Also, the above scholar has narrated: I saw in a traditional
report that proves that if you want to recognize Shabe Qadr, you
should on every night of the blessed month, recite Surah Ha Mim
Dukhan a hundred times till the twenty-third night.
So I started it and on the twenty-third night, I recited from
memory. After Iftar, I went to the shrine of Ameerul Momineen
(a.s.), but I could find no place to stay, as there was no empty
space due to the rush of people that night. Since there was no place under the forty lamps due to the rush that night I sat down
on the square and faced the tomb and started reading Surah Ha
Mim.
Meanwhile, I saw a nomad Arab sitting beside me in a
square. He was of moderate height and wheaten complexion. His
eyes, nose and face were well formed and had awe like the Arab
Shaykhs, except that he was young and I am not sure whether he
had a beard or not, but I think that he had it. So I said to myself:
Why has this Bedouin come here and sat here like Persians?
What does he want in the Sanctuary and where is he staying
tonight. Is he a Shaykh of Qaza-a, who are the key-bearers or
other than them have invited him and I am not aware?
I said to myself: Probably he is Mahdi (a.s.) and I looked at
his face and he glanced to the left and right at the pilgrims, but
not so fast, which is incompatible with dignity.
I told myself that I will ask him where he is staying or who
he is.
When I made this intention, my heart became severely
constricted, which caused such pain to me, making my face pale.
There was pain in my heart until I said to myself: O Allah, I will
not inquire from him. Leave my heart to its condition and give
me respite from this pain as I have left the intention, which I
previously had.
My heart regained posture again and I returned again and
again, thinking about that person and again decided that I will ask
him about his antecedents.
I said: What is the harm in that?
When I made this intention again there was severe pain in
my heart like before. I decided not to ask him anything.
My heart again became quiet and I started my recitations. I
glanced at his elegance and awe and pondered over his matter till
the third time I again became eager to ask him about his
circumstances. Again there was a severe pain in my heart till I
became truly determined not to ask him anything.
I decided on a strategy to know him without asking him by
not separating from him and to follow him whenever he goes till
he returns home. It will be known whether people are familiar
with him, but if he disappears from my sight he is Imam (a.s.).
We continued sitting there for a long time. There was no gap
between me and him. On the contrary, even my garments touched
his clothes. I desired to know the time, but did not hear the hour
being struck due to the multitude of people.
There was a person before me who had a watch. So I
decided to ask him, but due to the multitudes he went away from
me. I returned to my place with speed as if I had gone away for
only a moment, but when I returned to my place that person was
not there anymore and I regretted my act very much
Behaarul Anwaar, vol. 53, pp. 246-248