The event of visiting Imām Zamān (mgehr) by Istar Ābadī

The sixth event is, the event of Amīr Isḥāq Istar Ābadī. Yet, in “Biḥār al Anwār” Allamah Majlisī narrated it from his father, Sir Akhund Mullah Muḥammad Taqi (mgmhs) that I as a servant of God, found it in his handwriting on the back of a prayer called “Hirz Yamani”. Now, with the permission of the honorable ones, I am going to explain the story in more details and more extended than what was there:

 بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحمنِ الرَّحیمِ اَلْحَمْدُللّهِ رَبِّ الْعالَمینَ وَ الصَّلوةُ عَلى اَشْرَفِ الْمُرْسَلینَ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ عِتْرَتِهِ الطّاھِرينَ

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds, and prayers be upon the most honorable of the messengers, Muḥammad and his pure Ahl al Bayt, and the ones after them.

Indeed, the honourable, great, elder, literary man and the elite among Sadāt*, Amīr Muḥammad Hāshim (May Allah Almighty sustain him in the honour of Muḥammad and his holy family) begged me to permit him to narrate the Yamānī protection [Hirz], that is attributed to the Amir al-Mu’minin, the Imām of the Pious and the best of the creation after the prophets (pbu th ah) [Peace and blessings of Allah be upon them as long as the Heaven is the shelter of the righteous].

Therefore, I permitted him (May he always be supported) to narrate this supplication from me; documented from the pious and devoted Sayyid, Amīr Isḥāq Istarābādī, who was buried next to the Sayyid of the youth in the Heaven (Karbalā) from our Mawlā, the protector of Thaqalayn, the caliph of The Almighty Allah, and the blessing of the era and time (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him and his holy family).

Sayyid said, ‘I got tired on the way to Mecca and fell behind after the caravan. I was disappointed with life and lied down on the ground on my back, almost moribund reciting Shahāda, suddenly I saw our Mawlā, the Mawlā of the worlds, the caliph of Allah over the entire human beings. He (mgehr) stated, ‘Get up, O Isḥāq’.

So I got up. I was thirsty, he (mgehr) watered me and put me on the horse pillion. Then I started reciting the Hirz and The Excellency was correcting me until the end of it. Unexpectedly I found myself in the city Abtah, so I got off the horse and the Excellency (mgehr) disappeared. The Caravan arrived after nine days and it was spread among the people of Mecca that I had come through Ṭay al-Arḍ, so after performing the rituals of Hajj, I hid.

and the Sayyid has performed Hajj forty times. Well, I went to meet him in Isfahan, after he had come from Karbala to visit “Mawlā of two worlds”, Imām Alī ibn Mūsā al-Riḍā (pbuh). He owed his wife’s dowry of seven Tūmâns, and he wanted to ask it from one of the citizens of Razawi Mashhad.

Anyhow, once he dreamed that his death was so close. Then he wondered, ‘I have lived in Karbalā for fifty years, in order to die there! Well, I’m afraid of dying in any place, other than there!’

When one of my brothers knew about him, he [my brother] paid that amount and sent some of the Godly brothers with him. Later on, he said, ‘After Sayyid reached Karbalā and paid his debt, he became ill and passed away on the ninth day, then he was buried in his house.

I saw lots of miracles like this from him during his stay in Isfahan, and I have many permissions to [reveal] that prayer. He –his grace be persisted–  just confined to that and hoped that [the reader of that prayer] won’t forget him at the time of fulfillment of supplications, and won’t read that prayer except for the Almighty God’s [satisfaction], and won’t read it to destroy his/her enemy if [that enemy] is from believers, however, if she/he is a depraved, or a corrupter, and not to read it for the people of the lowest world.

Yes, reading this prayer is a blessing for any kind of person. It is suggested to be read by all believers to get closer to The Almighty God, and to repel the harm of Satan; the human type or the jinni. It is good to read it by the intention of getting close to God. Otherwise, it is better for them to leave all wishes, but getting close to The Almighty God.

[About Allamah Majlisī:]

He wrote this book with his own hand, the neediest servants of the mercy of his needless God, Muḥammad Taqi Majlisī Isfahanī. Yet, he is thankful to The Almighty God and sends greetings to the servant of the noble and chosen prophets and their successors (pbu th).

Furthermore, at the end of the book “Dhia’ ul ‘Alamayn”, the Jewel of the Muḥaddithūn, Shaykh Abu al Haṣan who was Allamah Majlisī ’s student, narrated the event from his professor and he narrated it from his father.

He narrated it [from the first] till the Sayyid’s arrival in Mecca. Then he said that the Shaykh’s father continued,

O, son! I took the prayer sheet from him to correct it. And he allowed me to narrate it from the Imām (mgehr). He allowed his son who was my Shaykh (mgphs)*, to narrate it too. Anyhow, the prayer was one of the thing which was permitted by my Shaykh to be recited by me. Well, I have been reciting it for forty years, and I got many blessing of it.

There he narrated the event of “Sayyid’s dream”. In dream, they ordered him, “Hurry up to go on Karbala, since your death is near!” The prayer is available as it was explained about, in the nineteenth version of the book “Biḥār al Anwār”.