SHAYKH IBRAHIM NIASSE & A DREAM OF IMAM ALI (AS)
Shaykh-al-Islam Ibrahim Niasse (RA) visiting the blessed Tomb of Imam Ali (AS) in al-Najaf al-Ashraf during his official visit to Iraq in the 1960s
Shaykh-al-Islam Ibrahim Niasse (RA) would often see Imam Ali (AS) in dreams & visions.
In his poem نفحات الملك الغني he mentions one such dream in the following couplets:
في هَذِهِ اللَّيْلَةِ قَدْ أَتَانِي
نَجْلُ أَبِي طَالِبِ ذُو الإحْسَانِ
In
this night, I was visited by…
The
son of Abu-Talib (i.e. Ali), the Generous one!
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أَوَّلْتُ ذَا الْعِلْمَ والسَّيْفَ فَذَا
بَابُ الْمَدِينَةِ فَرَاعِ الْمَأْخَذَاً
So
I interpreted it as (my attaining of) Knowledge & the Sword (authority)!
For
he (Imam Ali) is the Door to the City (of Knowledge). So note this!
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قَدْ سُرَّ بَي حِينَ رَأَيْتُهُ و قَدْ
سُرِرْتُ أَيْضًا إِنَّهُ بَابُ الْمَدَدْ
And
he (Ali) was very happy to see me, and I was happy to see him also!
As
he is the Door of Madad (Spiritual Nourishment & Divine Assistance)!
*
نَصْرُ مِنَ اللهِ وَ فَتْحٌ يَقْرُبُ
فِيهِ هُوَ تَارِيخُ مَنْ يُرْقَبُ
"Victory
from Allah & an Opening, very soon"
That’s
the (sentence derived from the) date of this vision, if you notice!
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أخْرَجَ ذَا التَّاريخ لِي عَلِي
وَ هُوَ لَعَمْرِي كَاسْمِهِ عَلِي
The
above “Date-Sentence” was derived for me by Ali (Cisse)…
And by my life, he is lofty in rank like his name Ali (which means Lofty)!
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