يَا سَلْمَانُ أَيُّمَا أَفْضَلُ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أَمْ سُلَيْمَانُ...
يَا سَلْمَانُ أَيُّمَا أَفْضَلُ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أَمْ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ قَالَ سَلْمَانُ بَلْ مُحَمَّدٌ ص قَالَ يَا سَلْمَانُ فَهَذَا آصَفُ بْنُ بَرْخِيَا قَدَرَ أَنْ يَحْمِلَ عَرْشَ بِلْقِيسَ مِنْ فَارِسَ فِي طَرْفَةِ عَيْنٍ وَ عِنْدَهُ عِلْمٌ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ وَ لَا أَفْعَلُ أَضْعَافَ ذَلِكَ وَ عِنْدِي عِلْمُ أَلْفِ كِتَابٍ O Salman -ra ! But rather, is Muhammad -saww superior or Suleyman Bin Dawood -as ?’ Salman -ra said, ‘But, Muhammad -saww is’.
So, this Aasif Bin Barkhiya -as was able to carry the throne of Bilquis from Persia in the blink of an eye, and with him -as was knowledge from the Book, and I -asws cannot do a multiple of that, and with me -asws is knowledge of a thousand Books?
أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَى شَيْثِ بْنِ آدَمَ عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامُ خَمْسِينَ صَحِيفَةً وَ عَلَى إِدْرِيسَ النَّبِيِّ ص ثَلَاثِينَ صَحِيفَةً وَ عَلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْخَلِيلِ ع عِشْرِينَ صَحِيفَةً وَ التَّوْرَاةِ وَ الْإِنْجِيلِ وَ الزَّبُورِ وَ الْفُرْقَانِ Allah -azwj Revealed fifty Parchments upon Shees -as Bin Adam -as , and thirty Parchments upon the Prophet -as Idrees -as , and twenty Parchments upon Ibrahim -as the Friend (of the Beneficent), and the Torah, and the Evangel, and the Psalms, and the Furqan’.
فَقُلْتُ صَدَقْتَ يَا سَيِّدِي فَقَالَ ع اعْلَمْ يَا سَلْمَانُ أَنَّ الشَّاكَّ فِي أَمْرِنَا وَ عُلُومِنَا كَالْمُمْتَرِي فِي مَعْرِفَتِنَا وَ حُقُوقِنَا وَ قَدْ فَرَضَ وَلَايَتَنَا فِي كِتَابِهِ فِي غَيْرِ مَوْضِعٍ وَ بَيَّنَ فِيهِ مَا وَجَبَ الْعَمَلُ بِهِ وَ هُوَ غَيْرُ مَكْشُوفٍ.
I -ra said, ‘You -asws speak the truth, O my Master -asws !’ He -asws said: ‘Know, O Salman -ra , that the doubter in our -asws matter and our -asws knowledge is like the one suspicious regarding our -asws recognition and our -asws rights, and our -asws Wilayah has been Obligated in His -azwj Book in another place, and Explained in it what Obligates (the one who) works with it, and it is not hidden’’.
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