Appendix 2

Appendix 2

(Taken from The Allegories Vol 4)

As for the story of the knowledgeable one with Moses pbuh, it is that Moses pbuh considered what Allah has given him of knowledge after He swt spoke to him on Mount Sinai, so Allah swt commanded Gabriel pbuh to save him and to command him to follow the knowledgeable one. Thus Moses and Joshua pbut set out seeking the knowledgeable one, and that story which was mentioned in the Quran occurred. And it included three matters which are:

1. The story of the ship and its people:

It is a ship which belongs to a group of sincere believers and they are the poor ones of Allah swt, meaning that they are poor in the worship between His hands and not meaning that they are poor as in that they are in need, as he who owns a ship is not impoverished so how is he to be described as poor?^[1] And the poor is he who has neither too much nor too little. And those believers, who are the poor ones of Allah, used to beg Allah swt and pray to Him that He lets them avoid the tyrant king and his soldiers who used to take the ships and devote them to work for the criminal machine of that king. So these poor people did not want to be a reason for supporting this tyrant, which would occur when he [the tyrant] devoted their ship for the benefit of his crimes. They also did not want to lose their ship, and that is why Allah sent them the knowledgeable one pbuh to work on their survival and the survival of their ship from this tyrant, so he made an apparent defect in it knowing it would be a reason for the king to turn away from it, and he let it sail in the sea.

2. The story of the young boy:

And he is a boy whose parents were good believers who are sincere to Allah swt, and they begged and prayed to Allah swt so much that He would give them a good progeny who is kind to them, and that He would protect them from the mistreatment by children. And this boy was good by appearances, and he was a son of two believers so he follows them from the angle of apparent purity or apparent purity of the soul, and that is why Moses pbuh described him as a “Pure Soul (Nafs Zakiyya),” meaning by the apparent because he is the son of two believers, and at that time, he had shown no disbelief or corruption. But Allah swt knows what is within the soul of this boy from the “I” and the arrogance about the command of Allah and his Proofs pbut.

So this malicious soul is from the enemies of the prophets and messengers, and that is why Allah swt sent the knowledgeable one pbuh to fulfill the hope of these two believers of a good, faithful, and kind progeny. And there was no way to separate them [the parents and the boy] except by killing the boy, so the knowledgeable one killed him by the command of Allah swt and in response to the dua of his parents. And in the previous jurisprudences, a father could kill his son to draw closer to Allah swt, and the story of Abraham pbuh, who is a prophet, with his son wherein he wanted to slay him, and the story of Abdul Muttalib pbuh, who is a successor, with his son wherein he wanted to kill him to draw closer to Allah swt, is not a far-fetched story. So when Islam came, it abrogated this ruling, and a father can no longer present his son for slaying for the face of Allah. But if this father kills his son, he does not earn a death sentence. And this is a ruling known by the Muslims, as the killer is to be killed unless he is the father.

This explains why the one who requested to kill the young boy is his father, in such a way that he was unaware. Thus his dua was a request for his son to perish, so he is the real killer. And the one who commanded the killing of the boy was Allah swt, and the one to execute that command was the knowledgeable one pbuh. So there is no disobedience whatsoever in the apparent jurisprudence in this matter as some people imagine, that it is punishment before the crime. This is because the killing of the boy was by the request of his father, even if he did not know that the requisite of his prayer was the killing and the perishing of his son.

Also, there are many things, which if known, might resolve a lot of questions about the story of Moses pbuh with the knowledgeable one, and they are:

1) The knowledgeable one used to see the present and the future of

the interior, and Moses pbuh used to see the interior but only in

its present. 2) If the knowledgeable one killed the young boy in front of the

people, they would not have let him go. So the people did not see

the knowledgeable one as Moses pbuh used to see him. 3) The matter of killing the young boy is similar to how the angel of

death seizes the soul, or an angel flipping a person’s car while he

is driving it in the street, so that person dies due to the accident.

So the situation of the knowledgeable one pbuh was like that of

the angels pbut. 4) The command directed from Allah swt to the knowledgeable one

was general and not detailed. An example of that is, “Protect the

ship for these poor people.” And Allah swt had not commanded

him to protect it by breaching it, that is why he attributed the

breach to himself. Allah swt said, ﴾This is Our giving, so bestow

or withhold without reckoning﴿. And in the narration from him

pbuhap, “Allah has not looked at the bodies since He created

them.”

3. The story of the wall:

And it is a wall of a house of two young orphan boys, meaning that they are good. And the orphan is the individual among his people to whom nobody catches up in righteousness, piety, and obedience. And the treasure under the wall was money and gold which their father saved for them, and he wrote down a piece of advice for them and he saved it for them with the treasure. Thus Ahlul Bayt pbut considered this piece of advice to be the real treasure, and not the money and the gold. And the advice is like Imam Al-Sadiq pbuh said,

I am Allah. There is no God but I. He who has certitude in death, his tooth never laughs. And he who acknowledges recompense, his heart never rejoices. And he who believes in fate, fears none but his Lord.^[2]

And this wisdom and advice is a war against the miserliness of the people of this village who refused to feed them, and this is another reason for the building of the wall.

And in building the wall, there is another sign for those who take heed in signs, and they are the progeny of Muhammad pbut, which is that the wall is a block and barrier between the people of the village and the virtuous manners or the treasure of the two young orphan boys. As a matter of fact, the one who built the wall was the Miserliness of the people of this village. And in building the wall there are signs which are only realized by the knowledgeable ones.

It is left for us to know:

That the work of the knowledgeable one was like the work of the angels, they do not precede Him in speech and they work by His command. Thus he was an executor of the command of Allah swt, and all three actions which he performed were by a command from Allah and by request from its people for whom the actions were performed, and they are an answer to their dua. So the ship was breached by a request from its owners, and the young boy was killed by a request from his parents, and the wall was built by a request from the two boys’ father. And all these requests were through dua, and by begging Allah swt, by people who are faithful and sincere to Allah swt.

And all the works of the knowledgeable one pbuh returned great good to its people, so the ship was protected and its people did not have to support the oppressor. And the young disobedient boy who has a black interior was killed and his parents were given a replacement, a good and kind girl who gave birth to the prophets, and the wall protected the money, the gold, and the wisdom from reaching any other than its rightful people.

And Al-Sadiq pbuh said,

And the likeness of the ship from among you and us was that Al-Hussein left the allegiance for Moawya. And the likeness of the young boy from among you was the saying of Al-Hassan bin Ali pbuh to Obaid Allah bin Ali, “May Allah curse you, what a disbeliever you are.” So it was said to Al-Hassan pbuh, “You killed him, O Abu Muhammad.” And the likeness of the wall from among you was Ali, Al-Hassan, and Al-Hussein pbut.^[3]

And in the era of Al-Qaim pbuh there is a ship, a young boy, and a wall beneath which there is a treasure as well. As for the ship, and it belongs to the companions of Al-Qaim pbuh, it is breached in order to be protected from the tyrants.

He appears in ambiguity so that he is made clear,

meaning Al-Qaim pbuh, as they pbut narrated.^[4] As for the young boy, he is killed because his interior is black and he is infected with the disease of Iblis (Allah curse him), “I am better than he.” And it is narrated by them pbut that Al-Qaim pbuh kills one of those who work between his hands and is from those who are near to him pbuh.

As for the treasure, it comes out from underneath the wall and it is transmitted to the people and it is the knowledge of the progeny of Muhammad pbut. Al-Sadiq pbuh said,

Knowledge is twenty-seven letters. So all that the prophets came with is two letters, so people until today know nothing other than these two letters. So if our Qaim rises, he brings out the twenty-five letters and he transmits them among the people, and he adds the two letters to them so he transmits them as twenty-seven letters.^[5]

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