A Second Explanation Of The Above Addendum

{(*): My brothers have written down both explanations since they found them useful. Otherwise, one of them would have been sufficient.}

The âyah

الرَّسُولَ فَاُولئِكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ اَنْعَمَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَ الصِّدِّيقِينَ وَ الشُّهَدَاءِ وَ الصَّالِحِينَ وَ حَسُنَ اُولٰٓئِكَ رَف۪يقًۜا1

corroborates the end of Surah al-Fath’s indication about the ghayb, declares who is meant in the âyah صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ اَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ2 and who are the people of as-sirât al-mustaqîm and shows the most luminous, friendly, attractive large caravan of companions travelling the long road leading to all eternity; in a miraculous manner, it intensely urges the people of îmân and conscious people to join, follow and accompany the caravan. Like the âyahs at the end of Surah al-Fath, besides its explicit meaning, this âyah also indicates the Four Khalîfah and Hazrat Hasan (ra), the fifth khalîfah, with indicative (isharî) and allusive (ramzî) meanings that are called Ma'aridu'l-kalâm and Mustatba'atu't-tarakib3 in ‘ilm al-balâghat. It gives information about the matters concerning ghayb in several respects. It is as follows:

Just as this âyah expresses with its explicit meaning (ma’nâ as-sarîh) that the caravan of Prophets, the group of Siddîqîn, the jamâ’ah of Shahîds, the category of Sâlihîn and the class of Tâbi’în are the Muhsinîn4 and the people of as-sirât al-mustaqîm, who, among mankind, are honoured with the exalted ni’mahs of Allah, so does it indicate through the kind of giving information about the ghayb that, in the Islamic world, they are the best and most excellent of those groups; it also point to the group of heirs of the Prophets that sprang from the mystery of legacy of nubuwwah of âkhirzaman Prophet, and to the caravan of Siddîqîn that sprang from the mine of Siddîqiyyah of Siddîq Al-Akbar, and to the caravan of Shahîds, who are tied to the rank of Shahâdah of the Three Khalîfah, and to the jamâ’ah of Sâlihîn, who are connected with the mystery of الصَّالِحَاتِ5 وَالَّذِينَ اٰمَنُوا وَعَمِلُو  and to the classes of Tabi’în, who obeyed the mystery of قُلْ اِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِى يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللهُ 6 and who followed the Sahâbah and the Four Khalîfah. So too, through its ma’nâ al-isharî, it informs through the word 7 وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ that it is Hazrat Abu Bakr As-Siddîq who would succeed to Ar-Rasûl Al-Akram’s (asm) position, would be his khalîfah and famous among the ummah with the title Siddîq and would be the leader of the caravan of Siddîqîn. With the word 8 وَالشُّهَدَاءِ ,it informs that three of the Rightly-Guided Khalîfah will be shahîd and three shahîds will be khalîfah after the Siddîq because شُّهَدَاءِ (Shuhadâ) is plural, and the minimum number of the plural form in Arabic grammar is three. It means that Hazrat ‘Umar, Hazrat ‘Uthman and Hazrat ‘Ali (Radhiyallahu Anhum) would be the leaders of Islam after the Siddîq and would be shahîd. And this information about the ghayb exactly occurred as it was informed.

Furthermore, through the phrase وَالصَّالِحِينَ9, it also informs that, in the future, salîh people and the people of taqwâ and ‘ibâdah would be numerous, like Ashab As-Suffa, who were honoured with the praise of Tawrah10 for their obedience and ‘ibâdah. While the phrase وَ حَسُنَ اُولٰٓئِكَ رَف۪يقًۜا11 praises the obedience of Tabi’în who followed and obeyed the Sahabah in ‘ilm and action, and it shows that to accompany those four caravans on the road to eternity is agreeable and commendable. Although Hazrat Hasan's (ra) khilâfah’s duration was brief, through the decree of the hadith اِنَّ الْخِلاَفَةَ بَعْدِى ثَلاَثُونَ سَنَةً12, and the confirmation of the Prophet’s informing about the ghayb, it points out the importance of Hazrat Hasan's (ra) — whose brief duration of khilâfah confirms the Prophet’s miracoulously informing about the ghayb in the hadith اِنَّ ابْنِى حَسَنٌ هذَا سَيِّدٌ سَيُصْلِحُ اللّٰهُ بِهِ بَيْنَ فِئَتَيْنِ عَظِيمَتَيْنِ13 and who ensured the peace between two huge armies, two great jamâ’ah, and eliminated the conflict between them — very short duration of khilâfah. In order to indicate that Hasan would be the fifth khalîfah succeeding the Four Khalîfah, it points out the fifth khalîfah's name with the word وَ حَسُنَ اُولٰٓئِكَ رَف۪يقًۜا , through a mystery called Mustatba'atu't-tarakib in the ‘ilm of balâghat and through its indicative meaning (ma’nâ al-isharî) from among the kind of giving information about the ghayb.

Thus, there are many further mysteries, like the abovementioned indicative pieces of information, but that door has not been opened for now since they are outside our purpose. There are many âyahs of Al-Qur'an Al-Hakîm each of which is from among the kind of giving information about the ghayb in many aspects. This kind of Qur'an's pieces of information about the ghayb are thousands.

رَبَّنَا لاَ تُؤَاخِذْنَا اِنْ نَسِينَا اَوْ اَخْطَاْنَا

سُبْحَانَكَ لاَ عِلْمَ لَنَا اِلاَّ مَا عَلَّمْتَنَا اِنَّكَ اَنْتَ الْعَلِيمُ الْحَكِيمُ

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