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Is it possible that the Imams, who are themselves sources of supplication and from whom we have received many prayers, also recite these same prayers in their devotions? For example, might the Imam of Our Time (AJ) recite the Supplication of Lamentation along with the people?
It is possible that the Imam of Our Time (AJ) joins the Shi‘a in their devotions, but the Supplication of Lamentation is, in essence, offered by the Shi‘a on his behalf. He too laments in response to the estrangement of the divine faith and his followers’ separation from him. The Muslim community’s lament for him will surely receive a fitting response from him.
It is possible that the Imam joins the Shiites in their supplication. Yet in the supplication referred to, the Shiites are lamenting for the Master of the earth and time, while the Imam, in keeping with his own circumstances—his being a stranger amid the marginalisation of the divine faith and his separation from the Shiites—also laments.
Certainly, the lamentation of the Islamic community for the Imam will receive from him an appropriate response.