The venerable Sayyid Ali Ibne Tawoos says in Jamalul Usboo...
The venerable Sayyid Ali Ibne Tawoos says in Jamalul Usboo: Perhaps we don’t see the joy in replacing these gifts or for saying to ourselves that the Infallible Imams (as) are needless of these gifts; or perhaps from the aspect that they seek forgiveness and do it everyday many a times; that they (as) are needless of your gift; but you are not needless that you don’t send gifts to them, and that your words reach to them; just as the Almighty Allah is needless of these things.
Thus in your intention whenever you begin these acts it should be that the Almighty Allah guides you in success and security: يَمُنُّونَ عَلَيْكَ أَنْ أَسْلَمُوا ۖ قُلْ لَا تَمُنُّوا عَلَيَّ إِسْلَامَكُمْ ۖ بَلِ اللَّهُ يَمُنُّ عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْ هَدَاكُمْ لِلْإِيمَانِ They think that they lay you under an obligation by becoming Muslims. Say: Lay me not under obligation by your Islam: rather Allah lays you under an obligation by guiding you to the faith.
(Qur’an, Surah Hujurat 49:17) You are same as a scholar has said: I dedicate this to his respectable assembly and there is nothing except this. I don’t have anything that I can gift…
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