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In the Name of Allah
Meeting with Imam Zaman,
the Proof of God
(May Allah Hasten His
Reappearance) and a Remembrance from the Beloved
At the time when the heart is
cut off from strangers and is entrapped by the illumination of his
beauty, a wanderer of his sanctuary and awaiting his meeting, if you ask
the heart, “which are your most beautiful moments,” the heart replies,
“both expectation and wonderment are beautiful, so also is the
jubilation of meeting…”
Ali, the son of Mahziar, a
great Shiite scholar and a true lover of Imam Zaman (AS) says: I knew of
three locations for the meeting with the Imam (AS). Whenever I wished to
be at the service of Imam Zaman, I would go to one of these three
places.
1. Mecca (The
intention was Arafat):
The night when all Hajis are
in Arafat, Imam Zaman visits Arafat in order to protect and support all
the Hajis. Those who are worthy have the privilege of meeting the Imam
in Arafat.
2. Medina; near the
holy grave of his mother, Fatima (SA)
3.
Karbala
Ali, the son of Mahziar,
said: I was determined to go to Mecca. It didn’t happen. I decided to go
to Medina. Again it didn’t happen. I continued my way toward Karbala
hurriedly.
I heard a voice, “O Sheikh,
why are you in such a hurry?” He will surely come. If you wish to
find him go to Baghi!
I suddenly realized that I
was near Baghi Graveyard. I was perplexed. What should I do? Someone
came and asked, “What are you doing here?” I replied, “I’m expecting
someone.”
He said: He will come.
Let us get out of this place together! I accompanied him. He said: Wait
until I return. I remained there; a short time later he returned and
said: Come! Go to that tent over there. I went towards that tent. As
soon as I entered, I beheld my Master, The Proof of God standing there!
The Imam said; Come! This is
a ring which my father, Imam Hassan Askari (AS), has given me and has
himself told me to give it to the man from Ahvaz (Ali ibn Mahziar was
from Ahvaz).
The following was written on
the stone of the ring: There is no god but Allah; Mohammad is the
messenger of Allah; Ali is the Wali of Allah.
The Imam said: I submit this
to you, O son of Ebrahim! Only you should know our secret! Do not let
anybody know of this!
There was a secret in that of
which only the Infallible Imams were aware of; even Ali ibn Mahziar did
not know what it was.
He was left wondering about
the purpose of this secret. One day he was very heavyhearted. He saw
somebody in the distance who told him to repeat this sentence:
By the grace of the secret
which the owner of the ring bestowed upon me, reveal its reality to me.
He said: As soon as I uttered
these words, I saw the Imam beside me! It was a very strange feeling, he
touched my hand. When I returned to my normal state, I did not see him
any more!
From then on, I realized that
there was a secret in the presentation of the ring.
But it was not long before
death overtook the son of Mahziar.
The narrator says: I was
left wondering as to how he should be buried. Somebody arrived,
unknowingly, removed the ring from his finger. As his hand touched the
ring, there arose loud noises in the atmosphere. I did not understand
what it was.
When I became conscious, I
realized there was no sign of either Ali ibn Mahziar’s corpse or of that
scene!
After an hour somebody said:
This place you see is the grave of Ali, the son of Maziar.
Currently his grave in Ahvaz
is apparent.
It
was discovered that the effect of that ring was that by the order of the
Imam, Rijal ul-Ghaib (men of the unseen) arose for his shrouding
and burial. |