علي بن

He who denies the Midnight Ascension is belying Rasulullah (s).

My father `Ali b. Abi Talib (as) narrated to me. He said: The Prophet (s) said to me: You are the best of people, and no one will have doubt regarding you except a disbeliever.

I asked Abu’l-Hasan, Ali bin Musa al-Rida, peace be upon them both, about the saying of Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He: «Indeed, We presented the trust upon the Heavens, the earth and the mountains, but they refused to carry it and feared it, and it was carried by the human being. He is, indeed, wrong-doing, ignorant.» (33:72) So he said: The trust is the Divine Authority; he who proclaims it without right, has disbelieved.

“Today no one is a feeble-minded person. Men have informed men and women have informed women.”

There are two groups of people in my nation who have not benefited from Islam at all. They are the Boasters and the Qadarites .’”

“Once I said to the Imam, ‘I am afraid of the prayer of Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) against Yaqtin and his offspring.’ The Imam said, ‘O Abu al-Hasan, it is not as you think. A believer in the loins of an unbeliever is like a small piece of stone in a brick. Rain can wash away the brick but it never harms the solid piece of stone.’”

Whoever believes in transmigration is an unbeliever.’ Then he (a.s.) added: ‘May God damn the exaggerators. I wish they were Jews! I wish they were Magi! I wish they were Christians! I wish they were of the Qadarites! I wish they were of the Marja’ites! I wish they were of the Harawies!’ The Imam (a.s.) then added, ‘Do not associate with or be friends with the exaggerators. Despise them as God has.’”

I wrote to Abi Ja`far Muhammad b. `Ali b. Musa al-Rida (as): May I be your sacrifice! I pray behind one who claims the doctrine of the body and takes the doctrine of Yunus b. `Abd al-Rahman. So, he (as) wrote: Do not pray behind them, and do not give them zakat. I dissociate from them, and Allah dissociates from them.

Commander of the Faithful (AS) said to a man, “If you do not wish to obey your Creator, then do not eat of His Sustenance. And if you support His Enemy (Satan), then leave His Realm. If you are dissatisfied with His destiny and His Divine Decree, then find a Lord other than Him.”

“Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.) has said, ‘It is to disbelieve Allah to disown one’s lineage even though it (the lineage) is very lowly.’”

“Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘Looking at the private parts of non-Muslims is like looking at the private parts of donkeys.’”

“The Holy Prophet has said, ‘The pillars of disbelief are four: Greed, Fear, Resentment and Anger.’”

They are insulting `Ali. He said: Bring me closer to them. When he reached them, he said: Did you insult Allah? They said: May Allah be glorified! Whoever insults Allah has associated partners with Allah. He said: Then, did you insult the Messenger of Allah (s)? They said: Whoever insults the Messenger of Allah has disbelieved. He said: Then, did you insult `Ali b. Abi Talib (as)? They said: This is what happened. He said: I testify by Allah and I testify for Allah that I heard the Messenger of Allah (s) say: “Whoever insults `Ali has insulted me, and whoever insults me has insulted Allah.” Then, he went. So, he said to his guide: Did they say anything when I said what I said to them? He said: They did not say anything. He said: Did you see [the expressions on] their faces? He said: They looked at you with reddened eyes, as a goat looks to the knife of a butcher. He said: Explain further for me, may your father be your sacrifice. He said: The eyes squinted and the brows furrowed, the ears lowered in humiliation – it was the look of a servile man to a glorious and dominant man. He said: Explain further for me, may your father be your sacrifice. He said: I have nothing except this. He said: Rather, to me, their living ones are a humiliation for their dead ones, and their dead ones are a shame for the ancients.

Whoever dies without following a Divine Leader from among my progeny is regarded as one of those who died during the Age of Ignorance (before Islam). His deeds are not accepted whether he has performed them during the Age of Ignorance or after the advent of Islam.”

“Whoever would claim to be the Imam and in fact he would not be the Imam he would be a unbeliever.”

“Once I asked Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) ‘Does anyone, other than the believers, has any reward with Allah for his good deeds?’ The Imam said, ‘No, there is no one as such.’”

“Abu Ja’far (a.s.) has said, ‘It is to disbelieve Allah, the Most Great, to disown one’s lineage even though it is very lowly. ’”

“Nine imams are after al-Husayn bin Ali. The ninth one is al-Qa’im.”

“Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘If one becomes a Muslim before the legacy is distributed, he receives his share but if one becomes a Muslim after the legacy is distributed then there is nothing for him.’”

“The Messenger of Allah has said, ‘Among the signs of wickedness is piercing eyes (devoid of bashfulness), hardheartedness, intense greed for worldly gains and persistence in sins.’”