A’yun said...

A’yun said:” May I be ransom for you, the unbetievers believed in Allah with the help of your father, too.” Then the unbeliever who believed in Allah with the help of AbLi Abd Allah (at- Sâdiq), peace be on him, said to at- Sâdiq:” Make me among your students.” So, AbU Abd Allah (at- Sfldiq), peace be on him, said:” Hisham, the teacher of the people of Sham (Syria) and Egypt, teach him belief.” So, the inner self of the unbeliever became good.

Then AbU Abd Allah (at- Sâdiq), peace be on him, was satisfied with him. Another unbeliever came to at- Sadiq and asked him about something. The following are some extracts of them. The unbeliever asked him:” How do the creatures worship Allah, while they do not see Him?” Abu Abd Allah, peace be on him, said:” The hearts have seen Him through the light of belief. Reason has proven him through its attention as the faculty of sight.

The eyes have seen Him through His good formation and firm regulation. Then (people have known Allah) through the apostles and their proofs, the Books and their clear verses.

And the scholars have limited themselves to what they have seen of His Greatness without seeing Him.” The unbeliever said:” Is He not able to manifest Himself to people to know Him and to worship Him with conviction?” He (at- Sadiq), peace be on him, said:” There is no answer to the impossible things.” I (the author) say: The vision is proven for bodies. As Allah is not body, then seeing I-Jim is impossible.

The impossible thing cannot be achieved not because there is a defect in power but because of the defect in the impossible things. Then, the unbeliever said:” How do you prove (the position of) the prophets and the Divine messengers?” He (at- Sâdiq), peace be on him, answered:” As we have proven that there is One Creator for us, Who is far above us, and also far above all that has been created. And that He is All-wise, Most High, and the One.

who cannot possible be seen or sensed by His creatures so that there could be any direct relation between Him and His creatures or His creatures and Him, and so that He could argue with His creatures (to convince them) and His creatures could argue with Him (in their turn).