Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼Believers are one another’s wings🌼
🌼The order of love and aversion🌼
🌼The deadly danger of envy🌼
🌸🔆🌿 “The higher ordering of love and aversion” “The believer is a garden of paradise for the good” “Prayer 20 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya: و ابدلنی من شنآن اهل البغی المحبه”
🔅🌹 Synopsis with an addendum: “The higher ordering of love and aversion” “The believer is a garden of paradise for the good” “Prayer 20 of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya” “و ابدلنی من شنآن اهل البغی الموده” “ ” 1402.04.22 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅☘️ The gathering of believers is the pure light of faith
🌻Any suspicion, insult or accusation directed by one believer at another drives faith from the believer’s heart.
🌻Every believer is another believer’s strength and support, wings, light and radiance, serenity, garden and paradise.
🌻When one believer is joined to another, the result is a greater believer. We may boldly say that one of the secrets of attaining the fullness of faith and the highest degree of certainty lies in the blessed bond between a believer and other believers.
🌻When believers come together, they become the light and radiance of all existence. Their blessed bond with one another is the very essence of serenity, delight and joy.
🌻The bond of affection and love among believers is the mighty tree of faith, and a sky filled with stars.
🌻When believers become of one heart, they discover the sweetness of unity and divine oneness.
🌻Each believer is another believer’s secret, spirit and soul.
🔅☘️The lantern of faith
🌻The greatest lantern of faith shines brightly in the community of love, affection and fellowship among believers.
🌻Through the bond of faith with other believers, a believer takes a step on the path of servitude that stretches from pre-eternity to eternity.
🌻Any rancour a believer harbours against another is a fire that destroys their faith.
🌻To wrong one another among believers is no less grave than disobeying one’s parents.
🌻Every believer is, for another believer, like an eye, an ear and a mind.
🌻Every believer is a paradise for the good and a hell for those who sin.
🌻A single act of aversion by one believer toward another can lead that person onto the road to disbelief.
🌻One accusation by a believer against another can wash away and destroy faith.
🌻Let us strive to preserve our faith, and raise our hands to Allah, imploring Him to protect it.
🌻Let us take care not to misplace our love and aversion. A believer may well turn themselves into a paradise for unbelievers and a hell for other believers; in that case, the believer’s faith becomes disbelief.
🔅☘️Ordering love and aversion
🌻To order love and aversion is to bring order to the world’s affection and serenity.
🌻The secret to ordering love and aversion lies in connecting to the supreme system of love and aversion that governs all existence. The Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, are that mighty system.
🌻Only one who joins knowledge of the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, with love for them can embody pure goodness. Whoever combines denial of their rank with enmity toward them becomes the embodiment of pure evil.
🌻Bringing knowledge and love together is pure good and goodness.
🌻Denial of the Ahl al-Bayt’s authority and enmity toward them are the root and source of evil.
🌻Hostility toward believers is entry into the pit of sin, depravity, impurity and filth.
🌻Every believer is a source of peace for other believers and all existence, and a source of terror in the hearts of the wicked in this world.
🌻If we win the hearts of the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, we will have conquered the whole world, for “the Manifest Imam is that exalted being in whom everything has been encompassed.”
🌻Love and anger for God’s sake are always rewarded by Allah. Even if someone errs in matters of love, whoever loves and is angered for God’s sake, Allah will guide them to true love.
🌻Al-‘Ankabut: 69 وَ الَّذينَ جاهَدُوا Among us لَنَهْدِيَنَّهُمْ سُبُلَنا وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمَعَ الْمُحْسِنينَ
🌻When one believer’s love and hatred for another believer are reversed, the believer’s faith is turned into disbelief. If a believer regards another believer as destined for Hell and unbelievers as destined for Paradise, that believer falls from the platform of faith.
🌻The presence of believers brings peace and well-being to the good people of the world.
🌻With the Ahl al-Bayt, our love and hatred are always on the straight path.
🌻Everything connected with the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, lies on the path of light and illumination.
🌻Knowledge with the Ahl al-Bayt is light and illumination; without the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, it is sheer darkness.
🌻Knowledge without the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, is like a bat: noisy, polluting, and burdensome.
🌻Knowledge without the Ahl al-Bayt brings trouble.
🔅☘️ The heavens fall into misery through envy
🌻Envy turns the heavens to dust and brings the dust down to the dust; love and affection lift the dust toward the heavens.
🌻Envy, and darkness prevailing over light, plunge the world into gloom and darkness. Envy, and the triumph of the people of Saqifah over the very soul of wilayah, reduced history to ashes and plunged it into darkness and ruin.
🌻When the earth envies the heavens, it remains in its lowly state.
🌻However starry the heavens may be, they also enhance the earth’s worth and value, for the heavens are like the earth’s roof and crown.
🌻The value of land rises when a tree is planted in it; the more abundant its branches, leaves, blossoms, and fruit, the more the land is worth.
🌻 عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: لَوْ أَنَّ رَجُلًا أَحَبَّ رَجُلًا لِلَّهِ لَأَثَابَهُ اللَّهُ عَلَى حُبِّهِ إِيَّاهُ وَ إِنْ كَانَ الْمَحْبُوبُ فِي عِلْمِ اللَّهِ مِنْ أَهْلِ النَّارِ وَ لَوْ أَنَّ رَجُلًا أَبْغَضَ رَجُلًا لِلَّهِ لَأَثَابَهُ اللَّهُ عَلَى بُغْضِهِ إِيَّاهُ وَ إِنْ كَانَ الْمُبْغَضُ فِي عِلْمِ اللَّهِ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّة[1]
🌻عَنْ أَبِي خَدِيجَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع مَا مِنْ عَبْدَيْنِ مُسْلِمَيْنِ إِلَّا وَ بَيْنَهُمَا حِجَابٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ فَإِنْ قَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا هَجْراً فِي صَاحِبِهِ هَتَكَ اللَّهُ ذَلِكَ السِّرَّ- فَإِنْ بَرِئَ أَحَدُهُمَا مِنْ صَاحِبِهِ كَفَرَ أَحَدُهُمَا يَعْنِي أَشَدَّهُمَا قَوْلا[2]
🌻وَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: مَا مِنْ مُؤْمِنَيْنِ إِلَّا وَ بَيْنَهُمَا حِجَابٌ فَإِنْ قَالَ لَهُ لَسْتَ لِي بِوَلِيٍّ فَقَدْ كَفَرَ فَإِنِ اتَّهَمَهُ فَقَدِ انْمَاثَ الْإِيمَانُ فِي قَلْبِهِ كَمَا يَنْمَاثُ الْمِلْحُ فِي الْمَاءِ [3]
🌻 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع دَخَلَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْجَدَلِيُّ عَلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَقَالَ ع يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ أَ لَا أُخْبِرُكَ بِقَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ- مَنْ جاءَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ فَلَهُ خَيْرٌ مِنْها وَ هُمْ مِنْ فَزَعٍ يَوْمَئِذٍ آمِنُونَ. وَ مَنْ جاءَ بِالسَّيِّئَةِ فَكُبَّتْ وُجُوهُهُمْ فِي النَّارِ هَلْ تُجْزَوْنَ إِلَّا ما كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ قَالَ بَلَى يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَقَالَ الْحَسَنَةُ مَعْرِفَةُ الْوَلَايَةِ وَ حُبُّنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ وَ السَّيِّئَةُ إِنْكَارُ الْوَلَايَةِ وَ بُغْضُنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ ثُمَّ قَرَأَ عَلَيْهِ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ.[4]
🌻 قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْإِسْلَامُ عُرْيَانٌ فَلِبَاسُهُ الْحَيَاءُ وَ زِينَتُهُ الْوَقَارُ وَ مُرُوءَتُهُ الْعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ وَ عِمَادُهُ الْوَرَعُ وَ لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ أَسَاسٌ وَ أَسَاسُ الْإِسْلَامِ حُبُّنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْت[5]
🌻 Women: 54 أَمْ يَحْسُدُونَ النَّاسَ عَلى ما آتاهُمُ اللَّهُ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ فَقَدْ آتَيْنا آلَ إِبْراهيمَ الْكِتابَ وَ الْحِكْمَةَ وَ آتَيْناهُمْ مُلْكاً عَظيماً
🌼 Ali Saei (Abdullah Mishkat) 110.141 (903) 🌼
[1] Al-Kafi (Islamic edition), vol. 2, p. 127 Tehran, fourth printing, 1407 AH.
[2] Mishkat al-Anwar fi Ghurar al-Akhbar, text, p. 103 Najaf, second printing, 1385 AH / 1965 CE / 1344 SH.
[3] Al-Mu’min, p. 67 Imam Mahdi Foundation (peace be upon him), Qom, 1404 AH.
[4] Al-Kafi (Islamic edition), vol. 1, p. 185 Fourth printing, 1407 AH.
[5] Al-Kafi (Islamic edition), vol. 2, p. 46 Fourth printing, 1407 AH.
