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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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Then comes retribution, justice, the fulfillment of rights, recompense, the cycle of the kingdom and its duration, and the execution of Your will therein with justice, truth, and sincerity. As for the knowledge of what lies beyond that, it belongs to You, and upon us is contentment with You and submission to Your command."

Then I fell prostrate, and my Master, the Commander of the Faithful—mighty is his might—said to me: "Woe to them, O Salman! If only they had heard the knowledge of what you have said—but how can they hear it when I announced it to them and called out with it in eternity? Yet they were arrogantly proud with manifest pride and strayed into far-reaching error. I have entrusted their reckoning to My Name and My Veil, and to him is their return; and My Name suffices as a witness over them."

Without dispute among the Unitarians (al-Muwahhida) and the rest of the Shi'a, our Master, the Commander of the Faithful—mighty is his might—commanded the wind to carry him on a carpet to the People of the Cave (Ahl al-Kahf), and he addressed them and called them, and they answered him. He informed them of what was and what will be. The report is famous; we have summarized what we mentioned of it. It has also been narrated from him regarding what he manifested on the Day of Khaybar: when he shook the gate, the wall trembled, and he took the gate and flung it into the air upward until it vanished from the eyes of the people. Then it fell, and its distance was measured; it was forty cubits away.

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