Candle-like I burn with the desire of being near to Thee all the sooner...

Candle-like I burn with the desire of being near to Thee all the sooner; With my head on the enemy's spear I'm bound for Thy seat I asked Thee to show me Thyself when I reached the tryst with You on Mt. Sinai Thou arttheFountofLifefrom which Thou quenchest my thirst On the edge of the sea of existence I experienced the ascension of witnessing The mirror ofthe heart broke but the image of the Beloved remained The true image of Thee revealed the secret of He is Allah, the One.

These seventy two men bore the colours of the truth; they abandoned their humble abode in this world and gained possession of a mansion in the heavens; they laughed in the face of death and gained eternal life; they subdued their evil desires and yearned for nothing but the Truth. After the event of Karbala, some followed the tracks of the Caravan of light and others went astray. Let us embellish ourselves with the morality of Husayn(a) and shun the fetid smell of Yazid.

Imam Husayn's piety and religious devotion set an example for all generations in human history that a godly way of life leads to salvation. An Outstanding Figure Among the Husayni(a) Group Among those who had taken to follow the tracks of the Caravan of Light, and an outstanding figure in his time, was the late Akhund Mulla Muhammad Kashi.

Among his proteges were such distinguished personalities as Ayatullah Martyr Mudarris, Haj Shaykh Murtada Taliqani, Haj Agha Rahim Arbab, Ayatullah Sayyid, Jamaluddin Gulpaygani and Ayatullah al-Uzma Haj Agha Husayn Borujerdi. The Akhund was a pious septuagenarian who spent most, of his life acquiring knowledge and teaching in a small chamber at the SadrMadressah in Isfahan.

His paltry earnings were hardly enough to provide bread and water, but as far as the spiritual side of life was concerned, he was a fountain of virtue. Not enslaved by his sexual desires he remained unmarried and lived on a meagre daily ration of bread and cheese or bread and vegetables with broth once a week.

Once, a young theology student waking up just before dawn to say his night prayers, found himself so surrounded by voices of praise and glorification of God coming as it were from all the walls and doors of the madresseh, that he fell unconscious. In the morning he went to the Akhund and told him the story not knowing what that chanting so full of light was, he found that it corresponded to the very chanting of God's Glory and praises that the Akhund recited before the dawn.