MOAJZA

22 RAJAB IMAM JA’FAR SADIQ A.S

BISMILLAH HIR REHMAN NIR RAHEEM

A very poor woodcutter used to live in a city and cut woods every day in a
jungle and sell tree-branches to earn a living for his family. Upon finding it
difficult to make both

ends meet, one day he decided to go abroad to earn better wages. They
prayed to God for blessings and have mercy on them.

He left in the search of work and a better job, but unfortunately his fate was
not in his favour. He intended to return home but time slowly slipped away
and he could not save enough from the little savings he managed to secure
from a few odd jobs. He remained in uncertainty for twelve years thinking of
gathering money but during all that time he could neither send any money to
his family nor could go back to see them.

On the other hand, his wife initially waited for few days with the hope that
her husband will soon start supporting them. However, when she did not
hear from him for a long time and in order to support her starving family,
she found herself a job, as a cleaner in prime minister’s palace to bring home
some food for survival

One day, she saw a dream that she was cleaning prime minister’s palace,
when all of a sudden the Master of both worlds Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq sws came
into the courtyard together with His companions and enquired from His
companions: ‘Do you know which date is today and which month is it?’
They replied, ‘ya Mola asws tonight is 22nd Rajab-ul-mujarab. Imamasws replied
from his Divine tongue that if someone is engulfed into troubles, no matter
how severe or bad they are, he/she should prepare ‘pooriyan’ of 1,1/4 kg of
flour and give a nazar on the morning of 22nd Rajab and pray Allahazwj and
ask for Our sake. Allahazwj will, for sure, listen to their requests and relieve
them from their hardships. When the woodcutter’s wife woke up, she
decided to perform this nazar. And on the morning of 22nd Rajab after
praying Fajar, she did the nazar exactly in the way as prescribed by Imam sws
in her dream. Salawat!

Now listen to the situation of woodcutter himself: When his wife was
offering niaz on the morning of 22 nd Rajab, her husband was cutting woods
in a jungle after climbing on a tree when all of a sudden his axe fell out of
his hand on the ground below. When he pulled it out of the soft ground, he
felt there was something buried there, like a hidden treasure. On digging the
ground, he found an enormous treasure, hidden in a box. At this instance, he
covered it again and went back. He then returned to the place and started
extracting jewels and gold from the box little by little. Upon recovering all
of it, he started to prepare for his journey back home, now with plenty of
wealth and self-esteem.

His family welcomed him and he built a beautiful house, near the little old
cottage and started living happily with his family. One day his wife told him
about the mojiza and how she offered the nazar. When she told him about
the date and timing, they were exactly the same date and timing when he got
that treasure. Salawat!

He fully believed in it and became a devout momin. One day prime

minister’s wife was standing on top of her palace and enjoying sunshine and
fresh air when she noticed a very attractive and newly built house in the
proximity of their grand palace. She asked her slave girls about the owner of
that house. They told her that the house belongs to the family of the lady
who used to clean the palace. On hearing this, she called her (woodcutter’s
wife) and quizzed the legitimacy of her newly acquired wealth. Woodcutter’s
wife told her saga in detail, but the prime minister’s wife did not believe her
and thought that her husband must have stolen or robbed the described
treasures.

While the prime minister’s wife had this suspicion, her husband met his bad
fate in the court of the king. One of the officials in the king’s palace was
against the prime minister. Upon finding a suitable time, he made fraudulent
allegations against him to the King. The ruler immediately asked him to
present before him all the accounts. The prime minister could not balance
the accounts in that short notice and was humiliated and suspended from his
position.

The king ordered to confiscate all of prime minister’s property and asked
them to leave their palace and go away form his kingdom. Both the husband
and wife left their house and were walking on foot, which they were not
used to, and felt exhausted with hunger and thirst. Soon they found a field
full of melons in front of them. The prime minister took 2 dirham from his
wife which were left in her pocket, by chance, and bought a melon and
wrapped it in a cloth, to eat it later under a tree shade across the farm.

By chance the day when the prime minister got into trouble, the prince also
went hunting but did not manage to return home before the fall of the night.
The King was worried and distressed so he consulted all his ministers and
discussed the matter with them. The same minister who was always
backbiting about the prime minister said, ‘I think the prince has been taken
away and killed by the grieved prime minister’. On hearing this king ordered
the prime minister to be arrested. The police found him near the melon field
and arrested the prime minister and his wife. They had not eaten the melon
by that time and it was still wrapped up in the cloth at the time of their
arrest.

They were brought in front of the king who noticed blood seeping out from
the cloth in which the melon was wrapped. On removing the cloth prince’s
deadhead was discovered. The king started crying and ordered to put them in
jail for the night and behead both of them early in the morning. The prime
minister and his wife were sent to the royal jail. In the jail the Prime
Minister asked his wife ‘I cannot understand why are we in so much trouble?
What kind of sin have we committed for which we are getting punished?’.
His wife told him about the woodcutter’s story, word by word, and said that
I did not believe in his spiritual ‘nazar’ and about Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq sws
instructions in her dream.
Upon hearing this, the prime minister told his wife that there can be no sin
graver than doubting Imam Jafar-e-Sadiqasws ‘s Divine powers and means of
communications to help and assist his followers in desperation. They then
decided to repent and ask for forgiveness as Mola asws’s miracles are always
true and just. Therefore, they cried all night and asked for absolution and
pledged to offer the Niaz if released from the prison without charge. Allah azwj
accepted their apologies and early in the morning, the prince came back from
hunting and greeted his father, the king. Salawat!

On the prince’s return the king asked him,’ O my beloved son where have
you been for so long?’

He replied that he decided to stay over night in one of their royal gardens
due to unsuccessful haunting endeavour. The king asked him to go and take
some rest and then asked for the prime minister and his wife, who were
about to be hanged. The king also asked for the cloth in which he had seen
the head of his son. This time when he opened it, he saw a melon there
instead. He was surprised and asked the prime minister about the whole
matter. The prime minister told him the whole event as it was. On listening
to the entire story he sent for the woodcutter and his wife and asked them
about the events described by the prime minister. They told the king, what
they

had gone through which was in line with what the prime ministry had told
him earlier. Upon gathering this information the king believed in it whole-
heartedly and became a devout Momin and reinstated the prime minister to
his former position and expelled the fellow who lied about him. Salawat!