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🌸 Meshkat-e Noor: A Session on the Exegesis of the Sahifa Sajjadiyya (Supplication 20 of the Sahifa Sajjadiyya)
🌸 Lecture by Master Ali Saei, delivered on 1402/11/12
Some of the topics discussed in the session:
🌻 O God, do not raise me in the eyes of others unless You humble me to the same degree in my own eyes.
🌻 Humanity has lost its way along the avenues of boasting (God is the one who buys the human being).
🌻 The only pride worthy of praise is pride in God.
🌻 A person’s worth is measured by what they regard as good.
🌻 Whatever we value determines our worth. (What is most precious to us? If it is Paradise, then our worth is Paradise.)
🌻 Our master taught us to worship as free people do—the highest form of worship.
🌻 O God, I will take pride in having You, a God beyond all description.
🌻 O God, every noble quality bows before You.
🌻 How does the human heart open, and how does it become constricted?!
🌻 O God, I wish to behold Your sacred threshold more fully, and gaze upon Your greatness and majesty from the highest summit.
🌻 When a flag is raised, it announces the land it represents.
🌻 Every distinction we possess is a form of capital; not all wealth is money and possessions.
🌻 Faith is our first distinction.
🌻 If you wish to understand yourself and others, read this passage from the Sahifa Sajjadiyya.
🌻 Humility and reverence are our roots.
🌻 Triumph in the pleasures of this world is only victory in this world. But what is one to do if one is content with neither this world nor the Hereafter?!
🌻 Understanding is the very discernment conveyed by the hadith.
🌻 The ranks and degrees of the Shi’a are determined by hadith and understanding.
🌻 A Shi’a is someone who walks as Ali walked, shows kindness as he did, and …
🌻 Hadith is heavenly nourishment.
🌻 At every moment, a person is like an embryo in the womb of existence; to grow beautifully, they must partake of beautiful nourishment.
🌻 In the book of Ali, I found this: a person’s worth, standing and rank are determined by their understanding.
🌻 Knowledge without forbearance poisons a person.
🌻 What is the crowning quality of the most deserving person?!
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Master Ali Saei
(Abdullah Meshkat) Researcher and commentator on Shi‘i wisdom and the foundations of divine unityA researcher specializing in religious studies and divine unity, with a particular focus on the Qur’an and Hadith (the Two Weighty Things). His research has centered primarily on the Qur’an and Hadith; in recent years, he has also explored divine unity and critiques of philosophical viewpoints.
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