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The Infallibles
The Secret of Imam Ali's (A.S.)
Force of Attraction
What is the reason for the friendship and love for Ali
in people's hearts ? Nobody has yet discovered the secret of
this love, that is, no-one has been able to formulate it, and
say that if it were like this then that would follow, or if it
were like that then this would happen. However it does of
course have a secret. There is something in the love which
dazzles the one who loves and draws him towards it. This
attraction and love are the highest degrees of love; Ali - is
the one whom people's hearts adore, whom humanity loves.
Why ? In what does Ali's extraordinariness lie, that it incites
love and draws hearts towards itself, that it plays the tune
of eternal life and lives for ever ? Why do all hearts find out
about themselves through him, and do not feel him to be
dead but find him living ?
Certainly the basis for love for him is not his body,
because his body is not now among us and we have not
perceived it with our senses. Love for Ali is also not hero-
worship, which exists in every nation. It is a mistake, too,
to say the love for Ali is by way of love for moral and human
excellence, and that love for Ali is a humanistic love. It is
true that Ali was the manifestation of the perfect man,
and it is true that man loves great figures of humanity; but
if Ali had had all those human excellences that he had
that wisdom and knowledge, that self-sacrifice and altruism,
that humility and modesty, that courtesy, that kindness
and mercy, that protection of the weak, that justness, that
liberality and love of freedom, that respect for humanity,
that generosity, that bravery, that magnanimity and mercy
towards his enemies, and, in the words of Rumi':
In bravery you are the Lion of the Lord,
In generosity who indeed knows who you are ?
that munificence, benevolence and beneficence - if Ali
had had all these, which he did have, but had not had the
divine touch in him, it is quite certain that there would
not have been the feeling of sympathy and awakening of
love that there is today.
Ali is loved in the sense that he had the divine link;
our hearts are unconsciously completely involved with, and
connected to, the Truth, right in their depths, and since
they find Ali to be a great sign of the Truth and a manifes-
tation of the attributes of the Truth they are in love with
him. In reality, the basis for the love for Ali is the connec-
tion of our souls with the Truth which has been laid in our
primordial natures, and since our primordial natures are eter-
nal, love for Ali; is also eternal.
There are many outstanding features in Ali's being,
but that which has assigned him a resplendent and shining
place for ever is his faith and morality, and it is that which
has given him his divine charisma.
Allama Murtaza Mutahheri
Polarization around the Character of Imam Ali (as)
W.O.F.I.S - First Edition 1981
