When you greeted him...

When you greeted him, saying, ‘O Allah have mercy on him’, he greeted you with better than your greeting, saying, ‘O Allah, guide him (to the right path)!’ So Allah responded to him and guided you, and after that came this book, and this was the secret of its success.” This is a fact which I have believed in and it has entered deep into my heart. I have believed that the Ahlul Bayt (a.s.) were the secret behind the success of the book without doubt.

I met no one who showed to me other than his admiration of the book. The book has been published more than twenty times and translated into seventeen languages in the world. Thousands of Muslims everywhere in the world were guided to the truth by this book, especially in Africa where there were no Shia and Muslims lived there without sectarian backgrounds.[^4] [^1]: The Prophet (S) and his progeny who were the ones referred to by the Qur’anic verse of Purification.

[^2]: Ashraf in Tunisia are the sharifs or sayyids who are the descendants of the (S) via Ali and Fatima (peace be on them). [^3]: Sheikh Jallool al-Jaziri mentioned in his book “al-Fawa’id al-Fakhira Lezad ad-Dunya wel Aakhira - the excellent benefits for the provision of this life and the afterlife”, p.

78, quoting Tarikh (history of) ibn Dhayyaf that once when the epidemic (plague) spread in Tunisia, the ulema met in the Zeytoonah Mosque and decided to gather forty sharifs who all had the name Muhammad and to pray Allah to save them from that plague. They gathered the forty men by whose means Allah saved people and the plague vanished. [^4]: In Iraq and Iran, people narrate many true stories about the charismata of the Ahlul Bayt (a.s.) that have actually taken place.

The visitors, students, and scholars from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other places, who have visited or come to study and live near the shrines of the Ahlul Bayt (a.s.) and been blessed by their holy tombs, also narrate such stories. Previous…