After that the affairs are more difficult and the accounts are more delicate.

After that the affairs are more difficult and the accounts are more delicate. The recitation of Surah Al-Hamd done for forty times unto a sick person can be effective in his healing. Whoever drinks wine, his prayers will not be accepted for forty days, though the one must establish those prayers.

Allah may forgive a person upon whose dead body forty believers testify that he has been a good person.[^2] However, the explanation of forty nights of the appointed tryst of Moses is referred to in the Turah, Exedus.

Some Islamic literature denotes that thirty nights out of this forty nights were the whole nights of Zilqa‘dah, and the added ten nights happened at the beginning nights of Zil-Hajjah.[^3] In any case, the event of the tryst of Moses (as) was as follows: “…And (before going there) Moses said to his brother Aaron: ‘Be my successor among people, and set the (people’s) affairs right and do not follow the way of mischief-makers’.” The Tradition of Rank A large number of commentators from both great Islamic sects have referred to the known ‘Tradition of Rank’ when explaining the verse under discussion.

There is a difference, of course, that Shi‘ite commentators have taken it as one of the reputable proofs for the immediate vicegerency of Ali (as). The text of the tradition denotes that many of the companions of the Prophet (S) have detailed the process of the Battle of Tabūk as follows: The Prophet (S) set out towards Tabūk when he appointed Ali-ibn-Abitālib (as) in his place.

Ali (as) said to the Porphet (S) whether he left him among children and women (and did not let him go with him (S) to the battle-field to struggle). The Messenger of Allah (S) answered him whether he was not content to be in the same rank to him (S) as Aaron was to Moses except that there would be no prophet after him.

It was not only in the Battle of Tabūk that the Prophet (S) expressed this meaning, but also in several occasions, other than that, this statement was heard from him, (S) including the followings: 1- One day, the Prophet (S) told ’Umm-us-Salamah: “O’ ’Umm-us-Salamah! Ali’s tissue is the same as my tissue and, his blood is the same as my blood.

The example of him unto me is like the example of Aaron unto Moses.” 2- Ibn-‘Abbas says that one day ‘Umar-ibn-Khattāb said that once he was in the presence of the Prophet (S) accompanied with Abū-Bakr and some of the companions of the Prophet (S).