Gems of Qur'anic Knowledge and Wisdom - Part 51
Part 51
Tags: Hazrat `Ali
By the Name of Allah, the most Compassionate, the most Merciful.
The pure and luminous sayings of Hazrat-i Mawlana `Ali (a.s) are full of fundamental wisdoms of the holy Qur'an, Hadith, Islam and Ismailism. Thus, it is our fortune and bliss to read with love, listen and remember with happiness the pure sayings of Mawla `Ali (a.s). According to Kawkab-i Durri, chapter 3, manqabat 8, Mawla `Ali (a.s) is the Guarded Tablet (lawh-i mahfuz) in his light and luminosity.26 Thus everything (kullu shay') is present in the luminous sanctuary of Hazrat-i Mawla because the Tablet (lawh) is the Pedestal (kursi) as well as the Universal Soul (nafs-i kulli) and the Universal Paradise as well as the Sacred Sanctuary is in this light.
According to manqabat 7, the light of `Ali al-Murtaza (a.s) is the spiritual resurrection.27 Manqabat 56 says that his light is the naqur (74:8).28 Thus the names and actions of spiritual resurrection mentioned in the Qur'an are all associated with the pure light of Hazrat-i `Ali (a.s), and this wisdom is very amazing and marvellous.
Tuesday 15 February 2005
26Sayyid Muhammad Salih Kashfi, Manaqib-i Murtazawi, translated into Urdu by Sayyid Sharif Husayn as Kawkab-i Durri (Lahore, n.d.), p. 223
27ibid., p. 223
28ibid., p. 230
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