Wilayat - The axis of Religion

Amongst the visionary fundamentals and the basis of the thoughts of Imam Khomeini (r.a) the one foremost is that the axis of religion is Wilayat (Guardianship). On the basis of this all the thoughts of Imam (r.a) are subjugated by the colour of Wilayat. On the basis of this revolution, governance, resistance, etc have found place in the thoughts of Imam (r.a). The religion of those others who have no signs of these things is due to the reason that their visionary basis either lacks Wilayat or the perception of Wilayat is incorrect.

Thoughts and visions are like water which either falls from sky, or bursts out of earth, or is present in form of sea, or in shape of a well, sometimes flows as rivers and at times becomes stagnant in form of a dirty stream. Thoughts also either come from heavenly source or explode from visionary fundamentals, sometimes they possess the turbulence of sea waves inside them and sometimes they spread diseases  like the leeches in stagnant water. The thoughts of Wilayat have an heavenly source and also have a spring on earth. Purest thoughts explode from these sources, then they spread and become common in society. They than eradicate the dryness of human thoughts thereby developing greenery in the desserts of negligence and mischief's. By flowing in the river of innate nature they take away the dirt and filth.

Watering of thoughts through Wilayat

When these thoughts are drowned with the passionate spring of Wilayat and a Pure Immaculate Ideology (Mashrabe Naab) then it wakes up the one's sleeping by gushing out as revolution, they bring back dead to life, bring greenery in settlements, put life in weak, and subjugate the devils. They bring religion out of narrow and dark dungeons making it twinkle as bright galaxy on the dark sky of the world. They get Islam out of books, libraries and schools making it a crown of a developing system.

The effects of thoughts of Imam in this world

Imam Khomeini (r.a) developed turbulence in the calm and silent sea. The thoughts of Imam (r.a) proved as a Caravan Bell for the despaired and fatigued caravans who had left the conviction of journey and got camped. The caravan of Muslims despite of having the goods for the journey had lost courage in front of Western civilization and had become the follower of their path is now finding wings to fly out and leave them because of the enthusiastic thoughts of this great Khomeini. The ashamed necks that had fallen down due to unnecessary inferiority complex have risen up today with pride and prestige due to the winged thoughts of Roohullah. In the days of arrogance the heads which were bowed down are up and high today. The worshippers of the calf of Western Saamri have come in confrontation against the Pharaohs under the leadership of the inheritor of Kaleemullah (Moosa). The worshippers of the idols made by the Azari of the current era are now turning them into pieces by the path shown by the son of Khaleelullah (Ibrahim). The tribes drowned in the ignorance of the modern era are becoming followers of Islam-e-Naab Mohammad (s.a.w.s) in groups after groups due to the thoughts of Imam Khomeini (r.a).

The devilish plans to block the thoughts of Imam

The enemies of humanity have made big plans to block these thoughts which day by day are capturing the human minds and hearts. Big dams were created to stop this flowing water and these thoughts were confronted with every possible method but this light of Allah is not going to be extinguished.

Several countless steps have been taken to keep Muslims away from the Pure Islam of Prophet Mohammad (s.a.w.s). The flames of sectarianism have been ignited, sects and religions are created, storms of innovations and superstitious mischief are invented and at times these devils have achieved success in their mission.

Distance of Ummah from the System of Wilayat.

The enemies of the Pure Islam have been successful whenever they achieved success in keeping Muslims negligent about the foundation of Islam, i.e. Wilayat (Guardianship).

The day Islam got the pillar of Wilayat the Quran declared that day as the day of despair for Muslims الْيَوْمَ يَئِسَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ مِن دِينِكُمْ and the day enemies are successful in distancing Muslims from this pillar that day is the day of Eid for them. Wilayat is the pillar of Religion and the system of Wilayat is the fruit of religion. All the efforts of enemies are used to bring down this pillar whereas all the efforts of the defenders of religion are spent on protecting this pillar. Thus the biggest defenders of religion are those who defend Wilayat. On the basis of this scale after the demise of Holy Prophet the name of the biggest defender personality of religion is Lady Fatema Zahra (s.a).

Fatema Zahra (s.a) - Defender of Religion

Imam Khomeini (r.a) when he emphasizes on Wilayat in the propagation of Religion is also very humble in the presence of the defender of religion Lady Fatema Zahra (s.a). This humbleness is not due to the reason which is present in the mind of many believers. The love and faith of Lady Zahra (s.a) is found amongst all Muslims. They are aware about the reason for their love also that she is the daughter of Holy Prophet (s), mother of Hasan and Hussain, wife of Ameerul Momineen (a.s), she possesses the status of Infallibility, the Messenger (s) would stand in her respect, the Holy Prophet (s) declared her as part of his existence. But even after believing in all these virtues Imam Khomeini mentions one more cause for his humbleness towards Lady Zahra (s.a) and that is Her (s) defence of religion and Wilayat. That inheritance which passed over from mother to daughter and later the daughter of Zahra (s) also by following the character of her prestigious mother defended religion and Wilayat in such a manner that the world was astonished. The virtues of Lady Zahra (s.a) are not just confined  and limited to the fact that some traditions are narrated about her privileges. If any doubts or suspicions get developed on the authenticity of these traditions or on the basis of evidential references than questions would start to rise on her virtues and merits.

Sometimes we get an impression due to the Akhbari Ideology and total reliance on chain of narrations that the dependency of Wilayat is on one or two traditions and the survival of religion and Wilayat is limited to the trust on one odd tradition. This is the reason that not much efforts have been put towards the Message of Wilayat and the System of Wilayat. The number of traditions used to prove the authenticity of the event of Ghadeer are too many whereas the foundations of religion and Wilayat are too strong to crumble just on the basis of doubt on the authenticity of narration of one tradition. The foundations of religion and Wilayat are in Quran, they are in Sunnah (customs of infallibles) and character, it is in the intelligence and thinking of intellectuals. The roots of Wilayat are so firm and strong that every reality in the world could be denied but it is not possible to deny Wilayat.

The secret behind the greatness of Lady Zahra (s.a)

All the traditions that were narrated towards the status and greatness of Lady Zahra (s.a) are all correct but the secret of greatness of Zahra (s.a) are not those narrations instead the secret code of her greatness is her pure character. I have to say with deep regret that Muslims have forsaken the character of Lady Zahra (s.a). Today the believers of Lady Zahra (s.a) are only in these thoughts that somehow She (s.a) should do our intercession, she should fulfil our wishes, she should get our sins and crimes forgiven, she should get our desires fulfilled by Allah but they have paid absolutely no attention towards her character. If by chance on some occasion the discussion around her character comes up than also she is presented as a household woman after listening to this a common man becomes silent but cannot reach the secret of her greatness. Today some women think that the way the character of Lady Zahra (s.a) is presented it does not possess any extraordinary speciality because household chores are done by all women like taking care of children, cooking food, cleaning house then how come lady Zahra (s.a) has such high stature?

The answer to this is that first of all Lady Zahra (a.s) possesses the status of Wilayat , though she is not an Imam (leader) but on the grade of proximity to Allah (s) she is at a very high status and second is that on extremely sensitive occasions she has defended religion and Wilayat.

The reaction of Lady Zahra (s.a) on the events after the demise of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s)

After the demise of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s) many significant events took place in Medina that were extremely difficult to bear for Lady Zahra (s.a). She remained silent on some of the events but on some she was pursued to speak. The deprivation of Ali (a.s) from the rights of governance and the usurpation of Fadak although in its exterior seems to be of political and individual personality related nature but in reality these were not just deprivation of two personalities rights; in the eyes of Lady Zahra (s.a) the issue was much bigger and beyond this. One evidence to this is that on one side they have ignored their firm rights and have not given any importance to their personal issues and that too specifically when these issues are commercial. This is because giving preference to personal issues and protesting for their sake is against their status. Several times they have distributed their possessions to deserving beings for the sake of Allah which is witnessed by the Quran and it was not that on these give away they regretted but instead they always gratified Allah on these opportunities.

Whereas on the other hand we see that after the demise of Prophet (s) Lady Zahra (s.a) has demonstrated stern reactions to the events taking place and in fact she turned into an explicit protest. The reason behind this was that for Lady Zahra (s.a) this incident was not something to do with personal rights instead it was an issue of survival of religion and guidance of Ummah. Lady Zahra (s.a) was aware that till the time Holy Prophet is alive the responsibility of promotion of religion was on his shoulder because propagation of religion is amongst the real duties of Prophethood. It is amongst the utmost responsibilities of Prophethood to keep religion free from innovations, mischief and distortions and this is the reason that the Ummah has been brought to attention towards these dangers amongst the teachings of Prophet. He (s.a.w.s) severely condemned those who created innovations, He (s) stopped the people from satanic mischief in religious precepts and made the nation aware about the dangers of distortion.

Distortion - The biggest threat to Religion

Amongst the above mentioned three dangers the threat from distortion is foremost. This is the reason that in the Quran this custom of Jews has been extensively mentioned. In the eradication of ancient divine religions the role of distortion is the maximum. Judaism and Christianity despite of being divine religions became untrustworthy since it got in the hands of distortions.

The enemies of religion have attempted to do distortion in Quran but Allah (s) has pledged to keep his words secure from distortion

This is the reason that the Holy Quran is present amongst us without any sort of distortions in its words.

Examples of Distortions in Religion

In the interpretations and practical implementations of Quranic teachings distortions are going on till date. Every aspect of religion has been intruded and appended with something from outside and religion is being spread amongst people in adulterated form. To call Jihad as terrorism and terrorists as Mujahids (crusaders) are the examples of these distortions. Separation of religion from politics, religion from hereafter and separation of knowledge from religion are also counted in the same category of distortions. Martyr Mutttaheri says in the preface of one of his books that when I developed sense and looked around I found an obliterated and effaced face of religion which was indifferent from the true form of religion. Every person with a deep vision looking at religion with the eyes of sense will also be able to see the same. Some people do not have any knowledge about the true religion so that they can realize where distortions are done in religion. There are some persons who only see distortions in some practices and secondary affairs but they can't see the distortions in principle and fundamentals and there are some who can see the distortions but they do not possess the pain for religion hence they do not rise against them. They react against distortions in customs, acts of worships and other visible affairs but they do not show any sort of reaction  towards distortions in the fundamental issues.

Distortions in foundations of religion and Lady Zahra (s.a)

The distorted issue on which Lady Zahra (s.a) demonstrated reaction was the most fundamental matter of religion. When she saw that how easily the nation was being drifted away from Wilayat whereas Wilayat is the axis and core of religion. To sense danger and then trying to eradicate is dependent on high perception and precise vision ; and Allah (s) has kept this great vision in her essence by creation.

Today there are many well wishers of Islam and Muslim nation present who are in pursuit of the causes for the disgrace and downfall of the Muslim nation; for them this topic demands high attention. The means of salvation from the dominance of infidels is the same which Quran has declared as the cause for despair of infidels and that is Wilayat. The messenger has emphasized multiple times about the forthcoming events and era so that the Ummah is warned in advance that if they leave the rope of Allah they will have to live with a distorted religion which would only give them a false estimation of worldly and hereafter privilege. Worship without the system of Wilayat, Ethics without the system of Wilayat all come under the category of distorted religion. Lady Zahra (s.a) delivered a similar sermon in front of the companions the way the Messenger (s.a.w.s) used to deliver. She by drawing the attention of the companions of Prophet towards the fundamental issues repeated the principles of religion and its philosophy and in context of this she said:

"Allah (s) has considered our obedience as system of religion and has made our leadership the means of securing the Ummah (nation) from sectarianism"

Ameerul Momineen (a.s) also said the same in Nahjul Balagha:

" Allah (s) has declared leadership (Imamat) as the system (of governance) for the Ummah and has established this system of Imamat"

Reminder of Teachings of Religion

It is essential to remind the Ummah about the teachings of religion else the system of religion gets mismarred. This is the reason that Lady Zahra (s.a) first reminded the people about the religious teachings and under its context said that the system of nation remains preserved due to Imamat and Wilayat. If this pillar of the tent of the Ummah is brought down then no one can prevent the Ummah from downfall.

The cause for the Ummah's wandering

The Holy Quran while mentioning about the incidents of Bani Israel indicates this important point that they wandered around for forty years due to disobedience towards their leader that is Prophet Moosa (a.s). The reason behind Quran mentioning this point is that the Muslim Ummah should also find the reason for their wandering around and distressed state. The present Muslim nation has committed the same mistake as that done by Bani Israel; the wandering of Bani Israel ended after forty years but we don't know how long the wandering of the Muslim nation will continue. Whatever steps Ameerul Momineen (a.s) would take at that time would be counted as something personal whereas Lady Zahra (s.a) did not allow it to become personal.

The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s) whispered two news to Lady Zahra (s.a) at the time of his holy demise; one was the news about his demise and second about her demise. On one her daughter wept and on the second she became happy. His saying that after my demise you will be the first one to meet me was not just a gospel from the unseen world but in fact what he meant to say was after my demise you will have to do a tough journey which will end up uniting you with me. You are one who will have to come out to defend religion. The way the good news about martyrdom is given to a Mujahid who is sent to the battlefield and he becomes happy, Lady Zahra (s.a) also was pleased the same way.

The Rights did not return but Religion returned

Though Lady Zahra (s.a) was unsuccessful in changing the circumstances whereby Ameerul Momineen (a.s) did not get the governance and neither could she get the land of Fadak still she took the step despite of being aware about all this. This was because her movement was in reality was to get religion back in its orbit irrespective of Ali and Fatema getting their rights back. She was successful in achieving this goal because despite of thousands of efforts they could not distance the entire Ummah from Wilayat and Religion. In every era one part of the Ummah though in minority has remained associated with Wilayat. They could not separate the axis of religion from religion despite of all the efforts though for centuries this pillar has remained concealed but still has been present in religion.

In history many efforts have been made to change this orbit of religion. Sometimes religion got centred around individual personality, sometime the orbit became a family, sometime a legacy, sometime politics became the orbit, sometimes dictatorship, sometimes religion got centred around worships, sometimes around Fiqh (Jurisprudence), sometimes practical laws became the axis, sometimes welfare acts became the orbit and sometimes democracy became the orbit of religion. But with the efforts of Lady Zahra (s.a) religion remained in the orbit of Wilayat. This does not mean that people have left religion at that time or they were being distanced from religion. Muslims was practising religion and were also busy in propagating it, prayers were offered in congregation, fasting was strictly observed, Hajj was done with full enthusiasm, Zakat was being collected and the act of Jihad was also continuing and all this became a misunderstanding for some individuals that after the demise of Holy Prophet (s.a) no distortion happened in religion because all the religious acts were performed as before.

The opinion of Lady Zahra (s.a) was also not that people were being distanced from religion but instead what she mentioned was that by preserving the exterior of religion the Ummah is being separated from its soul and axis. This is the reason that she did not specify the laws for religious practices in her sermon but instead mentioned the wisdom and philosophy behind them; that is why has Allah made prayers obligatory, why Hajj is obligatory, why Jihad, etc. In other words she was saying that Allah just does not want prayers, He wants to see prayers performed under the umbrella of Wilayat, Allah is demanding for fasting with Wilayat, that Hajj which is performed under the command of Wali (guardian).

Lady Fatema (s.a) was aware that if the nation gets away from the axis then something which has got away from its axis can be taken anywhere else easily and like this many forms of religion, variants of Islam and several schools will come into existence and this is what happened later and today instead of one religion we are witnessing several religions. The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s) has also prophesized that there will be seventy two sects in my nation. The number seventy two signifies abundance but amongst all these different forms of religion if the true and pure religion is present today then that is due to the efforts and perseverance of Lady Zahra (s.a). The personality of Lady Zahra (s.a) which is presented is far from reality. She is presented as a frustrated, upset Lady in need of compassion and mercy; one who is approaching someone and demanding for just her land of Fadak and God forbid she is spreading her hands in front of everyone. And when she looses all hopes of getting the land back she becomes upset with everyone , stops speaking to everyone, isolates herself in our house and in this grief she departs from this world. This is the exactly the same way her beloved son Imam Hussain (a.s) is also presented. A helpless, irritated Hussain who is begging refuge from enemies for him and his family. These kind of imaginations are away from reality. Lady Zahra (s.a) is the Lady of dignity and Hussain is the Imam of Dignity who is not prepared to accept humiliation at all.

Sacrifice of personal rights for the sake of Religion

Lady Zahra (a.s) did not use religion and Quran for protecting her garden of Fadak and dates but instead she used Fadak to protect the sanctity of religion and Quran. This is because when Fadak was with Fatema (s.a) its income never used to come to her it used to get distributed amongst poor hence if it would have been returned the house of Ali (a.s) would still be living on dry barley bread. The character of Lady Zahra (s.a) was not to secure her wealth and assets instead it was to protect Wilayat and this is the reason that she was successful in her resistance. Even if Fadak would have been returned still She would have used something else as a means to try to get religion back in its orbit. It is similar if Yazid would not have demanded allegiance then also the Doyen of Martyrs would have used something else as an excuse to start his uprising against Yazid.

The Common factor amongst four leading ladies

Allah (s) has given four ladies the status of being leading ladies of the entire universe; Lady Maryam, Lady Asiya, Lady Khadija and Lady Fatima Zahra and then amongst these four the status of Lady Zahra (s.a) has been declared as the highest. The scholars have talked a lot about this but one point could be helpful in understanding the secret behind this and that point is that there is a common factor amongst all these four ladies. This common factor is that all these four ladies assisted and supported the Wali (Guardian) of their era in such circumstances when no one else other than Allah was present to help them.

The pains, agonies and calamities which Lady Maryam suffered by the hands of Jews are described by the Quran that at times she used to cry and say that I wish I would have died before this. Lady Asiya despite of being resident in Firaun's house gave salvation to Prophet Moosa from the river, raised him and when no child of Bani Israel had permission to live she became the guardian and protector of Moosa. Lady Khadija (s.a) supported the Holy Prophet (s) under those circumstances when he was completely isolated and there was no one other than Abu Talib (a.s) from Quraish willing to support him. Similarly Lady Fatema (s.a) supported Ameerul Momineen (a.s) under circumstances when there was absolute silence in Medina and no one was even prepared to give testimonial as a witness (to the declaration in Ghadeer).

On this basis Allah (s) has selected these four personalities in the entire world and gave them superiority and privilege over all other women and later Lady Zainab (s.a) also got included in the same rank. These four ladies are the laps and cradle of Wilayat and the opponents of these ladies were not ordinary people. Firaun and his clan was against Asiya, the envious Jews and idol worshipping rulership against Maryam, the ignorant Arabs and Quraish against Lady Khadija; and against Fatema the religious beings without the sense of Wilayat.

Allah (s) did not select them to be superior than others on the basis of their household chores instead these esteemed personalities are the pillars of humanity and they are the four foundations of religion.

The Quran has informed about three heavenly religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam and these three heavenly religions are at the mercy of these four personalities. All these four have saved the foundations of religion; three have helped Prophets and the fourth has supported the Imam of her time. Two of them Maryam and Fatema possess the stature of infallibility whereas other two Asiya and Khadija are not infallibles but each of them have suffered severe calamities and difficulties. But Lady Fatema has alone suffered the maximum of the calamities. This was because the severity in implementation was much higher than before since the propagation and promotion of Wilayat done by the Holy Prophet (s) was not done before to this extent.

Public orientation in Recognition of Religion

Due to lack of knowledge and orientation towards mass majority certain people consider this as invalid and impossible that what Allah(s) ordered and Holy Prophet (s) propagated and then later after his demise the Ummah immediately has forgotten that or certain individuals took religion away from its axis. This incident also does not seems practical to them because of one more reason that at that time the Muslims had good arrangement of memorizing religious affairs and they used to never demonstrate any sort of laziness in this. Thus for them how was this possible?

Though the general attitude is of this type only but with pondering and intelligent thinking these kinds of things are possible; specifically if we refer towards Quran then this action does not just looks like possible but the Quran has in fact informed about such events. This is the reason that the Quran has narrated the stories of past communities and invited us to ponder over them. The Holy Prophet (s) used to become upset and aggrieved whenever he witnessed any negative behaviour from this Ummah. He should feel severe pain on certain undesired acts of Quraish, Polytheists and followers of book; on such occasions the Holy Prophet (s) would be sympathisised from Allah (s) that he should not become aggrieved with their words . On one such occasion while sympathising with the Holy Prophet (s) Allah (s) said that you should not be worried with their talks because before you other Prophets were also troubled like this. On one other occasion it was said that treatment which is being given to you, more worst treatment than this was given by Bani Israel to Prophet Moosa. In context of this while discussing about the deflections of Bani Israel Allah (s) says that Moosa gave salvation to Bani Israel from Firaun, made them cross the river in a miraculous manner and drowned Firaun with his followers. He got Bani Israel out of all dangers and took them to Qinan and then Allah (s) asked Moosa to come over for a divine ascension journey for forty years. By the permission of Allah (s) Moosa made his brother Haroon as his successor for this limited period of occultation. When Moosa came back after forty nights he saw that the entire shape of Ummah has changed; Haroon is shivering in one corner whereas the Ummah is worshipping the calf made by Saamri. The Ummah forgot all the teachings of Prophet and came under the misguidance of Saamri. Moosa got annoyed after witnessing this scene and then demonstrated severe reactions against everyone.

The threat of Saamri's for Ummah's (nations)

In Surah Taha from verse 77 to verse 99 the entire incident has been mentioned in the Quran. In Surah Qisas, verse 3 Allah (s) says: O Prophet! the story of Moosa has been narrated to you so that your Ummah can take lessons from it. This implies that you should not consider such incidents happening for you as something impossible on the basis of giving preference to general public behaviour rather than Quran; all this can happen and has happened. Moosa has expressed and made people understand Monotheism, he has given them salvation from idol worship, he has given refuge to Bani Israel from the tyranny of Firaun, he has made them recognize Allah (s) but there has been always threats of Saamri's present in the vicinity of the followers of Prophets who take them away from the paths demonstrated by the Prophet and get them behind calves. Thus it is possible that in the presence of a Prophet the nation (Ummah) can distance from the axis and focal point of religion. Saamri using his talent and skills can take advantage of the simplicity of the Ummah separating them from the axis of religion.

May be this was the reason that the Holy Prophet (s) mentioned this tradition of status in this perspective.

"O Ali! Your status for me is the same as Haroon was for Moosa."

This means O Ali! after me you will have to witness all those things which Haroon had to see after Moosa. At that time Moosa was present so he secured the Ummah and got religion back again on its axis of Monotheism but who will return the religion back to its axis after the Messenger (s)? Who will distance the Ummah from the calf and get them back towards Wilayat? Who will once again return religion back towards its axis? It is evident that the Holy Prophet (s) has forever left the Ummah, he has prophesized the circumstances also and has also informed the solution for such circumstances and he has also assigned the responsibilities. Thus whatever the Prophet (s) whispered in the ears of her daughter at the time of his demise was this point which turned the signs of grief on her face into exhilaration.

Thus Lady Zahra (s.a) delivered the character of Prophet Moosa in this domain and she stepped on the footstep of a Prophet but she had to face more severe calamities and troubles than Moosa.

Imam Khomeini (r.a) - The reviver of Seerat-e-Zahra (s.a)

Imam Khomeini revived the character of Lady Zahra in this era and delivered the character of Moosa and not just demolished the Firaun of his time but also kicked out of the doors the ongoing distortion in religion since several centuries. He got religion back on the axis and orbit of Wilayat and once again revived the affair that despaired the infidels. He did not promote his belief and love towards Lady Zahra by just taking her name, he did not acquire public fame by organizing Majalis-e-Fatema, he did not make the calamities of Lady Zahra (s) the basis of creating discord within Ummah but instead revived the character of his pure ancestor. He stepped all alone in the field and raised the standard of Wilayat so that he can show to those name sake followers of Wilayat what is the reality of Wilayat? What is Fatemiya? What is the character of Fatema ? What are the values of Fatema? What is the anger of Fatema? What is that which pleases Fatema? What are the desires of Fatema? Is Fatema only expectant of our tears or is she expecting the success and dominance of the system of Wilayat.

The way Imam Khomeini (r.a) considers his thoughts, movements, revolution, system of Wilayat and Islamic government all at the mercy of the Doyen of Martyrs similarly he considers all these affairs also at the mercy of Lady Zahra (s.a).

Imam Khomeini (r.a) says regarding Lady Zahra (s):

" I am deficient in saying anything regarding the Truthful Lady (s.a) hence I am just contenting myself by mentioned one narration about her. This narration is present in Usool-e-Kafi in which Imam Sadiq (a.s) says: Lady Fatema was alive for only 75 days after the demise of her respected father and in this period certain incidents took place which subjugated her in utmost grief and sorrow. In these 75 days Jibrael used to often visit her for condolence and used to mention forthcoming incidents. For 75 days Jibrael used to visit continuously and I have no doubts that other than the five great Prophets Jibrael ever visited anyone else continuously. This was the privilege that Jibrael visited her, prophesized the forthcoming incidents with her progeny and whatever Jibrael used to say Ameerul Momineen (a.s) used to write down similar to the way Ameerul Momineen (a.s) was a recorder of revelations for the Messenger as well though those revelations which were bringing down the laws had ended after the demise of Messenger. The continuous visit of Jibrael to this Truthful Lady is not an ordinary matter because Jibrael is an esteemed spirit who will only descend on someone who has strong association with Jibrael; without this association the descend of Jibrael is impossible. The Holy Prophet (s), Prophet Moosa , Prophet Isa and Prophet Ibrahim were such great Prophets on whom Jibrael descended and I have not read anywhere even about the Holy Imams that Jibrael used to visit them but it is only regarding Lady Zahra (s.a) that Jibrael used to visit her continuously for 75 days. Amongst the issues mentioned may be one of them was about his last son (Imam e Zamana) and maybe about Iran; I don't know but for me this is one of the greatest of virtues which is specific to Lady Zahra (s.a)."

.... to be continued.