The Wilderness or the Path to God

Introduction
And praise is to Allah who said, ﴾28 And We have not sent you ex- cept to all mankind as a bringer of glad tidings and a warner, but most of the people do not know . 29 And they say, “When is this promise, if you should be truthful?” 30 Say, “For you is the appointment of a Day of which you will not be delayed thereafter an hour, nor will you precede [it]”﴿*
In the Name of Allah the Merciful, the Intensely Merciful
Praise is to You our Lord, as You introduced us to Your appointed promise which does not break, and Your cutting sword, Your compel- ling stone, and Your servant whom You have drawn to Yourself and are satisfied with to support Your religion, and have chosen by Your knowl- edge and protected him from guilt and made him innocent of faults and showed him the unseen, and blessed him and purified him from impurities and sanctified him from impurities and made his obedience Your obedience, and his support Your support, and introduced him to Your servants by the tongue of Your Ummi† Prophet pbuhap, and by the tongue of the previous prophets, and mentioned him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Quran and warned Your servants of negligence, and You said, and Exalted is He who said,
In the name of Allah the Merciful, the Intensely Merciful ﴾27 And the Day the wrongdoer will bite on his hands [in regret] he will say, “O, I wish I had taken with the Messenger a path . 28 O, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a friend . 29 He led me away from the remembrance after it had come to me . And ever is Satan, to man, a deserter .”﴿‡
In these pages are few from an abundance, and little from much of what is drawn into the souls of the believers . And in these pages is something from the past, something from the present and much for the future . And in the past there are undeniable lessons, and it is a divine way that does not change .
The Seal pbuhap said, ﴾By Whom my soul is in His hand, you will * . Surat Saba (Sheba) 34:28-30 .
† . Ummi: From Umm al-Qura, and it is the village around which all other villages center, and at the time of Prophet Muhammad pbuhap, it was Mecca . And today it is al-Najaf in Iraq . —Trans .
‡ . Surat al-Furqan (The Criterion) 25:27-29 .

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follow in the footsteps of those before you, pace by pace and speck by speck, such that you will not evade their way and the way of the Chil- dren of Israel will not evade you﴿ .*
And in these pages is a nation which went into the wilderness and exited it and a nation which went into it and is still in it, and in these pages is a direction toward the path of exiting the wilderness .
I, the poor one of little work and many faults, saw to write these pages so that they would be a cry in the face of the tyrants for every overpowered one, and so that they would be a cry from the Master of the oppressed ones, the Proof upon all creation, the Mahdi of this nation pbuh, a cry to every believing man and woman, by which he requests their support, and so that this cry would be a proof upon every apathetic one of his support pbuh today before his rise, and tomorrow after his rise .
Then I hope from Allah the Mighty, the Intensely Merciful, the Generous, that He makes it a proof from His proofs during the Day of Resurrection .
And all praise is to Allah, who created me, as it is He who guides me . My Lord, join me with the righteous ones, and do not embarrass me on the Day they are resurrected; the Day when neither wealth nor children will benefit anyone except he who comes to Allah with a sound heart .
My Lord, and accept from me this small work, and make the heart of the Man of Time† satisfied with me...
My Master, O Man of Time, O proof of Allah in His land, O rem- nant of the prophets and successors, O oppressed one whose right is violated, O dear one; Harm has touched us and our families and we come with this unworthy commodity, so give us full measure and give us of your charity, verily Allah rewards the charitable...
The Wilderness or The Path to Allah
* . Tafsir al-Ayashi Vol . 1 page 303, Masnad Ahmad Vol . 5 page 340, Sunan al-Tirmithi Vol . 3 page 332, Majma al-Zawaed by al-Haithami Vol . 7 page 216 .
† . Man of Time: Sahib al-Zaman who is Imam al-Mahdi pbuh .

Patience has died in wait for you, O one who revives the sharia
So rise as tolerance has left behind nothing but anxious abdomens
They [the disasters] tore apart the robe of grief
and complained of the severing [Imam al-Mahdi’s absence]
to their connected one [the one with whom they have closest ties]
And the time has come for the sword to heal the aching hearts of your Shia
So any other than him would not revive this turbulent soul,
For how long is the stagnation,
and your religion had its thin pillars demolished?
The branches mourn its origins,
and its origins mourn its branches [of the religion]
Ruling it are the ones who made halal its haram sanctities
Those whom if you amplify their virtue and exaggerate are still not worthy to be mentioned
So sharpen the blade of a sword, to which the souls are determined, obedient and submissive. [speaking to al-Mahdi pbuh from hereon]
If it calls for them they lighten for its call, and [even] if they are heavy they are fast.
Demand by it the blood of the murdered one in Karbala, among the finest Shia
What would ever incite you
if you had patience over the horrific incident of al-Taf ?
Do you see that a disaster would come, worse than that which has already come?
As al-Hussain is on the pure soil and within our souls, with the brave horses, he had his ribs crushed
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And his infant is covered with the blood of the veins, so demand his infant
O the jealousy of Allah,
call out for the impervious protection of the religion
And sharpen the swords of your revenge, for the necks of the cowardly transgressors
And let the soldiers of Allah fill this spacious land
And take away even the infants of the family of war, their girls and their boys.*
* . Lines from a well-known poem by the poet of the progeny, Haydar al-Hilli (may Allah have mercy upon his soul) . Taken from Deewan al-Hilli Vol 1 page 37 .

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Intensely Merciful
Praise be to Allah, the Owner of sovereignty, Who sets the course of the skies and the stars, Controller of the winds, Causer of daybreak and Administrator of authority, the Lord of the worlds . All praise be to Allah, from whom out of fear of Him the sky and its inhabitants rumble, and the earth and its builders shake, and the sea and whatever swims in its depths surges .
O Allah, send Your prayers upon Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad, the arks moving in the overwhelming depths . Whoever boards these arks is safe and whoever leaves them drowns . Whoever proceeds without them is an apostate, and whoever lags behind them is bound to disappear, and whoever abides by them survives .