It is a month of adopting the etiquette of Allāh (SwT) in...

It is a month of adopting the etiquette of Allāh (SwT) in the language of tradition or adopting the Divine Color in the language of the Holy Qur’ān. The Holy Qur’ān says: صِبْغَةَ اللٌّهِ وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ مِنَ اللٌّهِ صِبْغَةً وَنَحْنُ لَهُ عَابِدُونَ “ Allāh’s Color; and whose color is more pleasant than Allāh’s; and He alone do we worship .[^6]” And the Holy Prophet (s) is reported to have said: تَخَلَّقُوا بِأَخْلاَقِ اللٌّهِ.

‘Allāmah Tabā’tabā’ī, the mentor of leading contemporary authorities in ‘irfān , would highly emphasize on reading this du‘ā , ‘for,’ he would say, ‘there is no mention of Paradisal men or women in it.’ Observe the following verses of this radiant supplication: أَللٌّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ بَهَائِكَ بِأَبْهَاهُ وَكُلُّ بَهَائِكَ بَهِيٌّ… أَللٌّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ عَظَمَتِكَ بِأَعْظَمِهَا وَكُلُّ عَظَمَتِكَ عَظِيمَةٌ، أللٌّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِعَظَمَتِكَ كُلِّهَا… “O Allāh I seek from You the kind of Your Brilliance ( bahā’ikā ) which is the Most Brilliant, and every Brilliance of Yours is Very Brilliant; O Allāh I ask You by Your Brilliance in its entirety….O Allāh I seek from You the kind of Your Greatness which is the Greatest, and every Greatness of Yours is very Great; O Allāh I ask You by Your Greatness in its entirety…”[^8] The contemporary mystic-scholar Ayatullāh Hasan Zādeh Amuli in his treatise ‘ Light upon Light ’ while enumerating the requirements of observing good manners in front of Almighty Allāh, says: دگر ادب مع اللّه اقتضاء مي‏كند كه از او جز او را نخواهي كه اين عبادت احباب و احرار است.