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THE MONTH OF RAMADHAN
Shaikh Abu Ja'fer Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husain ibn Babawayh al-Qummi
al-Saduq (306-381 A.H.) quotes Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim al-Ma'athi saying that
Ahmed ibn Jaylawayh al-Jurjani al- Muthakkar] quotes Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn
Bilal quoting Abu Muhammad quoting Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Kiram quoting
Ahmed ibn Abdullah quoting Sufyan ibn 'Ayeenah quoting Mu'awiya ibn Abu
Ishaq quoting Sa'eed ibn Jubayr saying,
I asked Ibn Abbas once about the reward of one who fasts during the month of
Ramadan knowing its greatness. He said: 'O Ibn Jubayr! Get ready to listen
to what your ears have never heard before, nor your heart has ever
experienced, nor your soul has ever reckoned regarding that about which you
have inquired! What you are seeking is the knowledge of the first
generations and the last!
So I left him and prepared myself to meet him again. I returned to him at
early daybreak. Having said the fajr prayers (together), I reminded him of
the tradition which I had sought, so he turned his face to me and said,
Listen carefully to what I am going to tell you. I have heard the Messenger
of Allah saying: 'Had you ever come to know about your rewards during the
month of Ramadan, you would surely have thanked the Almighty a great deal
more (than you usually do).
Day 1
When the first night is over, Allah, the Almighty and the Exalted One,
forgives the sins committed by all members of my nation, the ones committed
in secrecy and the ones committed in public, and He elevates your status two
thousand degrees and builds you fifty towns in Paradise.
Day 2
On the next day, He rewards you for every step you take during that day with
the rewards of one who adored Him for a full year and the reward of one of
His prophets, and He will reward you as though you had performed the fast
for a full year.
Day 3
On the third day, the Exalted and Dear One grants you a dome in Paradise for
each hair on your body, a dome of a white pearl on top of which are twelve
thousand light houses and at the bottom of which are twelve thousand houses
in each one of which there are one thousand beds and on each bed of which
there is a nymph (huri) with large lovely eyes, each served by one thousand
servants the head-covering of each one of them is better than this world and
everything in it.
Day 5
On the fifth day, He builds you in Paradise a million cities in each one of
which there are seventy thousand houses, inside each one of which there are
seventy thousand tables, and on each table there are seventy thousand bowls,
and in each bowl there are sixty thousand types of food each one of which is
different from the other.
Day 6
On the sixth day, He will grant you in the Abode of Peace a hundred thousand
towns in each one of which there are a hundred thousand rooms, in each room
there are a hundred thousand beds of gold the length of each is a thousand
yards, and on each bed is a hun wife with large lovely eyes whose hair has
thirty thousand locks braided with pearls and sapphires, and each lock is
carried by a hundred concubines.
Day 7
On the seventh day, the Almighty grants you in the Garden of Bliss the
rewards of forty thousand martyrs and forty thousand siddeeqs (honest ones).
Day 8
On the eighth day, Allah Almighty grants you the rewards of the good deeds
of sixty thousand worshippers and sixty thousand ascetics.
Day 9
On the ninth day, Allah, the Exalted One, gives you what is equal to what He
gives a thousand scholars and a thousand devotees and a thousand warriors
fighting for Allah in a foreign land.
Day 10
On the tenth day, He gives you the fulfillment of seventy thousand of your
worldly wishes and orders the sun, the moon, the stars, the animals, the
birds, the beasts, every rock and every rain-drop, everything wet and
everything dry, all fish in the oceans and all leaves on the trees, to pray
for your forgiveness.
Day 11
On the eleventh day, the Exalted and Mighty One grants you the rewards
whereby He rewards one who performs the pilgrimage and 'umra four times and
one who performs the pilgrimage with His prophets and the 'umra with every
siddeeq or martyr.
Day 12
On the twelfth day, He takes upon Himself to replace your sins with good
deeds, then He multiplies your good deeds many times and gives you the
rewards of each of your good deeds a million times.
Day 13
On the thirteenth day, Allah Almighty grants you what He grants the devotees
of Mecca and Medina and bestows upon you an intercession for each and every
stone and rain drop between Mecca and Medina.
Day 14
On the fourteenth day, He treats you as though you had met and followed in
the footsteps of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and Solomon [peace be
upon all of them], and as though you had worshipped the Almighty Allah in
the company of His prophets for two hundred years.
Day 15
On the fifteenth day, He fulfills ten of your worldly wishes and those of
the hereafter and grants you what He granted Job , then He orders the angels
who bear the 'Arsh to pray for your forgiveness and grants you on the Day of
Resurrection forty lights: ten on your right, ten on your left, ten before
you and ten behind you.
Day 16
On the sixteenth day, the Almighty grants you sixty outfits to wear as soon
as you abandon your grave and a she-camel to ride, and He will send a cloud
to overshadow you to protect you from the heat of that Day.
Day 17
On the seventeenth day, the Almighty Allah says: 'I have forgiven them and
their parents and exempted them from having to undergo the hardships of the
Day of Resurrection.'
Day 18
On the eighteenth day, the Praised and Exalted One orders Gabriel, Michael
and Israfil as well as the angels who bear the 'Arsh and all archangels to
seek forgiveness for the nation of Muhammad till the next year, and He will
also grant you on the Day of Resurrection whatever rewards He grants to
those who participated in the Battle of Badr].
Day 19
On the nineteenth day, all angels in the heavens and on earth will have
already sought permission of their Lord to visit your graves and to bring
you every day a present and a drink [as long as you remain in the barzakh].
Day 20
So, if you complete your fast for twenty full days, the Almighty Allah sends
you seventy thousand angels to protect you from every accursed devil, and He
will have granted you for each day of your fast your rewards as though you
fasted a hundred years, and He will set a ditch between you and hell and
grant you the rewards of all those who recited the Torah, the Gospel, the
Psalms and the Holy Qur'an, and will write for you for each feather on
Gabriel the reward of a full year and will grant you the rewards of those
who glorify Him at the 'Arsh and Kursi and will marry you to a thousand
nymphs for each of the verses of the Qur'an.
Day 21
On the twenty-first day, the Almighty expands your grave a thousand
parasangs and lifts the darkness and loneliness of your graves and makes
your graves look like the graves of the martyrs and your faces like the face
of Joseph son of Jacob .
Day 22
On the twenty second day, the Almighty dispatches the angel of death as He
dispatches him to His prophets to remove your worldly worries and the
torment of the hereafter.
Day 23
On the twenty third day, you will pass on the Straight Path in the company
of the prophets, the first to follow the prophets, and the martyrs, as if
you had fed each orphan and clothed everyone who needed to be clothed.
Day 24
On the twenty-fourth day, you will not leave this life before each one of
you sees the place reserved for him or her in Paradise and is given the
rewards of a thousand sick and a thousand who go back to their creed and
will grant you the rewards of one who freed a thousand captives from the
descendants of Ishmael .
Day 25
On the twenty-fifth day, Allah will have built you under His 'Arsh a
thousand green domes on top of each one of which is a tent of light. The
Almighty and Exalted One will then say: 'O followers of Muhammad! I am your
Lord and you are My servants! Enjoy the shade of My 'Arsh in these domes and
eat and drink with enjoyment, for there will be no fear on you, nor will you
grieve. O nation of Muhammad! By My Dignity and Greatness! I shall dispatch
you to Paradise in a way which will amaze the first generations and the
last, and I shall crown each one of you with a thousand light crowns, and I
shall provide for each one of you a she camel whose reins are made of light,
and in it are a thousand gold rings, in each is an angel looking after it,
in the hand of each angel is a light rod so that he may enter Paradise
without a reckoning.'
Day 26
And on the twenty sixth day, Allah will look at you with compassion and will
forgive all your sins except those of shedding innocent blood or robbing
people's wealth, and He will grant you every day a thousand barriers against
backbiting, lying and slandering.
Day 27
On the twenty-seventh day, He will consider you as though you had aided
every believing man and woman and clothed seventy thousand naked persons and
equipped a thousand soldiers to camp in a foreign land to defend Islam, and
as if you have recited every book Allah has revealed to His prophets.
Day 28
On the twenty-eighth day, Allah will have built you in Paradise a hundred
thousand light cities and granted you in the garden of bliss a hundred
thousand silver mansions and a hundred thousand cities in each one of which
there are a thousand rooms, and granted you in the garden of greatness a
hundred thousand pulpits of musk inside each one of which there is a
thousand saffron houses in each one of which there are a thousand beds of
pearls and sapphires and on each bed a wife of the huns with large lovely
eyes.
Day 29
So if you complete your fast till the twenty ninth day, the Almighty Allah
will grant you a million quarters, inside each quarter is a white dome
underneath which is a white camphor bed on which there are a thousand
mattresses of green silk on each one of which there is a hun decorated with
seventy thousand ornaments and crowned with eighty thousand locks each one
of which is decorated with diamonds and sapphires.
Day 30
So if you finish thirty complete days of fast, the Almighty will have
granted you for each day the rewards of a thousand martyrs and a thousand
foremost believers in His Prophets, and He will have assigned for you the
rewards of fifty years of adoration, and He will have decreed a clearance
for you from hell and a passage on the Straight Path and a security against
the torment. One of the gates of Paradise is called al-Rayyan, and it shall
never be opened before the Day of Resurrection. It will be opened for those
among the nation of Muhammad who performed the fast. Ridwan, custodian of
Paradise, will call out saying: 'O followers of Muhammad! Come to the
al-Rayyan gate!' So he will let my nation enter Paradise through that gate.
Therefore, if one is not forgiven during the month of Ramadan, in which
month can he be forgiven? There is neither will nor strength except from
Allah; Allah suffices us, and what a great Helper He is!
This lengthy tradition is also recorded on pp. 183-185, Vol. 8, of Bihar
al-Anwar.
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THE MONTH OF RAMADHAN
Shaikh Abu Ja'fer Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husain ibn Babawayh al-Qummi
al-Saduq (306-381 A.H.) quotes Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim al-Ma'athi saying that
Ahmed ibn Jaylawayh al-Jurjani al- Muthakkar] quotes Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn
Bilal quoting Abu Muhammad quoting Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Kiram quoting
Ahmed ibn Abdullah quoting Sufyan ibn 'Ayeenah quoting Mu'awiya ibn Abu
Ishaq quoting Sa'eed ibn Jubayr saying,
I asked Ibn Abbas once about the reward of one who fasts during the month of
Ramadan knowing its greatness. He said: 'O Ibn Jubayr! Get ready to listen
to what your ears have never heard before, nor your heart has ever
experienced, nor your soul has ever reckoned regarding that about which you
have inquired! What you are seeking is the knowledge of the first
generations and the last!
So I left him and prepared myself to meet him again. I returned to him at
early daybreak. Having said the fajr prayers (together), I reminded him of
the tradition which I had sought, so he turned his face to me and said,
Listen carefully to what I am going to tell you. I have heard the Messenger
of Allah saying: 'Had you ever come to know about your rewards during the
month of Ramadan, you would surely have thanked the Almighty a great deal
more (than you usually do).
Day 1
When the first night is over, Allah, the Almighty and the Exalted One,
forgives the sins committed by all members of my nation, the ones committed
in secrecy and the ones committed in public, and He elevates your status two
thousand degrees and builds you fifty towns in Paradise.
Day 2
On the next day, He rewards you for every step you take during that day with
the rewards of one who adored Him for a full year and the reward of one of
His prophets, and He will reward you as though you had performed the fast
for a full year.
Day 3
On the third day, the Exalted and Dear One grants you a dome in Paradise for
each hair on your body, a dome of a white pearl on top of which are twelve
thousand light houses and at the bottom of which are twelve thousand houses
in each one of which there are one thousand beds and on each bed of which
there is a nymph (huri) with large lovely eyes, each served by one thousand
servants the head-covering of each one of them is better than this world and
everything in it.
Day 5
On the fifth day, He builds you in Paradise a million cities in each one of
which there are seventy thousand houses, inside each one of which there are
seventy thousand tables, and on each table there are seventy thousand bowls,
and in each bowl there are sixty thousand types of food each one of which is
different from the other.
Day 6
On the sixth day, He will grant you in the Abode of Peace a hundred thousand
towns in each one of which there are a hundred thousand rooms, in each room
there are a hundred thousand beds of gold the length of each is a thousand
yards, and on each bed is a hun wife with large lovely eyes whose hair has
thirty thousand locks braided with pearls and sapphires, and each lock is
carried by a hundred concubines.
Day 7
On the seventh day, the Almighty grants you in the Garden of Bliss the
rewards of forty thousand martyrs and forty thousand siddeeqs (honest ones).
Day 8
On the eighth day, Allah Almighty grants you the rewards of the good deeds
of sixty thousand worshippers and sixty thousand ascetics.
Day 9
On the ninth day, Allah, the Exalted One, gives you what is equal to what He
gives a thousand scholars and a thousand devotees and a thousand warriors
fighting for Allah in a foreign land.
Day 10
On the tenth day, He gives you the fulfillment of seventy thousand of your
worldly wishes and orders the sun, the moon, the stars, the animals, the
birds, the beasts, every rock and every rain-drop, everything wet and
everything dry, all fish in the oceans and all leaves on the trees, to pray
for your forgiveness.
Day 11
On the eleventh day, the Exalted and Mighty One grants you the rewards
whereby He rewards one who performs the pilgrimage and 'umra four times and
one who performs the pilgrimage with His prophets and the 'umra with every
siddeeq or martyr.
Day 12
On the twelfth day, He takes upon Himself to replace your sins with good
deeds, then He multiplies your good deeds many times and gives you the
rewards of each of your good deeds a million times.
Day 13
On the thirteenth day, Allah Almighty grants you what He grants the devotees
of Mecca and Medina and bestows upon you an intercession for each and every
stone and rain drop between Mecca and Medina.
Day 14
On the fourteenth day, He treats you as though you had met and followed in
the footsteps of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and Solomon [peace be
upon all of them], and as though you had worshipped the Almighty Allah in
the company of His prophets for two hundred years.
Day 15
On the fifteenth day, He fulfills ten of your worldly wishes and those of
the hereafter and grants you what He granted Job , then He orders the angels
who bear the 'Arsh to pray for your forgiveness and grants you on the Day of
Resurrection forty lights: ten on your right, ten on your left, ten before
you and ten behind you.
Day 16
On the sixteenth day, the Almighty grants you sixty outfits to wear as soon
as you abandon your grave and a she-camel to ride, and He will send a cloud
to overshadow you to protect you from the heat of that Day.
Day 17
On the seventeenth day, the Almighty Allah says: 'I have forgiven them and
their parents and exempted them from having to undergo the hardships of the
Day of Resurrection.'
Day 18
On the eighteenth day, the Praised and Exalted One orders Gabriel, Michael
and Israfil as well as the angels who bear the 'Arsh and all archangels to
seek forgiveness for the nation of Muhammad till the next year, and He will
also grant you on the Day of Resurrection whatever rewards He grants to
those who participated in the Battle of Badr].
Day 19
On the nineteenth day, all angels in the heavens and on earth will have
already sought permission of their Lord to visit your graves and to bring
you every day a present and a drink [as long as you remain in the barzakh].
Day 20
So, if you complete your fast for twenty full days, the Almighty Allah sends
you seventy thousand angels to protect you from every accursed devil, and He
will have granted you for each day of your fast your rewards as though you
fasted a hundred years, and He will set a ditch between you and hell and
grant you the rewards of all those who recited the Torah, the Gospel, the
Psalms and the Holy Qur'an, and will write for you for each feather on
Gabriel the reward of a full year and will grant you the rewards of those
who glorify Him at the 'Arsh and Kursi and will marry you to a thousand
nymphs for each of the verses of the Qur'an.
Day 21
On the twenty-first day, the Almighty expands your grave a thousand
parasangs and lifts the darkness and loneliness of your graves and makes
your graves look like the graves of the martyrs and your faces like the face
of Joseph son of Jacob .
Day 22
On the twenty second day, the Almighty dispatches the angel of death as He
dispatches him to His prophets to remove your worldly worries and the
torment of the hereafter.
Day 23
On the twenty third day, you will pass on the Straight Path in the company
of the prophets, the first to follow the prophets, and the martyrs, as if
you had fed each orphan and clothed everyone who needed to be clothed.
Day 24
On the twenty-fourth day, you will not leave this life before each one of
you sees the place reserved for him or her in Paradise and is given the
rewards of a thousand sick and a thousand who go back to their creed and
will grant you the rewards of one who freed a thousand captives from the
descendants of Ishmael .
Day 25
On the twenty-fifth day, Allah will have built you under His 'Arsh a
thousand green domes on top of each one of which is a tent of light. The
Almighty and Exalted One will then say: 'O followers of Muhammad! I am your
Lord and you are My servants! Enjoy the shade of My 'Arsh in these domes and
eat and drink with enjoyment, for there will be no fear on you, nor will you
grieve. O nation of Muhammad! By My Dignity and Greatness! I shall dispatch
you to Paradise in a way which will amaze the first generations and the
last, and I shall crown each one of you with a thousand light crowns, and I
shall provide for each one of you a she camel whose reins are made of light,
and in it are a thousand gold rings, in each is an angel looking after it,
in the hand of each angel is a light rod so that he may enter Paradise
without a reckoning.'
Day 26
And on the twenty sixth day, Allah will look at you with compassion and will
forgive all your sins except those of shedding innocent blood or robbing
people's wealth, and He will grant you every day a thousand barriers against
backbiting, lying and slandering.
Day 27
On the twenty-seventh day, He will consider you as though you had aided
every believing man and woman and clothed seventy thousand naked persons and
equipped a thousand soldiers to camp in a foreign land to defend Islam, and
as if you have recited every book Allah has revealed to His prophets.
Day 28
On the twenty-eighth day, Allah will have built you in Paradise a hundred
thousand light cities and granted you in the garden of bliss a hundred
thousand silver mansions and a hundred thousand cities in each one of which
there are a thousand rooms, and granted you in the garden of greatness a
hundred thousand pulpits of musk inside each one of which there is a
thousand saffron houses in each one of which there are a thousand beds of
pearls and sapphires and on each bed a wife of the huns with large lovely
eyes.
Day 29
So if you complete your fast till the twenty ninth day, the Almighty Allah
will grant you a million quarters, inside each quarter is a white dome
underneath which is a white camphor bed on which there are a thousand
mattresses of green silk on each one of which there is a hun decorated with
seventy thousand ornaments and crowned with eighty thousand locks each one
of which is decorated with diamonds and sapphires.
Day 30
So if you finish thirty complete days of fast, the Almighty will have
granted you for each day the rewards of a thousand martyrs and a thousand
foremost believers in His Prophets, and He will have assigned for you the
rewards of fifty years of adoration, and He will have decreed a clearance
for you from hell and a passage on the Straight Path and a security against
the torment. One of the gates of Paradise is called al-Rayyan, and it shall
never be opened before the Day of Resurrection. It will be opened for those
among the nation of Muhammad who performed the fast. Ridwan, custodian of
Paradise, will call out saying: 'O followers of Muhammad! Come to the
al-Rayyan gate!' So he will let my nation enter Paradise through that gate.
Therefore, if one is not forgiven during the month of Ramadan, in which
month can he be forgiven? There is neither will nor strength except from
Allah; Allah suffices us, and what a great Helper He is!
This lengthy tradition is also recorded on pp. 183-185, Vol. 8, of Bihar
al-Anwar.
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