NAJMUS SAAQIB Incident Twenty: Ziyarat of the Hujjat for Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) on Monday

Also, the venerable Sayyid, in the book of Jamaalul
Usboo’ has narrated from a person, who had the honor of seeing Imam Zamana
(a.s.) that the Imam recited the following as Ziyarat of Ameerul Momineen
(a.s.) and this was seen by him during wakefulness and not in dream. It
occurred on Sunday, as it is the day of Ameerul Momineen (a.s.).

Peace be on you, O tree of prophethood and branch of the
Hashemite clan dazzling and fruit-laden with prophethood and strengthened with
Imamate. Peace be on you and on the companions of Adam and Nuh (a.s.). Peace be
on you, and your pure and chaste Ahle Bayt. Peace be on you, and on the
surrounding angels and barefoot walker by your grave, O my master, O Ameerul
Momineen. This is Sunday and it is your day and by your name and I am your
guest in it and your neighbor; so please host me, O my master and reward me as
you are noble; you like being a host and I am hopeful of rewards. So do what
you are inclined to and I have hope for it from you by your status. And by your
progeny near Allah and His position near you and by the right of your cousin,
the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) and upon you all.

The author says: The attribution of each day of the
week to one of the Divine Proofs is from the aspect of devotional acts and
recitations, through which one may seek proximity that day in order to obtain
external and internal, and worldly and spiritual benefits; and to ward off
heavenly and terrestrial calamities and the mischief of different human and
genie satans. However, in Ziyarats, there is seeking mediation with salutation
and praise. Thus, it is in the way as Sayyid Ibne Taaoos has mentioned in his Jamaalul
Usboo’[1]
as follows:

Saturday is attributed to the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.).

Sunday is attributed to Ameerul Momineen (a.s.).

Monday is attributed to Imam Hasan (a.s.) and Imam Husain
(a.s.).

Tuesday is attributed to Imam Zainul Aabedeen (a.s.), Imam
Muhammad Baqir (a.s.) and Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.).

Wednesday is attributed to Imam Moosa Kazim (a.s.), Imam Ali
Reza (a.s.), Imam Muhammad Taqi (a.s.), Imam Ali Naqi (a.s.).

Thursday is attributed to Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.).

Friday is attributed to Imam Asr (a.s.), the master of the
age and it is one of his names. It is also the day of his reappearance.

Ziyarats are mentioned for each day and in each of them this
point is hinted at: that today is your day and on this day, I am your guest and
I have come into your refuge. Please host me and give me refuge.

This sequence is according to two traditional reports, both
of which are narrated from Imam Ali Naqi (a.s.). Saduq has narrated one of them
from Saqar bin Abi Dalf and the other is narrated by Qutub Rawandi from Abi
Salman bin Urumiya.

It is mentioned in the report of the first of Safar: Then I
said to the Imam: There is a tradition of the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.)
which I cannot understand. He asked: Which tradition? I said: The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.)
said: ‘Do not make enemies of the days as they will be inimical to you (in
retaliation).’

The Imam said: “It implies ‘our’ days. Due to us, as we have
raised up the skies and the earth; thus Sabt
(Saturday) is the name of the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) Ahada (Sunday) is the name of Ameerul
Momineen, Ithnain (Monday) are Imams
Hasan and Husain, Thalath (Tuesday)
is Ali bin Husain, Muhammad bin Ali, al-Baqir and Ja’far bin Muhammad Sadiq Arba-a (Wednesday) is Moosa bin Ja’far,
Ali bin Moosa and Muhammad bin Ali, Khamees
(Thursday) is my son, Hasan and Friday, is the son of my son. And it is through
him that the party of truth will gather and it is him that would fill the earth
with justice and truth just as it would have been fraught with injustice and
oppression. Thus, this is the meaning of ‘days’ and that you must not be
inimical to the days in this world or they would be inimical to you in the
Hereafter.[2]

In the second report, after the demand of this tradition he
replies: Yes, indeed the interpretation for the tradition of the Messenger of
Allah (s.a.w.a.): As for Saturday, thus it is the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.)…till
the end.[3]

It can be concluded from this report that the days being the
allegory of the names of the Imams is not contradictory even if their outer
aspect is implied as to take a good omen from them and to abuse them would lead
to bad consequences as Allamah Majlisi has surmised. But it is very unlikely,
as he has himself condemned some of these days or that being inimical to the
day is in fact to commit evil deeds in it; thus it will be inimical by
testifying for that act on Judgment Day.

It is mentioned in Dua Sabah of Saheefah Kaamelah: “This
is a day, new and fresh, and it is a present witness of what we do. If we have
done good, it will praise us on the departure. If we have done evil, it will
leave us with contempt.” Although the interpreters of Saheefah have
offered very unlikely explanations of this statement, but whose mention is not
necessary here.

We should know that in these two reports, Lady Fatima Zahra
(s.a.) is not mentioned, however, Ibne Taaoos after the Ziyarat of Ameerul
Momineen (a.s.) on Sunday, has mentioned a Ziyarat of that holy lady[4],
it comprises of the fact that he has probably derived from another report and
we will, if Allah wills, mention in Chapter Eleven the Ziyarat of Hazrat Hujjat
(a.s.) on Friday.

As for Tawassul by the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) and the
Holy Imams (a.s.) through Prayers and gifting the Prayer to them; they are
divided according to the days of the week according to the reports of Shaykh Toosi
in Misbaah.[5]
It is mentioned as follows:

Starting from Friday, recite eight units of Prayer; four
units should be dedicated to the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) and four units
to Lady Fatima Zahra (s.a.).

On Saturday, recite four units of prayer for Ameerul
Momineen (a.s.).

On Sunday, recite four units of prayer for Imam Hasan
Mujtaba (a.s.).

On Monday, recite four units of prayer for the Chief of the
martyrs, Imam Husain (a.s.).

On Tuesday, recite four units of prayer for Imam Sajjad
(a.s.).

On Wednesday, recite four units of prayer for Imam Muhammad
Baqir (a.s.).

On Thursday, recite four units of prayer for Imam Ja’far
Sadiq (a.s.).

On Friday, again recite eight units of Prayer; four units
should be dedicated to the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) and four units to Lady
Fatima Zahra (s.a.).

On Saturday recite four units of prayer for Imam Moosa Kazim
(a.s.).

And in this manner recite till Wednesday; then on Thursday,
recite four units of prayer for Hazrat Hujjat (a.s.) and it is the best
devotional act.

In another report, in which this Prayer of Hadiya is
mentioned, he says: One who dedicates the reward of his prayer, whether
obligatory prayer or recommended, to the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.), Ameerul
Momineen (a.s.) and the Imams after him, the Almighty Allah increases the
rewards of that prayer till he is out of breath and they say to him after his
soul is separated from his body: O so and so, May your heart be satisfied and
may your eyes be illuminated by what the Almighty Allah has prepared for you
and may you enjoy what you are rewarded.

It is better that in these prayers, you should recite the
recitations of Sajdah and Ruku three times each and after that recite:

And after every two units, recite:

In place of ‘so and so son of so and so’ recite the name of
the particular Masoom for whose hadiya we are reciting the prayer.

We should know that for the days of the month also there is
division attributed to these holy personalities, which prayer to be recited on
each day and the Tasbeeh, which is associated to that particular Divine Proof.
Sayyid Fazlullah Rawandi has mentioned that Tasbeeh in his book of Daawaat.[6]

Tasbeeh of Hazrat Hujjat (a.s.) from the eighteenth of the
month till the end of the month is as follows: