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Al-Karaki Epistle - Jamal al-Din al-Karaki

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So the mountain moved by the saying of al-Sadiq, so he said to it: "I did not mean you," so it stopped.

[12] And he, transcended his might, said: "Indeed, we have servants who, if they said to the mountain 'move', it would move." Al-Mufaddal, from him be peace, said: So when one of them had already arrived, then behold, he was a disheveled, dusty man as if he were of the wild beasts, al-Mufaddal said to him: "If you said to the mountain 'move', it moves?!" He said: Yes. He said: "It obeys you as it obeys my master?!" He said: Yes, and the people of the heavens and the earth obey me. He said to him: "And the people of the heavens and the earth obey you?" He said: Yes, and my master also obeys me!! So al-Mufaddal denied and said: "And my master obeys you?!" He said: Yes.

He said: "How does he obey you?" He said: I call Him and He answers me, and I ask Him and He gives me, so what thing of obedience is closer than this?! So al-Sadiq, transcended his might, smiled.

[13] And from that is what Abu al-Hasan Ali bin Muhammad al-Kufi narrated on the authority of Ali bin Ali al-Ablaq, raising the report on the authority of his sheikhs, he said al-Sadiq, transcended his might, said: "Indeed,

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