The blessing: To be with ImÄm ZamÄn (mgehr)

O, fellows! I swear to God; we don’t know value the blessing of being with the ImÄm, because we haven’t experienced it! We haven’t experienced the sweetness of a look by ImÄm ZamÄn (mgehr). So, we usually don’t die for him!!

May God have mercy on the late Ayatollah MujtahedÄ«. [Once] he narrated a story from an old shoemaker named “Abdul Karim KaffÄshâ€. [it is mentioned in the following lines:]

Abdul KarÄ«m KaffÄsh was such a person who cried for Sayyid al ShuhadÄ [ImÄm Huá¹£ayn (pbuh)] forty days; both in the morning and evenings. It was with the intention of visiting ImÄm ZamÄn (mgehr). Yes, his wish was fulfilled. He explained, ‘Once a week, the ImÄm would come to the shoe booth; he would sit down, talk to him for a few minutes, and visit and then the honorable ImÄm would depart.

Once the Excellency asked him, ‘Abdul Karim, we are coming to visit you every week. What if we do not come to visit you for a week? He reacted, ‘Do not talk about it, I will languish!’

[Do you know why?] It is because, he experienced the sweetness of socializing with the ImÄm, but we haven’t. We do not know at all, what a blessing this is! We do not realize its value at all! Let me give you some examples: We have a thousand kinds of unnecessary worldly desires! But how many times are we ready to go to ImÄm Riá¸Ä (pbuh)’s shrine to appeal to him for the sake of the world?

Yes, we have a thousand kinds of unnecessary worldly desires! How many times did we go to ImÄm Riá¸Ä (pbuh)’ shrine to ask him to tie our knots and do not take me out of his shrine?

Why haven’t we done our responsibility [toward our ImÄms (pbu th)]?

But why don’t we know their worth?!

Because we do not know its value, we do not realize its value at all!

O, Sir [Imam ZamÄn (mgehr)]!  Many times we have decided to present God, ‘Thank God, that we live in the time of ImÄm ZamÄn (mgehr)!’

But we haven’t managed to! Do you know why? It’s because we do not know at all how sweet is being with ImÄm ZamÄn (mgehr)!

Sadīr Sirafi narrated:

 

[Once] I went to the door of ImÄm á¹¢Ädiq (pbuh)’s house, but I heard him shouting loudly,

سیدی غیبتک Ù†Ùت رقادی Ùˆ ضیقت علی مهادی،

‘O, my Sayyid! Your Occultation made me sleepless! And made me suffer my sleep bed!

I said to myself, ‘Who is ImÄm á¹¢Ädiq (pbuh) calling “Hujjat [proof] of God†telling?!’ But I saw no one there, and the Excellency’s eyes was welled up with tears! I wondered, ‘O, Sir! For whom [are you crying?!] He replied, ‘Our descendant who comes in the future and will have an Occultation.’

ImÄm á¹¢Ädiq (pbuh) realized who ImÄm ZamÄn (mgehr)is, as he stated,

: لَوْ أَدْرَکْتÙه٠لَخَدَمْتÙه٠أَیامَ حَیاتÙÛŒ

If I visit him in my lifetime, I will serve him.

Well, we are breathing in the time of ImÄm al-Zaman (mgehr), but we are not looking for him! We are not thankful for his blessings, nor we realize [the truth of] Du’a al Faraj [praying for his departure]! Because we haven’t experienced the sweetness!

Now, let’s have a [common] intention to pray for ImÄm al-Zaman (mgehr). Let’s hope, if ImÄm al-Zaman (mgehr) takes a look at us at night, he will state, ‘There are Twenty million people praying for me!’

We ought to at least, pray for him since today; in order for us to be helped by him. is to pray from today.

 

Professor: Ḥujjat al-IslÄm Muḥammad MahdÄ« MemariÄn

Be the first to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.


*