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1404/05/30

The Nerve of Love and Servitude

Instructor: Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) • Soroush-e Bamdadan Cultural Center • 46 views

🌼🔆🌼Ambassador of Transformation🌼🔆🌼🔹The Night of the Passing of the Noble Messenger📅 Date: 1404/05/30 - 27 Safar 1447✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:Please note that, since this text was transcribed from…

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The Nerve of Love and Servitude

Lectures in the Meshkat-e Noor series • Master Ali Saei
1404/05/30 حجم: ۳۴ مگابایت
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The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series

🌼🔆🌼Ambassador of Transformation🌼🔆🌼
🔹The Night of the Passing of the Noble Messenger
📅 Date: 1404/05/30 – 27 Safar 1447
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:
Please note that, since this text was transcribed from an audio recording, hadiths and some Quranic verses have been rendered literally.

🕊 Your trusted bearer of revelation and the noblest of Your creation*


👑 The Night the Guardian of Creation Passed Away**

The night the guardian of creation passed away, the night the crown of beauty, the delight of creation, Muhammad al-Mustafa, passed away.
اللهم صل علی محمد و آل محمد.


🌸 Who Is Muhammad? The Key to Blessing and the Imam of Mercy

Who is Muhammad?
Who is this key to blessing, this Imam of mercy?
From which horizon should we behold the beauty of this noble one: this sovereign of God’s mercy in all existence, this commander of goodness, this very blueprint of the beauty of the universe?

Unless we rise above the horizon of Ali, we will never behold his beauty.
We must ascend to the summit of Ali, and from there behold his perfection and beauty.
And again, we must behold his sublime beauty and utmost grace from the horizon of Hasan.
Once more, we must climb the summit of Husayn and, from that Husayni horizon, behold the beauty of Ahmad.
اللهم صل علی محمد.


🏔 Conquering the Summits of the House of Muhammad

Until we have conquered the summits of the House of Muhammad, we will not attain the grace of visiting the Messenger.
The gates of the Messenger—the gates of the City of Knowledge, the gates of Muhammad al-Mustafa—are the exalted summits of the Infallible Ones, peace be upon them.
We must knock at their gates and seek knowledge of them from God’s presence.
Until we know the Messenger’s gate, we will not penetrate the heart of knowledge.
Knowledge, once understood, descends to the extent of that understanding.
And the Messenger is the City of Knowledge. Who, in truth, is he?
The Lord of the worlds began the universe with that sacred being.

The Originator also brought forth something unprecedented: He began the universe with that noble one, whose coming into this world was accompanied by wonders.
The beginning of earthly creation—the outward appearance of that noble one in this world—was accompanied and attended by what marvels!
It was the beginning of transformation, the beginning of change and upheaval.
And with his passing, another transformation began.


🌌 Beginnings and Transformations with Muhammad

Once again, the Originator began a new creation.
At every moment, the noble one is accompanied by wonders.
When he dawned upon this earthly realm, a wondrous new beginning commenced.
And when he set, yet another beginning commenced.

His end in this world was itself a new beginning**, accompanied by the greatest of trials.
Indeed, the greatest trial began with his passing, so that the path of the flower might be distinguished from that of the worthless weeds, and the path of light separated from darkness.

Indeed, with the noble one, all existence enters a new and distinct stage at every moment.
He is the vast software of God’s knowledge.
God’s knowledge is manifested in this universe.


📜 He is God’s knowledge; he is the City of Knowledge**

One cannot say of knowledge what it is. The essence of knowledge belongs neither to the realm of “what” nor to that of “being.”
We cannot say what it is, nor can we say what it exists as.
It transcends being and whatness.

We engage with the manifestations of knowledge, and the noble one is the City of Knowledge.
He is the software of knowledge, the vast treasury of God’s knowledge.
Has God opened this treasury of His within our hearts?

We must cultivate our hearts, make them vast, and make them godly, so that Allah may open that software of His within them.
May our being become a garden of Muhammad.

🌹 His Eminence the Imam is mercy, a leader of goodness, a key to blessing.

His Eminence the Imam is mercy**—a *leader of goodness*, a **key to blessing.
No matter how hard I try to grasp the meaning of blessing as it comes from His Sacred Presence, I cannot.
I am left in awe: he is the key, the key to the treasuries of God’s blessings.

God’s blessings are vast: His earthly blessings, heavenly blessings, and blessings of knowledge.
God’s blessings come in many kinds, forms, and varieties; they extend from the lowest to the highest, through time and beyond time.
And His Eminence is the key to all God’s blessings.

His Eminence is blessing itself: both a blessing and the key to God’s blessings.
Water is for the thirsty; the key is for us, so that we may be opened up, unlocked, and come to know God’s mysteries—to enter into the heart of God’s sciences.


🔑 The Key to God’s Mercy

Who are the thirsty? Where are they?
Let them come; the key to God’s mercy will unlock their hearts, their very being, their true selves.

What lies hidden in the heart of my soul? May it be opened within my nature by that key.
When my nature is unlocked, it becomes those immense sciences.
All God’s Most Beautiful Names lie imprisoned within my soul, and His Eminence is the key to that prison.
What happens when it is unlocked?

If I am opened, what is it that has opened within me? What sublime vision do I behold?
We are all servants of God, but our station of servanthood has not yet been unlocked.


🕌 The Station of Servanthood and the Key to Blessing

How can we unlock this station of servanthood within us?
Our servanthood to the All-Merciful? To the Most Compassionate? To the Most Generous? To the Most Majestic? To the Most Beautiful? To the Most Gentle?

Can we deny that we are God’s servants? We cannot.
Then why are the fruits of this servanthood imprisoned? Because God’s key has not turned within our souls.
If it turns, this key to God’s blessing, then I will come into my own.

That immense gentleness will be revealed, that immense majesty**, that *immense beauty*, that *generosity*, that *mercy*, that *splendour*—wonders will unfold.


🌌 His Eminence, Opener of the Lote Tree of the Furthest Boundary

When will I seek out my Prophet?
When will I benefit from this means, this greatest of God’s instruments?
Did he not open the heavens? Did he not open the Lote Tree of the Furthest Boundary? He did. Did he not open *aw adna*? He did. He opens the way.

His Eminence spread out this existence, revealing its splendour, its greatness, its breadth, its expanse.
And that is not only in the material universe, which is expanding at such tremendous speed. Consider the expansion of the spiritual realm: our minds depart from our being, take flight; it is beyond comprehension.

His Eminence is the blessing of earth and heaven**, the blessing of the Lote Tree of the Furthest Boundary.
His Eminence possesses immense wealth; he is **the Self-Sufficient, the Praiseworthy.


💎 Immense Wealth and True Poverty

How can one attain that immense wealth of God?
One must seek the key to this blessing and find one’s way to it.
May it turn within our souls and deliver us from this poverty.

Can poverty find its way to God’s threshold? It cannot.
Then who am I?
Will I approach God in my poverty?
Poverty has no access to God’s threshold.

I must become a servant of the All-Sufficient.
This is the lesson His Eminence Sayyid al-Shuhada taught us:
Poverty has no access to God’s threshold.
We must put poverty to death: destroy the poverty of separation from God, the poverty of heedlessness, the poverty of forgetfulness.
We must kill and destroy the poverty of darkness, the poverty of idolatry—which is poverty made manifest—the poverty of doubt, and the poverty of deceit, so that we may attain our goal.


⚕️ The Peripatetic Physician: Savior of the Broken Human Being

How do we reach Him?
Through the key to blessing—the secret of connection with the blessed Presence.

The blessed Presence came not for Himself, but for us.
He is that ever-roving physician.
He carries his medicine on his shoulders, ready to heal all our ailments.

We have fallen; we have been brought low. From where? From the highest of the high to the lowest of the low.
I speak for myself: I have fallen. Every limb and faculty, our whole inner kingdom, lies broken and in ruins.

Only that ever-roving physician can save me and heal me.
“Physicians who roam”—the Physician calls me to his medicine.
He has taken his medicine—the medicine of the unseen realm—upon his shoulders.
He has set foot in this earthly world to mend me, shattered and bankrupt, and soothe my pain.
To raise me once more from these depths to those heights.


🌠 The blessed Presence: the Ark of Salvation, a blessing upon earth and heaven

He is pure abundance. Why am I heedless of this wealth?
The blessed Presence is a vast window onto the heart of reality.
Until we pass through it, until this mighty divine program is fully up and running within us, the field of our being will not flourish or be watered.

Until we drink this water, God’s first and last, our journey of servitude will go on.
Servitude is a path we must travel to reach Him:
to arrive at the inner meaning of “Indeed, we belong to God, and indeed, to Him we return.”

Who has never cherished the wish to journey into the heart of the stars?
If only I could enter the moon, become the sun, leave this solar system, and fling myself into the heart of the galaxies.
Ah, what a wonder that would be!

But where is the blessed Presence?
The blessed Presence isسدرةالمنتهی—the vessel that carries me beyond earth and heaven, to the highest heights.

🌹 Why have we become heedless of the blessed Presence?

Why have we become heedless of the blessed Presence? Is He not our exemplar?
«وَ لَکُم فی رسولِ الله اُسوةٌ حسنه» He is the exemplar.
That means I must become one with Him, become like Him, and take Him as my model.
It means vanishing into the ocean of His soul, His blessed being.
I must become an unseen drop, so that I may travel with Him, take flight with Him, wherever He sets foot.

He passes beyond Sidrat al-Muntahā, Qāba Qawsayn and Aw Adnā, and reaches the deepest solitude with his Beloved. May I, too, experience that boundless solitude with Him.


✨ The blessed Presence, possessed of sublime character

Who would not wish to attain the highest rank in character and form?
Is the blessed Presence not possessed of sublime character?
«اِنَّکَ لَعَلی خُلُقٍ عَظیم».

He rides upon God’s sublime character, fashioned upon that sublime character.
His character is sublime, and his form is sublime.
One whose character is sublime must surely have the most perfect form, brought to its utmost perfection.

I take Him as my model; that is, I model myself on His sublime character.
What will I become if I do?


👁 Have you seen anyone but the Eye of God?

Who can claim to have seen the blessed Presence, to have gazed upon Him?
Where is that eye? None but the one with the God-given eye has seen Him.

Mawla Ali saw Him, because Mawla is the Eye of God.
With the Eye of God, one can behold that most sublime beauty.

How can we find the way?
What must we do? The way is to follow His example.
It is love. And the way to love is to follow:
«قُل اِن کنتم تُحبّون الله فاتّبعونی».


❤️ The secret of following: love and transformation

Where are those who love God?
Where are those who claim to love God?
Let them come to the Messenger of God and follow him.

O My Messenger, tell them: You must follow me, so that Allah may love you and forgive your sins; He is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

When will we follow the Imam?
Through the Imam, we will be transformed.
Once we follow the Imam, we will be changed by his transformations.
We will be transformed by his states and conditions.

Whatever state or condition he reaches, we too will reach it.
This is the secret of following: a bond and connection so deep that our own will is no longer our own.


🌌 In seclusion with the noblest character, to meet the All-Glorious God

Ah, how magnificent that state, that condition!
To meet the All-Glorious God through that noble character**, to attain the vision of God.

To meet the All-Glorious God, we must attain that meeting through noble character.
Where are those who will listen?
Where are the Shia and lovers who are devoted to the furnace of Muhammad Mustafa?

اللهم صل علی محمد و آل محمد.


🔥 The furnace of love, affection, and following the Imam

Until they enter the furnace of love, affection, and following the Imam—until they see what happens, stand beneath his rain, and are immersed in him…

When will we become travelers in the Imam’s company? As long as worldly desire rules our hearts and souls, that longing will remain unfulfilled.
When we come to know him, we will go mad with love for him.


📖 The Clear Imam: the gateway to the City of Knowledge

How can I describe him, when I cannot?
«کُلُّ شَیءٍ اَحصَیناهُ فی اِمامٍ مُبین».

I have still not managed to swim in the vast ocean of this verse**, to dive beneath its surface and fathom its wonders.

Everything—every single thing—is encompassed in the Clear Imam.
The reality of every thing, its knowledge, its wonders and mysteries—all are within the soul of the Clear Imam.

If this is so, the Clear Imam is beyond wonders; **he is above all wonders.
And the Clear Imam is the gateway to the Imam.
The Clear Imam is the gateway to this very City of Knowledge.

If the gateway is so magnificent, so wondrous, what must the City of Knowledge itself be like?
The gateway to knowledge holds such a station; what, then, of the master of the City of Knowledge?


🌊 The Muhammadan palate and a new taste of existence

«وَ کُلَّ شَیءٍ اَحصَیناهُ کِتابا».
These books are in that very Imam’s library.

How can we find our way to that spring of love, grandeur, and majesty?
How can we discover that palate?
How can we come under his guidance?

When we come under the Imam’s guidance, it means we have acquired a Muhammadan palate.
The taste of this existence will no longer be what it once was.
I will feel, see, and taste things I had never experienced before.


💓 The nerve of love: the nerve of love and servitude

That nerve of love for the Prophet Muhammad.
They are the nerve of love for God, the nerve of love for God.
I will say something and move on:
They are the nerve of love, yes. The nerve of love, yes. The nerve of worship, yes. The nerve of servitude, yes.

Unless I connect to this nerve, I have not experienced servitude to God.
I only imagine that I have experienced servitude to God.


🍯 The delight of loving God: the sweetness of nearness to the Divine

O God, who has tasted the sweetness of Your love?

My God, whoever has tasted Your love—how could they take anyone else in Your place?
Whoever experiences Your love, can they turn toward other loves? They cannot.

And whoever has found comfort in nearness to You, how could they turn away from You? They cannot.


🌺 Becoming Muhammadan; becoming Mustafawi

So how can I attain the sweetness of love for God, this profound experience of intimacy with God’s nearness?
I must become Mustafawi too; I must become Muhammadan too.

اللهم صل علی محمد و آل محمد.

🌹 The Prophet’s Passing and the Greatest Calamity

And now we have come to the time of his passing.
Can we know the Prophet by his passing? We cannot.

We must turn to ʿAlī al-Murtaḍā to understand, to know, that the night of the Prophet’s passing was the greatest calamity
for ʿAlī al-Murtaḍā, for Fāṭima, for Ḥasan, for Ḥusayn, for Zaynab.

It was a night of the greatest calamity, for they were both the very eyes of God and the very heart of God.
Their whole being was devoted to the majesty of God, and so they beheld the most exalted of all creation.

«اِنَّ صَبرَ جَمیلٌ اِلّا عَنك»; this is ʿAlī’s lament for the Messenger of God.


🕊 Patience in the Calamity of the Messenger of God

Patience is necessary in times of calamity.
Patience is always beautiful; in calamity, a person who does not remain patient is unbeautiful.
But to show no impatience in the calamity of the Messenger of God is ignoble.

O Messenger of God, patience is always beautiful—only when it comes to you is it unbeautiful.
«اِنبِراجی اِلّا عنک، الجَزَعُ اِلّا عَلیک».

If a person wails and laments in times of calamity, they bring shame upon themselves.
But if someone does not wail and lament in the calamity of the Messenger of God, they diminish themselves and bring shame upon themselves.


⚖️ The Magnitude of the Messenger of God’s Calamity

Only your calamity is truly momentous**, great, immense.
Every calamity is small beside yours, O Messenger of God.

There has never been a calamity like it before you, nor will there ever be one after you.

I cannot begin to reckon its measure.
How can the calamity of the Messenger of God be greater than the calamity of Karbala?
By God, it is greater.

ʿAlī knows; ʿAlī sees this calamity: the calamity of being parted from the Messenger of God.
I have no ʿAlid heart, no Ḥasanid heart, no Ḥusaynid heart, no Fāṭimid heart with which to understand.


🌌 The Prophet’s Grief on the Eve of His Passing

He himself knows it too. The Messenger of God longs to pass away; he yearns to meet God.
But why does he not wish to pass away?

When the time for the Messenger of God’s passing drew near, Gabriel descended three days before his blessed departure.
He came into the Prophet’s presence and said:

«O Aḥmad…»


👼 Gabriel’s Conversation with the Messenger of God

God has indeed اکراماً و تفصیلاً و خاصتاً sent me to you.
He has a question for you, though He knows your answer better than you do. Still, He asks, wishing to know how you are:
«How do You find Yourself, O Muḥammad?»

اللهم صل علی محمد و آل محمد.

How does He find you? How are you, O Messenger of God?

The Prophet replied: «مَغموماً و أجدنی مَکروباً».
I am deeply grieved and filled with sorrow.

Why is he so grieved? Why is he so sorrowful, and why does he say so?
The Messenger of God surely wishes to ask something of God—for his Household and for his community.


🌠 The Angel of Death Visits the Prophet

They came again the following day.
By the third day, Gabriel came with the Angel of Death**, accompanied by an angel who commanded seventy thousand angels.

They came into the presence of the Messenger of God.
Before anyone else, Gabriel addressed the Messenger of God:

“O Ahmad … اِنَّ الله عزوجل ارسلنی اکراماً لک و تفصیلاً لک و خاصه. He has a question for you, though He knows your answer better than you do: کیف تجدک یا محمد؟”

He replied, “مَغموماً… مَکروباً”.
“I am deeply sorrowful, weighed down by grief.”


⚔️ The Angel of Death Asks Permission**

Then the Angel of Death asked permission to enter.
Gabriel said to the Prophet, “This is the Angel of Death. He asks permission to come into your presence.”

The Prophet granted him permission to enter.
The Angel of Death asks no one else for permission; he asks only you.

The Prophet gave his consent.
The Angel of Death came into his presence and said:

“O Ahmad, God has sent me to you and commanded me to obey you. Whatever you command me to do, I will do. I have been charged with taking your soul, should you permit me; if you do not wish it, I will refrain.”


🌿 Gabriel’s Farewell; Letting Go of Ali and Fatima

The Prophet of God said:
“Will you carry out that task, that deed?”

The Angel of Death replied, “Yes. Whatever you command, I will obey.”

But would Ali and Fatima let Muhammad take flight?

Gabriel came into the Prophet’s presence: “O Ahmad …”
In other words, Gabriel wants to encourage the Prophet to depart, to help him let go of Ali and Fatima.

🌹 How Can We Attain the Station of Becoming Muhammadan?

How can I attain this station?
«فَاتَّبِعونی یُحبِبکُم الله».

My God, my Lord—what is it I ask of God?
O God, make me one of those whom You have chosen for nearness to You, whom You have made Muhammadan.


✨ The Intimate Prayer of the Lovers: The Secret of Becoming Muhammadan

Glory be to God! Those whom You have made pure for Yourself, for Your special love and that hidden communion.

What a wondrous prayer! This is the Intimate Prayer of the Lovers; it seems to teach us the secret of becoming Muhammadan.

How might I behold Your face?

You inspire him with Your remembrance. Which remembrance?
You inspire the heart of that chosen one—the chosen one who is Your remembrance.

So which remembrance of Yours is it that You inspire in the heart of Your own remembrance? Wonder upon wonder.


🌌 The Light of God Penetrates the Chosen One’s Heart

How do You cause Your light to penetrate the heart of Your own light?
And You set gratitude for You in his soul.

I cannot comprehend it.
And You make him one who is grateful for obedience to You.


🕊 Hearts Bound by the Love of God

This is a blessed supplication:

their hearts are devoted to Your love;
their hearts are bound fast—a bond that can never be undone.

Indeed, this noble intimate prayer reveals the radiant beauty of Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad.

اللهم صل علی محمد و آل محمد.


🔥 Muhammadi: The Emissary of Divine Love

Muhammad and his Family, emissaries of love, are the emissaries of divine love in all creation**;
they are God’s love, guiding us toward the love of God.

The Messenger is ever-present; present in the heart.
His mission embraces the whole of existence.

It encompasses both time and beyond time; it covers all things and draws them into itself, so that it may bring us to knowledge of the Real.

His being is firmly established—the servant at the heart of the cosmos, in the very soul of every creature.
Yes, he is present in our souls too; but in mine, this great burden of God’s revelation lies imprisoned.


📖 God’s Revelation: The Burden of His Knowledge

God’s knowledge—and the great burden of His revelation: yes, His revelation is the burden of His knowledge.
God’s Quranic revelation is the greatest of His revelations in all existence.

But what have we attained?
Why can we not taste it?

We have yet to taste even the words themselves, let alone the allusions in God’s revelation, conveyed by the emissary of God’s revelation.
We have yet to reach its subtleties, its truths, its expressions.

We have not even set out, let alone arrived at our destination.
We have yet to journey through the Muhammadan world.


🌺 The Honeybee of the Family of Muhammad

Indeed, the keys to blessing are God’s signs, God’s mysteries.
When will we give thanks for this immense blessing from God?

We have not yet attained even the rank of the honeybee.
We have not yet risen to the level of that insect.

That insect, the bee, has turned nectar into honey; it has received revelation from God.


🍯 The Nectar of the Muhammadan Rose

If we are Shia, we must be honeybees gathering nectar for these noble ones.
What honey have we made?
What nectar have we drawn from the Muhammadan rose?

اللهم صل علی محمد و آل محمد.

🌹 O Ahmad, God’s longing to behold you

“O Ahmad, God, blessed and exalted, longs to meet you.”
O Ahmad, God, Blessed and Exalted, longs to behold you.

That is, God desires to… I do not know which veil He means to rend.
The Messenger of God is himself God’s veil; so which veil does God wish to lift, that His beloved may attain His presence?

However hard I tried, I could not fathom the heart of this passage.
What gives rise to this longing and yearning? What does God wish to do with His Muhammad, His Ahmad?
Does He wish to tear the veil itself? I do not know.

Light is without a veil. What great mystery is about to unfold?
Surely a new creation is at hand: a wondrous act, an extraordinary event, a creation without precedent.


👑 Remembering Hasan, the Prophet’s Hasanid Crown

I wish to remember his crown, his Hasanid crown.
Hasan is the crown of the beauty of God’s Messenger.

He resembles God’s Prophet in both appearance and character.
He resembled the Messenger of God both in outward form and in inward character.

Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba, master of all goodness in this world.
Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba, the lamp of God’s light, the lamp of His niche.

Without him, the lamp of this world of being would go out.
Were this lamp to be extinguished, no one could see love or experience its light.
The light of love would be extinguished: the light of delight, the light of knowledge.


🌟 The Manifestation of the Qur’an’s Beauty

His Eminence is such a lamp: the manifestation of the Qur’an’s beauty.
The Qur’an that, on the Day of Judgment, will appear in the most beautiful form and dazzle all creation—perhaps that very beauty is Hasan.

That is, the Qur’an’s Hasanī beauty will be revealed to all creation on the Day of Judgment, though they will not recognize His Eminence.

His Eminence is grace itself, grace embodied in this world of being.
If grace, excellence and sublimity were to take form and become human, they would assume Hasan’s countenance.
They would be embodied in Hasan’s form


💎 The Pearl of the Two Seas and the Double Share of Mercy

He is the divine pearl of the two seas: «یَخرُجُ مِنهُما اللؤلؤ و المرجان».
He is God’s double share of mercy: «کِفلَین من رحمة الله».

Perhaps it is Hasan whom we seek.
«اللهم انّی أسألک من إحسانک بأحسنه، و کلّ إحسانک حسن».

I have come to understand that all of God’s grace is Hasan.


💧 Hasan, the Forerunner to Kawthar

Hasan, the forerunner on the Day of Judgment.
When the Messenger of God arrives at Kawthar, Ali is the cupbearer of that pool, and Hasan is its forerunner.

The forerunner is the one who finds the water first, who reaches Kawthar and leads others to it.
Without a forerunner, no one can drink its water or experience the water of life.

Without Hasan, no one can drink from Kawthar, attain the water of truth or reach knowledge.
Nor can anyone reach God’s good pleasure, however much they may desire it.


🌿 The Forerunner to God’s Good Pleasure

Hasan al-Mujtaba is the forerunner to God’s good pleasure: he knows it and knows the way to it.
He is the forerunner.

Anyone who wishes to pass easily through every difficult pass must travel with Hasan.
They must know Hasan in order to pass along those paths.

He knows every path, for he is the forerunner.
He brings us to life, glory and greatness.


🌸 Imam Hasan: Pioneer of the Divine Sciences

If we wish to reach Paradise:
«وَ إِن مِنکُم إِلّا وارِدُها»; once we have entered Hell, if we are to turn our way toward Paradise, we must come to know Hasan.

Hasan is the forerunner; our way leads to Paradise, to God’s good pleasure.
Those who unveil mysteries have uncovered every truth.
They are pioneers of the divine sciences.

But if we wish to understand their role in human nature, that is a vast ocean to cross…
The outward role of Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba and the Imam’s inward role in this world of being—in our existence, our souls, our journey and our spiritual wayfaring.


📜 Imam Hasan’s Discourse on Divine Unity

I wished to share a discourse on divine unity from His Eminence.
One day, he was asked about the Exalted Lord:
“O son of the Messenger of God, describe your Lord to me as though I were gazing upon Him.”

The Imam bowed his head and remained so for a long while.
Then he raised his head and said:

«الحمد لله الذی لم یکن له أولٌ معلو…..

I have given the source for this hadith, and I urge you to **immerse yourselves in the ocean of his words.


⚔️ The Oppression of Imam Hasan (peace be upon him)

If you visit al-Baqiʿ, you will better understand how wronged he was.
Can anyone even look toward his blessed resting place?

By God, they would tear out your eyes.
What had Hasan done?

Indeed, he struck such a blow at oppression, darkness, polytheism and doubt that he drove them to despair.

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Master Ali Saei

(Abdullah Meshkat) Researcher and commentator on Shi‘i wisdom and the foundations of divine unity

A researcher specializing in religious studies and divine unity, with a particular focus on the Qur’an and Hadith (the Two Weighty Things). His research has centered primarily on the Qur’an and Hadith; in recent years, he has also explored divine unity and critiques of philosophical viewpoints.

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