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SIXTH ZIYARAT OF IMAM MAHDI (A.S.)

After the Ziyarat of Imam Hadi and Imam Askari (A.S.), move towards the holy vault and hold the gate of the vault like someone who seeks permission to enter, and with the name of God, in the state of peace and dignity, and with complete manners, go down and offer two units of prayer in the holy vault, then say:

اَللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ ، اَللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ ، لا إِلهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ ، اَللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ ، اَللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ وَللَّهِِ الْحَمْدُ . اَلْحَمْدُ للَّهِِ الَّذي هَدانا لِهذا ، وَعَرَّفَنا أَوْلِياءَهُ وَأَعْداءَهُ ، وَوَفَّقَنا لِزِيارَةِ أَئِمَّتِنا وَلَمْ يَجْعَلْنا مِنَ الْمُعانِدينَ النَّاصِبينَ ، وَلا مِنَ الْغُلاةِ الْمُفَوِّضينَ ، وَلا مِنَ الْمُرْتابينَ الْمُقَصِّرينَ .

  اَلسَّلامُ عَلى وَلِيِّ اللَّهِ وَابْنِ أَوْلِيائِهِ ، اَلسَّلامُ عَلَى الْمُدَّخَرِ لِكَرامَةِ اللَّهِ وَبَوارِ أَعْدائِهِ ، اَلسَّلامُ عَلَى النُّورِ الَّذي أَرادَ أَهْلُ الْكُفْرِ إِطْفاءَهُ فَأَبَى اللَّهُ إِلّا أَنْ يُتِمَّ نُورَهُ بِكُرْهِهِمْ ، وَأَمَدَّهُ بِالْحَياةِ حَتَّى يُظْهِرَ عَلى يَدِهِ الْحَقَّ بِرَغْمِهِمْ . أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ اصْطَفاكَ صَغيراً ، وَأَكْمَلَ لَكَ عُلُومَهُ كَبيراً ، وَأَنَّكَ حَيٌّ لاتَمُوتُ حَتَّى تُبْطِلَ الْجِبْتَ وَالطَّاغُوتَ .

  أَللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَيْهِ وَعَلى خُدَّامِهِ وَأَعْوانِهِ عَلى غَيْبَتِهِ وَنَأْيِهِ ، وَاسْتُرْهُ سَتْراً عَزيزاً ، وَاجْعَلْ لَهُ مَعْقَلاً حَريزاً ، وَاشْدُدِ اللَّهُمَّ وَطَأْتَكَ عَلى مُعانِديهِ ، وَاحْرُسْ مَوالِيَهُ وَزائِريهِ .

  أَللَّهُمَّ كَما جَعَلْتَ قَلْبي بِذِكْرِهِ مَعْمُوراً ، فَاجْعَلْ سِلاحي بِنُصْرَتِهِ مَشْهُوراً ، وَإِنْ حالَ بَيْني وَبَيْنَ لِقائِهِ الْمَوْتُ الَّذي جَعَلْتَهُ عَلى عِبادِكِ حَتْماً ، وَأَقْدَرْتَ بِهِ عَلى خَليقَتِكَ رَغْماً ، فَابْعَثْني عِنْدَ خُرُوجِهِ ظاهِراً مِنْ حُفْرَتي ، مُؤْتَزِراً كَفَني ، حَتَّى اُجاهِدَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ فِي الصَّفِ الَّذي أَثْنَيْتَ عَلى أَهْلِهِ في كِتابِكَ فَقُلْتَ « كَأَنَّهُمْ بُنْيانٌ مَرْصُوصٌ »[1] .

  أَللَّهُمَّ طالَ الْإِنْتِظارُ ، وَشَمِتَ بِنَا الْفُجَّارُ ، وَصَعُبَ عَلَيْنَا الْإِنْتِظارُ . أَللَّهُمَّ أَرِنا وَجْهَ وَلِيِّكَ الْمَيْمُونَ في حَياتِنا وَبَعْدَ الْمَنُونِ . أَللَّهُمَّ إِنّي أَدينُ لَكَ بِالرَّجْعَةِ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ صاحِبِ هذِهِ الْبُقْعَةِ .

  اَلْغَوْثَ الْغَوْثَ الْغَوْثَ يا صاحِبَ الزَّمانِ ، قَطَعْتُ في وَصْلَتِكَ الخُلّانَ ، وَهَجَرْتُ لِزِيارَتِكَ الْأَوْطانَ ، وَأَخْفَيْتُ أَمْري عَنْ أَهْلِ الْبُلْدانِ ، لِتَكُونَ شَفيعاً عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ وَرَبّي ، وَإِلى آبائِكَ مَوالِيَّ فى حُسْنِ التَّوْفيقِ ، وَإِسْباغِ النِّعْمَةِ عَلَيَّ ، وَسَوْقِ الْإِحْسانِ إِلَيَّ .

  أَللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ ، أَصْحابِ الْحَقِّ ، وَقادَةِ الْخَلْقِ ، وَاسْتَجِبْ مِنّي ما دَعَوْتُكَ ، وَأَعْطِني ما لَمْ أَنْطِقْ بِهِ في دُعائي ، مِنْ صَلاحِ ديني وَدُنْياىَ ، إِنَّكَ حَميدٌ مَجيدٌ ، وَصَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلى مُحَمَّدٍ وَآلِهِ الطَّاهِرينَ.

            “Allah is Great. Allah is Great. Allah is Great. There is no God save Allah. Allah is Great and to Allah be all praise. All praise be to Allah Who has guided us to this, made us discriminate between His friends and enemies, granted us success to visit our Imams, and has not made us of the obdurate antagonists (of the truth), nor of the immoderate indeterminists, nor of the suspicious and negligent. Peace be upon the one saved for achieving dignity of Allah’s intimate servants and for ruining Allah’s enemies. Peace be upon the light that the people of atheism intend to extinguish; but Allah would not allow but that His light should be perfected, despite their contempt. He thus supported him with survival so that He shall make prevalent the truth at this hands against their will. I bear witness that Allah has chosen you since you were little and perfected His knowledge for you when you grew up; and that you are alive and you will not die before you efface all idols and false deities. O’ Allah! Bless him and his servants and those who helped him to occult and hide from sights, cover him with invulnerable covering, arrange for him an invincible haven, increase, O’ Allah, Your intensity on those who resist him obdurately, and guard his loyalists and visitors. O’ Allah, just as You have made my heart full of reference to him, so also make my weapon prepared in support of him. If death that You have made inescapable on Your servants and You have made inevitably predestined on Your creatures impedes me from meeting him, then restore me to life at his advent, coming our from my hole (i.e. grave), and using my shroud as my garment so that I will fight strivingly in his presence in the line whose people have been praised by You in Your Book where You say, “as if they were a firm and compact wall” O’ Allah! Too long has been the expectation, the wicked are gloating at our misfortune, and victory has been difficult for us. O’ Allah! Show us the blessed face of Your Vicegerent in our lifetimes and after death. O’ Allah, I profess of the Return as my faith in the presence of the owner of this area. (I beseech for) Relief, relief, relief. O’ Patron of the Age! I have ruptured my relations with many friends in order to build good relations with you, I have deserted my homeland in order to visit you, and I have concealed my intention from the peoples of the towns so that you may be my intercessor with your and my Lord, and with your fathers and my masters, seeking excellence of success, conferral of bounties, and making charitable acts run towards me. O’ Allah! Send blessings upon Mohammad and the Household of Mohammad, the rightful ones and the leaders of the creatures, and respond to me in what I have besought You for and grant me all that which I have not mentioned in my prayer, such as the uprightness of my faith and my worldly affairs. You are verily worthy of praise and worthy of glory. May Allah bless Mohammad and his Immaculate Household”.

You may then enter the vault, offer a two-unit prayer, and say the following words:

أَللَّهُمَّ عَبْدُكَ الزَّائِرُ في فِناءِ وَلِيِّكَ الْمَزُورِ ، اَلَّذي فَرَضْتَ طاعَتَهُ عَلَى الْعَبيدِ وَالْأَحْرارِ ، وَأَنْقَذْتَ بِهِ أَوْلِياءَكَ مِنْ عَذابِ النَّارِ . أَللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْها زِيارَةً مَقْبُولَةً ذاتَ دُعاءٍ مُسْتَجابٍ ، مِنْ مُصَدِّقٍ بِوَلِيِّكَ غَيْرِ مُرْتابٍ .

  أَللَّهُمَّ لاتَجْعَلْهُ آخِرَ الْعَهْدِ بِهِ وَلا بِزِيارَتِهِ ، وَلاتَقْطَعْ أَثَري مِنْ مَشْهَدِهِ وَزِيارَةِ أَبيهِ وَجَدِّهِ . أَللَّهُمَّ اخْلُفْ عَلَيَّ نَفَقَتي ، وَانْفَعْني بِما رَزَقْتَني في دُنْيايَ وَآخِرَتي، لي وَلِإِخْواني وَأَبَوَيَّ وَجَميعِ عِتْرَتي، أَسْتَوْدِعُكَ اللَّهَ أَيُّهَا الْإِمامُ الَّذي يَفُوزُ بِهِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ، وَيَهْلِكُ عَلى يَدَيْهِ الْكافِرُونَ الْمُكَذِّبُونَ.

  يا مَوْلايَ يَا بْنَ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ ، جِئْتُكَ زائِراً لَكَ وَلِأَبيكَ وَجَدِّكَ ، مُتَيَقِّناً الْفَوْزَ بِكُمْ ، مُعْتَقِداً إِمامَتَكُمْ . أَللَّهُمَّ اكْتُبْ هذِهِ الشَّهادَةَ وَالزِّيارَةَ لي عِنْدَكَ في عِلِّيّينَ ، وَبَلِّغْني بَلاغَ الصَّالِحينَ ، وَانْفَعْني بِحُبِّهِمْ يا رَبَّ الْعالَمينَ .

O’ Allah, I – Your visiting Servant- am in the courtyard of Your visited vicegerent, the obedience to whom has been made obligatory by You on the slaves and the free and through whom You shall save Your intimate servants from the chastisement of Hellfire. O’ Allah! Decide it to be an admitted visitation of a granted prayer from one who gives full credence to Your vicegerent and who never suspects him. O’ Allah, do not decide this to be the last of my presence and visitation to him and do not cut off my traces in his shrine and in visitation to his father and grandfather. O’ Allah, compensate for me my expenditure, make me benefit from the sustenance that You have provided me in my worldly life and in my Next Life, and do the same to my brothers, parents, and all of my offspring. I entrust you with Allah, O’ Leader through whom the believers will win and at whose hands the belying unbelievers will perish. O’ my Master! O’ son of al-Hasan the son of Ali, I have come to you visiting you, your father, and your grandfather, being certain of winning through you, and having full faith in your Imamate. O’ Allah! Write down this testimony and visitation to me with You in the Most Elevated Place, make me attain that which is attained by the righteous ones, and make me benefit by my love for them, O’ Lord of the worlds. ^[2]

Sayyid bin Taoos (R.A.) says:

            On returning from the holy Shrine of the Askariyayn (A.S.), go back to the holy vault again and offer prayers as much as possible, then stand facing the Qibla and say:

            “O’ Allah, defend Your vicegerent, Your representative…”till the end.^[3]

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