The Allegories, Vol 1 - Question 11 - The Allegories, Vol 1

Ahmed al-Hasan Response:

In Surat Al-Baqara, { [Alif, Lam, Meem]}:^[1] لما (Meem) is Muhammad, (Lam) is Ali, (Alif ) is Fatima. م ل ا The number of letters at the beginning of some of the Suras amounts to fourteen (14), which is half of the number of letters in the Arabic alphabet (28). These letters are the letters of light, and they oppose the letters of darkness, which have little light but are not dark. And these letters are like the fourteen positions of the moon at the middle of the month, meaning seven days after the month begins. And the (Meem) is like the position of the moon on the night when it is full, م and the (Lam) is the previous night, and the (Alif ) is the following ل ا night. These are the nights of Tashreeq. And Muhammad pbuhap is the full moon, and Ali and Fatima are the moon which is almost full. It is mentioned in a dua: “And your complete word, and your words which you have bestowed upon all the worlds.”^[2] And the (Meem) opposes Allah in the Bismillah, and the (Lam) op- م ل poses Al-Rahman, and the (Alif ) opposes Al-Raheem. And the Bis- ا millah in each Surah is a reflection of the Bismillah of Al-Fatiha from a certain aspect,and the same applies to the letters, they are a reflection of the Messenger Muhammad pbuh, and Ali, and Fatima pbut, and the Imams. And in each position, the letters are a reflection of them pbut from a certain aspect. The more that an infallible knows Allah, the more aspects and appearances he has in the Quran, and the more his representative letter is repeated in the Quran. The (Meem) is repeated seventeen م times, the (Lam) is repeated thirteen times and the (Alif ) is repeated ل ا thirteen times. And these letters are the elite of the Quran, the Greatest Name consists of these letters, and they are a secret between Allah and the Imam pbuh, and the Greatest Name is composed from them.^[3] If I had permission to speak about them more, I would have done so…