Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: The Imams (a.s.) are the light of Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High 2ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) فِي قَوْلِ الله تَعَالَى الَّذِينَ يَتَّبِعُونَ الرَّسُولَ النَّبِيَّ الا٠ِّيَّ الَّذِي يَجِدُونَهُ ٠َكْتُوباً عِنْدَهُ٠ْ فِي التَّوْراةِ وَالانْجِيلِ يَأْ٠َعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهاهُ٠ُنْكَرِ وَيُحِلُّ لَهُ٠ُ الطَّيِّباتِ وَيُحَرِّ٠ُ الْخَبائِثَ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ وَاتَّبَعُوا النُّورَ الَّذِي أُنْزِلَ ٠َعَهُ أُولئِكَ هُ٠ُفْلِحُونَ قَالَ النُّورُ فِي هَذَا الْ٠َوْضِعِ عَلِيٌّ أَ٠2.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated through his chain of narrators from abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) about the words of Allah that say, There are those who follow the Messengers, the illiterate Prophet (not conventionally educated), whose description they find written in the Torah and the Gospel.

[He (the Messengers) enjoins them to do good and forbids them to do all that is unlawful, makes lawful for them all that is pure and unlawful all that is filthy, removes their burdens and the entanglements in which they are involved].

Those who believe in him, honor and help him, and follow the light which is sent down to him, will have everlasting happiness.” (7:157) The Imams (a.s.) said, “It is Amir al-Mu’minin Ali (a.s.) and the Imams (a.s.) after him who are called ‘light’ in the above verse of the Holy Quran.” رسل - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/354)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)