The Qur’an: The Foremost of Beauty

🌼🔆🌼The Supreme Version of the Quran🌼🔆🌼
🔹 The nineteenth night of the blessed month of Ramadan, Laylat al-Qadr
📅 Date: 1403/12/30 – 19 Ramadan 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the themes discussed in the session:

🌙 The night of destiny, the night of transformation, the night of Laylat al-Qadr 🌙

✨ Laylat al-Qadr is the night when the Supreme Reality reveals itself!
📜 “Laylat al-Qadr is the night of His Eminence, the Mahdi, the Qa’im of the Family of Muhammad (AJ)!”

🔹 Will a veil be lifted from that exalted Reality within our hearts?
🔹 Will our hearts grasp His tenderness and generosity?
🔹 On this night, flowers and stars line up to catch a glimpse of His beauty.

🌟 Laylat al-Qadr is the night of beholding Reality!

🌙 Ramadan: the university of servitude and the nursery of God’s righteous servant!

📜 “The blessed month of Ramadan is the month of God, the month of fasting, the month of standing in prayer—the month of rising up and turning toward God!”

🔹 This month is God’s banquet, but the banquet is only a pretext!
🔹 Behind this gathering lies a tremendous Reality!
🔹 Let us not become caught up in the outward trappings of this feast and lose sight of what lies at its heart!

✨ The true faster does not fast only with the “lesser self” (the body); he takes his “greater world” to God’s banquet!

🌟 The night of release from ignorance, the night of reaching light and illumination!

🔹 Ignorance is the very graveyard that buries a person!
🔹 Nothing in this world is more constricting than ignorance!
🔹 Associating partners with God is ignorance that takes hold of a person’s soul!

✨ Until we attain lofty reason and knowledge, we are not truly engaged in worshipping God!
📜 “On this night, let us open the record of every one of our faculties and limbs and examine them!”

💫 Ramadan is the month of rising—the month of establishing the resurrection of the self!

📖 The blessed month of Ramadan, the month of the Quran 📖

🌙 “The blessed month of Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was revealed!”
✨ The night when the Quran’s grandeur is made manifest!
✨ The night when the Quran’s inner depths are revealed!

🔹 With each passing year, a fresh and wondrous face of the Quran opens before the discerning eye.
🔹 But not with just one eye—with inner sight!
🔹 Only those who have attained insight can behold the beauty of the Quran.

📜 “Unless our whole being becomes sight, we will not be able to behold the beauty of the Quran!”

✨ We must become servants endowed with sight to grasp the beauty of the Quran!
✨ We must become servants of Allah, the All-Seeing, to know the words of the Quran!

📜 “The month of the Quran is the month in which the Quran was, and continues to be, revealed!”
🔹 Each year, the Quran sends down its wonders!
🔹 Once again, it makes itself known to us!
🔹 Out of kindness, love and tender grace, it calls us toward itself and its bearer!

📖 “The Quran offers both particular guidance and universal guidance!”
🔹 We must kiss its words!
🔹 We must also welcome its allusions!
🔹 Let its subtleties refine us!
🔹 And through its truths, let us arrive at Reality!

✨ Let us emerge from darkness!
✨ Let us pierce the light and behold beauty within it!

📜 “هذا بیان للناس و هدى و موعظة للمتقین!”
🔹 It is an illumination for all people!
🔹 But for the people of God-consciousness, it is guidance and admonition!
🔹 It is the inner sight of humanity—the eye through which we must see!

💫 “I must see through the Quran! Hear through the Quran! Understand through the Quran! Meet everything through the Quran! Take flight through the Quran!”

📖 The Qur’an: Criterion and Insight 📖

🌟 “The Qur’an is insight for all people!”
🔹 An eye for everyone!
🔹 But for those of sure faith, it is guidance and mercy!
🔹 The Qur’an reveals its wonders only to those of sure faith!

📜 “Ordinary people are incapable of grasping these wonders!”

⚖️ “The Qur’an is the Criterion!”
🔹 It distinguishes truth from falsehood!
🔹 We have reached the heart of the Qur’an!
🔹 Every matter is to be clearly distinguished!
🔹 The mysteries of existence are to be unveiled!

📜 “O God, bring us to Your Criterion!”

✨ “If people of faith are mindful of God, He will grant them a criterion!”
🔹 The Godfearing are equipped with the Criterion!
🔹 The Godfearing are equipped with the Qur’an!
🔹 And then they come to know the wonders of existence!

📖 “The Qur’an brings clarity! It dispels confusion!”

🌙 This blessed month is a time to renew our covenant with the Qur’an!
🔹 The Qur’an is our ears and our understanding!
🔹 It is our eyes and our guiding light!
🔹 It is our insight!

📜 “We must see through God’s word! Hear! Understand! Journey! Walk the spiritual path! Worship God! Learn God’s knowledge! Attain love of God!”

📖 “This Qur’an is wise!”

👐 “We must touch the Qur’an!”
🔹 Until we touch the Qur’an, we will not grasp its hidden truth!
🔹 We must purify ourselves before we can touch the Qur’an!

📜 “To touch the Qur’an is to become one with it!”
📜 “When I touch the Qur’an, I am no longer myself; I am nothing but the Qur’an!”

📖 “The Qur’an descended to raise us up!”
🔹 It came down to take us on an ascent!
🔹 It did not come to stay; it came to carry us with it!”

📜 “Where to? To the very place from which it descended!”

📖 The Qur’an: Humanity’s Ascent 📖

🌧 Rain falls…
🔹 What does it bring?
🔹 The fragrance of flowers, freshness, nectar and sweetness!
🔹 Brightly colored fruits reach toward the sky!

📖 The Qur’an is like that, too!
🔹 It descended so that we might rise!
🔹 Take flight!
🔹 Break free from the earth!
🔹 Rise above the dust!

✨ “The Qur’an among the ranks of the angels brought near to God!”
🔹 After passing through the ranks of Muslims, martyrs, and prophets, the Qur’an reaches the ranks of the angels brought near to God!
🔹 The angels gaze at it in astonishment!
🔹 They say:
📜 “Glory and holiness be to our Lord! This is a servant among the angels brought near to God!”
🔹 “Yet it is so clothed in light and beauty that we see no such raiment of light in ourselves!”
🔹 They stand astonished and transfixed until the Qur’an passes by and reaches the presence of God!

✨ “The Qur’an prostrates before God!”
🔹 The Qur’an falls prostrate beneath God’s Throne!
🔹 If only we understood how the Qur’an pours its love into its prostration and bowing!
🔹 God, Blessed and Exalted, addresses it:
📜 “O My proof! My truthful, speaking word! Ask, and it shall be given to you! Intercede, and I shall accept your intercession!”
🔹 The Qur’an lifts its head and says…

📜 “My Lord, how did You find Your servants?”
🔹 And the Qur’an 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 the truth, and denied me!”

📜 “Though I was Your proof among Your creation!”

🔹 And God, Blessed and Exalted, says:
📜 “By My might and majesty! By the loftiness of My station! For your sake, I shall grant a reward beyond which none is greater; and for your sake, I shall inflict a punishment unlike any other!”

✨ “The Qur’an in the form of a dishevelled, pale-faced man!”
🔹 A narrator asks Imam al-Baqir (AS):
📜 “What form will it take?”
🔹 The Imam replies:
📜 “The form of a dishevelled, pale-faced man!”
🔹 And this dishevelled man, in whose form the Qur’an appears, is none other than a true Shi‘a—one whom the Qur’an recognises!

📖 ✨ The Qur’an is an intercessor for the faithful, God’s proof before His creation, and a guiding light in this world and the next!✨

📖 The Qur’an’s appearance on the Day of Resurrection and its intercession for the faithful 📖

✨ “The Qur’an intercedes before God on behalf of a particular servant!”
🔹 After passing through the ranks of Muslims, martyrs, prophets and angels, the Qur’an takes the form of a dishevelled, pale-faced man!
🔹 He approaches a man who was devoted to the Qur’an in this world and says to him:
📜 “Who are you? I cannot recognise you!”
🔹 Then the Qur’an returns to its original form and says:
📜 “Do you know me?”
🔹 The servant of God replies:
📜 “Yes, I know you!”
🔹 And the Qur’an says:
📜 “I am the Qur’an 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 merchant to receive the full return on his trade! I am behind you; I am your support!”

🔹 Then the Qur’an 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 endured hardship for my sake; he was opposed for my sake; for my sake, he befriended some and took others as enemies!”

🔹 And God, Blessed and Exalted, addresses him, saying:
📜 “My servant, enter My Paradise!”

🔹 He is clothed in the garments of Paradise, and a crown of honour is placed upon his head!

✨ “God’s matchless reward for the people of the Qur’an!”
🔹 After this divine bestowal, God addresses the Qur’an, saying:
📜 “Does this kindness I have shown your companion satisfy you?”

🔹 The Qur’an replies:
📜 “I consider it too little; I expect more! My Lord, increase for him the abundance of Your goodness!”

🔹 Then God says:
📜 “By My might and majesty! By the exaltedness of My station! I shall grant him five matchless blessings, a rank shared by 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 overtaken by sorrow!
5️⃣ Life that is never claimed by death!

✨ “Does the Qur’an speak? Does the Qur’an smile?”
🔹 A 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 weak Shi‘a, for 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 the crowd!”
🔹 The Imam (AS) said:
📜 “Is there anyone among this crowd besides our Shi‘a?!”

📖 ✨ Such is the greatness of the Qur’an! Such is the station of its people on the Day of Resurrection! Whoever lives by the Qur’an will find it take them by the hand on that Day and raise them to the highest ranks! ✨

📖 The Messenger of God’s (PBUH) complaint that the Qur’an has been neglected, and the rank of the Commander of the Faithful 📖

📜 “On the Day of Judgement, a person will be told: ‘Recite, and rise!’”
📜 “Recite, and soar!”

📖 The Qur’an is the key to flight!
🔹 Just as you recited the Qur’an with measured recitation in this world,
🔹 so too, now, in the highest assembly, recite the Qur’an and rise!

📜 “Your station will be at the last verse of the Qur’an you recited!”
📜 “Keep the Qur’an as your companion in this world; never be separated from it, not even for a moment!”

🕌 “On the Day of Resurrection, the Qur’an will come forth!”
🔹 With an immense multitude, standing in 120,000 rows!
🔹 80,000 rows from the community of Muhammad (PBUH)!
🔹 40,000 rows from other communities!

📖 The Qur’an has a beauty of its own!
🔹 Not merely one kind of beauty, but every kind!
🔹 Not just one beauty, but all beauties are gathered within it!
🔹 The Qur’an is the ultimate in beauty!
🔹 The Qur’an is beauty perfected!

📜 “If anyone were to vie with the Qur’an in beauty, the Qur’an would surpass them!”

✨ “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, which we have left forsaken, 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 answer 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 into the infinite!” 🔅

📖 The Qur’an: the peerless 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 most 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 that countenance be seen!”

📖 The Qur’an is the ultimate end of every reality!
🔹 Every phenomenon in this world holds its beauty and ultimate end within the heart of the Qur’an!
🔹 Whatever you seek, it is found in this divine Book!
🔹 The Qur’an accompanies every creature and speaks to every created being!
🔹 If I wish to know myself, I am there in the heart of the Qur’an!

📜 “For the Qur’an is an exposition of all things!”
📜 “My seed, my branches and leaves, my future and my destiny—all are held in the heart of this Book!”

📖 The Qur’an is the summit of all things!
🔹 It is greeting, blessing, delight and goodness!
🔹 It is everything; it is all reality!
🔹 The Qur’an has no rival—by God, none!
🔹 The Qur’an is without equal!

📜 “It has surpassed every measure, leads the way, and will do so for all eternity!”

📖 We must know the Qur’an!
🔹 We must attain true knowledge of it!
🔹 If we attain true knowledge of the Qur’an, we will have reached the highest degree of connection with the Beloved!

📜 “The Qur’an is the ultimate end of every reality!”
📜 “On the Day of Resurrection, the Qur’an will enter among 120,000 people standing in rows!”
📜 “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 the true Muslims!
🔹 It will greet them, and everyone will look on!
🔹 Everyone will say: “لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ الْحَلِیمُ الْکَرِیمُ!”

🔅 “The Qur’an is an ocean of truth without shores: a Book without end, and a path leading to the light!” 🔅

📖 The Qur’an among the ranks of the faithful, martyrs and prophets 📖

✨ “Wonder and amazement at the beauty of the Qur’an!”
🔹 When the Qur’an takes its place among the ranks of the Muslims, everyone says in astonishment:
📜 “This is a Muslim! But how beautiful! More beautiful than any Muslim we have ever seen!”
🔹 It is as though he has striven harder than anyone in the way of worship and servitude!
🔹 It is as though God has bestowed upon him a special gift unlike any given to anyone else!

✨ “The Qur’an among the ranks of the martyrs!”
🔹 The Qur’an reaches the ranks of the martyrs and appears in the form of one of them!
🔹 The martyrs look upon it and say:
📜 “This man is one of the martyrs; we know him!”
🔹 Yet it is astonishing, for he has such distinction and merit as none of the martyrs possesses!
🔹 It is as though he attained martyrdom in a special station where no one else has been granted the honor of martyrdom!

📜 “The Qur’an joins the ranks of the foremost martyrs!”
🔹 The martyrs look on in astonishment and say:
📜 “This is the form of one of the foremost martyrs—but how wondrous! Its beauty and light are beyond measure!”

✨ “The Qur’an joins the ranks of the prophets and messengers!”
🔹 When the Qur’an enters the ranks of God’s prophets and messengers, they all gaze at it in wonder!
🔹 The prophets say:
📜 “This is a messenger sent by God! We know him by his signs and attributes!”
🔹 Yet he possesses such an abundance of grace as none of God’s messengers possesses!

📜 “Then it goes to the Messenger of God, the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)!”

📖 ✨ 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 in God’s Presence 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 and left it neglected!”

✨ “The wrongdoer’s remorse on the Day of Resurrection!”
🔹 When the wrongdoer bites both hands in anguish that day, he cries out:
📜 “If only I had followed the path taken by the Messenger!”
📜 “Woe is me! If only I had not taken so-and-so as a friend!”
📜 “He turned me away from the remembrance of God after it had come to me!”
📜 “Satan has always been a betrayer of humanity, abandoning people and leaving them without support!”

✨ “The inner meaning of these verses, in the words of the Commander of the Faithful (AS)!”
🔹 On the night of the nineteenth of Ramadan, in his final moments of suffering, the Commander of the Faithful (AS) said:
📜 “I am that very remembrance of God from which people have gone astray!”
📜 “I am that very path from which they turned away!”
📜 “I am that very faith which they rejected!”
📜 “I am that very Qur’an from which they departed and which they left neglected!”
📜 “I am that very religion which they denied!”

🔹 And this is the truth the Prophet declared:
📜 “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 Qur’an is a copy of the Mother of the Book, while the Commander of the Faithful, Ali (AS), is himself the Mother of the Book!”

🔹 How, then, can we grasp Ali’s greatness?!
📜 “Ali is that very Qur’anic reality from which all the copies of the Torah, the Gospel, the Psalms, and the Qur’an have issued!”

🔹 When will Ali’s beauty be revealed to us?!
🔹 How long must Ali (AS) humble himself so that we can understand him?!

🔹 Instead of rising to meet him, we bring Ali (AS) down to our level so that we can understand him—and this is an injustice we have done to Ali (AS)!
🔹 How vast is this mighty sign of God that we could ever hope to comprehend it?!

📜 “The Ka‘bah opened its breast to receive Ali’s blessed body—but could even 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 is a true lover of Ali (AS)?!”
🔹 A true lover and follower of the Commander of the Faithful (AS) has scaled the summit of divine oneness!
🔹 His follower is a champion of sincerity in affirming God’s oneness!
🔹 Shallow, merely professed affections are the greatest obstacle on the way to the Beloved!
🔹 Such love, devoid of true understanding, is like a deadly poison that causes the Beloved to suffer!
🔹 Everyone who claims to love is put to the test; only those who emerge from it with honour are true lovers!

✨ “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; otherwise, their claim is false!

✨ “The Foretelling of the Commander of the Faithful’s (AS) Martyrdom!”
🔹 After the Battle of Nahrawan, the Commander of the Faithful (AS) entered the mosque, prayed two rak‘ahs, and ascended the pulpit. Then, turning to Imam Hasan (AS), he asked:
📜 “Abu Muhammad, how many days of the blessed month of Ramadan have passed?”
🔹 Imam Hasan (AS) replied:
📜 “Thirteen days, O Commander of the Faithful!”

🔹 Then he addressed Imam Husayn (AS):
📜 “Abu Abdullah, how many days remain in this month?”
🔹 Imam Husayn (AS) replied:
📜 “Seventeen days, O 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, at the hands of the most wretched of men!”

✨ “The depth of the calamity that befell the world!”
🔹 The Commander of the Faithful (AS) then said:
📜 “Every drop of blood shed until the Day of Resurrection, every unlawful gain consumed, every shameful deed and sin committed, and every unjust ruling issued—all of it is shared by those two, without the original perpetrator’s share of the sin being diminished in the least!”

🔹 What injustice was unleashed upon the world! What a calamity befell all existence!

📜 “O Allah, curse the first wrongdoer who usurped the rights of Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, and the last of those who followed him in that.”

📖 ✨ O Ali! Your martyrdom is history’s everlasting wound! ✨

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