Hajj Ali Aga said: I did not attend school in my childhood and remained uneducated. During my youth, I became extremely eager to read the Holy Qur’an, till one night I prayed to Hazrat Hujjat (a.t.f.s.).

I dreamt that I was in Karbala. A person approached me and said: A Majlis gathering of Imam Husayn (‘a) is there in this house. Come and listen to the tragic poems of martyrdom. I got ready and went there and found two respectable Sayyids seated there. Fire was placed in a vessel before them and besides them was a dinner spread. They heated some bread and offered it to me. I ate it up. After that the narrator of the tragedy described the afflictions of Ahl ul-Bayt (‘a).

After the Majlis, I awoke and found that my wishes were fulfilled. I found that I was now able to recite the Holy Qur’an perfectly. Then I attended sessions of Qur’an recitation and if anyone committed a mistake or recited wrongly, I corrected him. So much so that even if the teacher made an error, I pointed it out.

The teacher asked: Till yesterday you were absolutely unread, and unable are read the Qur’an, how did you get this expertise? I said: Through the blessings of Hazrat Hujjat (a.t.f.s.).

Presently Hajj Ali is a teacher of recitation (Qirat) and during the nights of Ramadhan he never misses sessions of Qur’anic recitations.

Among the extraordinary feats of Hajj Ali is that he often sees future happenings in dream. Like what is going to happen the following day? Whom he is going to meet and how much profit would be there in a transaction?

Once he told me that very soon Almighty Allah would bestow a son to my son (Aga Sayyid Muhammad Hashim). He said: Please name him after your Late Father, Sayyid Muhammad Taqi. Not much time passed, but that he got a son and we named him Muhammad Taqi.

After the birth that child became very ill and there no hope of his survival. Again the Haji said that he would recover. Thus, not much time passed, but that the Almighty Allah bestowed him a cure and now he is perfectly all right and is five years old.

Hajj Ali achieved this lofty status, because of his strict observance of recommended acts, especially the daily recommended prayers, which enabled him to purify his self and perform such extraordinary feats.

We should know that it is possible for a person to predict future events, because knowledge of Almighty Allah encompasses all destined future matters and He has recorded them in the holy books and tablets of destiny. Thus, He says in Surah Hadid:

مَا أَصَابَ مِنْ مُصِيبَةٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا فِي أَنْفُسِكُمْ إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ نَبْرَأَهَا ۚ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ

"No evil befalls on the earth nor in your own souls, b t it is in a book before We bring it into existence; surely that is easy to Allah.” (Surah al-Hadid 57:22).

لِكَيْلَا تَأْسَوْا عَلَىٰ مَا فَاتَكُمْ وَلَا تَفْرَحُوا بِمَا آتَاكُمْ وَاللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ كُلَّ مُخْتَالٍ فَخُو

On the basis of this, it is possible that some pure and chaste persons may be freed from material limitations during dreams to such an extent that the blessed souls may come in contact with exalted tablets and divine books and become aware of some matters recorded in them. Then at the time of the complete return of the soul when waking up, nothing tampers with their memory and they retain all they had seen, so that they may inform others.