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Question No. 3099 31 August 2022 Official answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) verified Content level: Intermediate

How Can We Visit the House of God from Afar?

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We can become visitors to the House of God from afar by performing deeds that carry the reward of Hajj. Praying a special two-rak‘ah prayer during the first ten days of Dhu al-Hijjah, serving one’s family sincerely (an act better than a thousand years of worship, Hajj and ‘umrah), and striving to set things right can all place a person among God’s visitors. Reciting “يا رب البیت الحرام” and similar invocations can also make a person a visitor to God.

Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)

Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural Center

### Praying Two Special Units of Prayer During the First Ten Days of Dhu al-Hijjah

عن جعفر بن محمد ع قال قال لی أبی محمد بن علی ع یا بنی لا تترکن أن تصلی کل لیله بین المغرب و العشاء الآخره من لیالی عشر ذی الحجه رکعتین تقرأ فی کل رکعه فاتحه الکتاب و قل هو الله أحد مره واحده و هذه الآیه و واعدنا موسى‏ ثلاثین لیله و أتممناها بعشر فتم میقات ربه أربعین لیله و قال موسى‏ لأخیه هارون اخلفنی فی قومی و أصلح و لا تتبع سبیل المفسدین‏

فإذا فعلت ذلک شارکت الحاج فی ثوابهم و إن لم تحج‏

إقبال الأعمال (ط - القدیمه)، ج‏1، ص: 317

Performing deeds that carry the reward of Hajj is a kind of visiting the House of God—and, beyond that, a way of visiting God Himself!

Serving one’s family with sincerity, solely for God’s sake!

Striving to set things right!

Visiting the holy shrines!

And more…

یا علی ساعه فی خدمه العیال خیر من عباده ألف سنه و ألف حج و ألف عمره

قال رسول الله ص درهم یرد العبد إلى الخصماء خیر له من عباده ألف سنه و خیر له من عتق ألف رقبه و خیر له من ألف حج و عمره

جامع الأخبار(للشعیری)، ص: 155

جعفر بن محمد ع یحدث قال: إن ضیف الله عز و جل رجل «3» حج و اعتمر فهو ضیف الله حتى یرجع إلى منزله و رجل کان فی صلاته فهو فی کنف الله حتى ینصرف و رجل زار أخاه المؤمن فی الله عز و جل فهو زائر الله فی عاجل ثوابه و خزائن رحمته.

الخصال، ج‏1، ص: 127

ʿAbbād ibn Ṣuhayb relates: I heard Imam al-Sadiq (AS) say, “God’s guest is the person who performs Hajj and ʿumrah; he remains God’s guest until he returns home. The person who is praying remains under God’s protection until he finishes his prayer. And the person who visits his fellow believer for God’s sake is a visitor to God, receiving an immediate reward and the treasures of His mercy.”

عن أبی غره قال سمعت أبا عبد الله ع یقول من زار أخاه فی الله فی مرض أو صحه لا یأتیه خداعا و لا استبدالا «2» وکل الله به سبعین ألف ملک ینادون فی قفاه أن طبت و طابت لک الجنه فأنتم زوار الله و أنتم وفد الرحمن «3» حتى یأتی منزله فقال له یسیر «4» جعلت فداک و إن کان المکان بعیدا «5» قال نعم یا یسیر و إن کان المکان مسیره سنه فإن الله جواد و الملائکه کثیره یشیعونه حتى یرجع إلى منزله.

الکافی (ط - الإسلامیه)، ج‏2، ص: 177

Imam al-Sadiq (AS) would say: “Whoever visits a fellow believer for God’s sake, whether that person is ill or well, and does so neither to deceive him nor to seek anything in return, will have seventy thousand angels assigned to him by God. They will call out behind him: ‘You have been purified; may Paradise be a joy to you! You are visitors to God and guests of the All-Merciful.’ They will accompany him until he reaches his home.”

Yasīr said to the Imam, “May I be sacrificed for you—even if the journey is a long one?” He replied, “Yes, Yasīr, even if it takes a year to get there. God is Generous, and the angels are many; they will accompany him until he returns home.”

### A suggestion

Let us lovingly keep our tongues busy with the special invocations of Almighty God:

یا رب البیت الحرام یا رب الشهر الحرام یا رب البلد الحرام یا رب الرکن و المقام یا رب المشعر الحرام یا رب المسجد الحرام یا رب الحل و الحرام یا رب النور و الظلام یا رب التحیه و السلام‏

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