فقال: «إنا معاشر الأنبياء إخوة، و أنا أفضلهم، و أحب الإخوة...

فقال: «إنا معاشر الأنبياء إخوة، و أنا أفضلهم، و أحب الإخوة إلي علي بن أبي طالب، فهو عندي أفضل من الأنبياء Upon that, he -saww said: ‘The group of Prophets -as are brothers, and I -saww am superior than them -as all, and the most beloved of the brothers to me -saww is Ali -asws Bin Abu Talib -asws , thus he -asws is superior with me -saww than the Prophets -as .

فمن زعم أن الأنبياء أفضل منه، فقد جعلني أقلهم، و من جعلني أقلهم فقد كفر، لأني لم أتخذ عليا أخا إلا لما علمت من فضله Therefore, the one who claims that the Prophets -as are superior than him -asws (Imam Ali -asws ) so he has belittled him -asws , and the one who belittles him -asws has committed kufr, because I -saww did not take Ali -asws as a brother except that I -saww know of his -asws merits’ .

[17] Therefore, to conclude, if one cannot compare ‘a person of today’ with the Spirit of Allah -Prophet Isa -as (e.g., ‘so and so is Isa of today’) then how can one compare a person to the Alh Al-Bayt -asws – who are superior than all the previous Prophets -as ?

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26, Ch. 14, H. 2, [10] There were two large protruding wound (hypertrophic) scars inflecting during the wars on two side of the head, resembling the head of Prophet Zulqarnan -as who was martyred.

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