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Watchful Presence of our beloved Mahdi (PBUH)-Part 1

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Watchful Presence of our beloved Mahdi (PBUH)
Part 1


Sa’d  son of Abdollah al-Qommi al-Ash’ari, a sincere Shi’ah at time of Imam Hasan Askari (PBUH) became involved in an argument with a harsh Naasebi man (an uncompromising adversary of the AhlulBayt -PBUT-); and because Sa’d was not able to convince the Naasebi man, he left him feeling as if his heart was being torn apart. So he decided to write on a scroll, over forty questions which he did not have answers for and hand it over to Ahmad son of Eshaaq, a companion of Imam Hasan Askari (PBUH) who was in Qom.

But when Sa’d son of Abdullah went after Ahmad son of Eshaaq, he had already left for Samarra, so Sa’d followed him and down the road, he reached Ahmad and explained the situation. Ahmad told Sa’d: “Come with me to Samarra in order to ask these questions from our Mawla (lord) Imam Hasan son of Ali (PBUT).”

Sa’d narrates the heart-warming and eye-opening story:

So I went with him (Ahmad) to Samarra. We then reached the door of our Mawla’s (PBUH) house and sought permission for entrance. He (PBUH) granted us permission thus we entered the house.

With Ahmad son of Eshaaq, there was a sack that he had covered it with a Tabari cloak, in which there were one hundred and sixty packs of gold and papers; upon each (pack) was a seal that had been put by its owner.

When we entered, and directed our eyes to Abi Mohammad al-Hasan al-Askari’s face, his face was like the full moon. We saw a little boy on his knee who in beauty and excellence was like the Moshtari (planet Jupiter); on his head were bunches of hair, and in front of him there was a golden pomegranate adorned with precious jewels and stones, given to him by one of the heads of Basra.

And there was a pen in his (Imam’s) hand, writing with it something on paper; and every time he wished to write something, the boy would hold his hand, he (the Imam) thus would throw the pomegranate so the boy would go after it and bring it; whenever he’d let go of his hand, he wrote what he wished.

Ahmad son of Eshaaq opened the cloak and put the sack in front of Imam Askari (PBUH); then al-Askari (PBUH) looked at the boy and said: “Unseal the offerings of your Shi’ah and Mawaali (adherents to your wilayat).”  He (the boy) said: “O’ my Mawla! Do you Allow a pure hand to be stretched toward unclean offerings and impure properties?”

Then he (PBUH) said: “O’ son of Eshaaq! take out what is in the sack so that he (the boy) would distinguish between the Halaal and the Haraam.”

So he (Ahmad) took out a pack; and The boy said: “This is for such-and-such son of such-and-such from so-and-so neighborhood in Qum, containing sixty two dinars: including forty five dinars, the selling price of a stony land inherited from his father; and fourteen  dinars, the price of seven garments; and  three dinars, the rent money of shops.”

Then our Mawla (PBUH) said: “My son! you have said the truth, lead the man to its Haraam.”

The boy said: “In this amount, there is one dinar as a coin from the city of Rey, dated in such-and-such year, which half of its inscription has been obliterated, and three pieces of gold weighting one and half Daaneqs; in this pack, this much is Haraam. Surely the owner of this pack, in so-and-so year and so-and-so month had given three and a quarter kilos of yarn to one of his neighbors who was a weaver. A long time passed from that, later a thief stole that from him, and the weaver informed him regarding that. But he did not believe him, and got as indemnification even more than that, three and half kilos of yarn, he then ordered a garment to be weaved from it, and this dinar and gold is its value.”

Then he (Ahmad) opened its seal and found the dinar and the gold as he (the boy) had informed.

To be continued …