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13. Thousands Escape Death

Three years ago, I had the honor of the company of Aga Hajj Sayyid Muhammad Ali Qadi Tabrizi for some days in Tehran. I heard many stories from him and one of them is as follows:

Four years ago, during the blessed month of Ramadhan, Masjid Shishgalan in Tabriz, whose prayer leadership was with Aga Mirza Abdullah Mujtahidi, was teeming with crowd on the Night of Power (Laylat ul-Qadr). Aga Mujtahidi ended the rituals two hours earlier without any intention and thinking that it was not necessary to stay in the Masjid further, he left, and because of this, all the people in the mosque also came out.

When the last person left, the Masjid roof crashed all of sudden. No one was hurt in this mishap. If the crash had occurred when the place was full, not a single person would have survived.