Al-Tawḥīd - Content

Chapter: Allah made the Nature of the Creation upon Divine Unity ه الله، قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن أح٠د، عن أبيه، عن عبد الله بن ال٠سكان، عن زرارة قال: قلت لأبي جعفر عليه السلاÙ: أصلحك الله، قول الله عز وجل في كتابه: (فطرة الله التي فطر الناس عليها)؟ قال: فطره٠على التوحيد عند ال٠، قلت: وخاطبوه؟ قال: فطأطأ رأسه، Ø«Ù 8.

My father (RA) said: Sa`d ibn `Abd Allah said, on the authority of Ahmad ibn Muhammad, on the authority of his father, on the authority of `Abd Allah ibn al-Mughirah, on the authority of Ibn Muskan, on the authority of Zurarah that I said to Abu Ja`far al-Baqir (AS): May Allah be in peace with you!

Explain to me the Word of Allah, the Mighty and High, in His Book: “The nature made by Allah is which He has made men.” He (AS) responded, “He created them with a natural predisposition towards Divine Unity at the time of the Covenant when they recognized that He was their Lord.” I asked, “Did they to Him?” Zurarah says, he (AS) then put his head down, and after a while he (AS) said: “Had it not been so, then they would have not known their Lord or the One who sustains them.”