Two years back it was the night of 5th Muharram. Husain asked me if I would like to come at the gathering. I agreed.
I thought to myself maybe it must be a huge and famous gathering where Husain goes once to recite lamentations.
When we reached the place, they told us that it has not started yet. Husain said it's not a problem, we will wait.
We were waiting in the car for half and hour. Husain was practicing the poetries and lamentations......

When we entered the gathering, I was dumb. I saw that we are only four people. One of them was busy reciting Quran... After the recitation of Quran, Husain started reciting Ziyarat of Ashura and the lamentations. His eyes were closed and he kept on reciting. As if he cared nothing else.

While returning I asked him if he knew that there would be so less people over here.
He replied : Yes. I have promised them to recite the lamentations every year for one night. Sometimes in such a small gathering, which is not even famous, a person finds something which is not found even in larger gatherings.

#defendersoftheholyshrine
#martyrs_of_syria

One night, I had to study at midnight, so I went to the main room. I saw that Mahmood Reza was already there. But he was not studying. Infact he was doing his prayers.

He was not more than 12-13 years at that time. I had no option but to study inside my room.

The next time I saw the same thing and hence could not study in the main room.
This happened continously for some nights. He would wake up at midnight and do his prayers in the main room.

Every night, his prayers used to become longer than the previous night. One night he was doing his prayers for about 2 hours.

One day I said to him, "doing midnight prayers is not obligatory on you. You are losing your sleep and then next day you feel sleepy in the school. Above all this you have still not reached the age for the obligatory acts. The daily prayers are not obligatory on you, midnight prayers comes after that."

While I spoke to him, I came to know that he had been having conversation with an Islamic student who spoke to him about the benefits of midnight prayers. And his words had so much impact on Mahmood Reza that he prayed the midnight prayers regularly for a week.

Because of his school, I had to convince him and tell him that it is not compulsory for him to recite the midnight prayers. But he recited his prayers with humility and docility. I still remember his face while he used to recite the prayers.

Our dowry was one Quran and one gold coin.
After marriage I did not accept the gold coin, but Muhammad brought a Quran after our marriage and wrote on it's first page: 'I hope that this book becomes the foundation for us to move together towards Allah.'
Whenever, after his martyrdom I feel depressed or unwell, I read what he had written and feel better.

During one of the days, in the year 1983 when Ayatollah Khamenei was the President of his time, while leaving for the program of directorate, he left from the Pasteur Road. While on his way, he heard some noise which was not very far.

The voice was from a young boy age 12-13 years old. The guards did not allow the boy to go near Ayatollah Khamenei. Ayatollah himself went to see what the matter was and finally the boy could come near to him.
Ayatollah Khamenei politely asked the boy: What is your name son?
He replied: I am Marhamat from Ardabeel. I traveled all the way from Ardabeel to see you!
Ayatollah replied: Fine. What do you want?
Marhamat said: Please tell the scholars not to recite the lamentations of Hazrat Qasim (as).
Ayatollah replied: Why son? What is the matter?
Marhamat said: Hazrat Qasim (as) was also of my age and he sacrificed his life for the sake of Allah and Imam Husain (as). Why don't they allow us to go to the warfront?

When Ayatollah Khamenei listened to the words of the boy, he himself signed on the dispatch paper, giving him the permission to go at the warfront.....

When we were in Najaf Abad in Isfahan, an old lady came in search of Commander Ahmad Kazmi. When he came for inspection, the old lady went to visit him. She had a small talk with the Commander and then left.

After a week, the old lady's son came to visit the Commander and thanked him. He said: Agha Ahmad Kazmi helped me solve my problem.

We realized later that the old lady's son was indebted and did not have the required money. Therefore he was sentenced to jail. But Commander Ahmad Kazmi pays the money from the inheritance that had reached him from his parents. And therefore the old lady's son was released free.