THE WORD OF VERIFICATION

In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.

{Praise be to Allah, who has guided us to this; and we would never have been guided if Allah had not guided us. Certainly the messengers of our Lord had come with the truth.}

Our Master, the Commander of the Faithful—His Might be exalted—said: "By us you were guided in the darkness, and you ascended the peak of the heights, and by us you emerged from the end of the lunar month into the dawn."

So, praise be to Him, as He has granted us success through His success and directed us through His direction to be servants of His narration; a praise in which we say as our Master Zain al-Abidin said: "Then to Him belongs praise in place of every favor He has bestowed upon us and upon all His servants, the past and the remaining, to the number of all things His knowledge encompasses; and in place of every single one of them, their number in multiple folds, perpetually and eternally until the Day of Resurrection.