Ali Is Beyond Words

🌼Ali is the supreme law of God🌼

🌼Ali is the very mystery of the Pen upon the Tablet of creation🌼

🌼A book of mysteries drawn from Ali’s words🌼

🌸🔆🌿 A book of mysteries from Ali, seen through the lens of Nūn and the Pen

An abridged text, with an appendix, from the “Meshkat-e Noor Gathering,” presented on the birth anniversary of the Master of the Unifiers in God, 1401.11.15. Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat 110.141 (903))

🌸The birth of our master Ali is the birth of the Pen, water, and bread.

🌸Ali is God’s hidden mystery, and the world strives to know him.

🌸Ali is the supreme law of God.

🌸Whoever knows Ali has recited the Mother of the Book.

🌸To know Ali is to turn the pages of the immense book and register of existence.

🌸Whoever keeps company with the waves of our Master’s words, and finds companionship and solace in them, is honoured by the distinction of being a Shia of Ali.

🌸To take in our Master’s exalted words requires a heart capacious and strong.

🌸Renowned commentators stand humbly before our Master’s words, their heads bowed in reverence.

🌸The Pen is one of Ali’s names. It is of the substance of Paradise—that is, of beauty and purity, delight and joy, and pleasure.

🌸The Pen, more refreshing and cooling than snow, gives life and brings gladness.

🌸Sweeter than honey, the Pen gathers every excellence and virtue; it is the very life and nectar of all delights, and the essence of existence’s flowers in the soul of the world.

🌸The Pen that writes has a life unlike any other. It holds a unique and special bond with the Creator, carries out God’s command, and is obedient and trustworthy.

🌸The Pen is God’s own computer! By way of metaphor, Ali is God’s supercomputer. At God’s dictation, he writes all that was and all that will be.

🌸Ali is God’s register of records.

🌸The mysteries of existence, from beginning to end, are inscribed by the writing Pen.

🌸Nūn is a name for the Messenger of God, peace be upon him. That is, Nūn is merely one of his names, not the Messenger himself; his station is higher and beyond Nūn.

🌸The Pen is a name for our master, the Commander of the Faithful, and the Imams, peace be upon them—a single quality among the qualities of their souls!

🌸The Pen is made of light.

🌸If the Pen were to open up and blossom, what wonders would come to light!

The Lord’s command—whether issued anew, being issued now, or continually being written🌸

Which movement, letter, word, or sentence are we, from the tip of this Pen?🌸

Write with your Nūn, with your Pen, upon your spread-out parchment, upon your Preserved Tablet🌸

 🌸The Lord’s calligraphic Pens: each one writes a new script of the life of existence.

🌸The worlds, seen and unseen, are fashioned by the divine Pens.

🌸God’s oath by Nūn and the Pen reveals the special majesty of Nūn and the Pen.

🌸What has the Best of Creators done with Ali—and what has Ali done with the world?!

🌸Let us stand before the light, so that it may portray the face.

🌸فَكَتَبَ الْقَلَمُ فِي رَقٍّ أَشَدَّ بَيَاضاً مِنَ الْفِضَّةِ- وَ أَصْفَى مِنَ الْيَاقُوتِ

🌸What pure soul is like the divine parchment—whiter than silver and purer than ruby? My guess is that the beauty of Fatima the Most Pure is revealed here. What mysteries there are that we do not know!

🌸🔆🌿 Mysteries from the Second Sermon of Nahj al-Balagha

🌿And among his sermons, peace be upon him, after returning from Siffin: in it, he speaks of the people’s condition before the Prophet’s mission, describes the Prophet’s Household, and then describes another people!

🔆أَحْمَدُهُ اسْتِتْمَاماً لِنِعْمَتِهِ

🌸I praise Him for bringing His blessings to completion

🌸I praise Him so that all His blessings may come to full fruition within me!

🌸The fullness, pinnacle and ultimate measure of God’s blessings is servitude to Him. Who is not God’s servant? So let us offer the finest praise for the highest blessing.

🌸Are we not servants of the Bestower of blessings? Did He not create us? Is this not the highest and most complete of God’s blessings?

🌸I praise Him so that I may reach Him and attain what He desires.

🌸Let us praise God with the very intention with which our Master praised Him. So, my God, I praise You with the praise of my Master.

🔆 وَ اسْتِسْلَاماً لِعِزَّتِهِ

🌸I praise You so that I may attain perfect surrender before Your might. I praise You because I am wholly surrendered to Your might.

🔆وَ اسْتِعْصَاماً مِنْ مَعْصِيَتِهِ

🌸I praise You so that I may attain purity from sin. I praise You for the protection from sin You bestowed upon me and for saving me from its defilement—or for making me such that I cannot transgress or disobey You.

🔆وَ أَسْتَعِينُهُ فَاقَةً إِلَى كِفَايَتِهِ

🌸I praise You; to relieve my need, I seek Your help. I praise You because You have sufficed me in my poverty.

 🌸I praise You, for Your presence leaves no room for poverty in my life.

🔆 إِنَّهُ لَا يَضِلُّ مَنْ هَدَاهُ

🌸For whoever He guides will not go astray.

🔆 وَ لَا يَئِلُ مَنْ عَادَاهُ

🌸And whoever opposes Him will not be left to go free.

🔆وَ لَا يَفْتَقِرُ مَنْ كَفَاهُ

🌸And whoever He sustains will never be poor.

🔆 فَإِنَّهُ أَرْجَحُ مَا وُزِنَ

🌸Praise of God is weighty and prevails over all things.

🔆وَ أَفْضَلُ مَا خُزِنَ

🌸Praise of God is the finest provision and treasure.

🔆وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ شَهَادَةً مُمْتَحَناً إِخْلَاصُهَا

🌸The testimony to the oneness of Allah is a testimony whose sincerity has been put to the test.

🌸Let us testify to God’s oneness with the beauty of Allah’s testimony and the radiance of our Master’s.

🌸A testimony like that of the commander of divine unity, the master of those who affirm God’s oneness.

🔆مُعْتَقَداً مُصَاصُهَا

🌸A testimony grounded in belief in its purity; a testimony from the heart and soul, with our whole being, every faculty and all creation.

🔆 نَتَمَسَّكُ بِهَا أَبَداً  مَا أَبْقَانَا

🌸We hold fast to the testimony of faith for all eternity, for as long as we live. My being burns ever brighter with the flame of divine unity. As long as I live, I am its beacon.

🌸I treasure the word of divine unity for every moment of my life, for death and for what comes after it.

🌸May I pour out my soul in the very heart of the word of divine unity.

🔆وَ نَدَّخِرُهَا لِأَهَاوِيلِ مَا يَلْقَانَا

🌸We treasure the word of divine unity for the terrors, turmoil and anxieties that will surround us.

🌸Without the word of divine unity, peace is impossible. Without it, we are forever beset by turmoil and anxiety; without it, the world is sorrowful and lamenting.

🔆فَإِنَّهَا عَزِيمَةُ الْإِيمَانِ

🌸The word of divine unity is a firm resolve and an impenetrable shield of faith; it is faith’s armour and chainmail. The security of faith depends upon it. Without it, faith is struck down by the arrows of danger.

🔆 وَ فَاتِحَةُ الْإِحْسَانِ

🌸The declaration of divine unity is the key to excellence in conduct.

🔆 وَ مَرْضَاةُ الرَّحْمَنِ

🌸The declaration of divine unity is a means of attaining the pleasure of the Almighty Lord.

 🔆وَ مَدْحَرَةُ الشَّيْطَانِ

🌸The declaration of divine unity is a means of driving Satan away.

🔆وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ أَرْسَلَهُ بِالدِّينِ الْمَشْهُورِ وَ الْعَلَمِ الْمَأْثُورِ وَ الْكِتَابِ الْمَسْطُورِ وَ النُّورِ السَّاطِعِ وَ الضِّيَاءِ اللَّامِعِ وَ الْأَمْرِ الصَّادِعِ

🌸And I bear witness that Muhammad is truly the servant of God and His Messenger. He sent him with a well-known religion, an inherited and inscribed sign, clear and manifest; a written Book, a radiant light, a blazing illumination and a decisive command

🔆إِزَاحَةً لِلشُّبُهَاتِ وَ احْتِجَاجاً بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ وَ تَحْذِيراً بِالْآيَاتِ وَ تَخْوِيفاً بِالْمَثُلَاتِ

🌸to dispel doubts and present proofs and evidence, with clear arguments, warnings in its verses and fear of painful punishments.

🔆وَ النَّاسُ فِي فِتَنٍ انْجَذَمَ فِيهَا حَبْلُ الدِّينِ وَ تَزَعْزَعَتْ سَوَارِي الْيَقِينِ وَ اخْتَلَفَ النَّجْرُ وَ تَشَتَّتَ الْأَمْرُ وَ ضَاقَ الْمَخْرَجُ وَ عَمِيَ الْمَصْدَرُ فَالْهُدَى خَامِلٌ وَ الْعَمَى شَامِلٌ عُصِيَ الرَّحْمَنُ وَ نُصِرَ الشَّيْطَانُ وَ خُذِلَ الْإِيمَانُ فَانْهَارَتْ دَعَائِمُهُ وَ تَنَكَّرَتْ مَعَالِمُهُ وَ دَرَسَتْ‏ سُبُلُهُ وَ عَفَتْ شُرُكُهُ أَطَاعُوا الشَّيْطَانَ فَسَلَكُوا مَسَالِكَهُ وَ وَرَدُوا مَنَاهِلَهُ بِهِمْ سَارَتْ أَعْلَامُهُ وَ قَامَ لِوَاؤُهُ فِي فِتَنٍ دَاسَتْهُمْ بِأَخْفَافِهَا وَ وَطِئَتْهُمْ بِأَظْلَافِهَا

وَ قَامَتْ عَلَى سَنَابِكِهَا فَهُمْ فِيهَا تَائِهُونَ حَائِرُونَ جَاهِلُونَ مَفْتُونُونَ فِي خَيْرِ دَارٍ وَ شَرِّ جِيرَانٍ نَوْمُهُمْ سُهُودٌ وَ كُحْلُهُمْ دُمُوعٌ بِأَرْضٍ عَالِمُهَا مُلْجَمٌ وَ جَاهِلُهَا مُكْرَمٌ‏

🌸When he was sent, people were beset by trials; the bond of religion had been severed, and the foundations of faith and certainty had grown unstable. Belief had splintered into many sects, and affairs had fallen into disarray.

🌸The way out had narrowed and the path of return had become blind. Guidance had fallen silent, and blindness had become widespread. The All-Merciful God was disobeyed, and Satan was given support.

🌸They had been blinded by hardships, and truth and falsehood were mingled. The way was lost, and blindness of heart held sway over all. The All-Merciful God was disobeyed, and Satan was aided; faith was left without support. Its pillars were overturned, its signs altered; its paths erased and its roads effaced. They obeyed Satan and followed the ways of his misguidance, drinking from the springs of his wretchedness. With their help, his banners advanced, and the standard of disbelief stood upright amid trials that trampled them beneath their sandals like camels, crushed them with their hooves like oxen, and reared over them on the tips of their hooves like horses. In those trials they wandered, bewildered, ignorant and deluded, in the finest of lands, the sacred city of Mecca, among the worst of neighbours, the Quraysh unbelievers—neighbours whose sleep brought wakefulness, and whose kohl was flowing tears. In that land, the learned were bridled, while the ignorant were honoured with every kind of prestige and esteem.

🌿Among these words is what he says of the Prophet’s family, peace and blessings be upon him:

🔆هُمْ مَوْضِعُ سِرِّهِ وَ لَجَأُ أَمْرِهِ وَ عَيْبَةُ عِلْمِهِ وَ مَوْئِلُ حُكْمِهِ وَ كُهُوفُ كُتُبِهِ وَ جِبَالُ دِينِهِ بِهِمْ أَقَامَ انْحِنَاءَ ظَهْرِهِ وَ أَذْهَبَ ارْتِعَادَ فَرَائِصِهِ‏

🌸The family of the Messenger, may God’s blessings be upon him and them, are the repository of his hidden secrets, the refuge in matters of religion, the treasury of his knowledge, and the source of deliverance from his rulings, through recourse to whom people find release from the wilderness of helplessness and bewilderment. They are the storehouse of his Books and the mountains of his religion, preserving it from agitation, distortion and alteration, just as mountains preserve the earth from upheaval and instability. Through their presence, he straightened the bent and crookedness in his back, weakened as it was in the early days of Islam; and through them he dispelled the trembling in the flesh between his ribs and shoulders, born of fear for the faith and concern for the realm of the revealed law.

🌿وَ مِنْهَا [فِي الْمُنَافِقِينَ‏] يَعْنِي قَوْماً آخَرِينَ‏

🔆زَرَعُوا الْفُجُورَ وَ سَقَوْهُ الْغُرُورَ وَ حَصَدُوا الثُّبُورَ

🌸The hypocrites sowed corruption and debauchery, watered them with delusion, and reaped misery.

🔆لَا يُقَاسُ بِآلِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص مِنْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ أَحَدٌ وَ لَا يُسَوَّى بِهِمْ مَنْ جَرَتْ نِعْمَتُهُمْ عَلَيْهِ أَبَداً هُمْ أَسَاسُ الدِّينِ وَ عِمَادُ الْيَقِينِ إِلَيْهِمْ يَفِي‏ءُ الْغَالِي وَ بِهِمْ يُلْحَقُ التَّالِي وَ لَهُمْ خَصَائِصُ حَقِّ الْوِلَايَةِ وَ فِيهِمُ الْوَصِيَّةُ وَ الْوِرَاثَةُ الْآنَ إِذْ رَجَعَ الْحَقُّ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ وَ نُقِلَ إِلَى مُنْتَقَلِه‏

🌸No one in this community can be compared with the Family of Muhammad. How could anyone be their equal, when all blessings flow from them, for all time?

🌸They are the foundation of religion and the pillars of certainty. Whoever goes ahead of them must return to them, and whoever lags behind must catch up with them. Every quality of divinely appointed authority is truly embodied in them; the testament and inheritance belong to them. Now the truth has returned to its rightful people and has been restored to its proper place.

The Sacred Branch of Hadith

🔆🌿 عَنْ عَمَّارٍ السَّابَاطِيِّ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ  أَ فَمَنِ اتَّبَعَ رِضْوانَ اللَّهِ‏ كَمَنْ باءَ بِسَخَطٍ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ مَأْواهُ‏ جَهَنَّمُ وَ بِئْسَ الْمَصِيرُ هُمْ دَرَجاتٌ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ‏  فَقَالَ الَّذِينَ اتَّبَعُوا رِضْوَانَ اللَّهِ هُمُ الْأَئِمَّةُ وَ هُمْ وَ اللَّهِ يَا عَمَّارُ دَرَجَاتٌ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ بِوَلَايَتِهِمْ وَ مَعْرِفَتِهِمْ إِيَّانَا يُضَاعِفُ اللَّهُ لَهُمْ أَعْمَالَهُمْ وَ يَرْفَعُ اللَّهُ لَهُمُ الدَّرَجَاتِ الْعُلَى.[1]

🔆🌿 عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ غَيْرُهُ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ زِيَادٍ الْقَنْدِيِّ عَنْ عَمَّارٍ الْأَسَدِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ- إِلَيْهِ يَصْعَدُ الْكَلِمُ‏ الطَّيِّبُ وَ الْعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ يَرْفَعُهُ‏ وَلَايَتُنَا أَهْلَ‏ الْبَيْتِ‏ وَ أَهْوَى بِيَدِهِ إِلَى صَدْرِهِ فَمَنْ لَمْ يَتَوَلَّنَا لَمْ يَرْفَعِ اللَّهُ لَهُ عَمَلًا.[2]

🔆🌿 عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ وَ يَسْتَنْبِئُونَكَ‏ أَ حَقٌّ هُوَ قَالَ مَا تَقُولُ فِي عَلِيٍ‏ قُلْ إِي وَ رَبِّي‏ إِنَّهُ لَحَقٌ‏ وَ ما أَنْتُمْ بِمُعْجِزِينَ‏.[3]

🔆🌿عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ الدَّيْلَمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ تَغْلِبَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: قُلْتُ لَهُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ قَوْلُهُ- فَلَا اقْتَحَمَ الْعَقَبَةَ  فَقَالَ مَنْ أَكْرَمَهُ اللَّهُ بِوَلَايَتِنَا فَقَدْ جَازَ الْعَقَبَةَ وَ نَحْنُ تِلْكَ الْعَقَبَةُ الَّتِي مَنِ اقْتَحَمَهَا نَجَا قَالَ فَسَكَتَ فَقَالَ لِي فَهَلَّا أُفِيدُكَ حَرْفاً خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَ مَا فِيهَا قُلْتُ بَلَى جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ قَالَ قَوْلُهُ‏ فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ ثُمَّ قَالَ النَّاسُ كُلُّهُمْ عَبِيدُ النَّارِ- غَيْرَكَ وَ أَصْحَابِكَ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ فَكَّ رِقَابَكُمْ مِنَ النَّارِ بِوَلَايَتِنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ.[4]

🔆🌿عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ وَ أَوْفُوا بِعَهْدِي‏ قَالَ بِوَلَايَةِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع‏ أُوفِ بِعَهْدِكُمْ‏ أُوفِ لَكُمْ بِالْجَنَّةِ.[5]

🔆🌿وَ أَنَا الَّذِي أَجْرَيْتُ أَنْهَارَهَا وَ فَجَّرْتُ عُيُونَهَا وَ غَرَسْتُ أَشْجَارَهَا بِإِذْنِ رَبِّي وَ أَنَا عَذَابُ يَوْمِ الظُّلَّةِ وَ أَنَا الْمُنَادِي مِنْ مَكَانٍ قَرِيبٍ قَدْ سَمِعَهُ الثَّقَلَانِ الْجِنُّ وَ الْإِنْسُ وَ فَهِمَهُ قَوْمٌ‏ إِنِّي لَأَسْمَعُ كُلَّ قَوْمٍ الْجَبَّارِينَ وَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ بِلُغَاتِهِمْ وَ أَنَا الْخَضِرُ عَالِمُ مُوسَى وَ أَنَا مُعَلِّمُ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ دَاوُدَ وَ أَنَا ذُو الْقَرْنَيْنِ وَ أَنَا قُدْرَةُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَا سَلْمَانُ وَ يَا جُنْدَبُ أَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَنَا وَ أَنَا مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ مِنِّي قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ يَلْتَقِيانِ بَيْنَهُما بَرْزَخٌ لا يَبْغِيان‏[6]

🔆🌿قَالَ ع‏ أَنَا النُّقْطَةُ أَنَا الْخَطُّ أَنَا الْخَطُّ أَنَا النُّقْطَةُ أَنَا النُّقْطَةُ وَ الْخَطُّ[7]

🔆🌿وَ سُئِلَ ع عَنِ الْعَالَمِ الْعُلْوِيِّ فَقَالَ صُوَرٌ عَارِيَةٌ عَنِ الْمَوَادِّ عَالِيَةٌ عَنِ الْقُوَّةِ وَ الِاسْتِعْدَادِ تَجَلَّى لَهَا فَأَشْرَقَتْ وَ طَالَعَهَا فَتَلَأْلَأَتْ وَ أَلْقَى فِي هُوِيَّتِهَا مِثَالَهُ فَأَظْهَرَ عَنْهَا أَفْعَالَهُ وَ خَلَقَ الْإِنْسَانَ ذَا نَفْسٍ نَاطِقَةٍ إِنْ زَكَّاهَا بِالْعِلْمِ فَقَدْ شَابَهَتْ جَوَاهِرَ أَوَائِلِ عِلَلِهَا وَ إِذَا اعْتَدَلَ مِزَاجُهَا وَ فَارَقَتِ الْأَضْدَادَ فَقَدْ شَارَكَ بِهَا السَّبْعَ الشِّدَاد[8]

🌸🔆 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ ن وَ الْقَلَمِ، قَالَ: إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَلَقَ الْقَلَمَ مِنْ شَجَرَةٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ يُقَالُ لَهَا الْخُلْدُ ثُمَّ قَالَ لِنَهَرٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ كُنَّ مِدَاداً فَجَمَدَ النَّهَرُ- وَ كَانَ أَشَدَّ بَيَاضاً مِنَ الثَّلْجِ وَ أَحْلَى مِنَ الشَّهْدِ- ثُمَّ قَالَ لِلْقَلَمِ اكْتُبْ قَالَ وَ مَا أَكْتُبُ يَا رَبِّ- قَالَ اكْتُبْ مَا كَانَ وَ مَا هُوَ كَائِنٌ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَكَتَبَ الْقَلَمُ فِي رَقٍّ أَشَدَّ بَيَاضاً مِنَ الْفِضَّةِ- وَ أَصْفَى مِنَ الْيَاقُوتِ- ثُمَ‏ طَوَاهُ فَجَعَلَهُ فِي رُكْنِ الْعَرْشِ ثُمَّ خَتَمَ عَلَى فَمِ الْقَلَمِ فَلَمْ يَنْطِقْ بَعْدُ وَ لَا يَنْطِقُ أَبَداً، فَهُوَ الْكِتَابُ الْمَكْنُونُ الَّذِي مِنْهُ النُّسَخُ كُلُّهَا، أَ وَ لَسْتُمْ عَرَباً فَكَيْفَ لَا تَعْرِفُونَ مَعْنَى الْكَلَامِ، وَ أَحَدُكُمْ يَقُولُ لِصَاحِبِهِ انْسَخْ ذَلِكَ الْكِتَابَ- أَ وَ لَيْسَ إِنَّمَا يُنْسَخُ مِنْ كِتَابٍ أُخِذَ مِنَ الْأَصْلِ- وَ هُوَ قَوْلُهُ: إِنَّا كُنَّا نَسْتَنْسِخُ ما كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُون‏[9]

🌸🔆 عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ ن وَ الْقَلَمِ، قَالَ: إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَلَقَ الْقَلَمَ مِنْ شَجَرَةٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ يُقَالُ لَهَا الْخُلْدُ ثُمَّ قَالَ لِنَهَرٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ كُنَّ مِدَاداً فَجَمَدَ النَّهَرُ- وَ كَانَ أَشَدَّ بَيَاضاً مِنَ الثَّلْجِ وَ أَحْلَى مِنَ الشَّهْدِ- ثُمَّ قَالَ لِلْقَلَمِ اكْتُبْ قَالَ وَ مَا أَكْتُبُ يَا رَبِّ- قَالَ اكْتُبْ مَا كَانَ وَ مَا هُوَ كَائِنٌ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ، فَكَتَبَ الْقَلَمُ فِي رَقٍّ أَشَدَّ بَيَاضاً مِنَ الْفِضَّةِ- وَ أَصْفَى مِنَ الْيَاقُوتِ- ثُمَ‏ طَوَاهُ فَجَعَلَهُ فِي رُكْنِ الْعَرْشِ ثُمَّ خَتَمَ عَلَى فَمِ الْقَلَمِ فَلَمْ يَنْطِقْ بَعْدُ وَ لَا يَنْطِقُ أَبَداً، فَهُوَ الْكِتَابُ الْمَكْنُونُ الَّذِي مِنْهُ النُّسَخُ كُلُّهَا، أَ وَ لَسْتُمْ عَرَباً فَكَيْفَ لَا تَعْرِفُونَ مَعْنَى الْكَلَامِ، وَ أَحَدُكُمْ يَقُولُ لِصَاحِبِهِ انْسَخْ ذَلِكَ الْكِتَابَ- أَ وَ لَيْسَ إِنَّمَا يُنْسَخُ مِنْ كِتَابٍ أُخِذَ مِنَ الْأَصْلِ- وَ هُوَ قَوْلُهُ: إِنَّا كُنَّا نَسْتَنْسِخُ ما كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُون‏[10]

🌸🔆 عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى ع قَالَ‏ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ ن وَ الْقَلَمِ وَ ما يَسْطُرُونَ‏ فَالنُّونُ‏ اسْمٌ‏ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ الْقَلَمُ اسْمٌ لِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمَا وَ عَلَى ذُرِّيَتِهِمَا.[11]

🌸🔆 عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ دَلْهَمِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ بْنِ مُزَاحِمٍ قَالَ لَمَّا رَأَتْ قُرَيْشٌ تَقْدِيمَ النَّبِيِّ ص عَلِيّاً ع وَ إِعْظَامَهُ لَهُ نَالُوا مِنْ عَلِيٍّ ع فَقَالُوا قَدِ افْتَتَنَ بِهِ مُحَمَّدٌ ص فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى ن وَ الْقَلَمِ وَ ما يَسْطُرُونَ قَسَمٌ أَقْسَمَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِهِ ما أَنْتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ وَ إِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْراً غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ وَ إِنَّكَ لَعَلى‏ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَ يُبْصِرُونَ بِأَيِّكُمُ الْمَفْتُونُ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ ضَلَّ عَنْ سَبِيلِهِ وَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ وَ سَبِيلُهُ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ʿ[12]

🌸🔆 فَأَخْبِرْنِي مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ قَالَ‏ ن وَ الْقَلَمِ‏ قَالَ وَ مَا تَفْسِيرُ ن وَ الْقَلَمِ‏ قَالَ النُّونُ اللَّوْحُ الْمَحْفُوظُ وَ الْقَلَمُ‏ نُورٌ سَاطِعٌ‏ وَ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ‏ ن وَ الْقَلَمِ وَ ما يَسْطُرُونَ‏  قَالَ صَدَقْتَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ قَالَ فَأَخْبِرْنِي وَ مَا طُولُهُ وَ مَا عَرْضُهُ وَ مَا مِدَادُهُ وَ أَيْنَ مَجْرَاهُ قَالَ طُولُ الْقَلَمِ خَمْسُ مِائَةِ سَنَةٍ وَ عَرْضُهُ مَسِيرَةُ ثَمَانِينَ سَنَةً لَهُ ثَمَانُونَ سِنّاً يَخْرُجُ الْمِدَادُ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَسْنَانِهِ يَجْرِي فِي اللَّوْح‏[13]

🌼 Ali Saʿi (ʿAbdullah Mishkat) 110.141 (903)  🌼

[1] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 1, p. 430

[2] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 1, p. 430

[3] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 1, p. 430

[4] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 1, p. 430

[5] Al-Kāfī (Islamic edition), vol. 1, p. 430

[6]Biḥār al-Anwār (Beirut edition), vol. 26, p. 6

[7] The Virtues of the Family of Abū Ṭālib (by Ibn Shahrāshūb), vol. 2, p. 49

[8] The Virtues of the Family of Abū Ṭālib (by Ibn Shahrāshūb), vol. 2, p. 49

[9]Tafsīr al-Qummī, vol. 2, p. 379

[10]Tafsīr al-Qummī, vol. 2, p. 379

[11]Interpretation of the Manifest Verses on the Virtues of the Pure Household, p. 685

[12]  Interpretation of the Manifest Verses on the Virtues of the Pure Household, p. 686

[13] Al-Ikhtiṣāṣ, text, p. 49