Name: ‘Ali al-Murtada (‘Alaihis-Salam wa Karramullahu Wajahu!)
Father: Abu Talib bin Abdul Muttalib bin Hashim
Mother: Fatimah bint Asad bin Hashim bin Abd Munaf
Kunniyat: Abu’l Hasan and Husayn, Abu Turab
Laqab: Al-Wasi, Amir al-Mu’minin
Birth: He was born in the actual structure of the Ka’ba, in thirty ‘Am al-Fil (the year of the elephant).
Martyrdom: He was martyred by the accursed Khwariji named ibn Muljam at Kufa during the month of Ramadan in the 40th year of Hijrah and is buried in Najaf on the outskirts of Kufa.
Nâdi Aliyyan mazharal-ajâ’ib tajiduhu awnan laka fi’n-nawâ’ib. Kullu
hammin wa ghammin sayanjalî bi-azamatika Ya Allah! Ya Allah! Ya
Allah! Wa bi nûri nubuwwatika Ya Muhammad! Ya Muhammad! Ya
Muhammad! Wa bi sirri walayatika Ya Ali, Ya Ali, Ya Ali! Adriknî Ya
Ali! Yâ Aba?l Husayn! Ya Aba’l-Husayn! Ya Abâ Turâb! Ya Dhu’l-Jalâlî
wa’l Jamali wa’l-Haybati wa’l Kamal!
Allahumma bi-haqqi Husayn wa akhîhi wa ummuhu wa abîhi wa
jaddihî wa banîhi-Khallisna min kulli hammin wa ghammin Ya
Arhamur-rahimîn! Ya Muqallaba’l- qulûbi wa’l-Absar, qallib qulubana
wa bassir basâ’irana bi-haqqi ridâ’ika wa ru’yati Lighâ’ika. Alayka
i’timâdî wa fî ka i’tiqâdî. Fa’stur uyûbanâ Ya Sattâr! waghfir dhunûbanâ
Ya Ghaffâr! bi-hurmati âlika’l-ahyâr.
Wa sallallahû alâ Sayyidinâ Muhammad wa âlihi
wa’tazathu’t-tayyibîna’t-tâhirîn wa’l-hamdûlillahi rabbi’l-âlamîn.
(from the Risalah-i Ahmadiyyah of Sirri Dede)
