Gems of Qur'anic Knowledge and Wisdom - Part 50
Part 50
Tags: Muzill, Insinuation, Hazrat `Ali, Imam
By the Name of Allah, the most Compassionate, the most Merciful.
The blessed saying of Hazrat-i Shah-i Walayat Mawla `Ali (a.s) is very amazing and marvellous for the moths who love the light of Imamat: Ana'l-munqalibu fi's-suwar, i.e., I am the one who returns in various forms.24 We call it multifarious theophanies (tajalliyyat-i guna-gun), [and] it has many places such as world history, personal world, and paradise. This great saying is also among the pure and wisdom-filled sayings of Mawla `Ali (a.s): Ana muqallibu'l-qulub, i.e., I am the one who turns the hearts.25
Surah-yi al-A`raf (7:27) implies that the devil and his companions observe you from a position where you cannot see them. Satan is misleading (muzill) and he leads astray, i.e., he is a source of evil. Thus, if Satan can see the people to cast insinuation (waswasah) in their hearts to mislead them, the Imam of the time, who is the true guide (hadi-yi bar-haqq) and the means of virtuousness (wasilah-yi khayr), is well aware of every heart by virtue of the Divine Light. Al-mu'minu yanzuru bi-nuri'llah = Mu'min sees in the light of God (Hadith). This is actually about the glory of the Imam of the time. Who can be the only mu'min, while many people are believers or [they] think they are? Thus the Imam of the time bestows all hearts which are immersed in the holy Name or absorbed in the heavenly love with luminous grace.
Tuesday 15 February 2005
24Sayyid Muhammad Salih Kashfi, Manaqib-i Murtazawi, translated into Urdu by Sayyid Sharif Husayn as Kawkab-i Durri (Lahore, n.d.), p. 235
25ibid., p. 223
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