See different noble āyah s...

See different noble āyah s, such as: “ He is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and the Hidden,” [^1] “ Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth,” [^2] “And He it is who in the heaven and in the earth is God,” [^3] “ And He is with you,” [^4] “ Wherever you turn there is Allah's Face,” [^5] And many others on the Unity of Essence, and the last āyah s of the Sūrah of al-Hashr and other ones on the Unity of Attributes, and the āyah s: “ And you threw not when you did throw, but Allah threw,” [^6] “ All praise is for Allah, the Lord of the worlds,” [^7] And “ All that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth glorify Allah,” [^8] Concerning the Unity of acts some of them strictly, and some others more strictly, have gnostic indications.

For each class of the external and the internal scholars each of them is the remedy, in a way, for an illness. As, although it is said in the noble al-Kāfī that the first āyah s of Sūrah al-Hadīd and the blessed Sūrah of Ikhlās [ Tawhīd ] were intended for the deep thinkers of the End of the Time,”[^9] yet the people of literalism are also benefited by them all right a fact which proves the miraculousness and the comprehensiveness of this noble Book.

Of its other objectives and topics is its call for purifying the souls and purging the insides from the impurities of nature, and attaining happiness. Generally, it shows how to travel to Allah. This noble subject is divided into two important branches: One is taqwā in all its stages, including bewaring of other than Allah, and complete negligence of all other than Him. The other is faith in all its stages and affairs, including devotion to Allah, and return and repentance to His Sacred Essence.

These are of the important objectives of this noble Book as most of its subjects, directly or indirectly, connote them. Another subject of this Divine Book is to relate the stories of the prophets, Allah's friends and the wise men, and how He educated them, and how they educated the people. These stories are of great advantages and cover many instructions.

They include so many pieces of divine information, teachings and divine educational instructions, either openly or allegorically that perplex the mind. Glorious is Allah and praise and gratitude are for Him. Just take the story of the creation of Adam (' a ), the angels' being ordered to bow down to him, the teaching of the names and the cases of Iblīs and Adam (' a ) which are repeatedly narrated in the Book of Allah.