Superlative Knowledge of the Friends of Allah - extracts from Inba ul Hayy by Imam Ahmed Rida Khan
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Superlative Knowledge of the Friends of Allah - extracts from Inba ul Hayy by Imam Ahmed Rida Khan
`Allāmah Ibrāhīm Bayjūrī [may Allāh be pleased with him] states in his explanation of Qasīdah Burdah, “For every verse of the Qur’ān, there are a thousand sciences that can be understood. As for those which are beyond understanding, they outnumber those that can be understood.”
It is mentioned in Sharh `Ashrawī that certain Awliyā’ state, “We found 400000 meanings under every letter of the Qur’ān. Whatever meaning is mentioned in one place is not repeated in another.”
Imām Abdul Wahāb Sharānī [may Allāh have mercy upon him] stated in Mīzān ush-Sharīat il-Kubrā: "My brother Afdhaluddīn derived 247999 sciences [ulūm] from Sūrat ul-Fātihah. Then, he turned all of them to bismi-Llāh and then believed them to be hidden in the letter 'bā' and further in the dot of the letter 'bā'."
Imam Sharānī [may Allāh be pleased with him] further states: "According to us, a person cannot be complete [kāmil] in gnosis [marifah] until he is able to derive all the laws and schools of the independent jurists [mujtahidīn] from any desired individual letter of the Qur'ān."
This is further strengthened by the following narrations:
It is narrated from Sayyidunā `Alī [may Allāh ennoble his countenance], that he stated, “If I wish, I can do the exegesis of Sūrat ul-Fātihah equal to the weight of seventy camels.”
It is narrated from Sayyidunā Alī [may Allāh ennoble his countenance], that he stated, “If I narrate to you the exegesis of Sūrat ul-Fātihah, it will weigh the mass of seventy camels.” *(al-Yaw**āqīt wa al-Jawāhir of ash-Sharānī, part-3)*
It is narrated from Sayyidunā Alī [may Allāh ennoble his countenance], that he stated, “Know from me whatever you wish before my passing away, because whatever you ask me about anything beneath the Throne, I will explain it to you” *(Kanz ul-Ummāl, #36502)*
Sayyidunā Abū Tufail Amir bin Wathilah [may Allāh be pleased with him] narrates, “Once, I was present in a gathering in which Sayyidunā Alī was admonishing the people. I heard him say in his speech, ‘Know from me whatever you wish. By Allāh! If you ask me about anything that is to be until the Day of Judgement, I will explain it to you’.” (Kanz ul-`Ummāl, #4740, 2/565)
It is narrated from Sayyidunā Abdullāh bin Masūd [may Allāh be pleased with him] that, if the knowledge of Sayyidunā `Umar Farūq [may Allāh be pleased with him] is placed in one pan of a scale and the knowledge of the remaining entire human race is placed on the other pan, his knowledge would outweigh that of everyone put together.
Sayyidunā Abdullāh bin `Abbās [may Allāh be pleased with him] narrates, “If the rope of my camel is lost, I will locate it in the Qur’ān.” (Ith**āf us-Sādah, Chapter 4: On the exegesis of the Qur’ān)
Translated by Najibullah Qadiri