The word Mawla calculates in the minor Abjad (al-Jummal al-Saghir) to twenty-six, and likewise the word Nasir (helper), aligning with the word “Ali,” which reaches the exact same number. The mention of this has already preceded at the beginning of this chapter. And it is stated in the book Al-Kawkab al-Durri after some words: “So Gabriel ascended to his place and descended upon him on the second day while he was at Ghadir Khumm, and he said:
'O Muhammad, indeed Allah says to you: O Messenger, announce that which has been revealed to you from your Lord; indeed, Ali is the Mawla of the believers, etc.'”
The Fourth Verse: [“But if they intend to deceive you - then sufficient for you is Allah. It is He who supported you with His help and with the believers.”] 1
The address in the verse is directed to the Master Messenger—His might was mighty—meaning: in the event that the disbelievers practice hypocrisy and deception toward you by showing the opposite of what they conceal and attempting to plot against you, your sufficiency and the one who suffices you is your Mawla, the Commander of the Faithful. For he will repel their plot from you and secure your victory over your enemies. And was the victory of the Messenger supported, and the foundations of Islam firmly established, by anyone other than him—exalted is his praise?
[64] And from the book Yanabi' al-Mawaddah, Abu Nu'aym al-Hafiz transmitted with his chain of narration from Abu Salih, from Ibn Abbas, and Abu Hurayrah,