Hazrat Mahdi (a.t.f.s.) in Hadis-e-Qudsi

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In the chain of prophethood, Allah nominated his last Prophet (s.a.w.a.) as 'Mercy to the Worlds' and in the series of successors (Imams) He declared the last successor as Mercy to the Worlds. In lay terms, both prophethood and Imamat are in fact mercy. With the declaration of Imam-e-Zamana (a.t.f.s.) as 'Mercy to the Worlds', his privileged position in front of Allah becomes evident.

The covenant in Aalame Zarr

In some of the verses of the Holy Qur'an and several traditions of the Ahlul Bait (a.s.) it is explained in detail that prior to our creation in this material world, Allah has created our souls in Aalame Anwaar (the world of light) and Aalame Arwaah (the world of souls) at least 2000 years before the physical body. At the time, Allah had extracted the pledge of His Godhood, the prophethood of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) and the Imamat of Ahlul Bait (a.s.) from our souls. The souls acknowledged the Godhood, prophethood and Imamat out of volition, with complete freedom of will.

Subsequently, after a lapse of 2000 years when Allah created our bodies and made our souls to inhabit in them, He reiterated the triple covenant.

When Allah created Hazrat Adam (a.s.) and brought out the entire mankind in the form of minute particles from his loins, He repeated the entire process of covenant. In the exegesis of Surah Aaraf, verses 172-173, there are several traditions in Behaarul Anwaar vol. 5, pp. 226-275. There is such an abundance of traditions available on this topic, that they cannot be ignored or sidelined or branded as weak and unreliable. However, since Aalame Zarr is not our topic of discussion, we will not delve too much into it. We will get to our main subject right away viz. Hadis-e-Qudsi and Imam Mahdi's (a.t.f.s.) discussion in it.

Hazrat Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s.) states,
Allah took the covenant from His Prophets and asked, 'Am I not your Lord? Is Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) not My Prophet? Is Ali not Ameerul Momineen?' All of them affirmed in unison, 'Yes it is so.'

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