Kindnesses of Imam Mahddi

About God’s generosity and kindness, there is detailed discussion which have done by researchers, holy Quran interpreter, philosophers, Islamic leaders and theosophist who have acquired their gnosis from God’s messengers and diviner’s leaders like: Sadro-al-Motaheleen, Hajy Sabzevary, Mola Ali Zanuzy, Akhond Mola Ali Noory, Alame Tabatabaee, those shiny and splendorous faces with that luminous heart and familiar with holy Quran and its knowledge, have mentioned that and have described some important points about the relationship between God’s generosity and kindness.

The result of all these excellent experts’ discussion is that God’s generosity’s signs and indications are apparent in the universe and it refers to all creatures’ possession. God’s generosity is obvious in all creatures and they use it in order to their survival and to provide their needs. The thing which has been put in human’s entity as a creature of world, it means in his material entity, is God’s generosity. There isn’t any condition to using it. Its condition is just being. This being can be in any quality. Maybe this being be like Qaroon, or pharahonic, and maybe this being’s quality be like infidelic, or to keeping partnership for God. Possibly this being’s quality would be like Abraham’s (God bless him) entity, or Godly spirits. It doesn’t make any difference for God. He has spread a tablecloth and has put all his blessings in it. It is sign of his generosity and he has allowed all creatures to use from this tablecloth when they are alive. There is a line of poem about it:

The earth’s blessing is his general tablecloth / whether enemies sit on this tablecloth or friends[1]

He doesn’t say because you are Qaroon, I intercept your water and food; he says the water and food aren’t anything in my possessions that now because you become Qaroon or Pharaoh or Namrood, I deprive you from my blessings. About twenty five years Musa (God bless him) preached Pharaoh. When he saw that Pharaoh doesn’t want to accept his preaching, said “oh God he doesn’t want to accept my invitation. So send your torment on him.” God that used to spoke with Musa friendly said “you give me a plan to torturing him.” Musa (God bless him) said “stop his water and food.” God said “it’s impossible in my laws. I’m generous and benevolent. Giving water and food is in my nature. Are you telling me to stop my Godly work? It is impossible. He is free to sit beside this tablecloth and eats whatever he wants, dress whatever he wants and take whatever he wants until his moment of death arrives.” These aren’t anything. Because God’s generosity doesn’t need any condition or hasn’t any limitation; but when kindness of God rises, it has some moral conditions for man to utilize it. It isn’t free for man to utilize it and also without any mediator it will not reaches to man.

The source of God’s kindness, exhaustive man

The source of God’s kindness and affection, and his grace and mercifulness is exhaustive man. We haven’t any work to previous history. The past people came and went. Now that we are alive in world should know a transferring passage to receive God’s kindness, his affection, his grace and mercifulness. The holy Quran and quotations have clearly expressed that this transferring passage is Ahle Beyt (God bless them). It means that except Ahle Beyt (God bless them) there isn’t any possible passage to receive God’s kindness and his mercifulness. The source of God’s kindness and mercifulness are Ahle Beyt (God bless them). They are receiver and distributor of God’s kindness and mercifulness. The Ahle Beyt (God bless them) receive God’s kindness and distribute it. Swear to God that it’s impossible to receive God’s kindness and mercifulness except to have connection with Ahle Beyt (God bless them) basing on some special moral conditions.

Three elements to getting near to Ahle Beyt (God bless them)

Now the holy Prophet (peace be upon him) is guiding how to communicate with him and his Ahle Bayt (God bless them), because holy Prophet (peace be upon him) is at the top of his Ahle Bayt (God bless them). The communication will be possible with three elements; it means a key that has three jags which can open that door. The first element is cognition. The world of cognition is very valuable and majestic. My brother, the people who wanted cognition, sometimes traveled thousands of miles with difficulties so that they acquire cognition. An old man whose stature was curved used to travel the dangerous way from Basreh to Medina about one thousand and four hundred years ago to reach Imam Sadegh’s (God bless him) home and after arriving had said him “ I couldn’t understand a thing, so I have come here to ask you and then I will go.”

I don’t whether he was living or not when he came back to Basreh? Two times he had gone and come back from Qum to Bokhara that I think the distance between these two cities is about four thousand kilometer, it means he had traveled about eight thousand kilometer; and also he had traveled this path for two times. Sheikh Sadogh had traveled from Qum to Bokhara for two times in order to he knows something. There are a lot of people who had deprived themselves from many conveniences so that they learn something. They had been moved away from their father and mother, their family and form any comfort to know the realities. When our Aeme-ye-Atehar (God bless them) were asked about the best deeds, they said “cognition”[2] there is a line of poem about it:

If they give you cognition, sell the gold / and if you given gold without cognition, you are pauper

The question which posed is that how we can know the holy Ahle Bayt (God bless them)? the first way to know Ahle Bayt (God bless them) is holy Quran:

“Allah only desires to keep away the uncleanness from you, O Ahle Bayt (God bless them)! And to purify you a (thorough) purifying”[3]

I (God) have completed all perfections and purifications in you and removed all imperfections and impurity from you. After that we have to know with whom we should communicate and from where we should feed ourselves in our lifetime in this world; with whom we should adjust our behavior and from where we have to provide our knowledge; with which kinds of people we have to give direction to our life? We should know:

“Defiantly Hussein (God bless him) is guidance light”:

Hussein (God bless him) is light, not that professor or that university master or that foreign scientist. Those persons need a world of lights for themselves, but we should know it that holy Prophet’s (peace be up on him) life is light; light is Imam Ali’s (God bless him) life. And sainthood Fatimah’s (God bless her) is light for people guidance. The guidance light is Imam Hassan’s (God bless him) and Imam Hussein’s (God bless him) life. We should know and understand it.

The second element is love which is easy to obtain and it doesn’t need that much effort; because when I identify the holy Ahle Beyt (God bless them), I will have all ideal values and if I identify them correctly I won’t find any imperfection and defect in them. The absolute beauty I will give my heart to them. The love doesn’t need to asset. If I fall in love and sacrifice myself when I see beauty, so I have obtain my lifetime’s target. There is a poem about it:

The lifetime’s crop is three words / I was crude, then I ripened, then I burnt

The magic of this second element, I mean love is very strange, very strange. Just a lover knows about his condition. There is a poem about it:

We are in this scorching fire / the love has killed us and we are alive for it

However the Khezr water is better than our life / the love is better than Khezr water

Ask me about fire of love / ask about stars from butterfly

The rebuked people who are going healthy / they are crossing the healthy way by being rebuked

If you feel comfort in this stage / so you had fallen in love for yourself

The holy Prophet says about the third element that it is accepting the superintendence of Ahle Beyt (God bless them). The superintendence word is apparent in holy Prophet’s (peace be upon him) utterance. The superintendence has taken out from holy Quran:

“There is Allah’s special superintendence that (he) commands there rightly and he gives the best remuneration and futurity.”[4]

“O people, who have believed to Allah, follows Allah and follows holy Prophet and commanders from them (whom they have specified for you).”[5]

The superintendence means that one submit himself to Ahle Beyt’s (God bless them) hands and say, give me whatever you like. I’m your obedient; I am your submissive. In this world, I’m like a traveler for forty or fifty years. I want you to tell me how I should manage my business, and I want you to direct my business. I want you to direct my social life. I want you to direct my child and wife. “superintendence”; means I’m servant, I’m thrall, I’m slave and I put myself in holy Prophet’s (peace be upon him), sainthood Fatimah’s (God bless her), Ali’s (God bless him), Hassan’s (God bless him) and Hussein’s (God bless him) hands and say that I’m a slave and God has sold me to you and I want God to doesn’t retake me. Now direct me. That is the meaning of superintendence. You have to regard holy Prophet’s (peace be upon him) and Ahle Beyt’s (God bless them) words in these three elements. The cognition is light. The love is enjoying. The superintendence is submission.

The first element, knowing Ahle Beyt (God bless them)

The holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said “if a person die, while he hadn’t identified the Imam (superintendent) of his time, so he has died in ignorance death.”[6] It means if a person dies without knowing his time’s Imam, his death is like Abu Jahl’s and Abu Lahab’s death. This is ignorance death. It doesn’t make any difference that who is that person. Salim the son of Gheys said “I have asked from Imam Ali (God bless him) that what is the least phase of aberrance?” Imam Ali (God bless him) said “the least phase of aberrance is that one doesn’t know God’s commanders and doesn’t know the person who has appointed by God to be supervise to his work in this world and in hereafter” Salim asked “who are these people?” Imam Ali (God bless him) said “refer to holy Quran. These are the people whom God has mentioned their name beside his name and his holy Prophet’s (peace be upon him) name.” Salim asked “in which part of holy Quran?” Imam Ali (God bless him) recite this verse: “O people, who have believed to Allah, follows Allah and follows holy Prophet and commanders from them (whom they have specified for you).”[7]

Salim said to Imam Ali (God bless him) “O Ali (God bless him) you have greatly clarified the matter for me’ because holy Quran is criterion; my grief has been removed and I understood that I have to follow Ali (God bless him), Fatimah (God bless her), Hassan (God bless him) and Hussein (God bless him) and you removed every doubts that were in my heart.”

Therefore I shouldn’t follow Lenin, Stalin and other universities’ masters. I should take my religion from you; I should take my world from you; I should take my hereafter from you; I should take my heaven from you; I should take my security of hell from you. The God’s mercifulness come toward them and it distributes from them. This utterance was about cognition. It is very accurate. Imam Sadegh said

 “Someone who sleeps one night without knowing his Imam in that night, he has died in ignorance death.”[8]

I want to say to young people how has acquainted with religion recently that don’t think our Aeme-ye-Atehar (God bless them) want to make compliment about themselves; they want to give you God’s mercifulness’ address; they want to show you the liberation way.

The second element, loving Ahle Beyt (God bless them)

But holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said about loving Ahle Beyt (God bless them) “God has created all messengers from different behavior and all of them aren’t from same tree, but rather are from different trees; but God has created me and Ali (God bless him) form a tree; I’m the root of that tree and Ali (God bless him) is its stem and Fatimah (God bless her) is its reason to grow;” it means if she has been taken from us, we will become shriveled. That is really amazing. “My Hassan (God bless him) and Hussein (God bless him) are the fruits of this tree.” Isn’t this a picture of a complete tree? He has said its root, its stem, its reason to grow and its fruits. A tree has leaves. So who are its leaves? After that holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said “Their Shiites are its leaves.”[9]

We are the leaves of this tree it means we should try to not fall down from it. The autumn doesn’t attack us. The lucre falls down these leaves. Backbiting and slander fall down these leaves. Being suspect to other falls down these leaves. Leaving the pray falls down these leaves. Our Shiites are as leaves of this tree. Then holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said “if every one of you resort to a branch of this tree, he can be hopeful to save. If one resort to any branch of this tree, it doesn’t matter that he follows Hussein (God bless him) or Hassan (God bless him) or Fatimah (God bless her) or follows Ali (God bless him), he will be eventually rescued”. Because all of us are same and with together and it’s not important that with whom you connect. We will bring you to other branch because there isn’t any difference in us. And also you haven’t ten hands, you have just one hand. So resort to Ali (God bless him) and he will bring you to all of them; O ladies, resort to Fatimah (God bless her), she will bring you to other. They have given us a great deal of discount, but one who doesn’t resort to them “if one doesn’t resort to us, however his body will be shriveled like a withered leather bottle from intensity of praying God, but doesn’t has our love or fondness, in hereafter God will take him from his nose and falls him down in hell.”[10] This work will be done by God not his angels because God hate and dislike someone who hasn’t any fondness to Hussein (God bless him).

We are lucky that God loves us; because we have some assets that God loves them. This was chapter of love. When the verse of “I (holy Prophet [peace be upon him]) don’t want any remuneration from you except loving my Family” revealed, some people come to holy Prophet (peace be upon him) and said “what is the intention of “family” in this verse and who are them?” the holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said “Ali (God bless him) and Fatimah (God bless her) and their sons.”[11]

The third element, getting near to Ahle Beyt (God bless them), superintendence

But superintendence; it means accepting color. Imam Bagher (God bless him) has said “the nobility of this religion, its eminency, desideration of messengers and God’s contentment in this religion is listening to our words as Ahle Beyt (God bless them). So listen to our words. Asbagh-ebne-Nabaate said that my sword was on my shoulder and its heaviness was tiring my back. So I take it off and put it on my back. Imam Ali (God bless him) was walking front of me and I was walking two steps back of him and silence was created between us. Suddenly my master turned back and told me “Asbagh! How much will you listen to my commands?” I said “if you command me to kill the person who is walking back of me I’ll kill him with my sword. At first I’ll cut his head then I’ll go to see who that person was. If that person will be my son, swear to God my love to you won’t decrease even a bit and I’ll be happy wholeheartedly that I have listened to Imam Ali’s (God bless him) command.”

Obey us; accustom with our culture; obey what we say about lawful and unlawful things. Connection with cognition, love and superintendence lead to remission of man’s sins. I don’t know to say about which angles of God’s remission neither I have its power to say you about those delicateness and nicety of God’s remission and nor I have enough time to say you even a small particle of what God will do with followers of Ahle Beyt (God bless them) in this world and in hereafter. We really don’t know what God will do with us. While Imam Reza (God bless him) was going to Khorasan, when he arrived to outer part of Nishabur said to people who were keeping his camel’s bridle to stop. Then he dismounted. There were people who were accompanying a coffin to bury him. Imam Reza (God bless him) attended in that funeral and carried the coffin on his shoulder. The people who were with Imam Reza (God bless him) said to themselves that why he goes seven steps and then comes back, but they saw that Imam Reza (God bless him) went and stood beside the grave. Then he opened the door of coffin and brought out the corpse. Afterward he went in grave and opened his arm and said “give him to me.” We had always seen this person in Nishabur, but we didn’t know who is he, we saw that Imam Reza (God bless him) put that corpse in grave and opened his coffin (the cloth in which a corpse has put) and put his face toward kiblah. Then we saw that Imam Reza (God bless him) bent down and kissed the face of that corpse. As he came out from grave his entourage said to him “this was your first journey to Nishabur, were you acquainted with him?” Imam Reza (God bless him) said “moreover that I was familiar with him, I was familiar with his fathers to sainthood Adam (God bless him). Even I knew his mothers and his child.” The entourage said “you treated him in a good manner.” He said “because he was from our Shiites.”

Are cognition and love and superintendence let sin remain in people? Are they let that man’s death be difficult? Are they let that man’s isthmus would be difficult?[12] Are they let that man enter in grave and in doomsday with dishonor? I said that no, they won’t let.

Connection with cognition, love and superintendence has another advantage which is intervention. This intervention is fantastic. Then this connection raises another reality for man which is entering in heaven. And also we don’t want anything from God except Ahle Beyt’s (God bless him) intervention and entering in heaven. Also there isn’t anything to request. There isn’t anything to appeal in any way.

The adventure of healing an untreatable diseased by Ahle Beyt’s (God bless them) kindnesses

I have seen the man whom I want to say his adventure. When I was studying religious education in Qum, I came to Tehran at a Thursday to visit the writer of Pishaver’s nights’ book. He had a heart disease and had slept in bed. He introduced me to one who had come before me to visit him and said to him that “he is Qum’s student. He is studying and possibly he will be preacher in future. You say your story by your tongue to him.” He turned to me and said “are you ready to come with me to Pars hospital?” I said “sir! I haven’t enough time. I always come to Tehran at Thursdays and come back to Qum at Fridays.” He said “because my file is there and you are young so I want you to come with me and see my file and you yourself hear the doctor’s opinion. Then I tell you what has happened. If you haven’t time to come to hospital for looking my doctoral evidences, this person, the writer of Pishaver’s nights’ book knows about the accuracy of my adventure; because we have old friendship with him and he knows about that event, and if you yourself want to research about the accuracy of my adventure, as I said, my file is in Pars hospital.” Then he told me about his adventure and said “when I woke up at morning to make ablution, I saw that I couldn’t stand up from my place. I called my wife and said him that the time of my morning pray is passing and I can’t stand up. My wife came and raised me by taking under arm of mine. But I saw that I can’t stand up even by the help of my wife and fell on that place. I said to her that it’s better that you bring water and I make ablution on my bed. When I said my pray, I said to my wife to bring a doctor.” When the doctor came and examined me, out of the room, said to my wife that “you should put up with this diseased. He can’t stand up all his lifetime. All his body has been disabled. They brought me to Pars hospital and I was there about forty days and nights. The most specialist doctors saw my examination’s picture and eventually said to my wife that, his illness hasn’t any treatment in all earth. When we came back to home I said to my wife that the world’s doctors are these doctors who are in Iran and Europe? She said I don’t know. I said is there any other doctor? My wife said “I brought all specialist doctors to visit you. Who are these doctors?” I said that Imam Hussein (God bless him); he intervene for us very honestly. As soon as Imam Hussein (God bless him) intend, God will help us. He doesn’t need to express his intention. I said to my wife that stand up and prepare the passport so that I go to Imam Hussein’s (God bless him) holy shrine. When the passport prepared, I said to my wife that come and sit beside me because I want to tell you a believing matter. O my wife, maybe God doesn’t intend me to be healed and I die with this condition. My intention is to have a travel to Karbala, but when our relationship ask you where you are taking me, you have to say them that I’m taking him to Israel; because we have some ill-veil and weak hearted people among them; because when I go to Karbala and God doesn’t intend me to be healed, we won’t weaken people belief toward Imam Hussein (God bless him).

 I think that this person said admirable words and this cognizant person wanted to keeps Imam Hussein’s (God bless him) credit, and he wanted to say that, as you will keep our reputation in hereafter, I’ll keep your reputation and I won’t cause to disrepute you. He said to his wife that says to everyone of our relationship that we are going to Israel. I swear her to God that she mustn’t say the reality to anyone even to his father and mother and his brothers and sisters. When we wanted to go our all relationship came and said to us that where you are going? We said that we want to go to Israel. Then I sent my wife to a refined and religious person to ask him for make an Estekhareh (to ask from holy Quran to do something or not) for us that whether we go with airplane or not. The Estekhareh was very bad. Afterward we made another Estekhareh to go by train to Ahvaz and then go to Basra and again the Estekhareh was bad. After that we made one more Estekhareh to go by car or not that the Estekhareh was bad again. So we bought three bus tickets from Buzar Jomhury, two seats at a same place for me and one seat for my wife, and at the very beginning part of the morning in a way that no one notice, my wife brought a wheelchair and got me on the bus. Then we got on the bus till we arrived to Kazemain. In Kazemain I said to my wife that it is better that at first we go to Karbala because I have problem and you are inconvenience and we are in Kazemain now. She accepted and I spent the month of Rajab in Imam Hussein’s (God bless him) holy shrine and nothing was happened. Everyday my wife brought me to his holy shrine and I bowed my neck and said “O Hussein (God bless him) nothing was happened.” I said to myself that don’t be tired and fatigue, the lapse of time shouldn’t disappoint you. If they don’t respond you within a short time it means that maybe they want you to come back toward them, and keeping on to tell them that O Ali (God bless him) or Hussein (God bless him) and talk to them; because they like it. When the Rajab finished, I said to my wife that take a taxi to go to Helle and visit Syed Mohammad’s holy shrine in the month of Shaban, and then go to Samera and after that come back to Kazemain again. When our journey will finish we’ll come back to Iran at the end of Shaban. And we’ll say to everyone who comes to visit us that the Israelite doctors said that I won’t cure. When we went to Syed Mohammad’s holy shrine our visitation finished at five p.m. Then my wife reserved two seats at the back of mini bus’s driver’s seat for me and reserved another seat for herself. Toward Kazemain there was cockcrow and the Arab driver whose beside’s wooden stool was only empty had stopped the bus to find someone who fills that seat. The last traveler who was a sedate and courteous young person came and sat on that stool. When the mini bus started to move, that youth began to reciting the holy Quran, but what a holy Quran it was! What a holy verses those were! “And they give their food to poor and orphan and captive because of his (Allah) fondness.”[13]

Everyone who isn’t pauper can stand up and leave the Ahle Beyt (God bless them). Why wealthy people should be there? The one who isn’t orphan also can leave the Ahle Beyt (God bless them). The one who isn’t captive can go away from Ahle Beyt (God bless them) as well. Because the Ahle Beyt (God bless them) care for the paupers greatly in nowadays. Also care for the orphan and captive; because they themselves were captivated and know, and they have become orphan so they know its pain. We are orphan today as well; because holy Prophet’s (peace be upon him) and Imam Ali’s (God bless him) blessing shadow aren’t above our head. “We give you food just for the sake of Allah’s satisfaction and we don’t want any remuneration and thankfulness from you.”[14] I said to myself that O God! Who is this person that reciting the holy Quran thus. He recites the holy Quran and the driver’s shoulder shake from weeping intensity. The youth turned back and said in Arabic to the driver that has you any intention to go to Mashhad? The driver answered “yes sir. From a long time ago I want to go to Imam Reza’s (God bless him) holy shrine but it doesn’t happen.” Then he brought out an amount of money from his pocket and gave it to the driver and said to him “when you will go to Mashhad, in the holy shrine, a person with this description will be visiting my ancestor’s tomb. Take this money and bring with yourself and say to him that the thing you requested from me is this amount of money, and this is that amount.” The driver said “yes sir!” then the youth turned back his head. Suddenly that youth, who was speaking Arabic eloquently, turned his head toward me and started to speaking Persian eloquently with me and said to me “Mr. Husseni!” he said me my name and asked me “are you okay?” I said “no” he said “what has happened for you?” I said that I’m disabled; I have gone to a lot of place so that I would be recuperated, but I haven’t recuperated. Then he stood partially and put his hand at the back of me and rubbed it a little bit, and said “you are okay now and you haven’t any illnesses anymore.” Then at the middle of desert, he said to driver that he want to gets off.” The driver said “sir! Here is desert; there aren’t any houses or tents here.” He said “here is my place and tonight I have to stay here.” The driver stopped at the roadside and he opened the door. The driver got off in order to honor him and I came down to honor him as well. Suddenly I saw that all passengers have gotten off from the mini bus. When I reminisced I remember that I was disabled, so how I’m into this desert. As I wanted to call him, he was disappeared.

Of course I don’t know whether Mr. Husseini is alive now or not? But I want to say him that if this text will reach to him and he reads it, come to me so that I see him; come to show him to people; so that they see what a empty hand of Ahle Beyt (God bless them) can do? This hand is the hand that holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said “I’ll extend my hand in hereafter and will take your hands one by one.” This is that hand. We say too that we’ll leave our great sins and won’t insist on small sins. We are known as Shiite and we’ll try to preserve your reputation.