"Promised Guests"

 

 The precincts of the holy chamber

Equally parted by the glass

The crowd of hearts rushing through

The open doors of gold and brass

 

Eyes are wandering, hands are drawn

Hearts are focusing on a center known

Absent from eyes felt by the hearts

At every moments, noon and the dawn

 

Innocents, the sinful have been warmly

Welcomed morally by the kindest host

Urban, villagers, white and the black

With a neat clothing, or the face with dust

 

One side the ladies the other the men

Crying, praying, seeking the cure

Of pains of the heart and the illness more

Thousands, hundreds, and dozens of ten

 

All were promised surely by the lord

To be replied on Revival Day

At Bridge, and Recon, and Record of the deed

Pilgrims visiting the Shrine three fold

 

Not a bit of pain may a person gain

Of crowd of men, feelings embodied

All wishing for human, being goodness

All around the world, wherever they lived

 

Hand s are stretched towards the heaven

Under the dome with colorful mirrors

Where upon Qandils of swinging bright

Amongst the tiles, blue and green

 

The chamber surrounded upon which there are

Four of gold vases, holding tulips

Sitting on the leaves out of branches

Saluting the guests from ways far

 

Many whispering with foreheads on clay

With a humble heart and the secrets to say

Pray for the sons and daughters and the mate

Being kept healthy the evils away

 

Azim Sarvedalir -1384/2/30

The holy shrine of Imām Riḍā (A.S.)

 

Ṣuffah ceremony

Every day after the morning and Isha prayers you see some Khoddam sitting roundthe Dār -us-salām portico and conducting Ṣuffah ceremony. They set candlesticks and book racks with the Qur'anonthem before them and recite some verses of the holy Qur'an. Then each person recites a phrase of Khāje Naṣir’s Tawassulprayer. Of course not all of them recite it, rather only fourteen Khuddām who have memorized theholy Qur'an by heart do it. The other Khoddam  are attending there only to add to the glory of the  ceremony. You will see the head Khādim of the shift is sitting between those 14 Khoddam. At the end they collect the book racks and candlesticks ceremoniously and recite Sura al-Fātiḥa and al-Tawḥid for ImāmRiḍā (A.S)

A Reward for a patient wife

            It was night. The sky just like an angry lion was roaring successively, and from time to time horrible lightning made everywhere light up. The family including me, my wife and the five children were sitting around the table cloth spread for dinner. I had a glance at the five pale faces lacking any smile on their lips, the waves of a mysterious amazement were reflecting from them. I wonder why I felt their look was filled with hostility, fear, uncertainty, and abjectness. Maybe they were waiting for a storm which had previously happened on many occasions. There was another lightning flash followed by a frightening thunder clap that vibrated all the glass panels. My little daughter screamed and threw herself into her mother’s arms.

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Az-Ziyara Al-Jame'a Al-Kabeera

Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim

Peace be upon you! 0 Members of the Holy Household of Prophethood, and the holders of the position of the Prophetic mission and the place where angels will come and go: the landing sites for the descension of revelations; the Treasurers of Affection; the Treasurers of Knowledge; the limits of patience; the fundamentals of magnanimity; the Commanders of the nations; the Masters of the pious ones; the Sources of benevolence; the Pillars of the company of the good; the Managers of the affairs of the servants (i.e. the people); the Chiefs of the towns; the Gates to belief; the Trustees of the Merciful (God); the Progeny of the Prophets; the Elite of the Messengers; and the best progeny created by the Lord of the Two Worlds. And may God's Grace and His Blessings be upon you. 

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