{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/abr01.htm","path":"isl/pro/abr01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/abr01.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nThe\nInfallibility of God's Viceroys\nIt is mentioned that\nafter giving the glad tidings for the God's friend that he will become\na viceroy and a messenger and a prophet, he wished that this would be\nalso in his descendants and asked that from God, so The Wise said to\nhim: My covenant includeth not\nwrong-doers(Al-Baqarah:124). As reported from Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH): God\ntook Abraham as a slave before He takes him as a prophet, and took him\nas a prophet before He takes him as a messenger, and then took him as a\nmessenger before He takes him as a Friend, and He took him as a friend\nbefore He makes him a leader, so He gathered for him all of that He\nsaid unto him: Lo! I have appointed thee a\nleader for mankind(Al-Baqarah:124). Then he said (PUH): and because it\nwas so great as seen by Abraham (PUH) he said \"And\nof my offspring\"(Al-Baqarah:124), so then God answered him back by\nsaying: My covenant includeth not\nwrong-doers(Al-Baqarah:124), and the complete holy phrase from the\nchapter of Al-Baqarah, God said: And (remember)\nwhen his Lord tried Abraham with (His)\ncommands, and he fulfilled them, He said: Lo! I have appointed thee a\nleader for mankind. (Abraham) said: And of my offspring (will there be\nleaders) ? He said: My covenant includeth not\nwrong-doers(Al-Baqarah:124) and this holy phrase assures that giving\nthe commandments of God is done only for the infallible and the\npurified\u00a0 faithful people, and although this holy phrase points\nout that the wrong-doer and the disbeliever do not take such a high\nplace (to take the covenant) even though if it was just a period of his\nlife, but it is also understood from it that he and his ancestors must\nbe purified and infallible as well, so whoever becomes and enemy for\nGod for some time in his life can not be a prophet or a viceroy of a\nprophet, and from this we move to the point of saying that his fathers\nand ancestors are infallible and purified and faithful, and we don't\nsay that a prophet or a messenger or someone that takes their place\nthat he is born from a pagan ancestor or father or being born of a sin,\nor he would be cursed for this and would be mocked of that because it\nis a bad character, and God, the Exalted, does not allow bad characters\nfor His messengers to His creation, or it would be said that a son of a\npagan or a son of unknown father was sent to us, and they say that\ndisbelieving is a devil, but does a devil give birth except for a\ndevil? and what a colocynth would yield except a colocynth? and God is\nable to give to His creation only a purified leader from purified\nancestors until the end of the chain to Adam that was created by His\nhands as a holy and a purified creature and guided him, so how come He\nallows that a messenger or a viceroy that was appointed by His\nappointment to be a son of a pagan or that he himself was pagan and an\nidol worshipper even if it was for some time, but highness is only for\nGod and His messenger and for the believers. And\nif you are in a doubt of the rule of the mind about this matter for\nsome soul sickness then we have, and thanks for God, what makes us\nconfident and what makes us even more sure than before, from speeches\nand talks reported from the prophet (PUH) and his Household (PUT) as\nthey report them from their grandfather the chosen prophet and the\nowner of the holy quran and it is the ultimate prove.\nIt is mentioned and reported from them (PUT) that the prophet (PUH)\nsaid: I've became to existance from purified ancestors and purified\nwombs..etc, in a long speech that was some of it and with the same\nmeaning comes a lot from the infallible Household members. And in\nZiy\u00e2rat W\u00e2ri\u00fe [a ritual or a calling famous with this\nname, it resembles a visit to the shrine of some holy viceroy not\nnecessarily going to his shrine, might be close to the meaning of\nseeking a bless from a saint] for Al-Husain ben `Ali (PUT) and also\nothers in the same way that are approved to be issued from infallible\nImams, in those ritual it is announced that their fathers are purified,\nand the infallible Imam from Al-Husain descendants calls for the\ngrandfather of Al-Husain (PUT) by saying: I testify that you were a\nlight (halo) in the purified ancestry and the purified wombs, never\ntouched by paganism and its uncleanliness and never wore its darkest\ngarments...etc, and if you looked into the famous Ziy\u00e2rat\nAl-Jami`ah [another ritual or visit]\u00a0 which isensured to be issued\nby Al-H\u00e2di (PUH) and if you meditated in its text then you would\nsurely recognize the meaning and know that their fathers are like them,\npurified. You got also Al-S\u00e2heefah Al-Sajj\u00e2diyah [a book's\nname which has many rituals and was founded by `Ali ben Al-Husain\n(PUH)] which will guide you through to the truth, so from their\nprayers, callings and their speeches you can get the absolute truth\nabout this matter, and if you still got doubt about all of that then\nyou have Nahj Al-Balaghah [book's name] which collects some of the\nspeeches for the prince of believers (`Ali ben Abi-T\u00e2lib) (PUH)\nyou will get from it the truth as well, and it is that all of the\nancestors of all the prophets and messengers are purified and also\ntheir viceroys as well, who are appointed by a commandment and not by\nvoting [the author here points out to the main difference between the\nShiite creed and the Sunnite creed, where Shiite believe in a viceroy\nafter each prophet appointed by God, but the Sunnite believe that the\nprophet did not mention anything about a viceroy before his death and\nso the caliphate or the viceroy after his death should be taken by\nvoting and this is what happened, neglecting the right of `Ali ben\nAbi-T\u00e2lib (PUH) in being a viceroy and a caliphate after the\ndeath of the prophet (PUH)]\nAnd for God's saying: The idolaters only are\nunclean(Al-Tawbah:28), then none of their ancestor can be one of them.\nFor this Shiites agree that the father of Abraham (PUH) was a muslim,\nand so the tidings that oppose this is not something to take or work\nwith. But the father of Abraham is Terah and Azar was his uncle, and\nthe uncle can be called a father as mentioned before and he used to\ntake care of him and he (Abraham) was in his (Azar) house as it is\napparent from the holy phrases, and many clues were been given for this\nmatter so we have no doubt about that, and may God help us.\nNext: The Birth of Abraham (PUH)","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Abraham: The Infallibility of God's Viceroys","type":"page"}