Documents of the Right Word

loving the Ahl-i-Bayt and obeying the hadîth-i-sherîf quoted
above.
When Imâm Alî Ridâ arrived in Nishâpur, more than twenty
scholars met him. They begged him to recite a hadîth-i-sherîf
transmitted through his ancestors (coming from his earliest
grandfather, Rasûlullah). The noble Imâm quoted the hadîth-iqudsî
that purported, “(The word) Lâ ilâha il-l-Allâh, is My
shelter. He who says this word will have taken asylum in the
fortress. And he who has entered the fortress will be safe against
My torment.” Scholars of Ahl as-Sunna state that if this hadîth-iqudsî
is recited in the manner that will be prescribed below and
blown unto an ill person, that person will heal. When the love
which Sunnite Muslims have for the Ahl-i-Bayt is so exuberant,
would it not be either sheer nescience or idiocy or blind hostility
against the Ahl as-Sunna to suppose that Sunnite Muslims were
inimical against the Ahl-i-Bayt? Here we end our translation from
Tuhfa. The following prayer must be written in its (original)
Arabic letters and read correctly: “Rawâ Aliy-yul-Ridâ, fe-qâla,
Haddasanî Ebî Mûsal-Kâzim an ebîhi Jâ’fer-is-Sâdiq an ebîhi
Muhammad-il-Bâqir an ebîhi Zeynel’âbidîn Alî an ebîh-il-Huseyn
an ebîhi Alî bin Ebî Tâlib ‘radiy-Allâhu anhum’, qâla haddasanî
habîbî wa qurratu aynî Rasûlullâhi ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’,
qâla haddasanî Jibrîlu, qâla sami’tu Rabb-ul-’izzati yaqûlu, ‘Lâ
ilâha il-l-Allâhu hisnî, man qâla-hâ dahala hisnî, wa men dahala
hisnî emina min ’azâbî.”
16- Whenever we Muslims say or write the name of any of the
beloved Ahl-i-Bayt or the virtuous As-hâb-i-kirâm ‘radiy-Allâhu
ta’âlâ alaihim ajmâ’în’ of our master the Prophet, we say, “radiy-
Allâhu anh.” This expression means, “May Allâhu ta’âlâ be
pleased with him.” As is written in the section before the one
dealing with Farâiz in the fifth book of Durr-ul-mukhtâr, one of
Muslims’ most valuable books, and also in its commentary, “It is
mustahab (an act which deserves much reward in the Hereafter) to
say ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ for the As-hâb-i-kirâm. For all of them
struggled very hard to please Allâhu ta’âlâ. They welcomed
everything coming from Allâhu ta’âlâ with pleasure. Allâhu ta’âlâ
is pleased with them. The thawâb given to others for their alms in
gold as big as a mountain could not equal the thawâb that would
be given to these people for dispensing half a handful of barley as
alms.”
The book Mesâbîh-i-sherîf and the book Izâlat-ul-hafâ an
khilâfat-il-khulafâ, the latter by Shâh Waliyyullâhi Dahlawî
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