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SEEKING MEANS FOR RESCUE FROM ILLNESS

Seeking means through the name which was read by our Master, Imam Mahdi (A.S.), in the supplication for the end of the age of occultation:

            Daood bin Zarbi says: I became extremely sick in Medina and the news of my sickness reached Imam Sadiq (A.S.). He wrote to me in this way:

            The news of your sickness arrived. Buy one ‘Saa’^[1] of wheat, lie down on your back and pour the wheat sack on your chest in whichever way, then say:

أَللَّهُمَّ إِنّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِاسْمِكَ الَّذي إِذا سَأَلَكَ بِهِ الْمُضْطَرُّ كَشَفْتَ ما بِهِ مِنْ ضُرٍّ ، وَمَكَّنْتَ لَهُ فِي الْأَرْضِ ، وَجَعَلْتَهُ خَليفَتَكَ عَلى خَلْقِكَ ، أَنْ تُصَلِّيَ عَلى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلى أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ ، وَأَنْ تُعافِيَني مِنْ عِلَّتي .

            “O’ Allah, I ask You through Your name with which if a distressed one asks You, You rescue him from his difficulty, and provide him with power on Earth, and make him Your Caliph upon Your creations, to bless Mohammad and his household, and cure me from my sickness”.

            Then sit down, collect the fallen wheat and recite this supplication again. Then divide the wheat into one ‘Mudd’ each (one Mudd is equal to ten ‘Sair’ which equals 75 grams), and give each one of them to a poor person; and recite this supplication again.

       Daood says: When I performed this act, I felt delivered from all entanglements. A few others performed this act as well and benefitted from it.^[2]

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[1] One ‘Saa’ is equal to 39 ‘Sair’ (an old weight almost equal to 75 grams).