“O One Who always gives [even] to one who does not ask Him...

“O One Who always gives [even] to one who does not ask Him and who does not (even) know Him, out of His Kindness and Mercy.” Almighty Allāh says in [Chapter Tāhā- 20:2]:  مَا أَنْزَلْنَا عَلَيْكَ الْقُرْآنَ لِتَشْقَى  “We did not send the Qur’ān so that you distress yourself [in the path of propagation by struggling to force the people towards it].” And in [Chapter al-Fātir- 35:8] He says:  فَلاَ تَذْهَبْ نَـفْسُكَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسَرَاتٍ  “…And therefore do not consume yourself, in grief for them [due to their unbelief]…” And in [Chapter al-Mumtahana- 60:8] He says:  لاَ يَنْهَاكُمُ اللٌّهُ عَنِ الَّذِينَ لَمْ يُقَاتِلُوكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ وَلَمْ يُخْرِجُوكُمْ مِنْ دِيَارِكُمْ أَنْ تَبَرُّوهُمْ وَتُقْسِطُوا إِلَيْهِمْ إِنَّ اللٌّهَ يُحِبُّ الْمُقْسِطِينَ  “Allāh does not forbid you from doing good and acting fairly with those who have not made war against you on account of religion nor driven you out of your homes; surely Allāh loves those who act equitably.” In a will[^1] addressed to his son - Hājj Sayyid Ahmad Khumaynī - the late Āyatullāh Khumaynī says: “…These are the miracles of the Noble Messenger (s)…who, standing at the apex of the peak of human perfection, sees the realities clearly and without any intervening hijāb (curtain).

At the same time he is present in all the dimensions of humanity and stages of being, and being the highest manifestation of:  هُوَ الأَوَّلُ وَالآخِرُ وَالظَّاهِرُ وَالْبَاطِنُ  “He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden.” [57:3] wants all human beings to achieve such a perfection. It was painful for him to see that they failed to achieve such a station, and perhaps the verse:  طه.

مَا أَنْزَلْنَا عَلَيْكَ الْقُرْآنَ لِتَشْقَى  “Tā hā: We have not sent down the Qur’ān to you that you distress yourself.” [20:1-2] makes an oblique reference to this fact, and perhaps this hadith from him also refers to it: مَا أُوذِيَ نَبِيٌّ مِثْلَ مَا أُوْذِيْتُ.