On the Night Journey[1], when I gave you good tiding, to bring forth from his loin (Imām Alī (pbuh)’s loin) eleven Guided [by God] Imāms (pbu th). All of them will be your descendants; from the Virgin Batool[2]. The last one among them is the one whom, Isa ibn Maryam [Jesus The Christ (pbuh)] will pray behind him.
He will fill the world with justice, after it is filled with corruption and injustice. With the help of him, I will save the one who is in danger, guide the misguidance, heal the blind, and cure the patient.
The forty-third is, the murder of the cursed Ad-Dajjāl[3]. It is one of the divine punishments for the followers of Qibla [Muslīms]. Based on Alī ibn Ibrāhīm’s interpretation, it has been narrated from His Excellency Baqīr (pbuh) that in the holy verse,
قُلْ ھُوَ الْقادِرُ عَلى اَنْ يُبْعَثَ عَلَیْكُمْ عَذابا مِنْ فَوْقِكُمْ
“Say, He is able to send punishment upon you from above”[4]
he interpreted the term “punishment” as Ad-Dajjāl and the Celestial call, and stated, ‘No prophet arose, unless he warned people about Ad-Dajjāl’s sedition’.
The forty-forth is, after His Excellency Amir al-Mu’minin (pbuh), it is not allowed to recite Takbir seven times on anyone’s corpse, except on His Excellency’s dead body. As it has been mentioned in His Excellency Amir al-Mu’minin (pbuh)’s death Hadith and also in His Excellency’s will to Imām Haṣan (pbuh).
The forty-fifth is, The Excellency [Mahdī (mgehr)]’s Tasbīḥ[5]. It has been advised to recite it, from the eleventh of a month to the end of it.
Know that, there are [various] Tasbīḥha[6], attributed to all Hujaj al- Ṭāhirah (pbu th)’s, to be recited on the days of a month:
Prophet Muḥammad (pbuh&h)’s Tasbīḥ, is on the first day of a month, Amir al-Mu’minin (pbuh)’s Tasbīḥ, is on the second day of a month, Her Majesty Zahrāʾ (pbuh)’s Tasbīḥ, is on the third day of a month.
Likewise, is the rest of Imāms (pbu th)’s Tasbīḥha up to Imām Riḍā (pbuh), whose Tasbīḥ is to be recited on the tenth and eleventh of a month.
Then, Imām Jawād (pbuh)’s Tasbīḥ is, on the twelfth and thirteenth
of a month, Imām Hādī (pbuh)’s Tasbīḥ, is on the fourteenth and fifteenth of a month, Imām ʻAskarī (pbuh)’s Tasbīḥ, is on the sixteenth and seventeenth of a month. Finally, His Excellency Hujjah (mgehr)’s Tasbīḥ, is from the seventeenth to the end of a month. It is as following:
سُبْحانَ اللّهِ عَدَدَ خَلْقِهِ، سُبْحانَ اللّهِ رِضا نَفْسِهِ، سُبْحانَ اللّهِ مِدادَ كَلِماتِهِ، سُبْحانَ اللّهِ زَنَةَ عَرْشِهِ،
. وَالْحَمْدُللّهِ مِثْلَ ذلِكَ
Praise be to God for the number of His creation, praise be to God for His pleasure, Praise be to Allāh with the help of His words. Praise be to Allāh. Glory be to God in the number of His creatures, Glory be to God as long as He is pleased, It is pure and glorious. God is pure and glorious in counting His creatures. God is equal to the weight of His Throne, and praise be to God.
They forty-sixth is, The Excellency’s emergence will be the termination of the empires of superpowers, and oppressors’ governments in the world. Also, His Excellency’s government will precede resurrection, Rajʽa of other [infallible] Imāms (pbu th), or to His own offspring’s governments.
It has been narrated that Imām Sādiq (pbuh) repeatedly recited this rhythmic couplet:
لِكُلِّ اُناسٍ دَوْلَةٌ يَرْقُبُونَھا
وَ دَوْلَتُنا فى آخِرِ الدَّھْرِ يَظْھَرُ
For all people there are governments in which, they are interested
And our government will appear in The Last Era
To be continued…
1. Also known as al-Isra and Laylat al-Mi’raj. Refers to the journey made by Prophet Muḥammad (pbuh&h) from the Great Mosque in Mecca to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on a winged horse like creature known as Buraq, followed by prophet Muḥammad (pbuh&h)’s ascension into heaven.
2. This is a title for Her Majesty Fātimā (pbuh) which means, The pure.
3. The false messiah, liar, the deceiver, the deceiving messiah, is an evil figure in Islāmic eschatology. He is said to have come from several different locations, but generally from the East, usually between Syria and Iran, comparable to Christian understanding of the appearance of the Antichrist in Christian eschatology.
4. Holy Qurʾān, Surah Al-An’am, verse 65.
5- Here, Tasbīḥ is a verb and means, praising God.
6- Tasbīḥha is plural form of Tasbīḥ.