Notes
1. Surat Al ‘Imran 3:28.
2. Surat al- Baqarah 2:123.
3. Surat al- Baqarah 2:194.
4. Nahj al- Balaghah, p. 353, sermon [khutbah] 113, trans. Fayd al- Islam.
5. Ibid., p. 66, sermon [khutbah] 16, trans. Fayd al- Islam.
6. Surat al- Hashr 59:18.
7. Surat al- Baqarah 2:77.
8. Surat al- Talaq 65:2- 3.
9. Nahj al- Balaghah, p. 602, sermon [khutbah] 182, trans. Fayd al- Islam.
10. The eleventh month of the Iranian calendar; the Iranian Islamic Revolution took place in Bahman 22nd, 1357 AHS.
11. Surat al- Hajj 22:37.
12. Bihar al- Anwar, vol. 77, p. 64.
13. That is, knowledge that will enable one to distinguish between truth and falsehood.
14. Surat al- Anfal 8:29.
15. Surat al- Baqarah 2:282.
16. Bihar al- Anwar, vol. 70, p. 24.
17. Ibid., vol. 59, p. 163.
18. Surat Al ‘Imran 3:76.
19. Surat al- A‘raf 7:35.
20. Surat Al ‘Imran 3:125.
21. Wasa’il al- Shi‘ah, vol. 11, p. 235.
22. Or: ‘the most honored’.
23. Surat al- Hujurat 49:13.
24. Surat al- A‘raf 7:96.
25. Surat al- Ma’idah 5:27.
26. Surat al- Hujurat 49:13.
27. Nahj al- Balaghah, p. 126, wisdom [hikmat] 363, trans. Fayd al- Islam.
28. Bihar al- Anwar, vol. 70, p. 297.
29. Ibid., p. 298.
30. Ibid., p. 307.
31. Surat al- Qasas 28:77.
32. Nahj al- Fasahah, p. 358, hadith 1712.
33. Nahj al- Balaghah, p. 180, sermon [khutbah] 80, trans. Fayd al- Islam.
34. Surat al- Hadid 57:27.
35. Bihar al- Anwar, vol. 22, p. 264.