Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼🔆🌼The Dawn of Zaynabiyya🌼🔆🌼
🌹🔅☘️ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ ☘️🔅🌹
🔅🌹 “Managing Death” “The Taste of Reason and Ignorance” “The Secret of a Single Heart” “Boundless Art” “The Eve of the Passing of Lady Zaynab al-Kubra, peace be upon her” and more… An abstract, with a supplement
1403.10.27 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903) 🌹🔅
🔅🌼Expanding Our Perspective🌼🔅
🌹To broaden our view of existence, we must behold this world fully, in its entirety. An incomplete view limits, confines, and imprisons the beholder.
🔅🌼The Mysteries of Attraction and the Attracted🌼🔅
🌹Between the one who senses and what is sensed, a “faculty of sensation” must be placed for the latter to be perceived. Without that faculty, there would be nothing perceptible. The degree of the “faculty of sensation” determines the measure of arousal. Within the soul of all that is perceived is a sign through which knowledge and understanding come into being; the “faculty of sensation” gives rise to the perceiving of sensations and the reading of signs.
🌹Between the attractor and the attracted, if there is no attraction, no arousal will occur between them.
🌹Wherever that sign is placed, arousal will arise from that point.
🌹The faculty of analysis and processing that lies within us in relation to every sign gives rise to sensations, attractions, and states of arousal.
🔅🌼The Dawn of Zaynabiyya🌼🔅
🌹Even now, Zaynab remains unknown; the virtues of this beauteous being remain veiled.
🌹Zaynab has not yet dawned; the true dawn of Zaynabiyya is yet to come.
🌹All that sprouts, wells up, and shines in this world from Zaynab’s soul and through her has yet to be discovered. Were it discovered, the test would lose its meaning, for everyone would hasten towards becoming Zaynab-like.
🔅🌼The Woman’s Vast Tablet🌼🔅
🌹Woman is a great mystery, a vast tablet. A pure woman is like a pure vessel, filled—and ever to be filled—with the greatest of mysteries: a wine of beauty and pure, boundless delights.
🔅🌼Boundless Art🌼🔅
🌹In the sign of the woman’s tablet, the Creator of existence is only just beginning to unveil His art. One day, the boundless art of the Best of Creators will be displayed upon it.
🌹Who is worthy of attaining this distinction and becoming the tablet of the Pure, Wise Lord?!
🔅🌼The Mystery of the Removal of Impurity🌼🔅
🌻🔆الأحزاب : 33 … إِنَّما يُريدُ اللَّهُ لِيُذْهِبَ عَنْكُمُ الرِّجْسَ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ وَ يُطَهِّرَكُمْ تَطْهيراً
🔆… God only desires to remove every impurity from you, People of the House, and to purify you in every way.
🌹Impurity is a formidable barrier to boundlessness. Its removal opens the way for the boundless to manifest as beauty, knowledge, wisdom, delight, wonders, marvels, and mysteries.
🌹The pure vessel and its pure contents are the secret of divine unity and of becoming one in unity.
🌹The pure pen rests only upon the soul of the pure tablet. The patterns of the All-Merciful differ from those of the Most Compassionate.
🌹Who will drink this pure divine cup to the dregs?
🔅🌼Zaynab’s Governance of Death🌼🔅
🌹Zaynab expounded the divine law in the wisdom of life and death; Zaynab al-Kubra shattered the satanic philosophy of Ibn Ziyad.
🌹Death is God’s irrevocable law. If the divine decree is that one should die by being killed, it will surely come to pass. The men of God turn being killed into martyrdom; they offer themselves up for God.
🌹To kiss death as God’s law, to kiss the destiny ordained by the Almighty, and to kiss the decree of the Just Judge—this is the work of God’s pure men and women.
🌻🔆Al-Mulk: 2 الَّذي خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَ الْحَياةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلاً وَ هُوَ الْعَزيزُ الْغَفُورُ
🔆He is the One who created death and life to test which of you is best in deed. He is the Almighty, the Most Forgiving.
🌹Remember this lesson from Zaynab, proclaimed throughout history in the court of Ibn Ziyad!
🌷🔆فَقَالَ: الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي فَضَحَكُمْ وَ أَكْذَبَ أُحْدُوثَتَكُمْ
فَقَالَتْ: إِنَّمَا يَفْتَضِحُ الْفَاسِقُ وَ يَكْذِبُ الْفَاجِرُ وَ هُوَ غَيْرُنَا
فَقَالَ ابْنُ زِيَادٍ: كَيْفَ رَأَيْتِ صُنْعَ اللَّهِ بِأَخِيكِ وَ أَهْلِ بَيْتِكِ
فَقَالَتْ: مَا رَأَيْتُ إِلَّا جَمِيلًا
هَؤُلَاءِ قَوْمٌ كَتَبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمُ الْقَتْلَ فَبَرَزُوا إِلى مَضاجِعِهِمْ
وَ سَيَجْمَعُ اللَّهُ بَيْنَكَ وَ بَيْنَهُمْ فَتُحَاجُّ وَ تُخَاصَمُ فَانْظُرْ لِمَنْ يَكُونُ الْفَلْجُ يَوْمَئِذٍ هَبَلَتْكَ أُمُّكَ يَا ابْنَ مَرْجَانَةَ.[1]
🌷🔆Ibn Ziyad turned to Zaynab al-Kubra and said, “Praise and thanks be to God, who has disgraced you and exposed the lies in what you say.” Lady Zaynab, peace be upon her, replied, “It is the wicked who are disgraced, and the evildoer who lies—and that is someone other than us.”
Ibn Ziyad said, “How did you find God’s treatment of your brother and your family?”
Lady Zaynab, peace be upon her, said:
“I saw nothing but goodness and beauty. They were people for whom God had ordained the rank of martyrdom, and so they hastened willingly to their resting places. Soon God will bring them and you together, and call you to account. Then see, at that tribunal, who prevails and who is left helpless. May your mother mourn you, Ibn Marjana!” 🌹One of the lessons of Lady Zaynab, peace be upon her, is this: “Seek death in battle, and seek martyrdom as a pure offering.”
🌻🔆Al Imran: 154 ثُمَّ أَنْزَلَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ الْغَمِّ أَمَنَةً نُعاساً يَغْشى طائِفَةً مِنْكُمْ وَ طائِفَةٌ قَدْ أَهَمَّتْهُمْ أَنْفُسُهُمْ يَظُنُّونَ بِاللَّهِ غَيْرَ الْحَقِّ ظَنَّ الْجاهِلِيَّةِ يَقُولُونَ هَلْ لَنا مِنَ الْأَمْرِ مِنْ شَيْءٍ قُلْ إِنَّ الْأَمْرَ كُلَّهُ لِلَّهِ يُخْفُونَ في أَنْفُسِهِمْ ما لا يُبْدُونَ لَكَ يَقُولُونَ لَوْ كانَ لَنا مِنَ الْأَمْرِ شَيْءٌ ما قُتِلْنا هاهُنا قُلْ لَوْ كُنْتُمْ في بُيُوتِكُمْ لَبَرَزَ الَّذينَ كُتِبَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْقَتْلُ إِلى مَضاجِعِهِمْ وَ لِيَبْتَلِيَ اللَّهُ ما في صُدُورِكُمْ وَ لِيُمَحِّصَ ما في قُلُوبِكُمْ وَ اللَّهُ عَليمٌ بِذاتِ الصُّدُورِ
🔆Then, after sorrow and grief, He sent down peace upon you. This peace came in the form of a light sleep that overcame some of you (on the night after the Battle of Uhud). Others, however, were preoccupied with their own survival and could not sleep. They entertained false thoughts about God, like the thoughts of the Age of Ignorance, saying, “Do we have any share in victory?” Say, “All matters—and all victory—are in God’s hands.” They conceal within themselves what they will not reveal to you, saying, “Had we had a share in the victory, we would not have been killed here.” Say, “Even if you had stayed in your homes, those destined to be killed would surely have gone forth to the places where they were to meet their deaths.” This was so that God might test what you conceal in your hearts, and purify what is within them of faith. God knows what lies deep in the hearts.
🔅🌼 Pleasure with the flavor of reason and the taste of ignorance 🌼🔅
🌹The depth of understanding, feeling, and inner states finds meaning in the heights of knowledge, the light of reason, and the breadth of insight.
🌹Pleasure and beauty mean something different when perceived through reason than when perceived without it. Pleasure and beauty viewed through ignorance are false delights and counterfeit charms.
🌹Reason and ignorance give the human palate two entirely different and opposing tastes.
🌹A woman of reason and a woman without reason differ in both appearance and character. Irrationality is sheer ignorance. The discrepancy between outward appearance and inward reality will last only a short while: the distortion of the inner self will eventually show itself in a person’s outward appearance.
🌹One day, the outward will come to match the inward. How many people look like butterflies on the outside yet are cockroaches within; they seem like gazelles, but inwardly are vile, despicable mice.
🌹Though a cockroach or mouse may be made to look like a butterfly, a person’s inner nature can be discerned from where they dwell and rest. A butterfly has no home but a flower; cockroaches and mice choose no dwelling but filth.
🔅🌼One Heart for the One God 🌼🔅
🌹With one heart, we will attain direct witnessing of the Absolute.
🌹In all existence, there is only one heart: the central heart. The other hearts are, in truth, systems connected to that central heart. Through that one heart, all must attain a single feeling and understanding! 🌹From one perspective, the heart is like the dwelling and seat of reason; in this sense, the heart may be called reason.
🌹At every moment, a person must be in a state of witnessing: the heart present only with God and absent from all besides Him. Attention to anything besides God must be given solely for His pleasure. Such a person is ever a witness.
🌻🔆Q. 37 إِنَّ في ذلِكَ لَذِكْرى لِمَنْ كانَ لَهُ قَلْبٌ أَوْ أَلْقَى السَّمْعَ وَ هُوَ شَهيدٌ
🔆Surely in this (account) is a reminder for whoever has a (wakeful) heart, or listens attentively while present in heart and witnessing the truths.
🌷🔆إِنَّ فِي ذلِكَ لَذِكْرى لِمَنْ كانَ لَهُ قَلْبٌ يَعْنِي عَقْل[2]
🔆Imam Musa al-Kazim (peace be upon him)— إِنَّ فِی ذَلکَ لذِکْرَی لمَن کَانَ لهُ قَلبٌthat is, reason.
🌷🔆 لِمَنْ كانَ لَهُ قَلْبٌ [أَيْ] عَقْلٌ أَوْ أَلْقَى السَّمْعَ يَعْنِي اسْتَمَعَ بِأُذُنَيْهِ إِلَى مَا تَلَاهُ بِلِسَانِه وَ هُوَ شَهِیدٌ یَعْنِی حَاضِرَ الْقَلْبِ لِلَّهِ عَزَّوَجَلَّ[3]
🔆The Prophet of Islam, peace and blessings be upon him and his family: … «إِنَّ فِی ذلِکَ لَذِکْری لِمَنْ کانَ لَهُ قَلْبٌ» that is, for anyone who possesses reason; «أَوْ أَلْقَی السَّمْعَ» that is, who listens with both ears to what is recited by the tongue; «وَ هُوَ شَهِیدٌ» that is, whose heart is present with God.
🌷🔆 وَ أَنَا ذُو الْقَلْبِ فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ- إِنَّ فِي ذلِكَ لَذِكْرى لِمَنْ كانَ لَهُ قَلْب[4]
🔆The Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali (peace be upon him): … I am the possessor of the heart, the one of whom God said: إِنَّ فِی ذَلکَ لذِکْرَی لمَن کَانَ لهُ قَلبٌ.
🔅🌼The One Heart 🌼🔅
🌹The possessor of the heart is Ali.
🌹In all existence, there is only one heart; the other hearts are, in truth, windows opening onto that one heart: one sight, one ear, one shared sense.
🔅🌼A Single Operating System Is the Secret of Existence 🌼🔅
🌹The world and all who dwell in it are brought into operation by one single system, so that they may be set on the path of the most excellent order.
🌹The ugliness, defects, and difficulties found in beings arise from incomplete operation or from being operated by systems of ignorance and Satan.
🌹Our beauty, our essence, and our hearts must be brought into operation by the vast, pure system of existence.
🌹This is the secret of “enumerating all things in a manifest Book”: we must be brought into operation by this system, so that we may gain access to the knowledge of all things.
🌹What tablet could contain everything within itself?! This is the secret of the removal of impurity. How can a flower become a tablet of all beauty, purity, fragrance, sweetness, and color unless it attains absolute purity?
🌹What would happen if a flower could bring itself fully into operation through this operating system, if a woman could bring herself into operation through it?!
🌹Imagine a chaste woman: if Zaynab had appeared in this very world, there would have been no test of meaning, no faith in God’s promises or in the Word of God. Their desires would have been stirred by what they witnessed, and faith would have had no meaning.
🌹What is the secret of Zaynab—and, beyond that, the secret of Fatimah?
🔅🌼The Imprinted Heart, the Rejected Heart 🌼🔅
🌹The imprinted heart is a rejected, sealed heart. Whoever turns away from the possessor of the heart is deprived of unity of perception, pure knowledge, pure light, and transcendence of motion.
🌻🔆Ghafir: 35 الَّذينَ يُجادِلُونَ في آياتِ اللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ سُلْطانٍ أَتاهُمْ كَبُرَ مَقْتاً عِنْدَ اللَّهِ وَ عِنْدَ الَّذينَ آمَنُوا كَذلِكَ يَطْبَعُ اللَّهُ عَلى كُلِّ قَلْبِ مُتَكَبِّرٍ جَبَّارٍ
🔆Those who dispute the signs of God without any proof having come to them—this brings great wrath from God and from those who believe. Thus God sets a seal upon the heart of every متكبّر جبّارى مُهر
🌻🔆An-Nahl: 107 ذلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمُ اسْتَحَبُّوا الْحَياةَ الدُّنْيا عَلَى الْآخِرَةِ وَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ لا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْكافِرينَ
🔆That is because they preferred the life of this world over the Hereafter, and God does not guide those who disbelieve.
🌻🔆An-Nahl: 108 أُولئِكَ الَّذينَ طَبَعَ اللَّهُ عَلى قُلُوبِهِمْ وَ سَمْعِهِمْ وَ أَبْصارِهِمْ وَ أُولئِكَ هُمُ الْغافِلُونَ
🔆They are the ones whose hearts, ears, and eyes God has sealed because of their many sins; they do not understand. They are the truly heedless.
🌻🔆Muhammad: 16 وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَسْتَمِعُ إِلَيْكَ حَتَّى إِذا خَرَجُوا مِنْ عِنْدِكَ قالُوا لِلَّذينَ أُوتُوا الْعِلْمَ What did he say? قالَ آنِفاً أُولئِكَ الَّذينَ طَبَعَ اللَّهُ عَلى قُلُوبِهِمْ وَ اتَّبَعُوا أَهْواءَهُمْ
🔆Some of them listen to you, but when they leave your presence, they say mockingly to those who have been given knowledge, “What did he just say?” They are the ones whose hearts God has sealed, and who follow their own desires; that is why they understand nothing.
🌻🔆Al-A‘raf: 179 وَ لَقَدْ ذَرَأْنا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثيراً مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لا يَفْقَهُونَ بِها وَ لَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ لا يُبْصِرُونَ بِها وَ لَهُمْ آذانٌ لا يَسْمَعُونَ بِها أُولئِكَ كَالْأَنْعامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ أُولئِكَ هُمُ الْغافِلُونَ
We have surely created many jinn and humans for Hell: they have hearts with which they do not reflect or understand, eyes with which they do not see, and ears with which they do not hear. They are like cattle—indeed, even more astray. They are the heedless, for despite having every means of guidance, they remain lost.
🌹When the Ahl al-Bayt are established in the heart’s sanctuary, the whole being is brought into order through reason.
🌹Until we are equipped with Muhammad and his Family, peace be upon them, we remain incomplete.
🌹We must reason and seek deep understanding through Muhammad and his Family.
🌹If Muhammad and his Family depart from the heart, it is sealed; it falls away.
🌹Everyone is planting the heart! What will come of this planting? Who will attain that station?
🌼Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) 110.141(903)🌼
🔅🌼A Student’s Perspective on “Zaynab, the Pure Tablet of God” 🌼🔅
🔹 Zaynab, the Pure Tablet of God
🔹The Passing of Lady Zaynab, peace be upon her
📅 Date: 1403/10/27 – 15 Rajab 1446
✨ Session: Meshkat-e Noor
🎤 Speaker: Master Ali Saei
📝 Some of the topics discussed in the session:
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### 🌙 On the Eve of the Passing of the Lady of Patience and Fortitude
On the eve of the passing of Zaynab al-Kubra, the deputy of al-Zahra and al-Husayn, queen of the world and the wise lady among humankind, we offer our condolences to the celestial realm.
### ✨ The Dawn of Zaynab
O God, grant our eyes the vision of Zaynab’s dawn. Make us worthy of this magnificent sunrise, so that we may witness the grandeur and glory of this greatest of Your signs, and expand our hearts and souls.
Zaynab al-Kubra is a mystery yet unknown.
The virtues of this august lady have yet to be fully revealed. But a day will come when the world will witness the dawn of Zaynab al-Kubra’s greatness. Why has this greatness not yet been fully disclosed? Because if this mystery were revealed, divine trial would no longer have meaning.
Woman is one of God’s great signs.
A pure woman is a sign in whom God displays His beauty. She is a vessel in which the Almighty has placed His endless mysteries and beauty.
### 🎨 The Pure Tablet of Pure Women
The Artist, the Best of Creators, inscribes the pattern of His own grandeur and beauty upon the form of a pure woman. But an impure woman betrays the divine trust and will be the loser.
A pure woman is God’s pure tablet, where divine mysteries are held. Divine beauty and delight flow through this vessel. Yet these mysteries have not been fully manifested. God’s pen has only just touched this tablet.
What soul is worthy of having God’s pen inscribe its form in full?
Who could it be but Zaynab al-Kubra and those who follow her example?
When impurity is purged from a person’s soul, divine knowledge and wisdom shine within it and come to light. This is the mystery of divine unity—the mystery of oneness in tawhid.
### 🛡 Zaynab al-Kubra: The Hero of Karbala
Who is Zaynab al-Kubra?
Do we know of Zaynab’s struggles? Karbala was a war fought on every front: military, doctrinal, theological and philosophical. Satan sought victory on all of them, but Zaynab al-Kubra, with the sword of her wisdom, shattered Satan’s philosophy.
In the heart of darkness, this wise lady established a school and filled the pages of history with lessons from God.
When Ibn Ziyad praised God for the martyrdom of Imam Husayn, peace be upon him, Zaynab al-Kubra replied:
“It is only the wicked who are disgraced, and only the corrupt who lie.”
When that vile man asked, “How did you see God’s treatment of your family?” the Lady replied:
“I saw nothing but beauty.”
### 📜 The Philosophy of the World in Zaynab’s Words
Drawing on a verse of the Quran, Lady Zaynab explained the philosophy of the world:
“These are the people for whom God decreed martyrdom, and they hastened to their resting places.”
These words illuminate the philosophy of death: death is God’s inescapable law.
In the darkness of Karbala, Zaynab al-Kubra taught us the lessons of servitude and tawhid, lessons that will ring through history.
### 🌟 The Law of Death: From Being Killed to Martyrdom
If divine decree has ordained that a person be killed, it will surely come to pass—whether death comes in bed or at the hands of another. But the men of God must be astute enough to turn being killed into martyrdom.
Let their deaths not be in vain, ending in anything other than martyrdom.
At Ibn Ziyad’s court, Zaynab al-Kubra beautifully explained this divine law:
Death is God’s law, but with complete spiritual intelligence, it must be transformed into martyrdom.
Embracing God’s Law with a Kiss:
We must kiss the decree of the Almighty and embrace the divine ordinance with our whole heart and soul. This acceptance is the highest form of surrender before God.
### 🔭 A Deeper Look at the Universe
To reach the pinnacle of wisdom, we must look deeply into this created world. We must approach each of God’s signs, women and men, and all phenomena with an open heart and a pure, scientific gaze.
God has established a wondrous order between that which attracts and that which is attracted. This order is a sign of God: He has placed within the sensing faculty and the sensed object a power that enables them to connect.
We must not lose sight of this divine code. We must use it to understand the Creator’s speech. To what wisdom and knowledge does the Creator of these signs lead us?
If the faculties of perception and arousal within human souls are properly regulated, this arousal will carry us beyond the signs. Otherwise, we will go astray.
### 🌺 Woman: A Great Sign of God
Woman is a great sign of God and a divine tablet. If this woman is properly activated as a divine software system, what splendour will shine forth from her!
Yet only those whose hearts they have purified and made sound can attain the mysteries of this sign.
A woman who preserves her being in purity reaches full activation and manifests within herself all her divine potential and beauty.
### 📖 The Manifest Book and the System of the Manifest Imam
The Manifest Book is the book in which all things have been enumerated.
If our being is activated through the system of the Manifest Imam, we will gain access to the information concerning all things and be able to say:
“I am, in the truest sense, a servant of God.”
With this knowledge and understanding, we will attain complete spiritual vision. Otherwise, we will remain in ignorance and helplessness.
### 🛡 The Secret of Zaynab: The Heart That Understands Deeply
Who is Zaynab al-Kubra?
She is the one who understands with her heart.
When Zaynab al-Kubra delivered her sermon in the court of Ibn Ziyad, they said:
“It is as though Ali himself is delivering the sermon.”
Yes, because she was delivering it with Ali’s heart.
She shattered Ibn Ziyad’s assembly and granted history an everlasting clarity.
Now if Zaynab was such, what must Fatimah have been?
### 🌟 The Headquarters of Intellect and the Ahl al-Bayt
Our headquarters is the Ahl al-Bayt of infallibility and purity.
This is also the headquarters of intellect.
Intellect is our breath and our very soul.
When I become rational, I become one who possesses the Ahl al-Bayt.
Through the Ahl al-Bayt, I attain true understanding.
When I become rational through the Ahl al-Bayt, I will then become a servant of God.
### ✨ Intellect, the Ahl al-Bayt, and Worshipping God
God can be worshipped only through intellect, and this intellect is, in truth, the Ahl al-Bayt themselves.
Until we become people of Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad, we remain incomplete.
Through Muhammad and his Household, we must reason and attain deep understanding.
When we receive all the signs of Muhammad and his Household, we will possess reason and a heart.
But if we lose these signs and our connection with them is severed, our hearts will be sealed, and we will not be sincere.
Everyone is sowing in the heart—but where will that sowing lead?
### 🌟 Zaynab al-Kubrā: A Model of Growth and Dynamism
In this world, Zaynab al-Kubrā embodies dynamism and growth.
She flourishes within her own soul and brings growth to the world around her.
In truth, Zaynab is a Muslim woman, a woman of faith, patience and humility, and one who preserves and remembers.
She is an unparalleled example for all people of how to attain perfection on the path of faith and devotion to God.
An example from nature:
When we look at a flower, if it could reveal its own meaning, all its beauty, purity and sweetness would become manifest. A woman, too, is like a flower in whom God has placed immense potential.
### 💡 Activating the God-given Nature
God has bestowed on us an innate nature which, if rightly brought to life, will reveal divine mysteries.
But beings whose existence is filled with ugliness cannot bring themselves to life, and will remain incomplete.
Each person can bring themselves to life to the extent of their capacity; if that capacity is limited, the divine majesty and grandeur within them will remain incomplete.
### 🌟 Bringing the Self to Life: Manifesting the Beauty of God
How can we bring our being to life so that all divine beauty is displayed through it?
What is the secret of this process?
If we taste the nature of creation through reason, it will have a particular flavour; but if we experience it through ignorance, the taste will be different.
The depth of our understanding depends on the breadth of our knowledge and insight.
Our pleasure, our sensibility, and our attraction to beauty depend on how fully our reason is brought to life. The more broadly and deeply we cultivate our reason, the more our sense of beauty will be transformed.
But those who bring themselves to life through ignorance will find their understanding and pleasure confined to that same ignorance.
What system do we use to bring ourselves to life?
Our sensibility, understanding, pleasure and inclinations all depend on our inner operating system.
### 🌺 The Difference Between a Pure and an Impure Woman
The meaning of beauty differs according to whether one is guided by reason or ignorance.
A pure woman and an impure woman differ in every respect: their pleasures, their enjoyments, even their worlds are different.
A pure woman is a mirror whose reach extends from pre-eternity to eternity, whereas an impure woman sees herself only on the confined tablet of this world.
Men who love impure women love the dust, not the heavens.
### 🛡 God’s Veil Over the Beauty of the Pure Woman
The difference between a woman of reason and one without it is evident in both character and appearance. God draws a veil over the beauty of a pure woman so that the unworthy cannot seize it.
One day that veil will be lifted, and God’s pure signs will rise into view.
### 🌟 Outer and Inner: The Truth Revealed
The outward bears witness to the inward, but it takes time for the inward to become manifest in the outward.
How many people, women and men alike, have a corrupt inner nature yet a polished outward appearance. Why does their inner nature remain hidden? Because its time has not yet come.
Some appear as delicate as butterflies, yet within they are foul as cockroaches. A day will come when their outward appearance, too, will resemble what lies within.
### 🌺 Judging the Inner Nature by Its Dwelling Place
A person’s inner nature can be judged by the place they make their home. Where does a butterfly settle?
Its home is among the purity of flowers and herbs. But whoever makes their home amid filth has a corrupt inner nature.
The heart must be guided by reason if it is to perceive the beauties of God.
### 📖 The Qur’an and Awakened Hearts
All the verses, warnings, and signs from God are offered only to those who possess hearts.
If they have no heart, neither the Qur’an nor the Ahl al-Bayt will have any effect on them.
Who are those who possess a heart?
They are those whose hearts dwell in reason. Such a heart is present only to God and heedless of all besides Him.
The meaning of martyrdom:
To bear witness means to be present in heart only to God, with every aim and intention directed solely toward His pleasure. Such a person is a martyr.
### 🕊 Ruined Hearts and the Secret of Life
A heart that follows the world will be sealed—that is, the heart of someone who prefers this world to the Hereafter is destroyed.
Outwardly, they seem to have a heart, but the heart they ought to have is no longer within them.
This secret reveals a bitter truth: to be heartless is to be indifferent to the Hereafter.
### 🌟 The Secret of the Heart and the System of Devotion
Who are those who have hearts but do not understand, who have ears but do not hear?
They are worse than cattle.
Our master, Amir al-Mu’minin, peace be upon him, said:
“I am the possessor of the heart; I am the one who has a heart.”
Do others have no heart?
By God, the heart is one and unique.
In this world, there is no heart besides that one.
The original heart is Ali’s heart.
I will possess a heart when I become one of Ali’s own.
Then, with Ali, I will feel and understand; with him, I will love and call upon God.
This is the first and last secret.
If I am mistaken, please set me right.
### ✨ A Single System for the World
The world and its people must be set in motion by one single system.
If our being is not set in motion by the system of Ali and his descendants, who are one, our devotion will be incomplete and our existence filled with loss.
An incomplete existence is held captive by impurity.
But if we are set in motion by the divine system, our being will be filled with serenity and purity, and no impurity will find a place in it.
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