ANOTHER INCIDENT REGARDING

THE WRITING OF LETTER TO IMAM MAHDI (A.S.)

Mohaddis e Noori (R.A.) says: An invaluable scholar and a master of virtues and spiritual abilities, Mirza Ibrahim Shirazi Haeri (May Allah improvise his future and fulfill all his desires), said:

            I came across some important desires in Shiraz, which confused my thoughts and narrowed my chest, one of these desires was the Ziyarat of my Master and Leader, Aba Abdillah al-Husain (A.S.). For this purpose, there was no option but to seek means through the holy threshold of Imam Mahdi (A.S.), may Allah’s Peace be upon him as he is aware of all secrets.

            I wrote down my desires using the ‘Letter of demand’ that is narrated from Imams (A.S.), and left the city of Shiraz near sunset in solitude and reached a place which was surrounded by water, to which the Persians call ‘Istakhr’.

            I stood there and out of the special representatives, called for Abul Qasim, Husain bin Rauh Naubakhti (R.A.), and greeted him with Salaam just the way it had been mentioned in the narrations. I handed the letter to him and requested him to deliver it to my Master and the Master of all men, then threw the letter in water.

            I returned thereafter and none save Allah witnessed the act I had performed. I reached the city after sunset and entered from another gate, went towards my house and did not inform anyone about the incident.

            In the morning, I went to meet my teacher who taught me Hadith and gathered around him with another group of men. Just when the gathering became adorned, a handsome Sayyid, who wore the honorable dress of the servants of Imam Husain’s shrine, arrived. He greeted us with Salaam and sat near our teacher. None of the students including me knew him from past, and did not see him after that incident in Shiraz or anywhere else.

            He then turned towards me and called me by my name. He said: O’ so and so! I have delivered your letter to our Master, Imam Mahdi (A.S.).

            I was astonished upon hearing his statement while others did not understand what he meant. Therefore they asked him to speak more clearly.

            He said: Last night, I saw that a large group of people had gathered aroung Salman e Mohammadi (A.S.) while he had several letters in his hands and was busy looking at the letters. When he saw me, he called for me and said: Go near so and so person, he called me by my name and surname, and tell him:  (while he raised his hand) this is his letter.

            I saw that there was a stamp on the top of that letter, which meant that it has been delivered to Imam Mahdi (A.S.), and there was another stamp behind it; therefore I understood that whoever meets his demand, his letter is stamped and for the one whose request is rejected, the letter remains unchanged, without stamp.

            Those who were present in the class said to me: Is the dream seen by this person true? I told them the entire incident and swore before them that no one had any information regarding it. My friends gave me glad-tidings that my demands have been fulfilled and the incident turned out just like they had predicted.

            After a short while, I migrated to Karbala and reside here at present also. It must not remain untold that all my demands that I had written in the letter, were fulfilled. All praise be to Allah and peace be upon His Friends.^[1]

Late Allama Ali Akbar Nahavandi says:

            Late Allama Qazi Tabatabayi Najafi, a great teacher of ethics, on Asr time, the first Friday of the month of Rabi-ul-Awwal, year 1358 Hijri, in the holy city of Najaf, said to me:

            One of his friends, whose name he did not mention, wrote a letter requesting his demands to Imam Mahdi (A.S.) on the eve of 15^th Sha’ban and threw it in water just as it was famous in that city.

            After a few days, a man came to him and said: Your letter has been delivered to Imam Mahdi (A.S.) and I will come to you on the eve of Ashura so that I can take you to his holiness (A.S.). I strived and resorted to as much prayers as possible, in order to become slightly worthy of meeting his holiness (A.S.).

            On the promised night, i.e. the eve of Ashura, suddenly that man came and in the blink of an eye, he took me to an Island where Imam Mahdi (A.S.) resided.

            In that island, I witnessed such things which cannot be explained or described. There, I saw the holy spirits of the prophets and their successors present along with the sign of divine glory, such that I became unconscious and wasn’t aware if I witness Imam Mahdi (A.S.) or not. Thereafter, in the blink of an eye, that man took me back to my home.^[2]

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