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The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼When grace is blended with majesty, it becomes Ḥasan🌼
🌼Knowing Ḥasan is to uncover the mysteries of celestial flight🌼
🌸🔆🌿 “The Truth and Reality of the Imam and the Blessed Month of Ramadan”
🔅🌹 Summary with Supplement, “Meshkat-e Noor Gathering” “The Truth and Reality of the Imam and the Blessed Month of Ramadan” “The Secret of Ḥasan” 1402.01.17 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) (110.141 (903) 🌹🔅
🌸🔆The Pearl of God’s Month
☘️🔅 Striving against the self—and against all egos—is one of the essential obligations of the blessed month of Ramadan.
☘️🔅 Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, is the jewel and radiant star of the blessed month of Ramadan, and a double blessing and success for God’s creation.
☘️🔅 The God of all beauty has fashioned the beauty of earth and the beauty of heaven from Hasan’s grace.
☘️🔅 Hasan is the sole description of Hasan.
☘️🔅 Without Hasan, the thread of the universe would unravel.
☘️🔅 The Almighty God has made heaven and earth rest upon Hasan; Hasan is like a staff supporting the stature of the heavens and the earth.
☘️🔅 Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba, peace be upon him, was wronged in his own time and is still wronged in ours. He is more wronged than Imam Husayn, peace be upon him.
☘️🔅 The wrong done to Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, stems either from the ignorance of the ignorant or from the deliberate malice of oppressors.
☘️🔅 An ill-timed “Here I am” is a remedy offered after Sohrab’s death. One must answer the call in time; the worth of answering before and after the ظهور is not the same.
☘️🔅 Imam Hasan’s life-giving breath marks the beginning of Hasan’s life within the souls.
☘️🔅 Visiting the Imam’s inner beauty and beauty in its interpretive dimension is essential to attaining a deeper knowledge of the Imam.
☘️🔅 Without the Imam’s authority, people remain immature and unripe.
☘️🔅 To be under the Imam’s authority is to feel a unity with him—like a finger’s sense of belonging to the body, or the sense each part has of its bond with the reality of a person’s being.
☘️🔅 Each part of the body, by virtue of its unity with the reality of a person’s being, is effectively the person himself. If a follower’s bond with the Imam is of this kind, the follower will not be separate from the vast network of the Imamate.
🌸🔆Hasan’s Maturity
☘️🔅 Hasan’s maturity is attained only through knowledge of Hasan; it marks the beginning of exceptional, distinctive, and wondrous feelings.
☘️🔅 A human being has many stages of maturity, and perfection is not attained until every one of them has come to maturity.
☘️🔅 As each stage matures, new feelings emerge and come to light. Knowledge of each Imam is a distinct stage of knowledge belonging to that Imam.
☘️🔅 With every moment of knowledge and understanding, a person is born anew. Without knowledge, a person is born incomplete, immature, and unripe.
☘️🔅 Knowing the constellations of the heavens is essential to the soul’s delight. Knowing the Muhammadan constellations extends from the pleasure of beholding them to the joy of flying through them and exploring their wonders.
☘️🔅 The constellation of Hasan is among the most beautiful in the Muhammadan heavens. Without knowing this beautiful constellation, we will lose our way amid heaven’s wonders.
☘️🔅 To know each of the Imams, one must seek solitude and earnestly ask the Creator of life and the world for that knowledge.
☘️🔅 اللهم عرفنی حَسَنَکَ
☘️🔅 Walking the path of Hasan promises arrival at the highest destination.
☘️🔅 With Imam Hasan, peace be upon him, the scope of flight extends to the heights of the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary.
☘️🔅 Partaking of Hasan’s water, bread, and wine is essential to growing and advancing in servitude to God.
☘️🔅 Once we have attained Hasan, we should expect blessings that are exalted and wondrous.
☘️🔅 To neglect the soul’s needs is to neglect joy, comfort, delight, and beauty. People are in need of knowledge of the Imam.
☘️🔅 God Himself will place knowledge, beauty, sweetness, and wondrous forms of grace in our hearts. We must beseech Him, turn to Him in need, thirst for these gifts, and persistently ask Him for them.
☘️🔅 Perhaps we live in many worlds nested within one another, yet sense only the world to which we are attached and experience only its life, while the life of our other worlds passes us by. Perhaps we have even departed from those worlds, or failed to mature in them.
☘️🔅 Our true lives unfold in the sovereign of the worlds of creation: the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them.
☘️🔅 The Imam is the sovereign of the world of being. We must live, learn, and journey within this sovereign world, and swim in its surging oceans.
☘️🔅 Whether or not we realize it, we are fish in the ocean of the Imam, sovereign of the world.
☘️🔅 Perhaps all created beings are but dust from the soul of this sovereign world.
☘️🔅 A person is imprisoned by what they need and what they love.
☘️🔅 We build our own black holes.
☘️🔅 The food above all foods, the sovereign food—the most nourishing of all—is the Imam.
🌸🔆The Countenance of the Blessed Month
☘️🔅 If the Blessed Month were to take visible form, it would appear in the countenance of the Imam.
☘️🔅 To truly break the fast is to violate the Imam’s sanctity: to disregard him, neglect him, and fail to follow him.
☘️🔅 Perhaps during the Blessed Month we have broken our fast of devotion to Hasan, and our fast of devotion to the Household. Whoever forgets the Mahdi has broken their fast of devotion to him.
☘️🔅 Failing to recognize the exalted knowledge of the Imam is to violate the sanctity of that Imam’s fast.
☘️🔅 The Imam is the reality, the root, and the inner meaning of fasting and prayer.
☘️🔅 To be immersed in the remembrance of God and made ardent with divine love is essential every day, especially during the Blessed Month of Ramadan.
☘️🔅 Turning away when the Blessed Month turns toward us is the height of ingratitude, a sign of manifest loss.
☘️🔅 Whoever has severed the nerve of servitude has lost the sense of being God’s servant, and is blind to the sweetness of worship.
☘️🔅 Food’s taste and pleasure cannot be savored until it is mixed with saliva. In the same way, spiritual truths must mingle with the heart’s essence before their sweetness is revealed. Stillness, reflection, and contemplation are needed to attain this great secret.
☘️🔅 Perhaps small religious gatherings are like experimental tables, prepared for the bestowal of immense grace.
☘️🔅 The breadth of the strides we can take in the Blessed Month is beyond imagining: the journey, speed, expansiveness, and soaring heights are astonishing.
☘️🔅 Let us take flight on the wings of the Quran and the Household. In the Blessed Month of Ramadan, our wings can span the entire celestial realm.
☘️🔅The Blessed Month of Ramadan is the finest month for choosing; perhaps it is in this month that the Mahdi, peace be upon him, selects his companions.
🔅🌹 ثُمَّ قَالَ ص إِنَ الشَّقِيَ حَقَّ الشَّقِيِّ مَنْ خَرَجَ مِنْهُ هَذَا الشَّهْرُ وَ لَمْ يُغْفَرْ ذُنُوبُهُ فَحِينَئِذٍ يَخْسَرُ حِينَ يَفُوزُ الْمُحْسِنُونَ بِجَوَائِزِ الرَّبِّ الْكَرِيمِ.[1]
🔅🌹 عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع قَالَ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص خَطَبَنَا ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ فَقَالَ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّهُ قَدْ أَقْبَلَ إِلَيْكُمْ شَهْرُ اللَّهِ بِالْبَرَكَةِ وَ الرَّحْمَةِ وَ الْمَغْفِرَةِ شَهْرٌ هُوَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ أَفْضَلُ الشُّهُورِ وَ أَيَّامُهُ أَفْضَلُ الْأَيَّامِ وَ لَيَالِيهِ أَفْضَلُ اللَّيَالِي وَ سَاعَاتُهُ أَفْضَلُ السَّاعَاتِ هُوَ شَهْرٌ دُعِيتُمْ فِيهِ إِلَى ضِيَافَةِ اللَّهِ وَ جُعِلْتُمْ فِيهِ مِنْ أَهْلِ كَرَامَةِ اللَّهِ أَنْفَاسُكُمْ فِيهِ تَسْبِيحٌ وَ نَوْمُكُمْ فِيهِ عِبَادَةٌ وَ عَمَلُكُمْ فِيهِ مَقْبُولٌ وَ دُعَاؤُكُمْ فِيهِ مُسْتَجَابٌ فَاسْأَلُوا اللَّهَ رَبَّكُمْ بِنِيَّاتٍ صَادِقَةٍ وَ قُلُوبٍ طَاهِرَةٍ أَنْ يُوَفِّقَكُمْ لِصِيَامِهِ وَ تِلَاوَةِ كِتَابِهِ فَإِنَّ الشَّقِيَّ مَنْ حُرِمَ غُفْرَانَ اللَّهِ فِي هَذَا الشَّهْرِ الْعَظِيمِ وَ اذْكُرُوا بِجُوعِكُمْ وَ عَطَشِكُمْ فِيهِ جُوعَ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ وَ عَطَشَهُ وَ تَصَدَّقُوا عَلَى فُقَرَائِكُمْ وَ مَسَاكِينِكُمْ-[2]
🌼 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌼
[1] Al-Amali (by al-Saduq), text, p. 55 Vol. 1, Ketabchi, Tehran, sixth edition, 1376 SH.
[2] Al-Amali (by al-Saduq), text, p. 93 Vol. 1, Ketabchi, Tehran, sixth edition, 1376 SH.
