In the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful

Prior to the birth day of the Last Redeemer of the world the promised Mahdi(a.j), on the night of 14th of Sha’ban, the lovers of Imam Mahdi (a.j) started their 3 night celebration ceremonies and made it similar the AlQadr nights.

The Imam Hussein (a.s) Mosque, Dubai as the place of the Muslims to demonstrate their sincerity to Ahl-ul-Bait (a.s), by decorating and lightings was inviting happy Shia’ Muslims to be involved in honoring ceremonies.

The lovers of the Imam Mahdi (a.j) were serving others by plenty and variety of confectioneries and sweets and nuts and making amazing and unbelievable atmosphere in Mosque’s yard.

After Isha prayer, Hojat-ul-Islam Madani supreme leader’s representative, while he was controlling his happiness hardly, pointed the audiences and said “we should congratulate to ourselves because we have been involved the great mercies”. He described this greatness and compared those days with Qadr nights and advised to be awake those nights and pray during the whole night. He mentioned that had no plan for speech, just listed the prayers and instructions advised to be done for those days and asked them to not forget the Ziarat-seyed-ul-shohada (a.s). Then he explained a brief of one of the sections of that and advised everybody to recite “ As’salam-o-Alayk-Ya Aba abdellah, As’salam-o- Alayk va rahmatollah va barakato”. Then he himself and all the attendances while tearing of happiness, were recited the a.m. section of Ziarat.
Panegyrizing and choir play on birth day night:
The programs on the night of 15th of Sha’ban started by reciting Dua-al-Faraj and ahl-ul-Bait panegyrist, Mr. Khod’dami brought the happiness to face of audiences by his poems related to the occasion. The audience also accompanied him and made the space of the Mosque full of essence and happiness.
The next program was the speech of preacher Hojat-ul-Islam Rastgoo. He preferred to stand by the white board rather than sitting over the pulpit and he performed his speech on Importance and similarity of Imam Mahdi (a.j) compare to past prophets. He made his speech as a live contest to present the gifts to volunteers that answering the questions. Some of the attendances succeed to get the gifts. He also set forth another contest for ladies and named the gifts and asked them to send their answers to Mosque’s office and the draw will be on third night of celebration.
Reciting dua-al-Komeil on 15th of Sha’ban night and second night of celebration in Imam Hussein (a.s) Mosque
The virtuous believers first listened to the speech and served dinner and in continue of the programs, the suggested dua-al-Komeil recited. Need to note that the recite of Dua-al-Komeil is recommended to be recited in Mid of Sha’ban’s night.
Friday night and the 3rd celebrating night
Following the celebration ceremonies of Mid of Sha’ban, on Friday night , the last night celebration started by panegyrists’ of Mr. Khod’dami and followed by speech of Hojat-ul-Islam Rastgoo. After his speech, he performed the draw for ladies participants in the contest and six ladies ____selected to be gifted and also one of the ladies who has given the best answer to the question, received a special gift as well. The second consent also performed and some volunteers with correct answer got their gifts.
Closing program of three nights celebration was gifting all of the attending ladies whom ____having names of Narjes or Fatima. So,after it announced, the ladies with names of Narjes and Fatima, reffered to Mosque’s office and get their gifts. All three nights of celebration ended by reciting Dua-al-Komeil and Dua-Al-Faraj. Also after finishing the ceremonies the dinner was serving at the end.
We pray to be involved in Imam Mahdi (a.j)‘s advent and next celebration be by his attendance.

 

Imam Hussein (a.s) Mosque – Dubai

15th Sha’ban 1433

Photos of the Celebration