A007
Surah: 033 - Ayah: 007
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33:07
It is related that the Prophet said: "I enjoin upon those of you who have faith in God and in me and have declared me to be truthful, the wilayat of the Commander of the Faithful, Ali bin Abi Talib. For, truly, devotion to him is devotion to me, a command my Lord has given me and a covenant which He has made with me and has ordered me to convey to you from Himself." The greatest wisdom in this luminous teaching of the Holy Prophet is that belief in God and the Prophet is the first stage of religion, that affirmation of the Prophethood and Messengership is the second stage, and that affirmation of the wilayat of Mawla Ali is the third stage. Another wisdom is that the word "wilayat" has many meanings, and a third wisdom is that God took a covenant from the Holy Prophet, the seal of the Prophets, about the wilayat of Mawla Ali. This point is so important and useful that it is only by understanding this that many of the secrets of the Wise Qur’an are revealed. For instance, it says in verse (33:7): "And when We took a covenant from the Prophets and from you (O Muhammad) and from Nuh and Ibrahim and Musa and Isa, son of Maryam, We took from them a solemn covenant." A sound Hadith is the logical and intellectual interpretation of Qur’anic verses and so it is clear that the above Hadith is an explanation of this Qur’anic verse, and that God took a covenant from all the Prophets that they should make people aware of His command about the Imamat.
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