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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Tuhaf Al-uqul ( the Masterpieces of the Mind ) Maxims of Imam Ar-reza The following maxims are related to the gallant Imam Abul-Hasan Ali bin Musa Ar-Reza (peace be upon him). Imam Ar-Reza's Answers to Al-Ma'mun in relation to the comprehensives of the Sharia Al-Maumun (The Abbasid caliph) sent Al-Fadhl bin Sahl Thurriyasatain, his vizier, to summon Imam Ar-Reza (peace be upon him).

When the Imam attended, the caliph said, "I like you to summarize for me the legal and the illegal matters in addition to the obligatory and the recommendable practices of Islam, for you are certainly the argument of God against His creatures and the core of knowledge." Imam Ar-Reza (peace be upon him) agreed and asked for an inkwell and a paper.

He then asked Al-Fadhl to write down: In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful We are sufficed with the confession that there is no god but Allah the One the absolute Who did not have a wife or a son. He is self-Existent, All-hearing, All-seeing, Almighty, All-existing, Everlasting, Light, All-knowing Who is not ignorant, All-powerful Who is not incapable, All-sufficient Who needs no one, and All-just Who does not wrong anyone. He created everything. Nothing is like Him.

There is no one match, opponent, opposite, or equal to Him. I declare that Mohammed is His servant, messenger, trusty, and choice among the creatures. He is the master of the messengers, the seal of the prophets, and the best in the worlds. There is no prophet after him and there is no conversion or change to his religion. I declare that everything with which Mohammed (peace be upon him and his family) came is the evident right.

We believe in him as well as all the messengers, prophets, and evidences of God that preceded him. We believe in his truthful Book that "Falsehood can not reach it from any direction. It is the revelation from the All-wise, Praiseworthy One." We also believe that his Book is the prevalent over all the (heavenly) Books and that it is all right from its beginning up to its end. We believe in its decisive (Verses), allegorical, particular, general, promise, threat, repealing, repealed, and news.

No creature can ever bring its equivalent.