Miracle 90: Eyesight Restored to a Blind Woman

It is narrated in Tafseer Furat from al-Amash, that,

‘I went out as a pilgrim to Makkah. When I left and was far away, I saw a blind woman in the middle of the road saying, ‘By the right of Mohammed (s.a.w.a.) and his purified progeny! Return my sight to me!’

He (the narrator) said, ‘I was surprised from her words and I said to her, ‘Which right of Mohammed (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny (a.s.) is there upon Allah? But rather, the right is for Him upon them!’

She said, ‘Shh, O depraved one! By Allah! He was not Pleased until He Swore by their right. So, if there does not happen to be any right for them upon Him, He would not have Sworn by it’. I said, ‘And in which place has He Sworn?’

She said, ‘His Words: By your life (O Muhammad)! They were blindly wandering on in their intoxication [15:72], and the (word ‘Al-Amr’) in the speech of the Arabs, is the life’.

He (the narrator) said, ‘I fulfilled my Hajj rituals, then I returned, and there she was, with her eyesight in her very place, and she was saying, ‘O you people! Love Imam Ali (a.s.), for his love would rescue you from the Fire!’

He (the narrator) said, ‘I greeted unto her and said, ‘Were you not blind yesterday saying, ‘By the right of Mohammed (s.a.w.a.) and his Progeny (a.s.)! Return my sight to me!’’

She said, ‘Yes’. I said, ‘Narrate your story to me’. She said, ‘By Allah! I had not moved until a man stood by me and said to me, ‘If you were to see Mohammed (s.a.w.a.) and his purified progeny (a.s.), will you recognise them?’ I said, ‘No, but with the evidence which he (s.a.w.a.) had come to us’.

She said, ‘While he was addressing me, another man came leaning upon two men. He said, ‘What is your standing with her?’ He said, ‘She has asked her Lord by the right of Mohammed (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny (a.s.) to return her eyesight unto her, so I am supplicating to Allah, the Almighty for her’..

She said, ‘He supplicated to his Lord and wiped upon my eyes with his hand, and I became seeing.

I said, ‘Who are you all?’ He said, ‘I am Mohammed (s.a.w.a.) and this is Ali (a.s.). Allah, the Almighty has returned your sight to you. Sit in this place of yours until the people return and let them know that the love of Imam Ali (a.s.) will rescue them from the Fire’’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 42, Chp 116, Trad 17 ↩