Al-Karaki Epistle

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.

Prepared and Authenticated by The Doctrinal Katiba of Muhammad bin Nusayr