Muhammad Nawfili got terrified and advised the holy Imam and said...

Muhammad Nawfili got terrified and advised the holy Imam and said, “They are people of fallacy and misconceptions; beware of them!” Imam al-Ridha (a.s.) smiled and said, “Are you afraid of their defeating me? O Nawfili! Do you know when Ma’mun will repent this?

When he hears my reasoning with the people of Torah with reference to their Torah, with the people of Bible with reference to their Bible, with the people of Psalms with reference to their Psalms, with Sabaeans in their Hebrew language, with Hirbads (Zoroastrians) in their Persian language, with the Romans in their Roman language, and with (other) eloquent orators in their own languages.

When I win them all and each group is defeated by my proofs and arguments and gives up their words and acknowledges the truth of my words, then Ma’mun will repent (holding a session), … La hawla wa la quwwata illa bi'Allah al-‘Ali al-‘Azim (There is no power and no strength save in Allah, the All-Exalted, the Almighty).”[^10] [^1]: Tawhid of Saduq, see: Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 26, p.159. [^2]: Basa’ir al-Darajat, see: Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 26, p.110. [^3]: Ibid, p. 138. [^4]: I‘lam al-Wara, 315.

[^5]: Al-Ghayba, Shaykh Tusi, p. 52, see: Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 49, p. 97. [^6]: I‘lam al-Wara, 2/64; Bihar al-Anwar, 49/100. [^7]: ‘Uyun Akhbar al-Ridha (a.s.), 2/180. [^8]: A group of Shi‘as who denied the demise of Imam Musa b. Ja‘far, believing that he was the last Imam who was still alive. (Dihkhuda) [^9]: Manaqib Al-i Abi Talib, vol. 3, p. 453. [^10]: ‘Uyun Akhbar al-Ridha (a.s.), 2/139; al-Tawhid, 417. Previous…