So, to You belongs all praise for Your good and beautiful design and to You are due thanks for Your ordainments, justified by the most perfect justification. We get a similar picture of the the noble characteristics of the Apostle of Allah ( ṣ) from the following story. The first ziyara, which has been mentioned in this chapter, is the Ziyara of the Prophet (s) which is followed by the Ziyara of Lady Fatima (a) and the Ziyara of the Imams (a) of Baqi' (those Imams who are buried in the Baqi' cemetery). We are a community that was established in Hammersmith, London about 40 years ago, to cater for the religious and social needs.

Some Years before the publication of Mafatih al-hayat, Ayatollah Jawadi Amuli, the author, during a Friday Prayer sermon in Qom said: "We need a second volume for Mafatih al-jinan, which has not been written yet. It is advisable that when there is a large throng of pilgrims, those who have succeeded in approaching the ḍarīḥ should shorten the time of ziyārah and leave so that others may have the opportunity to approach the ḍarīḥ like them. O Allah, grant him the highest rank, grant him the station of mediation with regard to paradise, and raise him to a praiseworthy station envied by the former and latter generations! To prevent other things from being added to Mafatih al-jinan, he had asked God, the Prophet (s), and the Imams (a) to curse anybody that added anything to the book. O Allah, to You belongs all praise and extolment, even as eternity belongs exclusively to Your Face, and for Your making the best of the prophets our prophet and the best of creatures our sovereigns, and for electing them over all the world’s beings with Your knowledge!Tarikh-i 'Alam Aray-i 'Abbasi written by Mirza Iskandar Beyg-i Munshi; Tuhfat al-za'ir written by 'Allama Majlisi; Tahdhib al-ahkam written by Shaykh al-Tusi; Jami' al-Akhbar; Jamal al-Usbu' written by Sayyid b. Apparently, his status was not such as to permit him to enter ‘Alī’s presence, and accordingly he was denied admittance by the vizier. The analysis shows a reciprocal relationship and their interdependency among the approaches due to the fact that historical approach validates the biographical accounts narrated in the s┴arh that further guides towards the philosophy of the existence of the one and only Allah (swt) as the Creator. Some information regarding the manners of travel, rituals of ziyara, and also [the text of] asking permission for entering holy shrines have been mentioned at the beginning of this chapter. It is however permissible for them to perform the ziyārah alongside men, though it is undesirable ( makrūh).

The Imam said to him, "At nightfall go to the cemetery at Baqī‘ without any of your subordinates and servants knowing about it. Not to drink water at any halt during the journey without mixing it with water remaining from the previous halt. All praise belongs to Allah who favoured us with rulers who act as His surrogates, were He present in this place. Clearly no translation of the Quran can compare in beauty and style with the original Arabic, which has been described as: " by turns, striking, soaring, vivid, terrible, tender and breathtaking. For indeed there is no power or force except what derives from Allah, the All-exalted, the All-great!This weighty inheritance is a boon to be consulted with great respect, not a bane bearing the trappings of times of old, which some would consider as unbefitting of modern-day thought patterns. Yesterday and today's Muslim wants to know more about each Word that God chose for His revelation through the Quran. To take a bath for the ziyārah of each of the Imams [31] and to recite the prescribed supplication, which will be mentioned at the beginning of Ziyārah al-Wārith (p. In other words, the twenty or so English translations put emphasis on interpreting a Quranic verse without precisely representing the original Arabic word.