Imam Moosa Kazim (a.

Imam Moosa Kazim (a.s.) is quoted in Maniul Akhbar in reply to people’s query the meaning of this verse that: This is an address to us alone. Allah has ordered all of us Imams that we must hand over the Imamate to our successor Imam and to make him our legatee. Then this verse applied to all the trusts of the people.

My great father heard from his father Ali bin Husain (a.s.) that the Hazrat told his companions that making over trusts is a must for you so much so that had my father, Imam Husain’s killer given me that killer sword as a trust I would have returned it to him unhesitatingly. Nomani has quoted Imam Baqir (a.s.) from authentic chains of narrators that: This verse has been revealed in our praise. Allah has ordered all of us, Imams, to entrust Imamate to his successor Imam.

He should not give it to anyone else. Have you not heard that after this, Allah says: and that when you judge between people you judge with justice which shows that the address is about orders (Ahkam). Furat has quoted Shoba in Tafsir that he said about the meaning of Surely Allah commands you to make over trusts that: I say without anyone’s fear (other than Allah) that by Allah, this means the Wilayat of Ali Ibne Abi Talib (a.s.).

Second Verse إِنَّا عَرَضْنَا الْأَمَانَةَ عَلَى السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَالْجِبَالِ فَأَبَيْنَ أَنْ يَحْمِلْنَهَا وَأَشْفَقْنَ مِنْهَا وَحَمَلَهَا الْإِنْسَانُ إِنَّهُ كَانَ ظَلُومًا جَهُولًا. Surely We offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to be unfaithful to it and feared from it, and man has turned unfaithful to it; surely he is unjust, ignorant. (Sura Ahzab 33:72) There are many traditions in the explanation of this verse.

The first: It points to the previous verse: يُصْلِحْ لَكُمْ أَعْمَالَكُمْ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ وَمَنْ يُطِعْ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ فَقَدْ فَازَ فَوْزًا عَظِيمًا. He will put your deeds into a right state for you, and forgive you your faults; and whoever obeys Allah and His Apostle, he indeed achieves a mighty success.

(Sura Ahzab 33:71) The obedience to Allah and His messenger has been called ‘Amanat’ (Trust) because its carrying out is compulsory and that the meaning (or aim) is that the greatness of obedience is so high (and weighty) that if it is put on huge bodies (like mountains) having intelligence, they would deny to carry it fearfully. Yet despite his weakness and inability, man took it up. Therefore, its reward is very much both in this world and in the hereafter.

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