The Vast System of Love and Worship

🔘The Night of the Prophet’s Passing and the Martyrdom of Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba
📆 Date: 1403/06/11 — 28 Safar 1446
📌 Meshkat-e Noor session
📌 Weekly session on the explanation and interpretation of the Sahifa Sajjadiyya (Supplication 20)
👤 Lecture by Master Ali Saei
🗒 Some of the topics discussed in the session:
🌼 The Prophet is the ever-living reality of history: Muhammad, the great mystery of creation, the greatest and most wondrous of God’s creatures.
🌼 Who but Ali could claim to have known Muhammad? The reality of the Prophet was disclosed in Ali’s soul.
🌼 He is the key to blessings and knowledge. Knowledge means everything: light, delight and beauty dwell within it. The Prophet is the City of Knowledge.
🌼 To understand the reality of Muhammad in this age, we must harness all the forces of existence.
🌼 If we understand the secret of the key to blessings, the gateway will open to us. To know the Prophet is as if to have gained access to all realities. Once equipped with this vast source of knowledge and wisdom, we can claim to have reached the end of the journey of servitude.
🌼 The Final Proof is the last spark of Muhammadan light, and it will shine in this world. Until we gain insight, we will remain deprived of this spark.
🌼 We are in the entrance-exam class of servitude. Have we learned the lesson of divine unity? Have we learned the lesson of prophethood? Have we made it to the class on the Proof? Knowing Muhammad shows that we have reached divine unity, while knowing the Proof shows that we have graduated from the class on prophethood. So let us cherish every moment of this end time.
🌼 The Prophet spent many years learning, concealed behind different veils.
🌼 The Prophet was sent to all people in every age, not merely to the people of his own time; nor was he sent only to humankind—he was commissioned for all creatures.
🌼 The Prophet was commissioned both in the outer world and in the inward world of human beings. Everyone has gained a vision of him in their own world, according to their capacity and understanding, and thereby acquired knowledge.
🌼 The heavens rise higher as their knowledge of the Prophet grows.
🌼 The clouds know the Prophet as ʿAbd al-Salām, the wind as ʿAbd al-ʿAli, lightning as ʿAbd al-Munʿim, thunder as ʿAbd al-Wakīl, stone as ʿAbd al-Jalīl, soil as ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, birds as ʿAbd al-Qādir, and fish as ʿAbd al-Muhaymin.
🌼 If we call upon him as a servant through all the divine names, we will have come to know him.
🌼 The Prophet had not left Medina—so how did he carry his message to the East and the West? (A reference to a hadith from Imam al-Sadiq.) Had he pierced the earthly realm’s spiritual dimension? Did Gabriel act like a computer, communicating with creatures and speaking to them? Was Gabriel a computer beyond the limits of time?
🌼 Every angel is a computer belonging to God.
🌼 Gabriel was used as the hardware for conveying the message.
🌼 When we think, every part of our body is affected. The Prophet is the Absolute Intellect, and in this way he was connected with all of creation.
🌼 How does a tree communicate through its different parts? The Prophet’s connection is beyond anything like that.
🌼 The Prophet says, “I am the tree, Fatima is its branch, Ali its pollination, Hasan and Husayn its fruit, and the Shiʿa the leaves of the tree.”
🌼 If we were to sum up the Prophet’s greatness in a single point, it would be this: everything is encompassed within his being.
🌼 To understand the boundary between faith and certainty, think of the difference between being connected and being switched on.
🌼 When the Prophet switches me on, I have reached certainty.
🌼 The Prophet is within me, but I have imprisoned him.
🌼 All knowledge has been planted within each of us, but it has not been switched on.
🌼 I have become so enslaved to my stomach. If I nourish myself again and switch myself on, I will see that, with this hardware, I have been equipped with knowledge and wisdom.
🌼 God’s Prophet is the sovereign who awakens us.
🌼 I must awaken from the stupor of sin if I am to connect with the sovereign of reason.
🌼 The Messenger of God said of his son Hasan: “This son of mine is my beloved. So, O God, love Hasan, and love those who love Hasan.”
🌼 Imam Hasan said: “Whoever worships God, God will make everything worshipful and obedient to that person.”
🌼 The first and last secret: whoever knows God falls in love with Him; whoever knows the world turns away from it.
🌼 Whoever knows the Imam of their time and obeys him will attain the blessing of knowing God.