Question 232

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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. O Allah, send prayers upon our master Muhammad and his good and purified family, the Imams and the Mahdis, and grant them abundant peace. Peace be upon you, my master and guardian, O messenger of Imam al-Mahdi. Peace be upon you, O prophet of Allah. Peace be upon you, O one through whose bounty the people are provided for. Peace be upon you, O one without whom the earth would sink with its inhabitants. Peace be upon you, O redeemer of Jesus. Peace be upon you, O son of the Chosen Prophet, son of Ali al-Murtada, and son of Fatima al-Zahra. I seek Allah’s forgiveness and repent to Him for my grave offense and sin, which blackened my face before you, my guardian and master of my bondage. What sin is greater than my falling short concerning your right? So forgive me. My master, O Joseph of the family of Muhammad, Allah showed me a vision in which you addressed me, my guardian, and said words to this effect: ‘We bestowed blessings upon you and showed you visions as We showed the believers. Rid yourself of selfishness.’ My master and guardian, I know that there is no one upon the face of the earth more audacious toward her master than I am, nor anyone more disobedient than I am, and that I do not deserve to speak to you, my master. Yet I always hope that Allah will pardon me, and I call upon Him, the Exalted, to grant me a sound heart and make me among the sincere followers and obedient servants. My master, I beg you: how do I rid myself of selfishness? I beseech you, my guardian: pardon your bondwoman and overlook her, for she has no guardian besides you. My guardian, O my guardian, you are the master and I am the servant; who has mercy upon the servant but the master? Praise be to Allah alone, alone, alone. Sender: YA MAHDI

Source: The Enlightening Answer Across the Ether, Vol 3; Author: Imam Ahmed Al-Hasan; Question 232; Page Not available; AL-JAWAB-AL-MUNIR-V3-Q232. View Arabic source · Open the original Arabic source ↗

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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, the Imams and the Mahdis, and grant them abundant peace. The human being rids himself of the ego when he does not see himself and sees only his Lord before everything, with everything, and after everything. Let us always take notice of Satan and the evil concealed within us, and let us do everything within our ability to kill it, for the most hostile of our enemies is our own selves (^[46]): this self that stands insolently and shamelessly to establish that it exists in opposition to the existence of Allah, Glorious and Exalted. Perhaps if the human being moves in this direction, watches his enemy, and fights him-rather, his most bitter enemy, his own self-he will reach whatever Allah wills of the knowledge that Allah desires for the human being. As for whether you want all of the truth, then in truth I tell you that we must be ashamed of the condition we are in. What do we want? We want the Hereafter, we want the Garden, we want continuance, immortality, perfection, and so on. But who among us feels ashamed before Allah’s generosity, and, when looking at his own existence, neither wants nor accepts to exist in opposition to Allah, Glorious is He, so he does not choose continuance or immortality, not even in the Hereafter and the Garden, but instead asks for annihilation out of shame before Allah? Ahmed Alhasan

Question 232 - The Enlightening Answer Across the Ether, Vol 3

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