The Second Verse: From Surah An-Naml: [“Say, 'None in the heavens and earth knows the unseen except Allah, and they do not perceive when they will be resurrected.'”] 1
Indeed, the particle la (“none”) appearing after qul (“Say”) denotes negation, and the particle illa (“except”) appearing before the word of Majesty [Allah] denotes restriction (al-hasr). Meaning, Allah, Glory be to Him, negated the knowledge of the unseen from all who are in the heavens and the earth and restricted it to His Essence alone. And it has been established from various exoteric (al-zahiriyyah) books and through numerous paths of transmission that our master the Commander of the Faithful spoke of the unseen and informed of events and matters occurring in the present and the future, and they occurred exactly as he informed about them, in numbers that cannot be counted or numbered. It came in the book Irshad al-Qulub by its author, the Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Hasan bin Abi al-Hasan Muhammad al-Daylami, with this text: