Bismillah wa salatu wa salamu ala rasullah.

Reason of creation in Quran:

“We did not create the jinn and men except to worship us” { adh-Dhariyyat}

Reason of Creation shia version: Continue reading →

Salam alaikum.

Shaykh of shias Muhammad Hasan an-Najafi in his “Jawahir al-Kalam”, 10/184-185, wrote:

وفي خبر المعراج المروي عن العلل بسند جيد – إلى أن قال – : فنظرت إلى شئ ذهب منه عقلي

Translation: And in report regarding Meraj, narrated from (book) al-Ilal WITH GOOD CHAIN, till his words: I looked at the thing, (and) my mind gone from it

Shia scholar al-Qadi Sa’eed Muhammad bin Muhammad al-Mufid says in “Sharh Tawheed al-Saduq” vol.2 pg.580, chapter 14:

[By having researched this, it is now clear with the utmost clarity, that there is no Prophet or Wali from the first and the last unless our Mawla ‘Ali (as) is his guide to Allah. And in the narration about the saying of Allah {And for every people a guide} meaning: ‘Ali is the guide to every people, all of them turn to ‘Ali (as) in their prayer in order to reach Allah. From this it is clarified that he (as) was the companion of Ibrahim (as) and the saviour of Nuh (as) and other things which were mentioned by Salman and Abu Dharr (ra).]

Shaykh Ali Taqi ibn Shaykh Ahmad ibn Zaynutdin al-Ihsai said:

وورد أن الله ليلة المعراج ما كلم رسول الله إلا بلسان علي , فعلي لسان رسول الله , قال تعالى { فَإِنَّمَا يَسَّرْنَاهُ بِلِسَانِكَ لِتُبَشِّرَ بِهِ الْمُتَّقِينَ وَتُنذِرَ بِهِ قَوْماً لُّدّاً }[4] . فلولا علي لم يكن يسر رسول الله يسراً ولم تظهر له دعوة . قال علي عليه السلام: ” أنا آية نبوة محمد ” وقال : ” ليس لله آية أكبر مني ولا نبأ أعظم مني “[5]  فافهم .

Translation:

And it came (in reports) that Allah in the night of al-Meraj didn’t speak with messenger of Allah except by the tongue (voice) of Ali, and Ali (was) tongue of messenger of Allah, said Taala: “So We have only made it easy in your tongue that you may give good news thereby to those who guard (against evil) and warn thereby a vehemently contentious people“. AND IF NOT ALI THERE WOULDN’T BE (ANY) EASY TO MESSENGER OF ALLAH (ANY) EASINESS. AND CALL WOULD’T BE MANIFESTATED TO HIM. Ali, alaihi salam, said: “I am sign of  prophecy of Muhammad”. And (he) said: “There is no sign for Allah bigger than I, and no news greater than I”.

Shaykh of shias Jamalutdin al-Hilli in his “al-Alfayn” (p 23)  said:

الإمامة لطف عام ، والنبوة لطف خاص لامكان خلق الزمان من نبي حي ، بخلاف الإمام لما سيأتي ، وإنكار اللطف العام شر من إنكار اللطف الخاص ، وإلى هذا أشار الصادق عليه السلام بقوله عن منكر الإمامة أصلا ورأسا وهو شرهم

Imama is general favour (from Allah) and prophecy is especial favour (from Allah), it is possible for time to be without alive messenger, but it is not possible for it to be without alive Imam, as it would come (1). And rejection of general favour WORSE than rejection of especial favour, and to that points Sadiq (alaihi salam) by saying regarding rejection of Imama (is) foundation and head and it is worse of them.

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1) Obviously in the printed version is an error. And we corrected this part  it is possible for time to be without alive messenger, but it is not possible for it to be without alive Imam, as it would come, in accordance to the book of Ali al-Bahrani “Manar al-Hadi fi Nass ala Imamati Isna Ashar” p 52.