Further, Imam Mohammad Bagher (p.b.u.h.) has stated: “God began his inner light.” Then Imam prescribed: “like the conduct of the heart of a faithful man by Almighty God.”

In fact, Imam Mohammad Bagher (p.b.u.h.) mentioned that guidance means the special conduct. Anyway, if he meant general guidance or special guidance, it is a definite truth; of course it depends on the fact that who will profit from the suitable ground for receiving divine lights and if some one does not receive light of God, might not receive the light from any other source.” These verses guarantee comparison of the faithful men who believe in truth and the blasphemers. The faithful men are distinguished from the pagans in the aspect that they are guided to knowledge of God by the light due to their pious acts  and the light takes them to the best awards and to divine erudition. On the day when the curtain is set aside from their eyes and their hearts, and the pagans are not guided to a way but to a mirage which contains no truth and they live in a darkness where some stay above the others where the pagans are drowned. God has not considered for them any light, so they lack any light. Almighty God is a light and they emerge due to that light in the skies and on the earth. Of course there is a difference, the fact that emergence of the objects due to divine light is the existence itself, but the natural and material emergence due to lights is something other than the original existence.

God has a special light by which the faithful men receive light and are guided due to their pious acts, which consists of light of knowledge, by which the hearts and eyes demand light in the day all the hearts and eyes are altered and for the sake of which they are guided to prosperity. In that day, they observe by their senses what had been hidden from them in the world.

So, whatever light and spiritual brightness is, is due to graces and erudition of God and the creature shall not enjoy it and shall not receive it, except when it opens his heart and reflects intention and eagerness.

Many of the men whish to know how their hearts are bright by the light of God, in this field, the prophet expressed by some marks, through narrations receiving light:

“If a creature feels light of truth at his heart, his heat shall be widened.”

He was asked: “Oh! Prophet of God! What is the mark of such a state?”

He prescribed: “One who takes away from the world and its love and considers afterlife and takes privacy and thinks about death, before it comes.”

Abi Khaled Kaboli asked Imam Bagher (p.b.u.h.) to illustrate words of God: One who believes in God and his Prophet and the Light which comes, and prophet prescribed: By light, he means the relatives of prophet till pandemonium.” He took oath to God that the relatives of prophet are the light of God in the heavens and on the earth. He took oath to God that the light of Imam at the hearts of the faithful men are more bright than the light of sun and it shines the hearts of the faithful men. He took oath to God that whomever has no clean heart will not love us and will not obey us and whomever heart is not clean, will not accept our Imamate and heart of no one will be clean, except if he is surrounded to our Imamate. Whoever surrenders will be healthy of inspections and shall keep secure in the day of pandemonium.

God! Help me and award to me the maximum attainment towards yourself, make our eyes and hearts bright by the light of your existence and your path, so that we reach a place where the eyes of our hearts might split the veils and might reach the mine of your greatness and our souls might belong to the system of your sacredness.

(a part of prayers: Shabanieh)

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