Hadith 250

ater has been Subdued for you, coming to you and going in the interests of your livelihoods, and the ocean is a cause for the plentifulness of your wealth. If you were to be patient, the tree of Tooba would be facing to you all and dense shade [4: 57], apart from that the Judgment of Allah-azwj would be accomplished and His-azwj Decree would be implemented. there is no Postponement of His Judgment, and He is Swift in Reckoning [13: 41]. Allah-azwj Says: And there is no town except We will Destroy it before the Day of Judgment or Punish it with a severe Punishment. That was in the Veiled Book [17: 58]’. Then he-asws continued the Hadeeth up to his-asws words: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said to me-asws one day, and there wasn’t anyone with him-saww apart from me-asws: ‘Jibraeel-as, the trustworthy spirit, carried me-saww upon his-as right shoulder until he-as showed me-saww the earth and the ones upon it, and gave me-as their collars (reins) and taught me-saww whatever is in it, and what had happened upon its surface, and what would be happening up to the Day of Qiyamah, and that was not grievous upon me-as just as it was not grievous upon my‑saww father-as Adam-as. He-as was Taught the names, all of them and the Angels of Proximity had not been taught these. And I-saww saw a spot on the shore of the sea, named as Al-Basrah. There, it is the remotest of the lands from the sky, and nearest of them from the water, and it is the quickest of the lands in ruination, and of the coarsest in soil, and their severest in Punishment, and there have been submergences among the past generations repeatedly. And there shall be coming upon it a time, and to you all, O people of Al-Basra, and what is around you from the towns from the water, for a day of mighty calamity, and I-asws know the place of its bursting from this town of yours! Then there would be matters before that of mighty attack. It is hidden from you all and we-asws know it. The one who exits from it during the approach of its drowning, it would be by a Mercy from Allah-azwj having preceded to him, and the one who remain in it, unrelated with it, it would be due to his sins, and Allah-azwj is not the least unjust to the servants! ’’[85]
I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘And it is reported by the judge Nurullah Al-Shustary, may Allah-azwj Sanctify his soul, in the book ‘Majalis Al-Momineen’, from Al-Sadiq-asws having said: ‘For Allah-azwj there is a Sanctuary, and it is Makkah. Indeed! For Rasool-Allah-saww there is a sanctuary, and it is Al-Medina. Indeed! And for Amir Al-Momineen-asws there is a sanctuary and it is Al-Kufa. Indeed! And Qum is the small Al-Kufa. Indeed! There are eight doors for the Paradise. Three of these are to Qum. A lady from my-saww children would pass away in it. Her-as name is Fatima-as daughter-as of Musa-asws, and due to her-as intercession, my-asws Shias would enter the Paradise in their entirety’’. [86]