Question 109: What is meant by the verse: – {By the declining day,* Lo! man is a state of loss,} {Al-asr: 1-2}
Answer) Commander of the Faithful Ali (AS) is the “man” and he is at loss compared with Mohammad (PBUH). As the rank of the Prophet (PBUH) is higher and greater than the rank of Imam Ali (AS). Thus the Messenger Muhammad (PBUH) is the “city of Divine Perfection in creation” or “the city of knowledge”; and Ali (AS) is the door.
The Prophet (PBUH) is the possessor of the “praised” rank; and the possessor of the rank of “two bows’ length or even nearer”; and he is the one that something like an eye of a needle has been opened for him and started to throb between the Truth and the Creation.
While the Commander of the Faithful (AS) is below this rank; and he said: (if the cover is revealed to me; I wouldn’t have become more certain) i.e. the cover and the veil of the Divine that has been revealed to Muhammad (PBUH).
Answer: In the name of God the Most Merciful, the Most Graceful;
All Praise is to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds;
O Lord, may Your prayers be upon Muhammad and his progeny, The Imams and Mahdies.
The entire Qur’an is in the Fatiha; and the Fatiha is in the Basmalah; and the Basmalah is in the Ba (ب); and the Ba is in the dot. (The Ba refers to the arabic alphabet (ب) that has the form of a bowl and a dot under it). I.e. the more we rise in rank to Allah (swt); the more the details in The Quran lessen. Because of the littleness in the parts and contradictors whenever the Kingdom Worlds rise in rank; until it reaches to the Light and Entirety: where the Quran is an entire Light.
And what I clarified for the Surat (Al-Asr): is in a high rank of the Quran, where there is none other than Muhammad, Ali and Fatima (AS) ( and Ali and Fatima (AS) are one light). Thus there is no one else except them.
So the entire Sura in that world is: {By the declining day,* Lo! man is a state of loss,} {Al-asr: 1-2}. This is Surat Al-Asr in that Upper World. So the rest of the Sura doesn’t exist in that World for us to object; which is {except those who believe and work righteous deeds and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to patience.} {Al-Asr: 3}.
Whereas in this world: – the “man” is the human race, i.e. the man is in loss and in fall because of his presence in the physical world; except if he believed in the successor of God in his time and worked with him. {Except those who believe and do good deeds and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to patience.}
Answer: “Man” is Ali (pbuh), and there has not come a period of time that he (pbuh) is not remembered, because he is remembered in the knowledge of Allah the Glorified the Al-mighty, as for within the creation then there came a period of time that there was not a thing from him (pbuh) remembered, because Allah (swt) created Muhammad (pbuhaf) then He (swt) created Ali (pbuh).
[1] The Holy Qur’an: Surat Al-Insan (76: 1).
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