O Salman...

O Salman, if our -asws dead one dies, he -asws does not die, and our -asws killed one is not killed, and our -asws absent one is not absent, he -asws does not disappear. We -asws do not give birth, nor are we -asws born in the wombs, and no one among the people can be compared to us -asws . I -asws spoke on the tongue of Jesus -as in the cradle.

I -asws am Noah -as , I -asws am Abraham -as , I -asws am the owner of the she-camel, I -asws am the owner of the tremor, I -asws am the owner of the earthquake. I -asws am the Preserved Tablet, to me -asws the knowledge of what is in it has ended. I -asws turn in the forms as Allah -azwj Wills.

Whoever sees them has seen me -asws , and whoever sees me -asws has seen them, and we -asws are in truth the light of Allah -azwj that does not disappear or change (an extract from the Recognition of an Imam as a Noor).

[11] Allah -azwj did not Create anything but in the Love of Ahl Al-Bayt -asws : فقال: يا جابر، إنّ لنا عند اللّه مكانا و منزلة رفيعة، و لو لا نحن لم يخلق اللّه أرضا و لا سماء و لا جنّة و لا نارا و لا شمسا و لا قمرا و لا برّا و لا بحرا و لا سهلا و لا جبلا و لا طائرا و لا رطبا و لا يابسا و لا حلوا و لا مرّا و لا ماء و لا نباتا و لا شجرا، اخترعنا اللّه من نورذاته و لا يقاس‏ بنا بشر، (Imam Sadiq -asws said) O Jabir, we -asws have a high place and status with Allah -azwj .

If it were not for us -asws , God would not have created the earth, the sky, the paradise, the fire, the sun, the moon, the land, the sea, the plains, the mountains, the birds, the moist and the dry, the sweet and the bitter, the water, the plants, and the trees. Allah ‑azwj Created us -asws from the Noor of His -azwj Essence and no human being can be compared to us -asws (an extract).