Ghaibat Tusi: It is narrated from Abul Husain Muhammad bin Ja’farAsadi that he said: Narrated to me Hasan bin Muhammad bin Aamir Ashari Qummithat he said: Narrated to me Yaqub bin Yusuf Zarrab Ghassani on his return fromIsfahan that:
“I performed Hajj with some Sunni of my town in 281 A.H. When wereached Mecca, one of our companions took for us a house on rent in theSauqul Lail street. It was a fortunate chance that the house was a property ofUmmul Momineen Lady Khadija (s.a.) and which was now known as DarulReza and was occupied an old lady. When I came to know that the house wascalled Darul Reza, I asked that old lady how she was related to the owner ofthe house and why it was called Darul Reza?
She said: I am one of the slave girls of the owner of the house and thishouse belongs to Ali Ibne Musa Reza (a.s.). Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.) hasaccommodated me in it, because I have remained his service.
When I heard this, I was impressed by that old lady, but I did not disclose it to my Sunni friends. Whenever I used to return from Tawaf at night, I used to sleep in the verandah with them. We used to close the door and also place a huge stone behind it. One night I saw a lamp in the verandah where we slept. Then I saw the door being opened automatically and a medium stature, wheat complexion and physically fit young man who had a mark of prostration, wearing a shirt, a wrap and wearing shoes without socks, enter and ascend to the attic occupied by the old lady. She had told us not to go up, as her daughter lived there.
When the man went to the attic, I noticed that the light that was presentin the verandah had now reached the attic. My friends also noted this and they thought that the man was visiting the daughter of that old lady and it seemed as if he had done a Mutah marriage with her. And that this Alawite lady considered it lawful, ‘although it was not so’.
Thus we saw that man regularly, but when we checked the door, wefound it closed and the stone was also intact.
I became curious and I decided to ask the old lady about that man.
One day I said: O so-and-so, I want to ask you something in private, but Idon’t get a chance as others are also present. So when you notice that I amalone, you should come down from the attic.
She also said: I also want to speak to you in private, but I don’t get achance.
I asked: What do you want to talk to me about?
She said: See, don’t mention this to anyone; he has told you not to fightwith your companions and associates.
I asked: Who has told this?
She replied: I say it.
Since I was suspicious from before, I did not dare to ask anything else. Ijust asked what she meant by companions? (I was thinking that she wasimplying my present companions.). But she said: The companions who livewith you in your house in your town. (and the fact was that I had regularcontroversies with them about religious matters).
So they complained about me and I ran away from there and went intohiding and now I understood that she was talking about them.
I asked: What is your concern with Imam Ali Reza (a.s.)? She said: I am the maid of Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.).
When I became certain that she was connected to that family, I asked herabout the hidden Imam and said: I adjure you, please tell me if you havereally seen him yourself. She said: Although I have never seen him myself,because when I had left that place, my sister was pregnant. But Imam HasanAskari (a.s.) had given me the glad tiding that I will see the hidden Imam atthe end of my life that I will be to him same as I was to Imam Hasan Askari(a.s.).
Then she said: At present I live in Egypt, and I have come here becausehe sent a letter and thirty dinars to me with a Khurasani man unfamiliar withArabic, and asked me to perform the Hajj. I came here hoping to see him aswell.
Now I became sure that the man who frequented the attic was the Imam of the time. I took out the ten dirhams from which six were reserved from
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Imam Zamana (a.s.). I had initially vowed to put them at Maqam Ibrahim butlater I thought that the best way was to spend them on the descendants ofLady Fatima (s.a.).
So I gave the ten dirhams to that lady and said: Give them to one who inyour view is most deserving from the descendants of Lady Fatima (s.a.). I was expecting that she would give to the man who visited her place regularly.
She took the money to the attic and returned after sometime and said: Iam not entitled to take it, you may put it where you had vowed to. Althoughyou can take change it from dirham Razavia into another currency and put it there. (I did that and said to myself that whatever you have been ordered wasfrom that gentleman only.)
Then I also had a copy of an epistle, which came from Qasim bin Alaa in Azerbaijan. I said to that lady: Show this copy to him, he definitely would befamiliar with the writings of Imam Zamana (a.s.).
She said: Give it, I am familiar with it.
I showed it her and was thinking that perhaps she will be able to read it. She said: I cannot read it here.
Then she took it upstairs and then came down after sometime and said:Yes, it is correct. And I also have some good news to you, which is beneficial to you and also beneficial to others as well.
After that the lady said: He is asking how you invoke blessings on yourProphet?
I replied: I do it as follows: Allaahumma Salli alaa Muhammad wa AaliMuhammad wa Baarik Alaa Muhammad wa Aali Muhammad ka Afzali maa Sallaita wa baarakta wa tarahamta alaa Ibrahima wa aali Ibrahima innaka hameedum Majeed.(O Allah, bless Muhammad and the progeny ofMuhammad and sanctify Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad with the best of the blessings with which You bless and sanctify Ibrahim and theprogeny of Ibrahim. Indeed You are the praised one and the majestic.)
She said: No, but when you invoke blessings, you should mention eachname separately. I said: All right.
The next day when she came down, she had a small chit with her.
She said: He says: When you invoke blessings on your Prophet, youshould do so according to this formula.
I accepted the note and began to act accordingly. Then on many nights Isaw him descend from the attic and the light accompanied him. I used to open the door and follow the light. But I could only see a light and that person did not become visible to me, till he reached the courtyard of the Kaaba. I also saw people of various countries visit the house and hand over their requests to that old lady. And I also saw that she used to return them to applicants along with their replies and spoke to them in a language, which I could not understand. I also met some of them on way back home till I reached Baghdad.
The Durood which was written by Imam Zamana (a.s.) for me is asfollows:
“In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. O Allah, blessMuhammad who is the chief of the messengers and the proof of the Lord of world. Who was selected on the day of the covenant, who is the chosen andthe selected one from the shaded springs. Purified from every trouble,immune from every defect, hopeful for salvation and the one havingdiscretion of intercession in the religion of Allah.
O Allah accord honor to the edifice of his religion and grant respect tothose evidences and give salvation to his proof, and exalt his status. Illuminehis effulgence further and make his face more illuminated and increase hismerits. And also increase his honor and raise up the effectiveness of hisintercession and make his position the praised one, that the formers and thelatters may envy.
And bless Amirul Momineen Ali Ibne Abi Talib (a.s.) and the successorof the divine messengers and the one who had a brilliant countenance and theleader of the worshippers and the chief of the successors and the proof of theLord of the worlds.
And bless Hasan bin Ali, Imam of the believers, successor of themessengers and proof of the Lord of the worlds. And bless Husain bin Ali, Imam of the believers, successor of themessengers and proof of the Lord of the worlds.
And bless Ali Ibnul Husain, Imam of the believers, successor of themessengers and proof of the Lord of the worlds.
And bless Muhammad Ibne Ali, Imam of the believers, successor of themessengers and proof of the Lord of the worlds.
And bless Ja’far Ibne Muhammad, Imam of the believers, successor ofthe messengers and proof of the Lord of the worlds.
And bless Musa Ibne Ja’far, Imam of the believers, successor of themessengers and proof of the Lord of the worlds.
And bless Ali Ibne Musa, Imam of the believers, successor of themessengers and proof of the Lord of the worlds.
And bless Muhammad Ibne Ali, Imam of the believers, successor of themessengers and proof of the Lord of the worlds.
And bless Ali Ibne Muhammad, Imam of the believers, successor of themessengers and proof of the Lord of the worlds.
And bless Hasan Ibne Ali, Imam of the believers, successor of themessengers and proof of the Lord of the worlds.
And bless Khalaf Salih (righteous successor), the guide and the guided, Imam of the believers, successor of the messengers and proof of the Lord ofthe worlds.
O Allah bless Muhammad and his Ahle Bayt (a.s.), the guiding Imamsand guided ones, the truthful learned, the righteous and pious, supports ofYour religion, pillars of Your Oneness, interpreters of Your revelation, Yourproofs on Your creatures and Your representatives on Your earth, whom Youhave chosen for Yourself, and selected them from Your servants, satisfiedthem with Your religion, specialized them with Your recognition, bestowedthem with Your nobility, humbled them with Your mercy, fed them withYour blessing, nourished them with Your wisdom, dressed them up in Yourlight, raised them with Your kingdom, surrounded them with Your angels,honored them with Your Prophet. O Allah bless Muhammad and exceeding blessings be upon them,
eternal, pure, no one is surrounded with it except You and none canencompass it except Your knowledge and no one can encompass it other thanYou.
O Allah bless Your Wali, enlivener of Your Sunnah, establisher of Your command, caller towards You, proof upon You and proof on Your creatures,Your caliph on Your earth and witness on Your servants.
O Allah exalt his help, increase his lifespan, and embellish the earth byincreasing his survival. O Allah suffice him from the greed of the jealous,protect him from the mischief of plotters, prevent from him the intentions ofthe oppressors and deliver him from the hands of the tyrants.
O Allah, bestow him in his self, his progeny, his followers, his subjects, his confidants, his common ones, his enemies and all the people of the world whatever is near to his view and which is easy for his self and fulfill the bestof his aspirations in the world and the hereafter, indeed You are powerfulover everything.
O Allah! Put back, through him, in original form that which has beenuprooted from Your religion, put in order again through him the confusioncreated in Your Book. Make clear, through him, the distortions made in Yourcommandments, so that Your religion regains its true spirit, on his hands,blooming and full of tenderness, progressive, up to date, liberated, savior,without doubts and uncertainties, without suspicions and obscurities, therebeing no falsehood lingering around him, nor any subversive activities in hispresence.
O Allah! Enlighten the world with his truth and make oppression andtyranny take fright and flee, put a stop to reversal and subversion by relyingupon him, once for all, pull down the edifice of corrupt wickedness forever by giving him a free hand, through him break up entirely totalitarianism, let him deal the death-blow and wipe out the existence of the damned and accursed, and put an end to oppression perpetrated by the unjust tyrants, and set up justice and fairplay, put in force his “rule of life”, far and wide, everywhere, over all jurisdictions, make all authorities serve to promote his sovereignty. O Allah, whoso runs away from him should be discredited and put to shame, whoso undermines his mission should be eliminated, whoso looks upon him with envy, and quarrel, may be cornered, back to the wall, whoso knows but denies his right may rot and disintegrate, make lighter and easy his mission, make haste to set in motion blossoming of his truth, let his glory shine in full brightness.
O Allah! Send blessings on Muhammad, the Chosen, on Ali, whopleased (Allah) better than others, on Fatima, the bright and beautiful, onHasan, the agreeing, on Husain, the refined, and on all the rest of the closelyconnected appointed guardians, the favorite confidants, the signs leading unto guidance, the lighthouse of piety and wisdom, the trustworthy and safe handles, the strong rope, the right path. Bless Your dearest intimate friend, the authority You promised to protect, and (bless) the Imams, his children, spread their creed, build up their cause, let their thoughts and deeds reach far and wide, to the four corners of the world, in the matter of religion, in the worldly affairs and at the time of Final Judgment, verily You are able to do all things.”
Reference : Beharul anwar vol 51.52.53 , Part 1 , The Promised Mahdi