Then Al-Sadiq-asws said...

Then Al-Sadiq-asws said: ‘And this Verse was not Revealed like this, but rather it was Revealed as: So, when he fell, it was evident to the humans, if the Jinn had known the unseen, they would not have remained in abasing torment [34:14]’’.[6] Abu Ja’far-asws (5th Imam) said: ‘I-asws am presenting to you a Verse and ending to you the address, and I-asws reckon that you have interpreted it upon other than its (correct) aspect.

So if you have done that, so you are destroyed and causing others to be destroyed’. He said to him-asws, ‘What is it?’ The Imam-asws said: ‘What is your view where He-azwj is Saying: And We Made between them and the towns which We had Blessed therein, apparent towns, and We Apportioned the travelling therein: “Travel in these during nights and days in security” [34:18]? O Hassan! It has reached me that you are issuing Verdicts (Fatwas) to the people’. He said, ‘It is Makkah’.

Abu Ja’far-asws said: ‘Then, is there one who goes for Hajj gets his way cut off (by bandits), and is there fear upon the people of Makkah, and does your wealth go away?’ He said, ‘Yes’. He-asws said: ‘So when will they happen to be safe? But, it is with regards to us-asws that Allah-azwj has Given Examples in the Quran. So we-asws are the towns in which Allah-azwj has Blessed, and that is in the Words of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic.

The one who accepts our-asws merits that we-asws are the apparent town between them and their-asws Shias, the town which Allah-azwj has Blessed therein, the apparent town is the Rasool-saww, and the transferring (transmitting of Hadeeth) from us-asws to our-asws Shias, and jurists (narrators of Ahadeeth) of our-asws Shias, to our-asws Shias’. And the Words of the Exalted: and We Apportioned the travelling therein, so the travelling is like the Knowledge, journeying with it nights and days.

The example of the one who journeys from the Knowledge during the nights and the days from us-asws to them (Shias), regarding the Permissible and the Prohibited, and the Obligations and the Judgements, there is safety in it when it is taken from him-asws, safety from the doubt and the straying, and the transferring from the Prohibited to (become) the Permissible, because they are taking the Knowledge from the ones-asws whom it is Obligated for them to take it from them-asws, with the Forgiveness.