A Note of Caution

A Note of Caution

Those who believe in the Quran, let them ponder these verses so that they might be guided:

19. ﴾He has merged the two seas that meet.

20. There is a barrier between them. They do not encroach.

21. Which of the signs of your Lord will you both deny?

22. Pearls and coral come out from both of them.

23. Which of the signs of your Lord will you both deny?

24. And to Him belong the ships elevated in the sea like flags.

25. Which of the signs of your Lord will you both deny?

26. Everyone that is thereon will disappear,

27. and the Face of your Lord remains, Owner of Majesty and Favor.﴿

-Surat Al-Rahman (The Merciful) 55.

These verses are enough to prove the allegiance of Ali and his children pbut from the Imams and the Mahdis pbut,

First, the interpretation of the two seas, the pearls and coral is that they are Ali and Fatima pbut, and Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein pbut as we have read.

Second, we have perhaps paid attention to what the Imam pbuh indicates in the narration by Al-Qummi [in the interpretation of the verse],

﴾to Him belong the ships elevated in the sea like flags.﴿

The Imam pbuh said,

It is just as when Al-Khansaa said in the eulogy of her brother Sakhir, in which it is well known how she described her brother Sakhir and how she compared him to a flag, “And Sakhir who the guides take as a leader…as if he is a flag whose head is on fire.”

This means that these ships elevated in the sea like flags are men and they are the Imams and Mahdis pbut, and the sea is Ali pbuh and Fatima pbuh.

Third, Allah swt named the following (the two seas, pearls, coral and ships elevated in the sea like flags) the Face of your Lord, after He finished counting them directly.

26. ﴾Everyone that is thereon will disappear,

27. and the Face of your Lord remains, Owner of Majesty and Favor.﴿

Therefore the matter has been made clear. They pbut are the Face of Allah here in these verses. Ali bin Al-Hussein pbuh said,

We are the Face from which Allah swt is approached.^[1]

And whoever turns away from this interpretation shall find nothing but confusion and ignorance. And the meaning of they are the Face of Allah is that by them Allah is known, as He is known by the face with which He is faced by. Therefore they are the successors of Allah. So who is to allow the creation to know Allah? And who teaches monotheism to the creation?

They are the successors of Allah. And this is Adam pbuh, the first successor of Allah in His earth, who started his mission by teaching the angels and allowing them to know the names of Allah, as their names are the names of Allah which they have been created from,

33. ﴾He said, “O Adam, inform them of their names.” So when he had informed them of their names, He said, “Have I not told you that I verily know the unseen of the heavens and the earth? And that I know that which you reveal and which you conceal?”﴿

-Surat Al-Baqara (The Cow) 2.

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