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The Proxy of Imam should be Pious
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The Proxy of Imam should be Pious
It is mentioned in Wasa’il ul-Shia that Abu Muhammad Alji had two sons, one was pious and the other evil. Some Shias had paid him a sum to appoint a proxy for performing Hajj on behalf of Imam Hujjat Ibnul Hasan (a.s.). It was one of the acts of worship that Shias used to perform. So Abu MahmÅ«d gave the amount to his evil son and performed the Hajj with him. Abu Muhammad says that on the day of Arafah I saw a wheat-complexioned, well-dressed and handsome youth. He was engrossed in supplications and seeking forgiveness more than other people. When it was time for the people to move from Arafat to Mashar he came to me and said, “O Shaykh! Aren’t you ashamed of Allah?”
“Why?” I asked.
He said, “You are told to appoint a proxy for a person you knew well for performing Hajj, and you have entrusted it to a man who drinks and spends on evil deeds.”
Then he pointed to one of my eye and said,
“Do you not fear becoming blind in the eye?”
I was ashamed and when I recovered from the shock I tried to look for the youth but he had disappeared from the plains of Arafat. Forty days had not passed when the eye towards which he had pointed, become infected and I became blind.
The book al-KÄfi contains a tradition related by MÅ«sa bin Qasim from Imam Jawad (a.s.) that he said to Imam (a.s.), “I wish to perform Tawaf on your behalf and on the behalf of your ancestors. But some people have told me that it is not allowed.” Imam (a.s.) said,
“Perform as many circumambulations as you can. This is certainly permitted.”
The narrator says, “After Three years I again went to Imam (a.s.) and said, “A few years ago I had sought your permission to perform tawaf on behalf of your respected self and your honoured ancestors. So, I performed this deed as much as Allah gave me TawfÄ«q (divine opportunity). I performed tawaf on behalf of the Holy Prophet (S), Amir ul-Mu’minÄ«n ‘Ali (a.s.) and so on till the end when I did it on your behalf. And these personalities are so dear to me that I consider their love a part of my faith.”
Imam (a.s.) said,
“Then you have followed a religion, besides which there is no other acceptable faith in view of Almighty Allah.”
Imam (a.s.) said,
“You may perform this deed as much as you can. It is the best of deeds that you perform.”
