‘From Abu Abdullah -asws regarding His -azwj Words...

‘From Abu Abdullah -asws regarding His -azwj Words: but rather the Satan caused them to lose heart (and flee) due to something what they had earned, [3:155] , he -asws said: ‘They are the companions of Al-Aqaba (when they tried to make the she-camel carrying Rasool Allah -saww to fall into a deep raven while crossing a narrow mountain pass at Al-Aqaba).

[32] , for more information, see Battle of Tabuk and Conspiracy of Al-Aqaba | Hubeali ‘‘Amir Al-Momineen -asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww ended one hundred and twenty-four thousand Prophets -as , and I -asws ended one hundred and twenty-four thousand successors -as , and I -asws encumbered and the successors -as before me -asws were not encumbered, and Allah is the Helper [12:18] .

And Rasool-Allah -saww said during his -saww illness: ‘I -asws am not fearful upon you -asws that you -asws might stray after me -saww , but I -saww fear upon you -asws the mischief of Quraysh, and their habits. ‘Allah is Sufficient for us and the most excellent Protector’ [3:173] upon that a third of the Quran is regarding us -asws and regarding our -asws Shias.

So, whatever was from good, it is for us -asws and for our -asws Shias; and a third of the remainder, the people are our -asws participants in it. So, whatever was in it of evil, it is for our -asws enemies’. Then He -azwj Said: ‘ ‘Are they equal, those who do not know and those do know?’ [39:9] – up to the end of the Verse.

So, we -asws People -asws of the Household (are the ones who know), and our -asws Shias are the ones of understanding, and those who do not know are our -asws enemies, and our -asws Shias, they are the guided ones’’. [33] And in a lengthy Hadeeth from Al-Sadiq -asws , he -asws carried it and turned around returning towards his -asws room, and he -asws was saying: ‘ but they cast it behind their backs and took a small price for it; so evil is that which they are buying [3:187] ’.

And for this reason, Ibn Masoud recited it. Ali -asws collected it and recited it, and when he -asws recited it, they followed his recitation’’.