The Sacred month
of Ramadan is a filed of completion and examination of worship and
bondage. A field which is ended by passing feast of Fitr, so that the
sincere creatures of God might gain grants and awards for their acts.
The faithful man who has been on fast, fulfills his acts for month
Ramadan and submits his heart, soul, self, appearance, inside, and all
parts of his body to the innocent Imams (peace be upon them) and
requests them to ask God for his success in the future Ramadan and
throughout his life.
Greatness of the
feast is to the same extent of greatness of the whole times and states
in month: Ramadan, because,
this day is the time when the
result of all acts emerge and the presents are gifted.
One of the
special acts of the feast Fitr is being sorrowful for absence of Imam
Asr (May God Hasten His Coming) and to pray for his coming and his
being healthy and reading Nodbeh prayers. A faithful man who considers
Imam Zaman, his Imam, the one who is the message of God, Imam of the
time, sultan of the nations, total justice of God, sun of the
darkness, complete moon, the great sing of God, great Caliph of God,
the whole people might be sacrificed for him- and in the time of
absence of his Imam, arrogation of his sovereignty by the enemies,
hardness of Shiite during monarchy of the evildoers, murder,
destruction of reputation and prestige, bad status and abjection are
seen, shall be sorrowful for absence of his Imam and shall pray for
his coming.
Thinking about God in such a day is a property of the pious men.
The faithful man shall be hopeful to God and to His grants and high
presents. To the same extent he is hopeful to ‘God, he shall request
for kindness and observation of certainty in what God has promised, so
that he might receive more gifts in the feast, to make the clouds of
generosity rain to show the sacredness of this day.
No creature of
God is not feared of God’s fury and does not expect His wrath, except
one who is not hopeful to God and has not re-enforced being hopeful to
His graces. One who feels God might not be kind to him. A person might
be deprived of God’s kindness for his not being hopeful to God’s
graces.
Thus, wisdom and
politeness and faith make it necessary that the creature be hopeful
for removal of his sins, being exempted, his profiting from God’s
forgiveness and his reaching the wishes and goals and his being
hopeful shall be more powerful than his fearing from punishment, even
if he is not a pious creature of God, but he might enter them. He
should think about God like the friends of God, even if his face is
blackened by sins.
Expansion of
God’s graces in such times is not against the divine wisdom. Thus, no
obstacle exists in the way of asking God’s forgiveness and generosity.
In the end, it is
worth-mentioning that praying in the feast is for attraction of His
grace and kindness, profiting from his generosity. The public permit
necessitates that the rage and anger are removed and flags of God’s
graces are moved and fear and dread is contradictory to these; though
the creature has committed the sins of all the people in the world.
Source:
Almoraghebat by Mirza Javad Agha Malaki Tabrizi