'I seek Allah's forgiveness of whatever (I have done for) other than the Beloved...

'I seek Allah's forgiveness of whatever (I have done for) other than the Beloved, I seek Allah's forgiveness for my fictitious existence If a moment elapses without remembering his (beautiful) countenance, I seek Allah's forgiveness myriad of times for that moment' One afternoon we were in the company of the Shaykh in one of his disciples' house. It had a very large guestroom and the Shaykh was sitting near the doorway singing the following couplet of Hafiz.

'Who is the one who, out of loving kindness, may practice sincerity to us? (And) may do benevolence in lieu of ill-doing to such ill-doer as me' He sang some couplets of this ghazal with a very beautiful and pleasant melody while weeping and making others extremely overwhelmed and tearful. It was so extraordinary! I said to Dr. Goya 'The reverend Shaykh has got such a lovely voice and sweet breath! He replied.

'It is a pity you made such belated acquaintance with him He used to sing so beautifully that when he recited such poems in a mystical state, the doors and walls literally vibrated.' A Poem by the Shaykh and Reminiscence It seems that the Shaykh himself used to write poems occasionally.

One of the contemporary maraji' who was a student of the great jurist and mystic, the late Ayatollah Qadi (Allameh Tabataba'i's teacher) answered to my inquiry about Shaykh Rajab Ali Khayyat as follows: 'I met him in a session with Ayatollah Qadi in Najaf. In that session, he recited some poems in praise of Amir al-Mu 'minin Ali (a) each couplets beginning with the letters of abjad.

[^4] He then recited another of his poems as follows: 'Whatever Bounties You have granted to the whole Universe, All have You granted to me, plentiful and diverse.' "I was thinking that this was the most sublime interpretation of Divine Bounties and thanksgiving to Him, until I came across this statement in al-Sahifah al-Sajjadiyya:" شكري أياك من انعاماتك "Shukri iyyaka min in 'amatika (I am thankful to You for all Your Bounties)[^5] An Amazing and Instructive Miraculous Act [^6] At the end of the weekly session of "ethics" lesson[^7], a young man came forward and, referring to what was mentioned at the footnote No.1 of this page, stated: "I am coming from Yazd.

This issue was brought up in a meeting where some of those present ridiculed and said it was because of the Shaykh illiteracy that he did not know this phrase is not found in al-Sahifah al-Sajjadiyya! At that night, I saw him in a dream.