So the Messenger of Allah, majestic is His mention, said: "I have a deity among Quraysh, my deity with the caravan in the journey of winter and summer, {So let them worship the Lord of this House, who has fed them against hunger and secured them against fear.'} 1
And the one who fed against hunger and secured against fear was the Prince of the Bees (Amir al-Nahl), majestic is His power; so this sect excelled by worshipping the existing entity, and they did not worship a non-existent thing.
And what validates and confirms that is the saying of the Messenger, majestic is His mention, when manifesting the transition to the elite and the common people, where he said: "When I die, the first to pray over me is my Lord and my angels, and after that, the believers."
And this is agreed upon by both the ally and the opponent: that the first to pray over him was the Prince of the Believers, Ali, majestic is His mention, after he washed him outwardly,




