The Hazrat said...

The Hazrat said: If it is so then believer of the people of Firon will be destroyed about whom Allah has said: وَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مُؤْمِنٌ مِنْ آلِ فِرْعَوْنَ… And a believing man of Firon’s people who hid his faith (Sura Ghafir 40:28) Whereas Allah has praised him for hiding his belief. From the day Allah has sent Nuh (a.s.) with Messengership the knowledge has always remained hidden.

So Hasan Basri may go either in the right or the left direction, the truth is that, by Allah knowledge cannot be availed but from the Ahlul Bayt (family members) of the Messenger. Therefore the Hazrat said: It is due to only such people, that our calamity has increased. If we call them to us they do not come and if we leave them alone they do not get guidance.

It is narrated with true chains of narrators in Basairud Darajat that Imam Baqir (a.s.) said: Allah is being worshipped due to us; it is only due to us that people recognize Allah with His attribute of being One and Only and the (S) is in a veil, that is he is a medium between Allah and His creation.

And it is reported in Basharatul Mustafa with reliable chains of narrators that Imam Baqir (a.s.) said: A man who calls Allah through our mediation (Wasilah) gets success and welfare and the one who calls Allah without our mediation destroys himself and also others. Previous…

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