Professor: Haṣan Mahmudī
Āyatullāh, sir Mujtaba Tehrānī said:
Sayyid Abd al- Karīm Kaffāsh who sometimes visited the Excellency [Imām Zamān (mGehr)]. [Later,] my father asked him, ‘O, sir! Why do Imām Zamān (mGehr) usually comes to see you?!’ There, the very Sayyid Abd al Karīm replied, ‘The sir [the Imām] stated, ‘I am coming to you, because you have left your self [ego]!
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[Sonnet no. 96 by Fayḍ Kāshānī:]
I wondered, “Why do you hid your face which is like moon, from me?!”
She* replied, “You yourself are an obstacle to being seen; otherwise, my face is exposed!”
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This ego has ruined the goal; this me has ruined the goal! The human is supposed to take this me away from themselves. If so, our soul will have the honor of joining the Excellency’s soul.
*Here we refer to Imām Zamān (mGehr), so we mean “He”.