Recognition of Imam Part III - Key 11 Treasures of Everything
Key 11 Treasures of Everything
God, may He be exalted, says in verse (15:21): “And there is not a thing but with Us are the treasures of it. And We reveal it not save in a known measure.”
From this holy universal law it appears that with respect to excellence and honour, knowledge and recognition, though not in a spatial respect of course, God, may He be exalted [also] has a nearness and proximity where there are the treasures of everything, and [that nearness and proximity] is the manifest Imām's holy light, which contains all those treasures (Khaza'in). An example of this reality can be given from the external sun, which contains the endless treasures of creative wealth, i.e., the treasures of the material kind of wealth of all the stars and planets of the solar system. That is, by the command of God not only every star and every planet, but also the elements, the mountains, inorganic matter, the minerals and vegetation, including the body of animals and human beings are created from the sun. In the same way, the treasures of the creative wealth of the spiritual world are in the manifest Imām's holy light.
Having given this fine example of the sun, it is our duty (`ilmi farz) as teachers to prove to you where the fountainhead of the moving spirit of the unlimited powers of the sun is. The above-mentioned verse shows that the treasures of everything are near God, which, as has been explained, are in the manifest Imām's holy light. Now, when all the treasures of God, may He be exalted, are in the holy light of the True Imām and nothing is outside it, then it is evident that the moving spirit of the unbounded and endless power of the world illumining sun also flows and permeates from the treasures of the Imām's light.
Another example (lit. proof) of this reality is that it is said in the wise Qur'an that God, may He be exalted, had sent the holy Prophet as the absolute light and universal mercy for all the worlds. If the holy Prophet was the light and mercy for the entire universe and all the worlds, then necessarily he was the source of light and mercy for the sun as well, because the sun is also included among the 'worlds'. That is, the sun was receiving its soul from the Prophet in the form of natural guidance (i.e., light) and mercy. After him, the same position is held by his heirs and successors i.e., the pure Imāms successively, one after the other. It is the unalterable and unchangeable law of God, may He be exalted, that in every age His light and mercy have to have a mazhar, whether he is a Messenger or an Imām. Thus, it is evident that the light of the manifest Imām is also the fountainhead of the material favours and blessings of the sun.
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