Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼🔆🌼The Victorious Party🌼🔆🌼
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “The Secrets of Triumph over the Satanic Enemy” “The Mystery of the Master of Martyrs (peace be upon him)” “God’s Proof: The Gateway to Transcendent Dimensions” “The Perpetual Struggle between Truth and Falsehood” “The Secret of Transcending the Limits of Time” and more … A Summary with Supplement 1405.03.28 Ali Saei (Abdollah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
✨ An introduction to the discussion:
This text is a small encyclopedia of the wisdom of resistance, Quranic strategy, and Shi‘i mysticism. In it:
the human being is depicted as a battleground between truth and falsehood,
Satan is presented as an intelligent system of deception,
strategy is defined not merely as a military tactic but as the art of turning threats into opportunities,
and history is regarded as a stage for the trans-temporal presence of God’s saints.
This text may be read as a spiritual manifesto for the party of God, calling every believer to use remembrance, reflection, and strategic wisdom to cultivate their inner life and play an active role on the global front of truth.
🌸 🕌 🔆 اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْ مَا يُلْقِي الشَّيْطَانُ فِي رُوعِي🔆 🕌 🌸
☀️🌹مِنَ التَّمَنِّي وَ التَّظَنِّي وَ الْحَسَدِ🌹☀️
🤲 🔆ذِكْراً لِعَظَمَتِكَ، وَ تَفَكُّراً فِي قُدْرَتِكَ، وَ تَدْبِيراً عَلَى عَدُوِّك🔆 🤲
✳️✅ ❇️ 🔆✨💫🔆 The Strategy of “Outmaneuvering the Enemy”
Turning Satanic promptings (wishful thinking, suspicion, envy) into opportunities for spiritual growth (remembrance, reflection, strategic wisdom)
The initial strategy is to seek reform and turn enmity into friendship and affection. When this proves ineffective, firm measures are taken against the enemy!
If the enemy is Satan or satanic in nature, one must think of nothing short of its destruction!
💫🔆Al-Baqarah: 6 إِنَّ الَّذينَ كَفَرُوا سَواءٌ عَلَيْهِمْ أَ أَنْذَرْتَهُمْ أَمْ لَمْ تُنْذِرْهُمْ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ
As for those who disbelieve, it is all the same to them whether you warn them or do not warn them: they will not believe.
🌸 General outline of the discussion (summary)
1. Strategic foundations
Strategic objective: to thwart Satan’s plots and reverse his strategy (turning wishful thinking into remembrance of God’s greatness, suspicion into reflection on God’s power, and envy into strategic action against God’s enemy).
The key principle: every satanic influence within a person is a “disgrace.” A purified person should be a “storehouse of divine traces.”
Not only should no satanic traces be seen in a person, but their whole being should be transformed into a paradise of servitude to God, and their heart and soul into an atelier of the Divine.
The Sajjadi method: using the supplication “اللهم صل علی محمد و آل محمد و اشغله عنا ببعض اعدائک…” to keep the enemy occupied with itself or another enemy, and thus put an end to its pursuit.
2. Operational dimensions of strategy
Destroying the enemy’s base: self-reform is the greatest struggle and the means of destroying Satan’s operational base.
A person must not rise up against themselves in the enemy’s interests; otherwise, they become the enemy’s weapon against themselves—effectively carrying out a suicide attack, harming themselves!
Another strategic principle is to frame one’s grievance: presenting a detailed complaint before God, accompanied by repentance and modeled on Imam Sajjad’s supplication when he was wronged.
Extending the scope of strategy: safeguarding one’s entire “history and geography, both personal and global”; occupying the enemy’s attention; and building a “fortress of protective invocations” against all kinds of evil (سامّه، هامّه، عامّه، لامّه).
Knowledge-based strategy: establishing proof of God; developing specialised insight into the enemy; and understanding Satan’s all-pervasive influence over the blood, heart, wealth, and children.
Self-knowledge and knowledge of the enemy are essential to an effective struggle. So, too, is assessing and estimating one’s own capabilities and those of the enemy, which strengthens strategic planning. This includes spiritual, physical, and transcendent resources, as well as familiarity with the techniques involved and how they work and are applied.
Another strategy: uniting physical and spiritual faculties, and fostering cooperation among the senses and the nervous system!
A person should be at one with themselves—even with the cells of their body and the particles of their being—as well as with their spiritual faculties, the angels around them, and so on.
3. Offensive and psychological tactics
(when the enemy is satanic):
Weaken the enemy: restrict their resources, cut off their lines of communication, and sow division and constant fear in their hearts.
Undermine the enemy’s standing: make them seem insignificant in your own eyes and those of your allies, wage psychological warfare, and expose their faults.
Understanding the nature of deception: Satan’s deception is a divine trial. Satan has no power in and of himself and acts only under God’s will.
Make use of opportunities: seize the golden moments—such as Ramadan, or times when the enemy’s power is waning—to strike effectively.
The ultimate shield: the shield above all shields is tawhid—the invincible force and the best means of repelling the enemy. It is the supreme defence against “polytheism, doubt, injustice, darkness, mortality, and annihilation,” and the soaring wing that carries one to the threshold of the Real and of Truth.
❇️Enmity that is purely therapeutic
Enlist yourself in the army of reason!
Enlist yourself in God’s army!
Join God’s army and party!
Virtues are the principal weapons of God’s party; vices are the weapons and ammunition of Satan’s party. Truth is utterly victorious over falsehood!
Virtues always prevail! Light always overcomes darkness; purity is ever victorious over, and destroys, all that is impure!
The conditions for belonging to Hizbullah: knowing God, the Messenger of God, and God’s wali, and accepting their authority, are among the primary requirements for joining God’s party!
Hizbullah stands opposed to Satan’s party. Whoever is not in God’s party is undoubtedly in Satan’s party!
Without doubt, God’s party will prevail and Satan’s party will be destroyed!
Hizbullah has inward and outward dimensions, and wages both an inward and an outward struggle!
✨🔆al-Māʾidah: 55 إِنَّما وَلِيُّكُمُ اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ وَ الَّذينَ آمَنُوا الَّذينَ يُقيمُونَ الصَّلاةَ وَ يُؤْتُونَ الزَّكاةَ وَ هُمْ راكِعُونَ
🔆Your guardian and protector is none other than God, His Messenger, and those who believe—those who establish prayer and give alms while bowing.
✨🔆al-Māʾidah: 56 وَ مَنْ يَتَوَلَّ اللَّهَ وَ رَسُولَهُ وَ الَّذينَ آمَنُوا فَإِنَّ حِزْبَ اللَّهِ هُمُ الْغالِبُونَ
🔆Those who accept the authority of God, His Messenger, and the believers will surely prevail, for the party of God is victorious.
✨🔆al-Māʾidah: 57 or أَيُّهَا الَّذينَ آمَنُوا لا تَتَّخِذُوا الَّذينَ اتَّخَذُوا دينَكُمْ هُزُواً وَ لَعِباً مِنَ الَّذينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتابَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ وَ الْكُفَّارَ أَوْلِياءَ وَ اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُؤْمِنينَ
🔆Believers, do not take as your protectors those who make a mockery and a game of your religion, whether from among the People of the Book or the polytheists. Be mindful of God, if you truly believe!
❇️Hizbullah: a system of supreme discernment
Hizbullah knows nothing but what is right and true!
Light is the companion of illumination alone!
Light and darkness are never companions!
A pure soul keeps no company with filth or impurity, even when it clings to the body!
✨🔆 المجادلة : 22 لا تَجِدُ قَوْماً يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَ الْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ يُوادُّونَ مَنْ حَادَّ اللَّهَ وَ رَسُولَهُ وَ لَوْ كانُوا آباءَهُمْ أَوْ أَبْناءَهُمْ أَوْ إِخْوانَهُمْ أَوْ عَشيرَتَهُمْ أُولئِكَ كَتَبَ في قُلُوبِهِمُ الْإيمانَ وَ أَيَّدَهُمْ بِرُوحٍ مِنْهُ وَ يُدْخِلُهُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْري مِنْ تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهارُ خالِدينَ فيها رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَ رَضُوا عَنْهُ أُولئِكَ حِزْبُ اللَّهِ أَلا إِنَّ حِزْبَ اللَّهِ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ
You will not find a people who believe in God and the Last Day befriending those who oppose God and His Messenger, even if they are their fathers, sons, brothers, or close kin. They are the ones in whose hearts God has inscribed faith and whom He has strengthened with a spirit from Himself. He will admit them to gardens beneath which rivers flow, where they will remain forever. God is pleased with them, and they are pleased with Him. They are the party of God. Truly, the party of God are the victorious and the successful.
❇️ An unceasing struggle against the party of Satan
Every base and unjust person belongs to the party of Satan!
The party of Satan is under Satan’s bridle!
✨🔆المجادلة : 19 اسْتَحْوَذَ عَلَيْهِمُ الشَّيْطانُ فَأَنْساهُمْ ذِكْرَ اللَّهِ أُولئِكَ حِزْبُ الشَّيْطانِ أَلا إِنَّ حِزْبَ الشَّيْطانِ هُمُ الْخاسِرُونَ
🔆 Satan has gained mastery over them and made them forget God. They are the party of Satan! Truly, the party of Satan are the losers! (19)
✨🔆المجادلة : 20 إِنَّ الَّذينَ يُحَادُّونَ اللَّهَ وَ رَسُولَهُ أُولئِكَ فِي الْأَذَلِّينَ
🔆 Those who oppose God and His Messenger will be among the most abject of people.
✨🔆المجادلة : 21 كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَأَغْلِبَنَّ أَنَا وَ رُسُلي إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَوِيٌّ عَزيزٌ
🔆 God has decreed: “I and My messengers shall prevail.” Surely God is Strong and Almighty!
❇️ Join God’s army, so you do not become captive to the armies of the self and Satan
✨🔆 المؤمنون : 53 فَتَقَطَّعُوا أَمْرَهُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ زُبُراً كُلُّ حِزْبٍ بِما لَدَيْهِمْ فَرِحُونَ
🔆 But they split their affairs among themselves, each faction following its own path—and each rejoicing in what it has!
✨🔆 الروم : 32 مِنَ الَّذينَ فَرَّقُوا دينَهُمْ وَ كانُوا شِيَعاً كُلُّ حِزْبٍ بِما لَدَيْهِمْ فَرِحُونَ
🔆 Those who divided their religion and broke into sects and factions—each rejoicing in what it has!
❇️ Enlist in God’s army, the Party of God
with the pledge to accept the authority of God, the Messenger of God, and the friends of God
and the pledge to renounce the authority of Satan and the parties of Satan
❇️ The eternal call of the Husayni truth
As long as Satan and the lower self draw breath, the struggle between truth and falsehood will continue! The “Husayni truth” ceaselessly calls people to oppose falsehood!
💫🔆يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ إِنِّي سِلْمٌ لِمَنْ سَالَمَكُمْ وَ حَرْبٌ لِمَنْ حَارَبَكُمْ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ فَلَعَنَ اللَّهُ آلَ زِيَادٍ وَ آلَ مَرْوَانَ وَ لَعَنَ اللَّهُ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ قَاطِبَةً وَ لَعَنَ اللَّهُ ابْنَ مَرْجَانَةَ وَ لَعَنَ اللَّهُ عُمَرَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ وَ لَعَنَ اللَّهُ شَمِراً وَ لَعَنَ اللَّهُ أُمَّةً أَسْرَجَتْ وَ أَلْجَمَتْ وَ تَهَيَّأَتْ لِقِتَالِك[1]
🔆 “O Aba Abdillah (Husayn)! Until the Day of Resurrection, I am at peace with whoever is at peace with you, and at war with whoever is at war with you. May God curse the family of Ziyad and the family of Marwan; may God curse all of the Umayyads; may God curse the son of Marjana (Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad); may God curse Umar ibn Sa‘d; may God curse Shimr; and may God curse the people who saddled and bridled their horses [to fight you] and prepared to wage war against you.”
❇️ The Mahdi, peace be upon him, is the Husayn of our time!
💫🔆 فَأَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ الَّذِي أَكْرَمَ مَقَامَكَ أَنْ يُكْرِمَنِي بِكَ وَ يَرْزُقَنِي طَلَبَ ثَارِكَ مَعَ إِمَامٍ مَنْصُورٍ مِنْ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ p.[2]
🔆 “After God, who has honored your station, I ask Him to honor me with your intercession and companionship, and to grant me the chance to avenge your blood alongside a victorious Imam from the family of Muhammad (PBUH).”
💫🔆وَ أَسْأَلُهُ أَنْ يُبَلِّغَنِي الْمَقَامَ الْمَحْمُودَ لَكُمْ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ وَ أَنْ يَرْزُقَنِي طَلَبَ ثَارِكُمْ- مَعَ إِمَامٍ مَهْدِيٍّ نَاطِقٍ لَكُمْ وَ أَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ بِحَقِّكُمْ وَ بِالشَّأْنِ الَّذِي لَكُمْ عِنْدَه[3]
🔆 “I ask Him to bring me to your Praiseworthy Station before God, and to grant me the chance to avenge your blood alongside an Imam who is guided and speaks for you, proclaiming the truth. I ask God by your right and by the rank and standing you hold before Him.”
❇️A Wish That Must Be Fulfilled
💫🔆بِأَبِي أَنْتَ وَ أُمِّي يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْكَ إِنِّي أَبْرَأُ إِلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ قَاتِلِكَ وَ مِنْ سَالِبِكَ يَا لَيْتَنِي كُنْتُ مَعَكَ فَأَفُوزَ فَوْزاً عَظِيماً وَ أَبْذُلُ مُهْجَتِي فِيكَ وَ أَقِيكَ بِنَفْسِي وَ كُنْتُ فِيمَنْ أَقَامَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ حَتَّى يُسْفَكَ دَمِي مَعَكَ- فَأَظْفُرَ مَعَكَ بِالسَّعَادَةِ وَ الْفَوْزِ بِالْجَنَّةِ[4]
💫🔆 “May my father and mother be your ransom, O son of the Messenger of God! May God’s blessings be upon you. Before God, I disavow your killer and those who plundered and wronged you. Would that I had been with you, so that I might have attained the greatest triumph, given my life for your sake, protected you with my own life, and stood among those who took their stand beside you, that my blood might be shed with yours, and that by your side I might attain felicity, victory, and Paradise.”
❇️ A mystery to be experienced
By breaking free of the limits of time, it is possible to be present in any time and place!
Every event has a dimension beyond time!
Every person has a dimension beyond time!
Materialistic thinking imprisons human beings within the confines of time and space!
Attending to the vast dimensions of creation and the “greater universe of being” opens the way beyond time!
God’s proof in every age is the great gateway to the hidden dimensions of being and creation!
That is, it is possible to influence the past and the future from within the present!
❇️ The longing to meet God: the key to saving truth
A time will come when truth can be saved only by giving one’s life. Then, when necessity demands it, one must lay down one’s life and, with the utmost beauty and loving foresight, offer to the Beloved a soul refined and adorned.
A loving bargain one makes for the sake of God’s religion!
At every moment, we must be ready to offer our very lives with wholehearted devotion!
💫🔆الْحِلْيَةِ رَوَى مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ أَنَّهُ لَمَّا نَزَلَ الْقَوْمُ بِالْحُسَيْنِ ع وَ أَيْقَنَ أَنَّهُمْ قَاتِلُوهُ قَالَ لِأَصْحَابِهِ قَدْ نَزَلَ مَا تَرَوْنَ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ وَ إِنَّ الدُّنْيَا قَدْ تَنَكَّرَتْ وَ تَغَيَّرَتْ وَ أَدْبَرَ مَعْرُوفُهَا وَ اسْتَمَرَّتْ حَتَّى لَمْ يَبْقَ مِنْهَا إِلَّا كَصُبَابَةِ الْإِنَاءِ وَ إِلَّا خَسِيسُ عَيْشٍ كَالْمَرْعَى الْوَبِيلِ أَ لَا تَرَوْنَ الْحَقَّ لَا يُعْمَلُ بِهِ وَ الْبَاطِلَ لَا يُتَنَاهَى عَنْهُ لِيَرْغَبَ الْمُؤْمِنُ فِي لِقَاءِ اللَّهِ وَ إِنِّي لَا أَرَى الْمَوْتَ إِلَّا سَعَادَةً وَ الْحَيَاةَ مَعَ الظَّالِمِينَ إِلَّا بَرَماً وَ أَنْشَدَ لَمَّا قَصَدَ الطَّفَّ مُتَمَثِّلًا
| سَأَمْضِي فَمَا بِالْمَوْتِ عَارٌ عَلَى الْفَتَى | إِذَا مَا نَوَى خَيْراً وَ جَاهَدَ مُسْلِماً | |
| وَ وَاسَى الرِّجَالَ الصَّالِحِينَ بِنَفْسِهِ | وَ فَارَقَ مَذْمُوماً وَ خَالَفَ مُجْرِماً | |
| أُقَدِّمُ نَفْسِي لَا أُرِيدُ بَقَاءَهَا | لِنَلْقَى خَمِيساً فِي الْهِيَاجِ عَرَمْرَماً «1» | |
| فَإِنْ عِشْتُ لَمْ أَذْمُمْ وَ إِنْ مِتُّ لَمْ أُلَمْ | كَفَى بِكَ ذُلًّا أَنْ تَعِيشَ فَتُرْغَمَا | |
وَ مِنْ زُهْدِهِ ع أَنَّهُ قِيلَ لَهُ مَا أَعْظَمَ خَوْفَكَ مِنْ رَبِّكَ فَقَالَ لَا يَأْمَنُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِلَّا مَنْ خَافَ اللَّهَ فِي الدُّنْيَا[5]
🔆 In the book *Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ*, Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan relates that when the enemy army descended upon al-Ḥusayn (AS), and he knew with certainty that they would kill him, he said to his companions: “What you see of this conflict has come to pass. This world has become strange and changed; its goodness has turned away and continued to recede, until nothing of it remains but what is left at the bottom of a bowl, and a wretched, paltry life like an unwholesome pasture. Do you not see that the truth is no longer acted upon, nor is falsehood forbidden? [All this is so] that the believer may long to meet God. I see death as nothing but felicity, and life with oppressors as nothing but weariness and suffering.”
As he set out for the land of Ṭaff (Karbala), he would recite these verses:
“I will go forth, for death is no disgrace to a man of honor
when he intends what is good and strives in the way of Islam.
He gives his life in solidarity with the righteous
and departs [this world] reproached [by God], in opposition to the sinners.
I put my life forward; I do not seek to preserve it,
as I go to face a mighty, fearsome army on the battlefield.
If I survive, I shall not be reproached; if I die, I shall not be blamed.
It is enough for you to remain alive in abasement and disgrace; that is humiliation for you.”
Among the signs of his asceticism (AS) is that someone once said to him, “How great is your fear of your Lord!” He replied, “On the Day of Resurrection, no one will be safe except one who feared God in this world.”
❇️Detailed translation of the hadith
الْحِلْيَةِ رَوَى مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ
“In the book *Ḥilya*, Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan relates that
أَنَّهُ لَمَّا نَزَلَ الْقَوْمُ بِالْحُسَيْنِ (AS)
when that group [the enemy army] descended upon al-Ḥusayn (AS) [and surrounded him]
وَ أَيْقَنَ أَنَّهُمْ قَاتِلُوهُ
and he became certain that they would kill him,
قَالَ لِأَصْحَابِهِ
he said to his companions:
قَدْ نَزَلَ مَا تَرَوْنَ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ
Indeed, what you see of this affair [and calamity] has come to pass.
وَ إِنَّ الدُّنْيَا قَدْ تَنَكَّرَتْ
Indeed, the world has become hateful and changed
وَ تَغَيَّرَتْ
and altered. Its goodness has turned away
وَ أَدْبَرَ مَعْرُوفُهَا
and its goodness has turned away
وَ اسْتَمَرَّتْ
and continued in this state
حَتَّى لَمْ يَبْقَ مِنْهَا إِلَّا كَصُبَابَةِ الْإِنَاءِ
until nothing of it remains but what is left at the bottom of a vessel
وَ إِلَّا خَسِيسُ عَيْشٍ كَالْمَرْعَى الْوَبِيلِ
and a mean, paltry life, like a harsh and bitter pasture.
أَ لَا تَرَوْنَ الْحَقَّ لَا يُعْمَلُ بِهِ
Do you not see that right is no longer acted upon
وَ الْبَاطِلَ لَا يُتَنَاهَى عَنْهُ
and wrong is no longer forbidden?
لِيَرْغَبَ الْمُؤْمِنُ فِي لِقَاءِ اللَّهِ
So let the believer long to meet God [and yearn for death].
وَ إِنِّي لَا أَرَى الْمَوْتَ إِلَّا سَعَادَةً
Indeed, I see death as nothing but felicity,
وَ الْحَيَاةَ مَعَ الظَّالِمِينَ إِلَّا بَرَماً
and life with oppressors as nothing but weariness and misery.
وَ أَنْشَدَ لَمَّا قَصَدَ الطَّفَّ مُتَمَثِّلًا
As he made his way to Karbala [al-Ṭaff], he recited these lines [by way of illustration]:
سَأَمْضِي فَمَا بِالْمَوْتِ عَارٌ عَلَى الْفَتَى
I shall go forth, for death is no shame to a noble man,
إِذَا مَا نَوَى خَيْراً وَ جَاهَدَ مُسْلِماً
if his intention is good and he strives in the path [of Islam and truth],
وَ وَاسَى الرِّجَالَ الصَّالِحِينَ بِنَفْسِهِ
and stands in solidarity with righteous men [and shares their cause],
وَ فَارَقَ مَذْمُوماً وَ خَالَفَ مُجْرِمًا
while keeping apart from the condemned and opposing the sinner.
أُقَدِّمُ نَفْسِي لَا أُرِيدُ بَقَاءَهَا
I offer my life and have no wish for it to endure,
لِنَلْقَى خَمِيساً فِي الْهِيَاجِ عَرَمْرَماً
so that we may meet a great host, fierce in battle.
فَإِنْ عِشْتُ لَمْ أَذْمُمْ وَ إِنْ مِتُّ لَمْ أُلَمْ
If I survive, I shall not be condemned; if I die, I shall not be blamed.
كَفَى بِكَ ذُلًّا أَنْ تَعِيشَ فَتُرْغَمَا
Your disgrace is enough: to live while forced into humiliation before the enemy.
وَ مِنْ زُهْدِهِ ع
Among the signs of his asceticism is that
أَنَّهُ قِيلَ لَهُ مَا أَعْظَمَ خَوْفَكَ مِنْ رَبِّكَ
someone said to him, “How great is your fear of your Lord!”
فَقَالَ
He replied:
لَا يَأْمَنُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِلَّا مَنْ خَافَ اللَّهَ فِي الدُّنْيَا
“On the Day of Resurrection, no one will be safe except one who feared God in this world.”
A concise summary of “The Strategy of Devising Against the Enemy”
A strategic perspective on the human being, knowing the enemy, and divine strategy
In the realms of human nature, knowledge of God, and strategy
🌸 Part One: Aphorisms on Human Nature (Self-Knowledge and Spiritual Psychology)
“The human spirit is a mirror between earth and heaven.”
→ Wisdom: The truth of the human being lies in being the link between the material and spiritual worlds; whatever takes shape within them reflects what is above or below.
“When ignorance seeks knowledge and Satan offers counsel, ignorance deepens and beauty is eclipsed.”
→ A philosophical warning: Knowledge without insight does not merely fail to illuminate; it makes things darker.
“Anger is a fire, kindled by Satan, that consumes the harvest of reason.”
→ A pathophysiological view of the emotions: anger is a means by which Satan infiltrates human decision-making.
“True courage lies in never committing sin.”
→ A redefinition of courage: it is found not on the battlefield, but in self-restraint and keeping oneself free of corruption.
“Whoever entrusts their spirit (their perceptual system) to Satan loses the treasure of existence.”
→ A philosophical principle: a person’s essential nature is a priceless asset; surrendering it to the enemy amounts to real ruin.
“There is an unbreakable bond between a sound spirit (perceptual system) and a sound society.”
→ A systems perspective: social reform begins from within, with the self.
🌟 Part Two: Aphorisms on Knowing God and Mysticism (Centered on Divine Oneness)
“Remembrance is the key to release from the chains of disobedience.”
→ A mystical perspective: remembrance of God is not merely a verbal habit, but a key that unlocks the soul.
“Seeking refuge in God is breathing the pure air of divine oneness.”
→ Seeking refuge is not simply a supplication; it is the soul’s breathing space in the atmosphere of faith.
“Sincerity is an ear that hears only the melody of «إیاک نعبد».”
→ Sincerity purifies intentions, allowing no voice but that of divine oneness to enter.
“God’s name is God’s mighty fortress.”
→ An allusion to knowing the divine names and practising divine oneness: the one absolute refuge is the Most Holy Essence of God.
“Light and darkness are not companions.”
→ An ontological principle: truth and falsehood are genuinely opposed, and their very natures admit of no compromise.
🧠 Part Three: Strategic Aphorisms and the Art of Devising (Knowing the Enemy and Divine Governance)
“Turn Satanic promptings (wishful thinking, conjecture, envy) into opportunities for growth (remembrance, reflection, strategy).”
→ A strategic principle: Satan must be contained not merely by repelling him, but by turning his tactics back on themselves.
“If the enemy is Satan or satanic in nature, one must think of nothing but its destruction.”
→ An ethical-political principle: peace cannot be made with a being inherently at war with the truth.
“One must not rise up against oneself to benefit the enemy.”
→ A philosophy of self-care: the greatest betrayal is to cooperate unconsciously with the enemy within.
“Do not give Satan room to think against you.”
→ A principle of cognitive warfare: the human mind is a strategic battlefield.
“The party of God knows nothing but truth and what is true”
→ An identity-defining description of the party of God: founded on pure knowledge, not passing interests.
“By breaking free of the limits of time, one can be present in any era and place”
→ The timeless, metaphysical principle of divine governance: God’s friends are not confined by history; they have command over time.
“God’s proof in every age is a gateway to the hidden dimensions of existence and creation”
→ Mystical-philosophical knowledge of the Imam: the Imam is a bridge between the visible and unseen worlds, and a passage from the outward to the inward.
🔥 Part Four: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Martyrdom, and Salvation
“I see death as nothing but felicity, and life with oppressors as nothing but weariness”
→ A Husayni view of existence: the worth of life lies in the quality of its relationship to truth, not in its duration.
“On the Day of Resurrection, none will be safe except one who feared God in this world”
→ An ethical and eschatological principle: safety in the hereafter is the fruit of a mindful fear of God in this life.
“A loving exchange that a person makes in favour of God’s religion”
→ The philosophy of martyrdom: exchanging one’s life for divine favour is not merely a sacrifice, but a loving investment.
🌟 Part One: A Systemic, Ontological, and Strategic Perspective
Light has no kinship with darkness
The ontological principle that truth and falsehood are inherently incompatible
If the enemy is Satan or satanic in nature, one should think of nothing but destroying it
One cannot make peace with a nature that is hostile to truth
A person must not rise up against themselves to benefit the enemy
The greatest betrayal is to unknowingly collaborate with the enemy within
Do not give Satan room to turn your thoughts against you
The human mind is a strategic battlefield
By breaking free of the limits of time, one can be present in any era and place
The timeless principle of God’s friends: their command over history
God’s proof in every age is a gateway to the hidden dimensions of existence and creation
Mystical-philosophical knowledge of the Imam: a bridge between the visible and the unseen
I see death as nothing but felicity, and life with oppressors as nothing but weariness
A Husayni view of existence: the qualitative worth of life, not its quantity
On the Day of Resurrection, none will be safe except one who feared God in this world
Safety in the hereafter is the fruit of a mindful fear of God in this life
Turning Satan’s insinuations—wishful thinking, suspicion, and envy—into opportunities for spiritual growth through remembrance, reflection, and discernment
The strategic principle of turning threats into opportunities
A loving exchange that a person makes in favour of God’s religion
Martyrdom: a loving investment, not merely a sacrifice
The party of God knows nothing but truth and what is true
An identity-defining description of the party of God: founded on pure knowledge, not passing interests
Seeking refuge in God is breathing the pure air of divine unity
Taking refuge in God is the soul’s breathing space in an environment of faith
Sincerity is an ear that hears only the melody “إیاک نعبد”
Sincerity is a filter for intentions, attuned only to the voice of divine unity
Satan sits atop the treasure; beware lest it steal the treasure of the Two Weighty Things
A warning about Satan’s covetousness for the precious jewel of the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt
Relief will not come until you have been sifted three times
Salvation is impossible without passing through successive trials
💎 Part Two: Wisdoms Drawn from the Text
| No. | Saying |
| 1 | The human rûʿ is a mirror of earth and heaven |
| 2 | A scholar’s ignorance only breeds more ignorance |
| 3 | Anger is a fire that consumes the harvest of reason |
| 4 | True courage lies in never having experienced sin |
| 5 | Whoever entrusts their rûʿ (the faculty of perception and feeling) to Satan loses the treasure of existence |
| 6 | There is an unbreakable bond between a sound rûʿ (the faculty of perception and feeling) and a healthy society |
| 7 | Reforming society begins with reforming its rûʿs |
| 8 | Light does not befriend darkness |
| 9 | There is no way to deal with one who is satanic except to destroy him |
| 10 | Do not give Satan room to think |
| 11 | God’s Proof is the gateway to the hidden dimensions of existence |
| 12 | Death with honour is felicity |
| 13 | Life among oppressors is nothing but misery |
| 14 | Each morning, before anything else, take stock of your rûʿ |
| 15 | Fleeing sin is silent heroism |
| 16 | Remembrance lights up even the darkest temptations |
| 17 | بسم الله is a fortress that keeps Satan at bay |
| 18 | Seeking refuge is the rhyme of deliverance |
| 19 | A believer is like kohl in the eye; you never know when it may return |
| 20 | Satan first creates division, then takes control |
| 21 | Nazgha is Satan’s poisoned sting |
| 22 | Temptation is the hunter’s whisper, lying in wait for the soul |
| 23 | The Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt are the operating system of the human faculty of perception |
| 24 | Whoever does not seek refuge has entered the enemy’s battlefield unarmed |
| 25 | No injustice occurs without Satan’s dominion over the heart |
| 26 | Satan’s grasp cannot reach the believer’s heavenly realm |
| 27 | Before Satan takes hold of your rûʿ, disrupt his |
| 28 | Make yourself a soldier of reason |
| 29 | Join God’s army and party |
| 30 | Noble virtues are God’s party’s weapons; wicked stratagems are Satan’s party’s ammunition |
| 31 | God’s party is victorious; Satan’s party is doomed |
| 32 | Enlist in God’s army with the password of accepting divine authority |
| 33 | As long as Satan and the lower self draw breath, the battle between truth and falsehood continues |
| 34 | Materialist thought imprisons the human being within time |
| 35 | The greater world of existence opens a path beyond the bounds of time |
| 36 | The longing to meet God is the key to the salvation of truth |
| 37 | Offer your soul, purified through trial, to the One you worship |
| 38 | With loving deliberation, give up your life |
| 39 | The shield above every shield is divine unity |
| 40 | Tawhid is an invincible force |
✨ 🌹
❇️✳️✅💫🔆🌷Strategic summary
🌟 A concise recap of the original text
1. Strategic objective:
Turn threats into opportunities
Transform satanic insinuations (wishful thinking, suspicion, envy) into the highest spiritual growth through remembrance, reflection, and prudent action.
2. The key principle:
The human being is a wellspring of divine grace
Let not only your being be pure; let your entire self become a workshop of God’s artistry, admitting no trace of satanic influence.
3. How to deal with an enemy:
First: Try to reform them and turn enmity into friendship
Second: If that fails, destroy the satanic enemy
Satan and those who follow his ways must be considered fit for nothing but destruction.
4. Operational tactics:
| Domain | Action |
| Destroying the enemy’s stronghold | Self-reform and the greater jihad |
| Lodging a complaint | Present your complaint before God through repentance, recounting every detail |
| Weakening the enemy | Restricting their resources, cutting off lines of communication, sowing discord and fear |
| Psychological warfare | Making the enemy seem insignificant, exposing their faults, undermining their reputation |
| The ultimate shield | Tawhid, the invincible force |
5. Broadening the scope of prudent action:
Protect your entire history and geography, and those of the world
Keep the enemy’s mind occupied
Build an amulet-fortress as refuge from every kind of evil
6. The Party of God, the victorious party:
The condition for joining: accepting the authority of God, the Messenger, and God’s chosen ones
Renouncing the authority of Satan and his parties
The Party of God = light, purity, noble virtues ← the Party of Satan = darkness, corruption, and evil
The outcome: The Party of God is victorious; the Party of Satan is destined for destruction.
✨ 7. A timeless horizon for prudent action:
Break free from temporal limits by attending to the “greater universe of being”
God’s Proof in every age is the gateway to the hidden dimensions of creation
Longing to meet God is the key to the salvation of truth
It is possible to affect the past and the future from within the present
At every moment, the soul must be offered up with wholehearted sincerity.
💎 Final summary in one sentence:
“Through remembrance, reflection, and prudent action, turn satanic insinuations into a bridge to spiritual ascent; join the victorious party by accepting divine authority; and, with a timeless vision, be a soldier of reason and truth in every age.”
🌼Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)🌼
[1] كامل الزيارات ؛ النص ؛ ص176 Ibn Qulawayh, Ja‘far ibn Muhammad, Dar al-Murtadawiyya – Najaf al-Ashraf, first edition, 1356 SH.
[2] كامل الزيارات ؛ النص ؛ ص177 Ibn Qulawayh, Ja‘far ibn Muhammad, Dar al-Murtadawiyya – Najaf al-Ashraf, first edition, 1356 SH.
[3] Kāmil al-Ziyārāt, text, p. 177 Ibn Qulawayh, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, al-Murtaḍawiyya Press, Najaf, first edition, 1356 Shamsi.
[4] Kāmil al-Ziyārāt, text, p. 237 Ibn Qulawayh, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, al-Murtaḍawiyya Press, Najaf, first edition, 1356 Shamsi.
[5] The Virtues of the Family of Abū Ṭālib (by Ibn Shahrāshūb), vol. 4, p. 68 Ibn Shahrāshūb Māzandarānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, ʿAllāma Press, Qom, first edition, 1379 AH.
