The Refining Power of Supplication 8 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya

🌼🔆🌼“A Journey into Supplication 8 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya” — “The Airport of Noble Virtues”🌼🔆🌼

🔅🌹 “A Mirror for Self-Knowledge”  “Seeing the Inner Realities of Existence”  An outline with an addendum: “Adornment after Purification” « »  “The connection between Supplication 8 and Supplication 20 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya” and more…       1402.10.14    Ali Saei (Abdollah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌼In the clinic of Supplication 8 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya🌼🔅

🌹Supplication 20 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya is a pulpit raised above the seventh heaven—a class with a carpet at one end that stretches all the way to the Throne.

🌹To strengthen the resolve and spiritual stamina needed for the journey of servitude, we must, every so often, descend from the vast depths of Supplication 20 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya into the depths of Supplication 8.

🌹Without escaping vices, it is impossible to attain noble virtues.

🌹A physician always has the patient’s well-being in mind. Supplication 8 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya is a remedy we must never neglect, day or night.   

🌹To deck oneself out while still stained is sheer ignorance: first purify, then adorn. To adorn what is stained is an affront to beauty.

🌹How often the human heart becomes a lodging place for Satan, without our even realizing it. The soul’s and Satan’s winter sleep must not lull us into forgetting this dangerous enemy.

🌹Until we are certain that our lives are secure, we must not consider ourselves safe.

🌹The human being is the only creature that turns its own blood against itself. The ignorant person is forever wounding and burning himself. 🌹Human beings are their own killers: they themselves slay their noble virtues, merits, hearts, souls, ranks, and graces.

🌹The sinner kills the spirit of faith within himself; he is a graveyard of virtues and graces.

🌹Supplication 8 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya reveals the hidden afflictions of the human being.

🌹Until a person has treated the ailments of body and soul, how can they attain true well-being?

🔅🌼The power of knowledge and noble virtues🌼🔅

🌹The higher a person rises without the wings of noble virtue, the more painful the fall.

🌹The testimony of those endowed with noble virtues has a greater impact. The blood shed by a martyr adorned with noble virtues and knowledge will do far more to bring life to earth and heaven. The more fully and excellently we equip ourselves with the knowledge and noble virtues of the Two Weighty Things, the more wondrous our souls, intentions, and deeds will become. The spirit of such a martyr will embrace history and breathe life into hearts. Through the grace of their servitude, the world will flourish.

🌹The life, death, gaze, breath, and martyrdom of a person devoted to the One are wondrous.

🌹We must understand the bounds of self-knowledge, lest we fall short in knowing ourselves.

🌹We must restore the withered flower of our soul to full freshness, so that we may behold in its perfection the countenance of the creation of “حضرت احسن الخالقین”.

🔅🌼A journey among whispered prayers🌼🔅

🌹Amid the twenty supplications of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya, every so often we must look at ourselves in the mirror of Supplication 8.

🌹Each of the supplications in al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya is like one of the human body’s organs and limbs. Neglecting any one of them leaves the human being’s perfect order incomplete—like a person without eyes or another limb. Yet some supplications are like the intellect, spirit, and brain.

🔅🌼Our spirit needs cupping🌼🔅

🌹Spiritual and practical cupping is essential to the health of the human soul and heart.

🌹If the elementary lessons are forgotten, learning higher lessons becomes impossible.

🌹Whatever our circumstances, even if we hold the highest distinctions, our affirmations and testimonies can still be invalidated.

🌹The destructive impact of every vile trait can lay waste to every aspect of a person’s being, with all that it contains. It endangers both bodily and spiritual health, shortens life, and brings virtues to their death.

🌹Every vile trait is a consuming fire.

🌹Let us look upon body and soul from the vantage point of Duʿa 8.

🌹Before seeking refuge from Satan, let us seek refuge in God from our own evil and from the evil of our lower selves.

🌹The more corrupted a person becomes, the more easily Satan can take hold of them.

🌹Duʿa 20 is a university of advanced specialisation, while Duʿa 8 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya is the foundation stone of human nobility.

🌹When a person forgets the elementary lessons of faith, even the seventh heaven is no different for them from the lowest of the low. Even in a mine of light, a blind person will see nothing but a black hole. 🌹Reviewing the elementary lessons of servitude to God is necessary and essential.

🌹Self-knowledge begins with self-examination. Let us keep watch over ourselves; by healing our inner being, our sound and true form will emerge.

🔅🌼Take care not to fall 🌼🔅

🌹If a person’s foundations are not firm, the heavier they become, the more fragile and prone to ruin they will be. Even if they possess all the Most Exalted Names, they will remain cold and lifeless.

🌹Balʿam Bāʿūrā rebelled against the Imam, guardian, and proof of his age, the Prophet Moses, peace be upon him, and arrogantly defied him; in the end, he cast away everything he had.

🌻🔆Al-Aʿrāf: 175   وَ اتْلُ عَلَيْهِمْ نَبَأَ الَّذي آتَيْناهُ آياتِنا فَانْسَلَخَ مِنْها فَأَتْبَعَهُ الشَّيْطانُ فَكانَ مِنَ الْغاوينَ

🔆Recite to them the story of the one to whom We gave Our signs, but who then cast them off. Satan pursued him, and he became one of the misguided.

🌻🔆Al-Aʿrāf: 176   وَ لَوْ شِئْنا لَرَفَعْناهُ بِها وَ لكِنَّهُ أَخْلَدَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ اتَّبَعَ هَواهُ فَمَثَلُهُ كَمَثَلِ الْكَلْبِ إِنْ تَحْمِلْ عَلَيْهِ يَلْهَثْ أَوْ تَتْرُكْهُ يَلْهَثْ ذلِكَ مَثَلُ الْقَوْمِ الَّذينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآياتِنا فَاقْصُصِ الْقَصَصَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ

🔆Had We willed, We could have raised him up by means of those signs (and that knowledge); but compulsion is not Our way. So We left him to himself, and he sank low, following his own desires. His likeness is that of a dog: if you attack it, it pants with its tongue lolling out; if you leave it alone, it still pants. Such is the one consumed by craving for the world, never satisfied. This is the likeness of those who deny Our signs. So recount these stories to them, that perhaps they may reflect and awaken!

🌸🔆عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا (عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ): «أَنَّهُ أُعْطِيَ بَلْعَمُ بْنُ بَاعُورَاءَ الِاسْمَ الْأَعْظَمَ وَ كَانَ يَدْعُو بِهِ فَيُسْتَجَابُ لَهُ، فَمَالَ إِلَى فِرْعَوْنَ، فَلَمَّا مَرَّ فِرْعَوْنُ فِي طَلَبِ مُوسَى (عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ) وَ أَصْحَابِهِ: قَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ لِبَلْعَمَ: ادْعُ اللَّهَ عَلَى مُوسَى وَ أَصْحَابِهِ لِيَحْبِسَهُ عَلَيْنَا، فَرَكِبَ حِمَارَتَهُ لِيَمُرَّ فِي‏ طَلَبِ مُوسَى وَ أَصْحَابِهِ، فَامْتَنَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ حِمَارَتُهُ، فَأَقْبَلَ يَضْرِبُهَا، فَأَنْطَقَهَا اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ، فَقَالَتْ: وَيْلَكَ، عَلَى مَاذَا تَضْرِبُنِي، أَ تُرِيدُ أَنْ أَجِي‏ءَ مَعَكَ لِتَدْعُوَ عَلَى مُوسَى نَبِيِّ اللَّهِ وَ قَوْمٍ مُؤْمِنِينَ؟! وَ لَمْ يَزَلْ يَضْرِبُهَا حَتَّى قَتَلَهَا، فَانْسَلَخَ الِاسْمُ مِنْ لِسَانِهِ، وَ هُوَ قَوْلُهُ: فَانْسَلَخَ مِنْها فَأَتْبَعَهُ الشَّيْطانُ فَكانَ مِنَ الْغاوِينَ  وَ لَوْ شِئْنا لَرَفَعْناهُ بِها وَ لكِنَّهُ أَخْلَدَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ اتَّبَعَ هَواهُ فَمَثَلُهُ كَمَثَلِ الْكَلْبِ إِنْ تَحْمِلْ عَلَيْهِ يَلْهَثْ أَوْ تَتْرُكْهُ يَلْهَثْ‏ وَ هُوَ مَثَلٌ ضَرَبَهُ اللَّهُ».

فَقَالَ الرِّضَا (عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ): «فَلَا يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ مِنَ الْبَهَائِمِ إِلَّا ثَلَاثٌ: حِمَارَةُ بَلْعَمَ، وَ كَلْبُ أَصْحَابِ الْكَهْفِ، وَ الذِّئْبُ، وَ كَانَ سَبَبُ الذِّئْبِ أَنَّهُ بَعَثَ مَلِكٌ ظَالِمٌ رَجُلًا شُرْطِيّاً لِيَحْشُرَ قَوْماً مُؤْمِنِينَ وَ يُعَذِّبَهُمْ، وَ كَانَ لِلشُّرْطِيِّ ابْنٌ يُحِبُّهُ، فَجَاءَ الذِّئْبُ فَأَكَلَ ابْنَهُ، فَحَزِنَ الشُّرْطِيُّ عَلَيْهِ، فَأَدْخَلَ اللَّهُ ذَلِكَ الذِّئْبَ الْجَنَّةَ لِمَا أَحْزَنَ الشُّرْطِيَّ».

الْعَيَّاشِيُّ: عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ اللَّبَّانِ، قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ): «أَ تَدْرِي مَا مَثَلُ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ؟» قَالَ: قُلْتُ: لَا، قَالَ: «مَثَلُهُ مَثَلُ بَلْعَمَ الَّذِي أُوتِيَ الِاسْمَ الْأَعْظَمَ الَّذِي قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: آتَيْناهُ آياتِنا فَانْسَلَخَ مِنْها فَأَتْبَعَهُ الشَّيْطانُ فَكانَ مِنَ الْغاوِينَ‏».

الطَّبْرِسِيُّ: فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: وَ اتْلُ عَلَيْهِمْ نَبَأَ الَّذِي آتَيْناهُ آياتِنا فَانْسَلَخَ مِنْها فَأَتْبَعَهُ الشَّيْطانُ فَكانَ مِنَ الْغاوِينَ‏، قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ): «الْأَصْلُ فِي [ذَلِكَ‏] بَلْعَمُ، ثُمَّ ضَرَبَهُ اللَّهُ مَثَلًا لِكُلِّ مُؤْثِرٍ هَوَاهُ عَلَى هُدَى اللَّهِ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْقِبْلَةِ».^[1]

🌸🔆 ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm says: This verse was revealed concerning Balʿam ibn Bāʿūr, who was one of the Children of Israel. It is narrated from Imam al-Riḍā that God had given Balʿam His Greatest Names. Whenever he invoked God by them, his prayer was answered. But he joined Pharaoh. When Pharaoh set out to find Moses and his companions, he said to Balʿam, “Pray that God block Moses and his companions from making their way forward, so that we may catch up with them.” Balʿam then mounted his donkey to go after them, but the animal refused and began to strike him. God gave the donkey speech, and it said, “Woe to you! Why are you beating me? Do you want me to go with you so that you can curse God’s Prophet and his companions?” He beat it until it died, and the Name was taken from his tongue. God said: فَانسَلَخَ مِنْهَا فَأَتْبَعَهُ الشَّیْطَانُ فَکَانَ مِنَ الْغَاوِینَ* وَ لَوْ شِئْنَا لَرَفَعْنَاهُ بِهَا وَلَکِنَّهُ أَخْلَدَ إِلَی الأَرْضِ وَ اتَّبَعَ هَوَاهُ فَمَثَلُهُ کَمَثَلِ الْکَلْبِ إِن تَحْمِلْ عَلَیْهِ یَلْهَثْ Imam al-Riḍā said: “Only three animals will enter Paradise: Balʿam’s donkey, the People of the Cave’s dog, and the wolf. The wolf will enter because a tyrannical king sent an agent to gather a community of believers and punish them. The agent had a son whom he loved dearly. A wolf came and ate the agent’s son. The agent was deeply grieved, so God admitted the wolf to Paradise because it had caused him distress.”

🔅🌼 The Healing House: Supplication 8 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya 🌼🔅

🌹To soar to the highest heights of the celestial realm, we must take flight from the departure point of Supplication 8 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya.

🌼 وَ كَانَ مِنْ دُعَائِهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فِي الِاسْتِعَاذَةِ مِنَ الْمَكَارِهِ وَ سَيِّئِ الْأَخْلَاقِ وَ مَذَامِّ الْأَفْعَالِ🌼

☘️🌸 (1) اللَّهُمَّ إِنيِّ أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ هَيَجَانِ الْحِرْصِ، وَ سَوْرَةِ الْغَضَبِ، وَ غَلَبَةِ الْحَسَدِ، وَ ضَعْفِ الصَّبْرِ، وَ قِلَّةِ الْقَنَاعَةِ، وَ شَكَاسَةِ الْخُلُقِ، وَ إِلْحَاحِ الشَّهْوَةِ، وَ مَلَكَةِ الْحَمِيَّةِ

🌹O God, I seek refuge in You from the evil and tumult of greed; from its intensity, surging force, savagery, and domination; from the overwhelming power of anger and envy; from an inability to be patient in adversity, in refraining from sin, and in steadfast obedience; from scant contentment; from ill temper—pleasant in outward appearance but evil within—from bad habits, and from the insistence and craving of desire; and from the domination of blind fanaticism, a fire that consumes the soul.

🌹Blind zeal burns up reason, knowledge, and wisdom. Only in devotion to worship—when sins are committed—should the vein of zeal rise.

☘️🌸 (2) وَ مُتَابَعَةِ الْهَوَى، وَ مُخَالَفَةِ الْهُدَى، وَ سِنَةِ الْغَفْلَةِ، وَ تَعَاطِي الْكُلْفَةِ، وَ إِيثَارِ الْبَاطِلِ عَلَى الْحَقِّ، وَ الْإِصْرَارِ عَلَى الْمَأْثَمِ، وَ اسْتِصْغَارِ الْمَعْصِيَةِ، وَ اسْتِكْبَارِ الطَّاعَةِ.

🌹O God, I seek refuge in You from following the lower self and opposing guidance; from sinking into the sleep of heedlessness and choosing affectation; from preferring falsehood to truth; from persisting in sin and making light of sin; and from magnifying acts of obedience.

One who follows the whims of the ego opposes and rejects guidance, setting himself against God, God’s appointed guide, and God’s Book.

🌹The sleep of heedlessness is the sleep of beasts—or worse. In such a state, the body may have a human form, while the soul takes on an animal one.

🌹We must be wary of meddling in matters we have not been charged with. Any path that leads away from servitude to God is forced and misguided.

🌹Whoever prefers falsehood to truth is transformed; whoever prefers darkness to light is struck blind.

🌹However high the stature of our devotion, it is nothing before the Lord’s absolute greatness. So we must not grow conceited.

☘️🌸 (3) وَ مُبَاهَاةِ الْمُكْثِرِينَ، وَ الْإِزْرَاءِ بِالْمُقِلِّينَ، وَ سُوءِ الْوِلَايَةِ لِمَنْ تَحْتَ أَيْدِينَا، وَ تَرْكِ الشُّكْرِ لِمَنِ اصْطَنَعَ الْعَارِفَةَ عِنْدَنَا

🌹O God, I seek refuge in You from the rich taking pride in themselves, from the poor being treated with contempt, from mistreating those under our care, and from ingratitude toward anyone who has done us good.

🌹Pride in one’s height or physique, home, clothes, mount, rank, office, qualifications, status, or beauty is sheer ignorance. Such a person is among those described in Sūrat al-Takāthur.

🌹Social media is a stage for ignorant boasting and vanity. People may even take pride in their own ugliness, each vying to outdo the other in flaunting it and admiring it.

🌹Those under someone’s authority may be anyone from a child in a father’s care to subjects under a ruler’s dominion.

☘️🌸 (4) أَوْ أَنْ نَعْضُدَ ظَالِماً، أَوْ نَخْذُلَ مَلْهُوفاً، أَوْ نَرُومَ مَا لَيْسَ لَنَا بِحَقٍّ، أَوْ نَقُولَ فِي الْعِلْمِ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ

🌹O God, we seek refuge in You from aiding an oppressor, humiliating someone who has been wronged, setting our sights on anything to which we have no right, or speaking about knowledge out of ignorance.

🌹Whoever lends strength and support to an oppressor becomes complicit in his wrongdoing and injustice—whether through financial support, words, a look, one’s thoughts, one’s pen, or anything else.

🌹We must not dash the hopes of someone who has been wronged, is suffering, is in distress or grief, and looks to us for help and care.

🌹How foolish it is to speak about knowledge when we know nothing.

 ☘️🌸 (5) وَ نَعُوذُ بِكَ أَنْ نَنْطَوِيَ عَلَى غِشِّ أَحَدٍ، وَ أَنْ نُعْجِبَ بِأَعْمَالِنَا، وَ نَمُدَّ فِي آمَالِنَا

🌹O God, we seek refuge in You from secretly plotting to deceive someone, from falling prey to vanity over our own deeds, and from being afflicted with far-reaching hopes.

🌹We must not secretly plot against a believer or devise plans to betray them.

🌹Whoever is drawn into darkness becomes ignorant and blind to the truth. The more we chase a mirage, the farther we wander from water and the sea.

☘️🌸 (6) وَ نَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ سُوءِ السَّرِيرَةِ، وَ احْتِقَارِ الصَّغِيرَةِ، وَ أَنْ يَسْتَحْوِذَ عَلَيْنَا الشَّيْطَانُ، أَوْ يَنْكُبَنَا الزَّمَانُ، أَوْ يَتَهَضَّمَنَا السُّلْطَانُ

🌹O God, we seek refuge in You from inner corruption, from making light of minor sins, from Satan gaining power over us, from fortune turning against us, and from a ruler oppressing us.

🌹How vile it is when a person’s inner self is rotten while their outward appearance is polished.

🌹Every minor sin committed in the presence of God, the Most Great, is grave.

🌹O God, we seek refuge in You from Satan’s power, dominion, subjugation, and control.

🌹May time never bring us down and make us its servants and slaves. Let us be the helmsmen of time’s vessel, not surrender ourselves to its captivity. Whoever is ruled by time is doomed to misery.

🌹O God, we seek refuge in You from being swallowed up by rulers.

☘️🌸 (7) وَ نَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ تَنَاوُلِ الْإِسرَافِ، وَ مِنْ فِقْدَانِ الْكَفَافِ

🌹O God, we seek refuge in You from extravagance and from destitution.

🌹Wastefulness extends beyond food and drink to the squandering of time, leisure, and even sin. Killing time by filling one’s leisure hours with frivolities is a form of wastefulness; worse still is squandering oneself in heedlessness and sin. Whoever pursues sin, makes plans for it, seeks new tastes and colors in it, and recognizes no limits in committing it is a brazen transgressor.  

🌹O God, do not let me stray beyond the bounds of sufficiency and having my needs met.

☘️🌸 (8) وَ نَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ شَمَاتَةِ الْأَعْدَاءِ، وَ مِنَ الْفَقْرِ إِلَى الْأَكْفَاءِ، وَ مِنْ مَعِيشَةٍ فِي شِدَّةٍ، وَ مِيتَةٍ عَلَى غَيْرِ عُدَّةٍ.

🌹We seek refuge in You from our enemies’ rejoicing, from being reduced to need before our peers, from the straits of hardship, and from dying without having prepared for our departure.

🌹O God, we seek refuge in You from the enemies’ venomous mockery and their dancing amid our afflictions and mourning; from their delight in our sorrow and grief, their taunts and gloating, their amusement at our anguish, and their reproaches and blame.

🌹O God, we seek refuge in You from being dependent on our fellow human beings and peers, and from having to turn to those who are themselves in need.

🌹O God, I seek refuge in You from dying in poverty, without provisions, bereft of righteous deeds and sincere intentions; from dying without knowledge, wisdom, or insight; from dying in ignorance, without recognizing the Imam of my time, and without fulfilling the duties of servanthood.  

☘️🌸 (9) وَ نَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْحَسْرَةِ الْعُظْمَى، وَ الْمُصِيبَةِ الْكُبْرَى، وَ أَشْقَى الشَّقَاءِ، وَ سُوءِ الْمَآبِ، وَ حِرْمَانِ الثَّوَابِ، وَ حُلُولِ الْعِقَابِ

🌹O God, we seek refuge in You from the greatest regret, the heaviest affliction, the worst misfortunes and the most wretched end; from being deprived of the reward of the Hereafter and subjected to the punishment of the Day of Resurrection.

☘️🌸 (10) اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ أَعِذْنِي مِنْ كُلِّ ذَلِكَ بِرَحْمَتِكَ وَ جَمِيعَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ، يَا أَرْحَمَ الرَّاحِمِينَ.

🌹O God, bless Muhammad and his family, and by Your mercy, grant refuge from all that has been mentioned to me and to all believing men and women, O Most Merciful of the merciful.

🔅🌼Bottom of the pot — 1402.10.14🌼🔅

🔅🌼The difficulty of safeguarding secrets🌼🔅

🌹Safeguarding the secrets of the Greatest Name is harder than attaining it.

🌹Everyone but the Imam of the Time must fear falling from grace.

🌹Allah, the Possessor of Majesty and Honor, makes no exceptions for anyone—not even His messengers, let alone the likes of Balaam son of Beor, who possess certain secrets and spiritual gifts.

🌻🔆Al-Haqqah: 44   وَ لَوْ تَقَوَّلَ عَلَيْنا بَعْضَ الْأَقاويلِ

🌻🔆Al-Haqqah: 45   لَأَخَذْنا مِنْهُ بِالْيَمينِ

🌻🔆Al-Haqqah: 46   ثُمَّ لَقَطَعْنا مِنْهُ الْوَتينَ

🔆If he had falsely attributed some words to Us,

🔆We would have seized him with power,

🔆then severed his lifeline,

🌹The great prophets were continually in the classroom and under the test of God.

🔅🌼May we never suffer the fate of Balaam son of Beor🌼🔅

🌹When harmful impulses overpower a person, they turn him into a human devil. A person steeped in such impulses becomes the equal of Satan. The path of harmful impulses is the route by which the jinn-devil gains entry and mastery.

🌹Human harmful impulses hasten the expansion of Satan’s domain.

🌹Pride and arrogance drive the Greatest Names from the souls of those who bear them.

🌹After casting off the signs, Balaam son of Beor resorted to satanic schemes.

🔅🌼A note🌼🔅

🌹It is presumed that prayer was practiced in the time of every prophet, though the manner of its observance was governed by the particular religious law of each.

🔅🌼Meeting God 🌼🔅

🌹“Meeting God” means coming face to face with God’s reward or punishment. After death, every servant will, as the veils are lifted, either come to know His mercy and love or encounter His wrath and anger.  

🌹If we devote all our strength to servitude, we may hope that God’s supreme grace of union will embrace His servants and make them heirs to the greatest book of His creation (God willing).

🔅🌼Reading the Book of Creation 🌼🔅

🌹If the light of knowledge from the All-Knowing Lord shines upon His servants, He will make them aware of what is manifest and hidden and grant them knowledge of the Book of His creation.

🌹Knowledge itself is a veil that keeps one from meeting the Lord; God Himself stands between His servants and Him.

🌹Our own shortcomings are why we fail to understand the teachings of the Qur’an and the Household. We have lost the way of divine oneness and strayed from the path of truth.

🔅🌼The Activities of Satanic Forces 🌼🔅

🌹Evolution and Darwin’s theory are among the laws of Satan.

🌹Satanic mathematics seeks to distance people from the Origin and give “zero” an identity of its own.

🌹A child has the gift of subtle spiritual perception; perhaps children perceive all the truths they hear about. Even when they see angels and devils, they see both the clay and the flower.

🌹Let us be mindful of the devils’ annual gatherings and decisions. We have the Blessed Night and the Night of Decree, and can easily thwart their plans.

🔅🌼Maintaining Respect When Honouring the Household of the Prophet, Peace Be upon Them 🌼🔅

🌹When honouring the Infallible Ones, peace be upon them, we must not belittle other saints or great prophets; they would surely not approve.

🌹Fatima al-Zahra possesses the rank and radiance of the Night of Decree, and the radiance of the Spirit of Holiness.

🌹Let us not become so absorbed in the Night of Decree that we lose sight of the celestial horizons, the horizons of the various galaxies, and the heavens.

🌹If the Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, were present in every star and galaxy, the Night of Decree would manifest across their horizons.

🌹Human sin drives away the angels appointed over the clouds. Rainfall in lands of unbelief may be an instance of divine respite and indulgence.

🌹Let us learn how to weaken the Dajjal.

🌹Underground aquifers are the best places to store water; let us guard against their being plundered. Groundwater can be stolen just as oil can be extracted.

John Whiteside Parsons

John Whiteside Parsons was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemic occultist. He played a major role in the development of rocketry and was associated with the California Institute of Technology. He was instrumental in establishing the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Aerojet Engineering Corporation. He was also deeply interested in magical practices because of his membership in the Thelema movement, and was a close friend of Aleister Crowley.

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

[1]Bahrani, Hashim ibn Sulayman, *Al-Burhan fi Tafsir al-Qur’an*, 5 vols., Al-Bi‘thah Foundation, Department of Islamic Studies, Iran, Qom, 1st ed., 1415 AH.