A Cry from Qatif

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Exaggerations beyond the Imams!   These obsessions with fantasy were not limited to the Imams. By no means were the Marja’s [Ayatollahs] not going to have their share of supernatural feats and claims to knowledge of the unseen realms. In the book Al Karamat Al Ghaybiyyah li al Imam Al Khumayni by Hussain al Kurani, he relates the story of a prison guard […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   The Names Game   I was watching a documentary film on India with one of my Egyptian friends. This friend was from a Sufi family, although he did not fit the profile of a clichéd, eccentric Sufi. He had the capacity to think about things critically. This documentary included a segment on a group of Buddhists. One was shown sleeping on nails, another […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   The Imams as Intermediaries   I spoke to a friend regarding invoking the Imams in supplication and seeking their aid, to which he responded, “The Imams are intermediaries between Allah and the slave. For example, can you enter the office of an administrator or a high-ranking official without a contact?” I said, “If this official was just and humble, and he allowed for […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Devilish Tricks   A Sufi in Egypt told me that some families there hire people to claim miracles for their deceased, in hopes that people believe them and erect shrines through which the families may then accrue substantial amounts of money! This person’s family had done this with his grandfather’s corpse after his death, and he had witnessed all of these happenings as […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   The Respected Sheikh ‘Abbas al Musa, and invoking others besides Allah   I read an excellent article by the respected Sheikh ‘Abbas al Musa titled A Moment with the Truth that is more Deserving of Being Followed. He says in this article:   The Imams of the Ahlul Bayt have guided us to this: To the fact that we must turn to Allah […]