On Tuesday night, on the night of the seventeenth of Rabi' al-Awal, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims of Imam Reza's holy shrine after performing the evening and night prayers gathered in the porticos and courtyards of the holy shrine to do pilgrimage. Pilgrims also congratulated this blessed day to the kind Imam.
The streets leading to the shrine and all the porticos and courtyards of the holy shrine were illuminated, and the pilgrims congratulated each other and utter Salavat on Muhammad (S.A.W.).
The special ritual of the birthday of the Prophet Mohammad Mostafa (S.A.W.) and the sixth Imam of the Shiites, Imam Sadeq (A.S.) was held in the great Imam Khomeini (R.A.) portico, started with recitation of the holy Qur'an the reading of the pilgrimage payer of Aminullah, and continued with panegyric singing.
According to the report, Hujjt al-Islam Dr. Saadi delivered a speech on the virtues of the Prophet (S.A.W.) at this blessed occasion.
He pointed out that the Almighty God has called the Prophet (S.A.W.) with glorious and respectable words in the Holy Qur'an and added, "The Holy Qur'an is the most reliable and the best book in introducing and recognizing the Great Prophet (S.A.W.)."
The professor of the seminary continued, "In these verses, sometimes, directly or indirectly, the Prophet (S.A.W.) has been introduced. This introduction has been explained in such forms as praise of the Prophet (S.A.W.), expressing the qualities and virtues, mentioning the authorities and expressing the spirituality of the Prophet and the various manifestations of his personality and behavior.
Noting that the verses of the great ascension (Mi'raj) are very wonderful, he stated, "There is no doubt that the issue of the ascension is not an ordinary matter to be measured by ordinary criteria, even the scales used do not resemble the limited and small scales of our earthly world. The similes used to describe the event only reflect the magnitude of the scenes that the Prophet (S.A.W.) observed.
"The personality of the Great Prophet has an elevated dimension, which in the direction of spirituality has reached to the Sidrat al-Montaha, and on his miraculous flight, he reached the position of "as near as the arch frames or nearer", and God describes the ethics of the Prophet With the term "enormous", Dr. Saadi said.
"The Prophet (S.A.W.) is a person who is the cause of creation of all the heavens and kingdoms, places and times, and any atom to planets, humankinds, jinn, and angels have their existence thanks to the blessed existence of his holiness", he said.