Transformation in the Mirror of Night and Day

🌻🔆 Springtime of the Soul: From Ramadan to the Flowering of Being 🔆🌻

🌻🔆The Mystery of the Interweaving of Night and Day🔆🌻

🌼🔆🌼The Mystery of Spring🌼🔆🌼

🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹

🔅🌹 “The Mystery of Nowruz”  “The Turning of the Year”  “The Sapling of the Soul” “Springtime Hearts”  “Supplication 6 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya” and more … An outline with an addendum       1404.01.14    Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141 (903)  🌹🔅

🔅🌼 The Turning of the Year🌼🔅

🔅🌼Let us sow and cultivate the soul in the world, and the world in the soul 🌼🔅

🌹Humanity must be cultivated in nature, and nature in humanity; virtues in each person, and each person in virtue; each individual in another, and in one another—so that divine fruits and blessings may spring from this union.

🌹Humanity must be planted in the heart of the cosmos, and the cosmos in the human heart, so that, through tending them, we may gather their fruits.

🌹Planting saplings of virtue in the soul, and the soul in the heart of virtue, deepens the blossoming and wonder of existence.

🌹Let us not neglect the saplings of virtue and knowledge, of verses and remembrances, of love.

🔅🌼Experiencing the Reality of Spring🌼🔅

🌹Let us experience spring, which gathers all realities, in the very soul of the Qur’an, and likewise in the soul of springtime for all creation.

🌹Let us live in the soul of spring.

🔅🌼Every Moment Is a New Creation🌼🔅

🌹Every being, every particle, has its own unique number, its own particular vibration, its own distinctive name and identity.

🌹At every moment, each being is a new and singular phenomenon. How much more so a year, which is unique in a transcendent way.

🔅🌼The Number of Each Being in Existence🌼🔅

🌹Each flower, in each year, has its own unique colour, fragrance and beauty.

🌹“Night and day, every moment, time and place”—all are God’s creations, alive with energy and awareness, and each has its own bounds and conditions. 🌹Time and place have their own geography; they have a term and a mission, and are subject to reckoning and accountability, to questions and answers.

🔅🌼Festive Attire🌼🔅

🌷🔆 مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ جَدِّهِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ رَاشِدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع‏ إِذَا كَسَا اللَّهُ تَعَالَى الْمُؤْمِنَ ثَوْباً جَدِيداً فَلْيَتَوَضَّأْ وَ لْيُصَلِّ رَكْعَتَيْنِ يَقْرَأُ فِيهِمَا أُمَّ الْكِتَابِ وَ آيَةَ الْكُرْسِيِّ وَ قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ وَ إِنَّا أَنْزَلْنَاهُ ثُمَّ لْيَحْمَدِ اللَّهَ الَّذِي سَتَرَ عَوْرَتَهُ وَ زَيَّنَهُ فِي النَّاسِ وَ لْيُكْثِرْ مِنْ قَوْلِ- لَا حَوْلَ وَ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَعْصِي‏ اللَّهَ‏ فِيهِ‏ وَ لَهُ بِكُلِّ سِلْكٍ فِيهِ مَلَكٌ يُقَدِّسُ لَهُ وَ يَسْتَغْفِرُ لَهُ وَ يَتَرَحَّمُ عَلَيْهِ.[1]

🌹A festive garment is one in which no sin is committed.

🔅🌼 كُلُّ يَوْمٍ لَا يُعْصَى‏ اللَّهُ‏ فِيهِ 🌼🔅

🌷🔆 قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فِي بَعْضِ الْأَعْيَادِ إِنَّمَا هُوَ عِيدٌ لِمَنْ قَبِلَ اللَّهُ صِيَامَهُ وَ شَكَرَ قِيَامَهُ وَ كُلُّ يَوْمٍ لَا يُعْصَى‏ اللَّهُ‏ فِيهِ‏ فَهُوَ يَوْمُ عِيد[2]

🔅🌼The Beginning of Celebration—or Mourning🌼🔅

🌹A new year marks either the joyous end of one chapter and the beginning of another, or the end of joy and the beginning of affliction. Could it be the end of a lesser affliction and the beginning of a greater one?!

🌹At the end of our earthly life, will we rejoice at being raised to life, or fear death?

🌹Fear of separation from the world belongs to those who love it—to those who are dead without it.

🌹For the God-fearing, every part of life is alive and moving toward perfection! Love, too, comes alive: one rises from love of this world to a higher love.

🔅🌼Make God’s signs your very eyes🌼🔅

🌹You must recite and reflect on God’s signs—all of them, from the signs in the Qur’an to the signs within yourselves and across the horizons.

🌹Recite the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt; make them your light, your eyes, your wings.

🌻🔆Al-Jāthiyah: 20   هذا بَصائِرُ لِلنَّاسِ وَ هُدىً وَ رَحْمَةٌ لِقَوْمٍ يُوقِنُونَ

🔆This (Qur’an and heavenly law) is a means of insight, and a source of guidance and mercy for people who are certain.

🌹With every eye, keep watch for the great mysteries and exalted scenes of the Divine.

🔅🌼Profit—or the burning of your capital🌼🔅

🌹To recite the Imam of the Age means to know him (AS)—to make the fullest use of our means of drawing near to God.

🌹How many pages have you added to the book of your life? Have you multiplied its jewels and fruits—or burned up your capital?

🔅🌼The fruits of the tree of body and soul🌼🔅

🌹What sweet fruits, what harvest of a lifetime, have you to unveil?

🌹How much has your soul gained from the strokes, inscriptions, and designs of your Lord’s pen? Are we God’s tablet?

🌹You were nothing, then came into being and set out on the path of growth and perfection. Do you know that you are God’s planting?

🌹If the human being had not fled from God, what would they be now?!

🔅🌼The truth of a person’s being: their roots and lineage🌼🔅

🌹Every branch and leaf turns back to its root. A person’s associations, authorities, and sources bear witness to their origin and to the lineage of their body and soul.

🔅🌼Truth held captive by illusion🌼🔅

🌹Virtual space is a display of people’s real inner world.

🌹Where people spend their time reveals their inward inclinations.

🌹Throughout our lives, are we captive to truth or to illusion?!

🔅🌼Final forms🌼🔅

🌹Everyone stands at the finish line of the greatest race.

🌹Perhaps we are making our final choice, unaware and heedless of it.

🌹What are you proud of?! Your own ignorance and loss?

🌹In the dark age of the End Times, disgrace has become a source of pride!

🌹Those who are present are volunteers, stepping forward to take their place in the End Times!

🔅🌼Virtual pretenders🌼🔅

🌹The media lay claim to prophethood and divinity!

🌹How many human lookalikes have become chained captives of the media.

🌹The media are a striking embodiment of the whisperers who withdraw!

🔅🌼The final choice is also the first choice.🌼🔅

🌹A person’s final choice is the first choice of their new life!

🔅🌼Modern humanity has had its identity stolen🌼🔅

🌹Belief in divine unity, the foundation of our primordial nature, our senses, mind, and heart—all are under constant attack by the weapons of falsehood, doubt, whispering, beguilement, and embellishment.

🔅🌼Have you paid the zakat due for your servitude?🌼🔅

🌹In its broadest sense, zakat encompasses every blessing that grows and bears fruit when its due is given.

🌹According to a narration from Imam al-Sadiq (AS) in Miṣbāḥ al-Sharīʿa, the zakat of the body’s faculties is as follows:

🌹The zakat of the eye is to look with heedfulness and avert one’s gaze from sensual desires.

🌹The zakat of the ear is to listen to knowledge, wisdom, the Qur’an, and everything through which the human spirit may attain liberation, and to avoid whatever causes the spirit to become ensnared, such as lying, backbiting, and the like.

🌹The zakat of the tongue is to offer sincere counsel to Muslims, awaken the heedless, and engage abundantly in glorifying and remembering God.

🌹The zakat of the hand is to give generously and bestow upon others from the blessings of God, to employ it in writing about knowledge and in everything from which Muslims may benefit on the path of obedience to God, and to refrain from doing evil.

🌹The zakat of the feet is to strive to walk in fulfilment of God’s rights: visiting the righteous, attending gatherings of remembrance, reconciling people, maintaining ties of kinship, striving in God’s cause, and pursuing everything that brings integrity to the heart and preserves a person’s faith.

🔅🌼 The Zakat of the Greater World 🌼🔅

🌹Everyone must pay zakat according to the measure of their possessions. The possessor of the Greater World, endowed with abundant and immense virtues, must pay its zakat on an equally vast scale; the reward for such zakat extends beyond that.

🌹One whose souls have died, leaving only the lesser world, has nothing to offer except what is limited to those worldly possessions.

🔅🌼 Zakat According to al-Sadiq of the Household of Muhammad (AS) 🌼🔅

🌷🔆قَالَ الصَّادِقُ ع‏ عَلَى كُلِّ جُزْءٍ مِنْ أَجْزَائِكَ زَكَاةٌ وَاجِبَةٌ لِلَّهِ تَعَالَى بَلْ عَلَى كُلِّ مَنْبِتِ شَعْرٍ مِنْ شَعْرِكَ بَلْ عَلَى كُلِّ لَحْظَةٍ مِنْ لَحَظَاتِكَ زَكَاةٌ فَزَكَاةُ الْعَيْنِ النَّظْرَةُ بِالْعِبْرَةِ وَ الْغَضُّ عَنِ الشَّهَوَاتِ وَ مَا يُضَاهِيهَا وَ زَكَاةُ الْأُذُنِ اسْتِمَاعُ الْعَيْنِ وَ الْحِكْمَةِ وَ الْقُرْآنِ وَ فَوَائِدِ الدِّينِ مِنَ الْمَوْعِظَةِ وَ النَّصِيحَةِ وَ مَا فِيهِ نَجَاتُكَ وَ الْإِعْرَاضُ عَمَّا هُوَ ضِدُّهُ مِنَ الْكَذِبِ وَ الْغِيبَةِ وَ أَشْبَاهِهِمَا وَ زَكَاةُ اللِّسَانِ النُّصْحُ لِلْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ التَّيَقُّظُ لِلْغَافِلِينَ وَ كَثْرَةُ التَّسْبِيحِ وَ الذِّكْرِ وَ غَيْرِهَا وَ زَكَاةُ الْيَدِ الْبَذْلُ وَ الْعَطَاءُ وَ السَّخَاءُ بِمَا أَنْعَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكَ بِهِ وَ تَحْرِيكُهَا بِكِتَابَةِ الْعِلْمِ وَ مَنَافِعَ يَنْتَفِعُ بِهَا الْمُسْلِمُونَ فِي طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَ الْقَبْضُ عَنِ الشَّرِّ وَ زَكَاةُ الرِّجْلِ السَّعْيُ فِي حُقُوقِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى مِنْ زِيَارَةِ الصَّالِحِينَ وَ مَجَالِسِ الذِّكْرِ وَ إِصْلَاحِ النَّاسِ وَ صِلَةِ الْأَرْحَامِ وَ الْجِهَادِ وَ مَا فِيهِ صَلَاحُ قَلْبِكَ وَ سَلَامَةُ دِينِكَ هَذَا مِمَّا تَحْتَمِلُ الْقُلُوبُ فَهْمَهُ وَ النُّفُوسُ اسْتِعْمَالَهُ وَ مَا لَا يُشْرِفُ عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا عِبَادُهُ الْمُخْلَصُونَ الْمُقَرَّبُونَ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ أَنْ تُحْصَى وَ هُمْ أَرْبَابُهُ وَ هُوَ شِعَارُهُمْ دُونَ غَيْرِهِمْ اللَّهُمَّ وَفِّقْنِي بِمَا تُحِبُّ وَ تَرْضَى‏[3]

🌷🔆Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said: Every limb and part of your being has an obligatory zakat that you must render in the way of God. Indeed, every hair of yours and every moment of your life carries a due and a zakat.

The zakat of the eye is to look with reflection and heedfulness, and to avert one’s gaze from carnal desires and whatever resembles them.

The zakat of the ear is to listen to knowledge and understanding, the verses of the Qur’an, religious teachings, exhortation and counsel, and everything that brings human beings felicity and salvation; it is also to turn away from conversations and words that lead to entanglement and punishment, such as backbiting, slander, lying, and the like.

The zakat of the tongue is to offer counsel to Muslims, express words that admonish and awaken the heedless, glorify and remember the Lord, and engage in such acts as reciting the verses of the Qur’an and speaking beneficial words.

The zakat of the hand is to give and do good generously, using what God Most High has bestowed upon a person. It is also to employ the hand in writing religious, scholarly, and beneficial material from which Muslims may profit, through which people may gain moral and religious benefit, or by which corruption and evil may be prevented.

The zakat of the foot is to strive to fulfil the rights of God Most High: to take steps to visit virtuous people, attend gatherings devoted to the remembrance of God, work to reconcile people, maintain ties of kinship, strive in the way of God, and go forth either to reform one’s own heart or for the sake of religion.

These qualities and subtleties are what most people’s hearts can bear, and what the majority are capable of putting into practice. As for those details and subtleties that are intended only for the people of spiritual proximity and sincerity, they are beyond enumeration. They are the ones qualified to understand the mysteries and subtleties; others are deprived of grasping those mysteries and comprehending those realities.

🔅🌼A Student’s Perspective on “Transformation in the Mirror of Night and Day” 🌼🔅

🌼🔆🌼 Transformation in the Mirror of Night and Day 🌼🔆🌼

🌻🔆 The Springtime of the Soul: From Ramadan to the Blossoming of Being 🔆🌻

🔹 Weekly Sessions on the Explanation and Interpretation of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (Supplication Six)

📅 Date: 1404/01/14 – 4 Shawwal 1446

✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor

🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei

📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:

### Let us become springlike and take on the fragrance of the Qur’an 🌸 

The month of Ramadan came so that we, too, might become springlike. 

So that we might become Qur’anic flowers and gardens. 

So that the fragrance of the Qur’an might rise from within us, scenting and renewing the world.

Spring came so that we might become spring forever. 

So that, even amid the spring of nature, we might ourselves become spring.

Just as the Imam of the Age is the spring of all creation, the freshness of days,** 

for all beings, for **spring and all springs, he is spring. 

He is spring even for **the realm of sovereignty**,**

and spring for **the realm of Divine omnipotence**. 

**He is the spring of springs.

We who are his Shi‘a 

must take that very spring as our model 

and ourselves become the fragrance of that spring of springs.

—

### The springtime of hearts, the spring of orphans 🌱 

The Imam’s being is light for those who seek light, and spring for those who seek spring. 

He is the spring of orphans. 

He is spring for all the afflicted and helpless.

Yet woe to this ingrate human being,** 

who drives away and rejects **this spring of orphans. 

He refuses to accept this spring of hopes, this spring of orphans…

During this blessed month of Ramadan,** 

which is also **the month of our Imam of the Age, we must become springlike. 

We must be a source of comfort and delight for all believers.

This human being must become a paradise for the poor and the afflicted.

The blessed month came so that, at every moment, we might make ourselves springlike and rose-scented. 

So that we might become the Garden of Ridwan.

The Qur’an taught us this great lesson. 

It reminded us to keep vigil at night.

Whoever, in the depths of night, stays awake for communion with God**, 

and for **obedience to God, keeps vigil**, 

is thereby **turning the depths of night into spring.

The springtime of God’s friends is that very depth of night, 

which is cleft open by the one who keeps vigil**,

**transforming the night into spring and paradise, making it a garden of the blessed.

This human being was meant to reach that…

—

### O Ancient One, the New Year Is from You ✨ 

The God who is engaged in a new act at every moment… 

That Ancient God, who at every moment is in a new شأن…

How beautiful it is to say at every moment:

> “O Ancient Allah, this new year is Yours…” 

> “I belong to this new year, while You remain the same ancient ruler and king…”

I wish to receive the goodness of this year from You… 

O God, I ask You for the goodness of this year, 

and I beseech You for the goodness that lies within the very essence of this year.

—

### A Supplication for Every Day of the Year 📿 

O God, I seek refuge in You from the evil of this year, 

and from the evil contained in the heart of this year.

And I ask You for sufficiency… 

I ask You to be sufficient for me… 

to remove my hardships and my troubles, O ذو الجلال و الإکرام…

How beautiful it is to recite this supplication every day. 

Or to repeat it as many times as there are days in the year.

—

### Turner of hearts, sovereign over the transformation of hearts 🔄 

How beautiful it is to repeat “یا ذالجلال و الاکرام” again and again…

“یا مقلب القلوب و الابصار، یا مدبّر اللیل…” 

let us recite it as many times as there are days in the year, with heart and soul**, 

so that **at every moment we may be transformed toward what is good**, 

and **at every moment become a new creation through renewal.

And let us understand this beautiful saying of our master, امیرالمؤمنین علیه‌السلام:

> “When the sovereign, king and ruler changes, time is transformed…”

Until the heart is transformed**, 

this **order of body and soul will not be transformed…

My heart must change**, 

so that **the entire kingdom of my being may be transformed.

This is the time for change. 

Whatever I have been…

my transformation does not lie in my own hands, 

but in the hands of my Lord.

He is “مقلب القلوب، طبیب القلوب، نور القلوب”. 

He is, and He alone is.

Let us entrust the heart, and its very substance, to Him**, 

so that **He may cultivate its sanctuary and make it حرم‌الله.

May our being become a temple of God…

for we know that: 

He is the One who transforms sins into virtues. 

He is the artist who transforms the worst of evils into the finest of goodness.

Let us recite the supplication in this form…

—

### The New Year Supplication, a Prayer for Transformation 💫 

O God, transform our evils into goodness… 

Raise our good deeds through the degrees… 

And raise our degrees to the chambers,

to that exalted station…

And raise our chambers to the highest heights.

O God, this new year has come… 

Make this year for us a year of worship and sincere devotion to You,

so that no evil, no act of disobedience, may come from us.

O God, ordain that we enter this year with truthful resolve,

and that we leave it in truth as well.

And appoint over us, from Your own presence, a supporting sovereign,

so that we do not stray even an iota from this truth.

O God,

each day is a new day… 

a new life… 

a new geography and history.

O God,

ordain the history and geography of every moment of our lives

as worship and devotion to You… 

May we never stray from Your way and worship in any moment, month, or year.

When we put on new clothes,

let us do so with prayer, greetings, and blessings upon the Prophet…

—

### A Garment That Becomes God’s Sanctuary 👕✨

Let us dress with God’s remembrance, with His verses and His surahs.

Let us make our intention and ask God:

“Make this garment I wear a garment of obedience to You…” 

so that when I am wearing it,

I commit no sin.

When we dress in this spirit,

every thread and fiber of the garment becomes, bit by bit, a remembrance of God.

At every point, God’s angels are present.

That garment becomes a garment of obedience, devotion, and communion with God… 

as though it were God’s sanctuary.

Now, what happens if this person’s own being, too, is purified and made pure…? 

A wondrous tumult!

The human being, who is the greater universe,

becomes, in that greater universe, an even greater tumult of devotion to God.

—

### The True Eid Belongs to the Pure of Heart 🌙 

Eid belongs to the one whose fast God accepts.

And every day on which a person does not disobey God is that person’s Eid.

A person entered the new year,

and passed through a new year of spirituality.

The first year of existence, the blessed month of Ramadan,

passed beyond that greater threshold.

This person must become a field for nature,

and turn nature into their own field.

This person must attain this station:

We must sow this world, this nature, the entire universe within our souls, nurture it 

and allow ourselves, in turn, to be nurtured, planted and brought to flower in those souls, 

until we reach the summit of wonder.

Our task is this: 

to sow all the noble virtues in our hearts, in every particle of our souls.

To make our hearts, 

our hearing, our sense of smell, our touch—all of them—a fertile ground for these virtues. 

And to be planted ourselves in the soul of these virtues**, 

so that we may spread **light upon light throughout existence…

Just as God 

makes the day flow into the night and the night into the day**,

causing one to enter the other—

and what transformations He brings about!

—

### Saplings from Heaven Were Planted 🌱 

Yes, it was time for saplings to be planted… 

The blessed month arrived.

What saplings it brought down from Heaven**—

unknown saplings, brought as gifts…

Those accepted in God’s presence received them, 

placed them in their souls, 

planted them, and brought their fruit to maturity.

Yes, 

we must plant the saplings of God’s verses and remembrances within ourselves, 

and be planted within them ourselves**, 

so that we may bring **their effects to light.

—

### The Beginning of a New Life—or of Neglect? 🔁 

The old cycle came to an end… 

We celebrated its passing…

But… 

Did we recognise the beginning of a new cycle, too?

Was this ending the end of joy, or the beginning of hardship?

Were we afraid of coming to life, or afraid of dying?

A person entering a new year** 

is like someone who departs from this world… 

into a new world.

Will we enter as though dead? 

Or will we be alive, and become more alive still?

And this same person, 

when their year begins anew**, 

**finds their life renewed with a greater vitality…

—

### Change: The Test of Love’s Truth 💗 

Love is made new in God’s sight…

If we are still the same as before, we have lost. 

If we have become better, we have won. 

If we have become worse—God forbid—we are accursed.

Love of this world must be transformed into a higher love.

God’s verses must become our very eyes.  

All these verses are sights that make us see**; 

we should have attained **true vision.

We should have experienced a higher illumination. 

Our fervor should have grown, and our courage in worship increased.

We should have read all of God’s signs and interpreted them… 

Whether Quranic, inward, cosmic, or from the Prophet’s Household…

We should have memorized them, interpreted them, and drawn out their inner meanings.

We should have recited them to our Imam of the Age, read them aloud to him, 

chanted them, and attained the fullest knowledge of him…

so that, through this means of God’s light**, 

**we might receive the highest illumination**, 

**uncover the mysteries**, 

**and destroy the darkness.

### The Eyes of Truth and the Soul’s Reckoning 👁📜

Every one of God’s signs in this world is a بصيرة… 

an eye through which to see realities otherwise unseen.

Have I reached that lofty station? 

Have I gained, or have I burned away?

The capital I have amassed over these years: 

has it yielded abundant profit? 

Or has it gone up in flames?

Page by page, has the book of my life 

blossomed into something heavenly? 

Or has it withered and faded, reduced to ashes?

Have I multiplied the jewels of my soul? 

Or have I destroyed them?

Does the tree of my soul bear fruit? 

Or has it—God forbid—become a foul tree, 

fit only to be fuel for the Fire?

Can I feel in my soul the trace of God’s pen, the Hand of God?

I knew that You were the Sower, planting in my soul… 

But I, through heedlessness, forgetfulness, and sin… 

burned and destroyed everything You planted.

I was God’s garden, yet I turned that garden into a hell…

How am I changing?

When will I turn my attention to myself? 

When will I take stock and reckon with myself? 

When will I call myself to account?

At the hour of death, it is unlikely I will be able to return…

to open my file and take a look…

If I had not fled from God, who knows what God might have done with me… 

I became a fugitive from my God; I ran away from Him.

That Creator who brought me from nonexistence into being… 

where have I brought myself?

Though the Giver of being was leading me beyond being… 

If only I had not fled from God…

—

### Amid the Mirage, Do Not Forget the Sea 🌊 

Everything returns to its origin and root. 

It comes into its own, according to its lineage…

Are we leaves on the blessed tree of prophethood?

And has the very truth of our being…

been taken captive? 

Captive to truth, or captive to illusion?

Once, we were captives of truth**, 

but now we **have become captives of illusion.

We have drowned ourselves in a mirage**, 

**polished it…

We are busy diving into the mirage, 

in search of its jewels.

We have abandoned the Water of Life, the sea of truth, 

and amid this mirage and illusion, we seek the water of pleasure, attention, and eternal life.

We have drowned, we are dead, and we do not know it…

This human being, for whom the sea was too small**, 

must have **the sea plunge within him.

Is he not the noblest of all creation?

If we look with clear and discerning eyes into the soul of the Remnant of God, the Greatest, the Qa’im of the Family of Muhammad, 

we will see that:

the seas sink into his soul, 

the springtime of the realms of malakūt, jabarūt, and lāhūt flows within him.

He is the springtime of all springtimes, the Light of all lights, the Life of all lives.

This beloved of God, 

God’s true servant, God’s keepsake, God’s remnant, is preserved for God.

He kept himself for that most solitary One in all existence… 

The One, the axis of God’s truth…

He made himself one, singular, alone, solely for the loneliest One in the world.

—

### Extra Time at the End of Time ⏳ 

Yes, one day the Trumpet will sound its final blast… 

We are at the final stretch of the race to serve God…

We are in extra time at the end of time.

The end times have passed.

This exceptional opportunity given to us

is so that

perhaps we may make amends for what has been lost…

—

### The Final Arena: A Crucible of Claims 🕳 

We are at the final stage of this great contest…

a contest in which everyone claims to be God, 

everyone claims prophethood and imamate…

Virtual spaces are filled with false claimants to divinity, messengership, imamate, and the like…

—

### Virtual Media: False Messengers 📱 

The virtual media of this age are false messengers.

False gods… the Dajjal’s emissaries…

They have taken nearly all humanity captive**, 

and are the very embodiment of “وسواس الخنّاس”.

Yes, our first choice is also our final choice.

In the end, our final choice is the very beginning of our choice for the new year.

This human being is at risk of being robbed and destroyed. 

He must entrust himself to his Lord**, 

so that **his Lord may save him from all these evils.

The year came to an end and passed… but the year’s zakat was never paid.

Not the zakat on our wealth…

We did not pay the zakat on our status. 

We destroyed our beauty instead of paying its zakat… 

We burned up the zakat of our youth.

We burned up youth itself… Nothing of it remains, and we never paid its zakat.

We paid neither the zakat of knowledge nor that of health, well-being, peace and comfort…

We paid neither the zakat of our faith nor that of the Qur’an and our Ahl al-Bayt.

Nor the zakat of the knowledge of God granted to us by our Lord…

Had we known, His blessings would have grown. 

But we fell behind and did not pay.

We did not know that:

> Every limb and faculty of ours has a zakat…

We should have paid the zakat of our eyes by not gazing at those forbidden to us, 

by looking reflectively upon the created world, and by gazing upon God’s signs.

The zakat of the ears… 

was to keep them away from what is forbidden.

I did not understand that I should open these ears to knowledge and wisdom… 

My soul… I did not pay the zakat of my soul…

I sullied it with every kind of lie and deceit.

I did not make my tongue what it should have been: a well-wisher to the faithful, an awakener of the heedless, a source of remembrance…

—

### Did I pay the zakat of my limbs? 🤲👣 

Did I pay the zakat of my hands? 

Through generosity and kindness? 

By placing a tender hand upon the heads of orphans?

Did I set my hands to work in obedience to God?

Did I tire my arms in serving God?

The zakat of my feet…

Did I walk the path of righteousness and the straight path? 

The path of a noble dawn? 

The path of strengthening the faith?

Did I pay their due?

I did not understand this saying of the truthful one from the House of Muhammad…

—

### The zakat of moments, the zakat of atoms ⏳🌌 

Zakat is due for every part of my being. 

It is incumbent upon every single part of me to pay its zakat.

I owe a duty to Allah, Exalted is He…

Every tiny particle of my being should have had its zakat paid.

And even for every place where hair grows**, 

for **my hair**, 

and **the places where my hair grows…

indeed, for every moment of my life…

If anyone knows the worth of a moment**, tell me too. 

**Every moment is a thousandth of a moment that is not… smaller even than that.

The moment is that very greater world which has no quantity…

The moment is that very instance of the infinite that I failed to grasp.

That very moment in which Allah planted time…

The moment is not time.

The moment is within time…

It is reflected in time, but it is not itself time.

For every moment among moments there is a zakat that ought to have been paid.

Each of my moments has a zakat… I ought to have paid a world’s worth of zakat.

Through the reflection of love and servitude to God, I could have paid the zakat of my moments.

I would surrender myself to the Creator of my moments, so that He Himself might become the payer of my zakat.

As I said,

I cannot perform its prayer… He Himself must come to the aid, in the way He Himself knows.

—

### A zakat that the intellect cannot comprehend, that the heart cannot bear 💠

Further on, Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, says:

> “These words I have spoken, these instances of zakat I have mentioned, are only the measure that minds can grasp, that hearts can endure, and that souls can put to use…”

But there are things that only the sincere and near-drawn servants of God attain…

Not even a hint is given of them, except for their sake…

They pay zakat of a kind whose depth few hearts ever approach…

Those things exist**, and their zakat must be paid.

**For the sincere and the near-drawn have preserved the greater world of their being, and they pay its zakat.

But this human being

has remained before his lesser world…

is held captive in the prison of this world…

knows nothing but the zakat of this world,

and even that he does not pay…

and he lies.

—

### The prayer of the sincere; God’s good pleasure, and nothing else 🕊

The sincere and near-drawn servants of God

know those things…

they pay their zakat.

And this is their motto…

this is their prayer…

> “O God, I seek only Your love and Your good pleasure…”

>

> “O God, grant me success in those things that You Yourself love and are pleased with…”

—

### The ever-spring garden of al-Sajjad, peace be upon him 🌷

The sixth supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya…

Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya is the ever-spring garden of our Imam.

Whoever enters this garden

— the garden of Paradise? No, the garden of God’s good pleasure! —

is overcome with rapture…

and leaves the springs behind in longing…

This is the greatest spring of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya…

This is the Ṣaḥīfa-ye Sajjādiyya: an eternal book, a sanctuary of love, a mosque of love, the uprising of lovers… 

This is the very Rawḍat al-Saʿdā.

—

### **The mysteries and secrets of Imam Sajjād (peace be upon him) 🔐 

What wondrous secrets Imam Sajjād has woven into it…

—

### The mystery of night and day: wisdom in their difference 🌗 

By His power, He distinguished night from day…

That is, if God had not made night and day different**, 

we would not **have perceived the difference between them.

All we understand of night and day

is simply darkness and light**, 

whereas **night and day are far more than that…

They hold immense mysteries…

Night and day are living creatures of God. 

God made them different**, 

so that I could **tell them apart.

The little understanding He imparted to me

was a gift of abundant insight. 

Yet I made little use of it…

—

### Night and day interpenetrating: an ascent of awareness 🌄 

He set a definite limit for each of them, night and day. 

He placed them within their own particular geographies of time and space.

He drew a boundary… between night and day, those two wondrous creations of His.

He makes each of the two enter**

**into the other’s domain… and the other into its own.

What does “interpenetration” mean? 

Does it mean simply to enter?

If it meant only entering, another word would have been used…

Someone who becomes a *walīja*

is someone whose love deepens until they become intermingled… become one…

When God brings about this kind of intimacy among His servants**, 

He **makes them confidants of one another.

They become *mawlīja*—close companions, kindred spirits… one.

—

### Night is day’s home; day is night’s home 🏠

God makes night enter day, and day enter night, so profoundly… 

The more I think about it, the more my mind locks up.

Does God bring part of the night into the day? 

Like someone entering a house…

Day enters the house of night… 

Night enters the house of day…

They enter into one another so deeply, interpenetrating,

that they become mingled, become one… 

They become close companions, of one hue.

And the new night and day that come into being

are no longer the same night and day as before.

If the day is new, that means it is a new creation. 

And I, with that new creation,

I will face it and walk alongside it…

—

### Entering into grace: a divine planting 🌧 

God Most High has made this entry a means of His grace and generosity… 

so that through it He may nurture us… bring us to our destination… feed us… sow us.

—

### Night: a loving, peaceful dwelling 🌌 

A night that brings repose… 

like a spouse who is a source of peace for their partner.

What is this repose? 

What is this mystery? 

What lies hidden in the heart of these verses, this sign of the night?

It is a sign of the sacred bounds of delight. 

It brings us peace through:

– its ease 

– its sleep 

– its pleasures 

– its desire

—

### Day: a seeing eye, not mere brightness 🌞👁 

And He made the day “seeing”…

The day sees for us…

I do not know what it means for the day to see… what does it do…?

I thought it simply meant the daylight…

But that is not so!

Had the day not been a seer, 

I would not have reached the illuminations I needed to reach on the path of servitude.

The day is a seer. 

It gives me sight.

This seeing is something other than illumination…

—

### God’s gaze: unceasing, never heedless 👁 

God is watchful. 

He sees every one of our nights and days.

He weighs the hours we spend in obedience. 

He examines the places where His commands take effect. 

He reviews them…

Not for a moment is He heedless of us.

—

### The splitting of dawn: the manifestation of daybreak ✨ 

If He did not split open the mornings, 

what would happen?

**Every morning is the splitting open wrought by the One who splits the dawn. 

Through this cleft, I arrive at a feeling that I interpret as “morning”…

But not the morning as I understand it…

By God, that morning is not it…

Just as a blossom emerges from the life within a seed, 

and grows into a mighty tree…

this morning, now split open, 

reaches the Tree of Mornings. 

It lifts its head to the heavens…

This happens every morning. 

The dawn breaks upon the earth, and its event resounds through the heavens.

I have not understood God in the morning

, nor the dawn that reveals Him…

—

### The One Who Splits the Dawn: Artist of Creation 🌅 

If He did not split open this morning,

I would never perceive the brightness and light of day…

He splits it open…

This is the artist behind all existence.

—

### A New Day: God’s Witness and Messenger 📜 

There are profound wonders in this great supplication of Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him… 

In the twelfth passage, he says:

> “And this day is a new occurrence, a fresh phenomenon, a novel event…”

And for us, it is

a witness, ready to testify.

A keen-eyed witness.

It is an agent of God.

This day, with its new events, stands ready as a witness for us… 

It will bear witness.

—

### The Day Bids Us Farewell with a Smile or a Curse 🌤☁️ 

If we do good

, it honors us with kind praise… and sees us off.

If we do wrong

, it parts from us with curses…

Perhaps it curses us, and we do not hear…

—

### Morning Prayer: Be a Good Companion; Part Well 🤝 

> “O God, make us good companions and friends to this day… 

and keep us from the harm of its companionship…”

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[1] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 6, p. 459  Kulayni, Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya, Tehran, 4th ed., 1407 AH.

[2] Rawḍat al-Wāʿiẓīn wa Baṣīrat al-Muttaʿiẓīn (old edition), vol. 2, p. 354  Fattal Nishapuri, Razavi Publications, Iran, Qom, 1st ed., 1375 SH.

[3] Miṣbāḥ al-Sharīʿa, p. 51  Attributed to Ja‘far ibn Muhammad, peace be upon him; A‘lami, Beirut, 1st ed., 1400 AH.