In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

Throughout his life, this humble servant heard numerous moral stories from pious and righteous persons and realized that each was a testimony of divine grace, miracle and fulfillment of supplications and a consequence of seeking mediation of Qur’an and the Holy Imams ('a).

Today, when I am sixty-five years of age and messengers of death; that is physical weakness and maladies have reminded me of death and given tidings of meeting the purified ancestors and other believers, I wish to narrate those stories with a number of objectives:

1- Even though I cannot claim to be from the righteous, I wish to cultivate their company, to listen to them and to see them - a saying is: If you cannot be from them, at least talk about them.

2- As mentioned in traditions, divine mercy descends on the remembrance of good,1 it is hoped that the writer and the dear readers would be included in this mercy.

3- Since each of these stories strengthen faith in unseen and make us inclined to the higher world and the Creator, I have collected them so that my children and other readers may benefit from them and especially during hardships and calamities, they should not fall into despair. They should have stronger belief in God, and should know that supplication and mediation are facts; and thus, they would strive to achieve ranks of piety and certitude, which are beyond the perception of human beings.

4- Perhaps after me, by studying them, someone might gain divine recognition and remember God, through which he might achieve happiness; and as recompense the Almighty Allah may also remember this lowly servant with His grace and blessings.

• 1. Safinat ul-Bihar, Vol. I, Page. 447.