Grand Ayatollah Shirazi remarks on various issues during daily scholarly session
The daily scholarly meeting of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Sadiq al-Hosseini al-Shirazi was held on Thursday and Friday 20th and 21st of Rajab. In these sessions, like the previous meetings, the Marja answered the questions of the attendees about various jurisprudence issues.
Grand Ayatollah Shirazi discussed the virtue of doing ‘Tasbihat Fatima al-Zahra’, peace be upon her, after the prayer, and said: Based on some hadiths, ‘Tasbihat Fatima al-Zahra’, peace be upon her, absolutely takes priority over all other ‘ta’qibat’ of Prayer, even before a person leaves the state of prayer, and, for example, change their sitting position or put their legs in a different position.
Regarding the virtue of other ‘ta’qibat’ and dhikrs, his Eminence said: A person can attend to them at discretion, unless there is indication that suggests the precedence of one over others.
Regarding the virtue of being in a state of ablution during Ziyarah, the Marja said: It is not obligatory to be in a state of ablution for Ziyarah, but it is recommended and it will increase the reward of Ziyarah.
Grand Ayatollah Shirazi also discussed the ruling of employing the literary device ‘language of the heart’ for the Infallibles (peace be upon them) in poems and lamentations, and said: If the poems and lamentations attributed to the Infallibles (peace be upon them) employ the ‘language of the heart’ — as the late Sheikh Abd ul-Zahra Ka’abi would make a point of doing by emphasizing that the poems he recited used this device, for example, to talk about Lady Zainab or Hazrat Abbas, peace be upon them, and their sentiments, and do not represent what they had actually said, then, there is no problem in using this literary device for this purpose. Such use of this literary device only indicates that those noble personalities could have made such expressions or statements under their circumstances.
His Eminence went on to say: Some noble hadiths from Pure Imams, peace be upon them, contains the phrase, [Qala be-Yadihi], that is, he said with his hand, or similar expressions, such as: he said with his hand to his chest, or he said with his legs this and that, or he said such with his head, which are mentioned in a number of hadiths. In the same way some people use body parts to show and explain some concepts or to express the size or number and the like, some hadiths have employed these expressions for a similar purpose.
