart or likeness to Your sacred being.

🔅🌼Do not abandon me.🌼🔅

🌷🔆 وَ لَا تُرْسِلْنِي‏ مِنْ يَدِكَ إِرْسَالَ مَنْ لَا خَيْرَ فِيهِ، وَ لَا حَاجَةَ بِكَ إِلَيْهِ، وَ لَا إِنَابَةَ لَه‏[6]

🔆 Do not withdraw Your hand from me as one abandons someone in whom there is no good, with whom one has no concern, and for whom there is no return.

🌹O my God, You alone bring me near to You; so do not abandon me before I am sacrificed for You.

🌷🔆 وَ خُذْ بِقَلْبِي إِلَى مَا اسْتَعْمَلْتَ بِهِ الْقَانِتِينَ، وَ اسْتَعْبَدْتَ بِهِ الْمُتَعَبِّدِينَ، وَ اسْتَنْقَذْتَ بِهِ الْمُتَهَاوِنِينَ. [7]

🔆 O God, draw my heart toward the things with which You have entrusted those who are humble, toward which You have set worshippers to worship You, and through which You have saved the heedless.

🌹O God, draw my heart to You as You have drawn the hearts of the humble. O God, do not leave my heart to itself. O God, make my heart a tablet bearing Your name.

🔅🌼Nearness is tasted in solitude with God.🌼🔅

🌷🔆 وَ أَذِقْنِي طَعْمَ‏ الْفَرَاغِ‏ لِمَا تُحِبُّ بِسَعَةٍ مِنْ سَعَتِك‏[8]

🔆 My Lord, let me taste the freedom that comes from what You love, in the boundless expanse of Your generosity!

🌹 Set me free, and let me taste what You love. Empty my heart of everything You do not love, and fill it with what You love.

🌹 Encompass me with the abundance of Your wealth and the boundlessness of Your expanse, and leave no room in me for anything but Your love.

🔅🌼Cast upon my humble soul the same gaze You cast upon the righteous.🌼🔅

🌷🔆 وَ كُنْ‏ لِي‏ كَمَا تَكُونُ لِلصَّالِحِينَ، وَ حَلِّنِي حِلْيَةَ الْمُتَّقِينَ,[9]

🔆 Treat me as You treat the righteous; adorn me with the virtues of the God-fearing.

🔅🌼Make the sacrifice of your desires the prelude to offering yourself to Him.🌼🔅

🌻🔆 At-Tawbah: 24   قُلْ إِنْ كانَ آباؤُكُمْ وَ أَبْناؤُكُمْ وَ إِخْوانُكُمْ وَ أَزْواجُكُمْ وَ عَشيرَتُكُمْ وَ أَمْوالٌ اقْتَرَفْتُمُوها وَ تِجارَةٌ تَخْشَوْنَ كَسادَها وَ مَساكِنُ تَرْضَوْنَها أَحَبَّ إِلَيْكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ وَ جِهادٍ في‏ سَبيلِهِ فَتَرَبَّصُوا حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ اللَّهُ بِأَمْرِهِ وَ اللَّهُ لا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْفاسِقينَ

🔆 Say: “If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your spouses, your clan, the wealth you have acquired, the trade whose decline you fear, and the homes you cherish are dearer to you than God, His Messenger, and striving in His cause, then wait until God brings His command to pass. God does not guide a disobedient people.”

🔅🌼The wisdom of sacrifice🌼🔅

🌹We must sacrifice and be sacrificed for wisely, with knowledge and insight. We must reach the utmost beauty—and bring it to its fullness—and only then offer the sacrifice and become the sacrifice.

🌹An ignorant lover is a torment and a burden to the soul of the beloved. Ignorant love hurts the beloved.

🔅🌼Bring the animal nature of your soul to its most excellent form.🌼🔅

🌹Sacrifice the animal nature of your soul with complete confidence.

🌹Have you raised and nurtured the animal nature of your soul well? Have you purified it and transformed it at its root?

🌹Just as people raise livestock and tame wild animals, they must tame the beasts, venomous creatures and predators within their souls, and offer them in sacrifice to the Creator of life.

🌹Until you tame and quiet the beasts within your soul, you will not attain the higher levels.

🌹After the beasts within the soul have been slaughtered, it is the turn of the Josephs and Ishmaels within us; then come the highest qualities of being. You must prepare your light for sacrifice; sacrifice the subtle and delicate qualities of your soul.

🔅🌼Purify your spirits and offer them in sacrifice.🌼🔅

🌹Offer to God your spirit of desire, your bodily spirit and your spirit of power, together with your spirit of faith, as a sacrifice to the communities of intellect and heart, virtue and nobility.

🌹By purifying and cultivating the spirit of desire through its closeness to the intellect, the spirit of faith and noble character, this vital power within us becomes clean and pure, and is well nurtured. It comes to know the desires of the heavenly and divine realms; thus it becomes a spirit worthy of sacrifice.

🌹Offer every cell, every particle, every moment of your being in sacrifice to Him.

🌹All beings—from minerals and plants to insects, venomous creatures, predators and all other forms of life—have a most excellent form and order into which they can be transformed. Sacrifice becomes meaningful when a being is on the path toward its own most excellent order.

🌹Every part of our bodies has its own most excellent order, even those parts that must be covered. When any part reaches its most excellent order, it will no longer need to be covered.

🔅🌼Practising sacrifice🌼🔅

🌹First of all, sever the veins of polytheism and doubt; then take the jugular vein of your pure soul to the altar of God for sacrifice. When you reach the summit of purity and sincerity, you become singular and peerless, and in the truest sense you become “the lone and unavenged” (watr al-mawtur); then no one but the peerless Creator can sever this vein—this is the very secret of immortality.

🌹To offer sacrifice and to be sacrificed is among the fundamental duties of divine servitude; being sacrificed is the seal of servitude.

🌹Everyone, at every moment and in every state, offers sacrifice and is sacrificed; every moment is a rehearsal of sacrifice for the final sacrifice.

🔅🌼Sacrifice your prayer🌼🔅

🌹Prayer is our finest sacrifice, repeated at different times; along with the prayer, let us offer our very souls to Him, and in prostration, slaughter this sacrifice.

🌹Does your soul take flight when you pray?!

🌹If we do not give our lives at the time of prayer, we are lifeless.

🌷🔆 قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ إِذَا قَامَ الْعَبْدُ الْمُؤْمِنُ فِي صَلَاتِهِ نَظَرَ اللَّهُ إِلَيْهِ أَوْ قَالَ أَقْبَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى يَنْصَرِفَ وَ أَظَلَّتْهُ الرَّحْمَةُ مِنْ فَوْقِ رَأْسِهِ إِلَى أُفُقِ السَّمَاءِ وَ الْمَلَائِكَةُ تَحُفُّهُ مِنْ حَوْلِهِ إِلَى أُفُقِ السَّمَاءِ وَ وَكَّلَ اللَّهُ بِهِ مَلَكاً قَائِماً عَلَى رَأْسِهِ يَقُولُ لَهُ أَيُّهَا الْمُصَلِّي لَوْ تَعْلَمُ مَنْ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْكَ وَ مَنْ تُنَاجِي مَا الْتَفَتَّ وَ لَا زِلْتَ مِنْ مَوْضِعِكَ أَبَداً. [10]

🔆Whenever a believing servant rises for prayer, God looks upon him and turns His attention to him until he finishes the prayer; mercy casts its shadow from above his head to the horizon of the sky, and the angels envelop him all the way to heaven, and God appoints an angel to say to him: “O worshipper! If you knew who is looking upon you and with whom you are conversing, you would pay no attention to anything else, and you would never leave your place.”

🌹The experience of nearness and sacrifice is made possible through God-wariness (taqwa); a love grounded in taqwa is accepted at the court of the Truth.

🌷🔆 عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا ع قَالَ: الصَّلَاةُ قُرْبَانُ كُلِ‏ تَقِيٍ‏.[11]

🔆Prayer itself is the means of the believer’s nearness to God.

🌷🔆Make your place of prostration your altar of sacrifice.

🌷🔆 عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الرِّضَا يَقُولُ‏ أَقْرَبُ مَا يَكُونُ الْعَبْدُ مِنَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ هُوَ سَاجِدٌ  وَ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ- وَ اسْجُدْ وَ اقْتَرِب‏[12]

🔆The closest a servant comes to God the Great is when he is in prostration. God said: “Prostrate and draw near.”

🌹Cast all your limbs and members down in prostration and offer your soul as a sacrifice to Him; not only your limbs and members—cast the entire world down in prostration and make it a sacrifice to Him.

🔅🌼O Turner of hearts, all my states are a sacrifice to You🌼🔅

🌹At every moment and in every circumstance, make your states and conditions, your pleasures and delights, a sacrifice to Him; make His remembrance your perpetual offering.

🌹Bring yourself to His altar; make every street a trysting-place, an altar, a retreat, and a Mina for your Beloved.

🌹O Lord, may I be created billions upon billions of times, so that each time I may be a sacrifice to You.

🔅🌼The products of the industry of taqwa🌼🔅

🌻🔆Al-Ma’idah: 27   وَ اتْلُ عَلَيْهِمْ نَبَأَ ابْنَيْ آدَمَ بِالْحَقِّ إِذْ قَرَّبا قُرْباناً فَتُقُبِّلَ مِنْ أَحَدِهِما وَ لَمْ يُتَقَبَّلْ مِنَ الْآخَرِ قالَ لَأَقْتُلَنَّكَ قالَ إِنَّما يَتَقَبَّلُ اللَّهُ مِنَ الْمُتَّقينَ

🔆And recite to them the story of the two sons of Adam in truth: when each of them offered a sacrifice for nearness to God; but it was accepted from one of them and not accepted from the other. (Cain) said: “By God, I will surely kill you!” (Abel) said: “God accepts only from the God-wary!”

🌹In the contest of love, no one stands between the lover and the Beloved or obstructs their union. No one is a rival to their love; only the lover can come between themselves and the Beloved.

🌹God accepts the fruit of piety. Set out toward Him clothed in piety, with a pious heart, for He accepts the fruit together with its tree.

🌻🔆الأعراف : 26   يا بَني‏ آدَمَ قَدْ أَنْزَلْنا عَلَيْكُمْ لِباساً يُواري سَوْآتِكُمْ وَ ريشاً وَ لِباسُ التَّقْوى‏ ذلِكَ خَيْرٌ ذلِكَ مِنْ آياتِ اللَّهِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ

🔆O children of Adam! We have sent down clothing for you to cover your nakedness and adorn you; but the garment of piety is better. These are among God’s signs, so that they may take heed.

🌹God buys the burden together with its bearer, the fruit together with its tree, and the harvest together with its seller.

🌹Each day, let us come before the Eternal Beloved in new attire—with new love, new remembrance and supplication, and a new beautiful deed,

🌹let us bring innovation to love, gather together and offer ourselves in sacrifice; let us make the many one, and offer that one to the One alone! Let us unite the whole world with ourselves, and lay down our lives for Him.

🔅🌼Only a pure word is worthy of sacrifice before the Holy One🌼🔅

🌻🔆إبراهيم : 24   أَ لَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ ضَرَبَ اللَّهُ مَثَلاً كَلِمَةً طَيِّبَةً كَشَجَرَةٍ طَيِّبَةٍ أَصْلُها ثابِتٌ وَ فَرْعُها فِي السَّماءِ

🔆Have you not seen how God compares a good word to a good tree, whose roots are firm and whose branches reach the sky?

🌻🔆إبراهيم : 25   تُؤْتي‏ أُكُلَها كُلَّ حينٍ بِإِذْنِ رَبِّها وَ يَضْرِبُ اللَّهُ الْأَمْثالَ لِلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ

🌻🔆It yields its fruit at every moment by its Lord’s permission. God offers such parables to people, so that they may take heed.

🌻🔆إبراهيم : 26   وَ مَثَلُ كَلِمَةٍ خَبيثَةٍ كَشَجَرَةٍ خَبيثَةٍ اجْتُثَّتْ مِنْ فَوْقِ الْأَرْضِ ما لَها مِنْ قَرارٍ

🔆And He compares an evil word to a foul tree, torn up from the earth, with no firm footing.

🌻🔆فاطر : 10   مَنْ كانَ يُريدُ الْعِزَّةَ فَلِلَّهِ الْعِزَّةُ جَميعاً إِلَيْهِ يَصْعَدُ الْكَلِمُ الطَّيِّبُ وَ الْعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ يَرْفَعُهُ وَ الَّذينَ يَمْكُرُونَ السَّيِّئاتِ لَهُمْ عَذابٌ شَديدٌ وَ مَكْرُ أُولئِكَ هُوَ يَبُورُ

🔆Whoever seeks honour— all honour belongs to God. Good words ascend to Him, and righteous deeds raise them up. Those who plot evil will face a severe punishment, and their schemes will come to nothing!

🔅🌼I seek refuge in You from Your rejection🌼🔅

🌷🔆 وَ أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ الْعَظِيمِ مِنْ هَوًى مُرْدٍ وَ قَرِينٍ مُلْهٍ وَ صَاحِبٍ مُسْهٍ وَ جَارٍ مُؤْذٍ وَ غَنِيٍّ مُطْغٍ وَ فَقْرٍ مُنْسٍ وَ مِنْ قَلْبٍ لَا يَخْشَعُ وَ صَلَاةٍ لَا تَنْفَعُ وَ دُعَاءٍ لَا يُسْمَعُ‏ وَ عَيْنٍ لَا تَدْمَعُ وَ نَفْسٍ لَا تَقْنَعُ وَ بَطْنٍ لَا يَشْبَعُ وَ عَمَلٍ لَا يُرْفَعُ‏ وَ اسْتِغَاثَةٍ لَا تُجَاب‏[13]

🔅🌼The way of Adam and his children🌼🔅

🌹Let us not bring corruption into God’s works; let us make them a field of love. Let us not approach the forbidden tree or mar the perfection of God’s order. Let us be faithful guardians of God’s trust, knowing that at every moment the forbidden tree stands before us.

🌹At every moment, we are either Abel or Cain; we are on our way to the altar, either accepted or rejected.

🌹The finest human stature is brought low when one turns one’s back on God’s command.

🌹Adam’s path was bent by disobedience.

🌹No one blocks the way to nearness to God; we are the ones who build a barrier.

🌹Martyrdom brings the sacrifice nearer to God and raises its worth.

🔅🌼Preparing and making ready the sacrifice🌼🔅

🌹Consider the measure and nature of sacrifice. Before offering your life, prepare for it; you may have only one chance to make that offering, so treat your life with care.

🌹By sacrificing your desires, hopes, pleasures and enjoyments, keep training yourself to offer your life.

🌹The final chapter of our life should be the finest and most precious offering we can make at the threshold of the One, the Incomparable.

🌹Following the highest examples of Muhammad, Ali, Hasan and Husayn, let us cultivate the jewels of our souls and prepare them to be sacrificed for the love of the One.

🌹How wonderful are the fruits, subtleties and finer qualities of the soul, when it has a gardener!

🌹Do not forget to practise sacrifice, from giving up wealth and children to offering your life.

🌹Let us learn the wondrous secrets of sacrifice in the school of Imam Husayn, peace be upon him. Our Imam of the Age seeks companions ready to sacrifice themselves like Habil and Abu al-Fadl.

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

[1] Nahj al-Balagha (ed. Subhi Salih), p. 39Sharif al-Radi, Hijrat, Qom; first edition, 1414 AH.

[2] Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, p. 242Ali ibn al-Husayn, Daftar-e Nashr-e Hadi, Qom; first edition, 1376 SH. Excerpt from Supplication 49

[3] Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, p. 210Ali ibn al-Husayn, Daftar-e Nashr-e Hadi, Qom; first edition, 1376 SH. Excerpt from Supplication 47

[4] Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, p. 226Ali ibn al-Husayn, Daftar-e Nashr-e Hadi, Qom; first edition, 1376 SH. Excerpt from Supplication 47

[5] Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, p. 222Ali ibn al-Husayn, Daftar-e Nashr-e Hadi, Qom; first edition, 1376 SH. Excerpt from Supplication 47

[6] Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, p. 226Ali ibn al-Husayn, Daftar-e Nashr-e Hadi, Qom; first edition, 1376 SH. Excerpt from Supplication 47

[7] Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, p. 225Ali ibn al-Husayn, Daftar-e Nashr-e Hadi, Qom; first edition, 1376 SH. Excerpt from Supplication 47

[8] Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, p. 230Ali ibn al-Husayn, Daftar-e Nashr-e Hadi, Qom; first edition, 1376 SH. Excerpt from Supplication 47

[9] Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, p. 230Ali ibn al-Husayn, Daftar-e Nashr-e Hadi, Qom; first edition, 1376 SH. Excerpt from Supplication 47

[10] Al-Kafi (Islamic edition), vol. 3, p. 265Kulaynī, Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya, Tehran; fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[11] Al-Kafi (Islamic edition), vol. 3, p. 265Kulaynī, Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya, Tehran; fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[12] Al-Kafi (Islamic edition), vol. 3, p. 264Kulaynī, Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya, Tehran; fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[13] Al-Misbah by al-Kafami (Jannat al-Aman al-Waqiya), p. 237Kafami, Dar al-Radi (Zahidi), Qom; second edition, 1405 AH.