Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼🔆🌼The Lady of Secret and Sovereign Joy🌼🔆🌼
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “The Technology of the Qur’an” “The Technology of the Muṣḥaf of Fatimah” “The Secret of Joy and Delight” “The Delicate Nerve of Divine Servitude” “The Eve of Fatimah al-Zahra’s Martyrdom, peace be upon her” and more … An abstract with an addendum 1403.09.15 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🔅🌼 Fatimah, queen of all that is and all that exists 🌼🔅
🌹Fatimah, the supreme elixir of the joy of existence
🌹Fatimah, the heavenly maiden and lady of the seen and unseen realms; noble lady of sanctity, grace, and dignity; queen of the blessed life; crowned lady of the Lote Tree of the Furthest Boundary; the renowned, holy, virtuous one; queen of the seas of prophethood and imamate; sovereign of the pearl that is Hasan and Husayn; mother of orphans; grandmother of the wronged and brokenhearted; the clear cup of divine unity; queen of water, bread, light, and serenity
🌹Fatimah is something beyond who and what one is! That is, there was no question of who or what she was; yet the Creator had brought Fatimah into being.
🔅🌼Fatimah is the gateway to primordial joy 🌼🔅
🌹Fatimah, queen of secret and sovereign joy
🌹Grief for Fatimah grieves all existence, makes all creation mourn, and sends both Paradise and Hell into sorrow.
🌹At Fatimah’s smile, all existence smiles.
🌹Fatimah’s joy brings joy to the City of Knowledge, and through it, knowledge flourishes. Knowledge unfolds its blossoms and ripens its fruits; from it arise human and superhuman inventions and innovations.
🌹Fatimah’s joy brings joy to God, the Giver of joy. Who can interpret God’s joy? Fatimah is the great sign of God’s joy.
🌹When Fatimah rejoices, God bestows joy upon the world—joy that is settled, abiding, and enduring.
🌹Who can sense enduring, ascending, ever-rising delight? No one has yet passed through the gateway of delight. Does delight flee from us, or is it simply so swift that we are left behind? Surely, only one who has found connection and intimacy with the great system of joy, and come to know it, has attained that enduring sensation.
🌹Joy and delight rise to the horizon of Fatimah.
🌹Joy and delight, freed from the limits of time and space, are joy and delight beyond vibration; that is, joy and delight have a destination and an inner meaning.
🌷🔆أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ (صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ) قَالَ لِفَاطِمَةَ: يَا فَاطِمَةُ، إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَيَغْضَبُ لِغَضَبِكَ، وَ يَرْضَى لِرِضَاكَ.[1]
🔆O Fatimah, truly, God is angered by your anger and gladdened by your contentment.
🌷🔆عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَنَّهُ قَالَ: يَا فَاطِمَةُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى لَيَغْضَبُ لِغَضَبِكِ وَ يَرْضَى لِرِضَاكِ قَالَ فَجَاءَ صَنْدَلٌ فَقَالَ لِجَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ ع يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ الشَّبَابَ يَجِيئُونَّا عَنْكَ بِأَحَادِيثَ مُنْكَرَةٍ فَقَالَ لَهُ جَعْفَرٌ ع وَ مَا ذَاكَ يَا صَنْدَلُ قَالَ جَاءَنَا عَنْكَ أَنَّكَ حَدَّثْتَهُمْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْضَبُ لِغَضَبِ فَاطِمَةَ وَ يَرْضَى لِرِضَاهَا قَالَ فَقَالَ جَعْفَرٌ ع يَا صَنْدَلُ أَ لَسْتُمْ رَوَيْتُمْ فِيمَا تَرْوُونَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى لَيَغْضَبُ لِغَضَبِ عَبْدِهِ الْمُؤْمِنِ وَ يَرْضَى لِرِضَاهُ قَالَ بَلَى قَالَ فَمَا تُنْكِرُونَ أَنْ تَكُونَ فَاطِمَةُ ع مُؤْمِنَةً يَغْضَبُ اللَّهُ لِغَضَبِهَا وَ يَرْضَى لِرِضَاهَا قَالَ فَقَالَ اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ حَيْثُ يَجْعَلُ رِسالَتَهُ.[2]
🌹God’s anger on account of Fatimah’s anger is a singular kind of anger; and God’s joy on account of Fatimah’s joy is a unique and exalted joy.
🌹When the All-Compelling God is angered or gladdened on behalf of a believer, what must it be when the anger or joy is that of the Mother of the Believers, the Lady of the Women of the Worlds, and the Lady of Paradise?!!!!
🔅🌼The world gazes toward the lips that smile, the soul of all creation 🌼🔅
🌹If Fatimah smiles, buds open and hearts fill with love.
🌹If Fatima weeps, joy departs; hearts grow constricted, wolves, dogs and jackals howl, and ignorance laughs.
🌹The Ocean of Prophethood and the Ocean of Knowledge together form the vast field of joy’s magnetism.
🌹With Ghadir, joy flows; without it, joy is blocked.
🌹The cause of depression in the universe lies in the grief of its source and the computer of joy.
🌹Why, despite overeating, is humanity never satisfied?! What is missing from its food? Has the soul of its food departed?
🌹Why, despite the abundance of amusement, frivolity and vulgarity, is true joy nowhere to be found? Why is the human spirit not joyful, while only the body stirs in bewilderment and the heart and soul lie frozen? What truth has departed from the human world?!
🌹We must discover the secret of activating the system of joy. What can we do to make Fatima happy with us?
🔅🌼Whoever gladdens the Queen of Joy, may God make the whole world joyful for them.🌼🔅
🌷🔆ابْنَ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ فَاطِمَةُ بَضْعَةٌ مِنِّي مَنْ سَرَّهَا فَقَدْ سَرَّنِي وَ مَنْ سَاءَهَا فَقَدْ سَاءَنِي فَاطِمَةُ أَعَزُّ الْبَرِيَّةِ عَلَيّ [3]
🔆The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and his family: “Fatima is a part of me. Whoever gladdens her has gladdened me, and whoever upsets her has upset me. Fatima is the dearest person to me.”
🌹How could anyone make the Queen of Joy unhappy? Among those who do are the irreligious polytheists and the extremist devotees.
🌹Women who are immodest, improperly veiled or unveiled are among those who grieve the Queen of Chastity and Veiling!
🌹Shamelessness, unchastity and fornication do not increase delight and pleasure; they diminish them. Disobedience to God is the slayer of the world’s pleasures and the cause of depression throughout the world.
🔅🌼Whoever wrongs Fatima is doubly accursed.🌼🔅
🌷🔆 يَا يُونُسُ قَالَ جَدِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَلْعُونٌ مَلْعُونٌ مَنْ يَظْلِمُ بَعْدِي فَاطِمَةَ ابْنَتِي وَ يَغْصِبُهَا حَقَّهَا وَ يَقْتُلُهَا ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا فَاطِمَةُ الْبُشْرَى فَلَكَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ مَقَامٌ مَحْمُودٌ تَشْفَعِينَ فِيهِ لِمُحِبِّيكِ وَ شِيعَتِكِ فَتَشْفَعِينَ يَا فَاطِمَةُ لَوْ أَنَّ كُلَّ نَبِيٍّ بَعَثَهُ اللَّهُ وَ كُلَّ مَلَكٍ قَرَّبَهُ شَفَعُوا فِي كُلِّ مُبْغِضٍ لَكَ غَاصِبٍ لَكَ مَا أَخْرَجَهُ اللَّهُ مِنَ النَّارِ أَبَدا[4]
🔆Accursed, accursed is whoever, after me, wrongs Fatima, my daughter—peace be upon her—usurps her right and kills her.
O Fatima—peace be upon her—rejoice! You hold a worthy station in God’s presence, where you intercede for your friends and followers.
O Fatima, even if every prophet God has sent and every angel He has brought near were to intercede for any enemy who usurped your right, God would never bring that person out of the Fire, ever.
🔅🌼Joy is one of God’s Greatest Names. Who is the one who remembers God with the Greatest Name?🌼🔅
🌹Joy is one of God’s names; it is the remembrance of God.
🌹The Mother of the Divine Names is the key to God’s joy. God’s joy means the manifestation of the divine will for joy: God Most High wills joy, and joy takes form. Each of His acts of will is novel and fresh; a particular act of will, whose sign is delight—and that sign has a core. Which spectrum of joy do we inhabit?
يس : 82 إِنَّما أَمْرُهُ إِذا أَرادَ شَيْئاً أَنْ يَقُولَ لَهُ كُنْ فَيَكُونُ
🔅🌼The springtime of existence🌼🔅
🌹Fatima is the springtime of existence; Fatima makes spring itself bloom anew. Without the springtime, every spring is without worth and without spring.
🌻🔆عبس : 17 قُتِلَ الْإِنْسانُ ما أَكْفَرَهُ
🔆Death to this human being! How ungrateful they are!
🌷🔆فِي كِتَابِ الْإِحْتِجَاجِ لِلطَّبْرِسِيِّ (ره) عَنْ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ حَدِيثٌ طَوِيلٌ وَ فِيهِ «قُتِلَ الْإِنْسانُ ما أَكْفَرَهُ» أَيْ لُعِنَ الْإِنْسَانُ.[5]
🌻🔆Al-Baqarah: 195 وَ أَنْفِقُوا في سَبيلِ اللَّهِ وَ لا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْديكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِ وَ أَحْسِنُوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الْمُحْسِنينَ
🔆Spend in the way of God, and do not cast yourselves into ruin with your own hands. Do good; God loves those who do good.
🌹How ungrateful humanity is! It seeks light and brightness, yet wounds the sun, wrongs it, and strives to extinguish it. Without the Ahl al-Bayt, everything is dark and silent; without knowledge, ignorance prevails across the world. In their intense and fierce ingratitude, human beings wrong themselves. Forgetting the Ahl al-Bayt is no less than silencing them.
🔅🌼The technology of the Qur’an and the technology of the Mushaf of Fatimah 🌼🔅
🌹The mystery of the Mushaf of the Tablet of God, the Chosen One of God, the Noble One of God, the All-Knowing One of God, the Subtle One of God
🌸☘️Question: In light of what you said about the Mushaf of Fatimah, peace be upon her—“This Mushaf carries reports of the unseen and descriptions of all the worlds. Everything in the cosmos is inscribed in this divine Mushaf. If all its mysteries were revealed to the world, the cosmos could not bear them. This book encompasses the secrets of the past and the future, up to the Day of Resurrection. This Tablet carries all the knowledge and mysteries of existence.” Given this description, what is the relationship or connection between the Mushaf of Fatimah, peace be upon her, and the Holy Qur’an, which is “تِبْیاناً لِکُلِّ شَیْء”? For this description seems to be the same one given of the Holy Qur’an.
🌹The Qur’an is a unique divine technology, incomparable to any other. The Mushaf of Fatimah is another technology of God’s; it is related to the Qur’an, but is not like it. Both, however, are from God.
🌷🔆أَبِي بَصِيرٍ، قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَلِيٍّ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ) عَنْ مُصْحَفِ فَاطِمَةَ (صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهَا)، فَقَالَ: أُنْزِلَ عَلَيْهَا بَعْدَ مَوْتِ أَبِيهَا.
فَقُلْتُ: فَفِيهِ شَيْءٌ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ؟
قَالَ: مَا فِيهِ شَيْءٌ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ.
قَالَ: قُلْتُ: فَصِفْهُ لِي.
قَالَ: لَهُ دَفَّتَانِ مِنْ زَبَرْجَدَتَيْنِ عَلَى طُولِ الْوَرَقِ وَ عَرْضِهِ حَمْرَاوَيْنِ.
قُلْتُ لَهُ: جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ صِفْ لِي وَرَقَهُ.
قَالَ: وَرَقُهُ مِنْ دُرٍّ أَبْيَضَ قِيلَ لَهُ: (كُنْ) فَكَانَ.
قُلْتُ: جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ، فَمَا فِيهِ؟
قَالَ: فِيهِ خَبَرُ مَا كَانَ، وَ خَبَرُ مَا يَكُونُ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ، وَ فِيهِ خَبَرُ سَمَاءٍ سَمَاءٍ، وَ عَدَدُ مَا فِي سَمَاءٍ سَمَاءٍ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ، وَ غَيْرُ ذَلِكَ، وَ عَدَدُ كُلِّ مَنْ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ مُرْسَلًا وَ غَيْرَ مُرْسَلٍ، وَ أَسْمَاؤُهُمْ، وَ أَسْمَاءُ الَّذِينَ أُرْسِلُوا إِلَيْهِمْ، وَ أَسْمَاءُ مَنْ كَذَّبَ وَ مَنْ أَجَابَ مِنْهُمْ، وَ فِيهِ أَسْمَاءُ جَمِيعِ مَنْ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ الْكَافِرِينَ، مِنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ الْآخِرِينَ، وَ أَسْمَاءُ الْبُلْدَانِ، وَ صِفَةُ كُلِّ بَلَدٍ فِي شَرْقِ الْأَرْضِ وَ غَرْبِهَا، وَ عَدَدُ مَا فِيهَا مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، وَ عَدَدُ مَا فِيهَا مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ، وَ صِفَةُ كُلِّ مَنْ كَذَّبَ، وَ صِفَةُ الْقُرُونِ الْأُوَلى وَ قِصَصُهُمْ، وَ مَنْ وُلِّيَ مِنَ الطَّوَاغِيتِ وَ مُدَّةُ مُلْكِهِمْ وَ عَدَدُهُمْ، وَ فِيهِ أَسْمَاءُ الْأَئِمَّةِ وَ صِفَتُهُمْ، وَ مَا يَمْلِكُ وَاحِداً وَاحِداً، وَ فِيهِ صِفَةُ كَرَّاتِهِمْ، وَ فِيهِ صِفَةُ جَمِيعِ مَنْ تَرَدَّدَ فِي الْأَدْوَارِ مِنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ الْآخِرِينَ.
قَالَ: قُلْتُ: جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ وَ كَمِ الْأَدْوَارُ؟
قَالَ: خَمْسُونَ أَلْفَ عَامٍ، وَ هِيَ سَبْعَةُ أَدْوَارٍ؛ وَ فِيهِ أَسْمَاءُ جَمِيعِ مَنْ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ مِنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ الْآخِرِينَ وَ آجَالُهُمْ، وَ صِفَةُ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ، وَ عَدَدُ مَنْ يَدْخُلُهَا، وَ عَدَدُ مَنْ يَدْخُلُ النَّارَ، وَ أَسْمَاءُ هَؤُلَاءِ وَ أَسْمَاءُ هَؤُلَاءِ، وَ فِيهِ عِلْمُ الْقُرْآنِ كَمَا أُنْزِلَ، وَ عِلْمُ التَّوْرَاةِ كَمَا أُنْزِلَتْ، وَ عِلْمُ الْإِنْجِيلِ، وَ الزَّبُورِ، وَ عَدَدُ كُلِّ شَجَرَةٍ وَ مَدَرَةٍ فِي جَمِيعِ الْبِلَادِ.
قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ): فَلَمَّا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ (عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ) أَنْ يُنْزِلَهُ عَلَيْهَا، أَمَرَ جَبْرَئِيلَ وَ مِيكَائِيلَ وَ إِسْرَافِيلَ أَنْ يَحْمِلُوا الْمُصْحَفَ فَيَنْزِلُوا بِهِ عَلَيْهَا، وَ ذَلِكَ فِي لَيْلَةِ الْجُمُعَةِ مِنَ الثُّلُثِ الثَّانِي مِنَ اللَّيْلِ، هَبَطُوا بِهِ عَلَيْهَا وَ هِيَ قَائِمَةٌ تُصَلِّي، فَمَا زَالُوا قِيَاماً حَتَّى قَعَدَتْ، فَلَمَّا فَرَغَتْ مِنْ صَلَاتِهَا سَلَّمُوا عَلَيْهَا، وَ قَالُوا لَهَا: السَّلَامُ يُقْرِئُكَ السَّلَامَ. وَ وَضَعُوا الْمُصْحَفَ فِي حَجْرِهَا، فَقَالَتْ لَهُمْ: اللَّهُ السَّلَامُ، وَ مِنْهُ السَّلَامُ، وَ إِلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ، وَ عَلَيْكُمْ يَا رُسُلَ اللَّهِ السَّلَامُ.
ثُمَ عَرَجُوا إِلَى السَّمَاءِ، فَمَا زَالَتْ مِنْ بَعْدِ صَلَاةِ الْفَجْرِ إِلَى زَوَالِ الشَّمْسِ تَقْرَأُهُ، حَتَّى أَتَتْ عَلَى آخِرِهِ.
وَ لَقَدْ كَانَتْ (صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهَا) طَاعَتُهَا مَفْرُوضَةً عَلَى جَمِيعِ مَنْ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ مِنَ الْجِنِّ، وَ الْإِنْسِ، وَ الطَّيْرِ، وَ الْبَهَائِمِ، وَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ، وَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ.
فَقُلْتُ: جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَلَمَّا مَضَتْ إِلَى مَنْ صَارَ ذَلِكَ الْمُصْحَفُ?
فَقَالَ: دَفَعْتُهُ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ)، فَلَمَّا مَضَى صَارَ إِلَى الْحَسَنِ، ثُمَّ إِلَى الْحُسَيْنِ، ثُمَّ عِنْدَ أَهْلِهِ حَتَّى يَدْفَعُوهُ إِلَى صَاحِبِ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ.
فَقُلْتُ: إِنَّ هَذَا الْعِلْمَ كَثِيرٌ!
فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا مُحَمَّدٍ، إِنَّ هَذَا الَّذِي وَصَفْتُهُ لَكَ لَفِي وَرَقَتَيْنِ مِنْ أَوَّلِهِ، وَ مَا وَصَفْتُ لَكَ بَعْدَ مَا فِي الْوَرَقَةِ الثَّالِثَةِ، وَ لَا تَكَلَّمْتُ بِحَرْفٍ مِنْهُ.[6]
🌷🔆Abu Basir relates: I asked Imam Muhammad al-Baqir, the one who laid open the knowledge of the first and the last, peace be upon him, about the Mushaf of Lady Fatimah, peace be upon her. The Imam said, “This Mushaf contains matters and insights that were revealed to Fatimah (AS) after the passing of her father, the Seal of the Prophets.”
I asked, “Does it contain anything from the Quran?” He replied, “It contains nothing from the Quran.” I said, “Describe it to me.”
He said, “It has two covers made of red jacinth, and its size is that of a sheet of paper, in length and width.” I said, “May I be your ransom, describe the page itself—what is it made of?” He replied, “It is made of white pearl, brought into being by the word ‘Be.’”
I said, “May I be your ransom, could you tell me what is written in it?”
He said, “It contains accounts and matters of what existed in pre-eternity and what will endure forever, until the Day of Great Resurrection. It records the affairs of each heaven and the number of all that is in the heavens and the higher realms, including angels and other beings; the number of every one of God’s creatures; the names of the prophets, both those sent with a message and those who were not; the names of their peoples and communities to whom divine envoys were sent; and the names of those who denied the prophets, those who believed in them, and those who answered their call. It contains the names of all believers and unbelievers from the beginning of creation to its end; the names of cities and the features and characteristics of every land, in both the East and the West; the number of believers and unbelievers in each city; the traits and characteristics of all those who denied the truth; the qualities and circumstances of the peoples of former ages and their predecessors, along with their stories and accounts; the names of tyrants who came to power and ruled, the length of each tyrant’s rule and reign, and the particulars of each one. It records every event throughout the ages and all the changes and transitions that took place. All of this is set down in the Mushaf of Lady Fatimah al-Zahra, peace be upon her.”
I said, “May I be your ransom, how many of these ages are there?” He replied, “Fifty thousand years, comprising seven periods.”
In the Muṣḥaf of Fatimah (peace be upon her) are the names of all that God has created, the length of their lives, the qualities of the people of Paradise, the number who will enter Paradise, and the number and names of the people of Paradise and the people of Hell.
The same Muṣḥaf also contains knowledge of the Quran as it was revealed, and of the Torah, the Gospel, and the Psalms as each was revealed.
It also records the total number of trees and plants, and the number of clods of earth and pebbles in every city and land.
When God willed to send it down to Fatimah (peace be upon her), He charged Gabriel, Michael, and Israfil with this task. It took place on a Friday night at midnight, while Fatimah (peace be upon her) was praying. When she had finished her prayer, they greeted her and said, “God sends you peace,” and placed the Muṣḥaf in her lap. She replied, “Peace belongs to God; it comes from Him and returns to Him. And peace be upon you, messengers of God.” Then the angels ascended to heaven, while Fatimah (peace be upon her) read the Muṣḥaf from after the dawn prayer until noon, when she reached its end.
Obedience to Fatimah (peace be upon her) is surely incumbent upon all God’s creatures: jinn and humankind, wild beasts, prophets, and angels. From her, this Muṣḥaf passed to the Commander of the Faithful, Ali (peace be upon him), then to Imam Hasan (peace be upon him), then to Imam Husayn (peace be upon him), and then to us, until it reaches the Master of the Command.
Abu Basir said, “This is a great deal of knowledge.” The Imam (peace be upon him) replied, “All of this was from the first page; I have not told you anything from the second page.”
🔅🌼 A Description of the Quran’s Qualities 🌼🔅
🔅🌼 The Quran Is Created, Not Eternal 🌼🔅
🌷🔆 أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع: … فَإِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ كَلَامُ اللَّهِ مُحْدَثٌ غَيْرُ مَخْلُوقٍ وَ غَيْرُ أَزَلِيٍّ مَعَ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى ذِكْرُهُ وَ تَعَالَى عَنْ ذَلِكَ عُلُوّاً كَبِيراً كَانَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ لَا شَيْءَ غَيْرَ اللَّهِ مَعْرُوفٌ وَ لَا مَجْهُولٌ كَانَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ لَا مُتَكَلِّمَ وَ لَا مُرِيدَ وَ لَا مُتَحَرِّكَ وَ لَا فَاعِلَ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ رَبُّنَا فَجَمِيعُ هَذِهِ الصِّفَاتِ مُحْدَثَةٌ عِنْدَ حُدُوثِ الْفِعْلِ مِنْهُ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ رَبُّنَا وَ الْقُرْآنُ كَلَامُ اللَّهِ غَيْرُ مَخْلُوقٍ فِيهِ خَبَرُ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ وَ خَبَرُ مَا يَكُونُ بَعْدَكُمْ أُنْزِلَ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ p.[7]
🔆Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) was asked: “People disagree about the Quran. Some say that the Quran is the speech of God and is uncreated, while others say that it is the speech of God and is created. What is your view?” The Imam (peace be upon him) wrote:
May God have mercy on you. You asked about the Quran and the disagreement among those around you. Truly, the Quran is the speech of God: originated, not uncreated. It has existed from eternity with God, whose remembrance is exalted, and He is transcendent and beyond comparison, in a transcendence worthy of His grandeur. God, Mighty and Exalted, existed when nothing, known or unknown, existed. He existed without being one who speaks, wills, moves, or acts. Glorious and Exalted is our Lord. All these attributes are originated and are derived only after an act proceeds from Him. Glorious and Exalted is our Lord, and the Quran is the speech of God, created. It contains accounts of those who came before you and of events to come after you; it was sent down by God to Muhammad, the Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family).
🔅🌼 The Speech of God Has No Like 🌼🔅
🌷🔆 فَعَظَّمَ اللَّهُ أَجْرَكَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَقَالَ ع وَ أَمَّا قَوْلُهُ- هَلْ تَعْلَمُ لَهُ سَمِيًّا فَإِنَّ تَأْوِيلَهُ هَلْ تَعْلَمُ أَحَداً اسْمُهُ اللَّهُ غَيْرَ اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى فَإِيَّاكَ أَنْ تُفَسِّرَ الْقُرْآنَ بِرَأْيِكَ حَتَّى تَفْقَهَهُ عَنِ الْعُلَمَاءِ فَإِنَّهُ رُبَّ تَنْزِيلٍ يُشْبِهُ كَلَامَ الْبَشَرِ وَ هُوَ كَلَامُ اللَّهِ وَ تَأْوِيلُهُ لَا يُشْبِهُ كَلَامَ الْبَشَرِ كَمَا لَيْسَ شَيْءٌ مِنْ خَلْقِهِ يُشْبِهُهُ كَذَلِكَ لَا يُشْبِهُ فِعْلُهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى شَيْئاً مِنْ أَفْعَالِ الْبَشَرِ وَ لَا يُشْبِهُ شَيْءٌ مِنْ كَلَامِهِ كَلَامَ الْبِشْرِ فَكَلَامُ اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى صِفَتُهُ وَ كَلَامُ الْبَشَرِ أَفْعَالُهُمْ فَلَا تُشَبِّهْ كَلَامَ اللَّهِ بِكَلَامِ الْبَشَرِ فَتَهْلِكَ وَ تَضِلَّ قَالَ فَرَّجْتَ عَنِّي فَرَّجَ اللَّهُ عَنْكَ وَ حَلَلْتَ عَنِّي عُقْدَةً فَعَظَّمَ اللَّهُ أَجْرَكَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَقَالَ ع[8]
🔅🌼 The Qur’an, the Word of God 🌼🔅
🌷🔆 قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عِيسَى بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ الْيَقْطِينِيُّ قَالَ: كَتَبَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُوسَى الرِّضَا ع إِلَى بَعْضِ شِيعَتِهِ بِبَغْدَادَ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ عَصَمَنَا اللَّهُ وَ إِيَّاكَ مِنَ الْفِتْنَةِ فَإِنْ يَفْعَلْ فَأَعْظِمْ بِهَا نِعْمَةً وَ إِلَّا يَفْعَلْ فَهِيَ الْهَلَكَةُ نَحْنُ نَرَى أَنَّ الْجِدَالَ فِي الْقُرْآنِ بِدْعَةٌ اشْتَرَكَ فِيهَا السَّائِلُ وَ الْمُجِيبُ فَتَعَاطَى السَّائِلُ مَا لَيْسَ لَهُ وَ تَكَلَّفَ الْمُجِيبُ مَا لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ وَ لَيْسَ الْخَالِقُ إِلَّا اللَّهَ وَ مَا سِوَاهُ مَخْلُوقٌ وَ الْقُرْآنُ كَلَامُ اللَّهِ لَا تَجْعَلْ لَهُ اسْماً مِنْ عِنْدِكَ فَتَكُونَ مِنَ الضَّالِّينَ جَعَلَنَا اللَّهُ وَ إِيَّاكَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ يَخْشَوْنَ رَبَّهُمْ بِالْغَيْبِ وَ هُمْ مِنَ السَّاعَةِ مُشْفِقُونَ.[9]
🔆Imam ʿAli al-Naqi (peace be upon him) wrote to a group of Shiʿis in Baghdad: “In our view, disputing about the Qur’an is an innovation. Both the questioner and the respondent are complicit: the questioner has asked about something he had no right to ask, and the respondent has burdened himself with something that was not his duty. The Creator is none other than God, and all besides Him are created. But the Qur’an is the Word of God. Do not coin a name for it on your own, or you will be among the misguided.”
🌹The Qur’an is among the things brought into being by God; yet these are not created things, but are brought into being by God and are not eternal. How many of God’s technologies there are of which we know nothing!
🌹The Mushaf of Fatima is not the Qur’an, but contains Qur’anic sciences and other heavenly books, as well as Qur’anic commentary—in other words, it is like the earth of the Qur’an, containing Qur’anic sciences.
🔅🌼 The technology of the Qur’an is uncreated 🌼🔅
🌷🔆 عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحِيمِ الْقَصِيرِ قَالَ: كَتَبْتُ عَلَى يَدَيْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَعْيَنَ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ اخْتَلَفَ النَّاسُ فِي أَشْيَاءَ قَدْ كَتَبْتُ بِهَا إِلَيْكَ فَإِنْ رَأَيْتَ جَعَلَنِيَ اللَّهُ فِدَاكَ أَنْ تَشْرَحَ لِي جَمِيعَ مَا كَتَبْتُ بِهِ إِلَيْكَ اخْتَلَفَ النَّاسُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ بِالْعِرَاقِ فِي الْمَعْرِفَةِ وَ الْجُحُودِ فَأَخْبِرْنِي جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ أَ هُمَا مَخْلُوقَانِ وَ اخْتَلَفُوا فِي الْقُرْآنِ فَزَعَمَ قَوْمٌ أَنَّ الْقُرْآنَ كَلَامُ اللَّهِ غَيْرُ مَخْلُوقٍ وَ قَالَ آخَرُونَ كَلَامُ اللَّهِ مَخْلُوقٌ وَ عَنِ الِاسْتِطَاعَةِ أَ قَبْلَ الْفِعْلِ أَوْ مَعَ الْفِعْلِ فَإِنَّ أَصْحَابَنَا قَدِ اخْتَلَفُوا فِيهِ وَ رَوَوْا فِيهِ وَ عَنِ اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى هَلْ يُوصَفُ بِالصُّورَةِ أَوْ بِالتَّخْطِيطِ فَإِنْ رَأَيْتَ جَعَلَنِيَ اللَّهُ فِدَاكَ أَنْ تَكْتُبَ إِلَيَّ بِالْمَذْهَبِ الصَّحِيحِ مِنَ التَّوْحِيدِ وَ عَنِ الْحَرَكَاتِ أَ هِيَ مَخْلُوقَةٌ أَوْ غَيْرُ مَخْلُوقَةٍ وَ عَنِ الْإِيمَانِ مَا هُوَ
فَكَتَبَ ع عَلَى يَدَيْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَعْيَنَ سَأَلْتَ عَنِ الْمَعْرِفَةِ مَا هِيَ
☘️ فَاعْلَمْ رَحِمَكَ اللَّهُ أَنَّ الْمَعْرِفَةَ مِنْ صُنْعِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِي الْقَلْبِ مَخْلُوقَةٌ وَ الْجُحُودَ صُنْعُ اللَّهِ فِي الْقَلْبِ مَخْلُوقٌ وَ لَيْسَ لِلْعِبَادِ فِيهِمَا مِنْ صُنْعٍ وَ لَهُمْ فِيهِمَا الِاخْتِيَارُ مِنَ الِاكْتِسَابِ فَبِشَهْوَتِهِمُ الْإِيمَانَ اخْتَارُوا الْمَعْرِفَةَ فَكَانُوا بِذَلِكَ مُؤْمِنِينَ عَارِفِينَ وَ بِشَهْوَتِهِمُ الْكُفْرَ اخْتَارُوا الْجُحُودَ فَكَانُوا بِذَلِكَ كَافِرِينَ جَاحِدِينَ ضُلَّالًا وَ ذَلِكَ بِتَوْفِيقِ اللَّهِ لَهُمْ وَ خِذْلَانِ مَنْ خَذَلَهُ اللَّهُ فَبِالاخْتِيَارِ وَ الِاكْتِسَابِ عَاقَبَهُمُ اللَّهُ وَ أَثَابَهُمْ
☘️ وَ سَأَلْتَ رَحِمَكَ اللَّهُ عَنِ الْقُرْآنِ وَ اخْتِلَافِ النَّاسِ قِبَلَكُمْ فَإِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ كَلَامُ اللَّهِ مُحْدَثٌ غَيْرُ مَخْلُوقٍ وَ غَيْرُ أَزَلِيٍّ مَعَ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى ذِكْرُهُ وَ تَعَالَى عَنْ ذَلِكَ عُلُوّاً كَبِيراً كَانَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ لَا شَيْءَ غَيْرَ اللَّهِ مَعْرُوفٌ وَ لَا مَجْهُولٌ كَانَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ لَا مُتَكَلِّمَ وَ لَا مُرِيدَ وَ لَا مُتَحَرِّكَ وَ لَا فَاعِلَ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ رَبُّنَا فَجَمِيعُ هَذِهِ الصِّفَاتِ مُحْدَثَةٌ عِنْدَ حُدُوثِ الْفِعْلِ مِنْهُ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ رَبُّنَا وَ الْقُرْآنُ كَلَامُ اللَّهِ غَيْرُ مَخْلُوقٍ فِيهِ خَبَرُ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ وَ خَبَرُ مَا يَكُونُ بَعْدَكُمْ أُنْزِلَ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ Ṣ
☘️ وَ سَأَلْتَ رَحِمَكَ اللَّهُ عَنِ الِاسْتِطَاعَةِ لِلْفِعْلِ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ خَلَقَ الْعَبْدَ وَ جَعَلَ لَهُ الْآلَةَ وَ الصِّحَّةَ وَ هِيَ الْقُوَّةُ الَّتِي يَكُونُ الْعَبْدُ بِهَا مُتَحَرِّكاً مُسْتَطِيعاً لِلْفِعْلِ وَ لَا مُتَحَرِّكَ إِلَّا وَ هُوَ يُرِيدُ الْفِعْلَ وَ هِيَ صِفَةٌ مُضَافَةٌ إِلَى الشَّهْوَةِ الَّتِي هِيَ خَلْقُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مُرَكَّبَةٌ فِي الْإِنْسَانِ فَإِذَا تَحَرَّكَتِ الشَّهْوَةُ فِي الْإِنْسَانِ اشْتَهَى الشَّيْءَ فَأَرَادَهُ فَمِنْ ثَمَّ قِيلَ لِلْإِنْسَانِ مُرِيدٌ فَإِذَا أَرَادَ الْفِعْلَ وَ فَعَلَ كَانَ مَعَ الِاسْتِطَاعَةِ وَ الْحَرَكَةِ فَمِنْ ثَمَّ قِيلَ لِلْعَبْدِ مُسْتَطِيعٌ مُتَحَرِّكٌ فَإِذَا كَانَ الْإِنْسَانُ سَاكِناً غَيْرَ مُرِيدٍ لِلْفِعْلِ وَ كَانَ مَعَهُ الْآلَةُ وَ هِيَ الْقُوَّةُ وَ الصِّحَّةُ اللَّتَانِ بِهِمَا تَكُونُ حَرَكَاتُ الْإِنْسَانِ وَ فِعْلُهُ كَانَ سُكُونُهُ لِعِلَّةِ سُكُونِ الشَّهْوَةِ فَقِيلَ سَاكِنٌ فَوُصِفَ بِالسُّكُونِ فَإِذَا اشْتَهَى الْإِنْسَانُ وَ تَحَرَّكَتْ شَهْوَتُهُ الَّتِي رُكِّبَتْ فِيهِ اشْتَهَى الْفِعْلَ وَ تَحَرَّكَتْ بِالْقُوَّةِ الْمُرَكَّبَةِ فِيهِ وَ اسْتَعْمَلَ الْآلَةَ الَّتِي بِهَا يَفْعَلُ الْفِعْلَ فَيَكُونُ الْفِعْلُ مِنْهُ عِنْدَ مَا تَحَرَّكَ وَ اكْتَسَبَهُ فَقِيلَ فَاعِلٌ وَ مُتَحَرِّكٌ وَ مُكْتَسِبٌ وَ مُسْتَطِيعٌ أَ وَ لَا تَرَى أَنَّ جَمِيعَ ذَلِكَ صِفَاتٌ يُوصَفُ بِهَا الْإِنْسَانُ وَ سَأَلْتَ رَحِمَكَ اللَّهُ عَنِ التَّوْحِيدِ وَ مَا ذَهَبَ إِلَيْهِ مَنْ قِبَلَكَ فَتَعَالَى اللَّهُ الَّذِي لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ وَ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ تَعَالَى اللَّهُ عَمَّا يَصِفُهُ الْوَاصِفُونَ الْمُشَبِّهُونَ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى بِخَلْقِهِ الْمُفْتَرُونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَاعْلَمْ رَحِمَكَ اللَّهُ أَنَّ الْمَذْهَبَ الصَّحِيحَ فِي التَّوْحِيدِ مَا نَزَلَ بِهِ الْقُرْآنُ مِنْ صِفَاتِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَانْفِ عَنِ اللَّهِ الْبُطْلَانَ وَ التَّشْبِيهَ فَلَا نَفْيَ وَ لَا تَشْبِيهَ وَ هُوَ اللَّهُ الثَّابِتُ الْمَوْجُودُ تَعَالَى اللَّهُ عَمَّا يَصِفُهُ الْوَاصِفُونَ وَ لَا تَعْدُ الْقُرْآنَ فَتَضِلَّ بَعْدَ الْبَيَانِ وَ سَأَلْتَ رَحِمَكَ اللَّهُ عَنِ الْإِيمَانِ فَالْإِيمَانُ هُوَ إِقْرَارٌ بِاللِّسَانِ وَ عَقْدٌ بِالْقَلْبِ وَ عَمَلٌ بِالْأَرْكَانِ فَالْإِيمَانُ بَعْضُهُ مِنْ بَعْضٍ وَ قَدْ يَكُونُ الْعَبْدُ مُسْلِماً قَبْلَ أَنْ يَكُونَ مُؤْمِناً وَ لَا يَكُونُ مُؤْمِناً حَتَّى يَكُونَ مُسْلِماً فَالْإِسْلَامُ قَبْلَ الْإِيمَانِ وَ هُوَ يُشَارِكُ الْإِيمَانَ فَإِذَا أَتَى الْعَبْدُ بِكَبِيرَةٍ مِنْ كَبَائِرِ الْمَعَاصِي أَوْ صَغِيرَةٍ مِنْ صَغَائِرِ الْمَعَاصِي الَّتِي نَهَى اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَنْهَا كَانَ خَارِجاً مِنَ الْإِيمَانِ وَ سَاقِطاً عَنْهُ اسْمُ الْإِيمَانِ وَ ثَابِتاً عَلَيْهِ اسْمُ الْإِسْلَامِ فَإِنْ تَابَ وَ اسْتَغْفَرَ عَادَ إِلَى الْإِيمَانِ وَ لَمْ يُخْرِجْهُ إِلَى الْكُفْرِ وَ الْجُحُودِ وَ الِاسْتِحْلَالِ وَ إِذَا قَالَ لِلْحَلَالِ هذا حَرامٌ وَ لِلْحَرَامِ هذا حَلالٌ وَ دَانَ بِذَلِكَ فَعِنْدَهَا يَكُونُ خَارِجاً مِنَ الْإِيمَانِ وَ الْإِسْلَامِ إِلَى الْكُفْرِ وَ كَانَ بِمَنْزِلَةِ رَجُلٍ دَخَلَ الْحَرَمَ ثُمَّ دَخَلَ الْكَعْبَةَ فَأَحْدَثَ فِي الْكَعْبَةِ حَدَثاً فَأُخْرِجَ عَنِ الْكَعْبَةِ وَ عَنِ الْحَرَمِ فَضُرِبَتْ عُنُقُهُ وَ صَارَ إِلَى النَّارِ. [10]
🌹The technology of the Qur’an is not created; it is uncreated. Creation is merely one of God’s technologies. Qur’anic technology is the most unknown, most hidden, and most wondrous of technologies. The Qur’an and its written copies are only signs of that Qur’an.
🔅🌼 The Technology of the Mushaf of Fatima 🌼🔅
🌹The Mushaf of Fatima is another of God’s special technologies.
🌹What would have happened if the technology of the “Mushaf of Fatima” had become widespread? How far we have fallen behind in knowledge, wisdom, and development! Our slow pace reveals the depth of our backwardness.
🌹The scope and limits of our understanding are bound by material light, and even our highest powers of discernment are confined by limited speed. People today do not wish to venture beyond material speed. “Human infinity” is material light, because humanity has no experience or sense of the celestial realm to attain the speed of celestial light.
🌹Let us discover the vehicles of light, and remember the bearers of light, the Throne, and knowledge.
🌹Let us transform sound into light, and light into transcendent light.
🌹The Mushaf of Fatima is an instrument in the hands of God’s proofs.
🌷🔆 وَ فِي ابْنَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص لِي أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَة[11]
🔆Imam of the Age, peace be upon him: “In the daughter of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, I have an excellent example.”
🌹The Mushaf of Fatima is a tablet of the future, the ultimate technology of earth and heaven, the pinnacle of earthly invention. Those who seek its treasure should strive to outdo one another.
🌹Every innovation is contained in the Mushaf of Fatima—and in its finest form.
🌹With the Mushaf of Fatima, God’s servants would have lived in complete ease. Humanity would have had no occupation but loving communion with the Beloved and devout worship.
🌹Humanity has grievously wronged itself in its treatment of Fatima.
🌹The Mushaf of Fatima is the software that surpasses all the scientific and informational technologies of the universe.
🌹The Mushaf of Fatima is the genealogy of the prophets, their appointed successors, the saints, and the rulers of the world.
🌹The Mushaf of Fatima is a book from beyond time and space, a book that has gone beyond them.
🌹The Mushaf of Fatima is the record of all realities.
🌹This first and last treasure, the Mushaf of Fatima, is in the hands of the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him.
🌹The Mushaf of Fatima is the supreme sign of the Imamate, the software of creation, the comprehensive book of creation.
🔅🌼Fatima is the subtle nerve of servitude🌼🔅
🌹Tawhid is the central, essential nerve of servitude.
🌹Servitude dies with the death of tawhid.
🌹Let us learn about the many kinds of death: juridical death of the brain, intellectual death of understanding, death according to the Qur’an, and death according to the Ahl al-Bayt.
🌹Fatima is a subtle nerve that makes tawhid perceptible in our innate nature and sets us on the path to beautiful servitude.
🔅🌼The Gifts of Fatima🌼🔅
🌹The Fatimid remembrances, the Fatimid praise, the Fatimid glorifications, the Fatimid Fadak, the Mushaf of Fatima, and more…
🌹The hearts of all people are Fatima’s Fadak.
🌹What is there that one who has wilayah does not possess?!
🌹The hearts of the faithful; history; the treasury of time and the treasury of space; the treasury beyond time, and of being and place; the well of Muhammad and the family of Muhammad.
🌹The hearts of the faithful are the wellspring of Fatimid life; the Fatimid treasures buried within them are the repositories and sanctuaries of Fatimid mysteries.
🔅🌼An Unprecedented Version🌼🔅
🌹In every garment she wore, Fatima passed her trial with distinction—the trial of womanhood, with all its magnificent achievements!
🌷🔆 السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكِ يَا مُمْتَحَنَةُ امْتَحَنَكِ الَّذِي خَلَقَكِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَخْلُقَكِ فَوَجَدَكِ لِمَا امْتَحَنَكِ بِهِ صَابِرَة[12]
🌹What is Fatima’s new version? Which version of the Ahl al-Bayt are we akin to?!
🌹What is the next version of woman, the next version of man, and the third version, neither woman nor man?!
🌹Whoever accepts and cultivates the wilayah of the Ahl al-Bayt will be transformed through the analysis and differentiation, and then the synthesis, of beings and society, and through the synthesis of the entire world, into its many-hued manifestations.
🌹Every individual is a world, and the wilayah of the Ahl al-Bayt holds dominion over the world.
🔅🌼Let us discover the taste and delight of knowledge through the Ahl al-Bayt system🌼🔅
🌹Just as we are connected to every system of the body, we must also be connected to the entire universe. For God Most High created nothing in vain, and every being He created is connected to every other being in the universe.
🌹We have not been placed at the heart of creation in vain; creation is like our hands and feet, our eyes, nerves, and senses.
🌻🔆Al-Hijr: 85 وَ ما خَلَقْنَا السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ وَ ما بَيْنَهُما إِلاَّ بِالْحَقِّ وَ إِنَّ السَّاعَةَ لَآتِيَةٌ فَاصْفَحِ الصَّفْحَ الْجَميلَ
🌻🔆Al-Anbiyāʾ: 16 وَ ما خَلَقْنَا السَّماءَ وَ الْأَرْضَ وَ ما بَيْنَهُما لاعِبينَ
🌻🔆Ṣād: 27 وَ ما خَلَقْنَا السَّماءَ وَ الْأَرْضَ وَ ما بَيْنَهُما باطِلاً ذلِكَ ظَنُّ الَّذينَ كَفَرُوا فَوَيْلٌ لِلَّذينَ كَفَرُوا مِنَ النَّارِ
🌻🔆Al-Dukhān: 38 وَ ما خَلَقْنَا السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ وَ ما بَيْنَهُما لاعِبينَ
🌻🔆Al-Aḥqāf: 3 خَلَقْنَا السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ وَ ما بَيْنَهُما إِلاَّ بِالْحَقِّ وَ أَجَلٍ مُسَمًّى وَ الَّذينَ كَفَرُوا عَمَّا أُنْذِرُوا مُعْرِضُونَ
🔆We created the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them for a true purpose; and the promised Hour will surely come. So turn away from them with gracious forbearance!
🌹Just as, through the eyes, ears, tongue, skin and other organs, working in concert with the nerves and the brain, we attain sight, hearing and taste, and perceive flavours and pleasures—none of which is identical with the physical apparatus itself, yet each is a real form of knowledge we acquire—so let us reflect: when we engage with the whole of existence as a system, how vast a range of knowledge might we attain? Let us raise our thoughts still higher: what far reaches of knowledge might open to us through the gates of knowledge? And what transcendent knowledge might we attain through Fāṭimah, the system of the brain and the hidden dimensions of knowledge?
🌹The Heir of the heavens and the earth bestows all things as an inheritance upon His beloved servant.
🔅🌼 From blindness of sight to blindness to the universe 🌼🔅
🌹Human disability has many degrees: it begins with physical disability and extends to disability with respect to the universe, to knowledge, and to the two weighty beings.
🌹Let us not be heedless of Fāṭimah, of Ab, Baʿl and Banūn, or of Fāṭimah’s greatest crown, the Qur’an.
🌻🔆Ibrāhīm: 33 وَ سَخَّرَ لَكُمُ الشَّمْسَ وَ الْقَمَرَ دائِبَيْنِ وَ سَخَّرَ لَكُمُ اللَّيْلَ وَ النَّهارَ
🔆He has subjected to you the sun and the moon, each pursuing its appointed course; and He has subjected to you the night and the day as well.
🌻🔆Al-Naḥl: 12 وَ سَخَّرَ لَكُمُ اللَّيْلَ وَ النَّهارَ وَ الشَّمْسَ وَ الْقَمَرَ وَ النُّجُومُ مُسَخَّراتٌ بِأَمْرِهِ إِنَّ في ذلِكَ لَآياتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ
🔆He has subjected to you the night and the day, the sun and the moon; and the stars, too, are subjected by His command. Surely in this are signs for people who use their reason.
🌻🔆Luqmān: 20 أَ لَمْ تَرَوْا أَنَّ اللَّهَ سَخَّرَ لَكُمْ ما فِي السَّماواتِ وَ ما فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ أَسْبَغَ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعَمَهُ ظاهِرَةً وَ باطِنَةً وَ مِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يُجادِلُ فِي اللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ وَ لا هُدىً وَ لا كِتابٍ مُنيرٍ
🔆Do you not see that God has subjected to you all that is in the heavens and the earth, and lavished upon you His blessings, both outward and inward? Yet some people dispute about God without knowledge, guidance or an illuminating Book.
🌻🔆Al-Jāthiyah: 13 وَ سَخَّرَ لَكُمْ ما فِي السَّماواتِ وَ ما فِي الْأَرْضِ جَميعاً مِنْهُ إِنَّ في ذلِكَ لَآياتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
🔆He has subjected to you all that is in the heavens and all that is on the earth, as a favour from Him. Surely in this are signs for people who reflect.
🌹Being compliant, like the organs and limbs when they are under control and direction
🔅🌼 The Great Reckoning 🌼🔅
🌹Let us grasp the secret of «لَتُسْأَلُنَّ»: one day we will be called to account for this vast system. What sublime truths and mysteries might we have reached through it?!!!
🌻🔆Al-Takāthur: 8 ثُمَّ لَتُسْئَلُنَّ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَنِ النَّعيمِ
🔆Then, on that Day, you will surely be questioned about the blessings you enjoyed!
🌹Every act of perception, understanding, discernment, pleasure, desire and taste—and all that is like them—is a step towards nearness to Him. What steps have we taken? What leap have we made with the steps of the Prophet’s Household?
🔅🌼 The First Nerve of Servitude to God 🌼🔅
🌹Tawhid is the central, vital nerve of servitude.
🌹With shirk, the death of servitude begins.
🌹Without knowledge of God, irreligion begins, for the first principle of religion is knowing Him.
🌹The death of tawhid is the death of servitude.
🌹The death of religious understanding, insight and reason is more dangerous than brain death, for it leads to the death of religion, tawhid and servitude. The death that encompasses both the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Household is the most complete and ultimate of deaths.
🌹Let us honour the Fatimiyya invocations. Through the Fatimiyya praise, let us become those who praise God. The Fatimiyya prayers and glorifications are miraculous; the Fatimiyya Sermon of Fadak is a sermon of intimate prayer and divine unity.
🌹The hearts of all creation are Fatima’s Fadak; let us purify our hearts for Fatima.
🌹What does the one who possesses wilayah lack?
🌹The Heir of the heavens and the earth gives as an inheritance whatever He wills to whomever He wills. He bestows everything as an inheritance.
🌹The hearts of the faithful, history, the treasury of time, the treasury of place, the treasury beyond time, the mine and abode, are the well of Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad, peace be upon them.
🌹Pure, yearning hearts are the wellspring of Fatimiyya life, the hidden treasures of Fatimiyya, and the repositories and sanctuaries of Fatimiyya’s mysteries.
🌹The most ignorant of the ignorant are those who flee from the greatest wealth and capital, the first and the last.
🌹To flee from wilayah is to flee from everything—and from what lies beyond everything.
🌻🔆Yunus: 25 وَ اللَّهُ يَدْعُوا إِلى دارِ السَّلامِ وَ يَهْدي مَنْ يَشاءُ إِلى صِراطٍ مُسْتَقيمٍ
🔆And God invites to the Abode of Peace, and guides to a straight path whomever He wills and deems worthy.
🌻🔆Al-Ahqaf: 5 وَ مَنْ أَضَلُّ مِمَّنْ يَدْعُوا مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ مَنْ لا يَسْتَجيبُ لَهُ إِلى يَوْمِ الْقِيامَةِ وَ هُمْ عَنْ دُعائِهِمْ غافِلُونَ
🔆Who is more astray than one who calls upon, besides God, a deity that will not answer him until the Day of Resurrection, and is utterly unaware of their calls? (They do not hear them at all!)
🔅🌼 A Stroll Through the Garden of the Celestial Realm of Fatimiyya’s Words 🌼🔅
🔅🌼 If existence had existed, there would have been no existence 🌼🔅
🔆☘️ ابْتَدَعَ الْأَشْيَاءَ لَا مِنْ شَيْءٍ كَانَ قَبْلَهَا
🌹Existence is unprecedented; existence is new. Had it not been new, it would not have existed at all. We must regard existence as something utterly new, with no prior existence.
🌹When existence did not exist, what was there? Before existence, there was no being that could come into existence.
🌹He who brings “being” into being is more truly “being” than being itself. He transcends “being”; He is “existence.”
🌹Why should the Creator have a likeness? Why should He resemble His creation, His acts, His knowledge, His attributes or His names? Would this not be considered shirk? Any likeness to Him, in whatever form or description, is impossible. سبحان الله عما یشرکون
🌹He brought things into existence without precedent, not from something that existed before them. There was no thing; He made things into things. He did not create things from other things: there was no thing with which He could bring things into existence from nonexistence.
🌹He established no raw material from which to bring things into existence.
🌹He did not create things from a thing; He did not create things from other things.
🌹He brought things into existence from absolute nothingness.
🌹He created time too, but not within time.
🌹He is neither in time, nor in place, nor in anything; rather, He is the Creator of them all.
🌹Physics is on shaky ground; knowledge is captive to modern ignorance.
🌹If the Big Bang was the beginning of creation, He brought about that beginning; He made the Big Bang a bang, and willed the Great Bang.
🌹What was there before time? There was no “before” prior to time; we must seek another expression. He created before and after.
🌹Cry out, so that those who merely pose as scholars may hear: there was nothing, and He made “was” be.
🌹The One who subdues time, by the force of His sovereign power, brought time into being. Is there any doubt in this truth: that the Creator is above His creation? Why do some ignorant polytheists imagine that an act and its agent are one and the same, or that a manifestation is identical with the One who manifests? Why do they imagine God as the sun and creation as its rays? Is this not polytheism? Is it not to strip the Creator of His oneness? Is it not—God forbid—to declare that the Creator has parts?
🌹Just as the Creator of time is the Creator of its periods and instants, so too is He the Creator of being and all that exists, for He is the Originator. Just as we cannot call God Most High “time,” neither can we call Him “being” or “a being.” To predicate “being” of «الله اکبر» is solely to avoid becoming trapped in the abyss of denying God’s attributes!
🌹Just as we cannot suppose that everything is contained within time, neither can we suppose that every reality is contained within existence. This is where many philosophers go wrong in resolving questions of being and that which exists.
🌹Time cannot begin within time, and being cannot begin from being.
🔅🌼 The Heart of Tawhid 🌼🔅
🌹The Prophet’s Household is the supreme word of tawhid; whoever fails to reach this truth has not reached the Prophet’s Household.
🌹Keep these principles of tawhid in mind: God is above everything we know, and even above everything we do not know.
🌹He is the possessor of every excellence.
🔅🌼 Things Have No Hinge 🌼🔅
🔆☘️ وَ أَنْشَأَهَا بِلَا احْتِذَاءِ أَمْثِلَةٍ امْتَثَلَهَا
🌹He brought things into being without following models that might serve as their likeness. His act of bringing them into existence turned on no model as its hinge.
🌹God Most High did not create things by relying on any model.
🌹God, the All-Powerful, followed no examples in bringing things into being.
🌹God, the Giver of being, did not create existence from any plan or blueprint; in bringing things into being, He used no mould.
🌹The Creator of existence brought things into being without following patterns or creating them according to those exemplars.
🌹He brought things into being without following a model—without creation turning on a hinge or fitting a shoe.
🌹The existence of things turned on no model as its hinge.
🌹His act of bringing things into being has no originator.
🌹Bringing things into being goes back to will; will is the initial intelligible form of things.
🔅🌼 The Relation Between “Kun” and Power 🌼🔅
كَوَّنَهَا بِقُدْرَتِهِ
🌹God Most High bestowed existence upon things by His power alone.
🌹The existence of things is a manifestation of divine power.
🌹The existence of things goes back to divine power.
🌹Things were brought into being through divine power.
🌹The originating of things, their bringing into being, and their coming-to-be—which is equivalent to origination—are ways of describing the exclusion of any other agency from creation. The bringing into being of identity and of things goes back to will; their coming-to-be is the existential identity of things, which, broadly speaking, may be linked to divine will. In other words, there is also a higher level of existence: the coming-to-be of things, preceded by their knowledge.
🌼Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141 (903)🌼
🔅🌼 A Learner’s Perspective on the Discussions 🌼🔅
1. The Fāṭimah Codex: A Genealogy of the Prophets and Their Successors 📜
This codex was a genealogy of the prophets and their successors. It contained the particulars of every ruler, one by one. A book from beyond time and space, it was an identity record of realities. This mighty treasure is in the blessed hands of our master, the Great Remnant of God.
2. The Supreme Emblem of the Imamate 🌟
The Fāṭimah Codex is the supreme emblem of the Imamate and the software of creation—the all-encompassing book of existence. The descriptions given by Ṣādiq of the Family of Muḥammad fill two volumes. When the Imam offered all those descriptions, I had said very little. His Eminence says, “What I have told you comes only from the first page of this scroll.” Then he says, “I have told you nothing from its second page, let alone from its two volumes.” Such is the blessedness of her scroll—and she herself is blessed.
3. A Disciple of His Mother, Fāṭimah 🌱
Our Imam of the Age is a disciple of his mother, Fāṭimah. Let us recognize the limits of our own understanding. We have not yet reached even material light. Our highest speed of perception remains captive to its own limits. Unless we step beyond them, we will remain bound by these constraints. We do not know that light, too, has a vehicle. It can be brought to its destination in an instant, just as sound is converted into light and transmitted at a higher speed.
4. Connecting to the Software of Creation 🔌
Could light not be like this? How can we connect to this software, so that in an instant we may reach whatever we seek? Why not enter the garden and orchard of the Lady of Divine Unity? What use have we made of Fāṭimah? We have merely praised her and gone back to sleep. What have we gained from Fāṭimah and her family? We have left Fāṭimah idle. We are heedless of the Two Weighty Things: both the Prophet’s Household and the Qur’an—the Qur’an, which is Fāṭimah’s greatest crown.
5. Commanding the Universe 🌍
How am I connected to my own limbs and faculties? I should have been connected even more powerfully to Fāṭimah and her family, but I failed to know them. Just as I am connected through my sight and hearing—that is, through these faculties I acquire knowledge and gain access to its interpretations—what might I have been capable of had I been connected to this vast system of God’s? God has given human beings the capacity to connect with the entire universe.
6. The Reality of Commanding Light and the Heavens 🌌
By God’s command, night and day, and the stars, are all subjected to us. Yet I am impaired. Whoever is impaired in sight—I am impaired with respect to the Two Weighty Things. I am impaired in knowledge. I am impaired in my connection to ʿAlawī, Ḥasanī, Ḥusaynī, Sajjādī, Bāqirī, Kāẓimī, Riḍawī, Jawādī, Hādī, ʿAskarī and Mahdawī knowledge.
7. The Call to the Abode of Peace 🏰
If God created the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, in truth, why do we not dare to take hold of this? God calls us to the Abode of Peace. He calls us to the Abode of Peace and to His straight path—so why do we not answer? Why do we not follow the Two Weighty Things? Why have we not entered the House of Peace? Why are we not on the straight path?
8. Knowing the Fāṭimah Editions 🌿
I do not know Fāṭimah. In this era, at this moment in time and space, which of her manifestations is she? One manifestation was her womanhood, through which she ennobled all the women of the world. Which manifestation is she now? Which of Fāṭimah’s manifestations do we know well enough to enter her world? This woman tested by God, who passed every trial before creation—what aspect of Fāṭimah do we embody?
9. The Subtle Nerve of Divine Unity 💫
Fāṭimah is the subtle nerve of Divine Unity. Had I connected with her with my whole being, I would have touched Divine Unity—the very foundation of servitude, made possible through this subtle nerve.
10. The Death of Servitude and Jurisprudential Death ⚰️
The death of servitude comes with the death of Divine Unity. Let us become acquainted with the different kinds of death: jurisprudential death, death of understanding, and intellectual death—which is harder than brain death. Harder still is death with respect to the Two Weighty Things.
I wish to enter the celestial garden of Fadak, and let myself be faintly perfumed with the fragrance and purity of the luminous words of Divine Unity.
11. God’s Innovation 🌠
God brought things into being—not from something that had existed before them. He originated all things. If we say that God originated existence, then if existence were new, it would not have existed at all. Before existence, there was no “being” that could come into existence; rather, He brought being into being.
12. God and Time ⏳
God is not like His act. Why do some philosophers fall into the error of conflating the doer with the deed? Can there be a greater form of shirk than this? God used no raw material to originate things; He brought them forth from absolute nothingness. He created time too—not by creating it within time. He is in neither time nor place, for He is the Creator of them all.
🕌 The Queen of Nobility and Leadership
The queen of nobility, queen of the seas of prophethood and leadership, Fatima, Fatima, the pearl in the shell of Hasan and Husayn, Fatima, the lady of the world’s orphans, Fatima, mother to the oppressed and the brokenhearted, Fatima, the cup of pure monotheism, Fatima, queen of water and bread, of light and serenity, freshness and affection—Fatima, this luminous and sovereign lady.
Who is Fatima? O God, who is Fatima, whose joy is Your joy and whose anger is Your anger?
Fatima is the great gateway to joy and happiness, delight and beauty. Fatima is she whose sorrow is the sorrow of all existence. When she grieves, all existence mourns; when she smiles, all existence smiles. At her slightest smile, Paradise reveals itself.
🌺 Fatima’s Joy and Its Influence
Affection wells up from mothers’ hearts. Fatima’s joy—the joy of the City of Knowledge—brings happiness to the city of delight and gladness. It is Fatima whose joy is the joy of the City of Knowledge. When Fatima is happy, knowledge smiles, blossoms and brings its fruits to ripeness. Innovations and inventions rain down from heaven to earth. This is Fatima, the same Fatima, the lady of joys. This lady of joys is she whose happiness gladdens the God who creates joy. He is pleased. What an extraordinary lady Fatima is, that she can interpret and understand God’s joy—and know that Fatima is the supreme sign of God’s joy. What a remarkable saying! Fatima is the supreme sign of God’s joy.
🌟 The Key to Divine Joy and Gladness
When Fatima is happy, she is the very key to joy: God turns it through Fatima and fills the universe and all who dwell in it with happiness and delight. When God is happy, joy becomes settled and enduring. Who would dare claim to know simple pleasure? Who can say, “I have captured gladness,” when no one has; or, “I have caught pleasure,” when no one has? Joy, gladness and pleasure move with such transcendent speed that no one has ever captured them. They pass by, strike, and are gone. Joy and beauty reveal themselves for a moment, then disappear.
🌙 Connecting with Fatima’s Joy
Now we wish to capture this gladness, joy and pleasure—but unless we know Fatima and come under her blessed guardianship, unless Fatima approves, we will never attain the station of capturing gladness and pleasure. How can we connect with her? How can we know this supreme sign of divine gladness and joy? Indeed, the full stature of joy and pleasure rises only to Fatima’s horizon. Yes, both pleasure and gladness have an end and a deeper meaning that we must reach.
📖 God’s Pleasure and Anger through Fatima
The Messenger of God says: “Truly, God is pleased when you are pleased and angered when you are angered.” To understand the depth of divine pleasure and anger, we must grasp that Fatima is the Mother of the Believers. If God grows angry on behalf of one of the believers, and is pleased on that believer’s account, then when the Mother of the Believers, the Lady of the Women of the Worlds, and the Lady of Paradise is pleased, how is God pleased? And what extraordinary events unfold through her joy?
🌌 God’s Will and Fatima’s Joy
How can we know Fatima? Fatima is the Mother of the Names, the key to joy, and God’s joy is God’s will. When God wills, joy comes into being through His will. The universe fills with gladness, and every act of His will is a fresh and unprecedented act. Let us now consider ourselves: where do we stand among the vast realms of joy and pleasure? Just as we might ask, where do we stand among the realms of light? Do we see light? No—we perceive only a trace of it. And even those perceptions are confined to a few limited bands. What, then, would happen if God’s absolute will prevailed over our souls?
🌹 Fatima and the Power to Transform the World
How does God bring all things into being at Fatima’s joy? What happens? The world looks to the smile of the soul of the world, to the smile of its sovereign. The sovereign is Fatima al-Zahra. When Fatima smiles, buds open and hearts brim with love. When Fatima weeps, joy departs. Has joy departed? Has it not? Who can laugh from the depths of their heart when they cannot laugh, because Fatima has wept? She has cried out? Until the appearance of the Proof, the world will remain in torment and mourning.
🌍 Knowledge and Ignorance in the Light of Fatima
What is all this joy in the world? It is all an illusion of joy. By God, no one has truly tasted joy. With Fatima’s sorrow, joy departed. Hearts have grown constricted, and wolves have howled as they go on killing. At Fatima’s lament, ignorance has laughed—and still laughs—as it mocks humanity. Does it not? Has it not? With all these apparent scientific advances, why does humanity remain immersed in the narrowest depths of ignorance? Why, amid all this light, has it fallen into pitch darkness? Fatima is the ocean of prophethood, joined with the ocean of knowledge to form a mighty magnet of joy. But what has this ungrateful humanity done?
🕊 Joy, a Name among God’s Most Beautiful Names
Joy is one of God’s Most Beautiful Names; it is the remembrance of God. Who has remembered God by the name of His joy? Who has spoken of the supreme remembrance of joy? Only through Fatima—through Fatima’s water, husband, and children—can one attain this supreme remembrance; through no other. How does Fatima rejoice? She rejoices in Ali’s Ghadir, in Ali’s guardianship, in Ali’s gaze. Without them, joy is barred to her.
💔 The Cause of the World’s Depression
The cause of all this depression in this constricted world is its laments and its lack of joy. With all this overeating, why is humanity never satisfied? Because the nourishment of the soul has departed. Humanity eats food without spirit, drinks water without spirit, and fails to grasp the meaning of life. With all this shallow, debased pleasure, why is humanity still unhappy? Because joy has frozen within the human soul.
🌷 Fatima, the Spring of Existence and the Source of Springtime
Fatima is the springtime of existence; she makes spring itself blossom. Without her, nothing has a soul of joy. How was Fatima wronged? By martyring Fatima and making her suffer injustice, ungrateful humanity was vanquished and accursed by God. How ungrateful humanity is: it seeks the light of illumination, yet breaks and wounds the sun. It wants to extinguish the sun so that it may find the light. How greatly humanity has wronged itself—a terrible wrong against Fatima and Ali.
💥 Humanity Brings About Its Own Ruin
Why did humanity bring about its own ruin with its own hands? What wretchedness, what ignorance, to seek to break the supreme word of divine unity. What are we to do? Whoever brings joy to the queen of joy, God will make joyful in this world. By God, even now Fatima can be made joyful—but to enter Fatima’s world, one must become part of it. Fatima leads the way; Fatima is the guide on the journey. She knows her Shi‘a and brings them into her world.
🌸 The Messenger of God’s Mission and Bringing Joy to Fatima
O Abu Waqqas, have you heard the Messenger of God say: “Fatima is a piece of my heart. Whoever brings her joy brings joy to me, and whoever grieves her grieves me. Fatima is among God’s finest servants in my eyes.” Bringing joy to Fatima is easy. It is enough to hold fast to the Two Weighty Things—the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt. It is enough to be zealous, modest, and chaste, so that we may bring joy to Fatima and God may send joy down upon this world.
🌙 Fatima’s Intercession and Grandeur
Even if God were to permit all the prophets and the angels nearest to Him to intercede for someone who had wronged Fatima, God would never bring that person out of the Fire. What grandeur Fatima possesses, and yet we remain caught in her mystery and secret. We are still pondering the mystery of Fatima’s Muṣḥaf. What kind of noble Muṣḥaf is this, bearing tidings of the unseen? All the secrets of the cosmos are written in this Muṣḥaf. How vast its capacity, to encompass all the knowledge and mysteries of existence.
📖 The Qur’an and Fatima’s Muṣḥaf
If the Qur’an is the explanation of all things, what, then, is its relationship to the Muṣḥaf of Fāṭimah? The Qur’an is God’s unique technology, beyond comparison with any other. The Muṣḥaf of Fāṭimah is another kind of technology, related to the Qur’an yet distinct from it. The Qur’an is among God’s most wondrous creations, but the Muṣḥaf of Fāṭimah, too, contains knowledge of the Qur’an; the knowledge of all the heavenly books is present within it. It is a capacious volume, containing all the reports of heaven and earth, and the geography of the universe.
🌍 Knowledge and Technology in the Muṣḥaf of Fāṭimah
Every innovation in this world, every technology that advances day by day, is contained in this blessed volume. If we wanted to build a spacecraft, the pinnacle of technological advancement would be found in this Muṣḥaf. All the technologies of the universe are within this blessed volume. If, instead of being occupied with worldly affairs, humanity had made loving the Beloved its sole pursuit by drawing on the Muṣḥaf of Fāṭimah, we would not now know the full depth of the calamity we have suffered in losing this blessed volume.
🌀 The Challenges of Understanding Modern Science
Modern science cannot explain many of the universe’s profound and fundamental questions. For example, scientifically speaking, the Big Bang marks the beginning of the universe, but this beginning in time cannot be understood solely within the framework of physics and time. What existed before this beginning? How can we describe what came before time? Modern science is powerless in this regard, because it cannot grasp what lies beyond time.
💡 God and the Manifestations of the Universe
Many people try to compare God with material and natural things. They point, for example, to the sun and say that sunlight is a “manifestation” of the sun. Then they compare God with His creation. Comparisons of this kind confine God to material and temporal concepts, whereas God is beyond them.
⏳ Beyond Time and Place
God is not only beyond time and place; He created time and place themselves. We cannot describe God as a being limited by time or existence, for He is the Creator of these beings and concepts.
🔄 God and His Will
God brings into being whatever He wills. This creation does not follow patterns or precedents; it takes place through God’s absolute will. God creates things without needing any particular model, and these creations come about not through a mechanism, but through His decree and will. God’s power makes possible not only creation, but also the transformation and coming-to-be of everything in existence.
⚡️ Divine Decree and the Coming-to-Be of Things
Existence and all that exists come into being through divine power and decree. The coming-to-be of things means their creation, and takes place through God’s will and power. This process is grounded not only in God’s power, but also in His knowledge and decree. God’s knowledge of everything precedes its creation; by His will, He bestows things and beings upon the universe.
🌌 God, the Creator of All Things
God is not only the Creator of beings; He also grants them existence, which derives from His power. In truth, from the divine perspective, bringing things into being and creating them mean the same thing, since everything created comes directly from God’s will and decree. The existence of every being rests on God’s knowledge and power, and nothing can fall outside this process.
🕊 Final Reflection: God Is Beyond Every Human Description
Ultimately, human efforts to understand God through concepts and scientific or philosophical analysis still run up against the limits of human understanding. God transcends every description and limitation; we can draw near to His reality only through faith and a mode of understanding that reaches beyond reason and experience.
🌼Ali Saei (Abdollah Meshkat) 110.141(903)🌼
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