He would read from his deed (given in) his right hand...
He would read from his deed (given in) his right hand, ‘We have given you a great kingdom in the Gardens and made you among the friends of Muhammad -saww the leader of the Prophets -as , and Ali -asws the best of the successors -as and the Imams -asws after him -asws , the pious Chiefs.’ وَ يَقْرَأُ مِنْ كِتَابِهِ بِشِمَالِهِ: قَدْ أَمِنْتَ الزَّوَالَ وَ الِانْتِقَالَ عَنْ هَذَا الْمُلْكِ، وَ أُعِذْتَ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ وَ الْأَسْقَامِ- وَ كُفِيتَ الْأَمْرَاضَ وَ الْأَعْلَالَ، وَ جُنِّبْتَ حَسَدَ الْحَاسِدِينَ، وَ كَيْدَ الْكَائِدِينَ And he would read from his deed in his left hand, ‘You are secured from the decline and the transference from this kingdom, and are sheltered from the death, and the illnesses and sufficed from the diseases and the pains, and would be kept aside from the envy of the envying ones, and plots of the plotters’.
ثُمَّ يُقَالُ لَهُ: اقْرَأْ [وَ] ارْقَ، وَ مَنْزِلُكَ عِنْدَ آخِرِ آيَةٍ تَقْرَؤُهَا. فَإِذَا نَظَرَ وَالِدَاهُ إِلَى حِلْيَتَيْهِمَا وَ تَاجَيْهِمَا- قَالا: رَبَّنَا أَنَّى لَنَا هَذَا الشَّرَفُ وَ لَمْ تَبْلُغْهُ أَعْمَالُنَا (فَقَالَ لَهُمَا كِرَامُ مَلَائِكَةِ اللَّهِ [عَنِ اللَّهِ] عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ: هَذَا لَكُمَا لِتَعْلِيمِكُمَا) وَلَدَكُمَا الْقُرْآنَ ‘Then it would be said to him: Recite and ascend, for your destination lies at the last Verse you would be reciting.
‘Then the parents will look at their clothes and crowns and they would ask: ‘Our Lord -azwj ! For us is this nobility, and although our deeds did not reach it?’ The honourable Angels of Allah -azwj will say to them on behalf of Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic: ‘This is because both of you taught your children to read the Quran’.
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