By Allah, it is intercession.
By Allah, it is intercession.”[^3] According to another narration; it has been pointed out that the Holy Prophet is pleased because he has sent forth and their followers to Paradise.[^4] in The Holy Quran The Holy Quran has explicitly spoken of in the Verse of Purification whereas in other verses it has referred to signs that conform to none but them. Abdullah Ibn Jafar says: I was in the presence of Muawiyah with Hasan and Husayn when Muawiyah asked, “O Abdullah Ibn Jafar!
How much do you respect Hasan?” I answered, “O Muawiyah! One day, during his rule, Umar ibn Khattab sent me to Ali ibn Abu-Talib saying, ‘I want to compile the Quran in a book. Send me what you have written of it.’ Ali said to me, ‘By Allah, he will kill you if you take to him my version of the Quran where for some of the verses I have written my interpretations.’ I asked, ‘What for?’ The Imam answered, ‘Allah says: لَا يَمَسُّهُ إِلَّا الْمُطَهَّرُونَ None shall touch it save the purified ones.
(56:79) We are the purified ones. We are the paragon of this verse: ثُمَّ أَوْرَثْنَا الْكِتَابَ الَّذِينَ اصْطَفَيْنَا مِنْ عِبَادِنَا ۖ We gave the Book in inheritance to those whom we chose from among Our servants (35:32).
We are the chosen ones and such parables as ‘good word’ or ‘good tree’ have been revealed about us."[^5] The Holy Quran reads, مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ يَلْتَقِيَانِ بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌ لَا يَبْغِيَانِ فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ يَخْرُجُ مِنْهُمَا اللُّؤْلُؤُ وَالْمَرْجَانُ He has made the two seas to flow freely so that they meet together. Between them is a barrier, which they cannot pass. There comes forth from them pearls both large and small. These holy verses certainly refer to .
Imam al-Sadiq (a.s.) says: عَلِيٌّ و فَاطِمَةٌ الْبَحْرانِ، الْلُّؤْلُؤُ وَالْمَرْجَانُ الْحَسَنُ وَالْحُسَيْنُ. Ali and Fatimah are the two seas; and the pearls are Hasan and Husayn.[^6] In the words of another narration, the word " al-shaf` (the even)" mentioned in Surah al-Fajr (No. 89) refers to Imam Hasan and Imam Husayn; while the word al-witr (the odd)" refers to Imam Ali (a.s.).
In reliable Shiite books of Hadith , there are over 314 narrations, which confirm that the word ‘near relatives ( dhul-qurba )' in the Holy Quran refers to . Likewise, Sunni scholars have interpreted the ‘ near relatives ’ into and the purified Imams.
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