1st Sermon of Imam Ali A.S

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="Section1"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b style="font-family: '';"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-size: 17.5pt;">In this sermon he recalls the creation of Earth and Sky and the birth of Adam.</span></b></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.05pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 103%;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 103%;">Praise is due to Allah whose worth cannot be described by speakers, whose bounties cannot be counted by calculators and whose claim (to obedience</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 103%;">) cannot be satisfied by those who attempt to do so, whom the height of intellectual courage cannot appreciate, and the diving’s of understanding cannot reach; He for whose description no limit has been laid down, no eulogy exists, no time is ordained and no duration is fixed.</span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 70.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 100%;">He brought forth creation through His Omnipotence, dispersed winds through His Compassion, and made firm the shaking earth with rocks.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 3pt 0.0001pt 0in;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.15pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 103%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 5.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 103%;">The foremost in religion is the acknowledgement of Him, the perfection of acknowledging Him is to testify Him, the perfection of testifying Him is to believe in His Oneness, the perfection of believing in His Oneness is to regard Him Pure, and the perfection of His purity is to deny Him attributes, because every attribute is a proof that it is different from that to which it is attributed and everything to which something is attributed is different from the attribute.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 103%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 13.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">Thus whoever attaches attributes to Allah recognizes His like, and who recognizes His like regards Him two; and who regards Him two recognizes parts for Him; and who recognizes parts for Him mistook Him; and who mistook Him pointed at Him; and who pointed at Him admitted limitations for Him; and who admitted limitations for Him numbered Him.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.95pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 302.05pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">                                                                                                     <o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">Whoever said in what is He, held that He is contained; and whoever said on what is He held He is not on something else. He is a Being but not through phenomenon of coming into being. He exists but not from non-existence. He is with everything but not in physical nearness.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 99%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 99%;">He is different from everything but not in physical separation.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 99%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">He acts but without connotation of movements and instruments. He sees even when there is none to be looked at from among His creation. He is only One, such that there is none with whom He may keep company or whom He may miss in his absence.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2457603084608122221" name="page298"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">The Creation of the Universe</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 103%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 103%;">He initiated creation most initially and commenced it originally, without undergoing reflection, without making use of any experiment, without innovating any movement, and without experiencing any aspiration of mind. He allotted all things their times, put together their variations gave them their properties, and determined their features knowing them before creating them, realizing fully their limits and confines and appreciating their propensities and intricacies.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 103%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">When Almighty created the openings of atmosphere, expanse of firmament and strata of winds, He flowed into it water whose waves were stormy and whose surges leapt one over the other.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.9pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 13.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">He loaded it on dashing wind and breaking typhoons, ordered them to shed it back (as rain), gave the wind control over the vigor of the rain, and acquainted it with its limitations. The wind blew under it while water flowed furiously over it.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.9pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 103%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 13.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 103%;">Then Almighty created forth wind and made its movement sterile, perpetuated its position, intensified its motion and spread it far and wide. Then He ordered the wind to rise up deep waters and to intensify the waves of the oceans. So the wind churned it like the churning of curd and pushed it fiercely into the firmament throwing its front position on the rear and the stationary on the flowing till its level was raised and the surface was full of foam.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 103%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.8pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 103%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 103%;">Then Almighty raised the foam on to the open wind and vast firmament and made there-from the seven skies and made the lower one as a stationary surge and the upper one as protective ceiling and a high edifice without any pole to support it or nail to hold it together. Then He decorated them with stars and the light of meteors and hung in it the shining sun and effulgent moon under the revolving sky, moving ceiling and rotating firmament.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 103%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 99%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 99%;">The Creation of the Angels</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 99%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">Then He created the openings between high skies and filled them with all classes of His angels. Some of them are in prostration and do not kneel up. Others in kneeling position and do not stand up.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.9pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 15.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">Some of them are in array and do not leave their position. Others are extolling Allah and do not get tired. The sleep of the eye or the slip of wit or languor of the body or the effect of forgetfulness does not affect them.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.9pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 8.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 108%;">Among them are those who work as trusted bearers of His message, those who serve as speaking tongues for His prophets and those who carry to and fro His orders and injunctions.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2457603084608122221" name="page299"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 8.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 8.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 108%;">Among them are the protectors of His creatures and guards of the doors of the gardens of Paradise.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 108%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.15pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 103%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 2.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 103%;">Among them are those also whose steps are fixed on earth but their necks are protruding into the skies, their limbs are getting out on all sides, their shoulders are in accord with the columns of the Divine Throne, their eyes are downcast before it, they have spread down their wings under it and they have rendered between themselves and all else curtains of honor and screens of power. They do not think of their Creator through image, do not impute to Him attributes of the created, do not confine Him within abodes and do not point at Him through illustrations.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 103%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Description of the Creation of Adam</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">Allah collected from hard, soft, sweet and sour earth, clay which He dripped in water till it got pure, and kneaded it with moisture till it became gluey. From it He carved an image with curves, joints, limbs and segments. He solidified it till it dried up for a fixed time and a known duration.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.95pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 8.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">Then He blew into it out of His Spirit whereupon it took the pattern of a human being with mind that governs him, intelligence which he makes use of, limbs that serve him, organs that change his position, sagacity that differentiates between truth and untruth, tastes and smells, colors and species.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.95pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 2.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 100%;">He is a mixture of clays of different colors, cohesive materials, divergent contradictories and differing properties like heat, cold, softness and hardness.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.15pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 9.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">Then Allah asked the angels to fulfill His promise with them and to accomplish the pledge of His injunction to them by acknowledging Him through prostration to Him and submission to His honored position. So Allah said:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.9pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 40.0pt; margin-right: 47.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 100%;">"Be prostrate towards Adam and they prostrated except Iblis (Satan)." (Qur'an, 2:34; 7:11; 17:61; 18:50; 20:116)</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.15pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 41.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 100%;">Self-importance withheld him and vice overcame him. So that he took pride in his own creation with fire and treated contemptuously the creation of clay.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.15pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 100%;">So Allah allowed him time in order to let him fully deserve His wrath, and to complete (man's) test and to fulfill the promise (He had made to Satan). Thus, He said:<o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 42.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 100%;">"Verily you have been allowed time till the known Day." (Qur'an, 15:38; 38:81)<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2457603084608122221" name="page300"></a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 99%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 99%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 99%;">Thereafter, Allah inhabited Adam (p.b.u.h.) in a house where He made his life pleasant and his stay safe, and He cautioned him of Iblis and his enmity. Then his enemy (Iblis) envied his abiding in Paradise and his contacts with the virtuous.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 99%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.9pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 3.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">So he changed his conviction into wavering and determination into weakness. He thus converted his happiness into fear and his prestige into shame. Then Allah offered to Adam (p. b.u.h.) the chance to repent, taught him words of His Mercy, promised him return to His Paradise and sent him down to the place of trial and procreation of progeny.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.4pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Allah chooses His Prophets</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 7.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">From his (Adam's) progeny Allah chose prophets and took their pledge for his revelation and for carrying His message as their trust. In course of time many people perverted Allah's trust with them and ignored His position and took compeers along with Him. Satan turned them away from knowing Him and kept them aloof from His worship.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.95pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 103%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 2.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 103%;">Then Allah sent His Messengers and series of His prophets towards them to get them to fulfill the pledges of His creation, to recall to them His bounties, to exhort them by preaching, to unveil before them the hidden virtues of wisdom and show them the signs of His Omnipotence namely the sky which is raised over them, the earth that is placed beneath them, means of living that sustain them, deaths that make them die, ailments that turn them old and incidents that successively betake them.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 103%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 20.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 100%;">Allah never allowed His creation to remain without a Prophet deputized by Him, or a book sent down from Him or a binding argument or a standing plea.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.15pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 5.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">These Messengers were such that they did not feel little because of smallness of their number or of largeness of the number of their falsifiers. Among them was either a predecessor who would name the one to follow or the follower who had been introduced by the predecessor.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 99%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 99%;">The Prophethood of Muhammmad(s)</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 99%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">In this way ages passed by and times rolled on, fathers passed away while sons took their places till Allah deputized Muhammmad (peace be upon him and his progeny) as His Prophet, in fulfillment of His promise and in completion of His Prophethood.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.9pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 4.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">His pledge had been taken from the Prophets, his traits of character were well reputed and his birth was honorable. The people of the earth at this time were divided in different parties, their aims were separate and ways were diverse.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2457603084608122221" name="page301"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 4.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 4.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">They either likened Allah with His creation or twisted His Names or turned to else than Him. Through Muhammmad (p.b.u.h.a.h.p.) Allah guided them out of wrong and with his efforts took them out of ignorance.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.9pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">Then Allah chose for Muhammmad, peace be upon him and on his progeny, to meet Him, selected him for His own nearness, regarded him too dignified to remain in this world and decided to remove him from this place of trial.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.9pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 17.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 100%;">So He drew him towards Himself with honor. Allah may shower His blessing on him, and his progeny.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.6pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Holy Qur'an and Sunnah</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 103%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 2.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 103%;">But the Prophet left among you the same which other Prophets left among their peoples, because Prophets do not leave them untended (in dark) without a clear path and a standing ensign, namely the Book of your Creator clarifying its permission and prohibitions, its obligations and discretion, its repealing injunctions and the repealed ones, its permissible matters and compulsory ones, its particulars and the general ones, its lessons and illustrations, its long and the short ones, its clear and obscure ones, detailing its abbreviations and clarifying its obscurities.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 103%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.6pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 82%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 8.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 82%;">In it there are some verses whose knowledge is obligatory and others whose ignorance by the people is permissible.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 82%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.15pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 88%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 9.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 88%;">It also contains what appears to be obligatory according to the Book but its repeal is signified by the Prophet's action (sunnah) or that which appears compulsory according to the Prophet's action but the Book allows not following it.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 88%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 8.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">Or there are those which are obligatory in a given time but not so after that time. Its prohibitions also differ. Some are major regarding which there exists the threat of fire (Hell), and others are minor for which there are prospects of forgiveness.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.9pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 100%;">There are also those of which a small portion is also acceptable (to Allah) but they are capable of being expanded.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.6pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In this very sermon he spoke about Hajj</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 12.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">Allah has made obligatory upon you the pilgrimage (hajj) to His sacred House which is the turning point for the people who go to it as beasts or pigeons go towards spring water. Allah the glorified made it a sign of their supplication before His Greatness and their</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2457603084608122221" name="page302"></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">acknowledgement of His Dignity.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">He selected from among His creation those who on listening to His call responded to it and testified His word. They stood in the position of His Prophets and resembled His angels who surround the Divine Throne securing all the benefits of performing His worship and hastening towards His promised forgiveness.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.95pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 102%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 7.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 102%;">Allah the glorified made it (His sacred House) an emblem for Islam and an object of respect for those who turn to it. He made obligatory its pilgrimage and laid down its claim for which He held you responsible to discharge it.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 102%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.35pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Thus, Allah the glorified said:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 215pt;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 40.0pt; margin-right: 47.0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 108%;">". . . And (purely) for Allah, is incumbent upon mankind, the pilgrimage to the House, for those who can afford to journey thither. And whoever denied then verily, Allah is Self-sufficiently independent of the worlds" (Qur'an, 3:96).</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 108%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> </div> </div> </div>

1st Sermon of Imam Ali A.S

In this sermon he recalls the creation of Earth and Sky and the birth of Adam. Praise is due to Allah whose worth cannot be descri...

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