ASK FORGIVENESS FOR YOUR PARENTS, RELATIVES, AND ALL BELIEVERS IN ARAFAT
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ASK FORGIVENESS FOR YOUR PARENTS, RELATIVES,
AND ALL BELIEVERS IN ARAFAT
Now that we are blessed with this divine grace and our requests and desires are fulfilled, we should seek forgiveness for our parents, relatives, neighbors, all believers, and the deceased ones. Imam Sadiq (a.s) says:
دُعاءُ المَرءِ لأخِيهِ بِظَهْرِ الغَيبِ يَدُرُّ الرِّزقَ ويدفَعُ المَكروهَ
A man's supplication for his absent brother increases the sustenance and saves from evils.3
Imam Kazim (a.s) says:
مَن دَعا لأخِيهِ بِظهرِ الغَيبِ نودِيَ مِن العَرشِ: ولَكَ مِائَةُ ألفِ ضَعفٍ. فَكَرِهتُ أنْ أَدَعَ مِائَةَ ألفِ ضَعفٍ مَضْمونَةً لِواحِدةٍ لا أدِري تُستَجابُ أمْ لا.
Whoever supplicates for his absent brother in faith, a call from the Divine Throne will say: let one hundred thousand
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1 A part of Du'aa an-Nudba
2 A part of Du'aa an-Nudba
3 See al-Kafi; Vol. 2 p. 507 hadith 2
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times more be for you. So, I thought it was not advisable to leave one hundred thousand supplications certainly answered for one that might or might not be answered.1
WHAT A BLESSED DUAA!
Ibn Abi-Umeir reports the following on the authority of Zeid an-Nersi:
Muawieh ibn Wahab and I were in Arafat. He was reciting duaa while his eyes were full of tears. Listening carefully to him, I found out that he was not reciting a singly duaa for himself, rather he was supplicating for people from here and there mentioning their names and father's names. When the pilgrims left Arafat, I said to him, 'O uncle, I saw something strange about you.' He asked, 'what was strange?' I answered, 'In this holy place, you considered your brethren prior to yourself and recited duaa for them!' He said, 'O my nephew, do not be surprised, for I heard my master and master of every believing man and woman and master of the former and the coming generations after his immaculate fathers (a.s) (if I lie, let my ears become deaf, my eyes blind, and deprived of the Holy Prophet's intercession) as saying:
?Whoever supplicates Allah for his absent brother in faith, an angel from heaven will call: 'O servant of Allah, let a hundred thousand times more than it be for you.' And an angel from the second heaven will call: 'O servant of Allah, let there be two hundred thousand times more for you.' And an angel from the third heaven will call: 'O servant of Allah, let there be three hundred thousand times more for you.' And an angel from the fourth heaven will call: 'O servant of Allah, let there be four hundred thousand times for you.' And an angel from the fifth heaven will call: 'O servant of Allah, let there be five hundred thousand time more for you.' And an angel from the sixth heaven will call: 'O servant of Allah, let there be six hundred thousand times more for you.' And an angel from the seventh heaven will call: 'O servant of Allah, let there be seven hundred thousand times more for you.' Then, Allah will say: 'I am the Rich Who will never become poor. O servant of Allah, let there be a million times more for you.'?
'O my nephew, which is better: to supplicate for oneself or for others?'2
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1 See Usoul al-Kafi; vol. 2 p. 507 hadith 6 and Oddatol Daee; 136
2 See Oddatol Daee p.136
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