Gems of Qur'anic Knowledge and Wisdom - Part 61
Part 61
Tags: Hazrat `Ali
By the Name of Allah, the most Compassionate, the most Merciful.
See the wisdom-filled saying of Mawla `Ali (a.s) in the Preface of Kawkab-i Durri:
Translation: I am God's face (wajhu'llah), being attentive to me is to turn to God. I am the side of God (janmbu'llah). Whoever reaches me is equal to sitting beside God and this is reaching the extreme closeness [of God]. I am God's hand (yadu'llah), whatever He does, is through me, whatever He commands is done by my hand, and it is associated with Him. I am God's eye (`aynu'llah), I see the universe through His eye and the world is to me as the pupil of the eye. I am the speaking Qur'an (Qur'an-i natiq) and true proof (burhan-i sadiq). My existence is the truth and the proof of truth's existence. I am the Guarded Tablet (lawh-i mahfuz), the bearer of Divine secrets. I am the exalted Pen (qalam-i a`la), whatever God has written on the pages of the world of possibility, it is written through me.32
Read the verses, prophetic traditions and sayings of Mawla `Ali (a.s) in the book Kawkab-i Durri repeatedly so that your struggle for knowledge may attain the rank of worship of one who loves and recognises God, Amin, Amin.
Sunday 20 February 2005
32 Sayyid Muhammad Salih Kashfi, Manaqib-i Murtazawi, translated into Urdu by Sayyid Sharif Husayn as Kawkab-i Durri (Lahore, n.d.), p. 61
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