💌 The author of Sulook with One’s Spouse recounts:
🔸️ Before I started a family and got married, my daily routine was generally to visit the holy shrine of Lady Fatima al-Ma‘suma (peace be upon her) early in the morning. After completing my devotional and academic activities, I would wait for the return of the Gnostic jurist, Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat (may God sanctify his soul), from the shrine to his home, so that I could ask him my questions and benefit from his ethical guidance. This practice brought with it many blessings and positive effects.
🔹️ I continued this routine even after getting married, until one day that great, insightful mystic unexpectedly said to me:
🍃 From this question and advice of that spiritually accomplished sage, I understood that there was a deeper meaning behind his words. There was a knot in my affairs that this sharp-sighted man of God wanted to untie and a form of heedlessness he wanted to dispel.
He wanted me—this humble servant, trapped in my own illusions and imaginings—to understand that the way I had lived before marriage had to change after marriage, in such a way that none of the many rights of my life partner would be neglected or violated.
🔸️ After returning home, I spoke with my wife and asked for her thoughts. I realized that she had developed some resentment in her heart because she spent most of her days and nights alone, away from her relatives and loved ones, yet she had never expressed it.
And it is precisely these accumulated resentments and the neglect of people’s rights that become thorns on the path of spiritual journeying. They prevent a person from attaining spiritual benefits and lifting the veils that stand between the servant and God, while diminishing the blessings and fruits of one's intellectual and practical efforts.
📚 Source: Sulook with One’s Spouse, pp. 17–18
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🔸️ Before I started a family and got married, my daily routine was generally to visit the holy shrine of Lady Fatima al-Ma‘suma (peace be upon her) early in the morning. After completing my devotional and academic activities, I would wait for the return of the Gnostic jurist, Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat (may God sanctify his soul), from the shrine to his home, so that I could ask him my questions and benefit from his ethical guidance. This practice brought with it many blessings and positive effects.
🔹️ I continued this routine even after getting married, until one day that great, insightful mystic unexpectedly said to me:
“It would not be a bad idea if, on some days, you did not attend your lessons and instead devoted your time to your family. The late Muzzafar (Allamah Muzzafar) would sometimes not attend his lessons; in the evenings, he would visit his friends and benefit from their writings.”
🍃 From this question and advice of that spiritually accomplished sage, I understood that there was a deeper meaning behind his words. There was a knot in my affairs that this sharp-sighted man of God wanted to untie and a form of heedlessness he wanted to dispel.
He wanted me—this humble servant, trapped in my own illusions and imaginings—to understand that the way I had lived before marriage had to change after marriage, in such a way that none of the many rights of my life partner would be neglected or violated.
🔸️ After returning home, I spoke with my wife and asked for her thoughts. I realized that she had developed some resentment in her heart because she spent most of her days and nights alone, away from her relatives and loved ones, yet she had never expressed it.
And it is precisely these accumulated resentments and the neglect of people’s rights that become thorns on the path of spiritual journeying. They prevent a person from attaining spiritual benefits and lifting the veils that stand between the servant and God, while diminishing the blessings and fruits of one's intellectual and practical efforts.
📚 Source: Sulook with One’s Spouse, pp. 17–18
#Sulook_With_One’s_Spouse
🌺 https://eitaa.com/solok_shieh/14576
🆔 @rahyafte_en