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Question No. 3057 31 August 2022 Official answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) verified Content level: Intermediate

What is your view of the messages circulating online about sending blessings upon the Prophet?

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Dear questioner, Master Ali Saei
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Dear respected teacher,
Please share your view of the following practice, which is being circulated online. It says that, while prostrating, one should call upon Lady Fatima.
Thank you.

Pray two rak‘ahs just as you would for the dawn prayer, then say the takbirs aloud three times, followed by the Tasbihat of Lady Fatima.

While prostrating, place your head on the prayer stone 100 times and say, “O my Lady, O Fatima, come to my aid.” Then place your right cheek down and recite this invocation 100 times. Again, place your forehead down and recite it 100 times, then your left cheek 100 times, and finally your forehead 110 times.

In total, “O my Lady, O Fatima, come to my aid” is recited 510 times.

Do not get up from your place; Lady Fatima al-Zahra (peace be upon her) will come to your aid, God willing.

The essence and first answer at a glance (60-word summary)

The devotional practice involving the invocation “O my Lady, O Fatima, come to my aid” that is being circulated online has clear problems both in its source and its wording. It has no reliable source, and attributing it to an infallible figure is unfounded. Its wording also conflicts with Quranic passages, such as verse 18 of Surah al-Jinn, and with reports stating that mosques belong to God and that no one should be invoked alongside Him.

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

The statement in question has clear flaws in both its chain of transmission and its content.

It has no chain of transmission, and attributing it to an Infallible is unfounded.

Its content also conflicts with Quranic and hadith texts:

الجن : 18 و أن المساجد لله فلا تدعوا مع الله أحدا

“And that the mosques belong to God, so do not call upon anyone alongside God.”

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