Miracles of Ziyarat Ashura
Ayatullah Najafi Kochani an extremely devout scholar of his time, was one of Mulla Akhund Khorasani’s most distinguished students.
The former has mentioned a dream he saw during his days in the Hauze Ilmiyya in Isfahan. He saw death in the guise of a calf. It was enveloped by three to four children. These children were gilding over my house, until one of them sat on the wall of my house. This dream was most fascinating.
Ayatullah Najafi to seek its interpretation wrote a letter to his father explaining the entire dream. In the end he requested his father to reply as soon as possible, regarding his health, so that he could rest assured. Ayatullah Najafi’s letter was still in transit, when he received a letter from his father. His father had written: ‘Your mother has departed from this transient world for her eternal abode. For the Ziyarat of Imam Husayn (a.s.), she had a incurred a debt of twelve tuman, which now with interest has compounded to eighty tuman.’
Ayatullah Najafi writes that his father was so poor, that even if he had gathered all means at his disposal he would never be absolved from that debt. At that moment I pledged that I would recite Ziyarat Ashura in the mosque of Isfahan for Forty days to secure respite for my father. I used to begin my recitation two hours before zavaal and complete it just before zavaal.
I performed this routine for forty days. I beseeched Allah for the exemption of my father’s debts and also sought two other requests. Regarding my first request, I implored Allah for the position of a Mujtahid. And as for my second, I entreated Allah not to deprive me of intercession the Day of Judgement.
I had not even completed the recitation of Ziyarat for a month, when I received another letter from my father. He informed me about having been relieved from his debt.
Miracles of Ziyarat e Ashura – P.E.T Publications