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Highway to Appearance …

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Highway to Appearance …

 

Going on pilgrimage of Imam Hosain (SBUH) on foot has been the tradition of believers … Imam Sadiq (SBUH) has asserted:

 

He who goes on pilgrimage of Imam Hosain’s (SBUH) grave on foot, for each of his steps Allah SWT writes 1000 good deeds and obliterates 1000 sins and raises his rank 1000 levels …

 

(Kaamel al-Ziyaaraat, from the Zehni Tehrani translation, p. 435; …)

 

Perhaps for some … the main goal of this walk has been to honor the exalted position of the martyrs of Karbala, especially Imam Hosain (SBUH) himself … and to attain the promised rewards in this world and in the hereafter …

 

But for some sincere followers of the AhlulBayt (SBUT) … in addition to honoring the martyrs and hoping to attain the wonderful rewards … they have been realizing that the highway to Appearance passes through Karbala … for, Allah SWT has promised that He would Avenge the holy blood of Imam Hosain (SBUH) and his faithful companions at the hand of the Qaa’em (SBUH) …

 

Imam Baqer (SBUH) has asserted that when his forefather Imam Hosain (SBUH) was martyred … angels wept wholeheartedly and cried and wondered what Allah SWT was going to do to the killers of Imam Hosain (SBUH), he who was chosen by Allah and was the son of Allah’s most exalted chosen creation …

 

The Imam (SBUH) continued that Allah SWT asked the angels to be calm and swore by His Undefeatedness and His Glory that He would avenge him (SBUH) be it at a later time … then He manifested before their eyes the Infallible Imams (SBUT) from the offspring of Imam Hosain (SBUH), the angels became delighted … among the Infallible Imams (SBUH) was one who was Risen and was performing Salat …

 

Allah SWT said that with that Qaa’em (Riser) He would avenge imam Hosain (SBUH) …

 

(al-Ghaybat al-No’maani, from the Ghaffaari translation, p. 135; …)

 

Sincere followers of the AhlulBayt (SBUT) are Inshaa’Allah realizing more and more … that their acts and behavior … their works and deeds … their beliefs and wants … their risings and sittings … all and all … should follow their Imam of their time, Hazrat Mahdi (SBUH) …

 

They are Inshaa’Allah realizing more and more … that their main provision from this heavenly highway should be true recognition and servitude and obedience of Allah through the true recognition of their one and only Infallible Imam of time (May Allah hasten his Appearance), through the true recognition and acceptance of Hazrat Mahdi’s (SBUH) Allah bestowed Wilayat and Lordship … to love him and to obey him in every thing he does or does not do, in every thing he wishes, be it during Occultation or Appearance, to seek his pleasedness and assistance in every thing one does … is the only heavenly pathway toward the Pleasedness of Allah …

 

Imam Sadiq (SBUH) has narrated that one day Imam Hosain (SBUH), after praising Allah and stating Salawaat upon Hazrat Mohammad (SAWA), swore by Allah SWT and told his companions that indeed Allah had not created his creations unless so that they would recognize and get to know Allah, and thus they would worship Allah, and through His worship and obedience they would become free from servitude of other than Allah; a devoted man asked Imam Hosain (SBUH) what the Ma’refat (recognition and knowing) of Allah was; the Imam (SBUH) responded that indeed the Ma’refat of Allah was the Ma’refat of the people of each time and era the Ma’refat of the Infallible Imam of that time whose obedience would be incumbent upon them.

 

(‘Elal al-Sharaaye’ of Shaikh Sadooq, vol. 1, p. 9; Kanz al-Fawaa’ed, p. 151; …)

 

MAY WE ALL, BY GRACE OF ALLAH, BE BLESSED TO PLACE OUR STEPS IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR IMAM OF OUR TIME, MOMENT BY MOMENT UNTIL ALLAH SWT WILL ALLOW HIS GLORIOUS APPEARANCE … AND MAY ALLAH HASTEN THAT UNIQUE AND EVER-PROMISED MOMENT …

 

AAMEEN …

 

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