THE
HOLY QURAN – PART 50
IMAM AL-HUJJAH (A.S.) & THE HOLY QURAN
RECITATION OF QURAN IN THE WOMB
Bibi
Hakeemah Khatoon was the aunt of Imam Hasan al-‘Askary (as). She has
narrated that:
[One
day I came to visit Abu Muhammad (as) – referring to Imam al-‘Askary
(as) – when he (as) told me,
“O aunt! I want you to stay over at our place. Indeed today Allah (SWT)
will reveal my successor”.
I asked,
“From whose womb?” And he (as) said, “(From
the womb of) Narjis”. “But no sign of pregnancy is apparent
from her”, I said. He (as) said, “O aunt!
Narjis Khatoon is like the mother of Moses whose pregnancy became
apparent during birth”.
I stayed
over. I was in a room and Narjis in another. After midnight, I was
engrossed in the midnight prayer when a thought crossed my mind and I
said to myself, “What Abu Muhammad told me has not happened and the time
of Fajr is nearing”. Suddenly I heard the voice of Abu Muhammad from
another room telling me, “O aunt! Do not
hurry!” I felt ashamed of myself and returned to the room.
Narjis Khatoon appeared before me and looked worried, so I embraced her
and began recitation of Surah al-Ikhlaas, Surah al-Qadr, Aayatul-Kursi
and together with me, the child in the womb of Narjis also recited the
same.] (Quran-o-‘Itrat)
RECITATION OF QURAN DURING BIRTH
Bibi
Hakeemah Khatoon has also narrated that:
[After
Narjis gave birth to a son, I picked the child and heard Abu Muhammad
(as) calling, “O aunt! Bring my son to me!”
I took the child to his father, who took him from me and made
him suck his tongue. Thereafter, he (as) placed the child on his lap and
said, “O son! Speak by the permission of
Allah”. The child said,
“I seek refuge in Allah, the All-hearing, the All-knowing from the
accursed Satan.
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. And We desired to
show favour to those who were abased in the land, and to make them
Imams, and to make them the heirs, and to establish them in the land,
and to show Pharaoh and Hamaan and their hosts from them that of which
they were apprehensive”.
(38:4-5)”.
The child
then sent his salutations (Salawaat) on the Holy Prophet (saww), Sayyida
Fatima al-Zahra (as) and on all the previous eleven Imams (as).]
(Al-Haraij wal-Haraij)
VERSE
OF QURAN WRITTEN ON RIGHT HAND
Bibi
Hakeemah Khatoon (as) has reported that:
“When
this child was born, he (AJ) was pure from all impurities and it was
written on his right arm:
‘Truth has come and falsehood has vanished. Indeed falsehood is bound to
vanish’.
(17:81)”.
(Quran-o-‘Itrat)
RECITATION OF QURAN DURING RE-APPEARANCE
Imam
Muhammad al-Baqir (as) has said,
“When the Qaim of the progeny of Muhammad (saww) makes his reappearance
(from occultation), he will first and foremost recite:
‘That which is left to you by Allah (Baqiyyatullah) is better, if you
are believers…’
(11:86)
Thus no one will greet him except by saying:
ASSALAAMU ‘ALAYKA YAA BAQIYYATALLAHI FEE ARDHIHI (Peace be on you O’
Baqiyyatallah on His earth)”. (Ikmaal al-Deen)
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