Gems of Qur'anic Knowledge and Wisdom - Part 87
Part 87
By the Name of Allah, the most Compassionate, the most Merciful.
It is said in surah-yi A`raf: "And on the heights shall be men who know them all by their marks." (7:46).
Its original and real ta'wil is in the blessed saying of Mawla `Ali (a.s): "And I am the one on A`raf who will recognize everyone from their foreheads". See Khutbah-yi Raj`iyyah in Kawkab-i Durri.
Sima, i.e., jabin (forehead) is the paradise of the Sacred Sanctuary in the light and luminosity of `aliyyu'l-`azim. The supreme name 'al-`aliyyu'l-`azim' is inscribed on the forehead of every luminous (spiritual) son of the light, i.e., the true Imam.
You will also find the ta'wil of A`raf in the chapter "Walayat-i a'immah-yi ahl-i bayt" in the book "Da`a'imu'l-Islam Part I".40
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40Al-Qazi Abu Hanifah al-Nu`man al-Tamimi, Da`a'imu'l-Islam I & II, ed. Asif bin `Ali Asgar Fayzi (Beirut, n.d.), pp. 20-28; trans. into English Asaf A. A. Fyzee as The Pillars of Islam Volume I (New Delhi, 2002), pp. 27-38; ; trans. into Urdu Yunus Shakib Mubarakpuri, (Surat, n.d.), pp. 40-57
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