🔹 Alast is the day when God created the spirits, long before He created the physical universe, heavens and the earth.
On that day God asked:
أَلَسْتُ بِرَبِّکُمْ؛
“Am I not your Lord?”
قالُوا بَلی
They all replied “Yes”
🔹 Everyone said yes. But not all of them said yes from the bottom of their hearts. Some did not truly mean their Yes. for them, this ‘yes’ was a painful condition to accept.
🔸 What percentage of students go to school and do homework out of pure love for learning? This is comparable with the story creation. But then, why do the students still go to school? Because there are benefits in it; acquiring knowledge, societal acceptance, employment, marriage, and more. Likewise, the creation also had it’s own advantage: “To Be Existing”
🔹 God stated that the condition for existence is accepting His guardianship, with His chosen honorable individuals as deputies on earth. Everyone agreed and said Yes. Some said it out of self-interest, but some said yes wholeheartedly. Some thought by themselves”Let’s say Yes for now and just move forward, once we’re created, we will do what we want. we’ll shape our own paths”
🔸 The first one whose ‘Yes’ turned out to be a lie was Satan. Where did this occur? Right where he was tested. The first one who became a disbeliever of this guardianship was not Satan, rather Satan was the first one whose disbelief was exposed. We read in the Quran that Satan:
كَانَ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ؛
Was among the disbelievers (plural)
🔸 He was among the disbelievers.” Meaning there were other disbelievers too
🔹 Now, through the creation, disbeliefs are exposed. This is why we do not remember that day, and if we do recall it, we practice hypocrisy in this life too.
Lecture by Master Raefipour
Explanation of the Ziyarah Aale- Yasin – Episode 2, 2018, Iran
قال رسول الله (ص):
خَلَقَ اللَّهُ الْأَرْوَاحَ قَبْلَ الْأَجْسَادِ بِأَلْفَيْ عَامٍ، ثُمَّ أَسْكَنَهَا الْهَوَاءَ، فَمَا تَعَارَفَ مِنْهَا ثَمَّ، ائْتَلَفَ هَاهُنَا؛ وَ مَا تَنَاكَرَ ثَمَّ، اخْتَلَفَ هَاهُنَا.
Prophet Muhammad PBUH said:
God created the souls two thousand years before the bodies. Then He placed them in the air. The souls that were in harmony there are in harmony here as well, and those who were in conflict there, remain in conflict here too.
Bihar al-Anwar, Volume 58, Page 132
The Unseen Agreement: How Our Souls Chose Before We Were Born
The Day of Alast is not a day on a calendar. It is the moment before moments, when God gathered every soul He would ever create and asked them a question that would shape eternity:
“Am I not your Lord?”
Everyone said “Yes.” But not everyone meant it.
1. The Two Kinds of “Yes”
Imagine two students in a classroom:
- The first loves learning. She raises her hand eagerly, hungry to understand.
- The second slumps in his seat. He mumbles answers, not for love of knowledge, but to avoid trouble.
At Alast, souls were like those students. Some answered God with their entire being, like a flower turning to the sun. Others said “Yes” the way we agree to terms we don’t read—to get what they want (existence), but with no intention of keeping their word.
This is why hypocrisy exists today: it began as a whispered lie in that pre-world realm.
The Covenant of Alast: A Mirror Held to the Soul’s Primordial Truth
(Beyond Time, Beyond Form, Beyond the Illusion of Self)
2. The First Hypocrite: A Warning Written in Fire
Satan was not the first to doubt God. He was the first to act on his doubt. At Alast, he said “Yes” with his voice but “No” in his heart. His rebellion later—refusing to bow to Adam—was just the explosion of a bomb he’d already built.
This is the danger of empty words:
- A man who prays loudly in public but cheats in private.
- A leader who preaches justice but hoards power.
- You, when you promise to change but cling to old habits.
Hypocrisy isn’t just lying to others. It’s lying to yourself about who you agreed to be.
3. Why the Day of Alast Is Still a Mystery
If you recalled standing before God at Alast, life would be no test at all. Imagine taking an exam while holding the answer key—where’s the struggle? The growth?
Forgetting is a gift. It lets your choices here—raw and unscripted—reveal what your soul truly wanted when it answered “Yes.”
- When you help someone secretly, that’s your Alast “Yes” shining.
- When you gossip or hurt others, that’s the hypocrite’s shadow.
Life isn’t about being perfect. It’s about seeing the gap between your soul’s oath and your actions—and closing it.
5. How to Live Your “Yes”
The test is simple but relentless:
- When you’re angry, your “Yes” is choosing patience.
- When you’re tempted, your “Yes” is walking away.
- When no one is watching, your “Yes” is doing good anyway.
Satan’s mistake was thinking he could cheat the system—say “Yes” to exist, then live for himself. But existence is the contract. To breathe is to agree to its terms.
The Final Question
You won’t remember Alast until you die. But every day, you answer God’s question anew:
“Am I not your Lord?”
How you live—not how you pray, not what you claim—is your real reply.
The hypocrite’s “Yes” fades like ink in rain. The sincere “Yes”? It becomes your bones, your breath, your unshakable truth.
Choose your answer wisely. The universe is listening.
Prophetic Speech
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The fitrah (divine essence) in all of us
our primordial human nature that leads us to tolerance
