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Sermon of Imam Ali ibn abi Talib (a)
(from Nahjul Blagha--the Sermon 1
In this sermon, Amirul Mumineen Imam
Ali (a) recalls the grades of knowledge of Allah,
creation of Earth and Sky and the birth of Adam,
division of Qur'anic Injunctions and obligation of
Hajj).
" Praise is due to Allah whose worth cannot be
described by speakers, whose bounties cannot be
counted by calculators and whose claim (to
obedience) cannot be satisfied by those who attempt
to do so, whom the height of intellectual courage
cannot appreciate, and the diving's of understanding
cannot reach; He for whose description no limit has
been laid down, no eulogy exists, no time is
ordained and no duration is fixed.
He brought forth creation through His Omnipotence,
dispersed winds through
His Compassion, and made firm the shaking earth with
rocks.
The foremost in religion is the acknowledgment of
Him,
the perfection of acknowledging Him is to testify
Him,
the perfection of testifying Him is to believe in
His Oneness,
the perfection of believing in His Oneness is to
regard Him Pure,
And the perfection of His purity is to deny Him
attributes, because every attribute is a proof that
it is different from that to which it is attributed
and everything to which something is attributed is
different from the attribute.
Thus whoever attaches attributes to Allah recognizes
His like,
and who recognizes His like regards Him two;
and who regards Him two recognizes parts for Him;
and who recognizes parts for Him mistook Him;
and who mistook Him pointed at Him;
and who pointed at Him admitted limitations for Him;
and who admitted limitations for Him numbered Him.
Whoever said in what is He, held that He is
contained;
and whoever said on what is He, held He is not on
something else.
He is a Being but not through phenomenon of coming
into being.
He exists but not from non-existence.
He is with everything but not in physical nearness.
He is different from everything but not in physical
separation.
He acts but without connotation of movements and
instruments.
He sees even when there is none to be looked at from
among His creation.
He is only One, such that there is none with whom He
may keep company or whom
He may miss in his absence.
The Creation of the Universe
He initiated creation most initially and commenced
it originally, without undergoing reflection,
without making use of any experiment, without
innovating any movement, and without experiencing
any aspiration of mind. He allotted all things their
times, put together their variations gave them their
properties, and determined their features knowing
them before creating them, realizing fully their
limits and confines and appreciating their
propensities and intricacies.
When Almighty created the openings of atmosphere,
expanse of firmament and strata of winds, He flowed
into it water whose waves were stormy and whose
surges leapt one over the other. He loaded it on
dashing wind and breaking typhoons, ordered them to
shed it back (as rain), gave the wind control over
the vigor of the rain, and acquainted it with its
limitations. The wind blew under it while water
flowed furiously over it.
Then Almighty created forth wind and made its
movement sterile, perpetuated its position,
intensified its motion and spread it far and wide.
Then He ordered the wind to raise up deep waters and
to intensify the waves of the oceans. So the wind
churned it like the churning of curd and pushed it
fiercely into the firmament throwing its front
position on the rear and the stationary on the
flowing till its level was raised and the surface
was full of foam.
Then Almighty raised the foam on to the open wind
and vast firmament and made there from the seven
skies and made the lower one as a stationary surge
and the upper one as protective ceiling and a high
edifice without any pole to support it or nail to
hold it together.
Then He decorated them with stars and the light of
meteors and hung in it the shining sun and effulgent
moon under the revolving sky, moving ceiling and
rotating firmament. "
courtesy:Syed Kalbe Mehdi
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