Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼🔆🌼The Celestial Technology of the Cord🌼🔆🌼
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “The Secrets of the Sajjadiyya” “If the Appointed Day Had Not Been” “The Secrets of the Ahl al-Bayt” “Imam Sajjad: the Speaking and Decisive Imam” “The Night of Imam Sajjad’s Birth” and more … An abstract with an addendum 1403.11.15 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🔅🌼Through Husayn’s gaze, at the beauty of Sajjad🌼🔅
🌹If we look through Husayn’s eyes at Sajjad’s beauty, we will behold his immense, wondrous qualities, unseen by others.
🌹We must look through the eye that beholds God, at the beautiful Face of God.
🌹Sajjad means the union of mosque, prostration, and worshipper.
🌹Sajjad means the one who gathers together love and the lover, ardour and rapture.
🌹Sajjad is the one who rends open love and plumbs the depths of worship and servitude.
🌹Sajjad is the destination of servitude, its highest horizon.
🌹Sajjad is the savour, sweetness, and freshness of love.
🌹Imam Sajjad was an Imam whose speech was eloquent and decisive—not a silent, mute Imam given to reticence.
🌹He was ceaselessly active in his Imamate, continually struggling against disbelief, unbelievers, polytheism, and polytheists.
🌹Had the Imam Sajjad (AS) not made his extraordinary, hidden movements during his Imamate, there would have been no trace of religion or the faithful.
🔅🌼Sajjad, the means by which creation finds its sweetest music🌼🔅
🌹If you wish to sing sweetly for your Beloved, you must equip yourself with the instruments and means of divine music. Sajjad’s voice and heart are the finest instruments of divine music; all you need do is let it pour forth from the breadth of your heart.
🌹Imam Sajjad (AS) is a treasure of freely given love.
🌹Sajjad rends open love and brings servitude into bloom.
🔅🌼Sajjad, the sweet fragrance of Husayn🌼🔅
🌷🔆 عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ قَالَ: كُنْتُ عِنْدَ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ ع إِذْ دَخَلَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْأَصْغَرُ فَدَعَاهُ الْحُسَيْنُ ع وَ ضَمَّهُ إِلَيْهِ ضَمّاً وَ قَبَّلَ مَا بَيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ بِأَبِي أَنْتَ مَا أَطْيَبَ رِيحَكَ وَ أَحْسَنَ خَلْقَكَ فَيُدَاخِلُنِي مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَقُلْتُ بِأَبِي وَ أُمِّي يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ إِنْ كَانَ مَا نَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ أَنْ نَرَاهُ فِيكَ فَإِلَى مَنْ قَالَ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ابْنِي هَذَا هُوَ الْإِمَامُ وَ أَبُو الْأَئِمَّةِ قُلْتُ يَا مَوْلَايَ هُوَ صَغِيرُ السِّنِّ قَالَ نَعَمْ إِنَّ ابْنَهُ مُحَمَّدٌ يُؤْتَمُّ بِهِ وَ هُوَ ابْنُ تِسْعِ سِنِينَ ثُمَّ يُطْرِقُ قَالَ ثُمَّ يَبْقُرُ الْعِلْمَ بَقْراً قَالَ وَ قُبِضَ ص وَ قَدْ تَمَّ عُمُرُهُ سِتّاً وَ خَمْسِينَ سَنَةً وَ خَمْسَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَ دُفِنَ بِكَرْبَلَاءَ.[1]
🔆Ubayd Allah ibn Utba relates: “I was with Husayn ibn Ali (AS) when Ali ibn Husayn (AS) came in. Husayn (AS)—Imam Sajjad (AS)—called him over, embraced him, and drew him to his chest. He kissed him between the eyes and then said, ‘May my father be your ransom! How fragrant and beautiful you are!’”
🔅🌼Imam Sajjad (AS) is Husayn’s radiant moon🌼🔅
🌷🔆 قَالَ لَهُ أُبَيٌّ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَمَا هَذِهِ النُّطْفَةُ الَّتِي فِي صُلْبِ حَبِيبِي الْحُسَيْنِ قَالَ مَثَلُ هَذِهِ النُّطْفَةِ كَمَثَلِ الْقَمَرِ وَ هِيَ نُطْفَةُ تَبْيِينٍ وَ بَيَانٍ يَكُونُ مَنِ اتَّبَعَهُ رَشِيداً وَ مَنْ ضَلَّ عَنْهُ هَوِيّاً قَالَ فَمَا اسْمُهُ وَ مَا دُعَاؤُهُ قَالَ اسْمُهُ عَلِيٌّ وَ دُعَاؤُهُ يَا دَائِمُ يَا دَيْمُومُ يَا حَيُّ يَا قَيُّومُ يَا كَاشِفَ الْغَمِّ وَ يَا فَارِجَ الْهَمِّ وَ يَا بَاعِثَ الرُّسُلِ وَ يَا صَادِقَ الْوَعْدِ مَنْ دَعَا بِهَذَا الدُّعَاءِ حَشَرَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَعَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ وَ كَانَ قَائِدَهُ إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ فَقَالَ لَهُ أُبَيٌّ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَهَلْ لَهُ مِنْ خَلَفٍ وَ وَصِيٍّ قَالَ نَعَمْ لَهُ مَوَارِيثُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ قَالَ مَا مَعْنَى مَوَارِيثِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ الْقَضَاءُ بِالْحَقِّ وَ الْحُكْمُ بِالدِّيَانَةِ وَ تَأْوِيلُ الْأَحْكَامِ وَ بَيَانُ مَا يَكُونُ قَالَ فَمَا اسْمُهُ قَالَ اسْمُهُ مُحَمَّد[2]
🔅🌼 The Thread of Divine Power Is in the Hands of God’s Proofs 🌼🔅
🌹What would happen if God, the Almighty and All-Compelling, forbade the air to disbelievers and hypocrites? They would draw no breath.
🌹What would happen if God Most High commanded water to withhold its sweetness and thirst-quenching power from disbelievers? Their thirst would never be quenched, for all eternity.
🌹What would happen if God, the One and Unique, commanded the light to withhold its brightness from disbelievers, polytheists and hypocrites? Their eyes would know no color.
🌹What would happen if God, the All-Knowing Creator, commanded hearts to refuse them love and joy? They would know no love or pleasure.
🌹What would happen if God, the Forbearing, granted His Proof permission to appear and cleanse the world?
🌹The Proofs of God have yet to reveal divine power through their blessed souls.
🔅🌼 If the Imam Is Granted Permission to Carry Out His Mission 🌼🔅
🌷🔆قَالَ جَابِرُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْجُعْفِيُّ فَشَكَوْتُ مِنْ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ وَ أَشْيَاعِهِمْ إِلَى الْإِمَامِ الْمُبِينِ أَطْهَرِ الطَّاهِرِينَ زَيْنِ الْعِبَادِ وَ سَيِّدِ الزُّهَّادِ وَ خَلِيفَةِ اللَّهِ عَلَى الْعِبَادِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمَا فَقُلْتُ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ قَدْ قَتَلُونَا تَحْتَ كُلِّ حَجَرٍ وَ مَدَرٍ وَ اسْتَأْصَلُوا شَأْفَتَنَا وَ أَعْلَنُوا لَعْنَ مَوْلَانَا أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ عَلَى الْمَنَابِرِ وَ الْمَنَارَاتِ وَ الْأَسْوَاقِ وَ الطُّرُقَاتِ وَ تَبَرَّءُوا مِنْهُ حَتَّى إِنَّهُمْ لَيَجْتَمِعُونَ فِي مَسْجِدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَيَلْعَنُونَ عَلِيّاً ع عَلَانِيَةً لَا يُنْكِرُ ذَلِكَ أَحَدٌ وَ لَا يَنْهَرُ فَإِنْ أَنْكَرَ ذَلِكَ أَحَدٌ مِنَّا حَمَلُوا عَلَيْهِ بِأَجْمَعِهِمْ وَ قَالُوا هَذَا رَافِضِيٌّ أَبُو تُرَابِيٌّ وَ أَخَذُوهُ إِلَى سُلْطَانِهِمْ وَ قَالُوا هَذَا ذَكَرَ أَبَا تُرَابٍ بِخَيْرٍ فَضَرَبُوهُ ثُمَّ حَبَسُوهُ ثُمَّ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ قَتَلُوهُ
فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ الْإِمَامُ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ ذَلِكَ مِنِّي نَظَرَ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَقَالَ
سُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ سَيِّدِي مَا أَحْلَمَكَ وَ أَعْظَمَ شَأْنَكَ فِي حِلْمِكَ وَ أَعْلَى سُلْطَانَكَ يَا رَبِّ قَدْ أَمْهَلْتَ عِبَادَكَ فِي بِلَادِكَ حَتَّى ظَنُّوا أَنَّكَ أَمْهَلْتَهُمْ أَبَداً وَ هَذَا كُلُّهُ بِعَيْنِكَ لَا يُغَالَبُ قَضَاؤُكَ وَ لَا يُرَدُّ الْمَحْتُومُ مِنْ تَدْبِيرِكَ كَيْفَ شِئْتَ وَ أَنَّى شِئْتَ وَ أَنْتَ أَعْلَمُ بِهِ مِنَّا
🌷🔆 Jābir al-Juʿfī relates: When the caliphate passed to the Umayyads (may God curse them), they shed much unlawful blood during their reign. For a thousand months, they cursed the Commander of the Faithful from their pulpits, and they hanged and killed his followers in the cities, seeking to wipe them out completely. Their scholars, too, encouraged and supported them out of desire for worldly gain. Their greatest persecution was directed against the followers of the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him): they killed anyone who refused to curse him.
When these hardships became widespread and prolonged, the Shīʿa went to Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn (peace be upon him) and complained: “O son of the Messenger of God, the Umayyad rulers have driven us from our homes and are killing us in the most brutal fashion. Openly, in the cities—even in the Mosque of the Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family) and from his pulpit—they curse the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him), and no one stands in their way or forbids them. No one can stop them. If one of us objects to the one who is cursing him, they call him a ‘Turābī’—that is, a follower of ʿAlī (peace be upon him), Abū Turāb. They report to the ruler that he is a Turābī and has spoken well of Abū Turāb; then he is imprisoned, beaten, and eventually killed.”
When Imām Sajjād (peace be upon him) heard these words, he looked up at the sky and offered a supplication to this effect:
“Glory be to You, O God! How forbearing You are, and how exalted Your station! Truly, You give Your servants time, and they imagine that You have left them to themselves, while You see all that they do. There is no doubt in Your certain decree, and You know best what You are doing. So what can I ask of You now?”
🔅🌼 The young warrior receives Imām Sajjād’s permission to carry out his mission 🌼🔅
🌷🔆 قَالَ ثُمَّ دَعَا صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ ابْنَهُ مُحَمَّداً ع فَقَالَ يَا بُنَيَّ قَالَ لَبَّيْكَ يَا سَيِّدِي قَالَ إِذَا كَانَ غَداً فَاغْدُ إِلَى مَسْجِدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ خُذْ مَعَكَ الْخَيْطَ الَّذِي أُنْزِلَ مَعَ جَبْرَئِيلَ عَلَى جَدِّنَا ص فَحَرِّكْهُ تَحْرِيكاً لَيِّناً وَ لَا تُحَرِّكْهُ شَدِيداً اللَّهَ اللَّهَ فَيَهْلِكُ النَّاسُ كُلُّهُمْ
قَالَ جَابِرٌ فَبَقِيتُ مُتَفَكِّراً مُتَعَجِّباً مِنْ قَوْلِهِ فَمَا أَدْرِي مَا أَقُولُ لِمَوْلَايَ ع فَغَدَوْتُ إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ ع وَ قَدْ بَقِيَ عَلَيَّ لَيْلٌ حِرْصاً أَنْ أَنْظُرَ إِلَى الْخَيْطِ وَ تَحْرِيكِهِ فَبَيْنَمَا أَنَا عَلَى دَابَّتِي إِذْ خَرَجَ الْإِمَامُ ع فَقُمْتُ وَ سَلَّمْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَرَدَّ عَلَيَّ السَّلَامَ وَ قَالَ مَا غَدَا بِكَ فَلَمْ تَكُنْ تَأْتِينَا فِي هَذَا الْوَقْتِ فَقُلْتُ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ سَمِعْتُ أَبَاكَ ص يَقُولُ بِالْأَمْسِ خُذِ الْخَيْطَ وَ سِرْ إِلَى مَسْجِدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَحَرِّكْهُ تَحْرِيكاً لَيِّناً وَ لَا تُحَرِّكْهُ تَحْرِيكاً شَدِيداً فَتُهْلِكَ النَّاسَ كُلَّهُمْ فَقَالَ
🌷🔆Then Imām Sajjād (peace be upon him) summoned his son, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad (peace be upon him), and said:
“O Muḥammad, go to the mosque tomorrow and take the thread that Gabriel brought to the Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family). Give it a slight tug—but do not pull it hard, or everyone will perish.”
Jābir says: “By God, I was astonished by the Imām’s words and did not understand what he meant. I spent a very long night, and the next morning I went to Imām Bāqir (peace be upon him), eager to see what he would do with the thread.”
When I reached the house, Imām Bāqir (peace be upon him) came out. I greeted him, and he returned my greeting and said, “Jābir, what brings you here so early?”
I replied, “Because of what Imām Sajjād (peace be upon him) said to you yesterday: ‘Take the thread Gabriel brought to the Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family), carry it to the Mosque of the Messenger of God, and give it a slight tug—but do not pull it hard, or everyone will perish.’”
🔅🌼 If the appointed time were not fixed, all the sinners would perish 🌼🔅
🔅🌼 لَوْ لَا الْوَقْتُ الْمَعْلُومُ 🌼🔅
🌷🔆 يَا جَابِرُ لَوْ لَا الْوَقْتُ الْمَعْلُومُ وَ الْأَجَلُ الْمَحْتُومُ وَ الْقَدَرُ الْمَقْدُورُ لَخَسَفْتُ وَ اللَّهِ بِهَذَا الْخَلْقِ الْمَنْكُوسِ فِي طَرْفَةِ عَيْنٍ لَا بَلْ فِي لَحْظَةٍ لَا بَلْ فِي لَمْحَةٍ وَ لَكِنَّنَّا عِبادٌ مُكْرَمُونَ لا يَسْبِقُونَهُ بِالْقَوْلِ وَ هُمْ بِأَمْرِهِ يَعْمَلُونَ
🔆In one part of Jabir’s report, he asks Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (peace be upon him) about the secret of the thread. The Imam replies:
🌷🔆 “By God, were it not for the appointed time, the inevitable term, and the decree ordained, I would have made all these people who have turned upside down sink into the earth in the blink of an eye. But we are God’s honoured servants, of whom He said: ‘They do not speak ahead of Him, and they act by His command.’”
🔅🌼The Technology of Terror🌼🔅
🌷🔆 قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ يَا سَيِّدِي وَ لِمَ تَفْعَلُ هَذَا بِهِمْ قَالَ مَا حَضَرْتَ أَبِي بِالْأَمْسِ وَ الشِّيعَةُ يَشْكُونَ إِلَيْهِ مَا يَلْقَوْنَ مِنَ النَّاصِبِيَّةِ الْمَلاعِينِ وَ الْقَدَرِيَّةِ الْمُقَصِّرِينَ فَقُلْتُ بَلَى يَا سَيِّدِي قَالَ فَإِنِّي أُرْعِبُهُمْ وَ كُنْتُ أُحِبُّ أَنْ يَهْلِكَ طَائِفَةٌ مِنْهُمْ وَ يُطَهِّرَ اللَّهُ مِنْهُمُ الْبِلَادَ وَ يُرِيحَ الْعِبَادَ قُلْتُ يَا سَيِّدِي فَكَيْفَ تُرْعِبُهُمْ وَ هُمْ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ أَنْ يُحْصَوْا قَالَ امْضِ بِنَا إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ لِأُرِيَكَ قُدْرَةَ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى قَالَ جَابِرٌ
فَمَضَيْتُ مَعَهُ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَصَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ ثُمَّ وَضَعَ خَدَّهُ فِي التُّرَابِ وَ كَلَّمَ بِكَلِمَاتٍ ثُمَّ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ وَ أَخْرَجَ مِنْ كُمِّهِ خَيْطاً دَقِيقاً يَفُوحُ مِنْهُ رَائِحَةُ الْمِسْكِ وَ كَانَ أَدَقَّ فِي الْمَنْظَرِ مِنْ خَيْطِ الْمَخِيطِ ثُمَّ قَالَ خُذْ إِلَيْكَ طَرَفَ الْخَيْطِ وَ امْشِ رُوَيْداً وَ إِيَّاكَ ثُمَّ إِيَّاكَ أَنْ تُحَرِّكَهُ قَالَ فَأَخَذْتُ طَرَفَ الْخَيْطِ وَ مَشَيْتُ رُوَيْداً فَقَالَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ قِفْ يَا جَابِرُ فَوَقَفْتُ فَحَرَّكَ الْخَيْطَ تَحْرِيكاً لَيِّناً فَمَا ظَنَنْتُ أَنَّهُ حَرَّكَهُ مِنْ لِينِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ نَاوِلْنِي طَرَفَ الْخَيْطِ قَالَ فَنَاوَلْتُهُ فَقُلْتُ مَا فَعَلْتَ بِهِ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ قَالَ وَيْحَكَ اخْرُجْ إِلَى النَّاسِ وَ انْظُرْ مَا حَالُهُمْ قَالَ فَخَرَجْتُ مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ فَإِذَا صِيَاحٌ وَ وَلْوَلَةٌ مِنْ كُلِّ نَاحِيَةٍ وَ زَاوِيَةٍ وَ إِذَا زَلْزَلَةٌ وَ هَدَّةٌ وَ رَجْفَةٌ … وَ إِذَا بِخَلْقٍ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ السِّكَكِ لَهُمْ بُكَاءٌ وَ عَوِيلٌ وَ ضَوْضَاةٌ وَ رَنَّةٌ شَدِيدَةٌ وَ هُمْ يَقُولُونَ
🌷🔆 Jabir says: I said to the Imam, “My master, why do you do this to them?” He replied, “Were you not there yesterday, when you heard my father’s followers complain about what those accursed men were saying?
My father instructed me to frighten them, in the hope that they might desist.” I said, “How will you frighten them when they are so numerous?” Imam al-Baqir (peace be upon him) said, “Come with me to the mosque of my grandfather, and I will show you the power of Almighty God, which He has bestowed exclusively upon us as a favour.” Jabir relates: I went with the Imam to the mosque. There he prayed two cycles, placed his face on the ground, and uttered some words. Then he raised his head and took a fine thread from his pocket. It gave off the scent of musk, and to my eye it seemed smaller than the eye of a needle. He said to me, “Jabir, take hold of the end of the thread and keep it taut. Be careful not to move it.” The Imam (peace be upon him) repeated, “Hold the thread still; do not move it.” Jabir says: I held it, and the Imam gave it the slightest movement. I thought he had not moved it at all. Then he said, “Give me the end of the thread.” I asked, “My master, what did you do?” He replied, “Woe to you! Go outside and see what state the people are in!” Jabir says: I went out of the mosque to find the people all crying and groaning, while Medina shook violently and the tremors swept through them.
🔅🌼The Warrior Sajjad Brings the World to Its Knees🌼🔅
🌷🔆 إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَ إِنَّا إِلَيْهِ راجِعُونَ قَدْ قَامَتِ السَّاعَةُ وَ وَقَعَتِ الْوَاقِعَةُ وَ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ وَ آخَرُونَ يَقُولُونَ الزَّلْزَلَةُ وَ الْهَدَّةُ وَ آخَرُونَ يَقُولُونَ الرَّجْفَةُ وَ الْقِيَامَةُ هَلَكَ فِيهَا عَامَّةُ النَّاسِ وَ إِذَا أُنَاسٌ قَدْ أَقْبَلُوا يَبْكُونَ يُرِيدُونَ الْمَسْجِدَ وَ بَعْضُهُمْ يَقُولُونَ لِبَعْضٍ كَيْفَ لَا يُخْسَفُ بِنَا وَ قَدْ تَرَكْنَا الْأَمْرَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَ النَّهْيِ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ وَ ظَهَرَ الْفِسْقُ وَ الْفُجُورُ وَ كَثُرَ الزِّنَا وَ الرِّبَا وَ شُرْبُ الْخَمْرِ وَ اللِّوَاطَةُ وَ اللَّهِ لَيَنْزِلَنَّ بِنَا مَا هُوَ أَشَدُّ مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَ أَعْظَمُ أَوْ نُصْلِحَ أَنْفُسَنَا
🌷🔆 The people were shouting, wailing and weeping, and saying:
“إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون.” (So-and-so’s house has been destroyed, and its people have died.) I saw people in the Mosque of the Messenger of God (صلى الله علیه وآله) saying, “A great calamity has occurred.” Some said, “There has been an earthquake.” Others said, “How has God not caused the earth to swallow us up, when we have abandoned enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and indecency, immorality and oppression of the family of the Messenger (صلى الله علیه وآله) have become widespread among us? By God, an even greater and more violent earthquake will strike us unless we reform ourselves and put right what we have ruined.”
🔅🌼Imam Sajjad’s warrior points the way to salvation 🌼🔅
🌷🔆 قَالَ جَابِرٌ فَبَقِيتُ مُتَحَيِّراً أَنْظُرُ إِلَى النَّاسِ يَبْكُونَ وَ يَصِيحُونَ وَ يُوَلْوِلُونَ وَ يَغْدُونَ زُمَراً إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَرَحِمْتُهُمْ حَتَّى وَ اللَّهِ بَكَيْتُ لِبُكَائِهِمْ وَ إِذَا لَا يَدْرُونَ مِنْ أَيْنَ أُتُوا وَ أُخِذُوا فَانْصَرَفْتُ إِلَى الْإِمَامِ الْبَاقِرِ ع وَ قَدِ اجْتَمَعَ النَّاسُ لَهُ وَ هُمْ يَقُولُونَ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ مَا تَرَى مَا نَزَلَ بِنَا بِحَرَمِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَدْ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ وَ مَاتُوا فَادْعُ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَنَا فَقَالَ لَهُمْ افْزَعُوا إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ وَ الصَّدَقَةِ وَ الدُّعَاءِ ثُمَّ سَأَلَنِي
🌷🔆 Jaber says: I was bewildered, watching the people weep and stand in confusion. Their tears made me weep too, though they did not know where the earthquake had come from. I made my way to Imam Baqir (علیه السلام). I saw that people had gathered around him in the Prophet’s Mosque, saying, “O son of the Messenger of God, have you seen what has befallen us? Pray for us.” The Imam said, “Seek refuge in prayer, supplication and charity.”
🔅🌼The unjust will not be at peace until they are disciplined 🌼🔅
🌷🔆ع سُحْقاً سُحْقاً بُعْداً بُعْداً لِلْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ حَرَّكْتُ الْخَيْطَ أَدْنَى تَحْرِيكَةٍ لَهَلَكُوا أَجْمَعِينَ وَ جَعَلَ أَعْلَاهَا أَسْفَلَهَا وَ لَمْ يَبْقَ دَارٌ وَ لَا قَصْرٌ وَ لَكِنْ أَمَرَنِي سَيِّدِي وَ مَوْلَايَ أَنْ لَا أُحَرِّكَهُ شَدِيداً ثُمَّ صَعِدَ الْمَنَارَةَ وَ النَّاسُ لَا يَرَوْنَهُ فَنَادَى بِأَعْلَى صَوْتِهِ أَلَا أَيُّهَا الضَّالُّونَ الْمُكَذِّبُونَ فَظَنَّ النَّاسُ أَنَّهُ صَوْتٌ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَخَرُّوا لِوُجُوهِهِمْ وَ طَارَتْ أَفْئِدَتُهُمْ وَ هُمْ يَقُولُونَ فِي سُجُودِهِمْ الْأَمَانَ الْأَمَانَ فَإِذَا هُمْ يَسْمَعُونَ الصَّيْحَةَ بِالْحَقِ وَ لَا يَرَوْنَ الشَّخْصَ ثُمَّ أَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَ أَنَا أَرَاهُ وَ النَّاسُ لَا يَرَوْنَهُ فَزَلْزَلَتِ الْمَدِينَةُ أَيْضاً زَلْزَلَةً خَفِيفَةً لَيْسَتْ كَالْأُولَى وَ تَهَدَّمَتْ فِيهَا دُورَةٌ كَثِيرَةٌ ثُمَّ تَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ ذلِكَ جَزَيْناهُمْ بِبَغْيِهِمْ ثُمَّ تَلَا بَعْدَ مَا نَزَلَ فَلَمَّا جاءَ أَمْرُنا جَعَلْنا عالِيَها سافِلَها وَ أَمْطَرْنا عَلَيْهِمْ حِجارَةً مِنْ طِينٍ مُسَوَّمَةً عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ لِلْمُسْرِفِينَ وَ تَلَا ع فَخَرَّ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّقْفُ مِنْ فَوْقِهِمْ وَ أَتاهُمُ الْعَذابُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لا يَشْعُرُونَ
🌷🔆 Imam Baqir (علیه السلام) spoke of the punishment that had descended: “May God have no mercy on them.” He then said, “It was for your sake that I spared some of them and did not destroy them all. Otherwise, I would have shown no mercy to our enemies or to the enemies of our friends.” Then he said, “By God, had I not been constrained by my father’s prohibition, I would have made the movement much stronger and destroyed them all, bringing the upper part down upon the lower, until not a single wall or door remained in this city. But my master commanded me to set it in motion gently.” The Imam then climbed the minaret. I could see him, but the people could not. He raised his hand and moved it around the minaret. Medina trembled again, this time only slightly, and houses were destroyed. Then he recited this verse: «ذَلِكَ جَزَیْنَاهُم بِبَغْیِهِمْ وِإِنَّا لَصَادِقُونَ»—Al-An‘am, verse 136—“We punished them for their wrongdoing, and surely We speak the truth.” He then recited this verse: «فَلَمَّا جَاء أَمْرُنَا جَعَلْنَا عَالِیَهَا سَافِلَهَا…»—Hud, verse 82.
🔅🌼If the Prophet’s family were to display their power🌼🔅
🌷🔆 قَالَ وَ خَرَجَتِ الْمُخَدَّرَاتُ فِي الزَّلْزَلَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ مِنْ خُدُورِهِنَّ مُكَشَّفَاتِ الرُّءُوسِ وَ إِذَا الْأَطْفَالُ يَبْكُونَ وَ يَصْرُخُونَ فَلَا يَلْتَفِتُ أَحَدٌ فَلَمَّا بَصُرَ الْبَاقِرُ ع ضَرَبَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى الْخَيْطِ فَجَمَعَهُ فِي كَفِّهِ فَسَكَنَتِ الزَّلْزَلَةُ ثُمَّ أَخَذَ بِيَدِي وَ النَّاسُ لَا يَرَوْنَهُ وَ خَرَجْنَا مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ فَإِذَا قَوْمٌ قَدِ اجْتَمَعُوا إِلَى بَابِ حَانُوتِ الْحَدَّادِ وَ هُمْ خَلْقٌ كَثِيرٌ يَقُولُونَ مَا سَمِعْتُمْ فِي مِثْلِ هَذَا الْمَدَرَةِ مِنَ الْهِمَّةِ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَلَى لَهَمْهَمَةٌ كَثِيرَةٌ وَ قَالَ آخَرُونَ بَلْ وَ اللَّهِ صَوْتٌ وَ كَلَامٌ وَ صِيَاحٌ كَثِيرٌ وَ لَكُنَّا وَ اللَّهِ لَمْ نَقِفْ عَلَى الْكَلَامِ قَالَ جَابِرٌ فَنَظَرَ الْبَاقِرُ ع إِلَى قِصَّتِهِمْ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا جَابِرُ دَأْبُنَا وَ دَأْبُهُمْ إِذَا بَطِرُوا وَ أَشِرُوا وَ تَمَرَّدُوا وَ بَغَوْا أَرْعَبْنَاهُمْ وَ خَوَّفْنَاهُمْ فَإِذَا ارْتَدَعُوا وَ إِلَّا أَذِنَ اللَّهُ فِي خَسْفِهِمْ قَالَ جَابِرٌ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فَمَا هَذَا الْخَيْطُ الَّذِي فِيهِ الْأُعْجُوبَةُ قَالَ هَذِهِ بَقِيَّةٌ مِمَّا تَرَكَ آلُ مُوسى وَ آلُ هارُونَ تَحْمِلُهُ الْمَلائِكَةُ إِلَيْنَا يَا جَابِرُ إِنَّ لَنَا عِنْدَ اللَّهِ مَنْزِلَةً وَ مَكَاناً رَفِيعاً وَ لَوْ لَا نَحْنُ لَمْ يَخْلُقِ اللَّهُ أَرْضاً وَ لَا سَمَاءً وَ لَا جَنَّةً وَ لَا نَاراً وَ لَا شَمْساً وَ لَا قَمَراً وَ لَا بَرّاً وَ لَا بَحْراً وَ لَا سَهْلًا وَ لَا جَبَلًا وَ لَا رَطْباً وَ لَا يَابِساً وَ لَا حُلْواً وَ لَا مُرّاً وَ لَا مَاءً وَ لَا نَبَاتاً وَ لَا شَجَراً اخْتَرَعَنَا اللَّهُ مِنْ نُورِ ذَاتِهِ لَا يُقَاسُ بِنَا بَشَرٌ بِنَا أَنْقَذَكُمُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ بِنَا هَدَاكُمُ اللَّهُ وَ نَحْنُ وَ اللَّهِ دَلَلْنَاكُمْ عَلَى رَبِّكُمْ فَقِفُوا عَلَى أَمْرِنَا وَ نَهْيِنَا وَ لَا تَرُدُّوا كُلَّ مَا وَرَدَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنَّا فَأَنَا أَكْبَرُ وَ أَجَلُّ وَ أَعْظَمُ وَ أَرْفَعُ مِنْ جَمِيعِ مَا يَرِدُ عَلَيْكُمْ مَا فَهِمْتُمُوهُ فَاحْمَدُوا اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ وَ مَا جَهِلْتُمُوهُ فَكِلُوا أَمْرَهُ إِلَيْنَا وَ قُولُوا أَئِمَّتُنَا أَعْلَمُ بِمَا قَالُوا قَالَ
🔅🌼 All who are shipwrecked seek the Ark of the Prophet’s Household 🌼🔅
ثُمَّ اسْتَقْبَلَهُ أَمِيرُ الْمَدِينَةِ رَاكِباً وَ حَوَالَيْهِ حُرَّاسُهُ وَ هُمْ يُنَادُونَ فِي النَّاسِ مَعَاشِرَ النَّاسِ احْضُرُوا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص عَلِيَّ بْنَ الْحُسَيْنِ ع وَ تَقَرَّبُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِهِ لَعَلَّ اللَّهَ يَصْرِفُ عَنْكُمُ الْعَذَابَ
🔅🌼 The Prophet’s Household shows the way to salvation 🌼🔅
فَلَمَّا بَصُرُوا بِمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْبَاقِرِ ع تَبَادَرُوا نَحْوَهُ وَ قَالُوا يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أَ مَا تَرَى مَا نَزَلَ بِأُمَّةِ جَدِّكَ مُحَمَّدٍ ص هَلَكُوا وَ فَنُوا عَنْ آخِرِهِمْ أَيْنَ أَبُوكَ حَتَّى نَسْأَلَهُ أَنْ يَخْرُجَ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ وَ نَتَقَرَّبَ بِهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ لِيَرْفَعَ اللَّهُ بِهِ عَنْ أُمَّةِ جَدِّكَ هَذَا الْبَلَاءَ قَالَ لَهُمْ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ ع يَفْعَلُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَصْلِحُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ وَ عَلَيْكُمْ بِالتَّضَرُّعِ وَ التَّوْبَةِ وَ الْوَرَعِ وَ النَّهْيِ عَمَّا أَنْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَأْمَنُ مَكْرَ اللَّهِ إِلَّا الْقَوْمُ الْخاسِرُونَ قَالَ جَابِرٌ
🔅🌼 Imam Sajjad—if only he had revealed his full power! 🌼🔅
فَأَتَيْنَا عَلِيَّ بْنَ الْحُسَيْنِ ع وَ هُوَ يُصَلِّي فَانْتَظَرْنَاهُ حَتَّى فَرَغَ مِنْ صَلَاتِهِ وَ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْنَا فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ مَا خَبَرُ النَّاسِ فَقَالَ ذَلِكَ لَقَدْ رَأَى مِنْ قُدْرَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَا لَا زَالَ مُتَعَجِّباً مِنْهَا قَالَ جَابِرٌ إِنَّ سُلْطَانَهُمْ سَأَلَنَا أَنْ نَسْأَلَكَ أَنْ تَحْضُرَ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ حَتَّى يَجْتَمِعَ النَّاسُ يَدْعُونَ وَ يَتَضَرَّعُونَ إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ يَسْأَلُونَهُ الْإِقَالَةَ قَالَ فَتَبَسَّمَ ع ثُمَّ تَلَا أَ وَ لَمْ تَكُ تَأْتِيكُمْ رُسُلُكُمْ بِالْبَيِّناتِ قالُوا بَلى قالُوا فَادْعُوا وَ ما دُعاءُ الْكافِرِينَ إِلَّا فِي ضَلالٍ وَ لَوْ أَنَّنا نَزَّلْنا إِلَيْهِمُ الْمَلائِكَةَ وَ كَلَّمَهُمُ الْمَوْتى وَ حَشَرْنا عَلَيْهِمْ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ قُبُلًا ما كانُوا لِيُؤْمِنُوا إِلَّا أَنْ يَشاءَ اللَّهُ وَ لكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ يَجْهَلُونَ فَقُلْتُ سَيِّدِي الْعَجْبُ أَنَّهُمْ لَا يَدْرُونَ مِنْ أَيْنَ أُتُوا قَالَ أَجَلْ ثُمَّ تَلَا فَالْيَوْمَ نَنْساهُمْ كَما نَسُوا لِقاءَ يَوْمِهِمْ هذا وَ ما كانُوا بِآياتِنا يَجْحَدُونَ وَ هِيَ وَ اللَّهِ آيَاتُنَا وَ هَذِهِ أَحَدُهَا وَ هِيَ وَ اللَّهِ وَلَايَتُنَا يَا جَابِرُ مَا تَقُولُ فِي قَوْمٍ أَمَاتُوا سُنَّتَنَا وَ تَوَالَوْا أَعْدَاءَنَا وَ انْتَهَكُوا حُرْمَتَنَا فَظَلَمُونَا وَ غَصَبُونَا وَ أَحْيَوْا سُنَنَ الظَّالِمِينَ وَ سَارُوا بِسِيرَةِ الْفَاسِقِينَ قَالَ جَابِرٌ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي مَنَّ عَلَيَّ بِمَعْرِفَتِكُمْ وَ أَلْهَمَنِي فَضْلَكُمْ وَ وَفَّقَنِي لِطَاعَتِكُمْ مُوَالاةَ مَوَالِيكُمْ وَ مُعَادَاةَ أَعْدَائِكُمْ
🔅🌼 The Technology of the Celestial Thread 🌼🔅
🌹 The grandeur and majesty of the technologies of the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, defy description and comprehension. The limited mind of modern humanity cannot even conceive of such immense technology.
🌹 The divine proofs are not merely granted permission to fight and struggle. When divine permission is given and the technologies of the Prophet’s Household come into view, what an unprecedented upheaval will ensue!
🔅🌼 The Technology of the Qur’an 🌼🔅
🌹 When the technology of the Qur’an is revealed, the explanatory power of every technology will emerge. The Qur’anic human being will be endowed with transcendent capacities and means; the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, are equipped with this technology.
🌹 The technology of every single divine verse will shatter the conventions of the age. The unseen will be seen, the unheard heard, and transcendent faculties in the human soul will transform the state of the soul and the world.
🔅🌼 The Technology of Supplication 🌼🔅
🌹 If the technology of supplication is revealed, humanity will be immersed in wonders. So let us learn the art of asking beautifully—and of asking for what is better, more gracious, and wiser! Let us sit at the feet of those who have succeeded and attained divine favor.
🌹 What astonishing technologies Imam Sajjad Zayn al-Abidin, peace be upon him, possesses!
🌹 With the appearance of our Imam of the Age, technologies beyond the quantum realm—and beyond every technology and industry—will emerge. The appearance of Imam al-Mahdi, peace be upon him, will usher in knowledge, wisdom, industry, and transcendent technology. Are we ready? Will we be among those who pass His entrance examination? Do we not realize that we are already sitting the test for admission? Who will be the unlearned and the deprived?
🔅🌼 The Divine Proofs Are Oceans of Astonishing Technologies 🌼🔅
🌹 It is difficult to comprehend the wonders of the mines of knowledge and wisdom!
🌹 Like his noble forefather, the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him, continually proclaims, «سلونی قبل ان تفقدونی». Who is there to answer Sajjad’s call?
🔅🌼 The Secret of Technology Lies in Following 🌼🔅
🌹 The technology of the Imams’ very being lies in following them and wholly accepting their guardianship.
🌹 What wonders the Imams work in other worlds! Here on earth, people have only imprisoned them, poisoned them, and brought them to blood and ruin, continually adding to their suffering.
🔅🌼 The Technology of God’s Most Beautiful Names 🌼🔅
🌹 The technology of God’s Most Beautiful Names gives rise to new acts of creation and peerless laws, from the production of knowledge to the creation of laws.
🌹Which programming languages are we familiar with?! If we do not know a programming language, we cannot make full use of a computer. If we do not know the language of God, we will understand none of the secrets of the divine computers. Are we familiar with the language of God’s Most Beautiful Names?! If we learn the language of “divine words and merciful attributes,” we will attain the highest level of governance.
🔅🌼The Technologies of the Ahl al-Bayt🌼🔅
🌹Technologies of the Sahifa Sajjadiya
🌹The Manna and Quails Technology
🌹The Staff of Moses Technology
🌹The Speech of Sajjad Technology
🌹The Gaze and Heart of Sajjad Technology
🌹The Khaybar Technology, the Technology of the Hand of God
🌹The Humanity Technology
🌹The Ethics Technology
🌹The Ascension Technology
🌹If these technologies had appeared before the appointed time, the test would have had no meaning.
🔅🌼The appointed end of ignorance and sin is drawing near🌼🔅
🌹The appointed time of Satan—and the appointed time of ignorance, oppression, and darkness—is coming to an end.
🌻🔆Al-Hijr: 37 قالَ فَإِنَّكَ مِنَ الْمُنْظَرينَ
🔆He said, “You are among those granted respite
🌻🔆Al-Hijr: 38 إِلى يَوْمِ الْوَقْتِ الْمَعْلُومِ
🔆until the appointed Day.”
🌹The appointed time and the measure decreed for those who follow Satan are drawing near; the time for their purging has come.
🌹Let us not be deceived by their sinful agitation; let us not be dazzled by those who are absorbed in worldly life.
🌻🔆Āl ʿImrān: 196 لا يَغُرَّنَّكَ تَقَلُّبُ الَّذينَ كَفَرُوا فِي الْبِلادِ
🔆Do not let the movement and comings and goings of those who disbelieve through the cities—prosperous and apparently triumphant—deceive you!
🌻🔆Āl ʿImrān: 197 مَتاعٌ قَليلٌ ثُمَّ مَأْواهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ وَ بِئْسَ الْمِهادُ
🔆It is only a little enjoyment; then their abode will be Hell—what an evil resting place!
🌹Indeed, from time to time our Imam of the Age seeks permission and quells the turmoil, just as Sajjad (AS) sought permission.
🌹The inner workings of every technology are in the hands of His Eminence: the technologies of all the prophets, saints, and angels.
🔅🌼 فَحَرِّكْهُ تَحْرِيكاً لَيِّناً 🌼🔅
🌹From time to time, a warning is delivered; a crushing revenge will come.
🌹The secret of the rope technology resembles the technology of Solomon’s ring; this technology can be activated only by the hands of God’s Proof.
🌼Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)🌼
🔅🌼A learner’s perspective on the topic of “Sajjadiya Technologies”🌼🔅
🔆Sajjadiya Technologies🔆🌻
🌼🔆🌼The Celestial Rope Technology🌼🔆🌼
🔹On the eve of the birth of Imam Zayn al-Abidin (AS)
📅 Date: 1403/11/15 – 04 Sha‘ban 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some points raised during the session:
### 🌟 The Night of Zayn al-Abidin’s Birth (AS)
🔹 Zayn al-Abidin, the adornment of those who strive in worship, the Imam of the Godwary, the guardian of the Muslims, the delight of the eyes of those who behold, the gnostic!
🔹 Congratulations to the celestial and heavenly realms, accompanied by blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad!
### 🕌 Knowing the Station of Imam Sajjad (AS)
🔹 O Lord, make Sajjad known to us!
🔹 Who is Sajjad? Or what is he?
🔹 Introduce Your Sajjad to us, make him familiar to our hearts!
🔹 Sajjad is the mosque itself, the supreme divine mosque in this universe!
🔹 Both the mosque, and the prostration, and the prostrator!
🔹 If they gather in one place, they become “Sajjad”!
🔹 Sajjad is the very being who has made the mosque, the mihrab, the prostration and the prostrator one!
🔹 He is the union of love and lover, of passion and ecstasy!
🔹 Sajjad is the servant, the worshipper and the place of worship all at once!
🔹 What perfection Sajjad has! What beauty Sajjad has!
### 💖 The Splitter of Love and Worship
🔹 If I say Sajjad is Zayn al-Abidin and the adornment of the righteous, I have split open love—I have said neither less nor more!
🔹 By God! Sajjad split open worship, he turned servitude inside out!
🔹 Who is Sajjad?
🔹 One must have Husayni eyes to behold the beauty of Sajjad!
🔹 One must look upon Sajjad with “the eye of God that sees” and “the heart of God that preserves,” and perceive his states!
🔹 One must look with “the eye of God that sees” upon the beauty of “the beautiful face of God”!
🔹 What a master Sajjad is! The master of masters is Sajjad!
🔹 When Imam Husayn (AS) took Sajjad into his embrace, he said:
– “How fragrant Sajjad is! What a sweet scent you have! What a beautiful face you have, Sajjad!”
🔹 What was Husayn (AS) seeing? What share was he receiving from Sajjad?
🔹 He was seeing the unseen within the beauty of Sajjad!
### 📖 Knowledge and Imamate in the House of the Master of Prostrators (AS)
🔹 Abdullah ibn Utbah asked Imam Husayn (AS) about Imam Sajjad (AS):
– “Who is this master?”
🔹 Imam Husayn (AS) said:
– “His son Muhammad, when he attains the Imamate, will be nine years old!”
– “And this nine-year-old child will split open knowledge!”
🔹 That is, you ask about Sajjad, but I tell you of the son of Sajjad!
🔹 He will split open knowledge, he will unlock the truth!
🔹 He is the mighty warrior, Zayn al-Abidin!
🔹 Who is Sajjad? He is the greatest means to God!
### 🎼 The Most Beautiful Music for the Creator
🔹 O you who have faith! Be mindful of God and seek a means toward Him!
🔹 Has it ever crossed our hearts to play a beautiful melody for our Creator?
🔹 The most beautiful music in the universe, for our Creator!
🔹 How? From the throat of Imam Sajjad (AS), with the heart of Imam Zayn al-Abidin (AS)!
🔹 Let us play the most beautiful melody, one than which there is no higher melody in this world!
🔹 The capital of love is free!
🔹 The Sahifa of Sajjadiyyah is the capital of love!
🔹 Want to fall in love with God? The way is short!
🔹 The *Sahifa Sajjadiya* has made the path of love short!
🔹 It traverses the seven cities of love in a single moment!
🔹 Not just one city—it teaches the way of love in a single moment!
🔹 It is Sajjad! We need only enter the garden of the *Sahifa Sajjadiya*!
🔹 Then, before we even fall in love, we become beloved of the Lord of Love!
🔹 Who is Sajjad?
🔹 O God! Make Sajjad known to us!
### ✨ Sajjad: The Reality of Servitude
🔹 Sajjad is the very embodiment of holiness!
🌿 Imam Sajjad (AS) is the reality of worship and the essence of servitude. He is a means of drawing near to God, a way to break through to love and attain divine knowledge!
### 🌟 Sajjad (AS): The Destination of Love for God
🔹 Sajjad is the very destination of love for God!
🔹 Imam Sajjad (AS) was neither an imam who could not speak nor one who kept silent!
🔹 He was not ill; he was eloquent! Indeed, he was resolute!
🔹 He was constantly on the front lines in the struggle against disbelief and idolatry!
🔹 He was at war with disbelief, the unbelievers, idolatry and the idolaters!
🔹 Let us not imagine that everything was over after Ashura!
🔹 No—instead, the massacre of the Shia began then!
🔹 What did Sajjad (AS) do?
🔹 It lies behind a veil! It is one of the hidden mysteries of the Sajjadiya!
🔹 The special missions of the Sajjadiya struck at the roots of disbelief so deeply that one day their secrets will be unveiled!
🔹 Had it not been for those covert missions of the Sajjadiya, there would be no trace of religion, religious devotion or the Shia in this world!
🔹 The role Imam Sajjad (AS) played in that era under an outward appearance of silence is the same role Imam al-Mahdi (AJ) plays in this era!
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### ⚙️ Advanced Technology in the Era of Imam Sajjad (AS)
🔹 By God! They made use of such advanced technologies!
🔹 And in such a way that they thwarted every plot by the unbelievers against religion, the faithful and the Shia!
—
### 🏴 Jabir Complains of the Umayyads’ Oppression
🔹 Jabir came before Imam Sajjad (AS) and complained about the Umayyads.
🔹 He spoke of the cruelty of the Umayyads’ supporters, of the tyrants’ oppression!
🔹 He said to the Imam (AS):
– “O son of the Messenger of God! They kill us in every home, every neighbourhood and every street!”
– “In every square, city and land, they massacre us and drive us from our homes!”
🔹 He continued sorrowfully:
– “My master! They openly and publicly curse the Commander of the Faithful (AS) in the cities, in the markets and on the roads!”
– “They gather in the Mosque of the Messenger of God (PBUH) and invoke curses upon Ali (AS)!”
– “No one stops them! No one prevents them!”
– “And whoever tries to defend Ali (AS), they all set upon him together!”
– “They say this man is a ‘Rāfiḍī’—an Abū Turābī!”
– “They take him to their ruler, torture him, beat him, imprison him, and kill him!”
—
### 🌌 Imam Sajjad (AS)’s Supplication and God’s Forbearance
🔹 Imam Sajjad (AS) heard Jābir’s words, then raised his eyes to the sky and said:
– “How forbearing You are! How great is Your forbearance!
– How exalted is Your station in forbearance!
– My Lord, You grant Your servants in the cities such long respite that they imagine Your respite for them will last forever!
– Yet all these events are before Your eyes!
– No one can overcome Your decree!
– No one can thwart Your irrevocable will!
– You act however You will, in whatever way You will, and whenever You will!
– And You know us better than we know ourselves!”
—
### ⚡️ Permission to Punish, and Divine Technology in the Hands of al-Bāqir (AS)
🔹 It was as though Imam Sajjad (AS), through this supplication, had sought God’s permission to punish them!
🔹 Then he called his son, Muhammad al-Bāqir (AS)!
🔹 Al-Bāqir (AS) was still a child then, perhaps four to seven years old!
🔹 Yet Imam Sajjad (AS) summoned him!
🔹 Muhammad came! It was as though the Imam (AS) were calling his warrior:
– “Sajjad’s little warrior, come—you have a great mission!”
– “Tomorrow, go to the Mosque of the Messenger of God (PBUH)!”
– “And take the rope that Gabriel brought down for our grandfather!”
– “Then move it gently and calmly!”
– “Be careful not to shake it violently!”
– “For if you shake that rope hard, I fear all the people will perish!”
🔹 What an extraordinary technology this is!
🔹 What is this “rope technology”? A thin thread, yet with immense power!
🔹 A divine technology, among the technologies of Muhammad (PBUH) and the family of Muhammad (AS)!
—
🌿 To all appearances, Imam Sajjad (AS) was silent, but inwardly he was engaged in a tremendous struggle! Though suffering the greatest oppression, he relied on God and drew upon divine knowledge to shatter the foundations of idolatry! When the truth behind these secret missions is revealed one day, the world will be left astounded!
### ⚡️ Imam al-Bāqir (AS)’s Divine Mission in Childhood
🔹 I will recount the hadith briefly and selectively, passing over many points while preserving the essence of the truth!
🔹 Jābir grows concerned: What kind of mission is this?
🔹 What is al-Bāqir (AS) going to do? He goes to Imam al-Bāqir (AS) and asks him!
🔹 Imam Muhammad al-Bāqir (AS), while still a child, says:
– “Jābir, if it were not for that ‘appointed time’…”
– “Jābir, by God, if it were not for that appointed time for which God has granted Satan respite—if it were not for that…”
– “If it were not for that appointed term and fixed span, if it were not for God’s decree already ordained…”
– “By God! I would make this perverse people sink into the earth and destroy them—in the blink of an eye!”
🔹 Who is saying this?
🔹 Baqir (AS)! Sajjad’s seven-year-old warrior!
🔹 By God, if this Baqir (AS) had been given his mission at Karbala, he would have destroyed all the enemies in the blink of an eye!
🔹 He had not been given permission to destroy them, but he was equipped with the highest technologies in the universe!
🔹 But since the “appointed day” had not yet come, since God’s decree was otherwise, the mission was delayed!
🔹 Otherwise, “one breath from Baqir,” “one thread from Baqir,” would have been enough to destroy that entire perverse people!
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### 🌍 The secret of divine technologies in the hands of the Shi‘a in the era of the Return
🔹 My God! What kind of technology is this?!
🔹 By God Almighty, the young followers of the Imam of Our Time (AJ) have many such threads in their hands!
🔹 But they have not been given permission!
🔹 If they had permission, they would bring this whole world crashing down!
—
### 😨 Jaber’s astonishment at Baqir’s (AS) mission
🔹 Jaber is astonished!
🔹 What will they do? What will they do with the Nasibis, the accursed, the Qadaris?
🔹 Is Imam Baqir (AS) going to destroy them all?
🔹 No—the Imam only intends to teach them a small lesson!
🔹 He only wants to instill a little fear in the hearts of this perverse people!
—
### ⚡️ Divine power in the hands of Imam Baqir (AS)
🔹 Imam Baqir (AS) says:
– “I have been commanded!”
🔹 What does that mean?
🔹 It means I have a mission: I am only permitted to instill “fear” in the hearts of this people!
🔹 But I wished I could destroy them all!
🔹 I wished God would rid the earth of this perverse people, so that God’s servants could live in peace!
🔹 Jaber asks:
– “My master, how will you frighten them?
– “There are so many of them—they are beyond counting!”
🔹 Imam Baqir (AS) then enters the mosque!
🔹 To show Jaber God’s power!
🔹 Jaber enters the mosque with the Imam (AS)!
🔹 The Imam offers two units of prayer…
🔹 Then he places his blessed face upon the earth…
🔹 He communes with God in special words…
🔹 Then he raises his blessed head…
🔹 From his blessed pocket, he takes out a “fine thread”…
🔹 A lovely fragrance rises from the thread…
🔹 The thread was finer than one that could pass through a needle!
🔹 Jaber is astonished!
🔹 He says: “His Eminence did things with that thread… but very gently…”
🔹 “He moved the thread so softly, it was as if he were not moving it at all…”
🔹 But suddenly…
🔹 Cries and commotion rose from every corner!
🔹 An earthquake struck!
🔹 A slight tremor, yet the houses of Medina collapsed!
🔹 Weeping and terrified, people poured out of the main thoroughfares!
🔹 Everyone was crying out: «إنا لله و إنا إلیه راجعون!»
—
### 🌪 Sajjad’s (AS) little warrior brought on Judgment Day!
🔹 Sajjad’s (AS) little warrior—what a tumult he caused!
🔹 This was only one of Imam Baqir’s (AS) minor missions!
🔹 What would have happened if Imam Sajjad (AS) had revealed his full power?!
🔹 Judgment Day would have arrived! A tremendous event would have taken place!
🔹 The people were on the brink of destruction! Everyone was shouting, “It’s an earthquake! It’s Judgment Day!”
🔹 Weeping and in tears, they made their way toward the mosque!
🔹 They admitted it themselves:
– “We deserved to be swallowed up by the earth!”
– “Because we abandoned enjoining what is right!”
– “Sin, debauchery, adultery, usury, and sodomy have become widespread!”
– “We deserved a punishment more severe than this!”
—
🌿 As a child, Imam Baqir (AS) struck terror into the hearts of tyrants, shaking the foundations of falsehood! Those who had abandoned enjoining what is right admitted that they deserved divine punishment! This was only one glimpse of the hidden divine power within the House of Muhammad (PBUH)!
### ⚡️ The secret of the cord of divine power
🔹 Jaber asks in astonishment:
– “What is this cord? What is this marvel?”
🔹 Imam Baqir (AS) replies:
– “This is merely a remnant of the House of Moses and the House of Aaron!”
– “That is, we are making use of just a small piece of Mosaic technology!”
– “What would happen if we used Muhammadan technology?!”
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### 🏆 The exalted rank of the House of Muhammad (PBUH)
🔹 Then he said:
– “O Jaber! We hold a rank and a place of our own!”
– “We hold an exalted rank and place with Allah!”
– “Were it not for us, neither earth nor heaven would have been created; nor Paradise, plains and deserts, mountains and trees, sweetness and bitterness, water and plants!”
– “God chose us, and we are His chosen creation!”
—
### 🌍 The governor of Medina’s warning
🔹 When the governor of Medina saw what was happening, he cried out:
– “O people! O contemporaries! If you wish to be saved…!”
🔹 But the people were bewildered, trembling and terrified!
—
### 🙏 Jābir Gives Thanks for the Blessing of Gnosis
🔹 After witnessing this miracle, Jābir spoke with humility and tears on his lips:
– «الحمدلله الذی هدانا لهذا!»
– “Praise be to God, who bestowed upon me the gnosis of you!”
– “Praise be to Him, who enabled me to obey you!”
– “And made me an enemy of your enemies!”
—
### 📖 What Is True Gnosis?
🔹 Imam Sajjad (AS) said to Jābir:
– “Jābir, do you know what gnosis is?”
– “Gnosis is the affirmation of divine unity!”
– “Divine unity must be established!
– “First, you must attain knowledge of the meanings; then knowledge of the Gates!”
– “Then knowledge of the people; then knowledge of the pillars, the chiefs, and the elect!”
🔹 Then he recited the noble verse:
– “لَوْ كَانَ فِيهِمَا آلِهَةٌ إِلَّا اللَّهُ لَفَسَدَتَا” (If there were any deity but Allah in the heavens and the earth, both would surely fall into ruin!)
—
### ✨ Divine Technologies in the Hands of God’s Proofs
🔹 Then he said:
– “Jābir, affirming divine unity is gnosis. As for the meanings…!”
– “We are those meanings! We are their manifestations!”
🔹 He continued:
– “This is only one small technology among the technologies of Sajjad!”
– “If Sajjad (AS) is equipped with such mighty technologies, then what might happen if we are equipped with Sajjad (AS)!”
– “This world, this universe, is not confined to planet Earth! We must break free from this earth, pass beyond it, and reach beyond this universe!”
– “We must detach our hearts from this world and become companions of the heavenly ones! Companions of Jābalqā and Jābarsā!”
– “We must flee from these people and pass beyond them, becoming companions of our Imam of the Age!”
– “And know that the cord of divine power is in the hands of God’s proofs!”
– “Knowledge, wisdom, technology—whatever there is, God has placed in the hands and blessed hearts of the Ahl al-Bayt (AS)!”
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### 🔥 The Imam of the Age’s Absolute Authority over the World
🔹 By God! What would happen if God made air forbidden to the disbelievers and hypocrites?
🔹 The Imam of the Age (AJ) possesses this technology!
🔹 If he receives permission from God, he will make water and air forbidden to the disbelievers!
🔹 Then water will not quench their thirst, and light will not brighten their eyes!
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### 🌪 The Imam of the Age (AJ) and the Moment of Final Permission
🔹 If the Imam of the Age (AJ) so wills, no heart will ever again experience love!
🔹 No insolent person will openly commit sin!
🔹 By God! If he raises his hand and receives permission, in a single moment he will cleanse this world of the stain of sinners!
🔹 A day will come when that permission will be granted!
🔹 On that day, what will be done?!
🔹 The grandeur and majesty of the technologies of the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) far exceed our imagination!
🔹 Our minds cannot comprehend it!
🔹 A single slender thread holds all this wonder! So how can the hidden technologies of the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) even be imagined?!
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🌿 This world does not yet have the capacity for the full power of God’s Proofs to be revealed! But a day will come when all these powers will manifest, and earth and time will submit before the truth!
### 🌟 God’s Proofs and the Technologies of the Quran
🔹 What wonders do God’s Proofs possess!
🔹 If they were to employ the technologies of the Quran, what would happen?!
🔹 The secrets of the Quran—its outward and inner dimensions—are in His hands!
🔹 What do they do? What have they done? And what will they yet do?!
🔹 Sometimes it seems that Imam al-Zaman (AJ) is tugging at that little thread!
🔹 They leave the Shi’a be and cast terror into the hearts of the enemies of the Shi’a!
🔹 But it is not we who are delivered—it is they who fall into perdition!
🔹 What plans they devise!
🔹 They place their thread in the minds and hearts of their Shi’a, making them possessors of their miraculous technologies!
🔹 An Imam who, in a single moment, opens for his Shi’a a path that would take years to traverse!
🔹 A path of hundreds of years that the polytheists have traversed with great hardship—the Imam, with a single blessing, traverses it for his Shi’a in an instant!
—
### 📖 The Speaking Quran; Equipped with All Technologies
🔹 The Quran is speaking!
🔹 It is equipped with “the clarification of all things”!
🔹 It is equipped with every technology!
🔹 His Eminence shatters the habits of the world!
🔹 They see what cannot be seen, and make audible what cannot be heard!
🔹 Through their presence, the universe is transformed!
🔹 If the technology of “supplication” were to emerge, what would happen?!
🔹 Those words the Imam recites in supplication—if we were to read his Sahifa with a “Sajjadiyya heart,” what tumult would erupt in this world?!
🔹 Humanity would be drowned in wonders!
🔹 We must learn how to ask God with beauty and wisdom!
🔹 We must ask God for the art of “asking beautifully”!
🔹 Let us sit at the feet of the successful ones of this school!
🔹 Let us be students at the feet of the Sajjadiyya technologies!
🔹 By God, all of these are technologies beyond quantum!
🔹 Beyond any technology or technique!
🔹 One day this mighty industry will emerge!
🔹 Knowledge will manifest in its true reality!
🔹 Are we ready to receive those mighty technologies?
🔹 If we are under His Eminence’s allegiance, then we are ready!
🔹 Then we have been accepted into His Eminence’s examination!
🔹 Let us not be among the unlearned and deprived of these sciences!
—
### 🔥 The Divine Proofs; the Source of Wondrous Technologies
🔹 The Divine Proofs are the springtime of mind-boggling technologies!
🔹 For they are the mine of wisdom!
🔹 Imam Sajjad (AS) too invites us toward himself!
🔹 He says, “Ask me before you lose me”!
🔹 This Sahifa Sajjadiyya is the secret to attaining divine technologies!
🔹 The path to reaching these technologies lies solely in accepting the Imamate and following them!
🔹 Undoubtedly, Imam Sajjad (AS) wrought wonders in worlds beyond this earth!
🔹 He had marvels!
🔹 If only we understood!
🔹 If only we had become residents of those “Sajjadian worlds”!
🔹 But what did the people of the earth do?!
🔹 They poisoned him, they brought him down to dust and blood!
🔹 Was this the way of loyalty?!
🔹 Was this gratitude for God’s greatest blessing?!
🔹 If we were to attain the “technologies of the Beautiful Names,” what would happen?!
🔹 But this is a path that cannot be traversed without knowledge of the Divine Proofs!
🔹 One must pass through the path of “knowledge of the self”!
🔹 اللهم عرفنی نفسک…
🔹 And after passing through these stages, we will reach the technology of the “divine Beautiful Names”!
🔹 That is, the manifestation of “new creations,” the emergence of “unparalleled laws”!
🔹 And by God, such will indeed come to pass!
🔹 On that day, a group will be so consumed with regret that they will gnash their teeth!
🔹 Regret over why they were deprived of this immense knowledge!
🔹 How familiar are we with computer programs?!
🔹 The more familiar we are, the greater our benefit from computer technologies!
🔹 Are we familiar with the “language of the Beautiful Names,” with the “language of the Quran and the Ahl al-Bayt”?!
🔹 If we are familiar, these divine technologies will manifest within our very being!
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### ⚡️ Sajjadian Technologies; of the Nature of Divine Miracles
🔹 Sajjadian technologies are of the nature of “mann and salwa”!
🔹 Of the nature of “the staff of Moses”!
🔹 Of the nature of Sajjadian whispered prayers and glances!
🔹 Of the nature of “the Sajjadian heart”!
🔹 The “Sajjadian Khaybar” technology; the “Sajjadian Hand of God”!
🔹 Technologies peculiar to humanity!
🔹 Technologies of ethics!
🔹 Technologies of the sublime parables!
🔹 The supreme attributes! The Beautiful Names!
🔹 Technologies reserved for the ascension!
🔹 Yes! The “appointed time” has not yet come!
🔹 But when the appointed time arrives, Imam Zaman (AJ), like his noble ancestor Imam Sajjad (AS), will raise up a resurrection!
🔹 That “appointed time” will come to pass!
🔹 God has warned us!
🔹 Let us not go astray!
🔹 When we see crowds of sinners openly and constantly disobeying God, let us not be taken in by them!
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### 🌍 A warning against the world’s deception
🔹 Let us not be deceived by the comings and goings and bustling activity of the unbelievers in the lands!
🔹 These are only fleeting worldly goods!
🔹 Their enjoyment is meagre!
🔹 But their abode is in Hell!
🔹 And what a wretched resting place!
🔹 Surely, the Imam of the Age (AJ) sometimes seeks permission and quells the turmoil!
🔹 The very fabric of every technology is in his hands!
🔹 The technology of all the prophets and the friends of God is in his blessed hands!
🌿 So we must prepare! We must pledge our allegiance! We must follow the command of our Imam—for one day these “divine technologies” will be revealed to the world!
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🌼Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)🌼
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[2] ʿUyūn Akhbār al-Riḍā ʿalayhi al-salām ; vol.1 ; p.60Ibn Bābawayh, Nashr-e Jahān—Tehran, first edition, 1378 AH.