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148. Curing Of The Sick By Imam Zaman ('A)

The senior scholar, Shaykh Muhammad Taqi Hamadani, whose excellence and piety is testified by consensus of all Madrcssas of Qom and who is also the congregation leader of Masjid Farhang, Qom, has written about the miraculous cure of his wife through the mediation of Imam Zaman (‘a) and the same is quoted here:

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

On Monday, 18th Safar, 1397 A.H., a great tragedy befell us, which put me and my family into deep trouble; that is my wife fell into a coma due to the killings of our two sons in Kohistan Shamiran.

We consulted many doctors. but to no avail, till four days later on Thursday, 22 Safar, I retired to my bedroom on the upper storey. I recited some verses of Holy Qur’an and brief supplications of Thursday and then supplicated the Almighty to allow His Eminence, Hujjat Ibn ul-Hasan to come for our help.

The reason for not praying directly to the Imam was that around a month before this incident, my younger daughter, Fatima had persuaded me to narrate stories of those blessed by Imam Zaman ('a) and those bestowed something by him.

I accepted the demand of this ten-year-old daughter and read out to her from the book of Haji Noori's Najmus Thaqib. I thought why like hundreds of people, I should also not seek the mediation of that 12th Imam?

So I sought his mediation at around midnight and went to sleep with teary eyes. I woke up four hours later as was my practice and heard some mixed voices from the room on the ground floor, in which the indisposed wife was lying.

After a moment, these voices became louder. When it was beginning time of Morning Prayer, I came down to perform ablution. My daughter, who at that time was usually asleep, was awake and extremely elated. When she noticed me, she said: Aga, I want to give you some good news.

What is it, I asked? I thought that perhaps my brother or sister has come down from Hamadan. She said: Congratulations, the Almighty Allah has cured mummy. I asked: Who has cured her? She replied: Four hours after midnight, mother woke me up in great confusion (since this daughter and some other relatives like Haji Mahdi and my nephew, Engineer Ghiffari, had come down from Tehran to shift the ailing lady there).

She called out louder and was saying: "Get up and follow the Aga. Get up and follow the Aga." But when she realized that the Aga would go away before they came, although since the last four or five days she had been unable to move, she jumped from the bed and followed him till the door.

Her daughter, who was attending on her at that time, says that in order to see where her mother was going, she went after her to the door. By the time she reached there, the ailing lady came to her senses, but was unable to believe that she had walked till there herself.

She asked her daughter: Zahra; am I awake or asleep? The daughter said: Mummy, you have recovered, where is the Aga that you were saying: Get up and follow the Aga? I didn't see anyone.

He mother told her that a respectable gentleman arrived in the garb of a scholar, who was neither old nor young. He came to my bed and said: Get up; the Al mighty Allah has cured you. I said: I cannot. He said in a louder voice: You have been cured, get up. I got up due to his awe. He said: You have recovered, don 't take any medicines and also do not weep. When he was leaving the room, I woke you up, but when I saw that you were taking time. I went after him myself.

Thanks to Allah, after that attention and bestowal, the condition of that ailing lady stabilized and her left eye also, in which there was blurred vision, cleared up. She had not eaten since the last four days, but now she asked for something to cat. There was a glass of milk at home and she was given that. She gulped it down eagerly and asked for more food.

Her appearance returned to normal and as a result of the command of the Imam that she must not weep any more, all the sorrow was dispelled.

Since the last five years, she was suffering from rheumatism. With the grace of Imam ('a), she was cured of that also, although doctors had given up.

Moreover, it is worth mentioning that during days of Fatima, by way of thanksgiving, I held a Majlis program at home, in which I explained my wife's cure to Dr. Danishi. He said: The condition that I had seen was incurable without a miracle.

Praise be to Allah, and may Allah bless Muhammad and his infallible progeny.

Muhammad Taqi Ibn Muhammad Muttaqi Hamadani

25th Safar 1397 A.H

And peace be on you all and the blessings of Allah.