Sayyid Ahmad Al-Hasan Al-Yamani a.s. on some of the verses of Al-Fatiha:::{It is You we worship and You we ask for help.} We worship you, alone, by Your Might and Your Strength, thus, nothing remains for us except that we have chosen Your worship. And if this choice is by Your preference and Your success, thus, is there anything remaining for us from this matter?! And this servant is not afraid of being overtaken nor is he hesitant, so [let] Nimrod throw him in the fire, for verily it [the fire] will be cool and peaceful, and [let] Pharaoh gather his army, for the Qalzam Sea (The Red Sea) will swallow them. However, to be a faithful servant of Allah, until the last moments of his life, he needs Divine support, and assistance and success. ______________________________ [1] The Holy Qur’an Surat Ash-Shu`arā’ (The Poets): 54 & 55 [1] The Holy Qur’an Surat Ţāhā (Ta-Ha): 71 {It is You we worship and You we ask for help.}, and how is it that You are not present, while You are closer to the people than the jugular vein [1]. In this verse the pronoun of the present [and] witnessing addressee ([a term in arabic grammar]), and is it possible to worship the absent, or request assistance from the absent, “Worship Allah as if you see Him, for even if you do not see Him, surely, He sees you.” [2]. And what am I and what is my existence?! And have I been risen by anything except You?! And this Earth and the Sun and the Moon… and the stars and the trees… and the rain are all glorifying in Your love. And they sing… blinded is that eye that does not see You. As for the plural [form] of: we worship, and we seek assistance; it is because verily we are the party of Allah, and because indeed we are as one body, it is sufficient that one of us speaks by the name of the entire group, for we are one heart, just as every individual in this divine group does not see himself, rather, he sees the group working [together] to uphold the Word of Allah on His Earth. * * * Completion If the servant chooses Allah, the Glorious, the Almighty, and worships Him, and submits to His Successor on His Earth, and disbelieves in the tyrant, and works on removing his devilish states, then he has to complete this worship and obedience which is the origin of many branches, and that is the worships and conduct/behavior/manners, from praying and fasting, and paying the alms tax (zakat), and enjoining that which is lawful and forbidding that which is unlawful, and accepting the rulings of Allah and His laws in trade, and in the economy and [in] gatherings, and war, and peace and politics in general. The Almighty said: {To Him ascends good speech, and righteous work raises it.} [3]. ______________________________ [1] Refer to His, the Almighty, saying: {And We have already created man and know what his soul whispers to him, and We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein} – The Holy Qur’an Surat Qāf (The Letter “Qaf”): 16 [2] Al Mahasan: V. 1, P. 3. Al Kafi: V. 2, P. 68, the Door Fear and Hope: Hadith No. 2. Thawab Al A3mal: 147. [3] The Holy Qur’an Surat Fāţir (Originator): 10 Rather, upon the servant is that he delivers these divine laws to the people, and works with all of his might upon applying it [the divine laws] and admitting to it among the Muslim Community, in the very least. And as such his soul and every organ in his body utters: It is You we worship and You we ask for help, By true belief and righteous works not by the tongue only. And perhaps many utter: “It is You we worship and You we ask for help”, however, by their tongues [only] while they worship their desires, and submit to the tyrant and worship him when they obey his commands and his prohibitions and his devilish laws, which, Allah has not sent down with authority, and those are cursed by these Noble words: “How many whom read the Qur’an while the Qur’an curses them.” [1]. * * * {Guide us to the straight path -} After the human being has decided that he shall become a servant of Allah and a member of the members of the party of Allah, the Glorious, the Almighty, and what follows this decision from obeying the Successor of Allah on His Earth, and accepting the laws of Allah and His Supremacy, and working on implementing/admitting to the divine jurisprudence and the divine ruling on the Earth, and bearing the hardships, which, he shall receive from the tyrants and their servants, whom represent the party of Satan which opposes the party of Allah. Upon him is that he knows who is the Successor of Allah, and what is the divine jurisprudence and the right beliefs, then he works to obey this Successor and to implement the jurisprudence, and this is the path that leads towards Allah, the Glorious, the Almighty, for verily, He, the Glorious, is the truth and this is the truth. And perhaps, I shall say that this path is the shortest path the human being knows: {and We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein} [2], however, we stumble by our works and our ill-intentions, and accept/are satisfied with ignorance and incompleteness of the mind. And upon every situation I say: that what is required, for whoever chooses that he shall be a servant of Allah, is knowledge and knowing firstly [and before anything], then working and implementing. And from where shall he receive this knowledge? And from where shall he receive success in order to work by it? And for this came the call: “Guide us to the straight path”. ______________________________ [1] Bihar Al Anwar: V. 89, P. 185. [2] The Holy Qur’an Surat Qāf (The Letter “Qaf”): 16 Guide us O Allah! O Perfect/O Complete! {All Praise be to Allah}, Guide us O Lord of the Worlds! O He Who raises/disciplines creation! O He Whom completes/perfects them {Lord of the Worlds}! Guide us O Most Merciful of those whom show mercy, by the vastness of Your Mercy which encompasses all things, [Your Mercy even encompasses] those who do not know you and those who do not ask You. And by Your Extreme/Intense Mercy, by which You accepted the magicians after they were Your enemies {the Merciful, the Intensely Merciful}, Guide us! For we live in Your Kingdom, which has been usurped, by the oppressors and the party of Satan, from Your Successor and Your party {King of the day of Recompense}. Guide us O Who we have chosen Your worship and to join Your party, by Your Assistance, and Your Might, and Your Strength {It is You we worship and You we ask for help}, Guide us to knowing Your Successor and Your Jurisprudence! And Guide us to his obedience and working by the jurisprudence: {Guide us to the straight path}. Guide us! Make us know! And grant us success! Fulfill our shortages and take care of our provisions. And the path (Al-Sirat): swallows very quickly, and [Al-Sirat] has been named by this path for as [soon as] you place your foot down in the beginning [of the path] while having a pure intention towards Allah, you find yourself having reached towards the end of it. And this is what has been reported from them (pbut), that some of the believers shall pass upon the [straight] path like the snap of lightening [1], and reported from Amir al-Mu’minin (pbuh) in Nahj al-Balagha (The Peak of Eloquence): “And lighting which has a great shining to it, so it lit the path for him and he walked on the path by it, and the doors pushed him towards the door of peace and residence of Abode.” [2]. The straight which takes us towards You in the path of repentance and returning from the materialistic/physical world towards the world of the mind, passing through the Kingdoms of Heavens. And we are, in all of these Worlds, poor and begging for Your Overflow [of Sustenance] and Your Generosity. And we fortify ourselves with You from the evil of Your creation in the World of the Plural and the World of Contradictions, The World of the Ownership/Kingship and the Kingdoms [of Heavens], or the Physical World and the World of Images. And we hold [tight] to You in the World of the Mind and Absolute. For our example is as the blind [one] when he wishes to cross the path, he needs someone to hold his wrist and deliver him to the other side. Furthermore, we require Your Assistance, and Your Support always and forever, from the World of the Truth which is forbidden for Your Creation. Amir al-Mu’minin (pbuh) said that which means: “If one is afraid he should say: I have fortified myself with the [owner] of Ownership/Kingship and the Kingdoms[of Heavens], and I have held tight to [the owner] of Ability and Might, and I have sought help by [the owner] of Glory and the Divine from all that which I fear and all that which I ______________________________ [1] Manaqab Ale Abi Talib (pbuh): V. 2, P. 7. Bihar Al Anwar: V. 8, P. 67. [2] Nahj Al Balagha: V. 2, P. 203, Bihar Al Anwar: V. 66, P. 316. am cautious of, and by Muhammad and Ali and Fatima and Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein and Ali and Muhammad and Ja’afar and Musa and Ali and Muhammad and Ali and Al-Hassan and Muhammad, peace be upon them” [1]. * * * {The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor} The truth is that there are two paths: the path to Allah, and the path to Hell, in [coming] close and in [going] far [away], or say, in coming forth and in going away. And the path to Allah is “The Straight Path”. And the prior request for guidance – meaning: Guide us to the Straight Path – requires this specialization/specification, meaning, that it is the path of those upon whom Allah has bestowed favor, and that is because the path in the World of Particles (The World of Ownership/Kingship and the World of Kingdoms of the Heavens) is many ways/roads. And guidance towards some of it could appear as being guidance towards the straight path, even if it was a partial guidance. However, determining the path, as being the path of the Prophets (pbut), [that is because] they are whom favor has been bestowed upon, the Almighty said: {And whoever obeys Allah and the Messenger – those will be with the ones upon whom Allah has bestowed favor of the prophets, the steadfast affirmers of truth, the martyrs and the righteous. And excellent are those as companions.} [2]. Meaning, requesting guidance towards all the ways of peace, or the straight path in [both] this physical world (The World of Ownership/Kingship) and [in] the Kingdoms of the Heavens, and consequently, reaching the completion of the mind and the highest degrees of closeness to Him, the Glorious, which the human being could possibly reach. Said the Almighty: {And those who strive for Us – We will surely guide them to Our ways. And indeed, Allah is with the doers of good.} [3]. And said the Almighty: {There has come to you from Allah a light and a clear Book. * By which Allah guides those who pursue His pleasure to the ways of peace and brings them out from darknesses into the light, by His permission, and guides them to a straight path.} [4]. ______________________________ [1] Refer to: Al Zam Al Nasib: V. 2, P. 218. Mashariq Anwar Al Yaqin: P. 267. [2] The Holy Qur’an Surat An-Nisā’ (The Women): 69 [3] The Holy Qur’an Surat Al-`Ankabūt (The Spider): 69 [4] The Holy Qur’an Surat Al-Mā’idah (The Table Spread): 15 & 16 Also the request to avoid the path to Hell, and it is the path of those whom [Allah] has invoked His Anger upon in The Worlds of Ownership/Kingship (this physical world) and the Kingdoms of the Heavens, means a request to avoid the way of ignorance and its soldiers, the Almighty said: {And the covenant of Allah fulfill. This has He instructed you that you may remember. * And, [moreover], this is My path, which is straight, so follow it; and do not follow [other] ways, for you will be separated from His way. This has He instructed you that you may become righteous.} [1]. Since there is great danger in the encompassing of the self of some of the soldiers of ignorance, even if the human is guided towards some of the ways of the straight path. For example: Islam is a way from the ways of the straight path, and faith is a way, and Wilayah is a way, and true belief is a way, and Fiqh (Jurisprudence) and knowledge is a way, and work is a way, and sincerity/dedication is a way. And beside these ways, the human being becomes exposed to desire, and the self, and Satan, and the ornaments of the world: {[Satan] said, “Because You have put me in error, I will surely sit in wait for them on Your straight path. * Then I will come to them from before them and from behind them and on their right and on their left, and You will not find most of them grateful [to You].”} [2]. And narrated from the people of the house of Infallibility (Ahlul Bayt (pbut)) that which means: the path which You have bestowed favor upon, meaning: by the favor of work and sincerity/dedication. And in short, the favor of the pure/complete religion, for to Allah is the pure/complete religion. And in this verse – meaning: {The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor,} – is returning to praising Allah, the Glorious, and thankfulness to Him and the admission to His Preference, and that is because the servant in it (the recitation) considers his worship and his obedience to Allah a blessing from the blessings of Allah, and any blessing and preference is from Allah and is there a greater blessing? And the request of guidance here is upon ranks, the lowest of which is knowing this path even [knowing it] generally, walking upon it. For verily, if [the human being] reaches by the preference of Allah, and [by] His Mercy towards these Holy High Ranks, then indeed he is among those whom Allah has bestowed favor upon, and he is from among those who has reached to them goodness from Allah. And if he walks upon this path by being guided towards some of His ways (the ways of Peace), he would be among those whom wanted to obey Allah and His Messenger, meaning, in our time obedience to Imam Al Mahdi (pbuh). And even if he was overcome by some of the [soldiers] of ignorance and darkness, which his self encompassed in some of the times. ______________________________ [1] The Holy Qur’an Surat Al-’An`ām (The Cattle): 152 & 153 [2] The Holy Qur’an Surat Al-’A`rāf (The Heights): 16 & 17 So he stumbles over this rock, and plunges into these holes, but nevertheless he rises and begins a new beginning. Thus, the example of this servant, perhaps Mercy has caught up with him, then he will be with those whom Allah has bestowed favor upon and not from them, {those will be with the ones upon whom Allah has bestowed favor} [1], and Praise be to Allah, Alone. * * * {not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray.} And they are divided into two groups opposing the people of truth, for the people are of three [types]: From them: are those whom seek the truth and find it. And from them: are those whom seek falsehood and find it. And from them: are those whom seek the truth and commit an error in finding it And it can not be imagined that someone can be seeking falsehood and [accidentally] finds Truth, for finding the Truth requires pure intention. And upon any situation, those whom have sought the truth and found it, they: are the people of truth, or those who have been guided towards the straight path. And those who have sought falsehood and found it, they are: those who have evoked [Allahs] anger upon them. And those who have sought truth and committed error in finding it, they are those who are astray. And applying ‘those whom have evoked [Allahs] anger upon them (Al-Maghdoub ‘Alayhim)’ upon the Jews, and ‘those whom are astray (Al Dhaleen)’ upon the Christians, is not always correct. For it may be applied upon a certain group from among them in a certain time. For when Jesus (pbuh) was sent a group of Jews refused to recognize him as the Successor of Allah on His Earth and as a Prophet, and they disbelieved in him. And those Jews are those whom have evoked [Allahs] anger upon them. And there was a group of Jews who accepted [and believed] in Jesus, however, they believed in him [to be] other than the Truth, so they went astray. And perhaps the reason for their misguidance, even though they were seeking the truth, is due to a disease within their selves which prevented them from accepting the truth, after having reached towards the party of truth which is connecting to it, and those are the ones whom are astray. ______________________________ [1] The Holy Qur’an Surat An-Nisā’ (The Women): 69 As for today, the condition of the Jews and the Christians is different; look towards what they seek, and perhaps, I shall not hesitate in saying that most of them seek falsehood, and they have plunged into the ways of error, and tyranny, and oppression, and moral corruption, and made permissible what Allah has forbidden, and these, of course, have evoked [Allahs] anger upon them, whether they were Jews or Christians. And from here, Limiting the Qur’anic understanding to a certain truth/example in the exterior is an assassination attempt to the Qur’an, for the benefit of Iblis and his soldiers from among the tyrants and from among the proud/arrogant ones, who do not believe in the day of judgement. And perhaps the more rightful in this time and in the Muslim Countries, to apply to them ‘those whom have evoked [Allahs] anger upon them (Al Maghdoub)’ are the tyrants and their supporters. So ponder over the matter of this [person] who claims to be Muslim while he is assisting the tyrants, whom are fighting the Islamic Muhammadin Jurisprudence, and are implementing the man-made laws of Satan. Also you find the likes of he whom is a spear in the hand of Satan, he recites Qunut (makes Dua/supplicates), and he prays, and he reads Surat Al-Fātiĥah while saying at the end of it: ‘O God! Spare us from the path of those whom have evoked [Your] anger upon them’, even though he works in the night and the day to become of those whom have evoked [Allahs] anger upon them, and he knows he is walking the path to Hell. {And they rejected them, while their [inner] selves were convinced thereof,} [1]. * * * ______________________________ [1] The Holy Qur’an Surat An-Naml (The Ant): 14
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