Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼Renewing Ashura🌼
🌼Renewing the Martyrdom of Imam Husayn, peace be upon him🌼
🌼The martyr’s blood flows through existence like a river🌼
🌼The manifest and hidden mysteries of the Master of Martyrs🌼
🌼The Book of Secrets of the Master of Martyrs🌼
🌸🔆🌿 “The true Ashura has yet to begin” “The secret of Imam al-Mahdi’s revenge, peace be upon him” “The first night of Muharram”
🔅🌹 Summary with an addendum: “The true Ashura will begin” “The secret of Imam al-Mahdi’s revenge, peace be upon him” “The first night of Muharram” “ ” “ ” 1402.04.27 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🌸🔆The turning of the Husayni year
🌻Let us begin the new Husayni year in the spirit of Imam Husayn.
🌻Fortunate is the one who has grown more Husayni; at a loss is the one who has remained as they were; and accursed is the one who has fallen away.
🌻Praise from the ignorant is worse than blame. Let us speak of the Imam with insight; let us be an adornment to our Imam, not a source of shame for him.
🌻An ignorant devotee is an open enemy, bringing pain and hardship to the Imam.
🌻In the Ziyarat Ashura, we affirm that we have attained perfect knowledge of the Imam, and ask God for the reward of that knowledge.
🌻فَأَسْالُ اللَّهَ الَّذِي أَكْرَمَنِي بِمَعْرِفَتِكُمْ وَ مَعْرِفَةِ أَوْلِيَائِكُمْ وَ رَزَقَنِي الْبَرَاءَةَ مِنْ أَعْدَائِكُمْ أَنْ يَجْعَلَنِي مَعَكُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ وَ أَنْ يُثَبِّتَ لِي عِنْدَكُمْ قَدَمَ صِدْقٍ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَة
🌻The greatest plea is to seek vengeance for al-Husayn’s blood in the company of Imam al-Mahdi, peace be upon him—the greatest distinction a person can attain.
🌻How the blood of the Master of Martyrs, peace be upon him, will be avenged is one of the most intricate mysteries of existence.
🌻The ways and degrees of connection with the Imam differ: which of the Imam’s layers, ranks, degrees, stations, or dimensions are we connected to?
🌻The Imam has missions on earth and in the heavens, in the celestial realm and beyond it, in the realm of sovereignty and that of divine power, in time and beyond time. Each person will accompany the Imam in his missions according to their degree of faith and station.
🌻The way each person accompanies the Imam is determined by the measure of their knowledge, love, faith, and piety.
🌻We must understand that we are either wings for the Imam or a source of pain and hardship to him.
🌻The real battle of Ashura has yet to begin; the true battle will begin under the leadership of Imam al-Mahdi, peace be upon him.
🌸🔆The Imam of the Age, master of time
🌻By God’s permission, Imam al-Mahdi, peace be upon him, steers the course of time.
🌻The hidden layers of time, the interweaving of time and space, their joining and unity, journeys through time and beyond it, and vessels that sail beyond time will all become possible through Imam al-Mahdi, peace be upon him.
🌻If time and space are interwoven, we will attain an immediate, unified apprehension of truths.
🌻Each person is a particular computer in the presence of the universe’s supercomputer. Connecting human computers to this supercomputer will transform reason, heart, hearing, sight, and, in short, all the senses.
🌻When each person’s access code to the supercomputer of Imam al-Mahdi’s soul, peace be upon him, is activated, humanity will witness astonishing forms of perception.
🌻The heart must be capable of connecting to the divine supercomputer. Piety is one of the conditions.
🌻Connection to the divine supercomputer will expand one’s sight, hearing, speech, thought, and more.
🌻Those who are blind, deaf, mute, or lame are deprived of every kind of connection.
🌻Perhaps through this connection, transformed limbs will return to their original form and be restored.
🌻Karbala and Ashura were not confined to a particular land or time.
🌻The manner in which beings were present on the Day of Ashura differed, with varying quantities and qualities.
🌸🔆The Manifest Jihad and the Hidden Jihad
🌻The mighty jihad of Imam Husayn (peace be upon him) has hidden dimensions.
🌻Karbala unfolded across the entire cosmos. The battlefield of servitude is the whole of existence. All worlds and all beings participated in this mighty jihad, each in its own particular manner.
🌻The prophetic mission of each and every prophet unfolded within the soul of each and every being—likewise the offering of the Trust, the binding of covenants, and the proclamation of the command of wilaya.
🌻The command of prophethood and imamate, and the prophetic and wilaya-borne missions, flowed and coursed throughout the entire cosmos across the dimensions of time and space.
🌻The principal jihad will begin with the banner-bearing of Imam al-Zaman (peace be upon him). The membrane of time will be rent.
🌻Among the incorrect questions is to ask: “Does existence exist?!!!”
🌻The movement of time and the unit of time are not of the nature of time. The essence of time is not time. The units of time shape the changes of time, which are not of the nature of time but rather return to the supra-temporal.
🌻The apparatus of time is different from time itself.
🌻If time were to stop, the material world would cease to exist.
🌻It can be said with confidence that Imam al-Zaman (peace be upon him) is the avenger of the blood of all the prophets and of all the injustices of the world.
🌻In recitation and cantillation, the remembrance (dhikr) must be realized in truth.
🌻Time and space lie within the soul of divine decree (taqdir). And the Imam stands in the station of “the Will of God and the Purpose of God.” Will and purpose precede decree.
🌻The singularity of time and space is realized in the Will and Purpose, while time and space are separate within decree.
🌻The singularity of time and space is the point at which all time and space are apprehended as unity.
🌻Before decree and after decree lies the boundary between the singularity of time and space and existence.
🌻The singularity of time and space is realized in the realm of Will, and the Will is at singularity with existence in the realm of Purpose; and everything, with all its dimensions, is at absolute singularity in Knowledge.
🌻Every material motion possesses particular and distinct forms across different layers, yet is proportionate with the other layers.
🌸🔆The Secret of Time in the Soul of Imam al-Zaman
🌻The secret of singularity is instantaneous presence across all time and all space.
🌻To become the measure is to be simultaneous with all vibrations at every level and with all particular and differing speeds, and with the supra-temporal and the supra-spatial—that is, the instantaneous apprehension of all occurrences and events.
🌻Simultaneity is the apprehension of all frequencies and all speeds together with mastery and dominance over all frequencies and speeds.
🌻The Imam, by divine permission, encompasses all things at once.
🌻Singularity is the state of closure (ratq), while time and space are a state of opening (fatq).
🌻Will and Purpose are the realm of closure, and decree is the realm of the opening of affairs.
🌻The secret of companionship, gnosis, measure, and the quality of cooperation with Imam al-Zaman (peace be upon him) in his missions returns to the worthiness of our servitude.
🌻He in whose blessed being all things are encompassed is instantly in connection with all things—with every change, speed, quantity, and quality thereof.
🌻The loss within creation is compensated through martyrdom; this loss ascends to the best of orders through the healing of the Divine Physician.
🌻Martyrdom elevates the world further; it brings growth to its perfection.
🌻 فَأَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ الَّذِي أَكْرَمَ مَقَامَكَ أَنْ يُكْرِمَنِي بِكَ وَ يَرْزُقَنِي طَلَبَ ثَارِكَ مَعَ إِمَامٍ مَنْصُورٍ مِنْ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ S
🌻 فَأَسْالُ اللَّهَ الَّذِي أَكْرَمَنِي بِمَعْرِفَتِكُمْ وَ مَعْرِفَةِ أَوْلِيَائِكُمْ وَ رَزَقَنِي الْبَرَاءَةَ مِنْ أَعْدَائِكُمْ أَنْ يَجْعَلَنِي مَعَكُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ وَ أَنْ يُثَبِّتَ لِي عِنْدَكُمْ قَدَمَ صِدْقٍ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ وَ أَسْأَلُهُ أَنْ يُبَلِّغَنِي الْمَقَامَ الْمَحْمُودَ لَكُمْ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ وَ أَنْ يَرْزُقَنِي طَلَبَ ثَارِكُمْ مَعَ إِمَامٍ مَهْدِيٍّ ظَاهِرٍ نَاطِقٍ مِنْكُمْ وَ أَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ بِحَقِّكُمْ وَ بِالشَّأْنِ الَّذِي لَكُمْ عِنْدَهُ أَنْ يُعْطِيَنِي أَقُولُ إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَ إِنَّا إِلَيْهِ راجِعُونَ يَا لَهَا مِنْ مُصِيبَةٍ مَا أَعْظَمَهَا وَ أَعْظَمَ رَزِيَّتَهَا فِي الْإِسْلَامِ- وَ فِي جَمِيعِ أَهْلِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ [الْأَرَضِين
🌻 عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ أَبِي مَحْمُودٍ قَالَ قَالَ الرِّضَا ع إِنَّ الْمُحَرَّمَ شَهْرٌ كَانَ أَهْلُ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ يُحَرِّمُونَ فِيهِ الْقِتَالَ فَاسْتُحِلَّتْ فِيهِ دِمَاؤُنَا وَ هُتِكَ فِيهِ حُرْمَتُنَا وَ سُبِيَ فِيهِ ذَرَارِيُّنَا وَ نِسَاؤُنَا وَ أُضْرِمَتِ النِّيرَانُ فِي مَضَارِبِنَا وَ انْتُهِبَ مَا فِيهَا مِنْ ثَقَلِنَا وَ لَمْ تُرْعَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ حُرْمَةٌ فِي أَمْرِنَا إِنَّ يَوْمَ الْحُسَيْنِ أَقْرَحَ جُفُونَنَا وَ أَسْبَلَ دُمُوعَنَا وَ أَذَلَّ عَزِيزَنَا بِأَرْضِ كَرْبٍ وَ بَلَاءٍ وَ أَوْرَثَتْنَا [يَا أَرْضَ كَرْبٍ وَ بَلَاءٍ أَوْرَثْتِنَا] الْكَرْبَ [وَ] الْبَلَاءَ إِلَى يَوْمِ الِانْقِضَاءِ فَعَلَى مِثْلِ الْحُسَيْنِ فَلْيَبْكِ الْبَاكُونَ فَإِنَّ الْبُكَاءَ يَحُطُّ الذُّنُوبَ الْعِظَامَ ثُمَّ قَالَ ع كَانَ أَبِي ع إِذَا دَخَلَ شَهْرُ الْمُحَرَّمِ لَا يُرَى ضَاحِكاً وَ كَانَتِ الْكِئَابَةُ تَغْلِبُ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى يَمْضِيَ مِنْهُ عَشَرَةُ أَيَّامٍ فَإِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْعَاشِرِ كَانَ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمُ يَوْمَ مُصِيبَتِهِ وَ حُزْنِهِ وَ بُكَائِهِ وَ يَقُولُ هُوَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي قُتِلَ فِيهِ الْحُسَيْنُ A.[1]
🌻Imam al-Rida «ع» said: “Muharram was a month in which the people of the Age of Ignorance forbade fighting. Yet in it they deemed our blood lawful, violated our sanctity, took our children and women captive, set fire to our tents, and plundered everything in them. In their treatment of us, they showed no regard for the Messenger of God «ص». On the day of al-Husayn’s martyrdom «ع», our eyes were wounded and our tears flowed; our beloved was humiliated on the land of Karbala, and calamity and suffering befell us. So, until the Day of Resurrection, one must weep for the likes of al-Husayn. Such weeping washes away grave sins.” Then he said: “It was my father’s practice that, when Muharram came, he would not laugh; grief would overwhelm him until the tenth day. The tenth was a day of sorrow and mourning, and he would weep and say: ‘On this day, al-Husayn was killed.’”
🌼 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌼
🌸🔆🌿 “The Reality of Ziyarat Ashura” “Husayni Mysteries” “Second Night of Muharram 1402”
🔅🌹Summary with Supplement: “The Reality of Ziyarat Ashura” “Husayni Mysteries” “Second Night of Muharram 1402” “ ” “ ” 1402.04.28 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🌸🔆A Guide to Knowing Ziyarat Ashura
🌻From a particular perspective, Ziyarat Ashura is both a sanctuary and a place of recognition: a source from which light is received, a place of drawing near to Allah, Blessed and Exalted.
🌻Imam al-Husayn, peace be upon him, is Abu Abdullah—the father of God’s servant. Whoever bears a trace of the Divine has roots in the very being of Imam al-Husayn, whether human, jinn or angel, or sky, mountain, plain or any particle.
🌻Imam al-Husayn, peace be upon him, is the furnace in which one is formed for servitude to God. He brings the human being from rawness to maturity in worship, from unripe to ripe.
🌻The mountains, plains, sky and stones that weep for al-Husayn have a bond with him in their very being; they carry in their hearts the warmth of Husayni ardour. Their very being has roots in the being of al-Husayn.
🌻Al-Husayn is the father of the believing stones—the stones from whose depths water springs forth and streams flow, and which descend in awe of God.
🌻Imam al-Husayn, peace be upon him, is the father of the stars that magnify and glorify God.
🌻The warmth of Husayni compassion tenderly soothes the souls of all creation.
🌻Husayn knows no boundaries. His blessed spirit has permeated the entire universe.
🌻Through Husayn, the fervour and love of God surge within the souls of all creation.
🌻Only through Husayni steadfastness does one become truly Husayni.
🌻Every thing that overflows with praise and gratitude to God bears a trace of Husayn.
🌻Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, is the father of everything that «yسبح بحمده».
🌻Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, is the child of prophethood, the child of the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary, the child of light, the child of purity, the child of divine authority, and the child of infallibility.
🌻Light is but one of the elements of His Eminence, the Master of Martyrs. Pure beings carry within their souls a trace of Husayn’s light!
Beautiful and pure beings bear within their souls something of His Eminence’s substance—his light, clay, and mercy.
🌻Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, is among God’s greatest works of creation; within these mighty works, pure beings are adorned with Husayni artistry.
🌸🔆The Radiance of Martyrdom
🌻A likeness of the being of His Eminence, Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn, peace be upon him, shines within the souls of all creation.
🌻Each of the Imams has a realm of his own within the souls of all creation.
🌻Certain elements belong uniquely to the soul of each of the pure Imams, peace be upon them.
🌻The Shi‘a and exalted beings have a father of light, a father of clay, a father of mercy, and a father of adornment. They also have a father of beauty and a father of delight, a father of knowledge and a father of wisdom.
🌻The souls of pure beings have their roots in the soul of divine authority.
🌻Each of the Imams is a particular star, a particular water of life, a particular heaven.
🌻Through Ziyarat Ashura, one must truly visit His Eminence: visit the place where revelation descended, visit Thar Allah, visit the one whom the angels visit in great numbers.
🌻Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, is Thar Allah; he will exact the divine law’s vengeance upon those who violate the faith.
🌻The waves of Husayn, flowing through a person’s veins and roots, lead them to «عبد الحي القيوم».
🌻The Husayni sense of life is the sense of all existence.
🌻The deadest form of life is material life.
🌻Unless Thar Allah flows through the human soul, one cannot perceive the life of the celestial and heavenly realms.
🌻Even if an unknowing person were in Paradise and at the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary, they would feel nothing of them.
🌻Without the life of Paradise, there can be no sense of Paradise; without the life of the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary, there can be no sense of that realm. Without the life of Husayn, there can be no delight or enjoyment of absolute existence.
🌻Husayn is the singular, bereaved one: utterly alone, peerless in his solitude. In light, he is light itself; in beauty, beauty itself. In ruby-ness, he is the one ruby. He is God’s matchless one.
🌸🔆The Art of Solitude
🌻To become utterly alone in solitude is an art.
🌻Whoever outstrips the Origin becomes singular, alone and bereft.
🌻The singular one cannot be comprehended; the utterly singular is more hidden still.
🌻The truthful spirits are dissolved in the sacred spirit of His Eminence and are the very salt of Husayn’s soul.
🌻The pure spirits of the martyrs of Karbala have made their home in the soul of the Master of Martyrs.
🌻Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, is the tent of the pure spirits.
🌻The reach of the greeting in Ziyarat Ashura extends as far as eternity.
🌻The majesty of «سلام الله» encompasses the soul of the one to whom the greeting is addressed.
🌻In Ziyarat Ashura, we offer a gift from God to God’s vicegerent. The greeting of the gnostic is «سلام الله».
🌻One must give Ziyarat Ashura its due. It must be recited in the spirit of Ashura.
🌻The Ziyarat of Ashura is a source of peace, and the answering of greetings envelops the visitor’s soul. It receives the reply to its greeting from the station of prophethood and imamate. A flood of answering greetings flows over the visitor’s soul.
🌻The Imam himself is peace, and the reply to the greeting is the mighty surging forth of the soul of peace.
🌻With expansiveness of breast and an enlarged heart, let us make ourselves ready to receive the reply to the greeting of the Ziyarat.
🌻Our good remembrance is never left unanswered by the devotion of the heavens and the earth toward His Holiness the Master of Martyrs, peace be upon him.
🌻The Ziyarat of Ashura is the place for petitioning great needs, the place for petitioning the praised station, the seeking of the station of prophethood and guardianship.
🌻In the Ziyarat of Ashura, petitioning for petty needs is forbidden.
🌸🔆Iblis’s fear of the Ziyarat of Ashura
🌻Satan is fearful of the Ziyarat of Ashura and strives to erect obstacles before it and to create veils in the understanding of the meanings of this blessed Ziyarat. In truth, the Ziyarat of Ashura is a divine dictation, a teaching text from the court of the Teacher of the universe.
🌻Satan is a barrier to understanding and attending to the teachings of the Ziyarat of Ashura.
🌻Break Satan’s back, and then become a visitor and draw the grace of the visitation—a visitation of knowledge and insight.
🌻Visitation is akin to the great crafts of God; within this visitation a person is fashioned.
🌻The visitor of Husayn is the visitor of God, for he is the visitor of the Gate of God.
🌻The mighty station of the visitor of al-Husayn lies in accompanying His Holiness the Mahdi, peace be upon him, and sharing in the avenging of the blood of God.
🌻Seeking the blood-revenge of Husayn is a mighty provision for which the prophets have stood in ranks.
🌻The Imam of the Age, peace be upon him, is the avenger of the blood of the Master of Martyrs; he severs the root and vein of wickedness, impurity and darkness.
He makes light sovereign and annihilates darkness.
🌻Seeking the blood-revenge of al-Husayn is to purify Yazidism and impurity from the universe.
🌻The martyrs are provided for in the presence of their Lord, and whoever attains Husayni worthiness will reach the nearest station in the presence of the Lord.
🌻The rank of the Master of Martyrs in “in the presence of my Lord” is the highest of ranks.
🌻To become worthy in the Husayni sense is to attain adornment, beauty and sublime greatness.
🌻Nearness to God is the supreme goal of the Ziyarat of Ashura.
🌻The means unto God is the highest of means “unto God.”
🌻If we do not draw near to God through Husayn, peace be upon him, we have wronged Husayn.
🌻Satan interferes between us and the visitation and its meanings.
🌼 Ali Sa’i (Abdullah Mishkat) 110.141(903) 🌼
🌸🔆🌿 “The Yazid Within” “The First Oppressor from the World of the Self” “The Third Night of Muharram 1402”
🔅🌹 Abstract with an addendum “The Yazid Within” “The First Oppressor from the World of the Self” “The Third Night of Muharram 1402″ ” ” ” ” 1402.04.29 Ali Sa’i (Abdullah Mishkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🌸🔆The Emergence of the First Oppression
🌻The first oppressor from the world of the body is the one who resisted truth and reality and placed himself above it.
🌻Whoever stands against guardianship and the command of the guardian is the first oppressor.
🌻Whoever stands against the light is darkness.
🌻Let us destroy and curse the first, second and third oppressor within our own hearts; let us curse Mu’awiya, Yazid, Ibn Ziyad, Shimr and Harmala within our hearts.
🌻The wickedness of our heart—these are the Harmalas of our heart.
🌻The vein of oppression is rooted in our soul; let us cut open the vein of oppression.
🌻Let us look upon our own soul and purify it.
🌻Anyone who embodies the qualities of the first, the second, the third, and so on, is no less than they are.
🌻Have we raised the banner of Imam Husayn, peace be upon him—or the banner of our own base desires?
🌻The self-admiring person worships himself and cannot love anyone else, for he is in love with himself and has filled his heart with that love.
🌻The self-admiring person puts himself before Husayn and his school of thought.
🌸🔆Do not awaken Harmala in your heart
🌻Disarm the Harmala within us and strip it of its qualities.
🌻To stand against the truth is to become Yazid.
🌻Whoever helps vice flourish is a soldier in Yazid’s army.
🌻Whoever makes the marketplace of virtue falter is no less than Harmala.
🌻Ashura is the struggle between worship of God and worship of desire, between light and darkness, between truth and falsehood.
🌻اللَّهُمَّ الْعَنْ أَوَّلَ ظَالِمٍ ظَلَمَ حَقَّ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّد
🌻Let us escape the swamp of polytheism.
🌸🔆The gift of love
🌻Following the Beloved is a condition of divine love.
🌻On the path of love, conceit sacrifices the Beloved for the self.
🌻The false lover kills the Beloved.
🌻The true lover flees the self and is unseen to himself.
🌻The all-encompassing love of the All-Encompassing leaves no place for the lover, for the Beloved’s love prevails, leaving no space unfilled.
🌻Divine love is one-sided: love comes from Him; the lover, like a mirror, only reflects that love.
🌻The one who conquers love’s summit is himself conquered by love.
🌻Divine love is apprehended.
🌻A person must see and hear, and so on, in order to love. But He cannot be seen or heard; rather, He encompasses sight, hearing, and the heart—so turn to Him with your eyes and heart
🌻The eye is apprehended by the Beloved.
🌻To be nourished by love is itself to be a lover.
🌻The grace of being apprehended is the very secret of love.
🌻The state encompassed by the all-encompassing love transcends all states.
🌻The Beloved kindles love.
🌻Reason is necessary for apprehending love.
🌻حُبُّ الدُّنْيَا يُفْسِدُ الْعَقْلَ وَ يُصِمُّ الْقَلْبَ عَنْ سَمَاعِ الْحِكْمَةِ وَ يُوجِبُ أَلِيمَ الْعِقَابِ.
🌻 يَسِيرُ الْهَوَى يُفْسِدُ الْعَقْلَ.
🌻الْعُجْبُ يُفْسِدُ الْعَقْل
🌻An ignorant person is one overcome by ignorance. More ignorant still is the person unaware of his own ignorance; more ignorant than that is the person who imagines himself wise; and more ignorant still is the rational person who has put his reason out of action.
🌻The mad lover has broken free; he has found in his own being the proof of love.
🌻One who cannot love without having seen is no lover, for love surpasses sight and cannot be contained by the eye.
🌻Love does not need to be seen, heard, or felt, for it cannot be contained by any of these.
🌻Turning love into a commodity is to demean it.
🌻Bestial love must be sacrificed; it springs from base desire
🌻O Allah, make my life like the life of Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad (peace be upon him), and my death like the death of Muhammad.
🌻The only truly living person is one whose life is animated by the life of Muhammad.
🌻The death of Muhammad is more alive than any life.
🌻اللَّهُمَّ لَا تَسْتَدْرِجْنِي بِالْإِحْسَانِ، وَ لَا تُؤَدِّبْنِي بِالْبَلَاءِ.
🌻Blessing After Disobedience
🌻O God, grant us the gift of understanding You give us
-🌻 الْعَقْلُ -مَا عُبِدَ بِهِ الرَّحْمَنُ وَ اكْتُسِبَ بِهِ الْجِنَانُ
🌻قَالَ قُلْتُ فَالَّذِي كَانَ فِي مُعَاوِيَةَ قَالَ تِلْكَ النَّكْرَاءُ وَ تِلْكَ الشَّيْطَنَةُ وَ هِيَ شَبِيهَةٌ بِالْعَقْلِ وَ لَيْسَتْ بِعَقْلٍ.
🌻الْمُحِبُّ فِي اللَّهِ مُحِبُّ اللَّهِ وَ الْمَحْبُوبُ فِي اللَّهِ حَبِيبُ اللَّهِ لِأَنَّهُمَا لَا يَتَحَابَّانِ إِلَّا فِي اللَّهِ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْمَرْءُ مَعَ مَنْ أَحَبَّ فَمَنْ أَحَبَّ عَبْداً فِي اللَّهِ فَإِنَّمَا أَحَبَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى وَ لَا يُحِبُّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى إِلَّا مَنْ أَحَبَّهُ اللَّه
🌻Al-Ahzab: 4 Ma جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لِرَجُلٍ مِنْ قَلْبَيْنِ في جَوْفِهِ وَ ما جَعَلَ أَزْواجَكُمُ اللاَّئي تُظاهِرُونَ مِنْهُنَّ أُمَّهاتِكُمْ وَ ما جَعَلَ أَدْعِياءَكُمْ أَبْناءَكُمْ ذلِكُمْ قَوْلُكُمْ بِأَفْواهِكُمْ وَ اللَّهُ يَقُولُ الْحَقَّ وَ هُوَ يَهْدِي السَّبيلَ
🌻Al Imran: 31 قُلْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهَ فَاتَّبِعُوني يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللَّهُ وَ يَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ وَ اللَّهُ غَفُورٌ رَحيمٌ
🌻Al-Furqan: 43 أَ رَأَيْتَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ إِلهَهُ هَواهُ أَ فَأَنْتَ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِ وَكيلاً
🌻Al-Jathiyah: 23 أَ فَرَأَيْتَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ إِلهَهُ هَواهُ وَ أَضَلَّهُ اللَّهُ عَلى عِلْمٍ وَ خَتَمَ عَلى سَمْعِهِ وَ قَلْبِهِ وَ جَعَلَ عَلى بَصَرِهِ غِشاوَةً فَمَنْ يَهْديهِ مِنْ بَعْدِ اللَّهِ أَ فَلا تَذَكَّرُونَ
🌼 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌼
🌸🔆🌿 “The Second Book of God” “Testimony to Prophethood” “The Fourth Night of Muharram 1402”
🔅🌹 Summary with Addendum: “The Second Book of God” “Testimony to Prophethood” “The Fourth Night of Muharram 1402” “ ” “” 1402.04.30 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🌸🔆Pure Testimony
🌻The martyrdom of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, is a testimony to prophethood, to the divine message, to spiritual authority, to imamate, to majesty, to greatness, to night and day, to the seven heavens and the seven earths, and to the realms of Malakut, Jabarut, Lahut, and Sidrat al-Muntaha.
🌻The most beautiful description of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, is simply Hussein: Hussein is Hussein.
🌻Hussein prevailed in worldly life; at the moment of martyrdom, he prevailed all the more. Hussein reigns over hearts and over the whole world.
🌻The Prophet’s family is the Second Book of God, the second Book of God; it is the perfect mirror of the Quran and the means by which the Book of God is brought to life. It is the hardware and software of the Book of God, revealing the Quran in all its majesty.
🌸🔆مَا رَوَاهُ مُوسَى بْنُ عُقْبَةَ أَنَّهُ أَمَرَ مُعَاوِيَةُ الْحُسَيْنَ أَنْ يَخْطُبَ فَصَعِدَ الْمِنْبَرَ فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ وَ صَلَّى عَلَى النَّبِيِّ فَسَمِعَ رَجُلٌ يَقُولُ مَنْ هَذَا الَّذِي يَخْطُبُ فَقَالَ ع نَحْنُ حِزْبُ اللَّهِ الْغَالِبُونَ وَ عِتْرَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ الْأَقْرَبُونَ وَ أَهْلُ بَيْتِهِ الطَّيِّبُونَ وَ أَحَدُ الثَّقَلَيْنِ الَّذِينَ جَعَلَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ثَانِيَ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى فِيهِ تَفْصِيلُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ لا يَأْتِيهِ الْباطِلُ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَ لا مِنْ خَلْفِهِ وَ الْمُعَوَّلُ عَلَيْنَا فِي تَفْسِيرِهِ لَا يُبْطِينَا تَأْوِيلُهُ بَلْ نَتَّبِعُ حَقَائِقَهُ فَأَطِيعُونَا فَإِنَّ طَاعَتَنَا مَفْرُوضَةٌ إِذْ كَانَتْ بِطَاعَةِ اللَّهِ مَقْرُونَةً قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى أَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَ أَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولَ وَ أُولِي الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ وَ قَالَ وَ لَوْ رَدُّوهُ إِلَى الرَّسُولِ وَ إِلى أُولِي الْأَمْرِ مِنْهُمْ وَ أُحَذِّرُكُمُ الْإِصْغَاءَ إِلَى هُتُوفِ الشَّيْطَانِ فَ إِنَّهُ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ مُبِينٌ فَتَكُونُوا كَأَوْلِيَائِهِ الَّذِينَ قَالَ لَهُمْ لا غالِبَ لَكُمُ الْيَوْمَ مِنَ النَّاسِ وَ إِنِّي جارٌ لَكُمْ فَتُلْقَوْنَ لِلسُّيُوفِ ضَرَباً وَ لِلرِّماح وَرَدَا وَ لِلْعُمُدِ حَطَماً وَ لِلسِّهَامِ غَرَضاً ثُمَّ لَا يُقْبَلُ مِنْ نَفْسٍ إِيمَانُهَا لَمْ تَكُنْ آمَنَتْ مِنْ قَبْلُ قَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ حَسْبُكَ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ فَقَدْ أَبْلَغْت[2]
🌸🔆Musa ibn ʿUqba relates: Muʿawiya was told, “People hold Husayn in special regard. If you order him to mount the pulpit and deliver a sermon, his speech will falter, and he will lose the people’s esteem and be diminished in their eyes.” Muʿawiya replied, “We thought the same of his brother Hasan. But when he mounted the pulpit and preached, he grew greater in the people’s eyes—and exposed us.” The people would not be put off and continued to insist, until Muʿawiya was compelled to order the Imam to preach.
The Imam عليه السلام mounted the pulpit, praised and glorified God, and sent blessings upon the Prophet. Then he heard a man ask, “Who is this man preaching?” The Imam said:
We are God’s victorious party. We are the Prophet’s family, brought near to God. We are his purified household, and we are the second of the two weighty things: the Book of God, which sets forth and explains all things, and which falsehood cannot approach from before or behind. The interpretation of the Qur’an has been entrusted to us, and its deeper meaning is not difficult for us. Rather, we follow its realities and know what the Qur’an truly means.
So, people, obey us, for obedience to us is obligatory, being bound up with obedience to God and His Messenger. God says: “Obey God, the Messenger of God, and those vested with authority among you; and if you disagree about anything, refer it to God and His Messenger.” He also says: “If they had referred every matter to the Messenger of God and to those vested with authority among them, those among them who seek to understand and discern its true ruling would have known it. Were it not for God’s grace and mercy upon you, you would surely have followed Satan, except for a few of you.”
People, I warn you against listening to Satan’s call, for Satan is an avowed enemy to you. You would be like the Quraysh on the day of Badr, when Satan deceived them, saying: “None shall overcome you today, O Quraysh, and I am your protector.” But when the two armies faced each other, Satan turned and fled, saying, “I disown you.”
If you, too, heed Satan’s call, you will see swords raining blows upon you, spears piercing you, clubs crushing you, and arrows striking you as their target. God does not accept the faith of one who had not believed before, nor done any good deed.
At this point, Muʿawiya said, “Abu ʿAbdullah, what you have said is enough.”
🌼 Ali Saʿi (ʿAbdullah Mishkat) 110.141(903) 🌼
🌸🔆🌿 “Satan’s Media” “The True Shiʿa” “The Fifth Night of Muharram 1402”
🔅🌹 Summary with Supplement: “Satan’s Media” “The True Shiʿa” “The Fifth Night of Muharram 1402” “ ” “ ” 1402.04.31 Ali Saʿi (ʿAbdullah Mishkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🌸🔆Supreme Love
🌻A heart that holds the love of Husayn is the highest heaven; a heart of stone grows soft and tender at the name of Husayn.
🌻O Lord, perfume us with the fragrance of Husayn in this world and in the next.
🌻O Beloved, honour us through Husayn with the mighty grace of servitude.
🌻O Most Merciful! Let the taste of Husayn’s love touch the palate of our soul and heart.
🌻O Lord, make us mindful of the all-encompassing embrace of Your knowledge.
🌻O Lord, grant me understanding so that I may know I am drowned in Husayn, and make me aware that You have clothed my spirit, my soul and every fibre of my being with the sweetness, the honey and the burning of Your Husayn.
🌻O Lord, I am a fish submerged in the water of Husayn’s life; do not cast me out from this water, which is the wellspring of life—but let me understand that I am drowned in Husayn.
🌻To taste and to comprehend the delicious honey and sherbet of Husayn is a clear and luminous knowledge.
🌻Husayn is the means to God, the All-Conquering.
🌻نَحْنُ حِزْبُ اللَّهِ الْغَالِبُون
🌻To become Husayni is to become of the party of God; let us become Husayni.
🌻Husayn is the all-conquering light of God, the all-conquering seal of the Merciful; whoever becomes Husayni becomes a breaker of darkness and a bearer of love.
🌻Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, warns us against the call of Satan.
🌸🔆The media of Satan
🌻أُحَذِّرُكُمُ الْإِصْغَاءَ لِهُتَافِ الشَّيْطَان
🌻Beware lest Satan take captive our ears, our minds and our hearts.
🌻The call of Satan means the caller of Satan, the telephone of Satan; beware lest you give the number of your heart to Satan, beware lest you answer Satan’s ring. Always be in a state of separation from him, and never consent to union with him, not even for a moment. Cut off Satan’s line of communication forever, split open his throat and strike his tongue dumb.
🌻If we lend our ears to Satan and give him our minds, we lose our honour and dignity.
🌻Satan provokes and incites us to commit sin. The voice of Satan is Satan’s special power and weapon.
🌻With his clamour, Satan turns a person into a lion, a wolf, a scorpion, a snake and a mouse for the sake of sin.
🌻Do not make the throat of Satan the pillow of your ears and mind.
🌻Flee from the lullabies, the songs and the battle-cries of Satan. To listen to the satanic melody is to set foot in Satan’s trap.
🌻Satan advances from the capture of thought to the capture of the body; he will not rest until he has enslaved a person’s mind, ears, limbs and members.
🌻Satan imitates: either he makes himself resemble a human being, or he makes a human being resemble himself.
🌻Satan seizes the neural network and brings it under his control. Satan is not satisfied until he has taken possession of a person’s entire being, and in the end he destroys him.
🌻The satanic vaccine is mostly made of satanic waves.
🌻The word of Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, « وَ أُحَذِّرُكُمُ الْإِصْغَاءَ لِهُتَافِ الشَّيْطَانِ بِكُمْ فَ إِنَّهُ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ مُبِينٌ فَتَكُونُوا كَأَوْلِيَائِه…» is a university of military, political, social and ethical knowledge.
🌻By seizing a person’s heart, Satan takes possession of his faculties; he turns him into his own doll and robot, raises his connection from the stage of whispering to that of calling aloud, and then makes him his loudspeaker and his media. He thinks with his mind, sees with his eyes, speaks with his throat, and so on.
🔅🌱اتَّخَذُوا الشَّيْطَانَ لِأَمْرِهِمْ مِلَاكاً وَ اتَّخَذَهُمْ لَهُ أَشْرَاكاً فَبَاضَ وَ فَرَّخَ فِي صُدُورِهِمْ وَ دَبَّ وَ دَرَجَ فِي حُجُورِهِمْ فَنَظَرَ بِأَعْيُنِهِمْ وَ نَطَقَ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ فَرَكِبَ بِهِمُ الزَّلَلَ وَ زَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الْخَطَلَ فِعْلَ مَنْ قَدْ شَرِكَهُ الشَّيْطَانُ فِي سُلْطَانِهِ وَ نَطَقَ بِالْبَاطِلِ عَلَى لِسَانِه[3]
🔅🌱They took Satan as their guide and the support of their lives. He, in turn, used them as his snare, nesting within them and being nurtured in their midst. Their eyes became Satan’s eyes in seeing, and their tongues his tongue in speaking. He mounted them on the steed of missteps and made corrupt things seem fair to them. Their conduct is that of one whom Satan has made a partner in his dominion and through whose tongue he has begun to babble.
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🌻If we silence Satan’s clamor, we take away his power.
🌻Silencing Satan’s voice is disarming him. Giving voice to Satan is arming him.
🌻Satan presents himself as greater than he is.
🌻How many people have become Satan’s mouthpiece!
🌻Before facing the front of truth, devils are bolder, more insolent, noisier, and more boastful; but after they face it, they are timid as mice.
🌻An ignorant friend is worse than an open unbeliever.
🌻When truth and falsehood confront each other, Satan flees and curses his followers. The devils turn on one another. This is God’s way. إِنِّي بَرِيءٌ مِنْكُمْ إِنِّي أَرى What you cannot see…
🌻Those who guard words and those who act out their deeds will enter the Fire. Hell is set upon those who guard their words and perform their deeds.
🌻Those who guard their words and obey the righteous are of the Household, and the Household are of them.
🌸🔆لَا تَأْكُلُوا النَّاسَ بِآلِ مُحَمَّدٍ فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ افْتَرَقَ النَّاسُ فِينَا عَلَى ثَلَاثِ فِرَقٍ فِرْقَةٌ أَحَبُّونَا انْتِظَارَ قَائِمِنَا لِيُصِيبُوا مِنْ دُنْيَانَا فَقَالُوا وَ حَفِظُوا كَلَامَنَا وَ قَصَّرُوا عَنْ فِعْلِنَا فَسَيَحْشُرُهُمُ اللَّهُ إِلَى النَّارِ وَ فِرْقَةٌ أَحَبُّونَا وَ سَمِعُوا كَلَامَنَا وَ لَمْ يُقَصِّرُوا عَنْ فِعْلِنَا لِيَسْتَأْكِلُوا النَّاسَ بِنَا فَيَمْلَأُ اللَّهُ بُطُونَهُمْ نَاراً يُسَلِّطُ عَلَيْهِمُ الْجُوعَ وَ الْعَطَشَ وَ فِرْقَةٌ أَحَبُّونَا وَ حَفِظُوا قَوْلَنَا وَ أَطَاعُوا أَمْرَنَا وَ لَمْ يُخَالِفُوا فِعْلَنَا فَأُولَئِكَ مِنَّا وَ نَحْنُ مِنْهُم[4]
🌸🔆Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him: “People fall into three groups in their attitude toward us. One group loves us and awaits our Qa’im so that they may gain something from our worldly life. They repeat our words and preserve them, but do not act as we do. Soon God will gather these people into the Fire. The second group loves us, hears our words, and does not hesitate to act in ways that exploit people in our name. God will fill their bellies with fire and subject them to hunger and thirst. The third group loves us, preserves our words, obeys our command, and does not act contrary to our deeds. They are of us, and we are of them.”
🌼Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Mishkat) 110.141(903) 🌼
🌸🔆🌿 “The Heat of Husayn’s Martyrdom” “ ” “The Sixth Night of Muharram 1402”
🔅🌹A summary with an addendum: “The Heat of Husayn’s Martyrdom” “ ” “The Sixth Night of Muharram 1402” “ ” “ ” 1402.05.01 Ali Sa‘i (Abdullah Mishkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🌸🔆A transformative martyrdom
🌻Through Husayn’s martyrdom, the believer becomes a furnace of fire. The believer’s heart, at the sight of Husayn’s innocence and oppression, becomes a blazing oven that will never grow cold or cool. Not because he was martyred, but because he was killed unjustly.
🌻The believer’s inner state before, during, and after the martyrdom of Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, is transformed.
🌻After his martyrdom, the Imam’s presence has made the believer’s heart an oven. When fire becomes the ruler of one’s being, the human reality becomes a volcano. The structure of existence was transformed by the martyrdom of Imam Husayn, peace be upon him. Ashura became a turning point in the structural changes of existence; a new trial and a wondrous spiritual journey began.
🌻The furnace of Husayn’s martyrdom will never grow cold—not for all eternity. Only through the Mahdi’s all-encompassing vengeance will the believer’s heart find peace and Ibrahim’s greeting be fulfilled.
🌻The very roots and sinews of existence were transformed by the martyrdom of Imam Husayn, peace be upon him. No part of creation was untouched by its effect; waves of Husayn’s spirit swept across every corner of existence.
🌻Husayn changed the very nature and character of existence. His martyrdom transformed its atmosphere. The world took on a different hue.
🌸🔆The Prelude and Sequel to Ashura
🌻Husayn is a feeling unto himself—without equal or counterpart.
🌻Ashura was a prelude to a text whose opening has yet to be written. The prelude to Ashura is not yet complete; Ashura has an end toward which it is moving. Ashura is a tree whose seed was planted by Imam Husayn, peace be upon him. That seed is still growing, and one day its exalted truth will be revealed.
🌻Husayni Ashura is on a spiritual journey, surging with fervour toward its highest destination.
🌻Husayni Ashura holds a vision of sublime beauty, and one day it will be revealed.
If, impossibly, Husayn had not existed, the fabric of existence would have come undone. His martyrdom gave the world its vibrant colours.
🌻Husayn is the handiwork of God, and our life-soul is bound to His exalted creation.
🌻Husayn’s movement has a destination; it surges swiftly along its exalted course.
🌻All mourning and weeping are a prelude to a text and an exalted epilogue.
🌻The martyrdom of Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, transformed the very senses and scent of existence. It gave shape to a particular form of life and set a distinctive trial in motion.
🌻Had we fully grasped the Husayni spirit, we would have attained a higher understanding.
🌻Every creature is like a capillary, while His Eminence is the great artery that transforms the face of the world.
🌻Martyrdom, spiritual authority, love, allegiance, the path and the state of His Eminence—each leaves its own distinct imprint on our souls.
🌻The Husayni thermometer in our hearts is directly linked to our knowledge of His Eminence, the Master of the Martyrs, peace be upon him: the clearer and deeper that knowledge, the more intense and radiant the warmth.
🌻The warmth of Husayn’s martyrdom in our hearts has sacred degrees.
🌻The secret of the flower’s beauty—and of beauty’s concealment in human beings, despite their being the noblest of creation—lies in sensual desires obscuring their virtues. Humanity lies buried beneath desire, its virtues hidden from view. One who carries love for Husayn in the heart ought to be at the very height of beauty. Yet proximity to what is reprehensible causes those things to cast a dark cloud over the beauty of love for His Eminence, the Master of the Martyrs.
🌸🔆The Manifestation of Husayni Love
🌻A flower’s purity brings peace; a person’s lack of purity prevents waves of tranquillity from radiating from the soul. Husayni love must not be clouded by the dust of reprehensible things, for then the beauties of companionship with Husayn are concealed.
🌻A person must not be buried beneath the dust of lust and appetite; reprehensible things are tombs for human virtues.
🌻Husayni love must not be mingled with Yazidi love. A person’s attachment to reprehensible things is itself Yazidi love.
🌻The image of reprehensible things must not be framed beside the image of Imam Husayn, peace be upon him.
🌻Clothing, jewellery, adornment and surgery can make a person beautiful; companionship with beauty can raise them beyond beauty itself. Husayni love and devotion confer on a person a charm beyond charm, sweetness beyond sweetness, dignity beyond dignity, and beauty beyond beauty—provided they turn away from what is reprehensible.
🌻We must drive Yazid, Muawiya, and the third, second and first out of our hearts, so that Husayn’s beauty may rise from within us, radiant beyond all beauty.
🌻The traveller journeying toward the sun does not fear the heat.
Let us dwell in Husayn’s soul, so that love for him may well up from our hearts.
🌻عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ ع قَالَ نَظَرَ النَّبِيُّ ص إِلَى الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ هُوَ مُقْبِلٌ فَأَجْلَسَهُ فِي حِجْرِهِ وَ قَالَ إِنَّ لِقَتْلِ الْحُسَيْنِ حَرَارَةً فِي قُلُوبِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ لَا تَبْرُدُ أَبَداً ثُمَّ قَالَ ع بِأَبِي قَتِيلُ كُلِّ عَبْرَةٍ قِيلَ وَ مَا قَتِيلُ كُلِّ عَبْرَةٍ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ قَالَ لَا يَذْكُرُهُ مُؤْمِنٌ إِلَّا بَكَى[5]
🌻The Believers: 115 أَ فَحَسِبْتُمْ أَنَّما خَلَقْناكُمْ عَبَثاً وَ أَنَّكُمْ إِلَيْنا لا تُرْجَعُونَ
🌼 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌼
🌸🔆🌿 “Peace with Husayn” “ ” “Waging war on Husayn”
🔅🌹Summary with an Addendum: “Peace with Husayn, peace be upon him” “Waging war on Husayn” “The Seventh Night of Muharram, 1402” “ ” “ ” 1402.05.02 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🌸🔆Peace with Husayn is peace with worship and devotion
🌻يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ إِنِّي سِلْمٌ لِمَنْ سَالَمَكُمْ وَ حَرْبٌ لِمَنْ حَارَبَكُمْ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ
🌻O Aba Abdillah, father of worship and devotion, I declare peace with you, and declare war and hostility against Yazid. O Husayn, I declare that I befriend all that you love and oppose all that you hate. O Husayn, I declare that I am an enemy of sin, disobedience and transgression, and a companion of truth, obedience and devotion.
🌻Husayn was not at war with Yazid’s body, but with his vile character and traits. Husayn fought Yazid’s aversion to religion, hostility toward religion, opposition to the Quran and defiance of truth. Husayn was at war with evil.
🌻Anyone who follows the path of sin is at war with Husayn; whoever walks the path of obedience and devotion is at peace with him.
🌻How many people recite Ziyarat Ashura without realizing that they are invoking a curse upon themselves.
🌻How many lesser and greater Yazids oppose God’s religion, block the way of virtue and keep the market of sin flourishing.
🌻How many Yazidis lack power; had they possessed it, they would have been more vile than Yazid himself.
🌻How many people, if they had stood in the place of the Companions of Saqifah, would have obstructed the authority of the Prophet’s Household even more fiercely than they did. Whoever harbors a love of power, arrogance, greed or envy should fear that the spirit of the Companions of Saqifah runs through them.
🌻So let us understand clearly what it means to make peace with Husayn and wage war in his name.
🌻How many people appear to belong to Husayn outwardly, yet are Yazidis within.
🌻Let us not shelter vile Yazid in our hearts or come to his defense. Whoever entertains Yazidi thoughts, loves sin and disobedience, is self-absorbed and ambitious, or cherishes love of this world, becomes a refuge and breeding ground for Yazid.
🌻Whoever walks through the marketplace of sin, disobedience and evil walks the streets and alleys of Yazid, multiplying Yazidism.
🌻People devoted to this world, in their own varying degrees and shades, each carry something of Yazid within body and soul.
🌻Everyone belongs either to the household of divine authority, each at their own rank and degree, or to the people of Satan, each at their own level of degradation. A person is either of God’s party or Satan’s party.
🌻Whoever is at peace with God’s religion is at peace with Husayn, in friendship and serenity; otherwise, they are Husayn’s killer, for they are killing God’s religion.
🌻Nimrod’s aim was to wage war against God. Whoever shoots at Husayn is aiming at God. Whoever turns away from God’s religion becomes a soldier in Yazid’s army.
🌻Before reciting Ziyarat Ashura, let us make our hearts sincere and affirm our steps, setting out in repentance and contrition.
🌻Before beginning Ziyarat Ashura, let us repent, turn back to God and seek forgiveness; then let us become pilgrims to Husayn. Until we repent, we cannot be at peace with Husayn.
🌻The sinner burns the tents and lends Yazid strength. To wage war against sin and disobedience is to make peace with Imam Husayn.
🌻Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, was martyred at the hands of those who rejected the truth.
🌻Every moment has repercussions beyond its own time. Our present actions affect the world’s past and future. Each person’s obedience and devotion in this age contributes to the strength and power of Imam Husayn’s army; every sin and transgression committed now is an act against Imam Husayn.
🌻Those who sin in this age are soldiers in Yazid’s army at the time of the tragedy of Ashura.
🌻Those who uphold what is right in this age are Imam Husayn’s supporters at the time of the tragedy of Ashura.
🌻Let us come to know the true meaning of Ziyarat Ashura and immerse ourselves entirely in its lofty teachings.
🌻Ziyarat Ashura is truly a mirror that reveals the truth.
🌻If our Imam of the Age had 313 loyal supporters, his permission to appear would be granted. إِنِّي سِلْمٌ لِمَنْ سَالَمَكُمْ
🌻 يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ إِنِّي سِلْمٌ لِمَنْ سَالَمَكُمْ وَ حَرْبٌ لِمَنْ حَارَبَكُمْ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ فَلَعَنَ اللَّهُ آلَ زِيَادٍ وَ آلَ مَرْوَانَ وَ لَعَنَ اللَّهُ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ قَاطِبَةً وَ لَعَنَ اللَّهُ ابْنَ مَرْجَانَةَ وَ لَعَنَ اللَّهُ عُمَرَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ وَ لَعَنَ اللَّهُ شَمِرا[6]
🌼 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌼
🌸🔆🌿 “The Continuity of Imam Husayn’s Martyrdom” “Martyrdom’s Continuance” « »
🔅🌹 An abstract with an addendum: “The Continuity of Imam Husayn’s Martyrdom” “Martyrdom’s Continuance” “The Eighth Night of Muharram, 1402” « » « » 1402.05.03 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🌸🔆From heart to heart, the grandson of the Prophet
🌻Ziyarat Ashura is a direct visitation with Imam Husayn, peace be upon him. Part of it is an intimate, heartfelt outpouring—a companion’s private conversation with the noble Aba Abdillah al-Husayn.
🌻Ziyarat Ashura is not a face-to-face meeting, but a meeting of spirit with spirit, heart with heart.
🌻Ziyarat Ashura is unlike any other visitation or prayer. It is a vast Husayni universe through which the pilgrim journeys in spiritual wayfaring.
🌻Ziyarat Ashura captivates the heart and brings one’s closeness to the Master of the Martyrs to its fullest.
🌻Aba Abdillah al-Husayn, peace be upon him, is the architect of devotion to God. He rebuilt upon the earth the edifice of devotion, which had been on the verge of collapse.
🌻Aba Abdillah al-Husayn, peace be upon him, is the beautiful tree of devotion to God, whose branches, leaves, blossoms, fragrance and fruits are continually renewed.
🌻Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, was and remains a master artist in the realm of worship; at every moment, another masterpiece of his is revealed.
🌻Aba Abdillah al-Husayn, peace be upon him, performs the miracle of martyrdom anew at every moment.
🌻Aba Abdillah al-Husayn, peace be upon him, expands hearts and transforms the colour of love and affection.
🌻The universe flourishes ever more with Aba Abdillah al-Husayn, peace be upon him. Through Husayn’s breath, the universe comes alive with Husayni life.
🌻The sacred Ziyarat Ashura is like a vast communications hub that connects a person to the highest reality.
🌻Only one who truly knows the Imam can grasp the depth and magnitude of his tragedy and affliction.
🌻The greatest injustice is failing to understand the Imam’s true worth.
🌻A blind eye commits the greatest injustice against the radiant sun.
🌻A heart frozen and blighted by affliction is the greatest injustice against a beautiful, pure and radiant face.
🌻Animals make no distinction between grass and a beautiful flower, for they view the world through the window of their bellies; the animal gaze upon creation is deprived of beholding the beauty of Truth.
🌻The animal heart and eye see no difference between the carpet and the Throne.
🌻One of the finest trysting-places for meeting and knowing His Holiness Aba Abdillah al-Husayn, peace be upon him, lies within the heart of the Du’a of Arafah.
🌸🔆A wound upon the soul of the world
🌻With the martyrdom of Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, the greatest calamity descended upon us and upon the whole world and all its inhabitants; the understanding of this truth lies within the heart of our knowledge of His Holiness the Master of Martyrs, peace be upon him.
🌻Why does the eye weep? Perhaps if the eye itself were to suffer calamity, weeping would not be possible for it; its secret returns to the nature of the eye’s connection with each and every part of the body, and to its connection with the whole of the human soul.
🌻Every cell of the body’s cells is affected by the whole body and its parts; every individual is like a cell of the whole universe, and each person’s connection with His Holiness Aba Abdillah al-Husayn, peace be upon him, is more intense than his connection with his own self.
🌻By observing the solitude of Imam al-Zaman, peace be upon him, in the calamity of the Master of Martyrs, one can estimate the depth of the calamity.
🌻The higher we ascend, the more the depth of the calamity becomes manifest; from the heaven and the Throne one must gaze upon the vastness of the calamity.
🌻The event of Ashura traces back not to Saqifah but to the moment of ignorance’s rebellion against the command of rise and fall, and to the time of Iblis’s envy. The event of Ashura was the war of the whole of falsehood against truth. The sword of malice was sharpened from the age of ignorance until the day of Ashura.
🌻The Karbala of Husayn has begun and has not ended; it continues. His Holiness Aba Abdillah al-Husayn, peace be upon him, is at every moment in the state of martyrdom. His martyrdom is continuous and unbroken.
🌻The divine religion is at the utmost of oppression; the divine religion is the martyr of our age; arrows of every kind are striking the soul of religion—with arrows of every kind and poisons of every hue, in the utmost of malice and envy. The divine religion in this age is stained with its blood by every manner of wound. No one comes to the aid of the divine religion. The divine religion is without helper. The tent of religion is drowned in blazing fire.
🌻As long as the Yazidis draw breath, as long as Satan is alive, as long as sin and the abominable exist, Ashura continues.
🌻The hearts of the hypocrites and the disobedient are the pit of the killing-ground of His Holiness Aba Abdillah al-Husayn, peace be upon him.
🌻We must destroy the Harmala and the Yazidis within the heart so that we may make peace with His Holiness Aba Abdillah al-Husayn, peace be upon him. The uprising must begin from the heart.
🌻As long as the carnal soul gives commands, the Yazid of the self draws breath and Ashura continues.
🌻The Proof of God has no security, for the carnal soul holds command.
🌻He, peace be upon him, said: فِي مَسِيرِهِ إِلَى كَرْبَلَاءَ إِنَّ هَذِهِ الدُّنْيَا قَدْ تَغَيَّرَتْ وَ تَنَكَّرَتْ وَ أَدْبَرَ مَعْرُوفُهَا فَلَمْ يَبْقَ مِنْهَا إِلَّا صُبَابَةٌ كَصُبَابَةِ الْإِنَاءِ وَ خَسِيسُ عَيْشٍ كَالْمَرْعَى الْوَبِيلِ أَ لَا تَرَوْنَ أَنَّ الْحَقَّ لَا يُعْمَلُ بِهِ وَ أَنَّ الْبَاطِلَ لَا يُتَنَاهَى عَنْهُ لِيَرْغَبَ الْمُؤْمِنُ فِي لِقَاءِ اللَّهِ مُحِقّاً فَإِنِّي لَا أَرَى الْمَوْتَ إِلَّا سَعَادَةً وَ لَا الْحَيَاةَ مَعَ الظَّالِمِينَ إِلَّا بَرَماً إِنَّ النَّاسَ عَبِيدُ الدُّنْيَا وَ الدِّينُ لَعْقٌ عَلَى أَلْسِنَتِهِمْ يَحُوطُونَهُ مَا دَرَّتْ مَعَايِشُهُمْ فَإِذَا مُحِّصُوا بِالْبَلَاءِ قَلَّ الدَّيَّانُونَ.[7]
🌻Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, said upon setting out for Karbala: Verily this world has changed and grown unfamiliar, and its familiar face has turned away; of it nothing remains but the dregs at the bottom of the cup and a base life, like a ruined pasture. Do you not see that truth is not acted upon and falsehood is not forbidden? In such a state, the believer is worthy of meeting God.
And I see death as nothing but felicity, and life with the oppressors as nothing but perdition. Verily people are slaves of this lowly world, and religion is upon their tongues; they circle around it so long as it serves their livelihood, and when they are tested with affliction (and hardship and difficulty), the truly religious are few.
The abject servants of the world are moths around the candle of religion so long as their worldly life is abundantly secured through religion.
Those lowly servants can bear neither poverty nor wealth; they cannot endure the test of beauty nor the test of ugliness.
🌻العلق : 6 كَلاَّ إِنَّ الْإِنْسانَ لَيَطْغى
🌻العلق : 7 أَنْ رَآهُ اسْتَغْنى
🌻القصص : 58 وَ كَمْ أَهْلَكْنا مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ بَطِرَتْ مَعيشَتَها فَتِلْكَ مَساكِنُهُمْ لَمْ تُسْكَنْ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ إِلاَّ قَليلاً وَ كُنَّا نَحْنُ الْوارِثينَ
🌼 Ali Sa’ei (Abdullah Mishkat) 110.141(903) 🌼
🌸🔆🌿 «The Mysteries of Mourning» «Pretense and Display in Mourning» « »
🔅🌹 Abstract with Supplement to «The Mysteries of Mourning» «Pretense and Display in Mourning» « » « » « » 1402.05.19 Ali Sa’ei (Abdullah Mishkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🌸🔆The Sublime Literature of Mourning
🌻Who is Husayn? The reality of Husayn is beyond the understanding we have of Imam Husayn (peace be upon him)! To comprehend Husayn is to comprehend the entire beauty of the cosmos—and even beyond that!
🌻الهی عرّفنی حجتک is a plea for the highest stations of understanding, worship, and servitude.
🌻Peace be upon Imam Husayn, peace upon his loneliness and his estrangement—whoever remains unknown becomes a stranger. Peace upon the Stranger of the Strangers.
🌻What is a diamond expert? If a diamond is not recognized, it becomes a stranger; no distinction is seen between it and a stone. The diamond falls into obscurity and is forgotten. True forgetfulness is the failure to perceive the levels, stations, and attributes of a thing.
🌻Love manifests through knowledge. The greater the knowledge, the more abundant the love becomes.
🌻The love of a person without knowledge is an ignorant love, fraught with problems.
🌻Blind love for a beautiful face and form is impossible.
🌻Whoever is not completely drawn to Husayn, does not melt into his blessed soul, and does not stand upright in the stature of his noble being, will never become a true knower of Husayn.
🌻Mourning born of shallow knowledge is mere ostentation and ceremony—nothing but noise, far removed from any sublime outcome.
🌻The purpose of mourning is resolve for the transformation and reformation of the entire cosmos.
🌻The purpose of mourning is to summon Imam al-Zaman (peace be upon him) to avenge the blood of Thar Allah.
🌻The Ziyarat of Ashura is the cry of Imam al-Zaman (peace be upon him).
🌻Are we prepared to take vengeance upon the murderers of the Master of Martyrs? The sovereign of vengeance is Imam al-Zaman (peace be upon him).
🌻The Ziyarat of Ashura is interwoven with the name and remembrance of Imam Mahdi (peace be upon him). The Ziyarat of Ashura will be interpreted through the vengeance taken upon the killers of Imam Husayn (peace be upon him).
🌻The purpose of mourning is to attain the sublime station of inner purity and to take vengeance upon everything impure.
🌻Assuredly, the entire world is not the price for Husayn’s blood. Thar Allah has no substitute.
🌻Vengeance upon the root of all filth, defilement, impurity, abomination, corruption, the carnal self, and the devils—this is the true vengeance for Husayn’s blood.
🌻 The carnal self, Satan, and the armies of ignorance will be annihilated by the hand of God’s Proof, Imam Mahdi (peace be upon him).
🌻Vengeance upon sin and the destruction of oppression and darkness—this is the real vengeance for Husayn’s blood.
🌻Abomination, impurity, and filth will be cleansed from the world so that vengeance for Husayn (peace be upon him) may be exacted.
🌻Mourning means being in a state of readiness and declaring eternal war against sin and filth.
🌻The true enemy of Imam Husayn (peace be upon him) is sin and all that is detestable.
🌻Yazid dwells within the breasts of those polluted by sin. The breast of those polluted by love of this world is a fortress of Yazidism.
🌻Arrogance, envy, the inclination toward sin and reprehensible acts, and love of this world are clear signs of the presence of the Yazidis and devils in a person’s breast.
🌻The breast of a wicked person is the fortress of ʿĀd and Thamūd.
🌻The sword of Imam al-Mahdi عليه السلام will strike at reprehensible acts and sins.
🌻The mourning of a pure person is the fulfilment of the right of mourning. Mourning is a declaration of war against the world’s corruption.
🌻Mourning is a manoeuvre of anticipation for the Remnant of God, the Greatest; it is an emotional and military manoeuvre, and a display of vigilance.
🌻Sin and ignorance have appointed terms; the arrival of the term of sin and ignorance is the fulfilment of the aims of mourning.
🌻The ignorant person’s soul perishes when ignorance is destroyed.
🌻For 1,400 years, there has been a declaration of war against sin and aggression; 1,400 years of declaring readiness; 1,400 years of inviting حضرت مهدی. حضرت will bring the battle of عاشورا to completion and fulfil its purpose.
🌻The world is undergoing a fundamental transformation, and genuine mourners have a decisive role in this change. The course of the world is destined to change.
🌻The lanes and alleys of Imam حسین عليه السلام are the Prophetic mission and ولایت. Knowing the Messenger of God ص is the heart of this vast quarter.
🌻The main arteries of our body and soul are the Prophetic mission and ولایت; from this artery, ثارالله flows.
🌻True mourning is the Husayni journey and spiritual wayfaring toward God.
🌻The Ziyārat of عاشورا تذکّر تولّی و تبرّی is.
🌻If we love حسين, we love his way; love for حسين is love for God. Pure divine love consumes every other love; true love turns love of this world to ashes.
🌻Love for حسين, love for God, love for God, is the light of God; with this love, a person becomes the sun of حسين, the Master of Martyrs.
🌻Love for حسين, love for God, love for God, is God’s heaven; the cloud of this heaven envelops a person’s body and soul.
🌻Love for حسين, love for Allah and love for God, is God’s fragrance and the force that moves the land of the soul.
🌻Love for حسين, love for Allah and love for God, is God’s earth, and this earth is where all beauty takes root.
🌻Love for حسين is love for God, and his lover is held captive by God, not enslaved and pledged to this world.
🌻The true mourner is one of the Helpers of the Mahdi, one of حضرت’s special forces, possessing both scholarly and practical strength.
🌻To be a servant of حسين is to be a servant of God; it is to walk the path of proclaiming the divine religion and to bring vitality to the marketplace of good works.
🌻Permission to serve everyone, at every moment, has been granted by God; the medal of service is pinned to the breast of those devoted to good.
🌻To be a servant of the Mahdi is the highest rank of servanthood.
🌻The servant of the Qur’an is God’s true servant.
🌻We must not pin the medal of service to our chests merely for our own satisfaction and self-congratulation.
🌻The servant of حسين is a حسینآباد: permanently settled in the greatest world of حسين, with his very being pointing the way to حسين.
🌻The true mourner is the sword of the Mahdi.
🌻Let us be among the Helpers of the Mahdi and his keen sword; it is enough for us to cast the refuse of sin and reprehensible acts from our hearts. It is enough for us to slay the Yazid within us. A pure heart is the sanctuary of حسين and of Husaynism.
🌻If we fail to defeat the wickedness within us—God forbid—we stand in Yazid’s service and are enemies of حسين.
🌻Illuminating and explaining the uprising of Imam حسين عليه السلام is among the duties of the true mourner; the ignorant mourner takes steps toward tarnishing and distorting حسين’s uprising.
🌻The true battle between truth and falsehood takes place within us. Karbala is in our hearts; the حسين within us is engaged in combat with Yazid. Let us be helpers of the حسين within us.
🌻The imagination that depicts the image of Imam حسين, with the whole world as its design, has only the capacity to portray a single strand of حضرت’s hair.
🌻Let us attain absolute wakefulness and leave no feeling of sin within us.
🌷🌱وَ بَذَلَ مُهْجَتَهُ فِيكَ لِيَسْتَنْقِذَ عِبَادَكَ مِنَ الضَّلَالَةِ وَ الْجَهَالَةِ وَ الْعَمَى وَ الشَّكِّ وَ الِارْتِيَابِ إِلَى بَابِ الْهُدَى مِنَ الرَّدَى …
🌷🌱فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَ مَنِ اتَّقَاهُ وَ آثَرَ طَاعَتَهُ عَلَى مَا سِوَاهُ وَ السَّلَام
🌷🌱قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْمَرْءُ مَعَ مَنْ أَحَبَ فَمَنْ أَحَبَّ عَبْداً فِي اللَّهِ فَإِنَّمَا أَحَبَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى وَ لَا يُحِبُّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى إِلَّا مَنْ أَحَبَّهُ اللَّه[8]
🌷🌱 فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ أَنْتَ مَعَ مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ وَ لَكَ مَا اكْتَسَبْت[9]
🌷🌱 وَ الْغَرِيبُ مَنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ حَبِيب
🌷🌱 قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع قَدْ أَفْلَحَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ أَ تَدْرِي مَنْ هُمْ قُلْتُ أَنْتَ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ قَدْ أَفْلَحَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الْمُسَلِّمُونَ إِنَّ الْمُسَلِّمِينَ هُمُ النُّجَبَاءُ وَ الْمُؤْمِنُ غَرِيبٌ وَ الْمُؤْمِنُ غَرِيبٌ ثُمَّ قَالَ طُوبَى لِلْغُرَبَاء[10]
🌷🌱السَّلَامُ عَلَى غَرِيبِ الْغُرَبَاء
🌷🌱Al-Tur: 21 وَ الَّذينَ آمَنُوا وَ اتَّبَعَتْهُمْ ذُرِّيَّتُهُمْ بِإيمانٍ أَلْحَقْنا بِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ وَ ما أَلَتْناهُمْ مِنْ عَمَلِهِمْ مِنْ شَيْءٍ كُلُّ امْرِئٍ بِما كَسَبَ رَهينٌ
🌷🌱Al-Muddaththir: 38 كُلُّ نَفْسٍ بِما كَسَبَتْ رَهينَةٌ
🌷🌱Al-Isra: 33 وَ لا تَقْتُلُوا النَّفْسَ الَّتي حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ إِلاَّ بِالْحَقِّ وَ مَنْ قُتِلَ مَظْلُوماً فَقَدْ جَعَلْنا لِوَلِيِّهِ سُلْطاناً فَلا يُسْرِفْ فِي الْقَتْلِ إِنَّهُ كانَ مَنْصُوراً
🌷🌱 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ- وَ مَنْ قُتِلَ مَظْلُوماً فَقَدْ جَعَلْنا لِوَلِيِّهِ سُلْطاناً فَلا يُسْرِفْ فِي الْقَتْلِ قَالَ نَزَلَتْ فِي الْحُسَيْنِ ع لَوْ قُتِلَ أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ بِهِ مَا كَانَ سَرَفاً.[11]
🌷🌱Ya-Sin: 59 وَ امْتازُوا الْيَوْمَ أَيُّهَا الْمُجْرِمُونَ
🌷🌱قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع حُبُّ اللَّهِ نَارٌ لَا تَمُرُّ عَلَى شَيْءٍ إِلَّا احْتَرَقَ وَ نُورُ اللَّهِ لَا يَطْلُعُ عَلَى شَيْءٍ إِلَّا أَضَاءَ وَ سَمَاءُ اللَّهِ مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْ سَحَابٍ تَحْتَهُ from [additional] شَيْءٌ إِلَّا غَطَّاهُ وَ رِيحُ اللَّهِ مَا تَهُبُّ فِي شَيْءٍ إِلَّا حَرَّكَتْهُ وَ مَاءُ اللَّهِ يَحْيَا بِهِ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ وَ أَرْضُ اللَّهِ يَنْبُتُ مِنْهَا كُلُّ شَيْءٍ فَمَنْ أَحَبَّ اللَّهَ أَعْطَاهُ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ مِنَ الْمُلْكِ وَ الْمِلْك[12]
🌼 Ali Sa’i (Abdullah Meshkat), 110.141 (903) 🌼
[1] Al-Amali (by al-Saduq); text; p. 128 Ibn Babawayh, Ketabchi – Tehran, 6th printing, 1376 SH.
[2] Manaqib Al Abi Talib (by Ibn Shahrashub); vol. 4; p. 67 Allameh – Qom, 1st printing, 1379 AH.
[3]Nahj al-Balagha / translated by Ansariyan, p. 66
[4] Tuhaf al-Uqul; text; p. 514 Society of Seminary Teachers – Qom, 2nd printing, 1404 / 1363 AH.
[5] Mustadrak al-Wasa’il wa Mustanbat al-Masa’il; vol. 10; p. 318 Ahl al-Bayt Foundation – Qom, 1st printing, 1408 AH.
[6]Kamil al-Ziyarat, text, p. 176
[7] Tuhaf al-Uqul; text; p. 245 Society of Seminary Teachers – Qom, 2nd printing, 1404 / 1363 AH.
[8] Miṣbāḥ al-Sharīʿa; p. 194 Al-Aʿlamī, Beirut, first edition, 1400 AH.
[9] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition); vol. 8, p. 80 Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.
[10] Al-Maḥāsin; vol. 1, p. 272 Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, Qom, second edition, 1371 AH.
[11] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition); vol. 8, p. 255 Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, Tehran, fourth edition, 1407 AH.
[12] Miṣbāḥ al-Sharīʿa; p. 192 1 volume, Al-Aʿlamī, Beirut, first edition, 1400 AH.
