In the name of Allah, the Merciful
They ask Allameh Jafari, what happened to reach these perfections?!
In response, they describe a memory from their student days and state that everything they have is one of the honors they received after this divine exam: “We stayed in Madrasa Sadr in Najaf. We were very bound to celebrate the feasts and feast days, and mourn the days of mourning. One night coincided with the birth of Hazrat Fatima Zahra (pbuh) and we prayed Maghrib and Isha prayers on the first night and had a drink. We would eat, then we would organize a feast and feast with Fakahiati Majlis. There was a man named Agha Sheikh Haider Ali Esfahani, who was from Najafabadi, he was a mine of taste. If he came to Al-Kafayah, the meeting would definitely come into being.
Those days coincided with the days of Qalb al-Asad (August 10 to 21) when we date lovers say that Najaf was very hot with 25 or 35 degrees. That year, a swamp had been created around Najaf and mosquitoes had appeared, which bothered the native Arabs, and we Iranians had no sleep or rest at all. It was so hot that year that it was unbearable. The third point is that my cell was facing east. It was almost ruined.
I used to study and sleep there naturally in April. Ardibehesht was a bit tolerable, but from Khordad it was not possible to use the cell anymore. The heat was really deadly, when I wanted to go and get a book from the room, it was like I was taking a loaf of bread out of the oven, in the least amount of time and quickly! With these definitions, this celebration had fallen at this time, in Baghdad, Basra, and Najaf, the heat had taken its toll. ” Came.
The principal of our school, the late Seyyed Ismail Esfahani, was also there and said to Sheikh Ali: Sir, the night does not pass, do you have something to say, Ishan took out a piece of newspaper. There was a photo of a girl with the words “Ajmal Banat Asrha” written under it, “the most beautiful girl of the age”. Gentlemen, I have a question about this photo.
If they approve of you, between marrying this girl legitimately and legally – from the very first moment of meeting and not violating Sharia even for a moment – and live for a thousand years. With complete cheerfulness and without sadness, or to visit and meet Jamal Ali (a.s.).
Which one do you choose? The question was very calculated. The girl’s side was halal and Ali’s (pbuh) pilgrimage was also recommended. He said, gentlemen, tell the truth. Don’t delay the prayer, don’t rush, answer correctly. First, the school principal took the paper and looked at it and said to his son who was sitting next to him in an Isfahani accent: Seyyed Mohammad! Let’s say something. Why don’t you tell your mother? It turned out, what is the opinion of the gentleman? Our first student got his grade! Everyone laughed. They gave the paper to the latter. He looked at the photo and said: Mr. Sheikh Ali, you have the authority, when Mr. (the principal of the school) said this, do we have the power to say the opposite?
Sir, they said no more! Well, there was laughter in every piece. The third person said: Mr. Sheikh Haider, this is a famous narration from Imam Ali (a.s.), who said, “Ya Harith Hamdani man yamat yarni” (O Harith Hamdani, whoever dies will meet me), so we will meet Jamal Ali (a.s.), God willing. ! Again, everyone laughed, they had a good taste.
It was really a difficult question. One of the men said: Mr. Sheikh Haider, did you say that it is recommended to visit you? Did you say that it is also 100% Sharia? Mr. Sheikh Haider said: Yes, he said: God, what can I say (again laughter from the audience) I was the fifth person. They gave me this paper. I saw that I could not look, I passed the paper to the next person, I said: I would not give a single moment of meeting Ali (AS) to thousands of years of marriage with this woman. Once I saw a very strange expression.
I had never seen anything like it before. I woke up like I was asleep and unconscious. On the first night of Qalb al-Asad, I entered my cell, an unusual state, I did not understand the cell facing the east, once I achieved a state. Once I saw a big room, a man sitting at the head of the assembly, all the signs and features that Shia and Sunni wrote about Imam Ali (AS) are present in this man. A young man was sitting in front of me on my right. I asked who is this gentleman? said : This gentleman is Ali himself, I looked at his life. I came out, I went to the same meeting, the paper was received by the 9th or 10th person, I was pale.
I don’t know, maybe it was the late Shamsabadi who said to me: Mr. Sheikh Mohammad Taghi, where did you go and where did you come from? I didn’t want to tell the story, they insisted if I told them it would disturb their happiness, and I finally told the story and explained the story, they were very angry. May God have mercy on Mr. Seyyed Ismail (manager) and said to Mr. Sheikh Haider: Sir, stop making these jokes, you tested us badly. This is one of the great memories of my life.”
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