[52] THE SUPPLICATION OF (GAREEQ) A SUNK PERSON. Sayyid Ali bn Taaus in Mahju Dda'waah said while narrating from Abdullah bn Sannan; Abu Abdullah (peace be on him) said: you shall be afflicted by suspicion, where you shall remain without a banner and no guided leader, and no one shall be rescued except those that recite the supplication of (Gareeq) sunk person. I said: how is the supplication of Gareeq? He said: say the following "O' Allah! O' the Beneficent, O' the Merciful, O' He who changes minds, make my mind firm in Your Religion". I said: O' He who changes minds and sights make firm my mind in Your Religion, he said: surely Allah changes minds and sights but say as I have said to you: O' He who change mind, make my mind firm in Your Religion. I said: may be the meaning of his saying (the sight) is because changing of mind and sight shall be on the Day of Judgment, due to the intensiveness of its terror, and in occultation the only fair is changing of mind and not the sight.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[52] THE SUPPLICATION OF (GAREEQ) A SUNK PERSON. Sayyid Ali bn Taaus in Mahju Dda'waah said while narrating from Abdullah bn Sannan; Abu Abdullah (peace be on him) said: you shall be afflicted by suspicion, where you shall remain without a banner and no guided leader, and no one shall be rescued except those that recite the supplication of (Gareeq) sunk person. I said: how is the supplication of Gareeq? He said: say the following "O' Allah! O' the Beneficent, O' the Merciful, O' He who changes minds, make my mind firm in Your Religion". I said: O' He who changes minds and sights make firm my mind in Your Religion, he said: surely Allah changes minds and sights but say as I have said to you: O' He who change mind, make my mind firm in Your Religion. I said: may be the meaning of his saying (the sight) is because changing of mind and sight shall be on the Day of Judgment, due to the intensiveness of its terror, and in occultation the only fair is changing of mind and not the sight.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[53] SUPPLICATION FOR RESCUE FROM AFFLICTIONS. It was written in the book "Silaahul Mu'mineen". In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. O' Allah! Bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad and hasten their relief (O' the most Merciful of the merciful (70) seventy times). O' Allah encompass the enemies of the families of Your Prophet and those that oppressed them and the enemies of their followers and enemies of those that gave allegiance to them with entire evil, and overflow them with evil, and silent them with unbearable night and with unsaved time and quickly retaliate from them and burn their heart with the wrath of Your Hell fire. O' Allah! Scattered their unity, disunite their gatherings, change their plans, turn their banners upside down, destroy their homes and make their life span very near, let their afflictions between themselves, and let us be free from them and held them with intensive responsibility. O' Allah! Impose sufferings and illness on their body and tighten their means of sustenance and deprive them of their properties, and distract them of their ways and cut Your assistance from them and reduce their population. O' Allah! Protect the followers of the household of Your Prophet peace be on them from their evils, and free them from their plots, deceits and afflictions. Help them with Your Grace and unite their words and their gatherings, administer their affairs and teach them what is unknown to them, let them see what is unseen to them, elevate their words and make it very exalted and make very low the words of the enemies.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[54] SUPPLICATION OF (FARAJ) RELIEF (O' MY LORD! MY AFFLICTION IS GREAT). Sheikh Kafa'ami (may Allah have mercy on him) in Baladul Ameen said: this supplication is for the leader of the time, he teaches it to a man that was arrested but he was later released: O' my Lord, the affliction is great, the concealment has go away and the veil is uncovered, and the hope has come to an end, the Earth has become tightened and the Heaven has averted, You are the helper and unto You we laid our complain, we rely on You when on difficulties and when on comfort. O' Allah! Bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, the leader whom You have made their obedience incumbent on us and defined their rank to us, so relief us such a quick relief for their sake within twinkle of eye or even closer than that, O' Muhammad, O' Ali, O' Ali, O' Muhammad, suffice me indeed both of you are worthy of that, help me, indeed both of you are worthy of that, O' my master, O' the leader of the time, relief, relief, relief, accept me, accept me, accept me, this time, this time, this time, quickly, quickly, quickly, O' the most merciful of the merciful by the sake of Muhammad and his purified family.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[55] SUPPLICATION FOR HIM (peace be on him) IN A SPECIFIED TIME. It was written in "Miftaahul Falah" that the supplication is recited in a specified time, which is when the sun is in yellowish, which is prior to the sunset: O' Allah, O' the creator of the elevated roof and the unmovable flat land, the provider of subsistence to the disobedient and the obedient ones who has no other guardian and mediator besides Him. I requested from You by Your name when mentioned on difficult means it turns it to ease, when it was place on the mountain it becomes like a scattered dust, when it was raised to the Heaven it open all the locks, when it was descend to the darkness of the Earth it expand its tightness, when it was supplicated for a death he would be resurrected from his grave, it brings to existence when call with it for the none existence, the heart becomes scared out of submissiveness when it was mentioned to it, and the eyes overflow tears when it sounds to the ears. I asked You by the sake of Your supported Messenger with miracles, who was sent with coherent signs, and by the sake of the commander of the faithful Ali son of Abi Talib, whom You have chosen as his brother, his trustee, and has selected him as his equivalent and relation in marriage. And by the sake of the leader of the time Al-Mahdi, whom different views shall combine to follow, and shall join between various minds, through him the rights of Your intimate friends shall be extracted, through him You shall retaliate the evils of Your enemies and fill the Earth with good and justice through him, with his reappearance You shall expand the servant's favourand gratefulness. And return the fact to its place with honoured and praised and shall return the Religion as new through his hand, send blessing on Muhammad and on the family of Muhammad, I am seeking intercession through them before You, I presented them as intermediary for my demands before You, to grant me the gratification of Your bounties, and grant me success of knowing him and the guidance to his obedience, increase my strength to attached with his infallibility and following his customs, and make me among his group, indeed You hear all the calls with Your mercy, O' the Most Merciful of the merciful.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[56] SUPPLICATON OF IMAM (may our souls be sacrifice for him). This supplication is for the leader of the time (peace be on him) it has been quoted in Mahju Dda'waah by Sayyid Al-Ajal: O' my Lord, for the sake of those that whisper upon You, and for the sake of those that call upon You on the land and on the sea, to grant the poor among the believing men and women with richness and wealthy, and recovery and good health to the ill ones among the believing men and women, and favour to the living believing men and women, forgiveness and mercy to the death of the believing men and women, and upon the strangers among the believing men and women return to their home town with good condition, and successfulness by the sake of Muhammad and the whole of his family.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[57] SUPPLICATION OF SAHM LEIL. The supplication of Sahmi Leil was narrated from Imam Al-Mahdi (May our souls be sacrifice for him). O' Allah! I am requesting from You by the mightiness, strength and pride of Your glory, with the extent of Your severe strength with emphasis of laudation and glorification of Your greatness, with the sublimity, increase and elevation of Your exaltedness, with the continuation, external and persistence of Your time, with the pleasure, forgiveness and security of Your mercy, with the realities of fact among Your right, with the concealed out of Your mysteries, with the fastening glory among Your Glories, with the yearning of meaning to relief the desirous, with burnt, submissions and the sigh of the scared ones, with the hope of the actions and sayings of the strugglers, with the humbleness, submission, intermission and the bitterness of the tolerant, with the worships, night prayers, glorifications and patients of the worshippers. O' Allah! The senses has become distracted, the sight has been diminished, the understandings has perished, the imaginations has become confused, the mind has been shortened, the suspicion is far away from perceiving the essence of what manifested among the wonderfulness of Your strength, without reaching to the cognizant of the luminescence sparkling of Your heavenly lightening. O' Allah that urge movements! The beginning and ending of all the targets. O' He who bring out the branches and pruning of the vegetation. O' He who split the boulder of the unshakable mountains and bring out water from it as helper and life to the creatures, and give life from it to the animals and vegetations, and know what engross in secret thought among the hidden speech and even the language of the Ant. O' He whom the Angels of the seven Heavens extol, praise, glorifies, magnifies, and prostrated to the beautifulness and magnificence of the great sayings, and glorifies the Omnipotence of His authority. O' He who circulates and continuously brightening and lightening the luminous stars, and know the numbers of the living and the death, send Your blessing on Muhammad and on the family of Muhammad the best of the creatures. and do so and so for me. (you mention your demands)
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[58] ANOTHER SUPPLICATION NARRATED FROM HIM (may our souls be sacrifice for him). The narrated supplication from Imam Al-Mahdi (peace be on him): O' Allah! Grant me success in Your obedience, distance us from wrong doings, grant us sincerity in our intention, cognizant of the forbidden things, honour us with guidance and steadfastness, direct our tongue to reason and wisdom, fill our mind with knowledge and perceptions, purify our stomach from forbidden and suspicion things, deprive our hands from oppressions and stealing, avert our sight from immorality and deceptions and block our hearing from nonsense and backbiting. Grant our scholars with asceticism and admonition and the student with struggle and interest and the listeners with obedience and exhortations and on the sick Muslims with recovering and relaxation, and their death with lenience and mercy and on the old ones with dignity and tranquility and on the youth with repentance and forgiveness and on the women with shyness and decency, and on the wealthy ones with respect and abundance and on the poor ones with patient and contentedness and on those on war with victory and upper hand and on the captives with freedom and relaxation and on the leaders with justice and compassionate and on the citizens with farness and good morals, bless the pilgrims and the visitors to the holy house, bless their provisions and their expense and accomplished what is incumbent on them in Pilgrimage and lesser Pilgrimage with Your favour and mercy, O' the Most Merciful f the merciful.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[59] THE SUPPLICATION OF (YA NUR AL-NUR) O' THE LIGHT OF THE LIGHT, FROM THE IMAM, THE PROOF (may our souls be sacrifice for him). Sheikh Kafa'ami (may Allah have mercy on him) quoted it in "Al-Misbaah" from our master, the proof (peace be on him). O' Light of the light, O' the administrator of the affairs, O' He who shall resurrect those in the grave, bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, grant me and my followers relief from adversity, way out from grieves, and widen our ways of sustenance, send to us from Yourself what shall delight us and grant us what You possess, O' the Generous. It was narrated that whoever chooses this supplication by reciting it shall be resurrected with the leader of the affair, peace be on him.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[60] ANOTHER SUPPLICATION FROM HIM (peace be on him). Another supplication from our master the proof (peace be on him) to satisfy an important need. It was quoted in "Qisas Al-Anbiyaa" the stories of the Prophets. O' He when the affairs become difficult He open the ways we didn't imagined, so send Your blessing to Muhammad and on the family of Muhammad and open for me ways out from my difficulties that I didn't imagined, O' the Most Merciful of the merciful. In "Tuhfatu Ridawiyah" he said: Allamah Taqi, Sayyid Mirza Hasan bn Sayyid Mirza Ali Agha Shirazi (may Allah glorifies his secret) told me of the following supplication, he mentioned that it was from the proof (may Allah hasten his relief) and some pious scholars has also narrated it. He (may Allah have mercy on him) said: you recite it after every day compulsory prayers and at any other time, it suffices you in your important requests and makes you reach your goal. O' He when the affairs has become difficult He open ways we didn't imagined, so send Your blessing on Muhammad and on the family of Muhammad, open for ways out of my difficulties that I didn't imagined, O' the Most Merciful of the merciful.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[61] SUPPLICATION WITH GREAT SIGNIFICANCE [FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT OF DEMANDS]. This great supplication was mentioned in "Al-Kalam Tayyib" from the leader of the time (peace be on him) those that lost anything or those that has a demand should always read the following: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful, You are Allah, there is no god except You, the Beginner and He who returns the creations. You are Allah, there is no god except You, the Administrator of the affairs, He who resurrects those on the graves. You are Allah, there is no god except You, the Receiver, the Simplifier. You are Allah, there is no god except You, the Inheritor of the Earth and all that is in it. I asked You by Your name that You answer if You are called with it, and You give through it if You are asked with it. I asked You by the sake of Muhammad and his holy household and by the sake of their right which You have made incumbent for Yourself, to send Your blessing to Muhammad and on the family of Muhammad and to grant my request this time this time. O' the chief, O' the master, O' the reliever, I asked You by the name by which You named Yourself, which engrosses with it through the hidden knowledge with You to send Your blessing upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad and quicken our freedom from this difficulties, O' He who change minds and sight, O' He who hears the supplications, verily You possess power over all thing, with Your mercy, O' the Most Merciful of the merciful.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[62] SUPPLICATION ORDERED ITS WRITING AND DRINKING BY OUR MASTER, THE LEADER OF THE TIME (peace be on him) FOR RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS. Muhadith Nuri (may Allah have mercy on him) said narrating from Kafa'ami in his book "Baladul Ameen" that Imam Al-Mahdi (peace be on him) said: Whoever writes this supplication in a new plate with Imam Al-Husein's soil (peace be on him) and later washed and drink it shall recover from his sickness. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By the name of Allah which is medication, praise be to Allah which is cure and there is no god except Allah, the Sufficient, He is the Cure of the cures, He is the adequate of all Sufficient, suffering should quit with the permission of the Lord of men, and grant medication that is not accompany with illness and may Your blessing be on Muhammad and on his superior families.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[63] THE NARRATED SUPPLICATION FROM HIM (peace be on him) FOR RESCUE FROM NARROWNESS AND DIFFICULTIES. It was said in Al-Kalamu Ttayyib: I have seen the hand writing of some of our companions among the pious and trustworthy ones: I heard in Rajab in the year 1093 A. H. from a brother in Islam, the maid of Suduq who has obtained perfection in humanity and holy attributes, he is by name Al-Ameer Ismail bn Husein beek bn ali bn Suleiman Al-Jaabiri Al-Ansari (may Allah brighten his proves) saying: I heard Sheikh Hajj Ali Al-Makki saying: I was afflicted with narrowness and difficulties and I fear the destruction of myself, later I came across a wrapped supplication in my pocket that was not given to me by any one, I was then surprise and became confused, after that I saw a pious man in my dream saying: I have given the supplication to you, so offer it you will be saved from your narrowness and difficulties, though it was not obvious to me who speaks to me in my dream, the scene that increases my surprise. Another time I saw the awaiting proof (peace be on him) and said to me: offer the supplication I have given it to you and you should teach those that are in need of it. Consequently, I have implemented it several times and have seen a quick acceptance, then the supplication get out of my hand for some times and I seriously regret of its lost by seeking pardon from Allah for my bad deeds, later an unknown person cane to me telling me that the supplication fall from me in certain place, and it did not cross my mind to go to such place, I took my supplication and observe a thanksgiving prostration to Allah, the supplication is as follows: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. O' my Lord; I requested spiritual auxiliaries from You that shall strengthen my general and sectional power till I subdued with my fundamental self and every despotic souls and depressed all its movement till all its power drops and never allow any despotic on Earth until is burnt with the fire of my subjugation. O' the powerful, O' the powerful, O' He who possess terrible assault, the one who subdue, O' He who subdued. I requested from You what You have deposited among Your forcible names that all souls subdued to, to bestowed me with this mysteries at this very time, till all difficulties are made easy and to surmount all impenetrable by Your strength, O' He who possess substantial strength. You recite this supplication (3) three times early dawn, if possible (3) three times in the morning and (3) three times in the evening time. If the situation persist the reader should recite the following thirty times: O' the Beneficent, O' the Merciful, O' the Most Merciful of the merciful, I requested lenience from You which goes through its measures.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[64] PRESERVATION FOR OUR MASTER, AL-QA'IM (may our souls be sacrifice for him). This preservation of our master Al-Qa'im (peace be on him) was narrated by Sayyid Al-Ajal in Mahju Dda'waah and Sheikh Al-Kafa'ami in Misbaah: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. O' the Owners of slaves, the Vanquisher of the parties, the Opener of the closed doors, O' the causer of all effects, cause an un-demanded ways for us by the sake of there is no god except Allah and Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace be on him and on all his progeny.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[65] SUUPLICATION OF THE SHI'A, WHEN OUR MASTER INTENDS GOING OUT (May our souls be sacrifice for him). In tradition, the holy Prophet (peace be on him and on his holy progeny) said: "whoever wanted to be secured from drowning, burnt and theft should recite the following in the morning": By the name of Allah and His wishes, no one turns away evils except Allah, by the name of Allah and His wishes, no one that do convey goods except Allah, by the name of Allah and His wishes, what ever bounty one possess is from Allah, by the name of Allah and His wishes, there is no power nor strength except that of Allah the Exalted, the Greatest, blessing be on Muhammad and on his pure and holy progeny. Whoever recites this supplication (3) three times in the morning shall be rescued from drowning, burnt and theft till the evening period, and whoever recite it (3) three times in the evening shall be rescued from burnt, drowning and theft till morning period. Verily Khidr and Ilyas (peace be on them) usually meet in every occasion and departed each other with these very words. "This is the slogans of my followers which differentiate them from my enemies when the Qa'im shall be coming out"
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[66] PRAYER FOR THE LEADER OF WOMEN, FATIMAH ZAHRA (peace be on her) [O' Allah bless Fatimah and her father…] Prayer for Fatimah Zahra (peace be on her) is among the implemented supplication for obtaining ones demand, it should be recited for (530) five hundred and thirty times: O' Allah! Bless Fatimah, her father, her husband and her children (and the deposited mystery in her) to the extent of all that is encompassed by Your knowledge. This prayer was not mentioned in the ancient books, but it was common during the time of Sheikh Al-Azam Al-Ansari and we have mentioned it in this book for two reasons: 1- This prayer even though it was not mentioned in the ancient books and Sheikh Ansari has quoted it but for the deep connection between Sheikh Ansari and the awaiting leader (may our souls be sacrifice for him) there is strong probability that the prayer is from Imam (peace be upon him) even though Sheikh Ansari did not declare it. 2- The meaning of the world "the deposited mystery in her" is the Imam Al-Mahdi (May our souls be sacrifice for him).
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[67] THE VIRTUES OF THE CHAPTERS (SURAH) THAT COMMENCE WITH "SABBAH". We shall mention in this chapter the virtues of the chapters (Surah) that commence with (Sabbah) i. e. glorification of Allah. Jabir said: I heard Aba Ja'afar (peace be upon him) saying: whoever recite the whole chapters before sleeping will not die until he meet with the Imam (peace be upon him) and if he dies, he will be at the side of the Prophet (peace be on him and his progeny). I said: reading those chapters together with Ayatul Qursiyu, the holy verse "Annur" the light, and the verse which reads "Rabi Id'khilni…. " And other verses. Verily we should be aware that the best way for who ever wanted to meet with Imam is to concentrate on his complete satisfaction. CHAPTER SEVEN IN USE OF MEANS THROUGH OUR MASTER (may our souls be sacrifice for him).
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[68] SUPPLICATION THROUGH MEANS (TAWASSUL). POPULARILY KNOWN AS SUPPLICATION OF KHAJAH NASEER (may Allah have mercy on him). Sayyid (may Allah have mercy on him) related it in his book Mahju Dda'waat. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. O' Allah! Send blessing, peace and increase mercy on the unlettered Prophet, an Arab, Hashemite, Qurayshite, a Meccan, and Medinite, a tolerant and a Tuhamite, the glorious master, the luminous light, the sparkling stars, who possess dignity and tranquility, who was buried in Medina, the supported servant, the delivered Messenger, the selected and glorified one, the praised and commended one, the beloved of the Lord of the worlds, the master of the Messengers and the seal of the Prophets, the intercessor for the wrong doers, the mercy to the worlds, the father of Al-Qasim, Muhammad, blessing of Allah be upon him and upon his holy family. Blessing and peace be upon You, O' the father of Al-Qasim, O' the Messenger of Allah, O' the leader of mercy, O' the intercessor of the nation, O' the proof of Allah on his creations, O' our chief and master, we concentrates, seeking for intercession and means through you to Allah, we presented our demand in this world and in the world Hereafter before you, O' the prominent one before Allah, intercede for us before Allah. O' Allah! Send blessing, peace and increase Your mercy on the purified master, the successful leader, the brave lion, the father of Hasan and Husein, the distributor of Paradise and Hell, who possess wide belly , strong and embolden, firm integrity, the obvious scholar, the helper and patron, the guardian of the Religion, the guardian of the guardians, the pleasant master, the leader of the executors, who judge with clear text of the Qur'an, who possess clear sincerity, who was buried in Garriy , lion the son of the conqueror, the exterior of astonishment, the endorser of every stages, the separator of fashions, the penetrating star, the passive lion, the point of circle of request, the conqueror lion of God, the conqueror of every conqueror, the desire of every needier, the possessor of all pride and high rank, the leader of the east and west, our master and the master of the two worlds, the leader, father of the two Hasan, the commander of the faithful, Ali son of Abi Talib, may the blessing of Allah be on him. Blessing and peace be upon you, O' the commander of the faithful, O' Ali son of Abi Talib, O' the brother of the Messenger, O' the husband of the virgin lady, the father of the two grand sons, the proof of Allah on His creation, O' our chief and master, we concentrates, seeking intercession, and means from Allah through you, and we present our demand in this world and in the world Hereafter before you, O' the prominent one before Allah, intercede for us before Allah. O' Allah! Send blessing, peace and increase mercy on the splendid and beautiful princess, the infallible and the oppressed one, the noble and magnanimous one, the pleasant who has suffered a lot from the hand of the mischievous ones, who has long grief in a short period of time, the pleasant and tolerant, the modest and perfect, the one whose prestige was not known, who is having hidden grave, who was buried secretly, who was openly usurped, the mistress of the women, the most beautiful among human being, the mother of the excellent and noble leaders, daughter of the best among the Prophets, the pure and purified one, the virgin and maiden one, Fatimah the devout and bosom one, peace be on her. Blessing and peace be upon you and your descendants, O' Fatimah the bosom one, O' daughter of Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, O' the virgin one, O' the delight of the eye of the Messenger, O' the flesh of the Prophet, O' the mother of the two grand sons, O' the proof of Allah on His creations, O' our princess and mistress, we concentrate, seeking for intercession and means to Allah through you, and have presented our demands in this world and in the world Hereafter before you, O' the prominent one before Allah, intercede for us before Allah. O' Allah, send Your blessing, peace and increase Your mercy on master Al-Mujtaba, the promised leader, the grand son of the chosen one, son of the pleasant one, the banner of guidance, the exalted scholar, the owner of impenetrable reckon and all virtues and exalted honours, the intercessor son of the intercessor, who was assassinated with infusible poison, who was buried in the land of Baqiy, who was acquainted with the obligatory and none obligatory, the possessor of generosity and favour, the detector of open and hidden difficulties, problems and tribulation, whom people's tongue were weak in his praise, the genuine and trustworthy leader,Al-Hasan the father of Muhammad (may Allah's blessing and peace be on him). May Allah's blessing and peace be upon you, O' the father of Muhammad, O' Al-Hasan son of Ali, O' the chosen one, O' the son of Allah's Messenger, O' the son of the commander of the faithful, O' the son of Fatimah Zahra, O' Allah's proof on his creations, O' the master of the youth of the Paradise, O' our chief and master, we have concentrated, seeking for intercession and means to Allah through you, and we have presented our demands in this world and in the world Hereafter before you, O' the prominent one before Allah, intercede for us before Allah. O' Allah, send Your blessing, peace and increase Your mercy on the master of the ascetics, the leader of the worshippers and those that bow and prostrate, the guardian of the king and the glorious one, who was assassinated by the unbelievers and the infidels, the owner of tribulation and affliction, who was buried in the holy land of Karbala, the grand son of the Messenger to men and Jinn, the light of the two eyes of our master and the master of the two worlds, the genuine leader, Al-Husein, the father of Abdullah (may the blessing and peace of Allah be upon him). May blessing and peace be upon you, O' the father of Abdullah, O' Al-Husein son of Ali, O' the martyred, O' the son of Allah's Messenger, O' the son of the commander of the faithful, O' the son of Fatimah Zahra, O' the chief of the youth in the Paradise, O' Allah's proof on His creations, O' our chief and master, we concentrated, seeking intercession and means to Allah through you, and we have presented our demands in this world and in the world Hereafter before you, O' the prominent one before Allah, intercede for us before Allah. O' Allah, send Your blessing, peace and increase Your mercy on the father of the Imams, the lamp of the nation, the detector of sorrow, the revival of the Prophetic traditions, who has established determination, the possessor of exalted ranks, who is friendly to tribulations, the possessor of lamentation, who was buried in land of Teebah, who was free from every dishonour, the best of the strugglers, the most perfect among the thanks givers and those that praise Allah, the midday sun for the repentant, the night moon for the observers of night prayer, the genuine leader and the pretty of the worshippers, Ali son of Al-Husein, the father of Muhammad, (may Allah's blessing and peace be upon both of them). May Allah's blessing and peace be upon you, O' the father of Muhammad O' Ali son of Al-Husein, O' the pretty of the worshippers, O' he who prostrate much, O' the son of the Prophet, O' the son of the commander of the faithful, O' Allah's proof on His creation, O' our master and chief, we have concentrated, seeking for intercession and means to Allah through you, and we have presented our needs in this world and in the world Hereafter before you, O' the prominent before Allah, intercede for us before Allah. O' Allah, send Your blessing, peace and increase Your mercy on the moon of the moons, the light of the lights, the selected leader, the master of the good ones, the pure and clean one, the splendid moon, the shinning stars, the flowing sea, the excellent pearls, who was nicknamed as Baqir, the prominent master, the noble leader, who was buried close to his father and grandfather, whose school is filled up with the enemies and the well-wishers, the genuine and continuous leader, Muhammad son of Ali, the father of Ja'afar, peace be on both of them. May Allah's blessing and peace be upon you, O' father of Ja'afar, O' Muhammad son of Ali, O' Al-Baqir, O' the son of Allah's Messenger, O' the son of the commander of the faithful, O' Allah's proof on His creations, O' our chief and master, we have concentrated, seeking for intercession and means to Allah through you, and we have presented our demands in this world and in the world Hereafter before you, O' the prominent one before Allah, interceded for us before Allah. O' Allah! Send Your blessing, peace and increase Your mercy on the master, Al-Sadiq, the trustworthy one, the firm scholar, the tolerant and the sympathetic one, the guide to the right path, who quench his follower's thirsty with nectar of knowledge, who lead his enemies to Hell fire, the possessor of an exalted honour and impenetrable lineage, he who obtained all virtues, the intercessor son of an intercessor, who was buried in the land of Baqiy, the trained and supported one, the praised leader, Ja'afar son of Muhammad, the father of Abdullah (may Allah's blessing and peace be upon him). May Allah's blessing be upon you, O' the father of Abdullah, O' Ja'afar son of Muhammad, O' Al-Sadiq, O' the Prophet's son, O' the son of the commander of the faithful, O' Allah's proof on His creations, O' our chief and master, we concentrated, seeking for intercession and means to Allah through you, and we presented our demands in this world and in the world Hereafter before you, O' the prominent one before Allah, intercede for us before Allah. O' Allah! Send Your blessing, peace and increase Your mercy on the honourable master, the tolerant leader, whose name is epithet, the tolerant, the suppressor of anger, the leader of the armies, who was buried in the Quraysh grave Yard, the possessor of luminous honour and clear praise, and pure lineage, the true leader, Musa son of Ja'afar, the father of Ibrahim, (may blessing and peace of Allah be upon him). May blessing and peace be upon you, O' the father of Ibrahim, O' Musa son of Ja'afar' O' Al-Kazim, O' the good servant of Allah, O' the son of Allah's Messenger, O' the son of the commander of the faithful, O' Allah's proof on His creation, O' our chief and master, we concentrated, seeking for intercession and means to Allah through you, and we have presented our demands in this world and in the world Hereafter before you, O' the prominent one before Allah, intercede for us before Allah. O' Allah! Send Your blessing, peace and increase Your mercy on the master of the infallible, the oppressed Imam, who was martyred poisonously, the grieved stranger, who was assassinated and the deprived one, the scholar of the concealed knowledge, the luminous stars, the radiant of the suns, who is friendly with souls, who was buried in the holy land of Tus , the pleasant and contented one, the desired and the selected one, the true Imam, Ali son of Musa Al-Rida, the father of Al-Hasan (may Allah's blessing and peace be upon him). May Allah's blessing and peace be upon you, O' the father of Al-Hasan, O' Ali son of Musa Al-Rida, O' the son of Allah's Messenger, O' the son of the commander of the faithful, O' Allah's proof on His creations, O' our chief and master, we concentrated, seeking for intercession and means to Allah through you, and we have presented our demands in this world and in the world Hereafter before you, O' the prominent one before Allah, intercede for us before Allah. O' Allah! Send Your blessing, peace and increase Your mercy on the master, the Just and the scholar, the implementer of Your law and the perfected one, the virtuous, the generous, the best of the openhanded ones, the acquainted one with the mysteries of the beginning and the Hereafter, and for every nation the is a guide, the alternative for the well-wishers on the day when the caller shall call, who was mentioned among the guidance of direction, who was buried in the holy land of Baghdad, the master of the Arabs, the praised Imam, the light of Muhammad, who was named as Taqi, the Imam, Muhammad son of Ali, the father of Ja'afar, peace be on him. May Allah's blessing and peace be upon you, O' the father of Ja'afar, O' Muhammad son of Ali, O' Al-Taqi, the openhanded one, O' the son of Allah's Messenger, O' the son of the commander of the faithful, O' Allah's proof on His creation, O' our chief and master, we concentrated, seeking for Your intercession and means to Allah through you, and we have presented our demands in this world and in the world Hereafter before you, O' the prominent one before Allah, intercede for us before Allah. O' Allah! Send Your blessing, peace and increase Your mercy on the two brave and noble Imams, the two firm masters, the two virtuous ones, the two perfected ones, the two generous ones, the two Just ones, the two scholarly ones, the two good deed ones, the two most pious ones, the two pure ones, the two luminous lights, the two suns and moons, the two stars, the two fortunate ones, the two inheritors of the two sacred places, the owners of the two sacred Mosques, the two cave of those that fear God, the two helper of the creatures, the two luminous moons, the two mountains of knowledge, the two banners of guidance, whom were buried in Sammarrah, the detectors of tribulations and afflictions, the possessors of generosity and favour, the two true leaders, Ali son of Muhammad Al-Taqi, the father of Al-Hasan, and Al-Hasan the father of Muhammad (blessing and peace of Allah be upon both of them). May Allah's blessing and peace be upon both of you, O' the father of Al-Hasan and the father of Muhammad, O' Ali son of Muhammad, O' Al-Naqi Al-Hadi and O' Al-Hasan son of Ali, O' Al-Zaki Al-Askari,O' the sons of the Messenger of Allah, O' the sons of the commander of the faithful, O' Allah's proves on the whole of His creations, O' our chiefs and masters, we have concentrated, seeking for intercession and means to Allah through both of you, and we have presented our demands in this world and in the world Hereafter before both of you, O' the prominent ones before Allah, intercede for us before Allah. O' Allah! Send Your blessing, peace and increase Your mercy on the caller to Prophet hood, the influence of the lion (Ali) the infallible of Fatimah, the tolerant of Al-Hasan, the braveness of Al-Husein, the worship of Al-Sajjad, the effects of Al-Baqir, the sign of Al-Ja'afar, the science of Al-Kazim, the proves of Rida, the openhandedness of Taqi, the purity of Naqi, the solemnity of Al-Askari, and the divine occultation, who shall stand with truth, who shall call for absolute truth, the word of Allah, the security of Allah, the proof of Allah, who was overcome with Allah's commandment, who dissolve in the scared of Allah, the open and hidden leader, the defender of tribulations and afflictions, the possessor of generosity and favour, the true Imam, Muhammad son of Al-Hasan, the father of Al-Qasim, the leader of the age and the time, the ambassador of the Most Merciful, the leader of men and Jinn, (may Allah's blessing and peace be upon him). May the blessing and peace of Allah be upon you, O' the trustee of Al-Hasan, the good ambassador, O' the leader of our time, who shall rise for truth, the awaiting Al-Mahdi, O' our chief and master, we concentrated, and seeking for intercession and means to Allah through you, and we have presented our demands in this world and in the world Hereafter before you, O' the prominent one before Allah, intercede for us before Allah. [Here you request for all your needs from Allah, later you raise your head and say the following] O' my chiefs and masters, I have concentrated with you all, you are all my leaders and devices the day of my need, indigence and demands before Allah, I take you (all) as a means to Almighty Allah, with love and nearness to you (all) I hope for deliverance from Allah, you should act as my hope before Allah, O' my masters, O' the friends of Allah, may Allah's blessing
be on you all. O' Allah! These are our Imams, masters, leaders, elders, and intercessors, to them I gave allegiance and I denounce their enemies in this world and the world Hereafter. O' Allah! Be in friend with those that paid them allegiance, and be in enmity with their enemies, help those that render assistance to them and let down those that betray them. O' Allah! Curse those that oppress them, and hasten their relief and destroy their enemies among the Jinn and the men from the beginning to the end of the time, (Amen) , O' the Lord of the worlds. O' Allah! Grant us the opportunity to visit them in this world and grant us their intercession in the world Hereafter, resurrect us within their group, and under their banner, O' Allah don't distinguish between us and them even in a twinkling of eye in this world and in the world Hereafter; with Your Mercy, O' the Most Mercy of the merciful. [69] SEEKING FOR MEANS (TAWASSUL) THROUGH OUR MASTER, THE LEADER OF THE TIME (peace be upon him). It was quoted in Qabsil Misbaah, brief supplication for seeking means through our master, the leader of the time, peace be on him as follows: O' Allah! I am seeking from You, by the sake of Your guardian and Your proof, the leader of the time to assist me in all my affairs and prevent me against every thing harmful, oppressors and aggressors, assist me because all my struggles has exhausted, suffice me against all my enemies, anxiety, debt, my descendant and all my families including my brothers and all those that their affairs concerns me, (Amen) the Lord of the worlds. It was said in "Jannatil Khulud" surely the key and successfulness against the enemies during the days of war and other days and paying off debt is base on seeking means through the leader of the affairs (may our souls be sacrifice for him) with the above mentioned supplication.
[70] SEEKING FOR MEANS THROUGH HIM PEACE BE ON HIM, IN EVERY DIFFICULT ISSUES (YA- FAARISAL HIJAZ). O' the horseman of Hijaz take me over, O' Al-Mahdi, the father of all goods take me over, O' the father of Al-Qasim take me over, take me over and don't let me down because I am weak and distressed.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[71] ANOTHER SEEKING MEANS THROUGH HIM (may our souls be sacrifice for him). (O' THE LEADER OF THE TIME). It was related that whoever is affected with grief, distress and trouble should recite the following (70) seventy times: "O' Allah, O' Muhammad, O' Ali, O' Fatimah, O' the leader of the time, take me over and don't destroy me".
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[72] ANOTHER SEEKING OF MEANS THROUGH HIM PEACE BE ON HIM. It was said in Tuhfa Arridawiyah: you should sent blessing to the Prophet (100) one hundred times after the recommended (Nafila) after Magrib prayer, and then you recite the following supplication (70) seventy times. "O' Allah, O' Muhammad, O' Ali, O' Fatimah, O' Al-Hasan, O' Al-Husein, O' the leader of the time, take me over, O' the leader of the time". After that you send (100) one hundred blessing to the Prophet (peace be on him and his holy progeny) and put forward your requests. Sayyid Allamah Al-wahid mentioned that it was tested for achieving important issues. CHAPTER EIGHT ON WRITING LETTER TO IMAM. Writing letter to Imam is among the effected means and it has tremendous and surprising effects, because our master as it was narrated is strongly pitiful to his well-wishers. I have personally in several occasions written letter to him (peace be upon him) and I saw a tremendous and surprising effect.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[73] HOW TO WRITE LETTER TO OUR MASTER, THE LEADER OF THE TIME (peace be upon him). Write all that we shall mention and drop it in any of the tomb of the Imams (peace be on them) or you wrap it and cover it with pure soil and drop it there, or you throw it into a river or deep well or into a pond of water, surely it shall reach the leader of the time peace be on him, he shall personally take control of your demands. Write the following: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. O' my master, I write to you peace be upon you seeking for assistance and complaining of what has befell on me by seeking refuge from Allah, I am also seeking from you, for the issues that has befell on me and disturb my mind and make my thinking so deep which has seize part of my mind and has change important blessing of You (Allah) on me, my intimate friends abstain from me when the imagination appears before me and also my cherished ones denounce me when it approach me while my deceit is not able to defend me, for me not possessing patient and my powerlessness has prevent me from having endurance. Then I have recourse this issues to you, and have depended on Allah whose praise is more exalted and unto you the turning away all the problems from me, knowing your exalted rank before Almighty Allah, the Lord of the worlds. He who direct every thing and the Owner of every affairs, having trust in you for your quick intervention to Allah for my affairs, having the certainty of its acceptance from you and granting of my request. O' my master, it is you who can put my assumption in to reality and make true all my hope in the following issues. (You mention your needs) Hence I don't obtain the power and patient to attain it, even though I might be entitle to it and even more of it but due to my evil deeds and negligence in my duties to Almighty Allah, I was debar of it. So, O' my master may Allah's blessing be on you, assist me for I have regretted my previous bad acts and tender my affairs to Almighty Allah before it is too late and before my enemy commence rejoicing upon me. By your grace may Almighty Allah spread His blessing on me! I requested from Almighty Allah a precious assistance and near victory that contain reaching my ambition, good fundamentals, good ending and security from every fearful things all the time, verily His praise is exalted and He act according to His wish. He suffices me and excellent authority in commencement and in consequences. Then you intend going to the river or any deep valley and rely on some of the doors, like the door of Uthman son of Sayyid Al-Amri, or the door of his son, Muhammad bn Uthman, or Al- Husein bn Ruh or Ali bn Muhammad Assamari (may Allah be pleased with them). Those are the doors of Imam Al-Mahdi (may Allah's blessing be upon him) you mention one of them when intending throwing the letter and say the following O' [You mention the name of one of the deputy of Imam] peace be unto you, I bear witness that you died for the sake of Allah though you are alive and obtain your provisions from Allah, I addressed you base on your live before Almighty Allah as a trustworthy one, you should deliver this my letter and request to our master peace be on him and his holy family. Then you throw it into a river or a deep well or pond, your request will be granted by Allah's wishes. Allamah Majlisi included after his saying "then throw it in to a river …" you imagine as if you are delivering it to him, it shall reach him and your request shall be granted by Allah's wish. A narrator by name Nuri said: it can be deduced from this noble tradition that these four great noble men who are the intermediaries between him and his followers during the lesser occultation do take people's request to him and deliver their answers back to them, they also maintain the same position during the longer occultation. From this direction we can understand that Imam's table of goodness, openhandedness, generosity, favour and benefaction (peace be upon him) is spread to every spot of this Earth for those that are weak, those that are in difficulties and for those that are roaming about without getting the right path and so on. When an ignorant person requested from him, he shall drink from his noble knowledge, if one loses his ways, he shall guide him to his way, when one is sick, he shall wear him the cloth of healthiness as it was clearly stated from the beginning. The out come in this respect is that the leader of the time (may our souls be sacrifice for him) is present between the servants and overlook his followers, and he is able to detect afflictions and he is acquainted with all hidden and secrets, he did not secluded himself from his position due to his occultation. CHAPTER NINE ON ISTIKHARAH (REQUESTING FOR WHAT IS BEST). Sayyid Ali bn Taaus said: I have found Istikharah among the supplication of the Prophet (peace be on him and his holy progeny) and the Imams (peace be on them) said that there is a divine power behind it. I have also found that Istikharah is among the mysteries of Allah. He discloses it to the Prophet (peace be on him and his progeny) when He ascends him to the Heaven. I have also found the latest form of Istikharah supplication from our master Al-Mahdi peace be on him and his pure fathers. This is a complete prove among the learned ones.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[74] THE FIRST ISTIKHARAH (REQUESTING FOR WHAT IS BEST) USING CHAPLETS. I saw in some ancient book this Istikharah which was ascribe to our master, the leader of the time, peace be on him: In the first place you recite Surah Al-Fatihah till you reach His saying {guide us to the right path} after reading this verse, you send blessing to the Prophet and his pure progeny for (3) three times, and recite the following (3) three times "O' He who knows, guide he who knows not" then hold any part of your chaplet and started counting it till the end of the chaplet, if the last one is in odd number, you can go ahead with the issue but if it is even number you desist from the issue. If you still desired to know more about the issue you observe second Istikharah with the intention of abandoning the issue, if the first Istikharah was go ahead and the second Istikharah is abstinence then going ahead is good, but if the first Istikharah was abstinence and the second one is going ahead, then doing such thing or leaving it has no any difference. Is also applies that if the first Istikharah was abstinence and the second Istikharah is also abstinence, then it is incumbent to completely abstain from the issue.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[75] SECOND ISTIKHARAH WITH CHAMPLET. The author of Jawahir said: there is another common Istikharah among the people of our time. Perhaps it was attributed to our master Al-Qa'im may our souls be sacrifice for him, as follows: To grasp the chaplet after reciting the supplication and start dropping it eight one after the other, at the end if the chaplet remain one, the issue is good, if it remain two, it is one abstinence from the issue, if it remains three, you have the option whether to do it or to leave it, if it remain four, it is abstinence twice from the issue, if it remains five, there shall be difficulty on the process, if it remains six, it is good to go ahead and it also necessitate quick action, if it remains seven, it is like if it remains five and if it remains eight, it is abstinence from the issue four times. CHAPTER TEN ON PRESERVATION OF AL-YAMANI AND HIS STORY. We have chosen in the tenth chapter of this book the preservation of Al-Yamani which was narrated from the commander of the faithful (peace be upon him). Al-Ameer Ishaq Al-Istrabadi said: I read this preservation and it was amended by our master, the leader of the time, peace be on him, the following in his sayings: THE STORY OF PRESERVATION OF AL-YAMANI. On my way too Mecca, I fell sick and I was left behind the caravan, then I was tired of life and I lied down like some one who is about to die, I then commence reading the (shahada) words of testification of Allah, surprisingly there our master and master of the worlds and Allah's ambassador on the entire men came over my head and said: "O' Ishaq stand up, I stood up while I was feeling thirsty, he supply me with water and take me by his back, then I commence reading this preservation, he (peace be upon him) amended it for me till I conclude it, when I reach a valley, I drop down and he disappears from my sight".
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[76] PRESERVATION OF AL-YAMANI. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. O' Allah! You are the real King, there is no god except You, I am Your servant who has oppressed himself, I am confessing my sins and no one pardon sin except You, so pardon me, O' the Forgiver, the Praise worthy. O' Allah! I appreciates Your bounty on me, really You deserve appreciation for what You have specialize for me in endowment and aspirations, and what reaches me among Your abundant favour and Your benefactions, You dwell me in justice and Your favour which has also reach me, among the favour You bestowed on me was Your defending me at all condition, You have also granted me success and answering of my call at any time I call upon You. I call You connectively and I ask You but I met You to have comforted me in every aspect, and You look over all my affairs, You have pardon all my sins, You have covered all my nakedness, I am not lack of Your benefaction since I descend to this house of choice, then what shall I present to You on the Day of Judgment? I am Your freeman in every lost and misfortunes, in grief and dejections for which anxiety and different categories of afflictions has overcome me, and remove all the pains decided on me, I don't remind anything from you except courtesy and I did not envisage in You except favour. Your benefaction encompasses me, Your favour is continuously pouring on me, Your blessing on me is connected, the antecedent didn't establish my caution rather You confirm my hope and accompany my journeys and You honoured my present and cured my sickness and feebleness, You also pardon my recourse and my dwellings, and my enemies were not able to rejoice upon me, You should afflict those that desired to afflict me, and You suffice me the burden of those in enmity with me. My praise on You is continuous and my commendation on You is everlasting from time to time, with varieties of glorification and sincere remembrance, pleasing with Your obvious Oneness and Your sincere exaltation in multitude, which increase peoples merit, which did not toil your strength and it didn't associate with Your divineness, You are not known to be hydrology till various things possess similarity, You are not seen with eye when You hold thing from their instinct, and imagination can never go beyond hidden covers, belief in You is limited to Your tremendousness, deep imagination cannot perceive You, deep thought cannot accomplish You and vision can't reach You in the glory of Your omnipotence. The attribution of Your strength is more exalted than that of Your creatures, and Your tremendousness is more exalted than that, no one decreases what You desired to increases and no one increases what You desired to decreases, no one made You punctual when creating the souls, the imaginations is too weary to describe Your attributes, the senses is are too abate to give the true nature of Your sublimity, how could You be described while You are the Omnipotent and the most Holy, Who did not seize to be everlasting in Your oneness which there is none beside You and there is none like You. Different profound of creeds and thoughts are perplexed in Your kingdom, the entire kings are humble due to Your solemnity, every face yield in humbleness due to submissiveness to You, and every thing comply to Your tremendousness, and all thing surrender to Your Mightiness, and all head succumb to Your Will, thought of any thing beside that is just a language composition, and some went astray due to direction in vicissitude of attributes, whoever ponder on that shows that his shortsightedness, and dazzle of his sense and puzzle in his thought. O' Allah! You owned continuous, consecutive, consistent and firm thanks, one who is not missing can't perish in the kingdom, and there is no obliteration on the milestones and no debase in cognition, You own commendation which its exaltedness is not known in the night when it turns back and in the morning when it is beaming And in the land and sea, in the early morning and before sun set, in the evening and early morning, and in the noon and early dawn. O' Allah! With Your prosperity You have granted me inclination and having putting me among the allegiance of the infallible ones, yet I have not accomplished Your bounties and Your sequence preserved favour, Your inaccessibility and defense in You and You have granted it to me in my dwelling and recourse, You have not charged me more than my capability, hence You are not pleased with me except my obedience. Not my thanksgiving even though I culminate in my sayings and actions can give Your right to You, and there is no any equivalent to Your favour, because You are Allah and there is no god except You. You are not absent and nothing is absent to You, and all things that are hiding are not hidden to You , and nothing can be hidden to You in the hidden darkness, it is Your command that if You wish anything to be You say be and it become. O' Allah! You own the praise which You praised Yourself, and those that praise You, and those that commend You, and those that proclaim Your greatness and tremendousness, may commendation to You be equivalent to every twinkling of eyes, the least of that is the praise of those that praise You, and the Monotheism of different categories of the sincere ones, and the dedication of all the categories of the cognizant ones, and commendation of every one that glorifies You, equivalent to Your knowledge of all the creatures among the animal, I desired the opportunity You have granted me to converse Your glorification, how little the responsibility You made incumbent out of Your Right on me! And it is so great what You promise me for giving thanks to You. You commence bestowing upon me with bounty, favour and strength and commanded me to give thanks for the right and Justice that was bestowed on me, and You promise to give double and additional return of that to me, You granted me favour out of Your provision and requested little out of that from me, You take afflictions away from me and You didn't surrendered me to Your tribulations due to the good health granted to me, and You have permitted honour from the bees, and has double favour on me from my deposited noble destination and has made easy an exalted rank for me, and has chosen for me the great out of the Prophets, the best of them in intercession, Muhammad, may the blessing of Allah be upon him and upon his progeny. O' Allah! Pardon me in all that is not encompassed except Your forgiveness, and the sin that cannot be wiped out except with Your pardon, and the sin that cannot be remitted except by Your grace, grant me on this very day the certainty that shall facilitates for me the calamities of this world and its sorrow due to my yearning in You, and my desire in You, O' Allah write forgiveness for my sins with You, and grant me favour, grant me the opportunity to give thanks for what You have bestowed on me, verily You are Allah, the Only, the Exalted one, the Beginner, the Magnificent, the All-seeing, the All-knowing whose command cannot be rejected and no one can abstain from Your judgment, I bear witness that verily You are my Lord and the Lord of everything, the Creator of the Heaven and the Earth, who has the knowledge of every obvious and hidden things, He who is the Great and the Exalted one. O' Allah I requested firmness in my affairs from You, and determinations in guidance, and appreciation of Your bounty on me, I seek refuge in You from the evils of the evil doers and the oppression of the oppressors, and the envy of the envious ones, through You I gained power over my enemies and through You I hope for the allegiance of the uncountable well- wishers, Your branches of favour and provision cannot be counted, and the variety of Your assistance that You has bestowed on me, surely You are Allah, there is no god except You, You spread Your assistance among the creations who is openhanded in generosity, and no one contradict Your judgment and no one disputed with Your commandment, You possess what ever You desired among Your creatures, and no possessions except what You wishes {say, O' God, master of the kingdom, Thou givest the kingdom to whom Thou wilt, and seizest the kingdom from whom Thou wilt, Thou exaltest whom Thou wilt, and Thou abasest whom Thou wilt, in Thy hand is the good; Thou art powerful over every thing. Thou makest the night to enter in to the day and Thou makest the day to enter into night, Thou bringest forth the living from the dead and Thou bringest forth the dead from the living, and Thou providest whomsoever Thou wilt without reckoning}. You are the Benefactor, the Generous, the Creator, the Originator, the Most Powerful, the Mighty, the Holy one in the light of sanctity, You are covered with Glory and prestige, You are being glorified with pride and covered with light of Magnificence, and glorified with dignity and sublimity, You owned the pre-existent favour, and the high kingdom, You are vast in generosity and competent in power, You made me among the best of Adam's children by making me to hear and see, excellent, sound and healthy. You did not engage me with defects in my body; hence Your honour did not deprive me of that. How excellent work You have done to me! And how excellent Your good bounties on me! You have broaden things for me in this world and has honoured me with a lot of things in it, You have given ears to me for hearing Your verses and mind to think over Your Mightiness, I am very grateful for Your favour and I am grateful for my certainty in You, and I have witness Your Right. Verily You exist before any existence, and shall exist after every existence, the Existed one who did not benefits from other existence, at any time Your bounties did not stop falling on me even a twinkle of eye, and Your resentment punishment did not fell on me, and Your protection on me never change, even though I did not remember Your benefactions save Your pardon and acceptance of my prayers when I raise my head in Your commendation and glorification, and portion of the provisions when You evaluated it. Praise be upon You equivalent to the encompassed number in Your knowledge and equivalent to the number of things encompassed by Your strength and equivalent to the number covered by Your Mercifulness. O' Allah! Perfect Your bounties on me for the rest part of my life as You have done for the past, verily I am seeking means to You through Your Oneness, Your glorification, Your commendation, Your praise, Your greatness, Your exaltedness, Your light, Your clemency, Your mercy, Your highness, Your gracefulness, Your majesty, Your magnificence, Your kingdom, Your power, and for the sake of Muhammad and his holy and pure progeny not to deprive me of Your favour and benefits, because too much request that outflow you did not make you to become miser, and not giving appreciation for Your favour did not decrease Your generosity, and Your store never exhausted due to Your gift, You don't fear of poverty talk much of becoming stinging, You don't fear of exhaustation so that You decrease Your favour on us. O' Allah! Grant me a submissive mind, true certainty, tongue for Your remembrance, don't grant me tranquility from Your punishment and don't uncover Your veil from me, don't let me abandon Your remembrance, don't distance me from Your vicinity, don't cut me from Your mercy, don’t let me loose hope in You, be my companion in every frighten circumstances, protect me from every destruction and rescued me from every tribulation, surely You never fail Your covenant. O' Allah! Raise me and don't let me down, increase Your bounties on me and don't decrease it, have mercy on me and don't punish me, help me and don't disappoint me, favour me and don't affect me, may Allah's blessing and abundant peace be on Muhammad and on the pure and purified family of Muhammad. CHAPTER ELEVEN ON ZIYARAH (VISITING THROUGH SUPPLICATION). THE RECOMMENDATION OF (Ziyarah) PAYING VISIT TO OUR MASTER, THE LEADER OF THE TIME (may our souls be sacrifice for him) AT ALL TIME AND PLACE. Allamah Majlisi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Be aware that it is recommended to pay visit to him (peace be upon him) at all place and time, and in the holy Tunnel and in the tombs of his great grandfathers (peace be on them). It is also recommended in the holy time like eve of his birthday that middle of the holy month of Sha'ban and on the Night of power (Leilatul Qadr) which the Angels and the pure souls shall be descending. It is incumbent during the Ziyarah to concentrate on the followings: Firstly: when you are opportune to be at any of the sacred tomb of Ahlulbayt (peace be on them) or any other holy places, the person who was opportune should be able to offer supplications for his presence in the places of concentration to Almighty Allah, he should offer the supplication for the quick reappearance of the leader of the time (may our souls be sacrifice for him) , one should persist in such lively duty in every visited holy places. Secondly: it is possible for any one to visit the leader of the time (peace be upon him) at any desired place, then it is better after visiting any holy and sacred places to concentrate in Imam's (Ziyarah) visit, by his reciting the Ziyarah his heart shall be clear while he observe his duty. DONATING THE RECOMPENSE OF ZIYARAH TO OUR MASTER, THE LEADER OF THE TIME (may our souls be sacrifice for him). It is good to donate the recompense of Ziyarah to the Prophet (peace be on him and his progeny) or any of the Imams (peace be on them). Sheikh has narrated through the chain of Daud Assarmi, I said to Abu Al-Hasan AL-Hadi (peace be upon him) that I have visited your father and have donated the reward to you, he (peace be upon him) said: Thanks for that, may Allah reward you greatly. Base on this, this time that our master, the leader of the time (may our souls be sacrifice for him) is out of sight, and there is no specific time for his reappearance more so the well- wishers were not able to visit the sacred place that is attached with him (peace be upon him) like his holy Tunnel, Kufah Mosque, Sahlah Mosque, the holy Mosque of Jamkaran, then one can regain this great lost by donating the rewards of his Ziyarah in other holy places to him (peace be upon him). It is also possible to read his Ziyarah in the holy places for nearness to Allah and to incur Imam's consideration to himself. Perhaps his consideration has reached a lot of well wishers to Ahlulbayt peace be upon them through his holy Tunnel likewise through other holy places that was mentioned in various books. We shall mention some of his Ziyarah (peace be upon him).
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[77] ZIYARAH A'ALI YASEEN Sheikh Tabrasi (may Allah have mercy on him) in his book "Al-Ihtijaj" said: it comes from the holy one to Muhammad Al-Humairi after answering the issues he tender before him: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. They did not understand Allah's commandment, they did not accept from His guides, the esteem wisdom, who is suffice from verses of warning save those that believe not, peace be on us and unto the good servants of Allah. If you wanted to concentrate to Allah through us, you read as Allah the Most Exalted has said: {peace be upon A'ali yaseen} peace be upon you, O' the caller to the right path of Allah and teachers of His verses, peace be upon you, O' the door of Allah and the pious ones to His Religion, peace be upon you, O' the ambassador of Allah and helper of His right, peace be upon you, O' the proof of Allah and evidence of His wish, peace be upon you, the reciter of Allah's book and its translator, peace be upon you, at your midnight and the edge of your day time. peace be upon you, O' the remnant of Allah on His Earth, peace be upon you, O' Allah's covenant that He hold and confirm, peace be upon you, O' Allah's covenant that He guaranteed, peace be upon you, the installed banner, the relief, the vast mercy and the undeniable covenant. Peace be upon when you stand, peace be upon you when you sit down, peace be upon you when you read the Qur'an and explain it, peace be upon you when you offer prayers and Qunut, peace be upon you when you bow down and prostrates. Peace be upon you when you glorify and proclaim the greatness of Allah, peace be upon you when you prostrates and seek for forgiveness, peace be upon you in the morning and the night hour, peace be upon you in the night when the veil is drawn and at the noon when it is bright, peace be upon you the dependable Imams, peace be upon you the advance and an expected one, peace be upon you such a perfect and excellent peace. O' my master! I solicit you to bear me witness that I testify that there is no god but Allah, He is Alone without obtaining any partner, and that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger, there is no any most beloved one to Allah except him and his family, O' my master you should also testify for me that I bear witness that Ali the commander of the faithful is His proof, Al-Hasan is His proof, Al-Husein is His proof, Ali son of Al-Husein is His proof, Muhammad son of Ali is His proof, Ja'afar son of Muhammad is His proof, Musa son of Ja'afar is His proof, Ali son of Musa is His proof, Muhammad son of Ali is His proof, Ali son of Muhammad is His proof, Al-Hasan son of Ali is His proof and I testify that you are His proof. You people are the first and the last, and there is no doubt in your returning the day people's faith shall not benefit them, hence they did not believe before then. I testify that death is true, the Naaker and Nakeer are true, I bear witness that resurrection is true, rising from grave is true, the mountain of Sirat is true, the observation post is true, the measurement of all deeds is true, the assemble day is true, taking accountability is true, the Paradise and Hell fire are true, the reward and punishment are true. O' my master, the unlucky is he who disobeyed you, the happy one is he who obeyed you, so testify for what I have solicit you for, I paid allegiance to you and I denounce Your enemy, the truth is what you are pleased with, and the false is what you dislike, the good deed is what you have ordered for and the bad deeds is what you have abstain people from. So my soul believes in Allah, His loneliness without partner and also believes in His Messenger and the commander of the faithful, O' my master! I believe in your beginning and ending, my help is prepared for you and my love is sincere to you (all). Amen, Amen. The following supplication is succeeding the Ziyarah: O' Allah! I implore You to send blessing upon Muhammad, the Prophet of Your mercy and the word of Your light, fill my heart with the light of certainty and my mind with light of faith, and my thought with the light of good intention, and my determination with light of knowledge and my strength with light of good deeds and my tongue with the light of truthfulness and my Religion with light of foresight before You, and my sight with light of brightness and my hearings with light of wisdom and my love with the allegiance to Muhammad and his holy progeny, peace be on them, and cover me with Your mercy. O' the guardian and He who is praise worthy. O' Allah! Send Your blessing upon Muhammad Your proof on Your land and Your ambassador in Your nations, the caller to Your course, the establisher of equity, he who revolt with Your command, the guardian of the faithful ones, he who ruin the unbelievers, the ouster of darkness, the laminator of the truth, the speaker with wisdom and truth, Your perfected words in Your land, the awaiting, the scared one, the guardian of the exhorters, the Ark of salvation, the banner of guidance, the light of mankind's sight, the best of those that cover with clothes, the light to the blinds, who shall fill the Earth with justice and equity as it was filled with oppressions and inequity, verily You possess power over all thing. O' Allah! Send Your blessing to Your saint, the son of Your saints, those You have made their obedience incumbent on us and made their right compulsory for us, and take away from them all sorts of impurity and purified them a thorough purification. O' Allah! Assist him and make Your Religion victorious through him, let Your supporter and his supporter be victorious through him, including his followers and his helper and count us among them. O' Allah! Preserve him from the evils of every oppressors and aggressors and from the evils of all creation, protect him from the evils at his from, back, right and left side, guide him and avoid every one that may cause evils to him. Preserve Your Prophet and the family of the Prophet through him, manifest justice through him and support him with victory and assist his helpers and debase his enemy and destroy who wanted to exterminate him, and exterminate through him all the tyrannical unbelievers and kill all the disbelievers through him, including the hypocrites and the atheists wherever they are, in the east and the west of the Earth, on its land or its sea, and fill the Earth through him with justice and make obvious through him the Religion of Your Prophet, may Allah's blessing be upon him and upon his family. O' Allah! Make me among his helpers, supporters, followers, and adherents and let me envisage the aspiration of the family of Muhammad, peace be on them and what they scared of from their enemies. O' the Lord of all truth; Amen, O' the possessor of all glory and honour, O' the Most Merciful of the merciful.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[78] THE ZIYARAH OF NUDBAH. Allamah Majlisi said: Abu Ali Al-Hasan bn Ashnas said: Abu Mufaddal Muhammad bn Abdullah Ashaibani informed me that Abu Ja'afar Muhammad bn Abdullah bn Ja'afar Al-Humairi informed and permitted him all that has been narrated to him with the signature of the holy Imam (may Allah guard him) after I have tendered my question before him. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. They did not understand Allah's commandments, they did not accept from His saints, the esteem wisdom. Who is sufficed from the verses and warning save those that believe not. Peace be on us and unto the servants of Allah. If you wanted to concentrates to Allah through us, you read as Allah the most exalted has said: {peace be upon A'ali Yaseen} that is the manifested favour of Allah, Allah is the possessor of favour and exaltedness, for him whom He has guided to His right path, surely O' the family of Yaseen, Allah has bestowed His ambassadorship on you, and knowledge of His orders for what He has decreed, organized, arranged and desired to happen in His kingdom. He then uncovered the veil for you, You (all) are His reposition, witness, scholars and His trustees, you (all) are the administrators of the servants, the pillars of His countries, the judges of the laws, the door of faith, the descendants of the Prophets and the chosen Messengers, the progeny of the choice of the Lord of the worlds. It is due to you the measure of His none refundable gift is compulsorily granted, nothing from Him except you (all) are the cause and the path to Him, choosing you (all) as His guide to us is a blessing for us, and His revenge from your enemy is due to His dissatisfaction with them, there is no salvation nor recourse except through you and there is no any other creed apart from yours. O' the eye of Allah, the holder of His science and the house of His Monotheism on His Earth and in the Heaven. You are Allah's proof and remnant of His perfected favour, the inheritor of His Prophets and the ambassador for what reaches them in this world and you are the possessor of returning to this world due to our Lord's covenant, where the authentic nation shall be establish and there we shall obtained our relief, Allah's assistance and dignity. Peace be upon you, O' the established banner, the poured knowledge, the vast relief and mercy, the undoubted covenant, peace be upon you, he who view and hears, who sight of Allah is his covenantor, whose covenant is in the hands of Allah and his reign is by Allah's power. You are the tolerant whose annoyance did not make him haste in decision, the openhanded whose anger will not make him to become miser, the acquainted whose enthusiasm did not make him to become ignorant, your struggle is in the course of Allah and His wishes, your fighting is in the course of Allah with His revenge, your patient is in the course of Allah with Allah's endurance, your commendation of Allah increases His bounty and mercy on you. Peace be upon you, O' he who is protected by Allah, Allah is the light in his front, back, right, and left side, upper side and down, O' he who is preserved by Allah's power, Allah is the light of his hearing and seeing, O' the Allah's covenant that He guaranteed, O' Allah's covenant that He uphold and confirm, peace be upon you, O' the caller to Allah's course and the teacher of His verses. Peace be upon you, O' the door of Allah and the pious of His Religion, peace be upon you, O' the ambassador of Allah and the supporter of His right, peace be upon you, O' the proof of Allah and the evidence of His desire, peace be upon you, the reciter of Allah's Book and the translator, peace be upon you in your dark night and the edge of your day light. Peace be upon you, O' the remnant of Allah in His land, peace be upon you whenever you stand, peace be upon you whenever you sit down, peace be upon you whenever you read Qur'an and explain it, peace be upon you whenever you offer prayer and Qunut, peace be upon you whenever you bow down and prostrates, peace be upon you whenever you glorifies and proclaim the greatness of Allah, peace be upon you whenever you praise Allah and seek for forgiveness, peace be upon you when you glorified and extolled Allah, peace be upon you in the night when the veil is drawn and in the day when it is bright, peace be upon from the beginning and the last. Peace be upon you, the Allah's proves and our controllers, our guides, our callers, our leaders, our Imams, our chiefs, and our masters. Peace be upon you (all) you are our light, you are our glory in the time of our prayer, and our guard in our supplications, prayers, fasting, repentance and our other activities, peace be upon you, O' the protected Imam, peace be upon you, O' the advanced and the expected leader, peace be upon you with the most perfected peace. O' my master, I solicit you to bear me witness that, I testify that there is no god but Allah, He is Alone without obtaining any partner and that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger, there is no any most beloved one to Allah except him and his holy family. O' my master you should also testify for me that I bear witness that Ali the commander of the faithful is His proof, Al-Hasan is His proof, Al-Husein is His proof, Ali son of Al-Husein is His proof, Muhammad son of Ali is His proof, Ja'afar son of Muhammad is His proof, Musa son of Ja'afar is His proof, Ali son of Musa is His proof, Muhammad son of Ali is His proof, Ali son of Muhammad is His proof, Al-Hasan son of Ali is His proof and I bear witness that you are His proof and the Prophets, the callers, and other guides are you guide. You (all) are the first, last and conclusion, and there is no doubt in your returning the day faith shall not benefit those that did not believe before then. I bear witness that death is true, Munkar and Nakeer are true, the resurrection is true, rising from the grave is true, the mountain of Sirat is true, the observation point is true, the measurement of all deeds is true, the accountability is true, the Paradise and Hell fire are true, and the recompense with reward and punishment are true. I also testify that you (all) are the true intercessors, by the wish of Allah no one shall precedes you nor shall you be rejected, belongs to Allah all mercy and exalted word and He is in possession of all goods. The proof of Allah is great, He created the Jinn and men for His servitudes, He desired His servitudes for His servants, either to unlucky or lucky ones. Verily he who disobeyed you is unlucky and he who obeys you is a lucky one. O' my master, bear witness to what I have solicited to you, keep and preserve it in your custody for me, I should be resurrected on this condition, I should keep it up with your allegiance and enmity to your enemy, and abhorrent with those that detested with you, and cordial with those that love you, the truth is what you are pleased with and falsehood is what you dislike, the good deeds is what you have commanded and the bad deeds is what you have abstain people from, the positive decree is what your wishes has engrosses, the obliteration is what your custom has engrosses. So there is no god except Allah, He is Alone without any associates, Muhammad is His servant and Messenger, Ali the commander of the faithful is His proof, Al-Hasan is His proof, Al- Husein is His proof, Ali son of Al-Husein is His proof, Muhammad son of Ali is His proof, Ja'afar son of Muhammad is His proof, Musa son of Ja'afar is His proof, Ali son of Musa is His proof, Muhammad son of Ali is His proof, Ali son of Muhammad is His proof, Al-Hasan son of Ali is His proof and you are His proof and His evidence on His creatures. O' my master I am glad with the transaction of Allah on my behalf which its condition is fighting in His course by buying the soul of the believers, my soul is fully believe in Allah, His loneliness without any associates, my soul also believe in His Prophet and the commander of the faithful, and with you, O' my master, your (all) beginning and ending, my assistance is fully prepared for you, and my love is sincerely for you. I denounce your enemies, the people of rancour and firm controversies, I am peerless in your revolution, May Allah, and the Lord makes me like that! Amen, Amen. I don't have any one except you, so draw me near to yourself so that I hold you tight, guard me for what shall make me near to you, O' Allah's guard, His veil, and His Benediction, help me (be closer to me and assist me) accept me, join me to yourself and don't cut away from me. O' Allah! Through them I seek nearness and means to You, O' Allah! Send blessing to Muhammad and his holy family, join me with them and don't cut me away from them. O' Allah! Guard me with Your proof and may Your peace be upon the family of Yaseen, O' my master you are very prominent before Allah, Your Lord and my Lord. [Verily praising and glorification belongs to Him]. This is the supplication that precedes this saying: O' Allah! I requested from You by Your name that You created from Your whole and constant in You, it will not out of You forever, O' the Existence, O' the Hidden one, O' the exalted one, O' the Holy one, O' the Most Merciful, O' the Compassionate, O' the Affectionate. I requested from You as You have created him humbly to send Your blessing to Muhammad, the Prophet of mercy, the light of Your word, the father of the guides to Your mercy, fill my mind with light of certainty, and my heart with light of faith, and my thought with light of firmness, and my determination with light of success, and my intelligence with light of knowledge and my strength with light of action, and my tongue with light of truthfulness, and my Religion with light of foresight from You, and my sight with light of brightness, and my hearing with light of consciousness of wisdom, and my love with light of allegiance to Muhammad and his holy families, peace be on them. And my certainty with strength of denouncing the enemies of Muhammad and his holy family till I meet with You, verily I have fulfill Your promise and covenant with me, so extend Your mercy on me, O' my Guardian, the praise worthy one, O' the proof of Allah, with Your sight and hearing of my supplications, so grant and accomplish the acceptance of my requests, I shall hold tight to You, with You! With You! With You! My hearing and contentedness, O' the bountiful.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[79] ZIYARAH OF OUR MASTER, THE LEADER OF THE TIME (may our souls be sacrifice for him) ON FRIDAY. Sayyid Al-Ajal has narrated it in "Jamalil Usbuy". Peace be upon you, O' the proof of Allah on His Earth, peace be upon you, the Allah's sight on His creations, peace be upon you, the light of Allah that guided ones guides through it, and the believers relief through him, peace be upon you the well mannered and scared one. Peace be upon you, the exhorter's guide, peace be upon you, the Ark of salvation, peace be upon you, the essence of life, peace be upon you, may the blessing of Allah be upon you and upon your pure and purified household, peace be upon you, may Allah hasten His covenant with you by granting you victory and appearance of the divine authority. O' my master! Peace be upon you, I am your servant acquainted with your beginning and ending, I seek nearness to Allah through you and your household, I am anticipating your reappearance and manifestation of truth through you, I seek from Allah to send His blessing on Muhammad and on the family of Muhammad and to make me among those waiting for your reappearance and among those your followers and supporters that against your enemies, and among your followers that will be martyr before you, O' my master! The leader of the time, may Allah's blessing be upon you and upon your household, this Friday is the expected day for your reappearance and relief for the believers through you and killing of the disbelievers with your sword, O' my master! I am among your guest and neighbour, O' my master! You are generous among the generous descendants, who was ordered to receive guest and delivering them, so take me as your guest and delivered me, may Allah's blessing be upon you and your pure and holy household. Sayyid Radiyideen Ali bn Taaus said: after this Ziyarah that I shall make an illustration as follows: I am you guest where is the destination of my horse! And I am also your guest any where I am in this world.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[80] THE ZIYARAH OF THE LEADER OF THE TIME (May our souls be sacrifice for him) [You observe it when you are scared and in difficulties] In the name of Allah the Beneficent the merciful. Peace be upon you, O' Muhammad son of Al-Hasan, the proof. Peace be upon you, O' the leader of the affair, peace be upon you the director of the affairs, peace be upon you, O' master, the leader of the time, peace be upon you, O' the awaiting Imam, peace be upon you, the establisher of Allah's law, peace be upon you the good ambassador of the pure and infallible Imams. Peace be upon you, O' the leader of the Muslims, peace be upon you, O' the Allah's guide, peace be upon you,, the successor of Allah's Messenger, may Allah's blessing be upon him and his holy family, peace be upon you, O' the portion of heart of Allah's Messenger, may Allah's blessing be on him and his family, peace be upon you, O' Allah's proof on His creations. Peace be upon you, O' the flesh of Allah's Messenger, may Allah's blessing be on him and on his holy family, peace be upon you, O' the bounty of Allah, peace be upon you, O' the helper of the needier, peace be upon you, O' the helper of the regretful ones, peace be upon you, O' the helper of the oppressed ones, peace be upon you, O' the pivot of the world. Peace be upon you, the leader of Jesus Christ, peace be upon you, O' the parallel of good, accept me, accept me, accept me, assist me and don't molest me, help me and don't have victory upon me, be with me and don't separates from me, I have the trust in Allah by praying and giving thanks to Him, He suffice me, an excellent trustee. May Allah's blessing be on our master, Muhammad and his holy family!
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[81] ZIYARAH ON THE HOLY STANDING POINT. Allamah Majlisi (may Allah have mercy on him) in Bihaarul Anwar narrating from Sheikh Mufeed (may Allah have mercy on him) said: if you desired to visit him on Friday you stand on the standing point and say: Peace be upon Adam the choice of Allah among His creatures, peace be upon Shaith the guide of Allah and His selected one, peace be upon Idris who establishes Allah with His proves, peace be upon Nuh whose supplication is accepted, peace be upon Hud whom upon him Allah has prolong His assistance, peace be upon Salih whom Allah concentrate His honour on, peace be upon Ibrahim whom Allah endowed with His intimacy, peace be upon Ismail who Allah changed his sacrifice with a great sacrifice from His Paradise, Peace be upon Ishaq whom Allah has grant the Prophethood from his descendant, peace be upon Ya'qub whom Allah return his sight by His mercy after loosing it, peace be upon Yusuf whom Allah saved from the deep well with His mightiness. Peace be upon Musa whom Allah paved way for, in the sea with His power, peace be upon Harun whom Allah has specified with His Prophethood, peace be upon Shua'ib whom Allah grant victory upon his nation, peace be upon Daud whom Allah has grant his repentance for his mistake. Peace be upon Suleiman whom Allah has subdued Jinn to him with His glory, peace be upon Ayub whom Allah has cured from his illness, peace be upon Yunus whom Allah has accomplished for him the significance of His promise, peace be upon Uzair whom Allah gives back life after his death, peace be upon Zakariya who is tolerant in his tribulation, peace be upon Yahya whom Allah take closer with his martyrdom, peace be upon Isa the Allah's spirit and His words. Peace be upon Muhammad, the chosen and the beloved of Allah, peace be upon the commander of the faithful, Ali son of Abi Talib whom he specializes his brotherhood, peace be upon Fatimah Zahra his daughter, peace be upon Al-Hasan the father of Muhammad and the heir of his father and his successor, peace be upon Al-Husein who surrender his blood together with his life, peace be upon whoever obey Allah secretly and outwardly, peace be upon whoever make his soil as medication, peace be upon whom the acceptance of prayer is under his Dome, peace be upon whom the rest Imams are from his descendant. Peace be upon the seal of the Prophets, peace be upon the son of the master of the heir , peace be upon the son of Fatimah Zahra, peace be upon the son of the great Khadijah, peace be upon the son of the Lote-tree of the boundary, Peace be upon the son of the Paradise known as Ma'wah, peace be upon the son of Zamzam and Safa. Peace be upon he who was dusted with blood, peace be upon whose tent was unveiled, peace be upon the fifth of the companions of Kisa, peace be upon the most strange of the strangers, peace be upon the master of the martyrs, peace be upon the martyr and the one who supplicates, peace be upon he who was buried in the holy land of Karbala, peace be upon he whom the Heavenly Angels shed tears for his martyrdom, peace be upon him whose descendant are intelligent. Peace be upon the drone of Religion, peace be upon the dwellings of proves, peace be upon the Imams of the lucky ones, peace be upon the pockets of the blood stained ones, peace be upon the dried lips, Peace be upon the pluck out souls, peace be upon the defalcated souls, peace be upon the naked bodies, peace be upon the fainted bodies, peace be upon the flowed blood, peace be upon the separated organs of the body, peace be upon the paralyzed heads, peace be upon the combatant women. Peace be upon the proof of the Lord of the worlds, peace be upon you and upon your purified forefathers, peace be upon you and upon your martyred forefathers, peace be upon you and upon your supporters among your descendants, peace be upon you and upon the lying Angels with you, peace be upon the oppressed martyr, peace be upon his poisoned brother, peace be upon Ali the elder, peace be upon the younger suckling infant. Peace be upon the crucified bodies, peace be upon the close descendants, peace be upon who was martyr and throw on the desert, peace be upon the exiled ones from their country, peace be upon the buried ones without shroud, peace be upon the separated heads from its bodies, peace be upon the contented and tolerant ones, peace be upon the oppressed one without helpers, peace be upon the rested one in the pure soil, peace be upon the companion of sublime Dome. Peace be upon the one purified by the Magnificent one, peace be upon whom Jibril is proud of, peace be upon whom Mika'il called in his cradle, peace be upon whom his custody is violated, peace be upon whose sanctity is dishonoured, peace be upon whose blood was shed unjustly, peace be upon whom was washed with the blood he incurred from injury, peace be upon who was swallowed with the cups of spears, peace be upon the oppressed who was also humiliated, peace be upon whose lung is slaughtered, peace be upon who was buried by the villagers. Peace be upon whose aorta was cut off, peace be upon the advocator without helper, peace be upon the dyed gray hair, peace be upon the dusty cheek, peace be upon the crucified body, peace upon the holes that was dig with stick, peace be upon the lifted heads, peace be upon the naked bodies in the desert, the wolfs are biting it while the predatory animals are coming and going from the holy bodies. Peace be upon you, O' my master, and upon the Angels that goes round your Dome and those that are surrounding your soil and those that are circumambulating your courtyard including those entering for your visit, peace be upon you, I have intended you and hope for victory from you. Peace be upon you, the peace of those that knows your sanctity, the sincere ones in your allegiance, those that are closer to Allah through your love, who shows their renounciation to your enemies, peace be upon those whose heart is injured due to your tribulation, and those that shed tear in your remembrance, peace be upon those that feel distress, mournful, depressed and submissive for Your martyrdom, peace be upon those that had it been they are with you they sacrifice their soul in protecting you against the edge of the swords of the mischievous ones and he should have donated his last breath instead of your martyrdom, and he should have strive before you, and he should have help you against those that transgress against you, and he should have sacrifice his soul, body, property and children for you, he should have sacrifice his soul for yours and his family for yours as protection. If not that time has delayed me and has obstruct me from your assistance and I was not able to fight against your fighters and those that shows their enmity towards you, I would have mourn you every day and night, and I would have lamented, shedding blood instead of tears for the heart break for your martyrdom, regretfully for what befell on you, and would have been lamenting till I die due to the agony of the afflictions, torment and grief that befell on you. I testify that you have observed prayers and has given alms (Zakat) and has commended for what is good and has forbidden what is bad and oppressions, and has obeyed Allah and has not committed any sin, you have hold Him strong and His rope, you have pleased Him and fear Him, you have observed Him and has answered Him, you have set down a custom and have quench temptation and has called to the guidance, and has explain the appropriate path, and have really strive for the course of Allah. You have really obeyed Allah and has followed your grandfather, Muhammad, may Allah's mercy be upon him and his family, and has given listening ears to the sayings of your father, and has hasten the implementation of your brother's Will, you has raised the pillars of Religion and has subdued the aggression, you have striking the aggressors, and has admonished the nation, you have glorify Allah during the point of death, you have combated the hypocrites and has established the proves of Allah, you have showed mercy to Islam and the Muslims, you have assisted the truth, and you are tolerant when tribulation befell on you, you have guard the Religion from vanishing and you has purpose for its institutions, you guard and assist the guidance, you establish and propagate justice, you assist and manifested the Religion, you stop and warn the fribble ones, you collect from the rich for the poor and make equality between the strong and the weak ones. You are the vernal of the orphans and protector of mankind, and pride for Islam, the resources of Islamic laws, the ally of benefits, you have treaded the path of your father and your grandfather, your Will is like that of you brother, who has fulfill the right, whose custom is pleased, who manifested his generosity, who struggle in the darkness, the orthodox of the right path, the liberal in morals, having great previous record, the one with noble lineage and exalted ancestry, the possessor of high rank and many virtues, whose exemplary is praised and the possessor of abundant gifts. O' the tolerant, the guide and the repentant, the generous, the knowledgeable one, the strong and the leader of the martyrs. O' the repentant, the most loved one and the dignified one. You are the son to the Messenger, may Allah's blessing be upon him and his holy family, you are the source of the Qur'an and supporter to the nation, you have struggle in obedience to Allah, the preserver of promise and covenants, who has been afflicted in the ways of eradicating hypocrites, and has give all his best in struggle, who stay long in his bowing and prostrating to Allah. He who has disinterested himself from this world like the one going out of it, he envisage it as if he is scared of it, your hope in it is behind and has taking away your zeal from its adornment, your reservation on its delectation is sealed and your desire for the world Hereafter is known. Till oppression spread its commodities and unveil its mask, and temptation call on its followers, while you dwell inside the sanctuary of your grandfather, and distanced yourself from the oppressors, sitting down in the house and in the prayer (Niche) secluded from pleasure and appetency and denounce atrocities with heart and tongue base on your strength and ability, till your knowledge after the denunciation make it incumbent for you to fight the aggressors, then you commence the journey with your children, family, followers and those that paid allegiance to you, and declare the truth and testimony and you call on to the path of Allah with wisdom and good exhortations, you have commanded the establishment of the bound of Allah and obedience of the creator, and you have forbade people from evils and oppressions, they afflicted you with their oppression and aggression. So you strike with them after you have exhorted them, and reconfirm the proves against them, then they violate your leadership and allegiance, and they discontented your Lord and your grandfather, and they wage war against you, you confirm their stabbing and striking with swords before you commence stabbing the armies of the indecent and mischievous ones and burst out the tube of dust fighting with Zil-fiqar (the sword of Imam Ali) as if you are Ali the chosen one. When they saw that your heart and soul is firm without fear and scared, they set up their hatred on you, they kill you with their deceptions and evils, the cursed one ordered their soldiers to prevent you from water and even abstaining you from entering into its scene, and they weaken you from fighting and hasten you with battle, they strike you with arrows and darts, they stretch their plucking hands unto you and they did not observe your leadership on them, they did not observe that they have committed sins for their killing the royal one, and plundering of your luggage, you preceded them in the soil and perhaps you may envisage harassment, the Heavenly Angels were astonished of your tolerant. Then they surrounded you from every corner and consistently wound you and they separated between you and your soul, they did not leave any helper for you, you are considered as the most tolerant while you are dissolving from your women and children till they inverted you from your generosity, then you incline towards the Earth with all your body wounded, the horses are matching on you with its leg and the mischievous ones fell transcendence on you. Verily your forehead has then propose death while your right and left sides has differ in depression, you turn little to your property and your home, then you are busy with your children and family, then your horse quickly run away aiming towards your tent crying, when the women saw your horse in sorrowful situation, and saw the horse saddle being twisted, they came out of their tent, spreading their hairs on their cheek beating their face and unveiling their face, lamenting and crying out of grief saying after honour a dishonour, and you quickly lie in peace. By then Shimir was sitting on your honourable chest and has set his sword on your neck, holding your beard with his cursed hand while cutting your blesses head, then your sense organ has rest and your blessed soul has concealed, they raise up the canal of your head and take over your family as captives and prisoners of war and like slaves and being handcuffed from iron chain, on top of the conveying animals with out saddle while their face are searing by the heat of the Sun, they convey them from one city to another while their hands are tired over their necks, they circumambulates them round the markets. Woe unto the aggressors and hypocrites, they have kill Islam by your martyrdom and suspended prayers and fasting, they violated the customs and Islamic laws and destroy the pillars of faith, they falsify the verses of the Qur'an and they resorted to aggression and oppression. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah's blessing be on him and on his family has become lonely and they migrated from the Book of Allah, they leave the truth apart when it was subdued. Proclaiming the oneness of Allah and glorifying His greatness was also missed due to your missing, likewise the forbidden and lawful things, revelation and interpretation are not correctly implemented, and after you, a lot of changes and alterations emerged, likewise infidelity, suspension of Islamic laws also emerged, everyone then follow his desire and the astray path including temptation and falsehood. The announcer of your martyrdom stood at the holy tomb of your grandfather, the Messenger of Allah, may Allah's blessing be upon him and upon his holy family, they announce and shed tears like shower saying O' the Messenger of Allah, they have martyred your grandson and they legalize punishing your family and sanctuary, they made your descendant captives of war after you, and adversity occurred on your holy progeny. The Messenger of Allah was discomforted and his mind terribly wept, the Angels and other Prophets condole him for your martyrdom, your mother Fatimah Zahra was afflicted because of you, the most closer soldiers among the Angel were coming and going condoling your father the commander of the faithful, they mourned you in the highest and the most exalted Heaven, "Huri Ain" beautiful ladies in the Paradise also mourned your martyrdom, the Heaven and its dwellers also wept likewise the Paradise and its guards including the Hills and its vicinity, the Seas and its whale, the Jinn and their offspring, the Ka'abah, the Maqam Ibrahim, Mash'al Al-Haraam, Al-Hil and Al-Ihraam all wept for your martyrdom. O' Allah! For the honour of this sublime places, send your blessing upon Muhammad and upon the holy family of Muhammad and resurrect me among their group and grant me entering Paradise by their intercession. O' Allah! I am seeking means to You, O' He who is quick in accountability, O' the Most Honour of the honourable ones, O' the wise of the judges, for the sake of Muhammad the seal of the Prophets, Your Messenger to the entire universe and for the sake of his brother, the possessor of wide stomach , the firm knowledgeable one, Ali, the commander of the faithful, for the sake of Fatimah, the mistress of the ladies of the two worlds, and for the sake of Al-Hasan Azzaki, the guard of the dutiful ones. And for the sake of the father of Abdullah, Al-Husein, the most honourable among the martyrs and for the sake of his children that was martyred, for the sake of his oppressed progeny,
and or the sake of Ali son of Al-Husein, the pretty of the worshippers, and for the sake of Muhammad son of Ali, the direction of the repentant, and Ja'afar son of Muhammad, the best of the truthful ones, and Musa son of Ja'afar, he who manifest the proves, and Ali son of Musa, the helper of the Religion, and Muhammad son of Ali, the model for the guided ones, and Ali son of Muhammad the best of the ascetics, and Al-Hasan son of Ali, the inheritor of the successors, and the proof on the entire creations, to sent blessing on Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, the most trustworthy ones among the entire creations, the family of Taha and Yaseen, and to make me on the Day of Judgment among the sincere, pacified, successful, happy and glad tiding ones. O' Allah! Write my name among those that surrender to Your Will and join me with Your good servants, and grant me true tongue on the Day of Judgment, and assist me against the aggressor, and suffice me the plot of the envious ones, divert away from me the deceit of the cunning ones, and hold the hands of the oppressors from me, and accompany me with the lucky ones in the most exalted place, with those you have shown your favour, among the Prophets, the truthful ones, the martyrs, the good servants with Your mercy, O' the Most Merciful of the merciful. O' Allah! I took oath from You, for the sake of Your infallible Prophet, and Your inevitable law, and Your concealed prohibition, and this acquainted tomb, that was lying at its place, the infallible Imam, the martyred and the oppressed one, to unveil all my dejections, and diverted away from me the evil predestination and save me from the hot winds of the Hell fire. O' Allah! Honour me with Your favour and let me be pleased with Your portion given to me, and cover me with Your generosity and blessing, and distance me from Your plot and Your wrath, O' Allah! Guard me from lapses, and direct my sayings and actions and grant me long life, relief me from pains and problems, and let me reach the utmost allegiance and the best ambition with your favour. O' Allah! Send Your blessing upon Muhammad and upon the family of Muhammad and accept my repentance and have mercy on my past, relief me of my false steps, relief me of my sufferings and pardon my mistakes, and make me more efficient with in my descendants. O' Allah! Don't left behind for me in this great sanctuary and this place that is venerable any of my sins except it is pardon, and no any defect except You veil it, and no any worries until You unveil it, and no any provision until You spread it, and no any place until You create an inhabitant in it, and no any corruption until You amend it, and no any ambition until it is attained, and no any supplication until You answer it, and no any difficulty until You relieve it, and no any thing scattered until You unite it, and no any affair until You perfected it, and no any property until You increase it, and no any moral until You reform it, and no any spending for Your sake until You return it, and no any condition until You reform it, and no any envious until You restrain it, and no any enmity until You destroyed it, and no any evils until You suffice it, and no any illness until You cure it, and nothing far until You bring it closer, and nothing left unsecured until You gather them together, and no any request until You give it out. O' Allah! I requested for goods in this world and rewards in the Hereafter, O' Allah! Suffice me with lawful things and divert me from prohibiting things and Your favour instead of the entire creations. O' Allah! I am requesting from You knowledge that is beneficial, mind that will fear You, decisive certainty, pure duty, beautiful tolerant and abundant reward. O' Allah! Grant me the opportunity to gratify Your favours on me, and increase Your benevolence and honour on me and let my saying be heard by people, and my duties to be elevated before You, and let my good impact be initiated and let my enemies be destroyed. O' Allah! Send Your blessing upon Muhammad and the selected family of Muhammad in the late night and early morning and suffice me from the evils of the evil doers and purifies me from sins and misdeed, and rescue me from Hell fire and substitute for me a stable abode, and pardon me with mercy including the entire believing brothers and sisters in You. O' the Most Merciful of the merciful. Then you face the direction of Ka'abah and offer two units (Raka'at) of prayer, in the first unit after reciting the opening chapter you recite Surah Al-Anbiya'a and Surah Al-Hashr in the second unit after the opening chapter, then you offer Qunut and read the following: There is no god except Allah the Clement, the Generous, there is no god except Allah the Most Exalted, the Almighty, there is no god except Allah the Lord of the seven Heavens and seven Earth and what is in them and al that is between them, I am contradicting His enemies and refuting those that deviate from Him, confirming His Lordship and humbling to His glory, the One without first and the Last without end. The obvious to every thing with His power, the essence not to every thing with His knowledge and kindness, sense cannot explain the essence of His greatness, imagination cannot perceive the reality of His essence and mind cannot imagine how His nature is, He is aware of all that is concealed in the minds, He is acquainted with all secrets, He knows all the treacherous eyes and what is conceal in the minds. O' Allah! I make You testify that I believe Your Prophet May Allah's blessing be upon him and his family and my faith in him and my knowledge of his rank before You, I am testifying that he is the Prophet that speak with wisdom by Your favour and the previous Prophets has given the glad tidings of his advent, and they have call people to accept his message and they have urged people to believe him with the saying of the Most High, {… whom they find written down in the Torah and the Gospel, bidding them to honour, and forbidding them dishonour, making lawful for them the good things and making unlawful for them the corrupt things, and relieving them of their loads, and fetters that were upon them}. So send Your blessing on Muhammad the Messenger to men and Jinn, the master of the choosing Prophets, blessing also be upon his brother, the son of his uncle who never associates anything with You even for a twinkle of eye, blessing also be on Fatimah Zahra the mistress of the women of the two worlds and upon the two master of the youth of the Paradise, Al- Hasan and AL-Husein, may the continuous and everlasting blessing and abundant peace equivalent to the number of the drops of rain and equivalent to the weight of mountains and hillocks, and equivalent to the difference in light and darkness, and same blessing be upon his purified family, the Imams of the guided ones, the protectors of Allah's Religion, blessing also be upon Ali, Muhammad, Ja'afar, Musa, Ali, Muhammad, Ali, Al-Hasan and the proof who shall establish equity and the offspring of the grandson. O' Allah! I am requesting from You for the sake of this Imam a very near relief, pretty tolerant, great victory, sufficiency from the creations, firmness in guidance, success in what You like and pleased with, abundant lawful, pure and happy properties, permissible house and honoured with Levantine without hard work and trouble and without favour from any one, grant me good health from every affliction, illness and diseases, and grant me the opportunity to glorify Allah for the favours and good health He has bestowed on me, when the time of death comes to us let our soul be taken in the best condition and in Your obedience, during when preserving what You have order us to do, till it leads us to the bliss Paradise with Your mercy, O' the Most Merciful of the merciful. O' Allah! Send Your blessing upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad and let me scared of this world and incline me towards the Hereafter because nothing scared one of this world except Your fear, and nothing make one to be inclined towards Hereafter except hope in You. O' Allah! You possess the proves and no any proves against You, unto You all the complains and You complain not. So send Your blessing upon Muhammad and upon the family of Muhammad and help me against my sinful and oppressing mind and my dominated self desire and let me end my life in good condition. O' Allah! I am seeking forgiveness from You and I still insist on Your prohibition due to my little shyness, and my abandoning repentance with my knowledge that Your spacious clemency forfeit the right of hope and due to my knowledge of Your abundant mercy has prevented me from fearing You, so send Your blessing on Muhammad and on the holy family of Muhammad and believe my hope in You and denounce my fear in You, be with me in my best assumption on You, O' the best of the Honourable ones. O' Allah! Send Your blessing on Muhammad and on the family of Muhammad and assist me by guarding me and let my tongue speak with wisdom, and make me among those that regret of his past deeds and not to proud of his future today and not to heed towards his provisions of tomorrow. O' Allah! The sufficient one is he who is suffice and in need of You, and the poor one is he who is suffice with Your creation instead of You, so send Your blessing upon Muhammad and upon the holy family of Muhammad and suffice me instead of Your creations, and make me among those who will not spread their hands for help except from You, O' Allah! The unlucky ones is he who despairs and before him there is repentance, and behind him is mercy, even though I am weak in good deeds but I am strong in hoping for Your mercy, so grant me multiple of my deeds due to my strong hope in You. O' Allah! Even though You know that there is among Your servants whose heart is more harden than mine and whose sins is greater than mine, verily I know there is no any master that is greater than You in mightiness, and no one is broaden than You in mercy and forgiveness, O' He who is lonely in His mercy, forgive who is not lonely in his mistakes. O' Allah! You commanded us but we offended You, You prohibited us but we did not abstain from it, You reminded us but we pretend to have forgotten, You showed us every good and bad but we pretended to have not seen, You warn us but we transgress, and that is not the reward of all the good You have bestowed on us, You knows what we have manifested and what we have concealed, and You are fully informed of what we shall do and what we have done, so send Your blessing to Muhammad and on the family of Muhammad and don't held us responsible for our mistakes and for what we forget, grant us Your rights on us, and perfected Your benevolence on us and dedicates Your mercy on us. O' Allah! We seek means to You through this righteous Imam and requested from You for the sake of the right You have bestowed on him, his grandfather and his parents Ali and Fatimah, the holy household of mercy, whom are the supporters of our life, the proprieties of our family's conditions, to descend bountiful of provision on me, You are the most generous one who gives in abundant and prevented occurrence of things with Your power, we requested from You the provision that will be good for us in this world and the one that will make us to attains the goods in the Hereafter. O' Allah! Send blessing on Muhammad and on the family of Muhammad, pardon us and our parents and the entire believing men and women, the living ones and the died ones among them, bestowed good on us in this world and in the world Hereafter and rescue us from the Hell fire. Then you bow down, prostrate, sit down and say your Tashahud and terminate your prayer, when glorifying Allah you dust your cheeks and say: [Glory be to Allah, praise be to Allah, and there is no god except Allah and Allah is the greatest] (40) forty times, then request from Allah for safety, salvation, forgiveness and success in good deeds and acceptance. For Your nearness to Him and seeking for His pleasure, then you stand at the head position and observe two units of prayer as aforementioned. Then you turn to the tomb and kiss it and say: May Allah increase your nobility and peace, blessing and mercy of Allah be upon you; then you pray for yourself, your parents and whomever you like. Allamah Majlisi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: the author of "Al-Mizaril Kabeer" said: another Ziyarah on the day of Ashura came from the holy one through one of his doors, it is to stand and say: peace be upon Adam, the choice of Allah among His creations, till the end of the Ziyarah as it has been mentioned. It appears that this Ziyarah has been narrated and possibly this very one is not specified for the day of Ashura as Sayyid Murtada (may Allah have mercy on him) has done. Ayatullah Sayyid Ahmad Al-Mustanbit said: the narration did not denote that this Ziyarah is specialized for the day of Ashura.
[82] ZIYARAH RAJABIYYAH. It is observe in every sacred places in the month of Rajab. Abu Qasim bn Ruh (may Allah purifies his soul) said: No one will observe this Ziyarah in any of the sanctuary of the family of Muhammad, peace be upon them, will not return to his place until all his request is granted and all his supplications in Religion and in this world except it is accepted and granted. If you decided to do that, you stand at the tomb of any of the intended Imam (may Allah's blessing be on him) and say: Praise be to Allah who has made us to witness the sanctuary of His saint in the month of Rajab, and make incumbent on us their compulsory right. May Allah's blessing be upon Muhammad the selected one and upon his noble successors! O' Allah! As You have made me witness their sanctuary, execute their covenant for us, and enter us into their place and don't prevent us from entering into the stable and everlasting home, peace be upon you, I have intended you and relent on you for my problems and requests, which is freedom and rescue from Hell fire, and to be in your company together with your good followers in the stable dwellings, peace be upon you for your tolerant, verily how an excellent aftermath abode. I am asking you and having hope in you for what has been entrusted to you, and unto you lot of compensation. Through you all that is break is amended, the sick ones are cured, and what ever increases or decreases in the wombs is all due to your grace. I believe in your mysteries and surrender to your sayings and with you (All) Allah partition my needs, granting it, approving it, its success and its expansion is in your control, all my affairs and its reformation are before you. Peace be upon you, the peace of a depositor, you have this deposited requests, he request from Allah through you, the reference one, his struggle to you is not cut off, may He return me back with good returning, to the appropriate land and vast livelihood, meekness and leisure till the end of my time, grant me good destination and station in the everlasting pleasure, and good future life with continuous and chain of drinking, eating and drinking of nectars, that there is no weariness nor boredom in it. May Allah's mercy and greetings be upon you, till I return to your noble one again, success is in your time, and gathering is in your group, may Allah's peace, mercy, glory, blessing and greetings be upon you, He is our sufficient and an excellent master.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[83] THE FIRST ZIYARAH FOR OUR MASTER, THE LEADER OF THE TIME (May our souls be sacrifice for him) IN THE HOLY TUNNEL. The Ziyarah to our master, the leader of the time (peace be on him) is the one known as Ziyarah Al-Nudbah. It came from the holy one to Abu Ja'afar, Muhammad son of Abdullah Al- Humairi (may Allah have mercy on him) and he ordered it to be recited in the holy Tunnel.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[84] THE SECOND ZIYARAH FOR OUR MASTER, THE LEADER OF THE TIME (may our souls be sacrifice for him) IN THE HOLY TUNNEL. You offer the second Ziyarah to our master, the leader of the time (peace be on him) , you observe two units of prayer and read the following after it: May Allah's perfected and complete peace be on …. &
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[85] THE THIRD ZIYARAH FOR OUR MASTER, THE LEADER OF THE TIME (peace be on him) IN THE HOLY TUNNEL. Peace be upon the new truth and the process that never cease to exist. Peace be upon the revival of the believers, the destroyer of the unbelievers, peace be upon the guide of the nation and the controller of the worlds, peace be upon the successor of the ancestors, the noble one, peace be on the proof of the worshipped one and the word that is praise, peace be upon the comforter of the saints and the down grader of the enemies. Peace be upon the inheritor of the Prophets and the seal of the successors, peace be upon the Qa'im (the riser) the awaited one, the well known Just, peace be upon the unsheathed sword and luminous moon, peace be upon the spring of creatures and the creation of the days, peace be upon the possessor of the sharpen sword the breaker of foreheads, peace be upon the transmitted Religion and the composed Book. Peace be upon the remnant of Allah in His land, and His proof on His servants, the last to receive the inheritance of the Prophets and he is in the possession of the signs of the selected ones, who was entrusted with mysteries, the master of the nations, the Mahdi which Allah the Most High has promised nations that shall join the worlds through him and join all the scattered things through him, and shall fill the Earth with justice and equity through him and to make every thing possible for him and to implement through him the promise to the believers. O' my master, I testify that you and the Imams from your ancestors are my Imams and master in this world and in the day we shall stand to testify, O' my master, I requested you to inform Allah, He is blessed and raised far above, to reform all my affairs, grant all my requests, pardon my sins, lift me up in my Religion, in this world and in the world Hereafter including my the believing brothers and sisters, verily You are the Most Forgiving and Most Merciful. Then you observe (12) twelve units of prayer and recite the glorification of Fatimah Zahra (pace be on her) after every (2) two units, on conclusion you recite the following: O' Allah! Send Your blessing upon Your proof on Your land, and Your ambassador in Your countries, the caller to Your path, who shall stand and make declaration with wisdom, good and true admonition, he is Your word, Your confidant and Your sight on Your Earth, the awaiting, the scared one, the chief counselor, the Ark of salvation, the banner of Guidance, the light for the sight of the creatures, the best of those that cloth, the odd and single the reliever of troubles, the remover of anxieties, and he who unveil tribulations. May Allah's mercy be upon him and upon his ancestors, the guided Imams, the leaders of the good ones! Equivalent to the early morning rising stars, the leaves of trees and the ripen fruits, the changing of night and day and the warble of the birds. O' Allah! Benefits us due to his love, and resurrect us with his group and under his banner. [Amen] the true Lord and the Lord of the worlds. BLESSING FOR HIM (may our souls be sacrifice for him) To be recited the after the Ziyarah: O' Allah! Send Your blessing upon Muhammad and his holy household, blessing also be upon the successor of Al-Hasan, the executor of his Will and his inheritor, who shall establish Your affair, who is absent from Your creations, the awaited one by Your permission, O' Allah! Send Your blessing on him and make his distance very close, implement his promise, fulfill his covenants, unveil his worries, that is the cover of his occultation and manifest through his reappearance the departure of tribulation, and precede the scared before him, and make the minds to be firm through him, commence the holy war through him, support him with lined up Angels and empowered him against the entire enemies of Religion. Inspired in him till he did not leave their pillars until he demolish it, and no any foreheads until he break it, and no any plot until he turn it upside down, and no any hypocrites until he restrain it, and no any type of Pharaoh until he destroy it, and no any cover until he unveil it, and no any flag until he half mast it, and no any false kingdom until he attacked it, and no any unlawful spear until he shell it, and no any persecuted until he encroach upon such persecution, and no any mischievous soldiers until he disperse them and no any astray pulpits until he set it ablaze, and no any unlawful sword until he break it, and no any idols until he destroy it, and no any lawful blood until he shed it, and no any oppression until he put an end to it, and no any fortress until he destroy it, and no any door that belongs to the aggressors until he filled it up with Earth, and no any house until he investigate it, and no any level roads until he trek it, and no any mountain until he climb it, and no any mineral recourses until he pull it out, with Your mercy, O' the Most Merciful of the merciful. CHAPTER TWELVE ON ZIYARAH FOR THE DEPUTIES OF OUR MASTER, AL-QA'IM (may our souls be sacrifice for him) AND OTHER REPORTED SUPPLICATIONS AND ZIYARAH.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[86] ZIYARAH FOR THE DEPUTIES OF IMAM (may our souls be sacrifice for him). Sheikh has mentioned in "Tahzeeb" and Ibn Taaus in "Misbaahu Zza'ir" that it is recommended to offer Ziyarah to him such Ziyarah that was attributed to Abu Al-Qasim Al-Husein bn Ruh (may Allah be pleased with him) , you stand on the tomb of Uthman bn Sayeed (may Allah be pleased with him) and say: Peace be upon the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon the commander of the faithful, Ali son of Abi Talib, peace be upon Khadjah Al-Kubrah, peace be upon Fatimah Zahra, peace be upon Al-Hasan son of Ali, peace be upon Al-Husein son of Ali, peace be upon Ali son of Al-Husein, peace be upon Muhammad son of Ali, peace be upon Ja'afar son of Muhammad. Peace be upon Musa son of Ja'afar, peace be upon Ali son of Musa, peace be upon Muhammad son of Ali, peace be upon Ali son of Muhammad, peace be upon Al-Hasan son of Ali, peace be upon Muhammad son of Al-Hasan Al-Mahdi, the leader of the time. Peace be upon you, O' Uthman son of Sayeed, I testify that you are the gate to my master, you receive and take issues to him, you are not in contrary with him nor with those that send you to him, you specifically stood up and has previously devoted yourself. I have come to you knowing the right you possess and testifying that you did not contravene in carrying out your duty and ambassadorship. Peace be upon you the source of well-being whose gate is wide, and from the ambassadorship that was entrusted to you, and the trustworthiness that was empowered to you, I testify that Allah has chosen you with His light till you are viewed as person, and you convey from him and to him. Then you repeat the salutation to the Prophet and the Imam (May Allah's blessing be upon them) till the salutation to the leader of the time, may Allah's blessing be upon him and say the following: I sincerely came to you through the oneness of Allah and allegiance to His saints, and denunciation from their enemies and those that are in contrary to you. O' the proof of the Master, O' Allah I concentrated to you, and through them I seek means towards You. Then you supplicate and tender your request before Allah the Most High. You can also visit the other deputies with the same Ziyarah but you mention their names in the place of Uthman bn Sayeed.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[87] SUPPLICATION OF SIMMAAT. It was narrated by the second deputy Muhammad bn Uthman (may Allah purify his soul). Muhammad bn Ali bn Al-Hasan bn Yahya said: we attended the meeting of Muhammad bn Uthman bn Sayeed Al-Amri Al-Asadi Al-Mintaji (may Allah have mercy on him) he said, Muhammad bn Sannan told me that Mufadal bn Umar Al-Ja'afi told him that the supplication was narrated from our master Ja'afar bn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (peace be on them) he said that this supplication is recommended to be offered last part of the day on Friday. Abu Ja'afar Al-Tusi (may Allah be pleased with him) said: supplication of Simmaat was narrated by Amri and it is recommended to be observed in the last part of the day on Friday. Below is the supplication according to the first narration and it seems to be completed. O' Allah! I requested from You by Your greater name which is most cherish, the most dignify, the most generous, that if it is call upon the locked doors of the Heavens, it will open with Your mercy, if it is called upon for the narrowness of the doors of the Earth, it will be open by Your mercy. And if it is called that You make ease all the difficulties, it will become easy, and if it called by requesting You to resurrect the died ones, it will be resurrected. And by which if You are requested to unveil the miseries and adversities, it will be unveil. I beseech You through the magnificent of Your luminous generous Person, the Most Generous and the Most Cherished one, to whom everyone submitted, and every head humble to in reverence, and whom every voice scared of, and all hearts are tremble due to His fear. I seek through Your Mightiness that prevented the Heaven from falling on the Earth except with Your permission and prevented the Heaven an the Earth from moving from their position. I beseech You through Your Will that is obeyed by the worlds, and with Your words through which You created the Heaven and the Earth, and with Your wisdom through which You created all the wonderful things, and created darkness and made it to become night and resting time, and You created the light and made it to become day and living time, and You created Sun and made it a luminous Sun, and You created the Moon an made it a brighten Moon, and created the Stars and planets as lamp for guidance and decoration and missiles against the devils. And has created for them the east and the west, and has created also for them the places of ascendancy and Orbits, and created for them a firmament and spheres and has fixed for them stages in the Heaven, how excellent is the fixing, and has shaped them such an excellent shaping, and You have counted them with Your Name in an accurate counting, and has directed them with Your wisdom and what a good direction, and make them serviceable with the influence of night, day and hours, and make them the means of reckoning years and counting, and make people seeing them as one and universal. O' Allah! I requested from You by Your glory of which You speak with Your servants and Messenger Musa son of Imran peace be upon him, in the holy places which is above the sense organs of cherubim and above clouds of light, and above boxes of testifying with in the five pillars and the mountain of Sina and in the Hurith mountain in the holy valley and holy place to the right side of mountain of Tur, through the tree and also speak with him on the land of Egypt giving him the nine Tokens. And on the day You split the Sea for the children of Israel, and in the gushing out of water through which You created the wonderful in the Sea of Suf, and You solidified water of the Sea like stone in the midst of the overflowing Sea and You cause the children of Israel to pass through the Sea, You have perfected Your good (words) promise upon them due to their patients, and made them to inherit the east and the west of the Earth there in You have blessed the universe, You then drowned Pharaoh, his soldiers and his boat in the Sea. I requested from You through Your name which is the most Great, the most Cherished, the Most Dignify, the Most Generous, and through Your glory You manifested Your address to Musa (peace be on him) in the mountain of Sina, and Ibrahim peace be on him, Your intimate friend in the mosque of Al-Khaif, and for Ishaq Your chosen one peace be on him in the Well of Shiya, and for Ya'qub Your Prophet peace be on him in the house of Lil, and fulfill Your covenant to Ibrahim peace be on him and to Ishaq through Your oath, and to Ya'qub through Your testimony, and to the believers through Your promise and Your name by which You accepted the prayers of those that supplicates to You. I requested from You through Your name which appeared to Musa son of Imran in the Dome of Rumaan, and through Your signs that occurred on the soil of Egypt, with great mighty and subjugation, with precious signs and influence of power and the great power, and with affair of the perfected words, and with Your word through which You favour the inhabitant of the Heavens and the Earth, and the inhabitant of this world and the world Hereafter, and with Your Name through which You bestowed upon the entire creatures and through Your power by which You put the entire world in order. I requested from You through Your light of which out of fear the mountain Sina collapsed, and through Your knowledge, Your greatness, and Your majesty, Your magnificence, Your honour and Your omnipotence of which the ears could not bear and for which the Heaven humble, and the great depth constrained themselves, and the Sea together with the Rivers became stagnant, and to which mountain made submission, and the Earth became stable on its shoulders, and to which the entire creatures surrendered, and the air blows in its course, and extinguishes the flaming fires in its places, and Your kingdom that is known to be All-powerful all the time, and Your words, the words of truth which has been a blessing to our father Adam and his offspring. I am requesting from You through Your word that subdued every things and the light of Your SELF which flashes on mountain and crushed it to pieces while Musa fell down fainted, and by Your glory that appears on the mountain of Tur and You speak to Your servant and Messenger Musa son of Imran. I seek from You through Your appearance in Sa'ir and on the mountain of Faaraan, with the hillock of the holy ones, and the soldier among the Angels were on row, and the submissiveness of the glorifying Angels and with the honour by which You honour Ibrahim, Your best and intimate friend peace be on him among the nation of Muhammad, may Allah's blessing be upon him and his family, and You has blessed Ishaq Your chosen one among the nation of Isa peace be upon them, and You has blessed Ya'qub Your slave among the nation of Musa peace be upon them, and has blessed Your beloved one Muhammad may Allah's blessing be upon him and upon his holy family among his progeny and offspring peace be upon them and his nation. O' Allah! As we were absent from the scene and did not witness it, and we truly and justly believe on it without envisaging it, so send Your blessing on Muhammad and on the holy family of Muhammad, and send Your favour on Muhammad and the holy family of Muhammad, and send Your mercy on Muhammad and the holy family of Muhammad like the best blessing, favour, and mercy You sent upon Ibrahim and the holy family of Ibrahim, verily You are the praised and glorified one, You act according to Your wishes and You possess power over all thing. After that you recite the following: O' Allah! For the sake of this supplication and for the sake of all these names that it's deep explanation is not known save You, send Your blessing on Muhammad and on the holy family of Muhammad and do for me what suit You and don't do for me what I desired. O' Allah! Retaliate for me against my oppressor and hasten the relief of the holy family of Muhammad and destroy their enemies among the Jinn and men, and pardon all my preceded and future sins, and spread for me lawfulness out of Your provision and suffice me from the problem of the evil men and wicked neighbour and associates, and wicked devils, surely You possess power over all thing and praise be to Allah the Lord of the worlds. Then you say the following: O' Allah! For the sake of this supplication, favour the poor among the believing men and women with sufficiency and richness, recovery and good health for the sick ones among the believing men and women, kindness and high reputation for the living ones among the believing men and women, and upon the died ones among the believing men and women with mercy and forgiveness, return back home with peace and success for the traveling ones among the believing men and women, with Your mercy, O' the Most Merciful of the merciful, may Allah's blessing and abundant mercy be upon our master, Muhammad the seal of the Prophets and upon his purified progeny. The following supplication was mentioned in Jamaalil Ssaliheen: O' Allah! I requested from You by the sanctity of this supplication and Your missing holy names in it and what it encompasses among the explanation and the measures that no one can encompasses except You, to send blessing on Muhammad and on the holy family of Muhammad and hasten their relief in good health and destroy their enemies in this world and in the world Hereafter. Make provision for us through them the best of our aspiration and the best of what we did not aspired, and divert from us through them the scared and the unscarred evils, verily You possess power over all thing and You are the Most Noble of the noble ones.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
[88] SUPPLICATION OF KHIDR (peace be on him) KNOWN AS SUPPLICATION OF KUMAIL. O' Allah! I ask You by Your mercy which encompasses all things, and by Your strength by which You subjugated all things, and all thing subdued to it, and before which all thing are lowly, and Your Omnipotence by which You subdued all thing, and Your Glory by which no one can resist, and Your tremendousness that filled all things, and Your kingdom which exalted all things, and Your eternal face which exist when all thing cease to exist, and by Your Name that filled the pillars of all things, and by Your knowledge which encompasses all things, and by the light of Your exalted face which illuminates all things, O' the Light! O' The holy one, O' The first of those who are first, O' the last of those who are last. O' Allah! I seek Your pardon from the sins which tear apart safeguard, O' Allah! Pardon me of the sins that draw down adversity, O' Allah! Pardon me of the sins that changes Your bestowed favour, O' Allah, pardon me of the sin that hold back supplications, O' Allah, pardon me of the sins that descend tribulations, O' Allah, pardon me of the sins I have committed and all the mistakes I have made. O' Allah! I seek nearness to You through Your remembrance and I seek for intercession through You to Yourself, and I requested from You by Your kindness to take me closer to Your proximity and grant me appreciation towards You, and inspired Your remembrance in me, O' Allah! I requested from You the requisition of a humble, abased, and scared man to pardon and have mercy on me and make me satisfied and contented with Your apportionment and to be humble in all conditions. O' Allah, I am asking the request of him whose indigence is very intensive and has come to You due to the difficulty in obtaining his needs, and his desire in what is before You is very great. O' Allah! Your kingdom is great and Your place is exalted, and Your plot is concealed and Your order is obvious, and Your face is overwhelming and Your power is applied and it is not possible to escape Your government. O' Allah! I didn't get who can pardon my sins, and no one can conceal my ugly acts, and no one can change my evil deeds to good ones except You, there is no god except You, Glory and praise be to You, I have cheated my soul and have courageously offended You due to my ignorance, and have depended on my ancient remembrance of You, and Your favour on me. O' Allah! O' my master, how many of my ugly act You have concealed! How many tribulation You have diverted away from me! How many stumble You have prevented from me! How many misfortune You have defended! How many praise You have spread for me which I didn't possess! O' Allah! My tribulation is great, and my bad condition is excessive, and my deeds are inadequate, and my fetters has tied me down, and the farness of my hopes has prevented me from benefiting, this world and its delusions has deceived me, including my soul, its offences and my delay in obedience to You, O' my master, I ask You by Your Mighty not to allow my evil deeds veil my supplication from reaching You, and don't disgrace me for my secret that is known to You, and don't hasten Your punishment on me for the evil acts I have secretly do, and my continuous negligence and ignorance, and too much of my self desire and forgetfulness. O' Allah! By Your mightiness, be kind to me in all my condition and to be gracious to me in all my affairs, my God! My Lord! I don't have anyone beside You I will ask to remove my afflictions and to look into my affairs! My God! My master, You have pass decree on me for what I have followed the desire of my soul and did not remain wary of adorning my enemy, what I decided has deceived me and have make it happy of that decree, and I have transgress due to that some of Your limits, and have disobey some of Your commandments. So praise be to You for that, and I don't obtained any argument for Your decree passed on me, then O' my God! I have came to You after all my negligence and immoderations towards myself, in a state of apology, regretting, breaking, excusing, seeking for forgiveness, repenting, confessing, succumbing, and acknowledging, I don't have any place to flee for what occurred from me, and no place for me to held to except You accept my excuses, and enters me into the vastness of Your mercy. O' Allah! Accept my excuse and have mercy upon the intensiveness of my affliction and free me from the tightness of my bond, O' my Lord! Have mercy on my weak body and the thinness of my skin and slenderness of my bone, O' He who commence my remembrance, my training, goodness to me and nourished me, bestowed on me the beginning of Your generosity and Your previous goodness to me. My God, my master, my Lord, shall You see me punished with Your Hell fire after I have proclaimed Your unity! And after my heart has acknowledged and embrace You! And my tongue has constantly remembered You! And the conviction of my mind for Your love, after the sincerity of my acknowledgement and supplication in humbleness to Your Lordship! It is impossible, for You are more generous to forfeit whom You have trained or to distance whom You have taken closer to You, or to drive away whom You have dwelled, or to submit to tribulation he whom You have suffice and showed Your mercy on! O' my master, my God, my Lord, I don't think You will surrendered the face that has fell down in prostrating for Your tremendousness, and the tongues that has sincerely uttered Your unity and giving thanks for Your praise, and the heart that has sincerely confess Your Lordship, and the minds that became scared of You after Your acknowledgement, and the joint that has strive for Your worship due to submissiveness, and has indicates Your forgiveness in submission. No I don't have such opinion upon You, nor has such been reported of You, O' the most Generous! O' my Lord, You know my weakness regards little tribulation of this world and its punishment, and its ordeals with its inhabitants, even though the ordeals and tribulations stays little, its persistence is few and its time is very short, so how then can I endure of the tribulation of the Day of Judgment and the great ordeal that occurs in it! Verily it is a long time tribulation and its station is eternal, and it is not lessen for its inhabitant, because such tribulation is due to Your wrath, vengeance and annoyance, this is what the Heaven and the Earth cannot withstand, O' my master, then how about me, Your weak, abased, inferior, wretched and submissive slave! O' my God, my Lord, my master and my protector, which of the issue do I complain to You? And which of them do I lament and weep? Due to the pains and the intensive of its punishment or for the length and persistence of the tribulation, so if You turn me together with Your enemies to punishment and join me with the inhabitant of Your tribulation, and separated me from Your beloved ones and saints, O' my God, my master, my protector, my Lord, supposing I am able to bear Your punishment, how do I bear Your separation? And supposing I am able to bear the hotness of Your Hell fire, how can I bear not to envisage Your generosity? Or how can I dwell in the Hell fire while my hope is in Your pardon? O' my master, my protector, by Your might, I sincerely swear, if You leave me talking, I will lament to You with the dwellers of the Hell fire, the lamentation of the hopeful ones, and I will cry to You the cry of those that cry for assistance, and I will weep to You the weep of the forfeiters and I will call upon You that where is the Lord of the believers, O' the utmost hope of the cognizant ones, O' the helper of those that seek for help, O' the friend of the heart of the sincere ones, O' the lord of the worlds. O' my God, Glory and praise be unto You, can You see and be hearing the voice of a submissive slave imprisoned there in the Hell fire due to his violation? And he is tasting the flavour of its punishment due to his guilt, and withhold within its level due to his crime and offence, and he lament to You the lamentation of those hoping for Your mercy and call upon You with the tongue of those that testify Your unity and seek for intercession from You through Your Lordship. O' my master, how will he remain in the punishment while hoping for what he has previously known about Your clemency? Or how should the Hell fire torture him while he is hoping for Your blessing and mercy? Or how could its flame burnt him while hearing him and seeing his condition? And how could its groaning encompasses him while You know his weakness? And how could he be tottering with its level while knowing his sincerity? Or how could its keepers torture him while he calls upon You, O' my Lord? Or could he be hoping for his release due to Your favour and You leave him therein? It is impossible, that is not our thought towards You, and that is not Your favour known to us, nor is it similar to the kindness You has shown to those that testify Your unity Including Your goodness, so I certainly declare that, were it not for what has decreed concerning the punishment of those that denies You, and has decreed the everlasting home of those that opposed You, You could have make all the Hell fire cold and safety, and no one will have position and dwelling place in it, but Your Names are holy, You have sworn that You will fill the Hell fire with the unbelievers among the Jinn and men, and those that opposed You shall dwell in forever, and You O' Lord, Your commendation is exalted, You have said from the beginning and You have prolong Your gracious bounty "what? Is he who has been a believer like unto him who has been ungodly? They are not equal. O' my God and Master, I ask You by the power You has predetermine, and the decision which You has determine and imposed, and You have subdued him towards it has been put into effect, to grant me forgiveness in this night and at this very hour, every crime I have committed, every sins I have committed, and every ugly thing I have relied, even ignorant act I have performed, whether I have concealed it, or I announced it, or have hidden it, or manifested it, and all the evils You have commanded the noble Angels writer to record, those You have appointed to watch over what occurred from me, and make them and my bodily joint a witness against me, and You act as a watcher over me behind them, and witness all that is hidden for them, but due to Your mercy You conceal it, and through Your favour You covered it, I seek from You to bestowed on me share of every good You descended, or the kindness You have confer, or the goodness You spread, or the provision You have unfold, or the sin You have forgiven and the mistakes You have covered. O' my Lord, O' my Lord, O' my Lord! O' my God, my master, my protector, the owner of my bondage, O' He in whose hand is on my forelock, O' He who is acquainted with my afflictions and my wretchedness, O' He who is aware of my poverty and indigence, O' my Lord, O' my Lord, O' my Lord! I ask You by Your truth, and Your Holiness, the great of Your attributes and Name to make my time in the night and day inhabited with Your remembrance and joined to Your service, and my works to be accepted by You, till all my works and litanies became one litany, and let at all condition be at Your service forever. O' my master, O' He upon whom I depend! O' He upon whom I complain regards my situation! O' my Lord, O' my Lord, O' my lord! Strengthen all my bodily joints for Your service, and fortify my ribs in determination, and grant me diligence in Your fear, and continuation in my being join to Your service, so that I may move easily towards You in the field of the foremost, and hurry to You in battlefield, and desire nearness to You among those that desired You, and to move near to You like the sincere ones, and to fear You like the fear of the certitude ones, and to gather with the believers in Your vicinity. O' Allah! Whoever desire evil to me, desire it to him, and whoever deceive me, You deceive him, and make me one of the most excellent servant in portion before You, and the nearest of them in rank to You, and more particular in proximity among them before You, for that cannot be attained except through Your favour, grant me generousness through You, liberality, and sympathy with Your glory, and protect me with Your mercy, and let my tongue continuously remembering You, and my heart enthralled with Your love, be gracious to me by answering me favourably, pardon my slips and forgive my lapses, for verily You have decreed Your worship for Your servants, and ordered them to supplicate to You, and You assured them of Your acceptance. O' my Lord! Unto You I have turned my face and unto You I have extended my hand, so by Your Mightiness accept my supplication, and let me attain my aspiration, by Your bounty don't sever my hope and suffice me the evils of the Jinn and Men among my enemies. O' He whose pleasure is quickly achieved! Forgive he who did not owned anything except supplication, for verily You act as You wishes, O' He whose Name is medication and His remembrance is cure and His obedience is sufficiency, have mercy upon he whose capital is hope and his weapon is weeping, O' He whose blessing is in abundant, O' He who repel adversities, O' the light of the lonely ones in the darkness, O' the acquainted one who was not taught, send blessing on Muhammad and on the holy family of Muhammad, and do for me what is worthy of You and may Allah's blessing and abundant peace be upon Muhammad and upon the holy Imams from his household. CONCLUSION OF THE BOOK. On some aspects of worships which our master, the leader of the time (may our souls be sacrifice for him) has given concentration. We have selected in conclusion of his book "the psalm of Al-Mahdi" Ziyarah Ashura and the supplication of Alqamah.
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
ZIYARAH ASHURA
Peace be upon you, O' father of Abdullah, peace be upon you, O' son of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon you son of the commander of the faithful and son of the master of the successors, peace be upon you, O' son of Fatimah the mistress of women of the two worlds, peace be upon you, O' Allah's vengeance and son of His vengeance, the odd and single, peace be upon you and upon the souls that gathered by your courtyard, I pray to Allah to send His peace upon the whole of you, so far I remain alive and continuation of the day and night. O' the father of Abdullah, the calamity that befell on you is great, your catastrophe is great and tremendous upon us and the whole Muslims likewise the tribulation is heavy in the Heaven upon the entire inhabitant of the Heavens, may the curse of Allah be upon the nation that established oppression and aggression upon you the household of the holy Prophet, may the curse of Allah be upon the nation that remove you from your position and disperse you from the rank Allah has set for you, may Allah's curse be upon the nation that assassinated you, may the curse of Allah be upon those that has created the chance and opportunity for your assassination. Before Allah and you I have denounce them, their members, their followers and their supporters. O' father of Abdullah, I am in peace with those that make peace with you and in war with those that wage war against you till the Day of Resurrection, and may Allah curse the family of Ziyad and the family of Marwan, and may Allah's curse be upon the entire children of Umayyah, may Allah curse the son of Marjanah, may Allah curse Umar bn sa'ad, may Allah curse Shimr, and may Allah curse the nation that saddled and put bridle on their horses and veil their face while fighting you. May my father and mother be sacrifice for you, verily the effect of your calamity is great on me, I seek from Allah who has honoured your position and has honoured me through you to bestowed mercy on me in seeking retaliation with the supported Imam from the household of Muhammad, blessing of Allah be on him and on his family, O' Allah make me a prominent one before you through Al-Husein peace be upon him in this world and the world Hereafter. O' father of Abdullah, I seek nearness to Allah and to His Messenger and to the commander of the faithful and to Fatimah and to Al-Hasan and to you through your allegiance and denunciation from those that wage war against you and martyred you, and denunciation from those that established oppression and aggression upon you. I have likewise denounced before Allah and His Messenger those that initiate such thing against you and built upon it, and his oppression and aggression occurred on you and your followers. I denounce before Allah and you and seek nearness to Allah and you by your allegiance and allegiance to your friend and denunciation to your enemies and those that stage war against you. I also denounce their supporters and followers, I am in peace with those that make peace with you and in war with those that wage war against you, and I am in friendship with your friends and in enmity with your enemies. I requested from Allah who has blessed me for recognizing you and your royalties and has grant me the denunciation of your enemies to allow me in your company in this world and in the world Hereafter and let me stand firm and sincerely before you in this world and in the world Hereafter. I requested from Allah to let me attain a commendable position like yours before Allah and to grant me seeking revenge with Imam Al-Mahdi, the obvious and true speaker from you (all) and I ask Allah by your sake and for the sake of your reputation before Him to overwhelms me with grief in memory of your calamities more than the personal grief that torments anyone who is in great agony, in Islam and in the Heaven and the Earth. O' Allah, grant me from this very position of mine among those that shall obtain Your blessing, mercy and forgiveness. O' Allah, let my life be like that of Muhammad and the holy family of Muhammad and my death to be like that of Muhammad and the holy family of Muhammad. O' Allah, this very day the children of Umayyah see their good Omen, together with the son of liver eater, the cursed one the son of the cursed one, by Yourself and Your Prophet, may Your blessing be upon him and his holy family, in all places and station Your Prophet has stand, may Your blessing be upon him and his holy family. O' Allah, may Your curse be upon Abu Sufyan, Mu'awiyah and Yazid son of Mu'awiyah, may the eternal and everlasting curse be upon them. This is the day families of Ziyad and Marwan has rejoiced for their assassinating Imam Al-Husein may Allah's blessing be on him. O' Allah may You double the curse upon them and painful punishment on them. O' Allah this day, in this my position and this day of my life, I seek nearness to You by denouncing them and invoking Your curse on them and by paying my allegiance to Your Prophet and Your Prophet's household peace be upon them. Then you repeat the following (100) one hundred times: O' Allah cure the first oppressor that oppressed the Right of Muhammad and the holy family of Muhammad to the end of those that follows their footstep, O' Allah, curse the groups that strive against Al-Husein and those that support, those that give their allegiance and those that follow the assassination, O' Allah may your curse be upon them all. Then you repeat the following (100) one hundred times: Peace be upon the father of Abdullah and upon the souls that gathered round your courtyard, may Allah's peace from me be upon you forever so far I am alive and the continuation of the day and night, and should not make this as my last visit to you, peace be upon Al-Husein and upon Ali son of Al-Husein and upon the children of Al-Husein and upon the companions of Al-Husein. Then you say: O' Allah, take a special curse from me to the first, the second, the third, and the forth oppressor of the household of the Prophet, O' Allah curse Yazid as the fifth, and curse Ubaidullah son of ziyad and son of Marjanah and Umar son of Sa'ad and Shimr and the entire families of Abu Sufyan, Ziyad and Marwan till the Day of Judgment. Then you prostrate and say: O' Allah praise be unto You, the praise of the thanksgiving ones, for the calamities they encountered, praise be to Allah for my tremendous grief, O' Allah grant me intercession of Al- Husein on the Day of Judgment, and let me stand firm and sincerely before You with Al-Husein and the companions of Al-Husein who sacrifice their lives because of Al-Husein, peace be on him. & Then you offer two units (Raka'at) of prayer and read the supplication of Alqamah after it. THE SUPPLICATION AFTER READING THE ZIYARAH ASHURA. O' Allah! O' Allah! O' Allah! O' He who answer the call of the persecuted ones, O' He who unveil the suffering of the anguished one, O' He who help the helpless ones, O' He who gives relief to those that cries for assistance, O' He who is closer to me than my jugular vein! O' He who create peace between man and his heart, O' He who is in exalted perspective and in the holy horizon, O' He who is the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful, and His tremendousness in the Throne is very firm, O' He who is acquainted of the treacherous eyes and what is hidden by the hearts, O' He whom all secrets is not conceal for. O' He who identify all voices! O' He who people's need didn't put Him in dilemma! O' He who people's persistence did not weary! O' He who apprehend the entire things that got loss. O' He who gathered all that is scattered, O' the Creator of souls after death, O' He who is at His duty every day, O' He who fulfill the needs, O' He who relief the grieved ones, O' He who grant those that requested from Him, O' the master of all desires, O' He who suffice us in all vital things, O' He who suffice from everything and nothing suffice from Him both in the Heaven and in the Earth. O' Allah! I requested from You for the sake of Muhammad the seal of the Prophets, and Ali the commander of the faithful, and for the sake of Fatimah the daughter of Your Prophet, and for the sake of Al-Hasan and Al-Husein, for I concentrated to You through them in this position of mine and I seek means to You through them, and through them I seek for intercession before You, and by their sake I requested, swear and determine before You. For the sake of their reputation before You, for the sake of their might before You, for what You have prefer them before the universe, for the sake of Your holy Names that You kept in them and has specialize it for them without other than them among the universe, by Your holy Names by which You built them and their virtues more than the virtues of the universe till their virtues exceed the virtues of the entire world. I requested from You to send blessing on Muhammad and on the family of Muhammad and to take away from me my sorrow, grief, and anxiety and to suffice me of my vital issues, pay all my debts and deliver me from poverty and save me from indigence and suffice me from requesting from the whole creatures. O' Allah! Suffice me from the grief that I scared and from the distress that I feared and from the gloomy that I feared and from the evils that I scared and from the deception that I feared, and from the aggressors that I fear his aggression, and from the oppressors that I scared of his oppression and the kings that I am afraid of his kingdom, and from the plotters that I fear their plots, and from the powerful ones that I fear their strength over me, and to ward off from me the cunning of the conspiracies and the plot of the wile. O' Allah! Return evil to who wanted to cause evil to me and plan whoever plan evil against me, and divert away from me his plot, his deception, his agony, and his indemnity, and prevent him from me as You wishes and to anywhere You wishes. O' Allah! Occupied him from me with inevitable wretchedness and tribulation that is none defendable and none recovery poverty and incurable illness, and abjection he will never be honoured and none repairable misery. O' Allah! Let disgrace stick on his two eyes and impose poverty in his home including ailment and illness in his body till You occupied him from me with such an endless occupation, let him forget my remembrance, and take on my behalf from him, his hearing, sight, tongue, hands, legs, mind, and all his organs, and replace all with such illness You will never grant him recovery till it occupied him from me and from my remembrance. O' Allah! Suffice me, O' the sufficient and no one suffice like You, verily You are the sufficient, there is no any sufficient like You, O' the Reliever there is no any reliever like You, O' the helper there is no any helper like You, O' the neighbour there is no any neighbour like You, he is unsuccessful whose neighbour is other than You, and his helper is other than You, and his refuge is to other than you, and his fleeing is to other than You, and his asylum is to other than You, and his salvation is from creatures instead of You. So You are my confidant, my hope, my sanctuary, my place of fleeing, my place of seeking asylum and my salvation, with You I seek for initiations and with You I seek for success and with Muhammad and the holy family of Muhammad I seek concentration to You, and I seek for means, and I seek for intercession from You. O' Allah! O' Allah! O' Allah! I beseech You, all praise and appreciations belongs to You, unto You I laid my complain, You are the helper, I beseech You, O' Allah! O' Allah! O' Allah! By the sake of Muhammad and the holy family of Muhammad to send blessing on Muhammad and on the holy family of Muhammad and to avert from me my sorrow, agony, and anxiety at this very position as You have averted the sorrow, agony and anxiety of Your Prophet and suffice him from the terror of his enemy, avert from me as You have averted from him and relieve me as You have relieved him, suffice me as You have suffice him, and divert away from me the terror that I scared and the burden of those that I fear its burden, and the anxiety of he I scared without any burden for that in my soul, and release me by satisfying my needs and suffice me in what worried me mostly in the issues of this world and the world Hereafter. O' the commander of the faithful, O' father of Abdullah, may the peace of Allah from me be upon You (both) so far I am alive and the continuation of the day and night and may Allah not make this my last visit to both of you, and may Allah never separate between me and you (both). O' Allah! Grant me life like the life of Muhammad and his holy progeny and take my life like You take their lives, take my life base on their creed and resurrect me in their group, and don't separate between me and them even twinkle of an eye in this world and the world Hereafter. O' commander of the faithful, O' the father of Abdullah, I came for your visit seeking for means to Allah, my Lord, and your Lord, concentrating to Him through you (both) seeking for intercession from Allah the Most High through you (both) in this my need, you (both) should intercedes for me because you (both) attain a commendable rank, glory, dignity, exalted position and means before Allah, I am turning back to my destination expecting the execution and granting my requisition and its successfulness from Allah through your intercession for me before Allah. I will not be disappointed and my turning back will not be unsuccessful and loosing one but my turning back will be a favourable, hopeful, prosperous, successful, and acceptance for granting all my requests and intercession for me before Allah. I turn towards Allah's wishes, there is neither strength nor power except that of Allah, entrusting all my issues to Allah, I turn my back towards Allah, I put all my trust in Allah, and I say Allah is enough and suffice me. Allah hears all that call Him, I don't have any destination beside Allah and you, O' my master, whatever my Lord wishes come to be, and what ever He didn't wish never come to be, there is no strength nor power except that of Allah and I leave both of you to Allah and may Allah never make this as my last covenant with you (both). I departed, O' my chief, O' the commander of the faithful, O' my master and O' the father of Abdullah, O' my master, may continuous peace be upon you so far the continuation of day and night, may it reach you by Allah's wish it will not be concealed to you. I beseech Allah by your sake to do that to you, verily He is the praise worthy and glorified one. I return back to my destination O' my master repenting and praising, commending and hoping for the acceptance of my supplications. I am not despairing nor despondent, but I am returning, coming back for your visit, I am not reluctant of you and your visit rather I am returning and will be coming for your visit by Allah's wish and there is no strength nor power except that of Allah. O' my masters, I desired you and wish to be visiting you after the entire people of this world has abandon you and your visit. May Allah never foil my wishes and hope to visit you, verily He who quickly accept prayers. This is the important, valuable and spreading book. On the other hand this is a big and comprehensive volume, that contains an important introduction, twelve chapters and a conclusion. This is a famous book that has printed in the country. It has translated into various languages with so much copies. One of these important book is about prayers ans supplications that have issued by Imam Mahdi (A. S) and other infallibles (A) on behalf of the promised Mahdi (A. S).
-Selected Supplications from Sahifah al-Mahdiyyah
