This is your last late Night Prayer in Masjid-al-Nabi, the last attempt to feel its blessing, glory and wonder.

Now it is time to bid farewell with the last Morning Prayer you whisper lovingly under a simple green dome, a prayer arising deep from your heart.

You make the last hurried effort to reach the congregational prayer of noon and now you come upon Baqi.

As you reach the Baqi graveyard, your eyes unconsciously turn toward four pieces of stone resembling four graves as though crying out with their everlasting silence. Only those who recognize the truth of an outcry notwithstanding its sound and fluster can seek it here and around these four graves.

Now you take your last look at the purified mosque of Mohammad (S), home of Imam Ali (AS) and Fatima (AS) and their beloved children Imam Hasan (AS), Imam Hussein (AS), Hazrat Zaynab and Ummkulthum.

Then with the help of an invisible friendly hand, you suddenly reach a holy space inside the mosque, a space toward the Kiblah and in the direction of Mohammad’s shrine, his pulpit and the mihrab on which he prayed.

It is called “Al-Rowzat Al-Sharifa” meaning the honorable garden of heaven.

Even if you are involved with all worldly matters, you can still see, hear, seek and perceive the fluttering of angels’ wings in its scented atmosphere.

You will be granted all your wishes in this blissful space for here lies a piece of heaven, which has descended upon the earth.

A little farther from the heaven of Masij-al-Nabi a crowd you notice no more sweep you along. Gradually a door of a house emerges in front of you. It makes you deaf to all external sounds, blind to all other sights and numb with speech.

Now you remain with no sense left to hear, see or speak and its you, your true self that does perceive the hand of Fatima (AS) on that door, Ali’s feet on its doorstep and by its side the smiling eyes of Hasan and Hussein.

The time has come to wear the pilgrimage garb. We must be pure and ready for the tryst. This is “Miqat”, the promised place of meeting between God and man. It is called the mosque of “Shajarah” meaning tree. The prophet’s first pilgrimage toward Ka’aba started from beside this very tree, the place where he wore his pilgrimage garb and were we do the same. What a dazzling spirituality!

Here water holds a new meaning. It is the true resemblance of purification.

Everything looks so green and pleasant and all because of the blessed "Abyar" of Ali (AS), a well dug by Imam Ali in this piece of land. And it's astonishing to know that apart from the water obtained from this well all other sources of water form this land are salty and undrinkable.

You can hear the fluttering sound of angels' wings in the air. Here is another piece of heaven fallen from the sky but this time "you" are its angle. And this is a magnificent opportunity for you to become as pure and innocent as the angels, to accept God's heavenly invitation, to circumambulate around him just like the angels who are always encircling him. After performing your ablutions, you whisper the holy words under your breath: Here I am Oh Lord! Here I am!

You feel two soft, light wings appear on your back, wings that invite you to a holy sphere.

Whispering the holy words, you fly toward the destination in which your wings will rest. HL/IS END MNA