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Watchful Presence of our beloved Mahdi (PBUH)- Part 4

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Watchful Presence of our beloved Mahdi (PBUH)

Part 4

 

Then I said [to the boy, Hadrat Mahdi (PBUH)]: Inform me of the Ta’wil (the original and beginning Interpretation) of Kaaf, Haa, Yaa, ‘Ayn, Saad [the Moqatta’a letters at the beginning of the Surah Maryam (19) of Qur’an].

 

He (PBUH) said: These letters are from the Ghayb (unseen) tidings which Allah had informed His Abd (servant) Zakariya (Zachariah) of it, then He narrated it for Mohammad (PBUH&HP); and that is:

 

Indeed Zakariya (PBUH) asked his Lord to teach him “the Five Names”.

 

Then Jebra’il (Gabriel) descended and taught those to him; when Mohammad, Ali, Fatemah and Hasan (Allah’s Salawaat and Salaam Be Upon Them) were mentioned, Zakariya’s worry and concerns left him and his sadness cleared away, and when Hosain (PBUH) was mentioned he cried and the overflow of tears caught his throat.

 

So one day he (PBUH) said: O my God! Why is it that when I remember four of them, I am solaced of my sadness by their Names, and when I remember Hosain (Hossain, Hussain), my eyes cry and I heave a sigh?

 

Allah -the Holy and High- then informed him of his (Hosain’s) story and said: ک ه ی ع ص, Kaaf, Haa, Yaa, ‘Ayn, Saad: and Kaaf is the name of Karbala; and Haa  is the Halaakat (death) of the Etrat (Household of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH&HP)); and Yaa is Yazid, he brutalized Hosain (PBUH); and ‘Ayn is his ‘Atash (extreme thirst); and Saad is his Sabr (patience).

 

When Zakariya (PBUH) heard that, he did not leave his place of prostration for three days and prevented people from entering unto him, and resorted to crying, and his lament was:

 

O my God! Will You bereave the best of all your creations [Hadrat Mohammad (PBUH&HP)] of his son? [I.e. will You allow it to happen by, justice-fully, not taking away the bestowed freedom and power of humankind so that the cruel wrong doers deserve Hell as the result of their own actions?]

 

O my God! Will You descend the suffering of this grief before his presence?

 

O my God! Will You clothe Ali and Fatemah (PBUT) with the garment of this bereavement?

 

O my God! Will You allow the pain of this bereavement in their presence?

 

Then he [Hadrat Mahdi (PBUH)] continued:

 

He [Zakariya (PBUH)] then said:

 

O my God! Bestow upon me a son and by him light up my eyes in my old age; and once You bestow him upon me make me zealous in his love, then bereave me of him, just as You bereave Mohammad (PBUH&HP), Your Habib (Beloved), of his son.

 

Then Allah bestowed upon him Yahya [known as John the Baptist among christians], and bereaved him of him. [Hadrat Yahya (PBUH) was also martyred and decapitated.]

 

And the bearing duration for Yahya (PBUH) was six months and the bearing duration for Hosain (PBUH) was such.

 

To be continued …