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)!

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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)!

Fully Transcribed and Translated by 

Imām Fakhruddin Owaisi (Cape Town, South Africa)