The Secret of al-Jawād

🌼🔆🌼“The Heart of Imam Jawad’s Words”  “The Imam’s Words: A Gateway to the Imam’s Soul”🌼🔆🌼

🔅🌹 “The Speaking Ignorance at the Root of Our Troubles”  “The Intellect in the Great Occultation”  A summary with a supplement: “Silence in ignorance is the secret of peace” “The silence of the intellect is the root of misery”  “The Night of Imam Jawad’s Birth” and more…       1402.11.01    Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)  🌹🔅

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌼 🌼🔅

🔅🌼 Imam Muhammad al-Taqi al-Jawad, peace be upon him🌼🔅

🔅🌼 Knowing the Jawadi essence, the secret of that essence🌼🔅

🌹Every intellect has a branch within our souls.

🌹Within our souls, we have a branch uniquely belonging to the Jawadi essence: its innate nature and treasury. We have Jawadi knowledge, and a book, a register and a throne of the Jawadi essence.

🌹The Imam’s authority and love mean God’s light in our hearts; they mean a place in our hearts set apart for God.

🌹Every word of the Imam is a window and a passage leading to his authority, while the Imam himself is a path to the meeting with God.

🌹Reflecting on the depths of His Eminence’s words expands our knowledge of Him, increasing its breadth and quickening its growth. Putting His words into practice adds to the blessings of this path.

🌹Visiting the Imam with insight and clear-sighted faith, accompanied by the sweetness of greetings, blessings and prayers, deepens our bond with the soul of divine authority.

🌹When love and devoted affection for divine authority mingle within us, and we absorb, taste, inhale and savour their flavour, our bond with their sacred presence deepens.

🔅🌼 Jawad, the Imam of Imams, is God’s abundant goodness and blessing for the Shi‘a🌼🔅

🌷🔆 وَ عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى الصَّنْعَانِيِّ قَالَ‏ كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ع فَجِي‏ءَ بِابْنِهِ‏ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ وَ هُوَ صَغِيرٌ فَقَالَ هَذَا الْمَوْلُودُ الَّذِي لَمْ يُولَدْ مَوْلُودٌ أَعْظَمُ عَلَى شِيعَتِنَا بَرَكَةً مِنْهُ.[1]

🌷🔆 It is related that Imam al-Rida, peace be upon him, was asked about his young son, Imam Jawad, peace be upon him. He said: “This is a child such as no more blessed child has ever been born to our Shi‘a.”

🌹Failing to be grateful for the Jawadi blessing deprives us of the immense blessings of the Jawadi essence.

🔅🌼 Let us seek the emergence of knowledge of the Jawadi essence🌼🔅

🌹How long must we behold the sun of the Jawadi essence from behind a cloud?

🔅🌼 A person’s words are a ladder to knowing their speaker🌼🔅

🌹Imam Jawad’s words are like flawless diamonds, alive with spirit. His words have an outer and an inner meaning: their outward sense lies on the earthly plane, while their inward meaning reaches beyond the Throne. His words have roots, branches and fruits; they are a mighty ladder carrying us to the highest ascent. Every word of the Prophet’s Household has this quality—and more.

🌹The words of the Prophet’s Household mark the threshold to the heart of divine authority, and offer a way to ascend to the meeting with God.

🌹Each Imam is a mirror, interpreter, elucidator and completer of the others. In the mirror of Imam Jawad, peace be upon him, we may behold the beauty of every Imam; and through each of the Imams, we may look upon the manifestations of the youthful Imam. Each one reflects particular mysteries.

🌹Let us board the vessel of His Eminence’s words and visit the Highest Throne.

🌹Words welling up from the heart flow from the tongue. Forty days of sincerity cause wisdom to well up from the heart and flow from the tongue. But when a mine of knowledge wells up, how far will the wisdom in its words extend? Surely its source reaches from the highest of the high to the earth below.

🔅🌼 The Jawadi heart is our soul🌼🔅

🌹What lies in the cup of the Jawadi soul? Why can we not hear its melody?

🌹Yes, we have Jawadi ears, eyes, tongues and hearts!

🌹And as for the blessing of Jawad, speak of it; sing the song of Jawad!

🌹Jawad al-A’imma is the song of the All-Merciful’s generosity!

🌹Jawad al-A’imma is the ladder of love for the Most Holy!

🌹Jawad al-A’imma  is the song of divine love!

🌹Jawad al-A’imma is the means to love and the vessel of lovers.

🌻🔆Al-Duha: 11   وَ أَمَّا بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ فَحَدِّثْ

🌻🔆Al-A‘raf: 69   …  فَاذْكُرُوا آلاءَ اللَّهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ

🔅🌼The silence of the ignorant is the secret of the world’s tranquillity🌼🔅

🌷🔆وَ قَالَ (الامام الجواد علیه السلام):‏ لَوْ سَكَتَ‏ الْجَاهِلُ مَا اخْتَلَفَ النَّاسُ.[2]

🔆Imam Jawad (peace be upon him): If the ignorant were silent, people would not fall into discord.

🌹The people of the world must fall silent before reason and knowledge.

🌹The wise call people to unity; the ignorant sow discord, rancour and division.

🌹When the ignorant speak, the wise are silenced. Giving the ignorant free rein means burying the wise.

🌹Ignorance favours the blind, deaf and mute, and abhors those who see, hear, speak and reason.

🔅🌼The ignorant imprisoned the gateway to knowledge 🌼🔅

🌷🔆إِنَّ هَاهُنَا لَعِلْماً جَمّاً وَ أَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى صَدْرِهِ لَوْ أَصَبْتُ لَهُ حَمَلَةً بَلَى [أُصِيبُ‏] أَصَبْتُ لَقِناً غَيْرَ مَأْمُونٍ عَلَيْهِ مُسْتَعْمِلًا آلَةَ الدِّينِ لِلدُّنْيَا وَ مُسْتَظْهِراً بِنِعَمِ اللَّهِ عَلَى عِبَادِهِ وَ بِحُجَجِهِ عَلَى أَوْلِيَائِه‏[3]

🔆Imam Ali, peace be upon him, said to Kumayl: “Know that here”—and he pointed to his breast—“there is abundant knowledge. If only I could find people capable of receiving it! To be sure, I have found men of keen intelligence, but they cannot be trusted or relied upon. They make religion a means to worldly gain, exalt themselves over God’s servants by means of His blessings, and contend with His friends by means of His proofs. …

🌷🔆كَذَلِكَ يَمُوتُ‏ الْعِلْمُ‏ بِمَوْتِ حَامِلِيهِ

🔆Such knowledge dies with those who bear it

🌹When a scholar is silenced, the ignorance of the ignorant begins to speak.

🌹Marginalising a scholar is scarcely different from killing him; knowledge is slain before the scholar.

🌷🔆قَالَ أَبَانٌ عَنْ سُلَيْمٍ قَالَ‏ جَلَسْتُ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع بِالْكُوفَةِ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ وَ النَّاسُ حَوْلَهُ فَقَالَ سَلُونِي‏ قَبْلَ‏ أَنْ تَفْقِدُونِي سَلُونِي عَنْ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ فَوَ اللَّهِ مَا نَزَلَتْ آيَةٌ مِنْ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ إِلَّا وَ قَدْ أَقْرَأَنِيهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَلَّمَنِي تَأْوِيلَهَا [4]

🌷🔆Aban relates from Sulaym, who said: I was sitting with the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, in the mosque of Kufa, with people gathered around him. He said: “Ask me before you can no longer find me. Ask me about the Book of God. By God, no verse of the Book of God was ever revealed without the Prophet, may God bless him and his family, reciting it to me so that I might recite it too, and teaching me its interpretation[5]

🌹If they had asked the Master about the Qur’an’s interpretation and exegesis—the Book that makes all things clear, whose every meaning Ali, peace be upon him, knows—and if they had not confined Ali, who knew the paths of heaven better than those of earth, to his home, what progress might our world have made?!

🔅🌼Knowledge is in the Greater Occultation 🌼🔅

🌹During the occultation of Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, knowledge too is in occultation. Those who await the Imam of the Age await knowledge, light and wisdom.

🌹Where are the seekers of buried treasure? Why do they not seek the buried treasures and repositories of knowledge, wisdom and reason? Why do they not pursue the treasures of heaven?

🌷🔆 وَ يُثِيرُوا لَهُمْ دَفَائِنَ‏ الْعُقُول‏[6]

🔆 They brought forth the treasures of reason hidden within them.

🌹The Prophets and the saints unearthed the treasures of reason and made them available to us, so that we might benefit from them. But the ignorant buried those same treasures and became servants of ignorance.

🔅🌼Knowledge is in love with the Ahl al-Bayt 🌼🔅

🌷🔆 هَجَمَ بِهِمُ الْعِلْمُ عَلَى حَقِيقَةِ الْبَصِيرَةِ وَ بَاشَرُوا رُوحَ الْيَقِينِ وَ اسْتَلَانُوا مَا اسْتَوْعَرَهُ الْمُتْرَفُونَ وَ أَنِسُوا بِمَا اسْتَوْحَشَ مِنْهُ الْجَاهِلُونَ وَ صَحِبُوا الدُّنْيَا بِأَبْدَانٍ أَرْوَاحُهَا مُعَلَّقَةٌ بِالْمَحَلِّ الْأَعْلَى أُولَئِكَ خُلَفَاءُ اللَّهِ فِي أَرْضِهِ وَ الدُّعَاةُ إِلَى دِينِهِ Alas, alas! شَوْقاً إِلَى رُؤْيَتِهِمْ ‏[7]

🌷🔆 Knowledge came to them with the clear sight of true insight, and they were imbued with the spirit of certainty. What the pampered found difficult, they found easy; what the ignorant recoiled from, they found familiar. Though their bodies lived in this world, their spirits were joined to the higher realm. They are God’s vicegerents on earth and callers to His religion. Alas, how I long to meet them![8]

🌹Knowledge is in love with the Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them) and hastens into their blessed embrace. They are, in truth, the treasuries of knowledge.

🔅🌼 The ignorant silenced reason so that ignorance could scream and shout 🌼🔅

🌹The root of all suffering is silencing reason and knowledge while giving voice to ignorance and foolishness. The ignorant deepen their ignorance and drive knowledge to ruin, putting it to work in the service of sin.

🌹History records how reason was shut away at home and the chains of ignorance were broken open, defiling the world with injustice and darkness.

🔅🌼 Let us listen to the outward and inward meanings of God’s word 🌼🔅

🌹Whoever refuses to fall silent before the Quran and the Prophet’s household joins the ranks of Satan.

🌹Marginalising the Quran and the Prophet’s household gives free rein to ignorance and corruption.

🌻🔆Al-Aʿrāf: 204   وَ إِذا قُرِئَ الْقُرْآنُ فَاسْتَمِعُوا لَهُ وَ أَنْصِتُوا لَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ

🔆When the Quran is recited, listen to it and remain silent, so that you may receive God’s mercy.

🌹Silence is a matter of showing due respect and of not speaking out of turn in the presence of the Quran and its rulings.

🌹Any attempt to set something up alongside the Quran, or to marginalise its laws, is an effort to give ignorance and Satan dominion.

🌹The secret of listening to the Quran lies in quieting the heart’s tumult—the voices of Satan and the lower self. Until the whisperings and promptings of Satan and the lower self are stilled, we will not hear God’s word.

🔅🌼 To raise one’s voice against the exalted voice of knowledge is a mark of folly 🌼🔅

🌻🔆Al-Ḥujurāt: 2   or أَيُّهَا الَّذينَ آمَنُوا لا تَرْفَعُوا أَصْواتَكُمْ فَوْقَ صَوْتِ النَّبِيِّ وَ لا تَجْهَرُوا لَهُ بِالْقَوْلِ كَجَهْرِ بَعْضِكُمْ لِبَعْضٍ أَنْ تَحْبَطَ أَعْمالُكُمْ وَ أَنْتُمْ لا تَشْعُرُونَ

🔆O you who believe, do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet, nor speak loudly to him as you do to one another, lest your deeds come to nothing without your realising it.

🌹Whoever imagines himself above the commands of the Messenger thereby places himself above God and His command. This is the height of arrogance born of utter ignorance.

🌻🔆Al-Najm: 3   وَ ما يَنْطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوى‏

🌻🔆Al-Najm: 4   إِنْ هُوَ إِلاَّ وَحْيٌ يُوحى‏

🔆He does not speak out of his own desire.

🔆What he says is nothing but a revelation sent down to him.

🔅🌼 Let us not fatten our ignorance 🌼🔅

🌹Until we silence our ignorance, our reason will not find its voice. Our reason must speak and interpret the Qur’an and the Household of the Prophet.

🌹Until we cut off the tongues of devils and turn our ears away from them, we will not hear the angels’ words within our souls.

🌹Until ignorance falls silent, the kingdom of the spirit within us will not come alive.

🌹The worlds of reason and ignorance lie within our hearts: we are either a world of reason or a world of ignorance.

🌹Let reason speak for our hearts.

🌹Do not let ignorance scream itself hoarse, or it will surrender the land of our souls to the plundering devils.

🌹The End Times are an age ruled by ignorance, injustice, and darkness. Under the guise of global institutions, satanic organisations impose and inject ignorance and folly into the peoples of the world.

🌹In the End Times, ignorant pretenders to scholarship manufacture ignorance.

🌹A strange effort is under way to extinguish the candles of reason,

🌷🔆 وَ قَالَ ص‏ لَوْ لَا أَنَّ الشَّيَاطِينَ يَحُومُونَ‏ عَلَى‏ قُلُوبِ بَنِي آدَمَ لَنَظَرُوا إِلَى مَلَكُوتِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرْض‏[9]

🌷🔆 The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and his family: لَوْلا أَنَّ الشَّياطِينَ يَحُومُونَ عَلَى قُلُوبِ بَنِي آدَمَ لَنَظَرُوا إِلَى مَلَكُوتِ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرْضِ

🌹In the eyes of the Dajjalis, insight is forbidden. Their work is rooted in isolating the Two Weighty Things. They turn people away from the light and make them turn their backs on reason. The ignorant and the Dajjalis of our time make it their mission to lull society into heedlessness about the Imam of the Age.

If devils did not hover around our hearts, we would behold the unseen realm of the heavens and the earth; we would hear it, taste it, smell it, and even savour it.

Toxic virtual spaces make their audiences blind, deaf, and mute—and allow the world no room to feel or come alive.

🔅🌼 They break the candlestick to put out the candle 🌼🔅

🌹In this day and age, Iran is truly the candlestick of reason. Iran is the abode of the Qur’an and the Household of the Prophet; devils, both jinn and human, have encircled the cradle of the Two Weighty Things. If the pressure in this land is so intense, it is because devils have gathered to extinguish the light of wilayah.

🌷🔆 عَنْ الْفُضَيْلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ‏ إِنَّ الشَّيَاطِينَ أَكْثَرُ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِ مِنَ الزَّنَابِيرِ عَلَى اللَّحْمِ‏[10]

🌷🔆 Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him: هُجُومُ الشَّيَاطِينِ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ هُجُومِ الزَّنَابِيرِ عَلَى اللَّحْمِ

🌹Iran’s present-day troubles stem from all the devils, both jinn and human, converging on the heartland and centre of the Qur’an and the Household of the Prophet.

🌹If ignorance is not silenced, it will extinguish the light and spread itself. The ignorant are thieves and killers of light: they occupy themselves with making people blind, deaf, and mute, and spare no effort in raising cattle and cultivating the lowest of the low.

🔅🌼 The silence of the ignorant ends discord 🌼🔅

🌷🔆 Our master, the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him: لَوْ سَكَتَ‏ مَنْ‏ لَا يَعْلَمُ سَقَطَ الِاخْتِلَاف‏[11]

🔆 Our master, Imam Ali, peace be upon him: If the ignorant were silent, discord would disappear.

🌷🔆 Imam Ali, peace be upon him: .. لم يعضّ على العلم بضرس قاطع، يذري الروايات إذ راء الريح الهشيم، لا ملي‏ء- و اللَّه- بإصدار ما ورد عليه، و لا هو أهل لما فوّض اليه‏.

🌷🔆 Imam Ali, peace be upon him: He has not thoroughly tested or learned knowledge as he ought, and scatters reports like the wind scattering dry grass. By God, such a scholar is neither fit to carry out the task entrusted to him nor qualified for what has been placed in his care.[12]

🌷🔆 وَ لَا يَعَضُّ فِي الْعِلْمِ بِضِرْسٍ قَاطِعٍ فَيَغْنَمَ يَذْرِي‏ الرِّوَايَاتِ‏ ذَرْوَ الرِّيحِ الْهَشِيمَ‏ تَبْكِي مِنْهُ الْمَوَارِيثُ وَ تَصْرُخُ مِنْهُ الدِّمَاءُ يُسْتَحَلُّ بِقَضَائِهِ الْفَرْجُ الْحَرَامُ وَ يُحَرَّمُ بِقَضَائِهِ الْفَرْجُ الْحَلَالُ لَا مَلِي‏ءٌ بِإِصْدَارِ مَا عَلَيْهِ وَرَدَ  وَ لَا هُوَ أَهْلٌ لِمَا مِنْهُ فَرَطَ مِنِ ادِّعَائِهِ عِلْمَ الْحَقِّ.[13]

🌹Humanity will know no peace until the media of ignorance fall silent.

🌹As long as virtual, deceptive spaces serve as society’s sources of news, knowledge and thought, humanity will not attain felicity.

🌹Making the wise appear ignorant and the ignorant appear wise is the foundation of the work of Dajjal-like virtual and real-world spaces.

🔅🌼The Rope of God is the very knowledge of God 🌼🔅

🌷🔆 وَ طَاعَتَنَا نِظَاماً لِلْمِلَّةِ، وَ إِمَامَتَنَا لَمّاً لِلْفُرْقَة[14]

🔆 Lady Fatima (peace be upon her) said: “God has made obedience to us the means of order and harmony in the religion of Islam, and our Imamate a safeguard against division and discord.

🌹The firm Rope of God is the manifest knowledge of God. Whoever clings to it is freed from ignorance and reaches the light of salvation.

🌹When did history begin to decline? When reason was imprisoned and driven into exile.

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

[1] كشف الغمة في معرفة الأئمة (ط – القديمة) ؛ ج‏2 ؛ ص352  Arbalī, Ali ibn Isa, Bani Hashimi, Tabriz, first edition, 1381 AH.

[2] كشف الغمة في معرفة الأئمة (ط – القديمة) ؛ ج‏2 ؛ ص349  Arbalī, Ali ibn Isa, Bani Hashimi, Tabriz, first edition, 1381 AH.

[3] نهج البلاغة (للصبحي صالح)، ص: 496

[4] كتاب سليم بن قيس الهلالي ؛ ج‏2 ؛ ص802  Hilali, Sulaym ibn Qays, al-Hadi, Iran, Qom, first edition, 1405 AH.

[5] أسرار آل محمد عليهم السلام / ترجمه كتاب سليم، ص: 479

[6] نهج البلاغة (للصبحي صالح) ؛ ؛ ص43  Sharif al-Radi, Muhammad ibn Husayn, Hijrat, Qom, first edition, 1414 AH.

[7] نهج البلاغة (للصبحي صالح) ؛ ؛ ص496  Sharif al-Radi, Muhammad ibn Husayn, Hijrat, Qom, first edition, 1414 AH.

[8] نهج البلاغه / ترجمه انصاريان ؛ ؛ ص794  Muhammad ibn Husayn, Sharif al-Radi, Payam-e Azadi, Tehran, second edition, 1386 SH.

[9] بحار الأنوار (ط – بيروت) ؛ ج‏60 ؛ ص332  Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Taqi, Dar Ihya al-Turath al-Arabi, Beirut, second edition, 1403 AH.

[10] المؤمن ؛ ؛ ص16  Kufi Ahwazi, Husayn ibn Sa’id, Imam al-Mahdi Institute, Qom, 1404 AH.

[11] كنز الفوائد ؛ ج‏1 ؛ ص319  Karajaki, Muhammad ibn Ali, Dar al-Dhakhair, Iran, Qom, first edition, 1410 AH.

[12] الحياة / ترجمه احمد آرام ؛ ج‏2 ؛ ص575  Hakimi, Muhammad Reza and Hakimi, Islamic Culture Publishing Office, Tehran, first edition, 1380 SH.

[13] الكافي (ط – الإسلامية) ؛ ج‏1 ؛ ص55  Kulayni, Islamic Publications, Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.

[14] Dalāʾil al-Imāma (modern edition), p. 113; al-Ṭabarī al-Āmulī al-Ṣaghīr, Muḥammad b. Jarīr b. Rustam, Baʿthat, Iran; Qom, first edition, 1413 AH.