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title: "The Night the Books Burned"
event: "The Lantern of the Path"
session_number: 70
published_at: "2026-08-19"
canonical_url: "https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-night-the-books-burned"
event_url: "https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-lantern-of-the-path"
type: "event-session"
scripture_reference: "Sahifa Sajjadiyyah, Prayer 27: His Supplication for the People of the Frontiers, Verse 18"
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# The Night the Books Burned

*Session 70 of [The Lantern of the Path](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-lantern-of-the-path) — 19 August 2026*

Mahdawiyyah, Part 26 · The Architecture of Guidance, Part 9 · The House Beside the Grave, Part 2

They burned the banners that pointed to Najaf. And the man whose house it was walked to Najaf, and built a house beside the grave, and was buried in it, and it became a mosque that is standing tonight.

Details coming soon

## Scripture

> اللَّهُمَّ وَأَيُّمَا مُسْلِمٍ أَهَمَّهُ أَمْرُ الْإِسْلَامِ، وَأَحْزَنَهُ تَحَزُّبُ أَهْلِ الشِّرْكِ عَلَيْهِمْ فَنَوَى غَزْواً، أَوْ هَمَّ بِجِهَادٍ فَقَعَدَ بِهِ ضَعْفٌ، أَوْ أَبْطَأَتْ بِهِ فَاقَةٌ، أَوْ أَخَّرَهُ عَنْهُ حَادِثٌ، أَوْ عَرَضَ لَهُ دُونَ إِرَادَتِهِ مَانِعٌ فَاكْتُبِ اسْمَهُ فِي الْعَابِدِينَ، وَأَوْجِبْ لَهُ ثَوَابَ الْمُجَاهِدِينَ، وَاجْعَلْهُ فِي نِظَامِ الشُّهَدَاءِ وَالصَّالِحِينَ
>
> O God, and if the affair of Islam should worry a Muslim and the alliance of the idolaters' against Islam should grieve him, so that he has the intention to go to war and is about to enter the struggle, but frailty keeps him seated, neediness keeps him waiting, a mishap delays him, or an obstruction prevents him from his wish, write his name among the worshipers, make incumbent for him the reward of the strugglers, and place him among the ranks of the martyrs and the righteous!

— *Sahifa Sajjadiyyah, Prayer 27: His Supplication for the People of the Frontiers, Verse 18*

## Other sessions in this event

- [Session 69 — Shaykh al-Ta'ifa](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/shaykh-al-taifa) — 12 August 2026
- [Session 26 — Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba: A Life of Strategic Sacrifice](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/imam-hasan-al-mujtaba-a-life-of-strategic-sacrifice) — 20 May 2026
- [Session 68 — The World That Surrounded Them](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-world-that-surrounded-them) — 13 May 2026
- [Session 67 — Sayyed al-Murtada and the Twenty-Three Years](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/sayyed-al-murtada-and-the-twenty-three-years) — 6 May 2026
- [Session 66 — The Pen and the Sword of the Intellect](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-pen-and-the-sword-of-the-intellect) — 29 April 2026
- [Session 65 — Two Sons, One Mother, One Teacher](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/two-sons-one-mother-one-teacher) — 22 April 2026
- [Session 64 — The Beneficial One: Shaykh al-Mufid](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-beneficial-one-shaykh-al-mufid) — 15 April 2026
- [Session 63 — When the Light Was Hidden: The Preservers](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/when-the-light-was-hidden-the-preservers) — 8 April 2026
- [Session 62 — The University of al-Sadiq: Four Thousand Students and a Living Imam](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-university-of-al-sadiq-four-thousand-students-and-a-living-imam) — 1 April 2026
- [Session 61 — Building Before the Builder Returns](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/building-before-the-builder-returns) — 25 March 2026
- [Session 60 — The Antidote Applied](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-antidote-applied) — 18 March 2026
- [Session 59 — The Poison Identified](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-poison-identified) — 11 March 2026

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