A speech of Grand Ayatollah Vahid Khorasani.
Umrah trip. Medina Munawarah. Ramadan 1427 AH.
In the name of God the beneficent the merciful.
Those who have jobs, it is important that:
the employee develop an awareness of his job.
You, who are present here
you must note the depth of the greatness of your job, in a manner which is worthy.
The knowledge of everything has three elements.
If someone wants that knowledge to be perfect:
One thing is keeping in view the matter itself, one thing is keeping in view the root of that matter.
And one thing is keeping in view the offshoot and fruit of that matter.
It must be seen that what type of job is your job.
What is the root of this job?
And what is the thing that affects this job?
But your work:
Is a changing possession.
Only by the possession the possessed gets the status from the possessive.
And due to the same criterion the possession converts the common noun into proper noun.
If the degree of magnificence of the possessive is not limited
compulsorily, according to the judgment of logic, it will affect the possessed.
You are the Hajj teachers.
This is not a simple word.
What we say today, after this you must go
and study this topic for few days and nights
so that you know the importance of your job.
And when you knew, two issues become clear:
First: how heavy is the responsibility?
Second: How great is the reward?
You people are the masters of the mass.
That collection is immigrant to Allah and to his Prophet.
Pilgrims who come out of their house,
they become migrants. They emigrate.
To where do they emigrate?
Towards God, that is Mecca.
Towards the Prophet, that is Medina.
Compulsorily you are the flag bearer of the army of the migrants towards Allah and his Prophet.
This work is a great work.
The depth of magnificence of this job cannot be understood.
When can understand the matter that
what is the Mecca?
What is the Medina?
There, that has the possession. Here, that is the possessed.
Whereas that place, that Kaaba, you are the master of that’s pilgrims
It is the Kaaba that
The God has made it the sign of Islam
is a sanctuary for the refugees.
Its Hajj has been made compulsory, and due has been made obligatory
And coming to it has been obligated on you.
So he said: The Hajj of this house (Kaaba) is obligatory on you by God
whosoever has the ability to come toward it.
These words shake the mind.
And He chose the one whom He had created, as listener.
They complied to His invitation
and they acknowledged His words
And stayed at the place of the stay of His prophets.
There is such a place.
Your heavy duty is the training regulations of this house.
When the Zurarah questioned (about the regulations), during the Hajj, for forty years,
Zurarah, the son of A’yun!
Zurarah is one of the pillars of the religion.
There are four poles of earth:
Zurarah, Muhammad ibn Muslim. Buraid ibn Muawiyah, Abu Basir Laith Almuradi.
Zurarah is the head of this gathering.
After questioning for Forty years, he was amazed.
Forty years, yet not finished!
Imam said these words to Zurarah:
The house around which the Twaf is being done since two thousand years before Adam
You want the problems related to this house be finished in just forty years.
This is the glory of this house.
The regulations of this house with proportion to the house are extremely significant.
And complete the Hajj and the Umrah for Allah.
Hajj and Umrah are the two pillars.
Different chapters, the mysteries of Hajj clothing,
that intricacy in the “Tawaf” has
those secrets that the “Sa’ee” bears
that complexity that is present in the “Waqoofain”
And those elegances that are present in the days and nights of “Tashreeq”.
This is your job.
The result is that: you are those who
are responsible for management of the migrants towards God and His Prophet.
Your heavy task consists of three things, note it well:
Firstly: all people who are in caravan
and you are the teachers of that gathering
they are the orphanage of the Progeny of Mohammad.
You people are also the guardians of these orphanage.
guardianship of the orphans is so important, that Khaatem (the Last Prophet) ...
Khaatem means the final point of the existential journey.
The one who lies here is Khaatem.
The meaning of Khaatem is:
He has finalized the whole outcome of the creation and all the prophecy’s chains.
The system of genesis and legislation has been finalized by someone sleeping here.
Such a person said: Me and the guardian of an orphan, are like these two fingers,
We will not get separated.
This is the statement of the Prophet.
There is a Hadith by “Sayed us Shohada” (the Chief of the Martyrs)...
The one who takes the care of our orphans, his work is greater than the one who takes cares of (ordinary) orphans.
Sayed us Shohada said:
Our orphans are those who have departed from their Imam.
Their guardianship is through teaching them.
So your job has been clear:
Firstly, you are the supervisors of the migrants towards Allah and His Prophet.
Secondly, you are the guardians of the orphanage of the Progeny of Mohammad.
Some people get the blessings.
But neither they recognize the blessing,
nor do they express gratitude for that blessing.
This blessing that came in your share is of this worth:
Now think, the narration is very strange.
God said to Moses – The son of Imran.
The addresser is God; the addressed one is the “Interlocutor of God”.
But the addressed is this, He said:
O Moses! If you make a escapee to return to my doorway,
or you guide a distracted person from our doom, to our survival,
it is better for you than worship of a hundred years.
(Such that) throughout these hundred years you have been fasting for the whole year,
and have been standing for the whole night.
A hundred years of accepted worship!
Ponder well, you people are graceful.
Its better than a worship of one hundred year - that also such a worship.
If the fasting be void, it’s not worship.
If prayer is invalid, it’s not worship.
The sentence itself contains (the meaning of) its acceptance.
Firstly, where will we find an accepted fasting or an accepted prayer?
A hundred years of fasting and prayers - accepted by God - on one side,
O Moses! If you make one escapee to return,
or guide one distracted one to our doom.
It is better than this accepted worship of one hundred years.
He asked “who is this escapee?”
“Who is that distracted from the doom?”
God said: that escapee is the insurgent sinner.
If you make him to repent and return to our doorway
it is higher than a hundred years worship.
He asked who is the distracted from doom?
He said: It is someone who does not recognize the Imam of his time.
If you lead him to the Imam of his time
and teach him our orders,
it is better than a hundred years of prayer and fasting.
This is your work.
Then you can change how many persons of this caravan.
First, you must notice that “time” is effective;
Place is effective.
These are all discursive, not a lecture
When someone comes to Medina
the place changes.
When you come to Mecca
It is a place where prophets “revolved (around the Kaaba)”
And is place of stay of one hundred and twenty-four thousand prophets
It brings a revolution inside the soul,
Then these souls that are under your hands
When they come here, they are like a ground that
has hit by spring breeze.
Inevitably, it is provided.
If it you throw the seed, it will yield.
It is, you must be careful.
You must not take rest during the day or night.
You do not know what luckiness has been your share.
Return from a trip; convert an ignorant to an aware of religious regulations.
A person who has no knowledge of his master of time, make him aware.
What is the value of this job?
The value of this act is this that on the doomsday:
He will rise on the wings of angels.
And the angels will bring him from his grave to his house in heaven, on their wings.
He will not bear the distress accountability.
Then will say: “Blessed are you, blessed are you.”
You're the one who have saved one of the orphans of the Progeny of Mohammad al from the robbery of the hunter dogs that
wanted to make him a prey.
In this journey your important task consists of three things:
First: teaching the regulations of Hajj.
It is extremely precise.
(Solve) the problems carefully; with sobriety; do not rush!
Answer to the problem with careful consideration.
Possibly a problem may be wrong
That the person who came...
Hajj is so important that there is a acceptable jurisprudent text that:
If one became able and did not go to Mecca
At the time of death he will die as a Jew or a Christian.
The Glory of Hajj, which is like this
then if a fatwa, is being told;
if a problem is not solved,
if that Hajj become invalid.
What's the result
The result is that every mufti is responsible. Anyone who told the problem is responsible.
His sin transfers to the narrators shoulders.
This is the importance of this issue.
One, teaching the regulations of Hajj;
Do not be tired; see the reward:
A woman came to Sadeqa-e-Kobra (Fatimah). Who is Fatima Zahra?
Fatima Zahra is the one who...
Maximum level of infallibility that a person reach to a place that
get angry with the wrath of God and be pleased with the pleasure of Allah
This is, then, the end of human perfection
Fatima is the one that God's gets angry with her wrath
and is pleased with her pleasure.
She is such a jewel that:
Allah gets angry with her wrath
and gets pleased with her pleasure.
For one thousand and four hundred years, all the Ahl-e-Sunnah specialists of Hadith critics have been gathered so that:
so that they can find a defect in the chain of narrators of this Hadith, but they couldn’t.
This is a Hadith which has definitely been delivered by the Prophet.
And he does not talk with his own wish.
Is like a jewel in the “Mubahilah” of the Last Prophet,
is the Leader of Believers (Ali),
Those two persons [Hasan and Hussain] are the beauty of the Throne of God
But all this prayer and Mubahila has to be completed with “our women” and “your women”
And this plural [our women] too, has to be unique to this individual [Fatima]
Anyhow, it is the same jewel which was buried in night
And has made the universe and the man sorrowful forever.
Anyhow, a woman came and asked about a problem
The Prophet answered. Well, this laywoman did not understand.
She returned again. The Prophet replied again
He told the problem to that woman for ten times.
Then the woman apologized that she had bothered him.
The word that he said on that day is for you.
It is really amazing. He said:
I must thank you! Instead you are apologizing from me?
[If] a burden is put on someone shoulders and he is asked:
“Take this burden from this level to that height,
(in return) a house full of jewels is given to him, will he feel tired?
She said: no. He said:
Each time you asked about the problem, I answered.
(In return) the jewels are built for me from earth to the sky.
This is your reward.
This is that you must be careful. Answer to the problems with research.
The second pillar! Which is important:
You must have dominance over the doubts infused by the opponents.
You must have gone through all their doubts one by one, have total control over them.
Then what is its result?
How much reward does this have?
Its reward is this ...
This was you first job, (and) its glory. And this is its reward.
And this is your second job.
What is its glory? How much reward does it bear?
First, the doubt which is infused... Be very careful.
When the germs enter [the body of] a healthy person,
If the immunity system of the body is strong, it will repel (the germs).
But what if it is weak?
Inevitably, those germs will be dominant.
Gradually, it will eat the whole body like gangrene
Doubts have the same effect for souls as the germs have for the body.
The innocent people who come from Iran
These people having hearts pure from all doubts, miffs
If a wicked person creates a doubt in this mind
And that mind is affected due to weakness
Its responsibility is internecine,
If we make any mistake in this regard then we must seek God’s refuge.
The doubts are like this.
This is that, throughout the year, you must predominate
over the doubts that are induced and defend against these doubts.
What is the reward your act?
This reward of this act is this much ... Again pay your full attention
on this narration; [The Imam] said: On the doomsday,
a scholar is seventy levels ahead of a worshipper.
The difference between the position of that worshipper and the position of that scholar is of seventy levels.
[Distance] between each two consecutive levels is equal to a seventy thousand years journey of fast moving riding horse
This much is the distance between the two levels.
And it has its causes.
When Imam said this he also stated its cause.
A worshipper worshipped throughout his life,
that’s also not the invalid worship, a worship that is acceptable near God.
Then this is the reward of that scholar and this is the extent of his position.
What is the cause?
Reason that the Imam mentioned is this. He said:
The worshipper has concentrated to himself,
but a scholar cleared a doubt from the mind of a doubted person.
If a doubt is excreted
if you protect a person from a disease, its reward is this much.
In any case, recognize the value of this blessing.
The responsibility is this much.
The reward is also this much.
Make these people understand that where have they come.
What's going on here?
I cannot say what is going on here!
I say a word and that word is:
The Mecca, about which there is this much uproar
It is a place
The Kaba which has this position
You people think
Not for a day, even if you think for one year
We will still not reach to the essence of the matter.
It is important that the Mecca with this position, with this Kaba, with this Abraham
God said to the one present in this grave:
I swear to this City
while you are present in this city
I swear to Mecca
The cause of this that I swear to Mecca
is that you have are present here.
This is the text of Quran.
Who is this? Who is the owner of this tomb?
Haven’t we opened your heart for you?
Read the Quran and see.
And he taught you what you did not know.
And the grace of God on you is great.
That great God mentions him with dignity.
Then, in the end he says:
And exalted for you your esteem?
To where did He elevate it?
Look, to where did he escalate (his) name.
Understand! Where has the nominee reach?
And we elevated your citation for you.
He raised his name to an extent that made it equivalent to His own name
I testify that there is no god but Allah
I testify that Mohammad is the prophet of Allah.
In Every prayer: I testify that there is not god but Allah.
He is alone, there is no partner for him
And I testify that Mohammad is his slave and prophet.
His name became equivalent to the name of God.
It must be known that what the relationship between the nominee and the nominee is?
The pen dried.
O Allah be for your deputy – the Argument, the son of Hasan – (May your blessing be upon him and his ancestors, now and at all times) master and protector and guide and helper and proof and guard until he resides peacefully on your earth and let him enjoy