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مروي عن الأئمة المعصومين عليهم السلام في كتب الأدعية والزيارات المعتبرة.
Virtues, description, and recitation method of MORE CONFIRMATIONS as recorded in Shia traditions.
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In the book of al-Najm al-Thagib (by al-Nuri), the story of the
attendance of Hajj Sayyid Ahmad al-Rashti in the presence of
the Imam of the Age, may our souls be accepted as ransoms
from him, during his journey of the hajj pilgrimage, has been
told in details. In one of the details of this story, which will be
cited in this book after the Major Comprehensive Form of
ziyarah (al-Ziyarah al-Jami'ah al-Kabirah), the Imam ('a) said
to al-Rashti with confirmation, "Why do you not (frequently)
recite the ziyarah of 'Ashura', 'Ashura', 'Ashura', 'Ashura'.
'?...'
Commenting on this, our trustworthy mentor Shaykh al-Nuri
said:
One of the unparalleled merits and points of honor of ziyarah
of 'Ashura' is that its form is not similar to the other ordinary
forms of ziyarah, which have been composed and dictated by
the Holy Infallibles apparently, although nothing is issued
from the immaculate hearts of these Holy Infallibles except
statements proving that they have received these words
from the Most High Origin. The ziyarah of 'Ashura', however,
is similar to the Words of Almighty Allah that He revealed to
Archangel Gabriel. This fact can be noticed in the words of
this form of ziyarah, including the statements of invoking
curses (on the enemies), the statements of invoking
blessings (on the Imam and his companions), and the
supplicatory statements. Hence, Archangel Gabriel conveyed
these words to the Seal of the Prophets. As maintained by
tangible experiences, this form of ziyarah is unique in
achieving the requests, gaining the needs, and warding off
the enemies if a visitor recites it continuously for forty days
or even less. However, the most astonishing effect of
preserving in reciting this form of ziyarah can be touched in
the following story, mentioned in the book of Dar al-Salam.
However, I will mention it in brief:
Hasan al-Yazdi the trustworthy, righteous, and pious Hajj and
Mawla who lived in the vicinity of the holy shrine in al-Ghari
(i.e. al-Najaf) and who was one of those who acted faithfully
as regards neighboring this holy place and practiced acts of
worship painstakingly, has reported the following incident
from Muhammad 'Ali al-Yazdi the trustworthy and honest
Hajj:
In Yazd, there was a righteous and virtuous man who used to
preoccupy himself (with acts of worship) and make
preparations for his next life in his grave. He used to spend
nights in a graveyard in the skirts of the city of Yazd, known
as Mazar, in which a group of righteous people were buried.
He had a neighbor who grew up with him since infanthood
and both joined the same school and studied under the same
mentor. Nevertheless, this neighbor became a tither (i.e. he
seizes tenth of the people's gains by means of power and
injustice). He did not quit this process until he died. He was
then buried in that graveyard in a grave near the place where
the righteous man used to stay overnight.
In less than one month after the death of this tither, his
righteous neighbor saw him in sleep in a good-looking
costume as if he was enjoying the brightness of bliss. The
righteous man approached the dead man and asked him, "I
know very well your origin and your end, and your open
appearance and your hidden manners. You were not one of
those whom are expected to have righteous inner self and
your deeds would bring you nothing but torment and
chastisement. How could you attain this status?"
The dead replied, "What you have just said is exactly the
truth. I had been placed in the most terrible torture since my
death up to yesterday when the wife of Ashraf, the
blacksmith, died and was buried in this place." The dead
pointed to a definite side, which was about one hundred
arms away from his burial place. He then went on, "At the
night of her burial, Abu-'Abdullah (lmam al-Husayn) visited
her three times. In the third time, he ordered torture to be
stopped from all the dead inhabitants of this graveyard.
Since then, l was turned into bliss, luxury, comfort, and
coziness.'
When the righteous man woke up, he was deeply perplexed.
He therefore went to the market of the blacksmiths to ask
about the man whose wife had recently died, because he had
no familiarity with that man. When he found the blacksmith,
he asked him, "Did you have a wife?" The blacksmith
answered,
, "Yes, l had. She died recently and she was buried
in such-and-such place." The man mentioned the very place
to which the dead tither pointed in the dream of the righteous
man. "Had she ever visited the tomb of Abu-'Abdullah?" the
righteous man asked. "No, she had not," answered her
widower. "Did she usually mention the misfortunes that the
Imam ('a) had to encounter?" asked the righteous man. "No,
she did not," answered her widower. "Was she usually
holding consolation ceremonies for lmam al-Husayn ('a)?'
asked the righteous man. "No, she was not" answered her
widower, who added, "What for are you putting such
questions?" Here, the righteous man narrated the whole story
of his dream. The widower then said,
, "Yes, she used to recite
ziyarah of 'Ashura' very frequently."