Then He named us after five of His own Names...
Then He named us after five of His own Names: God is the Praised One (MAHMUD), and I am Muhammad; and God is the Sublime ('ALI), and this is 'Ali, and God is the Creator (FATIR; see Chapter 35 of the holy QUR'AN), and this is Fatima; and for God are all the attributes of bounty (IHSAN), and this is AL-HASAN; and God is the One Who grants (MUHSIN), and this is AL-HUSAIN.
Then He created out of us and out of AL-HUSAIN nine Imams, and He called upon their souls, and they obeyed Him even before He created the heavens or the earth or the human species; for we have been but light raising God, listening unto Him, obeying Him'". SALMAN…
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