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The Holy Mosque of Jamkaran
The holy mosque of Jamkaran was
constructed as per the orders of Hadrat Hojjat ibn al-Hasan Imam Mahdi (A.S.)
in the year 393 A.H./1002 A.D. It is related that in the midnight of the
Tuesday night dated 17 Ramadan 393 A.H., Hasan bin Muslah Jamkarani in a dream
met Hadrat Hojjat ibn al-Hasan Imam Mahdi (A.S.) and His Holiness (A.S.) issued
certain orders that Hasan bin Muslah Jamkarani should meet Hasan Muslim and
deliver him His Holiness' message that from now onwards Hasan Muslim should not
cultivate his land ( the location of the holy mosque) because Allah (SWT) has
selected this land over other lands. His Holiness (A.S.) also instructed Hasan
bin Muslah Jamkarani to sacrifice a lamb with special identification marks present
in the herd of Jafar Kashani and said that any ill person who eats this meat
will be healed. His Holiness (A.S.) then demarcated the boundaries of the holy
mosque with nails and chains and gave certain directions to Hasan bin Muslah
Jamkarani. When he got up from the sleep
he saw all those signs of the mosque in the place fixed by the Holy Imam (A.S.)
and he acted according to the instructions of the Holy Imam (A.S.).
Special Salat to be performed in the Jamkaran Mosque.
Hadrat Imam Mahdi (A.S.) has said about
this mosque that if anybody performs two rakah salat (special salat to be
performed in this mosque) in this mosque
is like a person who had performed salat near Kabah.
The manner of performing the Salat in
the mosque is that first he should perform the two rakah salat for sending
salutations on this mosque in which after the Surah of al-Hamd, theSurah al-Tawhid has to be recited seven
times. Then the invocation in the ruku and sajdah of the salat has to be
repeated seven times.
After performing this two rakah salat
another two rakah salat with the niyyat (intention) of the salat of Sahab
uz-Zaman (A.S.) has to be performed. In both the rakahs while reciting the
Surah al-Hamd, the verse "Iyyaka Na'budu wa Iyyaka Nasta'een "has to be repeated for one hundred times and
after finishing the recitation of Surah al-Hamd, the Surah al-Tawhid has to be
recited only once. In both the rakahs the invocations of the ruku and sajdah
has to be repeated seven times. After finishing the two rakah salat the Tasbih
of Hadrat Fatima Zahra (A.S.) has to be recited and then one should perform the
sajdah and recite the "Salawat" one hundred times.
In this holy mosque innumerable needy
persons regularly secure their wishes with the grace of Hadrat Imam Mahdi
(A.S.).
This holy mosque has been expanded and
renovated on a grand scale after the victory of the Islamic revolution and at
present it is considered as one of the largest mosque in Iran. Every year
millions of lovers of the Holy Family of Prophet of Islam (S.A.W.) pay a visit
to this mosque and pray for the reappearance and advent of Imam Mahdi (A.S.)
"the Savior and Redeemer of Mankind". This holy mosque is situated on
the slopes of Do Baradaran mountain and at the beginning of Qum-Kashan highway.
In the year 2000, the Supreme Leader of
the Islamic revolution Hadrat Ayatullah al-Uzma Sayyid Ali Khamenei appointed a
special custodian to administer the affairs of the holy mosque. Thus, at
present the affairs of the holy mosque are administered under special
supervision of the Supreme Leader.
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