Hadith 31

sws stood as Noors in rows in front of Him-azwj glorifying Him-azwj in His-azwj earth just as we-asws glorified Him-azwj in His-azwj sky, and extol His-azwj Holiness in His-azwj earth just as we-asws had extolled Holiness in His-azwj sky, and worship Him-azwj in His-azwj earth just as we-asws had worshipped Him-azwj in His-azwj sky. When Allah-azwj Wanted to Extract the offspring of Adam-as to Take the Covenant, that (those) Noor(s) travelled in him-as, then He-azwj Extracted his-as offspring from his-as Sulb. They were exclaiming Talbiyya, so we-asws glorified and they glorified with our-asws glorification, and had it not been that, they would not have known how to glorify Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic. Then He-azwj Showed for them by Taking the Covenant from them for Him-azwj with the Lordship, and we-asws were the first ones to say: ‘Yes’, at His-azwj Words: “Am I not your Lord? ” [7: 172]. Then He-azwj Took the Covenant from them with the Prophet-hood for Muhammad-saww, and for Ali-asws with the Wilayah. He accepted, the one who accepted, and he rejected, the one who rejected’. Then Abu Ja’far-asws said: ‘We-asws were the first ones Allah-azwj Created, and the first ones to worship Allah-azwj and glorify Him-azwj, and we-asws are the reason for the creation of the creatures, and reason of their glorifying and their worshipping, from the Angels and the human beings. So, by us-asws Allah-azwj is recognised, and by us-asws Allah-azwj is considered One, and by us-asws Allah-azwj is worshipped, and by us-asws Allah-azwj Honours the ones He-azwj Honours from the entirety of His-azwj creatures, and by us-asws He-azwj Rewards the ones He-azwj Rewards, and by us-asws He-azwj Punishes the ones He-azwj Punishes’. Then he-asws recited the Words of the Exalted: And indeed we are the ones arranged in rows [37: 165] And indeed were the ones Glorifying’ [37: 166] (and) Words of the Exalted: Say: ‘If there was a son for the Beneficent, then I would be the first of the worshippers’ [43: 81]. Rasool-Allah-saww was the first one to worship Allah-azwj the Exalted. And the first one to deny that there happens to be a son for Him-azwj, or an associate, then us-asws after Rasool-Allah-saww. Then we-asws were deposited with that Noor in the Sulb of Adam-as. That Noor did not cease to transfer from the Sulb(s) and the laps, from a Sulb to a Sulb, and it did not settle in a Sulb except it was clarified about the one whom it had been transferred from of its transference, and nobility of the one it had settled in, until it came to be in the Sulb of Abdul Muttalib-asws. It fell with mother-as of Abdullah-asws, Fatima-as, and the Noor divided into two parts, a part in Abdullah-asws and a part in Abu Talib-asws. That is the Word of the Exalted: And your transfer among the Sajdah performers [26: 219] – meaning in the Sulb(s) of the Prophets-as and laps of their-as wives. Allah-azwj the Exalted Flowed us-asws in the Sulb(s) and the laps, and we-asws were begotten by the fathers and the mothers from Adam-as’’. [31]