The martyr of the month of Ramadan-2

In the holy Quran there are many verses that Imam Ali and the infallible progeny of the Prophet of Islam are mentioned. A lot of these verses are accepted by all branches of Islam. Despite of this point that the name of Imam Ali is not explicitly mentioned in the Quran (due to some reasons), but a lot of the verses that talk about them, are in a way that cannot be compatible to anyone other than them.

So let’s see some of these verses.

-The verse of Tabligh or propagation

According to the verse 67 in chapter Maedah:

يَا أَيُّهَا الرَّسُولُ بَلِّغْ مَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِن رَّبِّكَ وَإِن لَّمْ تَفْعَلْ فَمَا بَلَّغْتَ رِسَالَتَهُ وَاللّهُ يَعْصِمُكَ مِنَ النَّاسِ إِنَّ اللّهَ لاَ يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْكَافِرِينَ

“O messenger, deliver what is sent down to you from your lord; if you do not, you will not have conveyed his message. Allah protects you from the people. Allah does not guide the nation, the unbelievers.”

According to all exegesis nooks of Shia and a lot of the Sunni ones, this verse was descended about Imam Ali and the story in brief is that the Prophet of Islam in his last pilgrimage of Kaba(the house of Allah in Mecca)was ordered by Allah to announce the mastership of Imam Ali. So the Prophet after delivering a sermon in front of thousands of people, declared his very famous sentence:

من کنت مولاه فهذا علی مولاه

“Of whomsoever I am the master, then Ali is his master.”

-The verse of Wilayah or leadership

In verse 55 in chapter Maedah we read:

إِنَّمَا وَلِيُّكُمُ اللّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ الَّذِينَ يُقِيمُونَ الصَّلاَةَ وَيُؤْتُونَ الزَّكَاةَ وَهُمْ رَاكِعُونَ

“Your guide is only Allah, his messenger, and the believers; those who establish the prayer, pay their obligatory charity, and bow down (in worship).”

The story is that a poor man entered the mosque and asked the people to help him, no one answered him except Imam Ali that was in his prayer in the state of Roku (bowing) and he gave that poor his ring.

-The verse of Sadiqin or the truthful.

Allah has an order to the believers in chapter Toabah verse 119:

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ اتَّقُواْ اللّهَ وَكُونُواْ مَعَ الصَّادِقِينَ

“Believers, fear Allah and stand with the truthful.”

This verse in explained by Ibn Abbas (the great companion of the Prophet of Islam and the commentator of the holy Quran) that the truthful in this verse means Ali.

The argument that is used (apart from the above saying) is that in this verse Allah ordered the believers to be and stand with the truthful, and this order has no condition, it means that this verse did not order to be with the truthful only if they are so and so. And this kind of order is not correct except if we are ordered to be with the infallible and sinless people, because the one who sometimes commits sin we should not be with him at the time of committing the sin, and the one that always is away from the disobedience of Allah and we can always stand with him, is no one other than the infallible, and according to the different branches of Islam these sinless and infallible people are the honorable household of the Prophet of Islam i.e. the Prophet, Imam Ali, Lady Fatimah, and their infallible sons, and this(their infallibility) is something which the history bears witness. So the truthful in this verse is not just the one that does not tell lies, but rather is the one that never tell or do any vain intentionally or unintentionally.

-The verse of Mawaddah or deep love.

In chapter Shoora verse 23 we read:

قُل لَّا أَسْأَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ أَجْرًا إِلَّا الْمَوَدَّةَ فِي الْقُرْبَى

“Say: ‘for this I ask of you no wage except the love of the (prophet’s) relatives.”

Ibn Abbas narrated that the companions of the Prophet of Islam asked him: Who are these people that we are ordered to have Mawaddah of them? And the prophet replied:

They are Ali, Fatimah and their sons.

To be continued.