Haj Shaikh Mulla Ali quotes from his father Haj Mirza Khaleel Malharani who says that: In Tehran there lived a person named Ali Talib who worked in a bath-house. He did not offer Prayers (Namaz) nor fasted (Siyam). One day he went to a mason and told him to construct a bathhouse for him, and agreed to offer the payment. The mason asked him as to where he got such a huge sum, to which he replied that it was none of his business. The mason did as ordered, and the bathhouse was built which became famous by his name. Mulla Khaleel further says that: Once when I was in Najaf, I dreamt that Ali Talib was in Wadi-us-Salaam in Najaf. I was surprised and asked him as to how could a person like him who did never ever offer prayers nor fasted be in Wadi-us-Salaam in peace. Ali Talib replied that, “When I died, I was bound in chains and shackles, and was being taken to be punished, when I received news that Haj Mulla Muhammad Kirmanshahi, one of the great Ulama of Tehran, had favoured me by appointing so and so person to perform the Pilgrimage (Haj) on my behalf, so and so person do perform my elapsed Prayers (Namaz) and Fasts (Siyam), and so and so person to pay the (Zakat) and atonement of rights (Radde Mazalim) on my behalf. He left no due pending on me, and thus I was freed of the punishment. May Allah have mercy on him.” Mulla Khaleel Malharani says: I awoke from my sleep and was astonished. After some days a group of people came to visit Najaf from Tehran. I asked them about Ali Talib. They said that he had died, and Mulla Muhammad Kirmanshahi had appointed so and so persons to pray, fast, perform Haj, and give Zakat and Radde Mazalim on his behalf. The names of all the persons mentioned by them were the same as told to me in the dream by Ali Talib. This incident is in accordance to the tradition which says that whatever good-deeds are performed on behalf of the dead person, surely benefits him. It is possible that sometimes a dead person faces troubles and difficulties, but such good deeds performed by others on his behalf, relieve him. It is also demonstrated through the above incident that any believer (mo’min) who dies in the east or in the west, his spirit (rooh) is taken to Wadi-us-Salaam. It is also narrated by Ma’soom (a.s.) that it is “as if I see the group of dead people conversing with one another.”
The True Deam
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