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Download PDF Before Proceeding for Ziarat: It is recommended [1] by Imam-e-Jafar-e-Sadiq -asws to fast for three days before leaving your house for Ziarat-e-Imam Hussain -asws and perform ‘Ghusal [2] ’ on the third day. Then gather your family and pray to Allah -azwj , ‘O Lord! I have given in Your -azwj protection, my soul, my belongings, my family and whoever that is related to me including those who are present, as well as, those who are elsewhere.

Allah -azwj take care of ourselves, safeguard our ‘Aman’ and protect ourselves and declare ourselves in Your -azwj guardianship, and we are thankful for the ‘Naimat [3] ’ you have granted us, and we beg to You, do not replace it with anything else! Please enhance our recognition of Your ‘Naimat’, as we endeavour on your path.

Subsequent to praising Allah -azwj one should send ‘Salawat’ (blessings) on Mohammed -saww and his pure progeny -asws and commence his/her journey with peace of mind and elegance. It is also narrated in other traditions of masomeen -asws that for every drop of pilgrim’s perspiration, Allah -azwj creates 70,000 angels who recite ‘Tasbih’ and ask for Lord -azwj ’s forgiveness, on behalf of the pilgrim, from that very moment until the final day of judgement.

It is narrated from Imam-e-Jafar-e-Sadiq -asws that when you go out and visit holy shrine of Imam Hussain -asws then you should be in immense state of grief, with tearful eyes, appearance of being battered with calamities, in the state of thirst and starvation. Make your prayers and leave immediately afterward and do not try to reside there permanently. Do not take with you ‘delicious foods’ (roasted meat, halva and similar stuff) and eat very basic diet upon arriving there .

In another tradition, quoted by Sheikh Sadduq [4] , someone asked what should we eat there? Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq -asws replied, ‘ Eat bread with Milk’ .