“Ibn Masirah bin Khudramah al-Kufi narrated to me, saying: My father narrated to me from one of the followers of al-Husayn—Exalted is His might—that the Commander of the Faithful passed through the land of Babylon, and I was traveling with him along with a group. A great lion emerged from one of the valleys, approached the Commander of the Faithful—Exalted is His might—prostrated to him, greeted him with peace, and wagged its tail. He returned the greeting, then it turned away and hurried in its walking.”
The Second Verse: [“That is because Allah is the Truth, and that what they call upon other than Him is falsehood, and because Allah is the Most High (al-'Ali), the Grand.”] 1
In this verse, there are two allusions that our master is the Creator in His Essence:
The First: In the phrase “That is because Allah is the Truth.” It is reported in the book Qada' Amir al-Mu'minin and others, from our master al-Sadiq—Exalted is His might—meaning what he said concerning so-and-so and so-and-so (meaning the first and the second):