🌼Answers to Questions of the Soul and Spirit🌼

🌼The Secret of Deliverance from Sorcery🌼

🌷🔅In Love with the Ṣaḥīfa

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

🌿The Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya is the sweetness, the drink, and the honey of Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him.

🌿It is a vast sea of wonders, knowledge, and marvels.

🌿The Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya has many levels and interwoven layers, and a sky filled with allusions, beyond its lofty, miraculous words—its allusions, subtleties, and truths surpass even the miraculous.

🌿The Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya is a path to salvation, an antidote to poisons, and a healer of the soul, the body, and the world.

🌿A believer should stir up a great spiritual fervor through the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya.

🌿To welcome Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him, with the Ṣaḥīfa Sajjadiyya at the supreme gathering

🌸🔆🌿 ثُمَّ جَاءَ الْحَجَّاجُ فَقَتَلَهُمْ بِكُلِّ قِتْلَةٍ وَ بِكُلِّ ظِنَّةٍ وَ بِكُلِّ تُهَمَةٍ حَتَّى إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيُقَالُ لَهُ زِنْدِيقٌ أَوْ مَجُوسِيٌّ كَانَ ذَلِكَ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ أَنْ‏ يُشَارَ إِلَيْهِ‏ أَنَّهُ مِنْ شِيعَةِ الْحُسَيْنِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْه‏

The Book of Sulaym ibn Qays al-Hilali; vol. 2; p. 633  Al-Hilali, 2 volumes, al-Hadi – Iran, Qom, first edition, 1405 AH.

🌸🔆🌿اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ اكْفِنِي مَا يَشْغَلُنِي الِاهْتِمَامُ بِهِ، وَ اسْتَعْمِلْنِي بِمَا تَسْأَلُنِي غَداً عَنْهُ، وَ اسْتَفْرِغْ‏ أَيَّامِي‏ فِيمَا خَلَقْتَنِي لَه‏

🌸🔆🌿وَ أَعِزَّنِي وَ لَا تَبْتَلِيَنِّي بِالْكِبْرِ، وَ عَبِّدْنِي لَكَ وَ لَا تُفْسِدْ عِبَادَتِي بِالْعُجْب‏

🌷🔅Are we ready for tomorrow’s questions?

🔆 I am a migrant, a traveler through the heavens. I was born into this world for a lofty purpose and a great mission, and tomorrow, on the Day of Resurrection, I will be called to account for it.

🔆 I have come from the highest of the high to grow within my soul a wing with which to fly toward the pleasure of God, Exalted is He.

🔆 Tomorrow I will be asked: Who is your Lord? What will I answer? Will I be able to speak of my Lord’s greatness? Did I benefit from this earthly world, opened up like a classroom in which to know my Lord? How has my knowledge of my Lord changed between my coming and my going?

🔆 I must introduce my Lord through His exalted attributes; I must sit my exam and present the knowledge I have acquired.

🔆 I came to attain knowledge of God. How much has my understanding grown?

🔆 “O Allah, make Yourself known to me”: in this earthly life, this means, “O God, help me use the blessings of this world to know You.” Was my prayer answered—or did I never truly intend this in the first place?

🔆 Tomorrow I will be questioned about the Quran: what will I say about its words, its allusions, its subtleties, and its truths?

🔆 Tomorrow I will be questioned about the Quran: what will I answer about its inner meanings, its light, and its proof?

🔆 In the grave and at the gathering, I must be one who follows and recites the Quran, and one who interprets it. Have I achieved this aim?

🔆 Tomorrow I will be questioned about the Noble Prophet, the Prophet of God, peace be upon him: what will I say about the beginning of creation, about the primordial substance from which creation was made?

🔆 Tomorrow we will be asked, “From where, in what, and to where?” What answer will we find?

🔆 We are all moving toward the best knowledge of God, toward the Face of God.

🌷🔅Idle talk and distraction hinder reflection and understanding

🔆 Diversions and empty talk keep us from attending to the purposes of creation.

🔆 Indulging in diversions and empty talk deepens heedlessness and leads us away from the purposes of creation.

🔆 Diversions and empty talk keep us from attending to the Truth and Imam of the Age, peace be upon him.

🔆 The means of heedlessness are the means by which our attention is stolen.

🔆 Frivolities and vain pursuits draw our focus into darkness, absorbing us and keeping us from the light.

🔆 Virtues and spiritual knowledge focus our limbs, senses and hearts on the truths for which we were created.

🔆 To be content with frivolities and vain pursuits is to be content with degradation.

🔆 We delight in frivolities and vain pursuits because the human heart is small. As the heart expands, so too does a person’s joy: it grows vast and immense.

🔆 A person must become small before finding pleasure in frivolities and vain pursuits.

🔆 Through frivolities and vain pursuits, the mind and heart become toys in the hands of devils.

🔆 Until we free ourselves from the captivity of frivolities and vain pursuits, we will not be able to focus on our true aims.

🌷🔅The Zaynabī Mystery

🔆 Zaynab’s purifying storm cleanses away vices; it is one of the forces that perfumes the worlds.

🔆 The presence of Zaynab’s pure soul at Ashura ennobled the measure of Karbala.

🌷🔅Showing Off Is a Branch of Associating Partners with God

🔆 The distance between conceit and showing off is the distance between self-worship and worship of others: the show-off is preoccupied with worshipping others. In God’s name, the show-off devotes himself to others—perhaps even to people who are «كالانعام، بل هم اضل». A show-off may, in effect, worship animals.

🔆 Among the branches and offshoots of arrogance are conceit, pride, vanity, showing off, seeking a reputation, boasting, pretence, vying for abundance, self-love, love of status, love of leadership, love of praise, self-adornment, and so on. Arrogance is a distinct malady that gives rise to many deadly diseases.

🔆 The roots of most sectarian divisions, acts of oppression, plunder and killing lie in arrogance, conceit and envy.

🔆 Arrogance, conceit and their allies and followers lead to deviation and leave wounds on history—as happened at Saqifah.

🔆 The show-off strives to attract others and urge them to pay attention to him and worship him, yet ends up trapped in the worship of others himself.

🌷🔅قَالَ الصَّادِقُ ع‏ لَا تُرَاءِ بِعَمَلِكَ مَنْ لَا يُحْيِي وَ لَا يُمِيتُ وَ لَا يُغْنِي عَنْكَ شَيْئاً وَ الرِّيَاءُ شَجَرَةٌ لَا تُثْمِرُ إِلَّا الشِّرْكَ‏ الْخَفِيَ‏ وَ أَصْلُهَا النِّفَاقُ يُقَالُ لِلْمُرَائِي يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عِنْدَ الْمِيزَانِ خُذْ ثَوَابَ عَمَلِكَ مِمَّنْ أَشْرَكْتَهُ مَعِي فَانْظُرْ مَنْ تَعْبُدُ وَ تَدْعُو وَ مَنْ تَرْجُو وَ مَنْ تَخَافُ وَ اعْلَمْ أَنَّكَ لَا تَقْدِرُ عَلَى إِخْفَاءِ شَيْ‏ءٍ مِنْ بَاطِنِكَ عَلَيْهِ تَعَالَى وَ تَصِيرُ مَخْدُوعاً بِنَفْسِكَ قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى‏ يُخادِعُونَ اللَّهَ وَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَ ما يَخْدَعُونَ إِلَّا أَنْفُسَهُمْ وَ ما يَشْعُرُونَ‏ وَ أَكْثَرُ مَا يَقَعُ‏ الرِّيَاءُ فِي الْبَصَرِ وَ الْكَلَامِ وَ الْأَكْلِ وَ الشُّرْبِ وَ الْمَجِي‏ءِ وَ الْمُجَالَسَةِ وَ اللِّبَاسِ وَ الضَّحِكِ وَ الصَّلَاةِ وَ الْحَجِّ وَ الْجِهَادِ وَ قِرَاءَةِ الْقُرْآنِ وَ سَائِرِ الْعِبَادَاتِ الظَّاهِرَةِ فَمَنْ أَخْلَصَ بَاطِنَهُ لِلَّهِ تَعَالَى وَ خَشَعَ لَهُ بِقَلْبِهِ وَ رَأَى نَفْسَهُ مُقَصِّراً بَعْدَ بَذْلِ كُلِّ مَجْهُودٍ وَجَدَ الشُّكْرَ عَلَيْهِ حَاصِلًا وَ يَكُونُ من [مِمَّنْ‏] يُرْجَى لَهُ الْخَلَاصُ مِنَ الرِّيَاءِ وَ النِّفَاقِ إِذَا اسْتَقَامَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ فِي كُلِّ حَال‏

Miṣbāḥ al-Sharīʿa, p. 32Attributed to Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad عليه السلام, the sixth Imam عليه السلام; Aʿlamī, Beirut, first edition, 1400 AH.

🌷🔅Making Falsehood Look Like Truth and Truth Look Like Falsehood: The Secret of Sorcery and Enchantment

🔆 Making falsehood look like truth and truth look like falsehood changes the very structure of decision-making and decision-shaping.

🔆 We laugh at frivolities because the pillars that uphold the human soul are weak and unsteady.

🔆 The hunger to be seen is a deadly disease afflicting global society.

🔆 The fame of celebrities goes hand in hand with the degradation of those infatuated with them.

🔆 Unformed minds are manipulated, appropriated, put to work and exploited by human and jinn devils.

🔆 A special test of the End Times is now under way, confronting us with extraordinary obsessions and satanic promptings.

🔆 The era of the end times is the era of discerning blind, tangled, and headless seditions and confronting them.

🌷🔅 The test of discernments and assignments

🌹🔆 Al-Anfal: 29   يا أَيُّهَا الَّذينَ آمَنُوا إِنْ تَتَّقُوا اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَكُمْ فُرْقاناً وَ يُكَفِّرْ عَنْكُمْ سَيِّئاتِكُمْ وَ يَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ وَ اللَّهُ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظيمِ

🔆 From genetic change to innate change—which is the same innate deviation that comes with the destruction of one’s primordial nature, bringing a person to total metamorphosis.

🔆 Metamorphosis has an innate connection with innate deviation.

🔆 The deadly weapon of lying is a dark veil before the clear face of truths.

🔆 Drinking the love of falsehood burns faith from its root.

🔆 The craving for leadership begins with rule over hearts and continues until rule over all the members of body and soul.

🔆 A war and struggle to conquer hearts is underway—be careful!

🌷🔅 Fragrant martyrdom

🔆 Prepare yourselves for a fragrant, effective, and exalted martyrdom.

🔆 The more one adorns one’s being with the ornament of noble virtues and knowledge, the more fragrant and adorned one’s martyrdom will be, and the greater its effect on religion, this world, the hereafter, and the mighty realms.

🔆 Martyrdom must be planned and managed so that the honey of one’s martyrdom may sweeten the palate of the world.

🔆 Raise the coefficient of your martyrdom.

🔆 Death must shine and give warmth like a torch—not that death be a time of extinguishing, stillness, and darkness.

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