Recognition of Imam Part II - Mu'min Men, Mu'min Women and Light
Mu'min Men, Mu'min Women and Light
Tags: yas`a
In verse (57:12), regarding the people of faith of the individual spirituality, the cycle of Resurrection and the light of Imamat, it is said: “On the day when you will see the mu'min men and the mu'min women, their light running (yas`a) before them and on their right hands, (and will hear it said unto them): Glad news for you this day of gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein you will live forever. That is the supreme triumph”.
The wisdom-filled allusion of the above holy verse is that in the individual spirituality of every age, as well as in the cycle of Resurrection, the holy light of the living and present Imam will speak to the mu'min men and the mu'min women from their forehead or from their right side. And “running (yas`a)” here means that at this time the countless stages of the spirituality of the people of faith will be rapidly traversed in the illumination and guidance of this light. Further, it also means that this light will struggle for every kind of worldly and religious betterment of the true mu'mins.
Here it must be mentioned that the absolute light, with respect to its various dimensions, has different relations and separate attributions. That is, in the holy Qur'an, it is sometimes attributed to God by saying “The light belongs to Allah” and sometimes phrases such as the “Luminous Lamp” allude that “The light belongs to the Prophet”; some verses say in the language of wisdom that “The light belongs to the Imam” and in the above-mentioned verse it is said that “The light belongs to the mu'min men and the mu'min women”. Thus, true mu'mins should reflect well on the law of oneness (qanun-i wahdaniyyat) and the system of all-inclusiveness of the holy light and ask what is the secret in the seeming multiplicity of the one light?
However, it should be known that these different relations of the light are true in their respective places and there is no doubt in any of them. Further, it should also be known that, despite these different relations, the light is only one and there is no duality in it. Similarly, its meaning, reality and perfect attributes are also the same as they are at the place of “Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth” (24:35).
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