Look towards the Throne!
Look towards the Throne!’ فَإِذَا بِسَطْرَيْنِ مِنْ نُورٍ أَوَّلُ السَّطْرِ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ مُحَمَّدٌ نَبِيُّ الرَّحْمَةِ وَ عَلِيٌّ مِفْتَاحُ الْجَنَّةِ Behold, there were two sentences of light. The first sentence was: “There is no god except Allah -azwj , Muhammad -azwj is the Prophet -saww of Mercy, and Ali -azwj is the key of Paradise’. وَ السَّطْرُ الثَّانِي آلَيْتُ عَلَى نَفْسِي أَنْ أَرْحَمَ مَنْ وَالاهُمَا وَ أُعَذِّبَ مَنْ عَادَاهُمَا.
And the second sentence was: ‘I -azwj have Sworn upon Myself -azwj that I -azwj shall Mercy the one befriending them -asws and Punish the one being inimical to them -asws !
[6] وَ عَنِ ابْنِ بَابَوَيْهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْعَطَّارُ أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عِمْرَانَ الْقُرَشِيُّ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ اللُّؤْلُؤِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ بَزِيعٍ عَنِ الْخَيْبَرِيِ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ ظَبْيَانَ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ص اجْتَمَعَ وُلْدُ آدَمَ فِي بَيْتٍ فَتَشَاجَرُوا فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ خَيْرُ خَلْقِ اللَّهِ أَبُونَا آدَمُ وَ قَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ الْمَلَائِكَةُ الْمُقَرَّبُونَ وَ قَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ حَمَلَةُ الْعَرْشِ And from Ibn Babuwayh, from his father, informed by Muhammad Bin Yahya Al Attar, informed by Ja’far Bin Muhammad Bin Malik, informed by Muhammad Bin Imran Al Qureyshi, from Al-Hassan Bin Al-Husayn Al Luluie, from Muhammad Bin Ismail Bin Bazie, from Al Khaybari, from Yunus Bin Zabyan who said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘The children of Adam -as gathered in a house and they quarrelled.
One of them said, ‘The best creature of Allah -azwj was our father -as Adam -as !’; and one of them said, ‘The Angels of Proximity’; and one of them said, ‘Bearers of the Throne’. إِذْ دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ هِبَةُ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لَقَدْ جَاءَكُمْ مَنْ يُفَرِّجُ عَنْكُمْ Then Hibtullah -as entered to them. One of them said, ‘There has come to you someone who will relieve you all!’ فَسَلَّمَ ثُمَّ جَلَسَ فَقَالَ فِي أَيِّ شَيْءٍ كُنْتُمْ He -as greeted, then sat down.
He -as said: ‘Regarding which thing (discussion) were you in?’ فَقَالُوا كُنَّا نُفَكِّرُ فِي خَيْرِ خَلْقِ اللَّهِ فَأَخْبَرُوهُ They said, ‘We were thinking regarding the best creature of Allah -azwj !’, and they informed him -as .
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