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The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼🔆🌼**The Prohibition of Satan: Consorting with Him**🌼🔆🌼
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “The Relationship Between Knowledge, Wisdom, and Reason” “Satanic Culture” “The Secret Behind the Pleasure of Sin” “Commentary on Supplication 20 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya” “Session 239” and more … A summary with an addendum 1403.11.04 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🔅🌼Work to hasten Satan’s demise 🌼🔅
🌸🌹☘️وَ عَمِّرْنِي مَا كَانَ عُمُرِي بِذْلَةً فِي طَاعَتِكَ، فَإِذَا كَانَ عُمُرِي مَرْتَعاً لِلشَّيْطَانِ فَاقْبِضْنِي إِلَيْكَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَسْبِقَ مَقْتُكَ إِلَيَّ، أَوْ يَسْتَحْكِمَ غَضَبُكَ عَلَي ☘️ 🌹 🌸
🌹Boycott Satan!
🌹Disappoint Satan!
🌹Do not become Satan’s bread and water!
🌹Do not become Satan’s muscle and strength!
🔅🌼Vices are the basis of structural change🌼🔅
🌹On the one hand, vices are the delectable fare of Satan and the carnal self; on the other, they are a force that alters the human being’s ideal constitution.
🔅🌼Vices are food for devils and the carnal self🌼🔅
🌹The more a person adorns himself with virtues, the more delectable he becomes to the inhabitants of the celestial realm.
🌹Whoever takes the carnal self as their god will come under its base laws. Their desires, temperament, hopes, feelings, intentions, actions, inclinations, and loves will all change accordingly; their very constitution will be transformed.
🌹For every virtue there is a vice opposed to it. Though fundamentally different, a vice that takes the place of a virtue resembles it. In such circumstances, a person takes darkness for light, Satan for an angel, and the reprehensible for sound thought.
🔅🌼The Reprehensible🌼🔅
🌹فَكَيْفَ كانَ نَكِيرِ—That is, my denial. *Nukr* means cleverness, or a difficult and arduous matter that is not recognized. Its verbal noun comes from *nakara, nakāratan*. He said:
يَوْمَ يَدْعُ الدَّاعِ إِلى شَيْءٍ نُكُرٍ—The Moon, 6. A hadith relates:
«إذا وضع الميت في القبر أتاه ملكان مُنْكَرٌ و نَكِيرٌ»
*Munākara* is used figuratively to mean fighting and waging war.[1]
🔅🌼Delectable to devils 🌼🔅
🌹Through vice, a person becomes delectable fare for Satan. Nothing is more delicious to a fly than filth, and nothing more delicious to Satan than impurity and vileness. To Satan, who is vile in his deeds, nothing is more delectable than vileness.
🌹A person who sins is repugnant to a believer.
🌹Sin and the sinner are pleasing only to the corrupt of heart.
🌻🔆An-Nur: 26 الْخَبيثاتُ لِلْخَبيثينَ وَ الْخَبيثُونَ لِلْخَبيثاتِ وَ الطَّيِّباتُ لِلطَّيِّبينَ وَ الطَّيِّبُونَ لِلطَّيِّباتِ أُولئِكَ مُبَرَّؤُنَ مِمَّا يَقُولُونَ لَهُمْ مَغْفِرَةٌ وَ رِزْقٌ كَريمٌ
🔆Impure women are for impure men, and impure men belong with impure women; pure women are for pure men, and pure men for pure women. They are absolved of the slanders made against them, and theirs is forgiveness and a noble provision!
🔅🌼God Most High has allotted pure provision to everyone🌼🔅
🌻🔆Ghafir: 64 اللَّهُ الَّذي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الْأَرْضَ قَراراً وَ السَّماءَ بِناءً وَ صَوَّرَكُمْ فَأَحْسَنَ صُوَرَكُمْ وَ رَزَقَكُمْ مِنَ الطَّيِّباتِ ذلِكُمُ اللَّهُ رَبُّكُمْ فَتَبارَكَ اللَّهُ رَبُّ الْعالَمينَ
🔆God is the One who made the earth a secure dwelling place for you and the sky a canopy; who shaped you and fashioned you well; and who provided you with wholesome things. Such is God, your Lord! Blessed and exalted is God, Lord of all worlds!
🔅🌼The loss of reason: the secret behind delighting in sin🌼🔅
🌹Why do some people find the taste of sin so sweet?
🌹Why do some creatures find the taste of filth so appealing?
🌹The loss and absence of reason go hand in hand with delighting in sin. Irrationality gives rise to false, inverted tastes and sensations—and is the secret behind taking pleasure in wrongdoing.
🌹A person without reason feeds on filth.
🔅🌼Faith and reason are the secret of pure taste🌼🔅
🌹Filth is the companion of the faithless!
🌻🔆Al-Anʿām: 125 فَمَنْ يُرِدِ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَهْدِيَهُ يَشْرَحْ صَدْرَهُ لِلْإِسْلامِ وَ مَنْ يُرِدْ أَنْ يُضِلَّهُ يَجْعَلْ صَدْرَهُ ضَيِّقاً حَرَجاً كَأَنَّما يَصَّعَّدُ فِي السَّماءِ كَذلِكَ يَجْعَلُ اللَّهُ الرِّجْسَ عَلَى الَّذينَ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ
🔆Whomever God wills to guide, He opens their heart to Islam; and whomever He wills to lead astray because of their misdeeds, He makes their heart so constricted that it is as though they were climbing up to the sky. Thus God lays defilement upon those who do not believe!
🌹Irrationality is the pit that leads down into the depths of filth and corruption.
🌻🔆Yūnus: 100 وَ ما كانَ لِنَفْسٍ أَنْ تُؤْمِنَ إِلاَّ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ وَ يَجْعَلُ الرِّجْسَ عَلَى الَّذينَ لا يَعْقِلُونَ
🔆No one can believe except by God’s command (and through His enabling, help, and guidance). And He lays defilement (of disbelief and sin) upon those who do not reason.
🔅🌼One intoxicated by sin is without reason🌼🔅
🌹In the end times, the cause of a frenzied attraction to sin is the loss of reason.
🔅🌼Wisdom is the companion of reason🌼🔅
🌹Wisdom means joining knowledge with reason; it is the higher ordering and stewardship of knowledge.
🌹In the end times, stripping away wisdom is Satan’s strategy for severing reason from knowledge.
🌹A university without wisdom is dangerous; politics without wisdom is destructive; and life without wisdom is wearisome. Knowledge without wisdom breeds depression.
🌷🔆بِالْعَقْلِ يُسْتَخْرَجُ غَوْرُ الْحِكْمَة[2]
🌷🔆الْحِكْمَةُ رَوْضَةُ الْعُقَلَاءِ وَ نُزْهَةُ النُّبَلَاء[3]
🌹The end times are an age of losing one’s way amid misguidance;
🔅🌼Satanic culture🌼🔅
🌹Anything stripped of wisdom becomes food for Satan.
🌹If wisdom is removed from “friendships, thoughts, society, politics, science and universities, homes and families, and physical and virtual spaces,” they become food for Satan.
🌹A society is measured by the culture of wise conduct it embodies.
🌹A university without wisdom is a university without knowledge. A university must be joined with wisdom for the fruits of knowledge to taste sweet; otherwise, they are bitter and briny.
🌹Noble virtues are precisely the essential ingredients of wise conduct.
🌹Anything without wisdom is dangerous.
🌹When leaders ally themselves with wisdom, intellectual miracles unfold.
🔅🌼When the body is managed unwisely, cancer grows🌼🔅
🌹Cancerous tumors take shape when reason departs from the body.
🌹If cancerous growths act clumsily, they consume everything in the body, destroying it—and are destroyed themselves as a result. An intelligent cancer keeps the body suspended in a state between life and death, so it is not deprived of its source of nourishment.
🔅🌼 Perfect Wisdom 🌼🔅
🌹Wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge through the lamp of reason.
🌹Reason has seventy-five organs and faculties. In truth, perfect wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge through the lamp of perfect reason, with all its perspectives, capacities and powers.
🔅🌼 Tawḥīd Is the Mother of All Virtues 🌼🔅
🌹The first element of virtue is tawḥīd, and the first element of vice is associating partners with God. Among the first elements of virtue in the forces of reason are goodness and faith; among the first elements of the forces of ignorance are evil and disbelief. Faith has no meaning without tawḥīd.
🌹One who affirms God’s oneness cannot fall or sink into disgrace, for they are under the direct care of the Almighty, the One.
🔅🌼 Feeding and Devouring One Another 🌼🔅
🌹For one whose reins are held by the ego’s desires, every path but the lowest is barred.
🌹Through tawḥīd, a person becomes more delightful than delight itself.
🌹To Satan, one who affirms God’s oneness has no taste.
🌹To Satan, one who affirms God’s oneness is bitter and deadly.
🌹Believers feed one another without diminishing one another.
🔅🌼 Satan’s Allure: A Path to Immortality 🌼🔅
🌹Through the ego’s and Satan’s beguilement, worldly appearances—such as “wealth, beauty, rank, personal or social standing, place of residence and age”—give rise to a false sense of immortality.
🌹By nature, the human being longs for the infinite and seeks the immortality of all things. Through Satan’s beguilement, the true means of attaining immortality are lost from view.
🔅🌼 Forbid Satan’s Deeds to Yourself 🌼🔅
🌹To think, “I am good,” “my beauty is good,” “my place is good,” or “my time is good” is to practise Satan’s strategy of becoming satanic. Such people resemble Satan and are his partners; they are fuel for one another, food for one another.
🔅🌼 No Brotherhood with Satan 🌼🔅
🌹Whoever turns away from the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Household becomes Satan’s companion and brother.
🌻🔆Al-Isrāʾ: 27 إِنَّ الْمُبَذِّرينَ كانُوا إِخْوانَ الشَّياطينِ وَ كانَ الشَّيْطانُ لِرَبِّهِ كَفُوراً
🔆For those who squander are brothers of Satan, and Satan has ever been most ungrateful to his Lord!
🌷🔆عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ وَ لا تُبَذِّرْ تَبْذِيراً قَالَ لَا تُبَذِّرُوا وَلَايَةَ عَلِيٍّ ع [4]
🌷🔆ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm: وَ لا تُبَذِّرْ تَبْذِیراً أَیْ لَا تُنْفِقِ الْمَالَ فِی غَیْرِ طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ الْمُبَذِّرِینَ کانُوا إِخْوانَ الشَّیاطِینِ وَ الْمُخَاطَبَةُ لِلنَّبِیِّ وَ الْمَعْنَی لِلنَّاسِ.
🔆ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm (may God have mercy on him)— وَ لاَ تُبَذِّرْ تَبْذِیرًا: that is, do not spend your wealth on anything that does not involve obedience to God. إِنَّ المُبَذِّرِینَ کَانُواْ إِخْوَانَ الشَّیَاطِینِ: The verse is addressed outwardly to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), but its true audience is the people.
🌹That is, do not leave the guardianship of your Master; do not cast it aside.
🔅🌼 The Believer’s Ease Lies in Meeting God 🌼🔅
🌷🔆وَ قَالَ ص لَيْسَ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ رَاحَةٌ دُونَ لِقَاءِ اللَّه[5]
🔆The Prophet of Islam, peace and blessings be upon him and his family: For the believer, there is no ease save meeting God.
🌹Thus, the truly faithful person is one whose whole attention is turned towards God: they see none but Him, seek none but Him, and pay no heed to the ego or Satan. They do not see them; their vibration has no affinity with them. They are receptive to neither the ego nor Satan.
🌷🔆الْقُطْبُ الرَّاوَنْدِيُّ فِي لُبِّ اللُّبَابِ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: دَخَلْتُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ص وَ هُوَ نَائِمٌ عَلَى حَصِيرٍ قَدْ أَثَّرَ فِي جَنْبِهِ قَالَ أَ مَعَكَ أَحَدٌ غَيْرُكَ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ اعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ قَدِ اقْتَرَبَ أَجَلِي وَ طَالَ شَوْقِي إِلَى لِقَاءِ رَبِّي وَ إِلَى لِقَاءِ إِخْوَانِيَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ قَبْلِي ثُمَّ قَالَ لَيْسَ شَيْءٌ أَحَبَّ إِلَيَّ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ وَ لَيْسَ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ رَاحَةٌ دُونَ لِقَاءِ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ بَكَى قُلْتُ لِمَ تَبْكِي قَالَ وَ كَيْفَ لَا أَبْكِي وَ أَنَا أَعْلَمُ مَا يَنْزِلُ بِأُمَّتِي مِنْ بَعْدِي قُلْتُ وَ مَا يَنْزِلُ مِنْ بَعْدِكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ الْأَهْوَاءُ الْمُخْتَلِفَةُ وَ قَطِيعَةُ الرَّحِمِ وَ حُبُّ الْمَالِ وَ الشَّرَفِ وَ إِظْهَارُ الْبِدْعَة[6]
🔅🌼A Student’s Perspective on “The Secret Behind the Pleasure of Sin” 🌼🔅
🌻🔆The Secret Behind the Pleasure of Sin🔆🌻
🌼🔆🌼The Devil’s Banquet: A Meal Together🌼🔆🌼
🔹Weekly sessions on the commentary and interpretation of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (Supplication 20)
📅 Date: 1403/11/04 – 22 Rajab 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
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📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:
### 🌟 A Prayer for Help Against Satan
My God and Lord, be my helper!
Come to my aid, so I can bring Satan to his knees and leave him despairing and cast out.
Let me humble and disgrace him for his insolence—not become his prey and make him even more brazen.
O God, help me!
### 🛡 How Can We Become Deadly Poison to Satan?
How can we become deadly poison to him instead of his sweet honey?
How can we destroy Satan?
When Satan gets into our souls, we must reduce him to ashes and destroy him.
How can we turn Satan’s hope to despair and leave him disheartened?
### 🔑 The Secret Behind Satan’s Pleasure in Sin
Why does Satan find human beings so delectable?
Why are sinners so sweet to Satan, and why does sin make their palate delight in it?
God forbid—but why does sin taste sweet to us?
Nothing is more vile and corrupt than disobeying God; so why does sin tempt people and make them yearn for it?
The answer to this riddle lies in these noble verses:
Whoever God wills to guide, He opens their breast to Islam; and whoever He wills to lead astray because of their wrongdoing, He makes their breast so constricted that it is as if they were climbing up to the sky. Thus God places defilement upon those who do not believe. (125) al-An‘am
No one can believe except by God’s command (and through His enabling, help, and guidance)! And He places defilement (of disbelief and sin) upon those who do not reflect. (100) Yunus
### ✨ The Secret of an Open Breast and Misguidance
Why does God will that some people’s breasts be opened and expanded, while willing that others be led astray?
Why do some find it difficult to walk the path of truth, as though they were struggling painfully to climb up to the sky?
The secret lies in this very lack of faith.
They turn their backs on faith, and God constricts their hearts and leads them astray.
Yet this is an opportunity God grants them to return to the straight path and embrace faith.
This is a faith grounded in reason.
### 🌟 Corruption: The Consequence of Disbelief
Thus God lays corruption and impurity upon those who do not believe:
faith in God, faith in the Messenger of God, and faith in God’s chosen ones.
Anyone who does not direct their faith toward the authority of the Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them) will be punished by being made to feed on impurity.
### 🛡 Why Is Impurity Sweet to Some?
Why does impurity taste sweet to some people?
Why does a beetle delight in filth? At what point in its creation did it go astray, that it should embrace impurity?
Animals that feed on filth love impurity because their very nature lacks the light of faith.
True faith is grounded in reason; it is a faith that kindles God’s light in the human soul.
### ✨ Faith, a Gift from God
No one can come to faith except by God’s leave and permission.
Until God grants permission for faith, no one will succeed in believing.
Thus impurity and corruption become the sustenance of those who do not reflect.
### 🔑 The Relationship Between Faith and Reason
We can assess faith by reason.
One who lacks reason lacks faith.
One who does not accept Ali and his descendants lacks faith.
That is the key:
the loss of reason is tantamount to taking pleasure in sin and filth.
When reason departs from the human soul, a person comes to love impurity and sin.
Everything in this world, when devoid of reason, is impure in its very essence.
### 🍯 The Secret of Honey and Impurity
What is the difference between honey and the honey that is eaten?
Some of that honey takes flight and is transformed into exalted meanings. But some of it becomes ensnared by impurity and turns into filth.
Nature lends human beings its aid:
– If a person’s spiritual nature is strengthened, the honey within them becomes a heavenly fragrance.
– But if they incline toward their lower faculties, their being becomes impure.
Which part of the human soul is the devil’s lair?
Where does the devil lie in wait as a hunter?
If we can drive the devil entirely from our souls, our souls will become sources of beauty.
The human intestine is not meant to expel impurity; it is meant to produce nourishment purer and more refined than honey.
### 🌟 The Secret of the Loss of Reason
When reason is lost, a person takes pleasure in filth.
The departure of reason is tantamount to the awakening of a devilish palate within a person.
### 🌟 Reason and the Authority of the Ahl al-Bayt
Whenever reason departs from something, it is a sign that it has turned away from the authority of the Ahl al-Bayt.
As long as we remain under their guardianship, reason abides within us.
But if we separate ourselves from the guardianship of the Ahl al-Bayt, reason departs from us.
Now, what happens if we sever ourselves from the guardianship of the Messenger and the divine guardianship?
The measure and magnitude of corruption grow denser and greater.
Anything from which reason departs becomes fuel for Satan.
Faith has no meaning without tawhid.
The root of all roots is tawhid.
Through tawhid, a person attains joys beyond all other joys;
beyond this summit of joy lies the horizon of tawhid.
A person of tawhid has no taste for Satan.
To Satan’s palate, such a person is bitter and deadly; Satan is destroyed.
A person of tawhid never falls, for they are under the sovereignty of the One, the All-Conquering.
But a polytheist is the most delicious food for Satan.
Satan and the polytheist feed on one another and become each other’s sustenance.
### 🌟 The Believers: Light and Faith for One Another
Believers, too, nourish one another—but not by diminishing each other; rather, they help one another grow.
– They partake of one another’s light and faith.
– They draw upon one another’s earthly and heavenly realms.
– They come together and multiply, becoming greater, more exalted, and more beautiful.
– They become a source of wonders and divine blessings.
### 🛡 Guarding Against Shirk and Satanic Delusions
Let us take care not to draw near to shirk.
– Let us take care not to become food for Satan.
– Let us recognise satanic and ego-driven delusions and steer clear of them.
How does Satan deceive us?
He makes a false path look so beautiful that a person mistakes it for the path to eternity.
Under the sway of this false feeling, a person falls in love with the world and greedily pursues wealth, outward beauty, and worldly status.
What can we do to avoid becoming Satan’s ally and brother?
We must end our companionship with Satan, refuse to strengthen him, and not become his food.
### 🌟 The Wasteful: Satan’s Brothers
Indeed, the wasteful are Satan’s brothers.
Satan disbelieved in his Lord, and remains a disbeliever.
The wasteful cast away the most precious jewels they possess: the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt.
### ✨ Squandering the Guardianship of Ali, peace be upon him
The speaking and silent Qur’an is none other than the Commander of the Faithful, Ali, peace be upon him.
The greatest act of waste has been committed against the guardianship of Ali.
The Imam said:
“Do not squander the guardianship of Ali. Do not cast it aside—neither through enmity nor through exaggeration.”
### 🌟 Let Us Take Care: Do Not Become Satan’s Ally and Helper
Let us take care not to become Satan’s ally and helper.
When we hold fast to the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt, we are enemies of Satan.
But if we sever our bond with the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt, we will become Satan’s brothers.
Who are Satan’s brothers?
They are beyond measure or number.
### ✨ The True Joy of Meeting God
People will do anything to find pleasure, unaware that:
All joy, peace and comfort are found in meeting God.
– In the embrace of God’s mercy.
– In God’s Paradise.
Whatever pleasure people experience comes from tiny morsels of God’s creation, raining down from His heaven.
These little things keep people occupied; and if they forget God’s supreme reality, they will fall prey to every kind of affliction.
### 🌟 Joy for the Believer
For the believer, there is no comfort apart from meeting God.
A true believer does not take pleasure in just anything!
Only meeting God brings the believer peace.
– Even when tasting food, the believer experiences its pleasure through remembrance of God.
At every moment, the believer must attain the meeting with God.
How does the believer remember God?
– Before seeing a sign, the believer must remember the One to whom it points.
– On seeing the sign, the believer must remember God.
– And after passing beyond the sign, the believer must strengthen the remembrance of God in the heart.
### 🕊 An Invitation to True Comfort
Our Lord calls us to true comfort.
O God, be our helper, so that we may answer Your call.
You are the One who answers prayers.
Who is the believer?
– Someone whose attention is fixed solely on God.
– Someone who sees and seeks none but Him.
– Someone who pays no heed to anything besides God.
– Someone who neither sees Satan nor perceives satanic waves.
The believer’s sensitivity to satanic vibrations:
– The believer’s vibrations are so high that they have nothing in common with satanic vibrations.
– The believer sees no one but God.
– The believer is with God alone, and finds peace with Him.
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🌼Ali Saei (Abdollah Meshkat) 110.141(903)🌼
[1] Translation of *Mufradāt Rāghib* vol. 4 397 Kulaynī, Dār al-Ḥadīth, Qom, first edition, 1429 AH.
[2]*Classification of Gurar al-Ḥikam wa Durar al-Kalim*, p. 52
[3]*Classification of Gurar al-Ḥikam wa Durar al-Kalim*, p. 54
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