This lecture explains the spiritual mechanics of how individuals encounter Imam Mahdi through their deeds and dreams. It describes how human actions are presented to the Imam twice a week and how righteous deeds are witnessed and stamped by him. The speaker emphasizes that while everyone subconsciously connects with the Imam through their actions, believers should strive to perform good deeds sincerely since the Imam is spiritually witnessing them.
People ask how can we meet with Imam Mahdi, and it's very important to, it is about time to understand these things. Now I'm going to speak a little bit about a story that everyone knows, but I'm going to show you what exactly happened, whatever we call behind the curtains, what exactly what's the physics of that, of meeting with Imam Mahdi. We know the story, that a person, it's like very popular story, but I want to show
you a different perspective and how exactly that happened for you to know if we know Imam Mahdi or not, because many people they keep asking you, did you meet Imam Mahdi? Did you meet? Well, every one of you here, they met Imam Mahdi, but the problem is remembering that. I'll show you how. There's a person who, a person who kept asking Allah to let him meet, no, a person, I mean like a different person, so he can give him, for
example, a to-do, to do many good things, many good deeds for him to be able to meet Imam Mahdi. And after a few period of time, he kept asking many people. At the very end, he found a good Sheikh, and then he visited that Sheikh. He said, can you please give me something for me to be able to meet Imam Mahdi? And this person, this Sheikh, he said, okay, I will give you that wazifah. And then after a few, after maybe 40 days or so on, maybe
I don't know how many thousand times you have to say few things, for example, Salawat, or doing Tasbih, or do very, like very big number, numbers, like maybe 10,000, 15,000 of each one. So that guy spent 40 days or maybe 40 weeks, he spent doing wazifah to meet Imam Mahdi. And then in his dream, someone came to that guy, he said to the Sayyid, he said, if you want to meet Imam Mahdi today, you go to that place. You cannot proceed, you cannot
go inside, but you see, you will be able to see Imam Mahdi, and you will be able to see some scene there that is going to happen. He said, okay, I accept. So that person, he went to the place, whatever place that he dreamed about. He stood there, and then he found the Sheikh next to him. You know that Sheikh, he gave him the wazifah. He said, let's sit down here together, and we'll see what's going to happen. So what happened there? The guy, he had a
store. There's a guy who had a store, and inside the store, he used to sell locks, like regular locks. It's maybe years ago before they used to open special, even here United States, they have locksmith or something like that, so he used to sell locks. So an old woman came to that guy, to the guy who sells locks, and then she had a lock with her hand, and she said, oh my son, can you buy this lock from me? I'm a poor woman,
I have kids, I need to raise, and I really need 5 dinars today. And that person, he looked at the, at the lock, and he said, if she wants to, if I want to sell this one, you, someone can buy it, I mean for eight, for eight dinars. And now this woman, she really needs the money, he's talking to himself, she really needs the money, I'll be able to give her maybe two dinars and she'll be fine with it, but I won't give her her,
whatever she needs the money to. It's important to give her 5 dinars. So at the very end, that guy, he decided this. He said to that woman, he said, I will give you not just 5 dinars, I'll give you 8 dinars. But the woman refused. She said, no, I need just 5 dinars because I know that you, so you can be, you'll be able to sell it for eight. So that guy, he was basically giving her more what she deserved, more money, what
she, why? Why? Because he want to help her, he want to help her, he want to be good to her. At the same time, there was a guy sitting with, with, with the person who was selling that lock, and obviously that guy who was Imam Mahdi, he was witnessing whatever happened. Why? Because that person, he was helping people without saying I'm helping you. You know, when someone comes and asks you $100, for $100 he'll you, you will make him feel so bad
that he's taking the $100 from you, right? You won't give it in a nice way, you won't give him more, you will make him, give him like make him feel that when you give him this $100, he will feel like he's taking your blood. Yeah, you make him feel bad and and all these things. So many people read the story like this, and this is exactly what happened. That guy, he saw Imam Mahdi witnessing whatever happened between the
woman and the locksmith guy. They saw it, and many people, they start wishing this happens for them to see Imam Mahdi and to start changing themselves from inside. But what exactly happened from the story? And this is what I'm mentioning this one from the first, for the first time. What exactly happened here? Allah, He always, in what we call it, we have every Monday and always Allah, He will send Or whatever we do, our deeds to who, to
Imam, but in what form? Who knows how, how all that goes there to Imam, by emails? Text message? Huh, yeah. This is this is what never mentioned before except from some of from narrations. In this form, every one of us, you know, you remember I mean, when you sleep, do you see yourself right? This self is existing in the anti-world, anti- matter. Is you reversed you in a different place? That that person, he will take all
the deeds you did for those two or three days, and he will take him there. He will send in a long line next to the big tent where Imam Mahdi is inside that tent, and then in in that place, there will be a an people who are serving Imam Mahdi over there. And who knows who are those people? No, no, 300, no. Those people are Abrar. We mentioned them before, Abrar, who who are they? Exactly a type of people that lived with us or in different places, who
served Ahl al-Bayt very well, and then after they were martyred or died, Allah, Allah gives him the permission to serve Ahl al-Bayt after even, for example, I'll give an example like Salman, Salman al-Muhammadi or Abu Dharr, or Ammar, those people when they died immediately Allah took them as what, as okay, still serving even after their death. You see, this is what we are looking for, one of each one of us. So they will, Qawwamun will stand there next to
the tent of Imam Mahdi, and every person he will carry whatever deeds he did, and then he will present it to that person, to the Qawwam standing there. They will take it and will take it to Imam to see it, and then he will bring it back to you. So if you did very good deeds, very good deeds, if you did, for example, you tried your best to change, and Imam Mahdi will see this. Every single week he will see you twice, and for sure you don't go inside
the tent except if he permits you to do so, if he will see that you are changing toward the better. Why? Because he will propose things to you. He will say something to you. Many times you wake up in the morning, you have something new inside your head, something new changing inside you. For example, before you didn't pray, you didn't. But when you start asking yourself, pushing yourself, you want to do it, and then suddenly it starts
happening. Why? Because they have the permission of the permission of how did you have this permission? From visiting that place, from visiting, if Imam Mahdi looks at you and he permits you to go inside to meet him, this is where you met him. This is where you met him. When Imam Mahdi, after his reappearance, people will start seeing him, every one of you guys, you will say, oh, I know him, I've seen him before, but I don't know from where. Why
do you think? Because you met him before. Many people they ask this question. They say, okay, how did we see him and we didn't know him? So they'll start making stories, say, might, while you're chopping a cucumber, he'll pass by you, Assalamu Alaikum, and then he'll go. Or while whatever you're doing, you had flat tire, Imam came, changed it for you, and he left. This starts giving this this this stories might happen, I'm
not sure, my this might be real, but the reality is every week, every week, we visit that place, but we don't remember it. Why? Because it's not important for you to remember now. He always wants you to seek to see that, to meet Imam Mahdi in a form of here. This is the most important part, because when Imam Mahdi said, you do good deeds, I will visit you myself, right? How we visit you? How he visit you himself? He visits you here with
your conscious on, when you're when you're in conscious, when you will be able to remember it. This is the most important part. But I'll give you what happened to that person when he was in the locksmith. That person who did the Aard, it was seeing something between the reality, the conscious universe, the matter universe, and something happening between whatever happened in Monday or Thursday. How? When you give the report to Imam Mahdi, right? He will take
it. He will take this, he will open it, he will see what good deed you did, that he will be witnessing this good deed. And that person when he was looking at the at the store, he didn't Imam Mahdi wasn't really physically there. He was looking at his work while he was while he was doing it. Basically, this story he wants it, it has a reflection on it. It doesn't have a reflection that you have to go now open a locksmith store and wait for an old
lady to come to sell your lock so you'll meet Imam Mahdi. He wasn't mentioned like this for you to do it, no, he meant he's Basically telling you any good deed you make I'll be witnessing it, I'll be witnessing that, so when Imam Mahdi look at this good deed he open it, he start seeing that, he will be witnessing that life. You know when we study the third dimension and the fourth dimension, we understand a person who control the fourth
dimension will be able to do that, so it deals with like having the consciousness being like different places of time at same, yes. So when, so how for example 7 billion persons standing in that line in one night, and he read all their because he's controlling the fourth dimension, there's no time there, the time is like connected to each other, it's like a whole timeline it's connected to each other, and it's immediately inside his brain, immediately
goes all this science, and then when there's a good deed there, he witnessed that. Why? Because if Allah, He want to accept your deed, it has to be what? It has to be stamped by Imam Mahdi, for example. Imam, when he comes, when he tell you alaykum, it's not like he is saying alayum, he's representing Allah to say alaykum for you, an ambassador, like for example now if you go to a country, you meet an ambassador, if ambassador say, I'm going
to help you, what does it mean? He's talking, he's going to help you with his family or he's talking about his country. So when, when Imam representing Allah, he's telling you, I'm witnessing that, I'm accepting this deed, this is mean Allah, He want him to accept that deed, right? So when this person, he was given the money for that lady, he was accepting that deed, so he was witnessing whatever he did with her, and that person
was witnessing what happened between each other. So every one of you, when you do a good deed, make sure to make it the best. Why? Because there's someone who's witnessing this deed and he is representing Allah and accepting that good deed. You got it now? So did you meet Imam Mahdi in this form? Everyone met him, but let's compete to meet him in real life, in a conscious life, why? Because he will come to you now, that, that will be a big difference, okay?
Any question? Just to go back, so like it deals with like the same kind of concept of like, you know, we're watching this very, yes, exactly the same concept. Now we are, we're watching whatever happening now, this is how Allah is showing us whatever we did, we have a big lecture about that, I hope you watch it so you understand more this concept. Yeah, so that guy did a good deed, in, he did the good deed physically, Imam
Mahdi was not there with him, but that guy who was watching, he saw Imam Mahdi doing, he was saw Imam Mahdi witnessing whatever this guy doing with this lady. So basically, Imam Mahdi was there after he did it, why? Because he was reading his, his, so Imam Mahdi will be in any, every place that a person do a good deed that Allah want accepted it. So basically the moral of the story is for that guy who seen the scene, yeah, that
anytime he's doing a good deed, he's watching. Yeah, no, the moral story for that guy is you don't have to do many for you to meet Imam Mahdi, you don't have to do many, but moral story for someone who want to watch behind the curtain what happened is Imam Mahdi is watching every good deed you're making, and, and do it your best because he's going to be there when he read the, okay. lines
Lecture presented by servant Mohamed Moussa A man of knowledge was longing for meeting with Hazrat Baqiyyat Allah Imam Mahdi (aj), and he suffered agonies of not being granted the chance and for a long time he underwent severe austerity and pursued spiritual seeking. It is well-known among the tullab (Islamic seminary students) of Hawza in Najaf-i Ashraf and the scholars of the holy shrine of Imam Ali Úáíå ÇáÓáÇã that every one who finds the honor to go the Masjid-i Sahla to perform the evening and night prayers every Tuesday uninterruptedly for forty nights, they will be graced with meeting the Imam al-'Asr (aj) For a while, he struggled to this end but to no effect. Then he resorted to the occult sciences and numerical symbolism and started self-discipline and other ascetic and rigorous practices in seclusion, anxiously seeking to meet the Hidden Imam (aj) but all in vain. However, as a consequence of his nightly vigilance and lamenting and wailing at dawns, he had developed some kind of insight and intuition, and occasionally some illuminating flash would be graced on him. He would fall in ecstasy and rapture, often having certain visions and hearing some subtleties. In one of these mystical states, he was told: "Your seeing and being granted an audience with Imam al-'Asr (aj) will not be possible, unless you make a trip to such and such a city. Quite difficult as it sounded at first, but for that sacred purpose, it appeared to be so convenient. Imam al- 'Asr (aj) in the Blacksmiths' Bazaar After several days the above-mentioned man arrived in that city and yet even there he carried on his self-discipline and ascetic practices in seclusion that intended to last forty days long. On the thirty seventh day, he was told: "Right now Hazrat Baqiyyat Allah, Imam al-'Asr (aj) is in the blacksmiths' bazaar, in a shop belonging to an old locksmith; so, be quick to go now and seek his audience. He stood up and, as he had already seen in his ecstatic vision, rushed the way down to the old man's shop where he saw the Holy Imam (aj) sitting there and talking amiably with the locksmith. When he greeted, the holy Imam responded and beckoned to keep silent, (implying) watching for a wonderful scene. The Equity of the Old Locksmith At this moment I saw a bent, fragile, old woman with a walking stick who showed us a lock with her shaking hand and said: "Will you, for God's sake, buy this lock from me for "three shahis" [10] I need three shahis? The old locksmith took a look at the lock and found it intact, and then said: "My sister! This lock costs "Two abbasis" [11] because its key will cost no more than "ten dinars" [12]; so if you give me ten dinars, I will make a key to this lock and then it will cost ten shahis." The old woman answered: "No, I do not need that, I only need the money; if you buy this lock from me for three shahis, I will pray for you." The old man said with utmost naivety: "My sister! You are a Muslim, and I too claim to be a Muslim. So why should I buy a Muslim's property for a low price and deny someone's right? This lock already costs eight shahis; if I want to benefit from it, I'll buy it for seven shahis, for it is unfair to make more that a shahi profit in a deal of only two abbasis. If you are sure you want to sell it, I'll buy it for seven shahis, and I repeat again, the real price is two abbasis. Since I am a businessman I buy it for one shahi less. The old woman perhaps would not believe what the man said. She was upset and complained that nobody had been willing to buy that price. She said she begged them to buy it for three shahis, because ten dinars would not have sufficed her. The old man paid seven shahis to the old woman and purchased it from her. I will Visit him! When the woman turned back to leave, the Imam (aj) said to me: "My Dear! Did you watch the wonderful scene? You do likewise too, and become like that, then I will come to see you. There is no need for ascetic seclusion and resorting to Jafr (numerical symbolism). Self-discipline and various travels will not be required; instead show good action and be a Muslim so that I can interact with you. Of all people of this city, I picked out this old man, since this man is religious and knows God. And you observed the trial he went through: This old woman requested all in the bazaar, to fulfill her need and since they found her desperate and needy, they were all seeking to buy (her lock) cheap; and nobody bought it even for three shahis. This old man, however, bought it for its real price, i. e., seven shahis. Thus, every week I pay a visit to him and show kindness and amiability to him.