MIRACLE 87 – CONFESSING LOVE TO AMEERUL MOMINEEN (AS)

It is narrated in Tafseer of Hazrat Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.),

‘A man from the ones who loved Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) wrote to him (a.s.) from Syria, ‘O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)! I am heavily weighted down with my dependants and I fear going out and leaving my wealth upon them – which I would be leaving behind when I do go out - and I would love to meet you, and the universe is in your words, and the life is in your service, therefore take me seriously, O Ameerul Momineen!’.

Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) replied to him, ‘then arise and come over to me’.

The man did that, and Muawiya got the news of his fleeing to Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.), and Muawiya ordered with the imprisoning of his dependants and the plundering and confiscation of his wealth.

The soldiers went, but Allah, cast upon them the resemblances of the dependants of Muawiya, and resemblance in particular a resemblance of a near one of Yazeed Bin Muawiya and he was saying, ‘We have already seized this wealth and it is now for us, and as for his dependants, so we captured them and sent them to the slave market (to be sold)’. They refrained when they saw that.

And Allah, the Almighty caused his dependants to recognise that He has cast upon them the resemblances of the dependants of Muawiya and dependants of Yazeed (l.a.) in particular a dependant of Yazeed (l.a.). But they feared upon their wealth that it might be stolen by the thieves, so Allah, the Almighty transformed the wealth into scorpions and snakes. Every time the thieves aimed to take from it, they were stung and despaired.

So, a group of them died, and the others were tired, and Allah defended his wealth with that – until such time as one day Imam Ali (a.s.) said to the man: ‘Would you love it if your dependants and your wealth were to come to you?’ He said, ‘Yes’.

Imam Ali (a.s.) said: ‘O Allah! You Bring them’. And they were in the presence of the man – there being nothing missing from the entirety of his dependants and his wealth by anything (or anyone).

They informed him with what how they resembled the dependents of Muawiya and the transformation of their wealth to snakes and scorpions. to exhaust the thieves who intended to take it.

Imam Ali (a.s.) said: ‘Sometimes Allah, the Almighty tends to manifest a sign to some of the believers in order for there to be an increase in their insight, and to some of the disbelievers in order to cut off the excuses from them’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 42, Chp 116, Trad 13 ↩