Gems of Qur'anic Knowledge and Wisdom - Part 40

Part 40

Tags: Hazrat `Ali, Kawthar

By the Name of Allah, the most Compassionate, the most Merciful.

According to [the prophetic tradition mentioned in] Kawkab-i Durri, chapter 2, manqabat 51: "Indeed God Almighty has made the progeny of every Prophet in his loins (sulb) and He has made my progeny in the loins (sulb) of `Ali bin Abi Talib".¹⁷

See the footnote on p. 724 of Farman Ali's translation of the Qur'an. See Wajh-i Din.¹⁸ Ta'wil of surah-yi Kawthar (108). The word kawthar, with all its meanings, is the blessed title of Mawla `Ali (a.s).

Tuesday 8 February 2005

¹⁷Sayyid Muhammad Salih Kashfi, Manaqib-i Murtazawi, translated into Urdu by Sayyid Sharif Husayn as Kawkab-i Durri (Lahore, n.d.), p. 191
¹⁸Wajh-i Din, Urdu translation, pp. 32-33

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