MIRACLE 80 – PAYING OFF DEBTS

It is narrated from Hazrat Imam Sadiq (a.s.) that one day Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) asked to those who were near him,

Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) asked: ‘Which one of you yesterday paid off one thousand the seven hundred Dirhams?’ Imam Ali (a.s.) said: ‘I did, O Messenger of Allah! Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) then asked Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) to narrate the incident.

Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) said, ‘Yesterday I passed by so and so, the Momin, and I found so and so who is a hypocrite troubling him and pushing him. The Momin called out to me, ‘O brother of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.), and the remover of the worries from the face of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.), and the repressor of the enemies of Allah from His Beloved! Help me and remove my distress and rescue me from my gloom. Ask this creditor of mine, perhaps he would respond to you, and he would respite me, for I am insolvent’.

I turned upon the man, and then I prayed to Allah,

O Allah! by the right of Mohammed (s.a.w.a.) and his purified progeny pay off the debt from this servant of Yours’.

I saw the gateways of the sky, its angels calling out, ‘O Abu Imam Hasan (a.s.)! Order this servant to strike his hand to whatever he so desires to – from what is in front of him, from a stone, mud, pebbles and dust – it would be converted to gold in his hand. Then he can pay off his debt from it and make whatever remains as his expense monies, and (for) his goods by which he can block his destitution with it, and he can secure his dependants with it’.

I said, ‘O servant of Allah! Allah, has permitted the fulfilment of your debt and make you affluent after your poverty. Strike your hand to whatever you so desire, from what is in front of you, and grab it, for Allah, would transform it to pure gold in your hand’.

He grabbed a rock, then some mud, and it turned for him as red gold. Then I said to him: ‘Cut out a piece from it for him of a measurement of his debt and give it to him’. He did. I said: ‘And the remainder is sustenance which Allah, the Exalted has bestowed to you’.

And it was so, that which was paid off from his debt was one thousand and seven hundred Dirhams, and that which remained with him was more than one hundred thousand Dirhams. Thus, he is from the most affluent ones of Medina’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 42, Chp 116, Trad 7 ↩