Eid al-Ghadir is the greatest Eid for the believers. The reward that is mentioned for honoring this day has not been mentioned for any other Eid or even for the anniversary of the martyrdom of the Imams. However, despite all this emphasis we do not work for this day the way we should.
In order to understand the importance of this day, let’s review some of the virtues that the Household of the Prophet (as) have mentioned about this day.

The best day for being forgiven!
It is said in a tradition that the believers are pardoned and forgiven on Eid al-Ghadir, more than during the holy month of Ramadan, more than throughout the whole year and more than the night of Eid al-Fitr. This is while the night of Eid al-Fitr is such that whoever has not been forgiven during the month of Ramadan will be forgiven on this night. [Tahdhib al-Ahkaam, vol. 6, p. 24]

The best day for giving food to others
Imam Sadiq (as) said, “Giving food to one person on the day of Eid al-Ghadir is like giving food to all the prophets and the truthful.” [Iqbaal al-Amaal, vol. 1, p. 465]
It was Imam Reza's (as) custom to keep whoever came to his house on Eid al-Ghadir for dinner. And when that person wanted to leave, he would give him various gifts - from rings to clothes - to take for his children.

The best day to do good deeds!
It is said in a tradition that on normal days any amount of money you give in charity, spend, or give in the way of God is counted ten times as much. But on the day of Eid al-Ghadir, if you do one of these things, it will be counted two hundred thousand times as much for you! [Iqbaal al-Amaal, vol. 1, p. 463]

The best day for fasting
Imam Sadiq (as) said, “Fasting on the day of Ghadir Khum is equal to fasting for a lifetime in this world. If a person lives as long as the life of this world and fasts all of its days, he will have the reward of fasting on the day of Eid al-Ghadir. To the Exalted God, fasting on this day every year is equivalent to one hundred accepted Hajj pilgrimages and one hundred accepted Umrah pilgrimages. And this is God's great Eid.” [Tahdhib al-Ahkaam, vol. 3, p. 143]

What else could they have said for us to understand the importance of this event?
As much as we can, let's take Eid al-Ghadir more seriously from now on and help this great event not to remain unknown.

#EidAlGhadir

Salam my dear. How are you?
“May I come up?”
Come dear.
Do you want to sit here while I’m talking? Shall I talk while you’re sitting here?
“Read.”
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During the days and nights of the holy month of Ramadan, we should reap the most benefit. How can we receive light from this month? How can we benefit from God’s Grace in this holy month of Ramadan? By paying attention! This is the main factor.
The most important capacity we have in our soul and which we don’t usually benefit from is paying attention. Paying attention is not usually considered to be something that valuable. No matter how much you stand behind a store window and say, “I have truly paid attention to this car behind the window,” this is not something valuable in this world. People say, “You shouldn’t have paid attention to it.” But it is exactly the opposite when standing before God. Whoever has gained something, he has gained it by paying attention to God wholeheartedly and by beseeching Him. In the beginning, paying attention happens in one’s mind.
“I have turned my face to Him Who has created the heavens and the earth…” [Qur’an 6:79] A person should pay attention to God in his thoughts. Gradually, when this paying attention becomes deeper, it turns into paying attention with one’s heart. A person faces Him with his heart. “I have turned my face to Him…”
“Salam.”
Salam my dear. How are you?
“May I come up?”
Come dear. Come. It’s fine. Come up. Do you want to sit here while I’m talking? Shall I talk while you’re sitting here? Sit here; I’ll talk. You sit, I sit, and we’ll talk. It’s not a problem if I talk?
“No. Read.”
Read? She says read. Do you want to go down or are you comfortable sitting here? Do you want to go down? She says she won’t come. Let her be.
“Candy…”
No, no, leave her.
“I’ll take her. She’ll be distracting.”
No, will you be distracted?
“No.”
[Audience,] “Haj Aqa, we shouldn’t pay attention [as you were explaining].”
Don’t pay attention. She got the candy from you but didn’t come. Of course I am happy to be in the presence of this luminous child. She’s so pure. See. This dear child reminded me of Mr. Baha’udini. His son-in-law related, “Once, I came home, and I saw the children were very noisy. But he was sitting and thinking deeply. I said, ‘Children, be quiet!’ I quieted them. Then, Mr. Baha’udini noticed me. He said, ‘What do you want with the children?!’ I said, ‘I thought they shouldn’t be noisy and bother you.’ He replied, ‘What do they have to do with me?’ I realized that children do not distract Mr. Baha’udini at all.”
This ability to pay attention is very valuable. Paying attention means that my face, my soul and my heart are turned toward You God. I’m paying attention to You now. “I have turned my face to Him Who has created the heavens and the earth…” Paying attention to whom? To the One Who has created the heavens and the earth! God doesn’t want anything from His servant. He says, “Just pay attention to Me.” God gives everything to His servant. He’s not stingy at all.
God has created us so that He may give to us. God doesn’t want anything. God doesn’t like negligence. He says, “Why aren’t you paying attention to Me?” When a person pays attention, that’s it. Don’t leave your soul unattended to pay attention and become busy with everything it wants. Say, “Wait, I should have a program for myself now.” In order to strengthen your attentiveness, you should pay attention to your sorrows, my dears. Nothing will drag a person’s attention to itself like sorrows.
Find beautiful spiritual sorrows and pay attention to them. This is what supplications do. This doesn’t mean we should be sad. It means we should pay attention. If crying and sorrows help, even better. Now what if sorrows distract us from God? That’s a nasty sorrow. Having a sorrow that does not cause a person to pay attention to God and which distances him from God is very bad. This doesn’t mean having sorrows. It means paying attention, and we should gain this ability.
O God, help us to leave this holy Month as people who are attentive. There were times when we paid attention to other things besides You. Especially if we have enjoyed them too - very bad! “I ask for Your forgiveness for every pleasure other than remembering You.” [Imam Sajjad (as), Al-Dhakirin Supplication] God doesn’t want anything from His servant. He says, “Just pay attention to Me.” God gives everything to His servant. He’s not stingy at all. God doesn’t want anything. God doesn’t like negligence.
During the days and nights of the holy month of Ramadan, it is by being attentive that we benefit. How good it is to recite the Qur’an while being attentive. How good it is to pray while being attentive. Do your work while being attentive. Do your work, but your heart should be with God.
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Dear religious people, God expects change from you more.

O honorable proud people, good young men, honorable women, God expects us religious people to change more than those who haven’t come onto the path of religiosity yet. This matter is more about us. God has more expectation from us religious people to change. Whoever starts being religious should be ready for the tests through which God will transform him. He should be ready for tests in which God expects him to make spiritual changes. No one can just have faith and then he’s done.
God brings changes with His tests. God does this with everyone. For example, I feel I understand a lot, so God brings up a subject I don’t understand. Then He sends a child to change me. He wants to change me, a stubborn person who is considering other things. So I say, “You little kid want to change me?! Do you know how much experience I have?!” God says, “What a wretched person.” Thus, it is said in the traditions to calculate your deeds constantly while being suspicious about your own carnal self.
When you do a good deed, tell yourself, “Look, I know there are bad things inside me! I’ve certainly done this because of those bad desires. I should find my problem.” God says, “Be ready for any change.” What does it mean to be ready for any change? It means to be ready to accept any fault you may have!
“A pious person does good deeds but he is still worried.” [Imam Ali, Nahj al-Balaghah] “But you just did a good deed,” you tell him. “No, I ruin everything. How could I have done a good deed?! I’m sure there are some nasty traits in me,” he answers. This is how a believer thinks. They have taught us techniques. These are techniques. For you not to become hardened and stubborn, for you not to become rigid and escape from changing, and for you not to object to changing, you should always be ready to change. A person says, “Why? What’s wrong with me?!” Aha! This is the start to becoming wretched. Don’t say, “What’s wrong with me.” Say, “I’m full of faults!”
God calls from above, “Good for those who change, who change others, who accept changing and who seek changes.” I will pray, and you say Ameen. O God make us one of those who accept positive changes. O God make us one of those who accept changing positively. O God don’t make us one of those who have become hardened, ossified, arrogant or stubborn.

Whoever starts being religious should be ready for the tests through which God will transform him. He should be ready for tests in which God expects him to make spiritual changes. Good for those who accept changing and who seek changes.
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You want to become an Imam!

“And We desired to bestow a favour upon those who were oppressed in the earth, and to make them the Imams.” (Qur’an 28:5) How magnificent! How inspiring! How thought provoking! You want to become an Imam! Look at yourself. Do you deserve to be, or not?! You want to become an Imam!
Why hasn’t God said, “I want to make some of you Imams?” “God not everyone can become an Imam.” God will respond, “Silent. I know what I’m saying.” All of you are refined, managers, governors and commanders. Although you might live and work in positions where you are obedient to senior commanders or governors. Everyone should have the talent of managing and understand managing. Everyone should be able to talk as a manager and have the capacity to manage! Anyone Imam Mahdi (‘a.j.) wants to use, he can put in charge. Each is more deserving than the others. This is how the society will be saved!
Do you know what happened during the wartime? The base commander saw that some of his division commanders were better than himself. A division commander saw that some of his battalion commanders were better than himself. A battalion commander saw that some of his platoon commanders were better than himself. How was the command carried out at the bottom when it came from the top?! Each one. Row by row. All of them were qualified! You would see the person at an entrenchment had the talent of managing a hundred divisions! The command was easily accepted through to the lowest! The good went up! Each had the merit to be an Imam.
Actually, it has been said about some martyrs at the end of time that each has the ability to direct many cities. If the oppressed don’t want to be oppressed, they should be aware of the process of managing. God wants to turn all of us into real human beings. Yes, then a person will say, “My role is to do this now, although I have the talent to do hundreds of others things.” How enjoyable life will be this way! A person has the talent to manage a hundred things, but Hujjat ibn al-Hasan al-Askari (‘a.j.) has him do a different job. I want to take you secretly close to the Alqamah stream. Aba al-Fazl al-Abbas deserved to be the ruler of the universe, not just the commander of Aba Abdillah al-Husayn’s (‘a) army. The Imam (‘a) said, “My Abbas, bring water.” What will happen! We want to awaken this love within ourselves and train that much talent along with it.
Everyone should have the talent of managing and understand managing. Everyone should be able to talk as a manager and have the capacity to manage! Anyone Imam Mahdi (‘a.j.) wants to use, he can put in charge. Each is more deserving than the others. This is what will save the society! Why hasn’t God said, “I want to make some of you the Imams?” All of you are genteel, managers, governors and commanders.
[From the series of speeches under the topic of “The Last Preparation before the Reappearance of the Saviour, Correcting Management in Family and Society.” Muharram 1441.]
Last year they accused me, “He is leading the youth towards capitalism.” This year they will definitely say, “He is leading the youth towards wanting posts!” They will definitely say this.

Psychological Differences between Men and Women

The psychological differences between men and women have become very clear now! Men look at the whole more. Women look at details more. What is he better for? What is she better for? The psychological differences between men and women have become very clear now! What is he better for? What is she better for?
“The Psychological Differences between Men and Women, Differences in Roles”
Talcott Parsons was a prominent figure in Functionalism. In his analysis, which was about the gender division of labour, he said, “A man being the breadwinner and the leader of the family and the woman being the homemaker is the best model.” I’m not relating this from Islam. Ask him himself why he said this? He continued, “If a woman takes on the role of being the breadwinner, there is the fear that competition with the husband will arise. This situation is very harmful to the unity and balance of the family. In each human system and organization there must be a hierarchy. Having a hierarchy in the family is necessary. One of the members of the family must play an instrumental and commanding role, and manage the family.” He explained that otherwise the family is spiritually thrown out of balance.
Some research has been done on children under the age of five. “The results show that boys have a significantly higher tendency towards social domination than girls do. And, girls have gotten higher scores in social and emotional skills, and in self-regulation. Girls prefer to play in smaller groups. They usually have one very close friend. Boys prefer to play in larger groups. They look at the members of the group equally. In playing, boys prefer to have one role in the group, in which they may end up in conflict with others. However, girls prefer to play together so there won’t be any conflict. Boys prefer to play outside the house. Girls prefer to play and do things in the presence of an adult.” The psychological differences between men and women have become very clear now! A woman’s personality is such that she likes to have a man who is powerful and supportive. These topics are not things, which we need to talk about in the religious meetings and our lectures!
Once, we went on a fieldtrip with Tehran University. All kinds of men and women participated. It wasn’t a religious camp at all. They asked about the differences between men and women in Islam. I said, “You don’t need to talk about the differences between men and women in Islam. Put this aside. Do you yourself understand your differences?” Some said yes and some said no. I said, “Let’s start and practice here.”
One of the questions that I asked was, “Women! Do you like your husbands to listen to you even if they don’t love you?” They said, “No, love is important for us.” I said, “Those who agree raise their hands.” Everyone was looking. All of them rose their hands. Then, I asked the same question from the men. I asked, “Men! Do you like your wives to listen to you even if they don’t love you?” They all said “yes” very bravely! I said, “Those who agree raise their hands.” They did so. All of them started laughing for a few minutes.
What is important for a man is that she obeys him. What is important for a woman is that he likes her! Her heart will break if he doesn’t love her! It is possible that sometimes there is a woman who is…! What should I say?! And sometimes there may be a man who is like a flower! What should I say?!
Sometimes we raise boys like girls, and sometimes we raise girls like boys. The psychological differences between men and women have become very clear now! What is he better for? What is she better for?
[From the series of speeches under the topic of “The Last Preparation before the Reappearance of the Saviour, Correcting Management in Family and Society.”]



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Stand in front of this mirror, look into your own eyes, and think about this...

Do you remember how at work you were looking around in YouTube and checking your Instagram?

When you wanted to sell that appliance, you hid its defects.

When you wanted to buy something, you claimed the product had a flaw to buy it cheaper, but there wasn’t really anything wrong with it.

When you were working from home, you put in less hours every day but said the project took longer.

And many other such cases…

These are small bites you’ve taken one at a time causing you to gradually lose your ability to understand.

You can no longer distinguish who’s right and what’s the truth.

My friend, these have affected you little by little.

You may see that one day the world becomes mixed up like today, and they attack a hospital.

But you don't dare to defend the truth.

You’re still wondering who started the war and who’s right.

Be careful about these seemingly small slips and review your life before it's too late.

On Ashura, when Umar bin Saad prepared his troops to attack Imam Husayn (as), the Imam wanted to say something, but they wouldn’t listen. He said, “You disobey me and don’t listen to my words because your bellies are filled with unlawful sustenance and your hearts are sealed.” [Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 45]

A Feeling, which Cannot Be Found Anywhere Else

One should not only know God. One should drink, taste and feel God. One should use God. One should enjoy Him!
The feeling of a tremble in the hearts of a young man and a woman, who are just getting to know and love each other, creates a beautiful trembling in a person. God has given this feeling to human beings for them to experience it and be able to imagine the feeling of meeting God when worshiping Him. But, if this feeling of a young man and woman, two people from the opposite sexes, getting to know each other, is emotional, pure and loving, it will happen one or two times. More than that, it will end up being debauchery, becoming repetitive or be animosity.
But, that other feeling is always fresh. The feeling of worshiping is the most beautiful and exciting feeling that a man or a woman can experience. If you obey the commands of God for a while, the feeling of worshiping will awaken within you. Instead of saying, “I love you. You are my love,” over time, higher words will be born within you. And, this is the peak of flourishing! Similarly, this sentence, “I worship you,” is something higher than loving.
A child needs the embrace of his or her mother. When a child who is fond of his mother is separated from her, he cries in alarm. The child can’t say, “Mother I love you.” It is something higher than loving. There is no opportunity to say, “I love you.” “Mother I...” Done.
The supplications are all like this. If children want to talk to their parents, they can only say one sentence. They say, “Mom, don’t pout with me.” The supplications are full of these same sentences saying, “God don’t be angry. God don’t punish me with Your punishment.” You won’t reach to the feeling of worshiping Him until you say yes to Him and obey His commands. Do we have something higher than the feeling of worshiping? Yes.
In a meeting, I found the courage to talk about this second feeling. The people who were recording my talks during the 30 nights of the month of Ramadan would say the next day, “Sir. We weren’t able to show your speech last night. If you could not use some of these words, we will be able to show it.” I used to say, “This is my subject! What should I do?!” This is the feeling of being owned, being an “Abd,” and being a servant. And the exact meaning, which all the friends from the media told me not to say, is “being a slave.” “God, I want to be Your slave.” “Abd” means slave! “Abd” means being owned!
The Prophet of God (s) is an Abd. He has an owner. He is for God! He is not allowed to talk about tomorrow unless he says, “InShaAllah (If God wants). If my owner wants.” Being an Abd means you are for Him! He determines when your life finishes. And no one can question Him.
Abd means being owned. He knows what He has or hasn’t given you. Does being an Abd mean I am satisfied with God? I have no right to be satisfied or unsatisfied with God! Who am I to be satisfied, or not? I am His! There is a feeling in a person, like a child who wants to be for his or her parents, that makes a person belong to a Master.
The other side of being an Abd (slave), is being a superpower. God says, “Obey Me so that you can be like Me.” You become like God! You become like God! You become like God! You will be able to say, “Be,” and it is. Everything will be turned upside down with your satisfaction! When you frown or become angered, the universe will be destroyed. You will become like God! “In the seat of honour with a most Powerful King.” (Qur’an 54:55) God says, “With Me! Before Me! You will sit on the seat that I am sitting on!” This is the meaning of Abd (slave).
Who doesn’t like to be an Abd? A person who doesn’t like to become a superpower like God! A person who is satisfied with a little power and carnal enjoyments! A person who doesn’t want to have domination over the universe! Such a person doesn’t need to become an Abd. He is satisfied to be like an animal. The feeling of worshiping means that I cannot not know what is going on in the universe. I cannot not be the moderator of the universe! “In the seat of honour with a most Powerful King.” (Qur’an 54:55) God, I want to sit next to You in the director’s room of the universe. I want to be the assistant director.
Obeying God causes a person to flourish. What happens if a person reaches the peak of flourishing? A person will have the feeling of worshiping. If people have the feeling of worshiping, they will die if they don’t have a Master. A person’s fondness is only for God.
One should not only know God, one should feel Him. You won’t gain the feeling of worshiping until you say yes to Him and obey His commands.

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The essence of all goodness is becoming big.
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Surely we are from God and to Him we shall surely return.” [Qur’an 2:156] We are returning to God. We are going to meet God. “O human beings, surely you must toil toward your Lord a hard toiling, until you meet Him.” [Qur’an 84:6] You are going to reach God and meet Him.
God is big. So before meeting God, you need to become big. The mystics sum up all goodness in one thing, “existential capacity.” Afflictions pull a person and one becomes bigger. The essence of all goodness is becoming big. Who is a bad person? One who only loves himself and not his family. See your family too! Become bigger. Who is a bad person? One who only sees his own family and not other people’s families. Who is a bad person? One who only sees the people of his own nation and not the people of the world. The bigger you become the bigger your soul becomes.
Who is a bad person? One who only sees the present time. Who is a good person. One who sees the future too. Who is a better person? One who sees the Hereafter too. Who is a bad person? One who sees the present. For example, he only sees a few prominent blessings that he is now in need of. Who is a good person? One who sees all the blessings. As you see, in all of these there is a kind of becoming big. You won't find a goodness that doesn’t have becoming big in it.
A person’s effort to become a better person is an effort to expand and make his soul big in terms of time, emotions, intellect, and everything else. “The wisest person is the one who considers the outcomes more.” [Imam Ali, Ghurar al-Hikam, vol. 1, p. 217] Considering outcomes means becoming big. Becoming big is a person’s main need.
Let’s talk about prayer. In praying, why do you say, “God is greater” and not “God is beneficent”? Why don’t you use His other names? Asking for this greatness is a person’s main need. A person who likes to become big, if he tries to become big in a wrong way, he will become arrogant. While he hasn’t yet become big, he thinks he is big. So he is arrogant. So a person’s main need is to become big. And a person’s main fault is to think he is big.
Why do people think they are big? Because these poor people have been created to become big! But they’re in a hurry to become big, so they make a mistake and become arrogant. God wants to make human beings similar to Himself. An infant is unable to eat a heavy meal. His digestive system is not ready for it. When we want to meet God [in the Hereafter], the digestive system of our soul should be in such a way that we are able to taste, see, drink, smell and hear God.
We have to become big. “O human being” this is your certain destiny that “surely you must toil toward your Lord a hard toiling, until you meet Him.” A hard striving is needed! What is the relationship between toiling and meeting God? Toiling makes a person big. It expands a person’s soul and increases his patience. What does expansion of a person’s chest mean? “Have we not expanded your chest?” [Qur’an 94:1] Becoming big is our wish and our main goal. Becoming big exists in all goodness.
Naturally, I like to become big. But I hurry and think I’m big. I hurry and I want to become big in a wrong way. Your soul should become big. A person buys a bigger car and thinks he can
become big in this way, so he is arrogant. If you want to be big because of your car, position and other such things, you are arrogant. You should become big by your soul becoming big. If a person has a big car, if he gains a higher position, or if his wealth increases but his soul is small, these won’t make him big.
Our main request and wish are to become big and to grow. Children too. They constantly say they want to grow up. A child wears grown ups’ shoes and copies their behavior. He constantly says, “I’m grown up.” No one has taught this to him. This is his own wish and it’s in a person’s nature. A person who likes to become big is exposed to two big mistakes. One mistake is if he thinks he is already big, “I’m big!” No, there’s more to go. This is a contest. There are many people ahead of you. You haven’t become big yet! The second one is worse. It’s when a person wishes to become big using a wrong method. Both of these are called arrogance. Since a person’s main need is to become big, he is constantly in danger of becoming arrogant.
Therefore, one should perform the daily prayers for his arrogance to be removed. Do you know what the relationship between arrogance and jealousy is? When a person considers himself to be big, when he wants to be big, he wants to become bigger in a wrong way. When he sees another person is becoming big, he become jealous.

Becoming familiar with some of the sweet concepts of the Sha’baniya Supplication / Session 1

In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful. It is very good before using, reading, thinking or whispering a supplication to God, to become familiar with the supplications’ passage in detail, become aware of its meaning and refer to the expositions on it. In these short opportunities, I will try to briefly discuss some topics to help us become familiar with this supplication. We hope the Almighty God will give us success to get the most use from this supplication.
The “Sha’baniya Supplication” starts with sending salutations on the Holy Prophet (s) and his Pure Household (‘a). According to many recommendations, which everyone has heard, and as has been mentioned in the traditions very much too, each prayer should start with salutations. This prayer has started with salutations too, like many other prayers, which have reached us. In the prayers that do not start with salutations, naturally we should send these salutations ourselves.
There are many reasons for this. I will only say one sentence about this and pass on it. It is as if when a person doesn’t have the Household of the Prophet’s guardianship, their guardianship is not in his heart, and he doesn’t remember these personages with honor, the Almighty God doesn’t hear him, won’t answer his prayer and doesn’t take this person into account. For whoever enters the Judgment Day, his/her ID is following God’s Guardians. In this case too, whoever stands in God’s presence should show his/her ID. This salutation is our identity card. If a person shows this identity card with love and devotion, says, “God, see I’m devoted to the Prophet and his Household,” hasn’t just said the salutations negligently, and has repeated this salutation with fondness, the way will open for him to pray.
In the first phrase, the Commander of the Faithful, Ali (‘a), uses three surprising words. This prayer starts without any introduction. “Hear my prayer when I call You. Hear my voice when I call You. Pay attention to me when I whisper to You.” One of the wonders of this prayer is that it starts without any introduction. This prayer is the words of a person who can’t tolerate anymore! It’s as if he has come a far distance and only wants to moan. He knows that God is waiting to hear his words, but he wants to shout at times, whisper at times and pray at times. “Hear my voice when I call you.” “Nida” means calling with a loud voice. “Pay attention to me when I whisper to You.” “Najwa” means talking in a very low voice. And “Du’a” is used for any kind of calling. Three consecutive words.
It is as if the Commander of the Faithful wants to cry out, “God, I want to talk to You!” He’s showing his insistence to whisper to God, cry out to Him and supplicate Him. He’s not saying others things. He wants, calls and invites God. The next sentence shows this. “I have escaped to You and am standing between Your hands.” “I have escaped to You” means I have escaped and come to You. It gives the same feeling that those three words had. “Hear my prayer. Hear my voice. Pay attention to me when I whisper to You.” It’s as if a person has come running. “I am now standing between Your hands.” “Between Your hands” is a more beautiful and pleasing concept than standing in front of God. It’s as if a little one has taken refuge with a great one and is in his power. This is much more beautiful. Those who are the smaller one before a greater one, and have felt the support of a kind, greater one, can understand this. “I am poor before You and I beseech You.” The Commander of the Faithful (‘a) is only beseeching in this supplication. He is expressing this with different phrases.
He is beseeching in all of his words. These words are not meaningless words for the Commander of the Faithful. These words arise from the depth of his feelings. He wants to cry intensely with these words. We study, review and even think about these words. But, these words have become internalized for the Commander of the Faithful. The Imam is not reading these words from a prayer book. These words are the interpretation of the Imam’s moans.
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