[7:172] , and Muhammad -saww your Prophet -saww , and Ali...

[7:172] , and Muhammad -saww your Prophet -saww , and Ali -asws your Imam -asws , and the Imams -asws of Guidance your Imams -asws ?\u201d They said, \u2018Yes, we testify\u2019. Allah -azwj Said: \u201cLest you should be saying on the Day of Judgment \u2013 just in case you would be saying on the Day of Judgment, \u2018We were oblivious of this\u2019 [7:172] .

\n So, the first of what Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Took the Covenant upon the Prophets -as was with the Lordship, and it is His -azwj Word: And when We Took from the Prophets, their Covenants, [33:7] , He -azwj Mentioned the entirety of the Prophets -as .

Then He -azwj Highlighted the most superior one of them -as with the name, and He -azwj Said: and from you O Muhammad -saww !\u201d \n So, Rasool-Allah -saww went ahead because he -saww was the most superior of them -as , and from Noah and Ibrahim and Musa and Isa son of Maryam [33:7] . Thus, these are the five most superior of the Prophets -as , and Rasool-Allah -saww is their -as superior.

\n The after that, He -azwj Took the Covenant of Rasool-Allah -saww upon the Prophets -as from him -saww with the belief with him -saww , and upon (the stipulation) that they -as would help Amir Al-Momineen -asws , so He -azwj Said: And when Allah Took a Covenant of the Prophets: \u201cWhen I have Given you from a Book and Wisdom – then a Rasool comes to you verifying to what is with you, – meaning Rasool-Allah -saww , you must believe in him, and you must help him\u201d [3:81] \u2013 meaning Amir Al-Momineen -asws , you (Prophets -as ) would inform your -as communities with his -saww news, and news of his -saww Guardian -asws from the Imams -asws \u2019\u2019.

[10] \n Abu Abdullah -asws (6 th Imam) says, regarding the Words of Allah -azwj : And when your Lord Seized from the Children of Adam, their offspring from their foreheads and Made them testify against their own selves [7:172] .

He -asws said: \u2018That was a preview (witness) of Allah -azwj , He -azwj Made them forget the preview (witness), and the acknowledgment was affirmed in their chests, and had it not been that, no one would recognise his Creator nor his Sustainer, and these are the Words of Allah -azwj : \u2018 And if you were to ask them: \u2018Who Created the skies and the earth?\u2019 They would be saying, \u2018Allah\u2019. [31:25] \u2019\u2019.