It is thus mentioned in the Ziarat ...

It is thus mentioned in the Ziarat : The dirt of polytheism has not contaminated you and the dress of disgrace never covered you. It is narrated from Imam Ja’far Sadiq (as) that he said: “Indeed there was Allah and nothing else, then He created time and space and created the light of lights such that all lights took their luminosity from it. And in that (light of lights) He continued His own light, so that all lights took their luminosity from it.

And it is this light from which He created Muhammad and Ali. Thus Muhammad and Ali were the first two lights because nothing had come into existence before them and always those two continued in pure loins till they came to the most pure of them – that is Abdullah and Abu Talib – they split from each other.”[^5] In Ihtijaaj in reply of Imam Ja’far Sadiq (as) to queries and doubts of heretics it is mentioned that: “The Almighty Allah brought out from Adam, a pure and chaste progeny from which He created the prophets and messengers.

They were the chosen ones of the Lord and the purest gems in the pure loins and protected wombs. The unchastity of ignorance did not reach them and their ancestry never contaminated because Allah, the Mighty and the High kept them in a place that had nothing higher to it in status and nobility. Each of them were repositories of divine knowledge and trustees of the unseen and the center of secret and proof on His creatures. They were His interpreters and spokesmen.

They would not have been anything except this. Thus the proof is not but from this progeny that will rise up among the people in place of the Holy Prophet (S)…”[^6] If we like, we can mention all that is written on this topic but it would do nothing but prolong the matter out of proportion.

Shaykh Sadooq (r.a.) in his Book of Beliefs, in the chapter of the faith of the ancestors of the Holy Prophet (S) has said: “Our belief regarding them is that they were Muslims from Adam till his father Abdullah, and that Abu Talib was a Muslim and the mother of the Prophet, Amina binte Wahab was a Muslim. And the Holy Prophet (S) said: I was born through marriage and not through adultery, from the time of Adam.

And it is narrated that Abdul Muttalib was the divine proof and Abu Talib took up his successorship.”[^7] Third: That is they were safe from sins and evils, because the Imams (as) were infallible in such a way that all their life the Almighty Allah protected them from sins and evil deeds and it is a cornerstone of Imamite faith.