From here we deduce that men's attachment to religion is not...

From here we deduce that men's attachment to religion is not shallow like the one's to matter. It is rather different attachment like which nothing else attaches to human soul. Had Ali not had the complexion of God and had he not been a man of Allah, he must have been forgotten.

Human history bears traces of many a hero:- Heroes of Oracles, heroes of learning and philosophy, heroes of power and dominion and heroes of battlefields; but man has either forgotten them all or has not taken notice of them. But to Ali, assassination could not render death; he rather emerged livelier. He himself says: "The accumulators of wealth are dead though breathing.

The learned (scholars '-of divinity) would live as long as the time runs; their bodies have disappeared but their impressions survive on pages of human minds". About himself, Ali says; "Look to my time in future when my merits, so far not recognised, will become manifest, and you will recognise me when you miss me and find another in my place".

( 39 ) My age is ignorant of worth My Yousaf is not for this market; I am disappointed of my old friends; My love is ablaze for a Moses; The Ocean of friends is silent like dew; My dew like a tide bears a storm; My hymns are from another world; This clarion-call is from another caravan; Many poets emerge after their deaths; They shut their eyes to open ours; They derived beauty from nothingness; From their graves they blossom like flowers; My Uman will not be contained by drain; Ocean beds are required for my storm; I have lightening hidden in my heart; ( 40 ) The hill sand deserts are gateways to my exhibition; They have blessed me with the "spring of life"; They have made me aware of "secret of life"; The secret which I divulge has been divulged by none; Like my thought none has arranged even pearls; Old heaven told me this secret, from friends keep nothing concealed".

In fact Ali is like laws of nature which operate to infinity. He is source of generosity that never exhausts, rather becomes voluminous with the passage of every day. To quote Jabran Khalil Jabran: "He came in a time much earlier to his own". Some people are leaders for their own time, a few give lead to future also but gradually their leadership goes to oblivion. But Ali and a few others are guides and the leaders till eternity. Previous…