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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

Guidance for the Seeker and the Lamp for the Monotheist - Abu Salih al-Daylami

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The scribe then provided evidence against him using the sayings of the People of the Ranks (Ahl al-Marātib) from both the Greater World (the Macrocosm/Celestial) and the Lesser World (the Microcosm/Human): that Ali ibn Abi Talib is [in reality] the High, the Great (al-‘Ali al-Kabīr). Regarding him, the 'Orphan of God's Religion,' Abu al-Ghuṣn Juḥā, said:

'The ultimate goal of both the Sought and the Seeker

Is the love of Ali ibn Abi Talib.'

And our Master and Jurist, al-Husayn ibn Hamdan al-Khaṣībī—may Allah sanctify his soul—said in his famous poem known as al-Ghadīriyya:"

"The Master of al-Finjuwayn... the Light of Abu Talib.

And his [Al-Khaṣībī’s] saying in it [the Ghadīriyya poem]:

'That is the Master of Masters, in Truth,

And there is no Master besides Him, in the First or the Last.'

Were it not for the fear of being too lengthy, or overstepping the bounds of the author of this book, the scribe would have brought forth many [more] things and abundant knowledge to inform that Ali ibn Abi Talib is indeed the Worshipped Lord.

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