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[1] ‘Ali Amir Al-Momineen -asws was asked about the Words of Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic: Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most Exalted [87:1] . He -asws said: ‘It is inscribed upon the Pillar of the Throne before Allah -azwj Created the skies and the earths, by two thousand years: “There is no god except Allah -azwj Alone, there being no associates for Him -azwj , and that Muhammad -saww is His -azwj servant and His -azwj Rasool -saww ”.

Testify with them -asws , and that Ali -asws is successor -asws of Muhammad -saww ’’. [2] Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib loved reciting Al-Aala (87), so when Ali -asws arrived at Al-Kufa, he -asws prayed Salat with them for forty morning reciting with them: Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most Exalted [87:1] . The hypocrites said, ‘By Allah -azwj !

The son -asws of Abu Talib -asws is not good at reciting the Quran, and had he -asws been good in reciting, he -asws would have recited with other than this Chapter’. The narrator said, ‘That reached him -asws , so he -asws said: ‘Woe be to them! I -asws am more recognising with its Abrogating, and its Abrogated, and its Decisive, and its Allegorical, its separate from its connected, and its letters from its meaning. By Allah -azwj !

There is no letter that has been Revealed unto Muhammad -saww except and I -asws know regarding who it was Revealed, and in which day it was Revealed, and in which place it was Revealed. Woe be unto them! Are they not reciting: Surely this is in the former Parchments [87:18] The Parchments of Ibrahim and Musa [87:19 ] ? By Allah -azwj !

These are in my -asws possession, and I -asws inherited these two from the Rasool-Allah -saww , and the Rasool-Allah -saww handed over to me -asws the Scriptures of Ibrahim -as and Musa -as . Woe be unto them! By Allah -azwj , I -asws (am the one) about whom Allah -azwj Revealed: “And that the retaining ear would retain it” [69:12] .