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2. Humran bin Aayun asked Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (p) to comment
on the verse: God is the Originator of the heavens and the earth.
(Q, 2:117)
The Imam (p): God, the Mighty, the Glorious brought into existence
every thing with the power of His knowledge and without any pre-existing
model. He created the heavens and the earth when there were no heavens
and earth. Have you not heard the words of God: …His Throne
was on waters… (Q, 11:7)?
At this point Humran said: But God says: He (God) alone knows the
Unseen and does not make anyone acquainted with His mysteries (Q,
72:26).
The Imam (p) referred to the words immediately following thereafter,
which are: Except an apostle whom He has chosen… (Q, 72:27)
and said: By God! Prophet Muhammad (p) is one of the chosen ones.
The Imam (p) then added that when God wishes, He sends the knowledge
through his Angels to the Apostle, then to us.
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