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Shia hadith/Kitāb al-Ghayba 1

Kitāb al-Ghayba 1, record 211 of the digital edition

Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī · Reason of occultation of the Imam from his followers

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Arabic text

وإنما قلنا إن ما هو كالسبب في الكفر لا يجب أن يكون كفرا في الحال أن أحدا لو اعتقد في القادر منا بقدرة أنه يصح أن يفعل في غيره من الأجسام مبتدئا كان ذلك خطأ وجهلا ليس بكفر ولا يمتنع أن يكون المعلوم من حال هذا المعتقد أنه لو ظهر نبي يدعو إلى نبوته وجعل معجزة أن يفعل الله تعالى على يده فعلا بحيث لا يصل إليه أسباب البشر أنه لا يقبله وهذا لا محالة لو علم أنه معجز كان يقبله وما سبق من اعتقاده في مقدور القدر كان كالسبب في هذا ولم يلزم أن يجري مجراه في الكفر.

Translation

It may be possible to predict about such a person that if a prophet comes to him and shows a miracle and Allah puts an object into his hand, he will not accept that. Definitely, if he knew it were a miracle, he would have accepted it and his belief about the power of the person would be like a cause for this and this is not disbelief (Kufr).

Translation: Sayyid Athar Husain S. H. Rizvi — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.

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