Hazrat Khadijatu’l-Kubra

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This article relies heavily on a primary source for Ḥaz̤rat Khadījah’s religious status. This source, Sarā’ir wa-asrāru’n-nuṭaqā’ is written by Sayyidnā Ja’far bin Manṣūr al-Yaman, a great Fatimid scholar and writer. In it, he says that she was a highly elevated dignitary of religion. She was Mawlānā Abū Ṭālib’s ḥujjat. Mawlānā Abū Ṭālib, whose birth names were ‘Abd Munāf and ‘Imrān, was the final mustaqarr Imam of the cycle of Prophet Jesus. His position was that of “sābiq” i.e., the manifestation of the Universal Intellect and Ḥaz̤rat Khadījah was “tālī” i.e., the manifestation of the Universal Soul. In other words she was ḥujjat-i sāḥibu’l-waqt. This means that the Prophet progressed on the ladder of ḥudūd and received spiritual knowledge from Ḥaz̤rat Khadījah before progressing to the stage of receiving it directly from Ḥaz̤rat Abū Ṭālib, ‘alayhi’s-salām.

This excerpt has been taken from pages 2 and 3.