Therefore, I was the first of them to reply.

Therefore, I was the first of them to reply." Abu Basir: "I asked Abu Abdullah-Imam Sadiq (as) How did they answer Him [Allah (SwT)) when they were corpusclens?

He said: `He implemented in them that with which they could answer Him when He asked; Aisha added: "He means the covenant." Zurareh reported that he inquired from Imam Baqir (as) about what is meant by: "When thy Lord drew forth from the children of Adam, from their loins, their descendants" He said: "(It means that He drew forth) from Adam's loins his descendants until the Day of Resurrection, so they came forth in the form of corpusclens.

He then taught and acquainted them to His creation; and had He not done so, no one would have known His Lord." When Umar Ibn al-Khattab performed pilgrimage, and embraced the (Black) Stone, he said: "I know by Allah-that you are a stone which neither harms nor benefits, and had I not seen Allah's Messenger embrace you, I would not have embraced you." However, Imam ‘Ali (as) said:…