Twelfth Chapter Journal Article

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' I said to him, 'Which verse, O Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him)?' He (peace be upon him) said: 'The word of Allah, Glorified is He: {/اللّه نور السّموات و الأرض مثل نوره کمشکوة/} The niche (al-mishkat) is Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) {/فیهامصباح المصباح/} I am the lamp (al-misbah) {/فی زجاجة الزّجاجة/} al-Hasan (peace be upon him) and al-Husayn (peace be upon him) {/کأنّها کوکب درّی/} and he is Ali bin al-Husayn (peace be upon him) {/یوقد من شجرة مبارکة/} Muhammad bin Ali (peace be upon him) {/زیتونة/} Ja'far bin Muhammad (peace be upon him) {/لا شرقیّة/} Musa bin Ja'far (peace be upon him) {/لا غربیّة/} Ali bin Musa (peace be upon him) {/یکاد زیتها یضیء/} Muhammad bin Ali (peace be upon him) {/ولو لم تمسسه نار/} Ali bin Muhammad (peace be upon him) {/نور علی نور/} al-Hasan bin Ali (peace be upon him) {/یهدی اللّه لنوره من یشاء/} al-Qa'im al-Mahdi (may Allah hasten his noble reappearance) {/و یضرب/}&%01425NFAG014G% {/اللّه الأمثال للنّاس و اللّه بکلّ شیء علیم/}1 And it is not hidden that his amazement (peace be upon him) at the reader's lack of knowledge indicates that the noble verse points to what the Imam (peace be upon him) intended, even if in a general sense. His number of children was thirty-six: seventeen sons and nineteen daughters, and what has been recorded is: First and second, al-Hasanayn; third and fourth, Zaynab and Umm Kulthum; fifth, Muhsin, who was miscarried; and these were from the womb of Fatimah al-Zahra.