Excerpts from Mikyalul Makarim Duties of Shias towards Imam-e-Zamana(a.s)

Excerpts from Mikyalul Makarim Duties of Shias towards Imam-e-Zamana(a.s)

This book deals with the duties and responsibilities of the Shia and acts that can bring them nearer to their Imam (a.s.). The title of this book is Mikyalul Makarim and there are altogether eighty responsibilities of Shias with regard to Imam (a.s.) during the ghaibat (occultation). By fulfilling these duties the followers of Imam (a.s.) can prove their love and affection towards him. Obviously, as the above book is lengthy and also in Arabic and Persian, it is difficult for the common people to derive any benefit from it directly. Therefore we decided to first summarize the 80 duties and then translate them into Urdu, so that later it can be translated into English and other modern languages. So that even those who are not conversant with Arabic and Persian languages may gain knowledge and improve their hereafter. The method followed in summarizing the 80 duties is that wherever the original writer has quoted multiple traditions and narrations to prove a particular point, we have selected only one or two comprehensive traditions from them to illustrate the particular duty. Or we have quoted the tradition that the author had considered more important.