The importance and the necessity to pray for the Reappearance - The second series

The one who does not pray for the Reappearance…

Talking about his child, Imam Hassan Askari (PBUH) said: “I swear by Allah that he’ll have a long absence in which no one is saved from perishing unless the one who Allah makes his belief firm in his (Imam Mahdi’s (PBUH)) Imamate and whom He makes succeed in praying for his Reappearance .” (Kamal al-Din and Tamam al-Nimeh, ch. 38)

In this bright words, perishing means deviating from the path of the Truth and the straight path of faith. According to the narrations, this perishing and deviance are extremely epidemic and severe during the Occultation, so much that one is faithful in the morning but loses his faith and becomes pagan at the night and vice versa. (Al-Ghayba al-Nu'mani, ch. 12)

Imam Hassan Askari (PBUH) has provided us with “praying for the Reappearance” as an effective method to get saved from this terrible chaos and described it as “the only way of salvation.”

 

The fantastic effects of prayers (very important)

Abu Wallad Hafs Khayyat says: “In Medina, I went to Imam Kazim (PBUH). Imam Said: “Tell your friends (the Shias in Kufa) to keep their piety to Allah, since you are living in the government of a cruel man (Mansour Dawaniqi). So, keep your tongues and protect your lives and religions and repel whatever you are afraid that he would do against you and us by prayers. Because, swear by Allah, prayer and asking Allah will repel calamities, even though it is destined and divine will is assigned to it and only the final phase is left to be decisive... So, keep on preying till Allah eliminates the evil of this tyrant from you.””

Abu Wallad says: “I told what Imam said to my companions and they prayed against Mansour and the same year that he had headed towards Mecca, he died before he could perform the ceremonies of the pilgrimage and we got rid of him. I went to Imam and he said:

 “O Abu Wallad, what was the result of the order that I praised you to do? O Abu Wallad, there is no calamity that Allah sends towards a believer and dawn on him to pray unless He resolves that calamity soon. And there is no calamity that Allah sends towards a believer and he refuses to pray unless that calamity will be prolonged.””

(The story is summarized)

(Bihar al-Anwar, v. 90, p. 298)

This is the effect of prayer in the world…

We can do too … Do not let us down …

Recite Faraj prayer, because prayer has effects…

 

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دو مسئولیت مهم و خطرناک!

{شناخت شناسنامه ای امام زمان - شماره 27}

 

پس از انتقال امام هادی از مدینه به سامرا، آن حضرت به شدت تحت مراقبت و کنترل بود! لذا به دلیل شرایط نامساعد و محدودیتهای فراوانی که وجود داشت، هنگام رحلت امام هادی حتی عده ای از شیعیان از امامت حضرت «حسن عسکری» آگاهی نداشتند!

چه رسد به هنگام تولد منجی موعود، که وضعیت سنگین امنیتی دستگاه وقت باعث شده بود امام عسکری بسیار مراقب جان فرزند خود باشد و او را در پرده ی «پنهان زیستی» نگه دارد تا از گزند بدخواهان در امان بماند.

اما از طرفی باید او را برای عده ای معرفی می کرد تا آنها بدانند جانشین ایشان کیست و اخبار تولد فرزندش را به گوش تاریخ برسانند...

[منابع در "درسنامه مهدویت" ج۱]

 

 

منبع : کانال مهدیاران(Mahdiaran@)

زندگی بی مهدی...

{منبرک و دلنوشته مهدوی - شماره 22}

 

دست به قلم بردم تا برایتان حرف ها بزنم

اما نشد...

خواستم از "دردم" بگویم

دیدم دردِ شما ، خودِ « من » م...

خواستم از "بی کسی" ام حرف بزنم

دیدم (تنها) تر از شما در عالم نیست...

خواستم بگویم" دلم از روزگار گرفته"

دیدم خودم در (خون به دل) کردنِ شما کم نگذاشته ام

قلم کم آورد...

به راستی که وسعت « مظلومیت » شما قابل اندازه گیری نیست.

 

 

منبع : کانال مهدیاران (Mahdiaran@)

خورشید پشت ابر

{تمثیلات و مثال های مهدوی - شماره 26}

 

با توجه به فاصله ی بسیار زیاد ابر تا خورشید، در حقیقت این زمین است که پشت ابر است...

خورشید «محوریت» دارد؛ گردش سیارات به دور اوست و نور خود را از او می گیرند. ابرها نمی توانند از همه ی آثار خورشید جلوگیری کنند؛ لذا خورشید هر چند پشت ابر باشد، مانع از تاریکی و سرمای مطلق است.

در هوای ابری، هیچ کس نمی تواند منکر وجود خورشید باشد. با عبور ابرهای تیره، می توان شاهد جمال خورشید بود. این برای انسانها انتظار می آورد؛ انتظار کنار رفتن ابرها و ظهور خورشید...

ابرها در حال حرکتند و بالاخره از مقابل خورشید کنار می روند یا محو میگردند؛ آری! موانع، ماندگار نیست.

خداوند نور و حرارت را به وسیله خورشید به عالم می رساند؛ قطعا هر که به خورشید نزدیک تر باشد، فیض بیشتری دریافت خواهد نمود...

حال میفهمیم چرا پیامبر (صلی الله علیه و آله)، امام صادق و حضرت مهدی، (هر سه) فرموده اند: امام مهدی در دوران غیبت، مانند خورشید پشت ابر است.

 

 

منبع : کانال مهدیاران (Mahdiaran@)

معرفی کتاب "صحیفه المهدی"

{معرفی کتب مهدوی - شماره 22}

 

مؤلف این کتاب آقای جواد قیّومی اصفهانی است؛ وی با استناد به منابع و مأخذ روایی معتبر، مجموعه ای از دعاها و زیارات و کلماتی را که به امام عصر منتسب است، جمع آوری کرده و پس از تنظیم آنها مقدمه ای بر آن افزوده است. این کتاب ارزشمند در سیصد و نود صفحه و یک مقدمه و چهار فصل کلی به شرح ذیل چاپ و منتشر شده است.

در مقدمه موضوعاتی مانند ولادت، امامت، غیبت امام زمان و وظیفه منتظران و... مورد بحث و بررسی قرار می گیرد؛ در فصل اوّل که عمده ترین بخش کتاب حاضر است، مجموعه ای از نیایش ها و ادعیه آن حضرت در طی ده بخش ارائه می گردد؛

در فصل دوم گزیده ای از پیام ها و سخنان آن حضرت به چشم می خورد، فصل سوم به اشعاری در زمینه مدح و منقبت امام مهدی اختصاص دارد و بخش چهارم نیز که قسمت پایانی کتاب است به فهرست های مختلف و منابع و مأخذ مطالب کتاب اختصاص داده شده است.

 

          

 

منبع : کانال مهدیاران (Mahdiaran@)

شعیب بن صالح

{دیکشنری مهدوی - شماره 22}

 

ش - شعیب بن صالح

از رخدادهای سال ظهور میباشد. امام سجاد علیه السلام فرمودند: خروج شعیب بن صالح پس از عوف سلمی و قبل از خروج سفیانی است.

شیخ صدوق خروج او را از نیشابور ذکر کرده است. از برخی روایات نیز استفاده میشود که ایشان پرچم دار حضرت مهدی است و نزد ایشان انجام وظیفه می کند.

[الخرائج والجرائح ج ۳ ؛ کمال الدین ج۲]

ص - صاحب الدار، صاحب الامر، صاحب السّیف، صاحب الغیبة

تمامی موارد یاد شده از القاب حضرت مهدی می باشد که در روایات گوناگون از آنها یاد شده است.

 

 

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Mahdavi Lifestyle - The second series

The importance of praying for the children

It’s favorable to pray for the children in addition to training them and being kind to them. One of the prayers which contains very beautiful concepts regarding this matter is the prayer no. 25 of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya. Some of its verses are as the following:

 “Oh, God! Do me a favor and save my children and improve them and give me their benefit.”

 “Oh, God! Lengthen their lives and make them healthy and guide them towards the true religion and good character.”

 “Oh, God! Make them pious and insightful and loving and well disposed towards Your friends, and malicious and virulent towards Your enemies. ”

 “Oh, God! Make my name everlasting through them and make them my helper in [fulfilling] the wishes, make them affectionate so that they be loving towards me and obedient to me, not disobedient and disrespectful.”

 

To be adorned at home

A person who is willing to help Imam Mahdi (PBUH), should take all the words of Ahl al-Bayt as the guidelines for his life. One of the most important recommendations of Ahl al-Bayt to the Shias is to be adorned and beautiful at home and in the presence of the spouse.

Contrariwise, most of the people pay more attention to their beauty outside their houses and do not care about their appearance at home.

One of the most important recommendations of Imam Kadhim (PBUH) to the Shias is that he says: “Man’s adornment for his wife is one of the factors of woman’s chastity.”

(The precious book of “Makarem al-Akhlaq”, p. 97)

 

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The duties of the awaiting people - The second series

Recognizing the symptoms of the Reappearance

Recognizing the symptoms of Imam Mahdi’s Reappearance is one of the important duties of the awaiting people during the occultation, especially those signs which our Imams have informed us about.

The book Mikyal-al-Makarim

Everyone is needed to pledge allegiance to Imam Mahdi after his Reappearance and this is impossible without having knowledge about the Reappearance.

Imam Sadiq says: "Five symptoms are inevitable before the Reappearance of Imam Mahdi which include: “Yamani, Sufiani, a loud cry from the Heavens, the murder of the pure soul, and the ground subsides in the area of Al-Bayda."

Kamal al-Din and Tamam al-Nimeh, chapter 57 

Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani says:

"Recognizing the symptoms of the Reappearance is obligatory."

 

Almsgiving on behalf of Imam Mahdi

This work is one of the signs of amity and friendship toward Imam Mahdi. One of the recommended tasks ordained by God in his Book to his servants is to do almsgiving on behalf of the (Islam’s) Prophet’s kinsmen and relatives. You don’t notice that whenever you worry about your child or dear ones you pay alms in order to keep them safe from dangers? Thus, your Imam is the most deserved for such a deed (almsgiving).

As evidence to what we mentioned, we can refer to Sheikh Saduq who writes down a document referring to the saying of Prophet: “No one has believed faithfully in me unless he loves me more dearly than himself, and my family more than his and my progeny and kinsmen more than his, and my own self and his own self.”

We can infer from this Hadith that expressing affinity toward him (Imam Mahdi (PBUH)) is as pleasant as the extent that a believer is fond of his kinsmen, children and family and expresses his affinity toward them.

Mekyal al Makarem

 

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The Reappearance Signs - The second series

The time of the Rise of Yamani according to the Sunni narrations

There is an extreme disagreement among the Sunni narrations over the time of the Rise of Yamani:

1- Some believe the Rise of Yamani (Qahtani) is before the Reappearance.

2- Some believe it is concurrent with [the Reappearance] of Imam Mahdi (PBUH).

3- Some believe it is after Imam Mahdi’s (PBUH) demise!

And even in some of the other narrations, Yamani is said to be Imam Mahdi himself (PBUH)!

( Tammol-i No Dar Neshane-haye Zohour (A New Reflection on the Reappearance Signs), p. 87-90)

 

The rise of Yamani

There are many narrations stating that the “location of the rise of Yamani” and locality of formation of his movement will be in Yemen. For example Imam Sadiq (PBUH) said: “The rise of Yamani will be from Yemen with white flags.” [The epitome of Ithbat ar-Raj’a, p. 455]

 “The exact activities and details of the rise of Yamani” is not clear in narrations! Maybeu the reason for not revealing this is to avoid planning of his enemies against him. Also it is possible that the details are explained in the words of Imams but have not reached us.

 

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Seeking the Savior in Different Religions - The second series

Intense conflicts between Jews

There is a great deal of common ground between Christians and Jews; that is their historical background

is the same; in fact, the Jewish greats are the Christian greats.

Matthew, chapter 15, verse 17

But is Jesus, the Promised Savior that is mentioned in the books of Isaiah, Zechariah and Daniel?

Some Jews believe that Jesus is the Messiah and Savior, but some of them rejected the idea, and because of that they tortured Jesus and his followers severely! In fact, Christ’s persecution was plotted by the

Jewish priests

 

The Christian Messiah

The sentence “Jesus will return again” has been the important and the key concept that is mentioned in the Holy book more than 300 times.

In the "New Testament", several full chapters are assigned to the Christian Messiah [Matthew, Chapters 24 and 25; Mark, Chapter 13; Luke; Chapter 21].

Some Treatises have only focused on the importance of this concept such as the First and Second Thessalonians.

The "Revelation of John" is entirely in relation to the events of the Apocalypse.

Many of the key concepts of the "New Testament" are incomprehensible without understanding the concept of the Advent…

 

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