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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Questions On the Third Testimony Our Life Let us now look at the importance of the Third Testimony during our entire existence. PRE - BIRTH All the Children of the Holy Prophet Adam (a.s.) have borne this testimony before they were even born. AL KAFI - H 1077, Ch.

107, h 4 Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from Ya'qub ibn Yazid from ibn abu 'Umayr from abu al-Rabi' al-Qazzaz from Jabir who has said the following: "Once I asked abu Ja'far, recipient of di- vine supreme covenant, 'Why is he (Ali ibn abu Talib, recipient of divine supreme cove- nant) called Amir al-Mu'minin?' He said, 'Allah has given him this name and as such it has come in His book: "When our Lord asked all the offspring of Adam (before their birth), 'Am I not your Lord'?

All of them testified and bore witness to their testimony that on the Day of Judgment they would not say, 'We were not aware of this (fact)', (7:172) [and that Muhammad is My messenger and Ali is Amir al-Mu'minin] (com- mander of the believers).'" BIRTH This is how our conception is supposed to be and how we are supposed to enter the life of this world. MUSTADRAK AL WASAAIL - CH 115 H 14 The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.) said: 'O Ali!

(a.s.) 'If you copulate with your wife during the third night of the month, there will be ordained for both of you a child who will be given the sustenance of a testimony after the testimonies of 'There is no God except Allah' and 'Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah'.

(Allah (s.w.t.) will not punish him) with the Polytheists, and he will be good of heart, merciful, clean of tongue without backbiting and lies and false accusations.' THIS WORLD We are all aware of how we live the life of this world. A lot of our actions are sinful and we need to be cleansed so that we may proceed to the next stage of our life of purified existence.

BIHAR UL ANWAAR - VOL 67 CH 27 H 38 The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.) said: Whoever says 'I bear witness that there is no God but Allah; the doors of the Heavens will open up for him; and whoever says (follows) 'Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah' glorifies the Truth of the Glorious One and rejoices in it; and whoever says 'Ali is the Trustee of Allah', Allah (s.w.t.) will forgive his sins even though they be as numerous as the drops of rain'.

And as all things in this world eventually come to an end so will our physical existence here. We will then proceed to the next phase.