Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼🔆🌼The Greatest Version of the Qur’an🌼🔆🌼
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “The Month of the Qur’an” “The Qur’an’s forsaken Ali” “A Qur’anic survey” “The Nineteenth Night of Ramadan” “Supplication 44 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya” and more … An abstract with an addendum 1403.12.29 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141 (903) 🌹🔅
🔅🌼Be a mining engineer in Ramadan🌼🔅
🌹All the mines of the blessed month of Ramadan must be explored and mined.
🌹The blessed month of Ramadan draws the attention of both the elite and the public; we should benefit from both!
🔅🌼The Qur’an is the knowledge of worship and devotion🌼🔅
🌹Knowledge of how to benefit from the Qur’an is essential to worship and devotion.
🌹Knowledge of the Qur’an is among the finest, most enduring and highest means of connecting with the Eternal One.
🌹“Knowledge of the Qur’an” is the gateway to reaching the Clarifier and the ultimate end of all things.
🔅🌼Survey our beginnings and ends in the Qur’an🌼🔅
🌹The ultimate end of all things lies in the cup of the Qur’an, which reveals their final destination: the flower and its culmination, the earth and time and their culmination, the seed and its culmination—all lie within the heart of the Qur’an.
🌹Let us take our measure against the Qur’an.
🔅🌼The forms of the Qur’an🌼🔅
🌹The divine Word has a Qur’anic and an Ahl al-Bayt pole.
🌹To know Ali is to know knowledge, beauty, truth, God and the Qur’an.
🔅🌼“The Qur’an” is exposition, guidance and admonition🌼🔅
🌻🔆Āl ʿImrān: 138 هذا بَيانٌ لِلنَّاسِ وَ هُدىً وَ مَوْعِظَةٌ لِلْمُتَّقينَ
🔆This (the Qur’an) is an exposition for all people, and guidance and admonition for the Godfearing.
🌻🔆Al-Aʿrāf: 203 وَ إِذا لَمْ تَأْتِهِمْ بِآيَةٍ قالُوا لَوْ لا اجْتَبَيْتَها قُلْ إِنَّما أَتَّبِعُ ما يُوحى إِلَيَّ مِنْ رَبِّي هذا بَصائِرُ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ وَ هُدىً وَ رَحْمَةٌ لِقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ
🔆When you do not bring them a verse (because revelation has been delayed), they say, “Why have you not chosen one yourself?” Say, “I follow only what is revealed to me. This is insight from your Lord, and guidance and mercy for a people who believe.”
🌻🔆Al-Jāthiya: 20 هذا بَصائِرُ لِلنَّاسِ وَ هُدىً وَ رَحْمَةٌ لِقَوْمٍ يُوقِنُونَ
🔆This (the Qur’an and the divine law) is a means of insight, and guidance and mercy for people who are certain.
☘️Al-bayyina: clear and manifest; the Qur’an that makes things clear; illuminator; manifest proof; truthful witness; clarifying evidence; revealer; mirror of truth; key
🔅🌼The Qur’an is the Criterion🌼🔅
🌻🔆Al-Furqān: 1 تَبارَكَ الَّذي نَزَّلَ الْفُرْقانَ عَلى عَبْدِهِ لِيَكُونَ لِلْعالَمينَ نَذيراً
🔆Blessed and everlasting is He who sent down the Qur’an upon His servant, that he might warn all the worlds.
🌻🔆Al-Dukhān: 4 فيها يُفْرَقُ كُلُّ أَمْرٍ حَكيمٍ
🔆On that night, every matter is determined and resolved according to divine wisdom.
🌹The Criterion is more expressive than mere distinction: it separates truth from falsehood.
🌹Godfearingness is the condition for attaining the Criterion and putting the Qur’an’s power to distinguish into practice.
🌻🔆Al-Anfāl: 29 يا أَيُّهَا الَّذينَ آمَنُوا إِنْ تَتَّقُوا اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَكُمْ فُرْقاناً وَ يُكَفِّرْ عَنْكُمْ سَيِّئاتِكُمْ وَ يَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ وَ اللَّهُ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظيمِ
🔆O you who believe! If you are mindful of God, He will grant you a means to distinguish truth from falsehood, erase your sins, and forgive you. God is the Lord of great bounty!
🌹The Qur’an distinguishes truth from falsehood; it brings clarity and removes confusion.
🔅🌼The Qur’an is insight.🌼🔅
🌹Ramadan is a month for renewing our covenant with the Qur’an.
🌹With Qur’anic ears and eyes, let us hear God’s words and understand them.
🌹The Qur’an is insight; every verse is a sight to behold.
🌹The Qur’an is the lamp and light of devotion, and a source of knowledge and wisdom.
🌹The Qur’an is the literacy of devotion.
🌹The Qur’an teaches us the knowledge of worship and devotion.
🌹The Qur’an is where we pursue higher learning in devotion to God.
🌹The Qur’an is a means of love, connection, and communion.
🔅🌼Touching the Qur’an🌼🔅
🌻🔆Al-Waqi‘ah: 77 إِنَّهُ لَقُرْآنٌ كَريمٌ
🔆It is indeed a noble Qur’an,
🌻🔆Al-Waqi‘ah: 78 في كِتابٍ مَكْنُونٍ
🔆in a preserved Book,
🌻🔆Al-Waqi‘ah: 79 لا يَمَسُّهُ إِلاَّ الْمُطَهَّرُونَ
🔆which none but the purified may touch.
🌻🔆Al-Waqi‘ah: 80 تَنْزيلٌ مِنْ رَبِّ الْعالَمينَ
🔆It is sent down from the Lord of all worlds.
🌻🔆Al-Waqi‘ah: 81 أَ فَبِهذَا الْحَديثِ أَنْتُمْ مُدْهِنُونَ
🔆Do you hold this message in such low regard,
🌹Until a person touches God’s words, they cannot grasp their true meaning.
🌹Every descent has an ascent.
🌹Rain falls, bringing flowers and sweet basil to life. It pours down, yet lifts up fragrance, nectar, honey, and purity. The Qur’an was sent down so that its fragrance, nectar, and honey might rise; it came to lift us up as well.
🌹Ramadan is the Qur’an’s landing place, where we bear God’s weighty word.
🌻🔆Al-Muzzammil: 5 إِنَّا سَنُلْقي عَلَيْكَ قَوْلاً ثَقيلاً
🔆For We shall soon send down to you a weighty word.
🌹The Qur’an came from on high to raise everyone with it to an exalted station.
🌹The Qur’an is the wing that carries us to the highest station in all existence.
🌹Let us become people of the Qur’an and rise.
🔅🌼The Qur’an in the Hereafter🌼🔅
🌹The Qur’an is the wing that carries us to the highest station in all existence.
🌷🔆عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ: رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ وَ سَلَّمَ: يُقَالُ لِصَاحِبِ الْقُرْآنِ: اقْرَأْ وَ ارْقَ، وَ رَتِّلْ كَمَا كُنْتَ تُرَتِّلُ فِي الدُّنْيَا، فَإِنَّ مَنْزِلَتَكَ عَنْ آخِرِ دَرَجَةٍ تَقْرَأُهَا إِنَّا سَنُلْقِي عَلَيْكَ قَوْلًا ثَقِيلًا أَيْ سَنُوحِي إِلَيْكَ قَوْلًا يَثْقُلُ عَلَيْكَ وَ عَلَى أُمَّتِكَ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ وَ قِيلَ: قَوْلًا ثَقِيلًا نُزُولُهُ، فَإِنَّهُ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ كَانَ يَتَغَيَّرُ حَالُهُ عِنْدَ نُزُولِهِ وَ يَعْرَقُ وَ إِذَا كَانَ رَاكِباً تَبْرُكُ رَاحِلَتُهُ وَ لَا تَسْتَطِيعُ الْمَشْيَ.[1]
🔆The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, said: “The one who knows the Qur’an will be told, ‘Recite and rise, and recite in measured tones, just as you used to recite in measured tones in this world. Your rank and station will be determined by the last verse you recite.’”
The revelation of verses to the Prophet (PBUH) weighed heavily upon him. His state would change, and perspiration would run down his blessed face. If he was riding, his mount would come to a halt, and he could not continue on his way.
🔅🌼The Qur’an: a miracle of beauty, and the cup of divine perfection, beauty and majesty🌼🔅
🌹The Qur’an possesses beauty—not merely one kind of beauty, but the adornment and culmination of all beauty. In the contest of beauty, it surpasses every beauty; it leads the way, and none can equal it.
🌹The Qur’an has its own greeting of peace: its greeting is the spirit and essence of every greeting. It is the complete interpretation and inner meaning of peace, and bears all its effects.
🌹Prayer has forms beyond compare; it displays the ultimate beauty of every phenomenon—the finest beauty of every creation of the Best of Creators.
🌹The Qur’an is God’s emissary, accompanying God’s creatures among them, and strengthening them; it is their spirit and life.
🌹What, truly, is the Qur’an—or who is it? How can we know the reality of the Qur’an?!
🌹Every good and noble soul can find its highest degree in the Qur’an! In beauty, it surpasses all that is beautiful.
🌹The Qur’an is a mirror reflecting the beauty of every phenomenon and reality.
🌹Let us behold in the Qur’an our ultimate perfection.
🌹Let us witness in the Qur’an the final form and fullest development of every phenomenon!
🌹Let us partake fully of the peace, blessings, supplication, smile, delight, savor, sweetness and companionship of the Qur’an!
🌹The Qur’an, which makes all things clear, is ever becoming new in its capacity to elucidate them, for the Creator is ever manifesting Himself in a new way. What, truly, lies beyond the elucidation of all things?
🌹The Qur’an surpasses the highest attainable degree of everything; it even goes beyond perfection! It outstrips life itself and its highest reaches.
🌹Imagine someone reaching beyond the very summit of perfection!
🔅🌼The Qur’an’s greatest manifestation on the Day of Resurrection🌼🔅
🌷🔆عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: يَا سَعْدُ تَعَلَّمُوا الْقُرْآنَ فَإِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ يَأْتِي يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فِي أَحْسَنِ صُورَةٍ نَظَرَ إِلَيْهَا الْخَلْقُ وَ النَّاسُ صُفُوفٌ عِشْرُونَ وَ مِائَةُ أَلْفِ صَفٍّ ثَمَانُونَ أَلْفَ صَفٍّ أُمَّةُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ أَرْبَعُونَ أَلْفَ صَفٍّ مِنْ سَائِرِ الْأُمَمِ فَيَأْتِي عَلَى صَفِّ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فِي صُورَةِ رَجُلٍ فَيُسَلِّمُ فَيَنْظُرُونَ إِلَيْهِ ثُمَّ يَقُولُونَ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ الْحَلِيمُ الْكَرِيمُ إِنَّ هَذَا الرَّجُلَ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ نَعْرِفُهُ بِنَعْتِهِ وَ صِفَتِهِ غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ أَشَدَّ اجْتِهَاداً مِنَّا فِي الْقُرْآنِ فَمِنْ هُنَاكَ أُعْطِيَ مِنَ الْبَهَاءِ وَ الْجَمَالِ وَ النُّورِ مَا لَمْ نُعْطَهُ ثُمَّ يُجَاوِزُ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ عَلَى صَفِّ الشُّهَدَاءِ فَيَنْظُرُونَ إِلَيْهِ الشُّهَدَاءُ ثُمَّ يَقُولُونَ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ الرَّبُّ الرَّحِيمُ إِنَّ هَذَا الرَّجُلَ مِنَ الشُّهَدَاءِ نَعْرِفُهُ بِسَمْتِهِ وَ صِفَتِهِ غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ مِنْ شُهَدَاءِ الْبَحْرِ فَمِنْ هُنَاكَ أُعْطِيَ مِنَ الْبَهَاءِ وَ الْفَضْلِ مَا لَمْ نُعْطَهُ قَالَ فَيَتَجَاوَزُ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ عَلَى صَفِّ شُهَدَاءِ الْبَحْرِ فِي صُورَةِ شَهِيدٍ فَيَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ شُهَدَاءُ الْبَحْرِ فَيَكْثُرُ تَعَجُّبُهُمْ وَ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّ هَذَا مِنْ شُهَدَاءِ الْبَحْرِ نَعْرِفُهُ بِسَمْتِهِ وَ صِفَتِهِ غَيْرَ أَنَّ الْجَزِيرَةَ الَّتِي أُصِيبَ فِيهَا كَانَتْ أَعْظَمَ هَوْلًا مِنَ الْجَزِيرَةِ الَّتِي أُصِبْنَا فِيهَا فَمِنْ هُنَاكَ أُعْطِيَ مِنَ الْبَهَاءِ وَ الْجَمَالِ وَ النُّورِ مَا لَمْ نُعْطَهُ ثُمَّ يُجَاوِزُ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ صَفَّ النَّبِيِّينَ وَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ فِي صُورَةِ نَبِيٍّ مُرْسَلٍ فَيَنْظُرُ النَّبِيُّونَ وَ الْمُرْسَلُونَ إِلَيْهِ فَيَشْتَدُّ لِذَلِكَ تَعَجُّبُهُمْ وَ يَقُولُونَ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ الْحَلِيمُ الْكَرِيمُ إِنَّ هَذَا النَّبِيَّ مُرْسَلٌ نَعْرِفُهُ بِسَمْتِهِ وَ صِفَتِهِ غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ أُعْطِيَ فَضْلًا كَثِيراً قَالَ فَيَجْتَمِعُونَ فَيَأْتُونَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَيَسْأَلُونَهُ وَ يَقُولُونَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ مَنْ هَذَا فَيَقُولُ لَهُمْ أَ وَ مَا تَعْرِفُونَهُ فَيَقُولُونَ مَا نَعْرِفُهُ هَذَا مِمَّنْ لَمْ يَغْضَبِ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ فَيَقُولُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص هَذَا حُجَّةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى خَلْقِهِ فَيُسَلِّمُ ثُمَّ يُجَاوِزُ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ عَلَى صَفِّ الْمَلَائِكَةِ فِي سُورَةِ مَلَكٍ مُقَرَّبٍ فَتَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ فَيَشْتَدُّ تَعَجُّبُهُمْ وَ يَكْبُرُ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ لِمَا رَأَوْا مِنْ فَضْلِهِ وَ يَقُولُونَ تَعَالَى رَبُّنَا وَ تَقَدَّسَ إِنَّ هَذَا الْعَبْدَ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ نَعْرِفُهُ بِسَمْتِهِ وَ صِفَتِهِ غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ أَقْرَبَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَقَاماً فَمِنْ هُنَاكَ أُلْبِسَ مِنَ النُّورِ وَ الْجَمَالِ مَا لَمْ نُلْبَسْ ثُمَّ يُجَاوِزُ حَتَّى يَنْتَهِيَ إِلَى رَبِّ الْعِزَّةِ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى فَيَخِرُّ تَحْتَ الْعَرْشِ فَيُنَادِيهِ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى يَا حُجَّتِي فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ كَلَامِيَ الصَّادِقَ النَّاطِقَ ارْفَعْ رَأْسَكَ وَ سَلْ تُعْطَ وَ اشْفَعْ تُشَفَّعْ فَيَرْفَعُ رَأْسَهُ فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى كَيْفَ رَأَيْتَ عِبَادِي فَيَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ صَانَنِي وَ حَافَظَ عَلَيَّ وَ لَمْ يُضَيِّعْ شَيْئاً وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ ضَيَّعَنِي وَ اسْتَخَفَّ بِحَقِّي وَ كَذَّبَ بِي وَ أَنَا حُجَّتُكَ عَلَى جَمِيعِ خَلْقِكَ فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى وَ عِزَّتِي وَ جَلَالِي وَ ارْتِفَاعِ مَكَانِي لَأُثِيبَنَّ عَلَيْكَ الْيَوْمَ أَحْسَنَ الثَّوَابِ وَ لَأُعَاقِبَنَّ عَلَيْكَ الْيَوْمَ أَلِيمَ الْعِقَابِ قَالَ فَيَرْجِعُ الْقُرْآنُ رَأْسَهُ فِي صُورَةٍ أُخْرَى قَالَ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ يَا أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ فِي أَيِّ صُورَةٍ يَرْجِعُ قَالَ فِي صُورَةِ رَجُلٍ شَاحِبٍ مُتَغَيِّرٍ يُبْصِرُهُ أَهْلُ الْجَمْعِ فَيَأْتِي الرَّجُلَ مِنْ شِيعَتِنَا الَّذِي كَانَ يَعْرِفُهُ وَ يُجَادِلُ بِهِ أَهْلَ الْخِلَافِ فَيَقُومُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ فَيَقُولُ مَا تَعْرِفُنِي فَيَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ الرَّجُلُ فَيَقُولُ مَا أَعْرِفُكَ يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ قَالَ فَيَرْجِعُ فِي صُورَتِهِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ فِي الْخَلْقِ الْأَوَّلِ وَ يَقُولُ مَا تَعْرِفُنِي فَيَقُولُ نَعَمْ فَيَقُولُ الْقُرْآنُ أَنَا الَّذِي أَسْهَرْتُ لَيْلَكَ وَ أَنْصَبْتُ عَيْشَكَ سَمِعْتَ الْأَذَى وَ رُجِمْتَ بِالْقَوْلِ فِيَّ أَلَا وَ إِنَّ كُلَّ تَاجِرٍ قَدِ اسْتَوْفَى تِجَارَتَهُ وَ أَنَا وَرَاءَكَ الْيَوْمَ قَالَ فَيَنْطَلِقُ بِهِ إِلَى رَبِّ الْعِزَّةِ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى فَيَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ يَا رَبِّ عَبْدُكَ وَ أَنْتَ أَعْلَمُ بِهِ قَدْ كَانَ نَصِباً فِيَ مُوَاظِباً عَلَيَّ يُعَادَى بِسَبَبِي وَ يُحِبُّ فِيَّ وَ يُبْغِضُ فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَدْخِلُوا عَبْدِي جَنَّتِي وَ اكْسُوهُ حُلَّةً مِنْ حُلَلِ الْجَنَّةَ وَ تَوِّجُوهُ بِتَاجٍ فَإِذَا فُعِلَ بِهِ ذَلِكَ عُرِضَ عَلَى الْقُرْآنِ فَيُقَالُ لَهُ هَلْ رَضِيتَ بِمَا صُنِعَ بِوَلِيِّكَ فَيَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ إِنِّي أَسْتَقِلُّ هَذَا لَهُ فَزِدْهُ مَزِيدَ الْخَيْرِ كُلِّهِ فَيَقُولُ وَ عِزَّتِي وَ جَلَالِي وَ عُلُوِّي وَ ارْتِفَاعِ مَكَانِي لَأَنْحَلَنَّ لَهُ الْيَوْمَ خَمْسَةَ أَشْيَاءَ مَعَ الْمَزِيدِ لَهُ وَ لِمَنْ كَانَ بِمَنْزِلَتِهِ أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ شَبَابٌ لَا يَهْرَمُونَ وَ أَصِحَّاءُ لَا يَسْقُمُونَ وَ أَغْنِيَاءُ لَا يَفْتَقِرُونَ وَ فَرِحُونَ لَا يَحْزَنُونَ وَ أَحْيَاءٌ لَا يَمُوتُونَ ثُمَّ تَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ لا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا الْمَوْتَ إِلَّا الْمَوْتَةَ الْأُولى قَالَ قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ يَا أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ وَ هَلْ يَتَكَلَّمُ الْقُرْآنُ فَتَبَسَّمَ ثُمَّ قَالَ رَحِمَ اللَّهُ الضُّعَفَاءَ مِنْ شِيعَتِنَا إِنَّهُمْ أَهْلُ تَسْلِيمٍ ثُمَّ قَالَ نَعَمْ يَا سَعْدُ وَ الصَّلَاةُ تَتَكَلَّمُ وَ لَهَا صُورَةٌ وَ خَلْقٌ تَأْمُرُ وَ تَنْهَى قَالَ سَعْدٌ فَتَغَيَّرَ لِذَلِكَ لَوْنِي وَ قُلْتُ هَذَا شَيْءٌ لَا أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنَا أَتَكَلَّمُ بِهِ فِي النَّاسِ فَقَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ وَ هَلِ النَّاسُ إِلَّا شِيعَتُنَا فَمَنْ لَمْ يَعْرِفِ الصَّلَاةَ فَقَدْ أَنْكَرَ حَقَّنَا ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا سَعْدُ أُسْمِعُكَ كَلَامَ الْقُرْآنِ قَالَ سَعْدٌ فَقُلْتُ بَلَى صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْكَ فَقَالَ إِنَّ الصَّلاةَ تَنْهى عَنِ الْفَحْشاءِ وَ الْمُنْكَرِ وَ لَذِكْرُ اللَّهِ أَكْبَرُ فَالنَّهْيُ كَلَامٌ وَ الْفَحْشَاءُ وَ الْمُنْكَرُ رِجَالٌ وَ نَحْنُ ذِكْرُ اللَّهِ وَ نَحْنُ أَكْبَرُ.[2]
🔆Saʿd al-Khaffāf (the shoemaker) narrates that Imam al-Baqir (AS) said: “O Saʿd, learn the Qur’an. On the Day of Resurrection, it will come to the gathering in the most beautiful form people have ever seen. The people will stand in one hundred and twenty rows: eighty rows will be the community of Muhammad (PBUH), and forty will be other communities. The Qur’an, in the form of a man, will pass by the rows of Muslims and greet them. They will look at him and say:
لا اله الَّا اللَّه الحليم الكريم
Truly, this man is one of the Muslims. We recognize him by the signs and qualities of a Muslim, except that he strove more than we did in the cause of the Qur’an. That is why he has been given greater radiance, beauty and light than we have.
“Then he will pass on until he reaches the row of martyrs. The martyrs will look at him and say:
لا اله الَّا اللَّه الربّ الرحيم
Truly, this man is one of the martyrs. We recognize him by his signs and qualities, except that he is one of the martyrs of the sea. That is why he has been given a radiance and distinction not given to us.”
He said: “Then he will pass on until he reaches the row of martyrs of the sea, in the form of one of their own. The martyrs of the sea will look at him in astonishment and say: ‘This is one of the martyrs of the sea. We recognize him by his signs and qualities, except that he was killed on an island more perilous than the island where we were killed. That is why he has been given greater radiance, beauty and light than we have.’
“Then he will pass on until he comes to the row of prophets and messengers, in the form of a prophet sent by God. The prophets and messengers will look at him, and their astonishment will grow. They will say:
لا اله الَّا اللَّه الحليم الكريم
Truly, this is a prophet sent by God. We recognize him by his signs and qualities, except that he has been granted great excellence.”
He said: “Then they will all gather and go to the Messenger of God (PBUH) and ask him about him. They will say, ‘O Muhammad, who is this?’ He will reply:
‘Do you not recognize him?’ They will say, ‘We do not recognize him. Who is this, whom God has not been angered with?’ The Messenger of God (PBUH) will say: ‘This is God’s proof over His creation.’
“He will then greet them and pass on until he reaches the row of angels, in the form of a close-ranking angel. The angels will look at him and marvel; what they see of his excellence will weigh heavily upon them. They will say, ‘Glory be to our Lord; He is exalted and holy. Surely this is one of the angels. We recognize him by the signs and qualities of an angel, except that he is the closest of the angels to God, Mighty and Majestic. That is why he bears a light and beauty that we do not have.’
“Then he will pass on until he comes before the Lord of Might, blessed and exalted is He, and prostrates beneath the Throne. God, blessed and exalted is He, will call to him: ‘O My proof on earth, O My truthful and eloquent word, raise your head; ask, and you shall be granted, and intercede, and your intercession shall be accepted.’ He will raise his head. Then God, blessed and exalted is He, will say: ‘How did you find My servants?’ He will answer:
‘Some protected and preserved me, and let none of me go to waste; others neglected me, belittled my due, and declared me false. I am Your proof over all Your creation.’
“Then God, blessed and exalted is He, will say: ‘By My might, My majesty and the loftiness of My station, today I shall grant you the finest reward and, for your sake, inflict the most painful punishment.’”
He said: “Then the Qur’an will turn its face into another form.”
The narrator said: “I asked, ‘O Abu Jaʿfar, into what form will it turn?’ He replied: ‘Into the form of a dishevelled, pale man, whom all the people at the gathering will see. A man from among our Shiʿa, who knows him and has argued with our opponents on his behalf, will come before him. The Qur’an will say, “Do you not recognize me?” The man will look at him and say, “I do not know you, servant of God.” The Qur’an will then return to its first form and ask the man, “Do you not recognize me?” He will reply, “Of course!” Then the Qur’an will say: “I am the one who kept you awake at night and burdened you in your struggle for sustenance. You were harmed and driven away because of me. Behold, every merchant has received his profit, and today I stand by you.”
“He said: ‘Then the Qur’an will bring him before the Lord of Might, blessed and exalted is He, and say: “My Lord, my Lord, this is Your servant, and You know him best. He laboured for my sake and remained devoted to me. Because of me, people made themselves his enemies, and for my sake he befriended some and opposed others.”’
Then God, Mighty and Majestic, will say, “Take this servant of Mine to Paradise. Clothe him in the garments of Paradise and place a crown upon his head.” When this has been done, he will be shown the Qur’an and asked, “Are you pleased with what has been done for your companion?” He will reply, “My Lord, I consider it too little. Grant him every further good.” God will say, “By My might and majesty, by the exaltedness and loftiness of My station, I swear: today I shall grant him and all who are his equals five further gifts. They will be young, never growing old; healthy, never falling ill; wealthy, never becoming poor; joyful, never sorrowing; and alive, never dying.” Then he recited this verse (Sūrat al-Dukhān, 56): “They will taste no death therein, save the first death.”
I said, “May I be your ransom, O Abā Jaʿfar, does the Qur’an speak?” He smiled and then said, “May God have mercy on our simple-hearted Shīʿa, for they are people of surrender and acceptance.” Then he said, “Yes, Saʿd, prayer too speaks. It has a form and a character that commands and forbids.” Saʿd said, “At this, I turned pale and said, ‘This is something I cannot tell people.’” Imām al-Bāqir (AS) said, “Are the people anyone other than our Shīʿa? Whoever does not know and understand prayer denies our right.” Then he said, “Saʿd, shall I let you hear the Qur’an speak?” I replied, “Yes, may God have mercy on you!” He said, “(Sūrat al-ʿAnkabūt, 45): ‘Indeed, prayer restrains one from indecency and wrongdoing, and surely the remembrance of God is greater.’ The prohibition is speech—what prayer says—and indecency and wrongdoing are men. We are the remembrance of God, and we are the greater.”[3]
🔅🌼 The Pole of the Qur’an and the Household: The Word of God 🌼🔅
🌹The Word of God has a Qur’anic form and a form embodied by the Household,
🔅🌼 The Qur’an and ʿAlī are eternally together 🌼🔅
🌷🔆 مِنْهُ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا قَالَتْ سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ص يَقُولُ عَلِيٌ مَعَ الْقُرْآنِ وَ الْقُرْآنُ مَعَهُ لَا يَفْتَرِقَا حَتَّى يَرِدَا عَلَيَّ الْحَوْض[4]
🔆Umm Salama was delighted to hear my words. She praised me and said, “I heard the Messenger of God say:
‘ʿAlī is with the Qur’an, and the Qur’an is with ʿAlī (AS). ʿAlī (AS) will never part from the Qur’an, nor the Qur’an from ʿAlī (AS), until they come to me at the Pool of Kawthar.’”
🔅🌼 ʿAlī, the Supreme Copy of the Qur’an 🌼🔅
🌹If the Qur’an and all the heavenly scriptures are copies of the Mother of the Book, and ʿAlī (AS) is the Mother of the Book, then the Qur’an and the heavenly scriptures are copies of ʿAlī, the Wali of God.
🌹Why should ʿAlī have to make himself small to be seen? Why do we not rise up so that we may behold his true beauty?!
🌹Why do we wrong ʿAlī and drag him down?!
🔅🌼 ʿAlī (AS) is the forsaken Qur’an 🌼🔅
🌻🔆Al-Furqān: 27 وَ يَوْمَ يَعَضُّ الظَّالِمُ عَلى يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يا لَيْتَنِي اتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ الرَّسُولِ سَبيلاً
🔆And (remember) the day when the wrongdoer will bite his hands, saying, “Would that I had taken a way to God with the Messenger.”
🌻🔆Al-Furqān: 28 Or وَيْلَتى لَيْتَني لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلاناً خَليلاً
🔆“Woe to me! Would that I had not taken so-and-so as a friend”—
🌻🔆Al-Furqān: 29 لَقَدْ أَضَلَّني عَنِ الذِّكْرِ بَعْدَ إِذْ جاءَني وَ كانَ الشَّيْطانُ لِلْإِنْسانِ خَذُولاً
🔆“He led me astray from the remembrance of God after it had come to me. Satan has always been a humiliating betrayer of humankind.”
🌻🔆Al-Furqān: 30 وَ قالَ الرَّسُولُ يا رَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِي اتَّخَذُوا هذَا الْقُرْآنَ مَهْجُوراً
🔆And the Messenger cried, “My Lord, my people have forsaken the Qur’an.”
🌷🔆قَوْلِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ): «فَأَنَا الذِّكْرُ الَّذِي عَنْهُ ضَلَّ، وَ السَّبِيلُ الَّذِي عَنْهُ مَالَ، وَ الْإِيمَانُ الَّذِي بِهِ كَفَرَ، وَ الْقُرْآنُ الَّذِي إِيَّاهُ هَجَرَ، وَ الدِّينُ الَّذِي بِهِ كَذَّبَ».[5]
🔆Imam Ali, Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him): “Indeed, I am the remembrance from which they strayed, the path from which they turned aside, the faith they disbelieved in, the Qur’an they abandoned, and the religion they denied.”
🔅🌼O You who cleave the heart open 🌼🔅
🌹 The Kaaba opened its breast to receive his blessed body; surely, the Inhabited House opened its heart to receive his blessed spirit; God’s mighty Throne offered its very being to receive his blessed light.
🌹 What share does our heart have in accepting love and allegiance?! O God, open my heart to my master, Ali.
🔅🌼The Shia of Ali is a blazing candle of divine unity 🌼🔅
🌹 The true lover and follower of Ali conquers the summit of divine unity; he is the champion and hero of sincerity in worshipping God alone.
🌹 Professed love can stand in the beloved’s way; it is worse for the beloved than arrows, spears, or deadly poison.
🌹 Those who claim to love will be tested in the crucible of trial. Love has its signs and bears its fruits.
🌹 What sign of love for Ali is there in us?!
🌹 What fragrance have you received from our master, the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him)? What hue, adornment, or knowledge have you taken from him?!
🌹 If you love Ali, then you possess the whole world, for Ali is “the reckoner of all things”; so there must be a trace of every thing within you.
🌼Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)🌼
🔅🌼A student’s perspective on “The Qur’an: The Pioneer of Beauty”🌼🔅
🌻🔆The Qur’an: The Pioneer of Beauty🔆🌻
🌼🔆🌼The Greatest Scripture: The Qur’an🌼🔆🌼
🔹 The nineteenth night of the blessed month of Ramadan, the Night of Decree
📅 Date: 1403/12/30 – 19 Ramadan 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:
### 🌙 The Night of Destiny, the Night of Transformation, the Night of Decree 🌙
✨ The Night of Decree is the night when the Greatest Reality reveals itself!
📜 “The Night of Decree is the night of His Eminence, the Mahdi, the Qā’im of the House of Muhammad (AJ)!”
🔹 Will a veil be lifted from that sublime reality in our hearts?
🔹 Will our hearts perceive his gentleness and generosity?
🔹 On this night, flowers and stars line up to catch a glimpse of his beauty.
🌟 The Night of Decree is the night of encountering Reality!
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🌙 Ramadan: a university of devotion and a nursery for God’s righteous servant!
📜 “The blessed month of Ramadan—the month of God, fasting and prayer—is the month of rising up, the month of turning toward God!”
🔹 This month is God’s banquet, but the banquet is only a pretext!
🔹 A tremendous reality lies hidden behind this feast!
🔹 Let us not become caught up in the outward form of this banquet and lose sight of its essence!
✨ The true faster does not confine the fast to the “minor realm” (the body); he brings his entire “greater realm” to God’s banquet!
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🌟 The night of liberation from ignorance, the night of reaching light and illumination!
🔹 Ignorance is a graveyard that buries the human being!
🔹 Nothing in this world is narrower than ignorance!
🔹 Associating partners with God is ignorance that has taken hold of the human soul!
✨ Until we attain exalted reason and knowledge, we are not truly engaged in worshipping God!
📜 “Tonight, let us open the record of every part of ourselves and examine it closely!”
💫 Ramadan is the month of rising—the month when the resurrection of the soul is set in motion!
### 📖 The Blessed Month of Ramadan, the Month of the Qur’an 📖
🌙 “The blessed month of Ramadan is the month in which the Qur’an was revealed!”
✨ A night on which the grandeur of the Qur’an is made manifest!
✨ A night on which the inner depths of the Qur’an are unveiled!
🔹 With each passing year, a new and wondrous face of the Qur’an appears to those with inward sight.
🔹 But not with just one eye—with inner vision!
🔹 Only those who have attained insight can behold the beauty of the Qur’an.
📜 “Unless our whole being becomes sight, we will not be able to behold the beauty of the Qur’an!”
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✨ We must become servants endowed with insight in order to grasp the beauty of the Qur’an!
✨ We must become servants of Allah, the All-Seeing, to know the words of the Qur’an!
📜 “The month of the Qur’an is the month in which the Qur’an was—and is—revealed!”
🔹 Each year, the Qur’an reveals its wonders!
🔹 Once again, it makes itself known to us!
🔹 With kindness, love, and tender grace, it calls us to itself and to its Lord!
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📖 “The Qur’an offers both particular and universal guidance!”
🔹 We must kiss its very words!
🔹 And be receptive to its allusions!
🔹 Let its subtleties make us subtle!
🔹 And through its truths, let us arrive at the Real!
✨ Let us emerge from darkness!
✨ Let us cleave through to the light and see beauty in its radiance!
📜 “هذا بیان للناس و هدى و موعظة للمتقین!”
🔹 It is a clear exposition for all people!
🔹 But for the people of God-consciousness, it is guidance and admonition!
🔹 It is the people’s inner sight—the eye through which we must see!
💫 “I must see through the Qur’an! Hear through the Qur’an! Understand through the Qur’an! Meet everything through the Qur’an! Take flight through the Qur’an!”
### 📖 The Qur’an: Criterion and Inner Sight 📖
🌟 “The Qur’an is the inner sight of the people!”
🔹 An eye for all people!
🔹 But for those of certain faith, it is guidance and mercy!
🔹 The Qur’an reveals its wonders only to those of certain faith!
📜 “Ordinary people are incapable of grasping these wonders!”
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⚖️ “The Qur’an is the Criterion!”
🔹 It separates truth from falsehood!
🔹 We have reached the heart of the Qur’an!
🔹 Every firm decree is about to be distinguished!
🔹 The secrets of existence are about to be revealed!
📜 “O God, let us attain the Furqan!”
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✨ “If the faithful are mindful of God, He will grant them a Furqan!”
🔹 Those mindful of God are equipped with the Furqan!
🔹 Those mindful of God are equipped with the Quran!
🔹 And then they discover the wonders of existence!
📖 “The Quran brings clarity! It dispels confusion!”
🌙 This blessed month is a month for renewing our covenant with the Quran!
🔹 The Quran is our hearing and our understanding!
🔹 It is our eyes and our guiding light!
🔹 It is our insight!
📜 “We must see through the word of God! Hear through it! Understand through it! Journey through it! Walk its path! Worship God! Learn God’s knowledge! Attain God’s love!”
📖 “This Quran is wise!”
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👐 “We must touch the Quran!”
🔹 Until we touch the Quran, we will not grasp its hidden truth!
🔹 We must purify ourselves to touch the Quran!
📜 “To touch the Quran is to become one with it!”
📜 “When I touch the Quran, I am no longer myself; I am nothing but the Quran!”
📖 “The Quran descended to raise us up!”
🔹 It came down to take us on the Ascension!
🔹 It did not come to stay; it came to carry us with it!”
📜 “Where to? To the very place from which it descended!”
### 📖 The Quran: Humanity’s Ascension 📖
📖 ✨ Such is the greatness of the Quran! Such is the station of those devoted to the Quran on the Day of Resurrection! Whoever lives by the Quran will find it take their hand on that Day and raise them to the highest درجات! ✨
### 📖 The Messenger of God’s (PBUH) Lament over the Quran’s Neglect, and the Station of the Commander of the Faithful (AS) 📖
📜 “On the Day of Judgment, a person will be told: ‘Recite, and rise!’”
📜 “Recite, and soar!”
📖 The Quran is the key to flight!
🔹 Just as you recited the Quran in measured tones in this world,
🔹 now, too, in the supreme gathering, recite the Quran and rise!
📜 “Your station will be at the last verse of the Quran you recited!”
📜 “Be the Quran’s companion in this world; never be parted from it, even for a moment!”
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🕌 “On the Day of Resurrection, the Quran will appear!”
🔹 Accompanied by a vast multitude, arranged in 120,000 rows!
🔹 80,000 rows from the community of Muhammad (PBUH)!
🔹 40,000 rows from the other communities!
📖 The Quran possesses beauty!
🔹 Not merely one kind of beauty, but all beauty!
🔹 Not just one loveliness, but every beauty gathered within it!
🔹 The Quran is beauty at its utmost!
🔹 The Quran is beauty in its perfection!
📜 “If anyone tries to outshine the Qur’an in beauty, the Qur’an will surpass them!”
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✨ “The Qur’an even offers greetings!”
🔹 By God, the Qur’an greets us!
🔹 By God, the Qur’an invokes blessings upon us!
🔹 By God, this Qur’an that we have neglected smiles at us!
🔹 It calls us to itself!
📖 “The Qur’an tells us of the beauties of its Lord!”
📜 “If only we could hear its greeting and return it!”
📜 “When we open the Qur’an, let us greet it!”
📜 “Let us return its greeting and respond to its blessings with blessings of our own!”
🔅 “The Qur’an is a lamp for the way—a path to the heights of knowledge and flight without end!” 🔅
### 📖 The Qur’an: A Matchless Reality 📖
✨ “The Qur’an has forms!”
🔹 Forms that are difficult for us to comprehend!
🔹 If we look at a flower, we find its ultimate and perfect beauty in the Qur’an!
🔹 Where is that flower’s ultimate beauty? What form does it take?
📜 “Only in the cup of the Qur’an can we behold that face!”
📖 The Qur’an is the culmination of every reality!
🔹 Every phenomenon in this world holds its beauty and perfection in the heart of the Qur’an!
🔹 Whatever you seek is found in this divine Book!
🔹 The Qur’an accompanies every created being and speaks to every creature!
🔹 If I wish to know myself, I am there in the heart of the Qur’an!
📜 “For the Qur’an is تبیان کل شیء!”
📜 “My seed, my branches, my future and my destiny—all are held in the heart of this Book!”
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📖 The Qur’an is the summit of all things!
🔹 It is greeting, blessing, joy and goodness!
🔹 It is everything; it is the whole of reality!
🔹 The Qur’an has no rival—by God, none!
🔹 The Qur’an is unparalleled!
📜 “It has surpassed every measure of excellence; it leads the way, and it will do so forever!”
📖 We must know the Qur’an!
🔹 We must attain knowledge of it!
🔹 If we come to know the Qur’an, we will have reached the highest degree of communion with the Worshipped One!
📜 “The culmination of every reality is this Qur’an!”
📜 “On the Day of Resurrection, the Qur’an will enter the ranks of 120,000 people!”
📜 “80,000 from the community of Muhammad (PBUH), and 40,000 from other communities!”
📖 The Qur’an will appear in the form of a Muslim!
🔹 It will take its place among the ranks of true Muslims!
🔹 It will offer a greeting, and everyone will look on!
🔹 Everyone will say: “لَا إِلهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ الْحَلِیمُ الْکَرِیمُ!”
🔅 “The Qur’an is an boundless ocean of reality: a Book without end, and a path to the light!” 🔅
### 📖 The Qur’an Among the Ranks of the Believers, Martyrs and Prophets 📖
✨ “Wonder and amazement at the Qur’an’s beauty!”
🔹 When the Qur’an joins the ranks of the Muslims, they all gaze in wonder and say:
📜 “This is a Muslim! But how beautiful! More beautiful than any Muslim we have ever seen!”
🔹 It is as though he strove harder than others in worship and servitude!
🔹 It is as though God has bestowed on him a special gift given to no one else!
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✨ “The Qur’an among the ranks of the martyrs!”
🔹 The Qur’an reaches the ranks of the martyrs, and its face takes on the appearance of a martyr!
🔹 The martyrs gaze at it and say:
📜 “This man is one of the martyrs. We know him!”
🔹 Yet how wondrous—it bears such honor and grace as none of the martyrs possesses!
🔹 It is as though he was martyred in a place of such distinction that no one else has been granted the blessing of martyrdom there!
📜 “The Qur’an enters the ranks of the foremost martyrs!”
🔹 The martyrs exclaim in amazement:
📜 “This is the face of one of the foremost martyrs—but how wondrous! Its beauty and light are boundless!”
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✨ “The Qur’an among the ranks of the Prophets and Messengers!”
🔹 When the Qur’an joins the ranks of God’s Prophets and Messengers, they all look on in astonishment!
🔹 The Prophets say:
📜 “This is a Messenger sent by God! We know him by his signs and attributes!”
🔹 Yet he has such abundant grace as none of God’s Messengers possesses!
📜 “Then it goes to the Messenger of God, the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)!”
🌧 Rain falls…
🔹 What does it bring?
🔹 The fragrance of flowers, freshness, honey and sweet nectar!
🔹 Fruits of every hue stretch up toward the sky!
📖 The Qur’an is like that, too!
🔹 It was sent down so that we might rise!
🔹 So that we might take flight!
🔹 So that we might leave the earth behind!
🔹 So that we might draw away from the dust!
✨ “The Qur’an among the ranks of the angels brought near to God!”
🔹 Having passed through the ranks of the Muslims, martyrs and Prophets, the Qur’an reaches the ranks of the angels brought near to God!
🔹 The angels look upon it, astonished!
🔹 They say:
📜 “Exalted and holy is our Lord! This is a servant from among the angels brought near to Him!”
🔹 “Yet he is so clothed in light and beauty that we do not see such a garment of light even upon ourselves!”
🔹 They stand stunned and spellbound until the Qur’an passes by and reaches the Divine Presence!
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✨ “The Qur’an prostrates before God!”
🔹 The Qur’an prostrates beneath God’s Throne!
🔹 If only we could understand how the Qur’an, in its prostration and bowing, gives itself over to love!
🔹 God, Blessed and Exalted, addresses it, saying:
📜 “O My proof! My truthful, speaking word! Ask, and I will grant you what you ask. Intercede, and I will accept your intercession!”
🔹 The Quran raises its head and says…
📜 “My Lord! How did You find Your servants?”
🔹 And the Quran replies:
📜 “My Lord! Among them were people who preserved me and let nothing of me be lost!”
📜 “But among them were also those who neglected me, belittled my due, and denied me!”
📜 “Yet I was Your proof among Your creation!”
🔹 And God, Blessed and Exalted, declares:
📜 “By My might and majesty! By the loftiness of My station! For your sake, I shall grant a reward beyond compare; and for your sake, I shall inflict a punishment without equal!”
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✨ “The Quran in the guise of a dishevelled, pale-faced man!”
🔹 The narrator asks Imam al-Baqir (AS):
📜 “What form will it take?”
🔹 The Imam replies:
📜 “The form of a dishevelled, pale-faced man!”
🔹 This dishevelled man, in whose guise the Quran appears, is none other than a true Shi‘a—the one the Quran recognises!
📖 ✨ The Quran intercedes for the faithful, is God’s proof before creation, and is a light of guidance in this world and the next!✨
### 📖 The Quran’s appearance at the scene of Resurrection and its intercession for the faithful 📖
✨ “The Quran intercedes before God on behalf of a particular servant!”
🔹 After passing through the ranks of Muslims, martyrs, prophets, and angels, the Quran takes the form of a dishevelled, pale-faced man!
🔹 He goes to a man who, in this world, was devoted to the Quran and says to him:
📜 “Who are you? I cannot recognise you!”
🔹 Then the Quran returns to its original form and says:
📜 “Do you recognise me?”
🔹 The servant of God replies:
📜 “Yes, I recognise you!”
🔹 And the Quran says:
📜 “I am the Quran that kept you awake at night! I took sleep from you! I made your life a hardship! You suffered for my sake and were driven out from among your people! But now the time has come for every trader to receive the full return on his investment! I am behind you; I am your support!”
🔹 Then the Quran brings that servant of God before the Lord of Might and says:
📜 “My Lord! This is Your servant! You know him better than I do. He suffered for my sake! He was opposed for my sake! For my sake, he befriended and opposed others!”
🔹 And God, Blessed and Exalted, addresses him:
📜 “My servant! Enter My Paradise!”
🔹 He is clothed in the garments of Paradise, and a crown of honour is placed upon his head!
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✨ “God’s incomparable reward for the people of the Quran!”
🔹 After this divine favour, God addresses the Quran:
📜 “Are you satisfied with the goodness I have shown your companion?”
🔹 And the Quran replies:
📜 “I consider it little, and expect more than this! My Lord, increase the abundance of good for him!”
🔹 Then God says:
📜 “By My might and majesty! By the loftiness of My rank! I shall grant him five matchless blessings, a station granted to no one else!”
1️⃣ Youth that never grows old!
2️⃣ Health that never gives way to illness!
3️⃣ Wealth that is never touched by poverty!
4️⃣ Joy that is never overcome by sorrow!
5️⃣ Life that is never overtaken by death!
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✨ “Does the Qur’an speak? Does the Qur’an smile?”
🔹 The narrator asks Imam al-Baqir (AS):
📜 “Does the Qur’an speak? Does the Qur’an smile?”
🔹 The Imam replies:
📜 “May God have mercy on our weaker followers! They are people of submission!”
🔹 Then he continues:
📜 “Yes, the Qur’an speaks! Yes, the Qur’an smiles! Yes, the Qur’an has a face! It commands and forbids!”
🔹 The narrator’s expression changed, and he said:
📜 “I have heard something I cannot speak of in the presence of this gathering!”
🔹 The Imam (AS) said:
📜 “Is there anyone in this gathering besides our followers?!”
📖 ✨ The Qur’an, the bride of God’s speech, bears a truth whose beauty and light leave even the prophets and martyrs in awe!✨
### 📖 The Qur’an before God, and its intercession for His servants 📖
🔹 On the Day of Resurrection, the Messenger of God (PBUH) will complain to his Lord about his people:
📜 “My Lord! My people have abandoned this Qur’an!”
✨ “The wrongdoer’s regret on the Day of Resurrection!”
🔹 That day, when the wrongdoer bites both hands in anguish, he will cry out:
📜 “If only I had followed the path the Messenger took!”
📜 “Woe is me! If only I had not taken so-and-so as a friend!”
📜 “He led me away from the remembrance of God after it had come to me!”
📜 “Satan always abandons the human being, leaving him alone and without help!”
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✨ “The inner meaning of these verses, as spoken by the Commander of the Faithful (AS)!”
🔹 The Commander of the Faithful (AS) spoke of the injustice he had suffered:
📜 “I am that very remembrance of God from which people strayed!”
📜 “I am that very path from which they turned aside!”
📜 “I am that very faith which they rejected!”
📜 “I am that very Qur’an from which they departed and which they abandoned!”
📜 “I am that very religion which they denied!”
🔹 And this is the truth expressed by the Prophet (PBUH):
📜 “Ali is with the Qur’an, and the Qur’an is with Ali!”
🔹 O people! Do you know what rank Ali holds before God?!
📜 “The written Quran is a copy of the Mother of the Book, and the Commander of the Faithful, Ali (AS), is himself the Mother of the Book!”
🔹 How, then, can we grasp Ali’s greatness?!
📜 “Ali is the Quranic reality from which every copy of the Torah, the Gospel, the Psalms, and the Quran has sprung!”
🔹 When, then, will Ali’s beauty be revealed to us?!
🔹 How long must Ali (AS) make himself small so that we can understand him?!
🔹 Instead of rising to his level, we bring Ali down to ours so that we can understand him—and this is the injustice we have done to Ali (AS)!
🔹 How vast is this mighty sign of God, that we should imagine we could comprehend it?!
📜 “The Kaaba split open its breast to receive the blessed body of Ali (AS), but could the Frequented House and the Divine Throne contain Ali’s greatness?!”
📖 ✨ اللهم صل علی محمد و آل محمد و عجل فرجهم ✨
### 📖 True Love for Ali (AS) and the Consequences of His Martyrdom 📖
✨ “Who truly loves Ali (AS)?”
🔹 The true lover and follower of the Commander of the Faithful (AS) has scaled the summit of divine unity!
🔹 His follower is a champion of sincerity in affirming God’s oneness!
🔹 Superficial, professed love is the greatest obstacle on the path to the Beloved!
🔹 Love devoid of understanding is like a deadly poison that torments the Beloved!
🔹 Everyone who claims to love is put to the test; only those who emerge triumphant are true lovers!
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✨ “The follower of Ali is a true monotheist!”
🔹 If we truly love Ali (AS), we must turn the cup of our being into a mirror reflecting Ali’s light!
🔹 A lover of Ali (AS) must be a true monotheist—or else his claim is false!
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✨ “The foretelling of the Commander of the Faithful’s martyrdom (AS)!”
🔹 After the Battle of Nahrawan, the Commander of the Faithful (AS) entered the mosque, prayed two units, and mounted the pulpit. Then he turned to Imam Hasan (AS) and asked:
📜 “Abu Muhammad, how many days of the blessed month of Ramadan have passed?”
🔹 Imam Hasan (AS) replied:
📜 “Thirteen days, Commander of the Faithful!”
🔹 Then he addressed Imam Husayn (AS):
📜 “Abu Abdillah, how many days remain in this month?”
🔹 Imam Husayn (AS) replied:
📜 “Seventeen days, Commander of the Faithful!”
🔹 At that moment, our master Ali (AS) passed his blessed hand over his beard and said:
📜 “Today this beard is white, but soon it will be dyed with blood by the hand of the most wretched of men!”
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✨ “The depth of the calamity that befell the world!”
🔹 Then the Commander of the Faithful (AS) said:
📜 “Every drop of blood shed until the Day of Resurrection, every ill-gotten wealth consumed, every vile deed and sin committed, and every unjust ruling issued—those two will share in it all, without diminishing the perpetrator’s share of the sin!”
🔹 What an injustice was unleashed upon the world! What a calamity befell all of existence!
📜 “اللهم العن اول ظالم ظلم حق محمد و آل محمد و آخر تابع له علی ذلک”
📖 ✨ O Ali! Your martyrdom is history’s everlasting wound! ✨
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