78. Kindness To Pilgrims
On 14th Rajab 1388 A.H., during my recent journey of Ziyarat, Abdur Rasool, the caretaker, narrated from late Sayyid Abd ul-Husayn, key keeper of Imam Husayn 's ('a) tomb, who was also a learned and nice man as follows:
One night I saw in the holy sanctuary that an Arab had placed his bleeding and dirty foot on the holy sepulcher and was pleading about his condition. I scolded him and finally ordered him to be taken out of the sanctuary. When he was going out, he said:
O Husayn, I thought that it is your house, but now I have realized that it belongs to someone else. That same night, the key keeper saw in dream the Chief of martyrs seated on the pulpit in the holy courtyard, while souls of believers were present in his service and the Imam was complaining about his caretaker.
The key keeper stood up and said: O grandfather, what audacities have we committed? He replied: Last night you expelled a very special visitor from the sanctuary. As long as you don't make that visitor satisfied, I will not be satisfied with you, and the Almighty is also not pleased with you.
He said: O grandfather, I don't know him and I also don't know where he is. The Imam said: At this moment, he is resting in the house of Hasan Pasha near the camps. He will come to our sanctuary. He has a wish from us, which we fulfilled. He wanted his son suffering from paralysis to be cured. He and his tribesmen would come tomorrow, accord welcome to them.
When he awoke, he took some servants with him. They found that traveler at the place the Imam had mentioned. He kissed his hands and brought him home with full honors and served him in the best way. After that in the morning, he came out to welcome him with thirty caretakers. After covering some distance, they saw a group approaching in joy. It had a hitherto paralyzed child with it as well, who had been cured. Then all these people performed the Ziyarat of the Holy Sanctuary.