A043
Surah: 013 - Ayah: 043
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13:43
In verse (13:43) it is said: “And those who disbelieve say:
You are not a messenger: Say (O Muhammad): Allah and he who has knowledge of the Book are sufficient witness (of my messengership) between me and you”.
If you wish you can find out about this verse in a Shii commentary, in which you will find several reliable Sunni references as well, that for the testimony of the messengership of the Holy Prophet, the Perfect Man who is mentioned after God in the above-mentioned verse, is Mawlana Ali. Whatever the disbelievers may say about his messengership, there are two just witnesses of it and they are God and Mawlana Ali as Imam – I mubin, who testify that he is the true messenger of God.
Ilm al-kitab (1) (Knowledge of the Book, knowledge of the heavenly Book)
It is said in verse (13:43): "And (O Prophet!) those who disbelieve say: You are not the Messenger. Say: Allah is sufficient as witness between me and you (to testify my messengership) and he who has knowledge of the (heavenly) Book." The first witness of the holy Prophet being the true messenger is God Himself and the second witness is the light of Imamat. Since this testimony is not related to external circumstances, but rather to the inner miracles, it cannot be cursory and superficial, but is detailed and comprehensive. Therefore God kept His mazhar with Himself for this great testimony.
Ilm al-kitab (2) (Knowledge of the Book, knowledge of the heavenly Book)
The last part of the above-mentioned verse is: "And he who has knowledge of the Book." (13:43). The first proof of this is certainly Mawla Ali (a.s.). That is, the heavenly knowledge which God and the Prophet have kept in his light is to be found nowhere else. Question: Where are the inner secrets of the holy Qur’an? Answer: They are in the word "Be", the Supreme Pen, the Guarded Tablet, in Israfil, Mika'il and Jibra'il, in the light of the holy Prophet, in that Divine Speech which is heard from behind the veil, in that vision in which there is no speech, at the rank of miraj, in the hidden Book, etc. You can estimate from this what great secrets there are in the testimony and knowledge which are mentioned here. (Arjah, pp. 27-28; al-Mustadrak, III, 148).
According to the gist of vrse (13:43), the knowledge of the heavenly Book is with the light of Ali. This means that whoever wants to acquire knowledge and wisdom of the Quraan must have recourse to the Imam of the time with utmost devotion and willingness, so that the Imam through his special exotoric and esoteric guidance may open to him the door of Quraanic knowledge and wisdom. It follows that the key to the knowledge and wisdom of all Quraanic verses is Ismailism and the recognition of the Imam.
And this is one of the greatest miracles of the Holy Prophet, that there is always the living light in this world together with this Book. This sign of the external world testifies to the Quraanic verse in which there is the mention of the evidence of the truthfulness of his messenger ship and Prophet hood on the one hand, and on the other, the necessity of the existence of a person who has the knowledge of the heavenly Book in every age, and the verse is: " (O Prophet|) Say! Allah is sufficient as witness between me and you and he who has knowledge of the (heavenly) Book," (13:43).
The above-mentioned verse refers to the wisdom in Islamic that in every important matter, two reliable and just witnesses, who have seen the whole matter with their own eyes, are appointed. Thus the first witness of the extremely great event of the messenger ship of the Holy Prophet was God Himself and the second witness was the light of God and the Prophet, who was present during the appearance of all those great ritual events which happened to him from the cave of Hira to the place of Miraj and from Miraj to the last breath, and that holy light was in the personality of Mawlana Murtaza Ali (a.s.) and that light is still living and present in the attire of the Imam of the time.
This verse has been referred 7 times.