The Purified Ones and the Truthful Ones

and their personal perfection that signified their truth, and their authentic teachings, and the strength of their faith that testifies to their truthfulness, and their perfect seriousness, and their sacrifices, and their sacred books and scriptures existing in their hands, and the limitless number of their students who reached, by following them, the truth, perfections, and light, and who will testify that their way is sound and true, and other than all this, the consensus, of these serious reporters regarding these established matters, as well as their agreement, unanimous testimony, their congruity, corroboration, and correspondence in verification, is a proof and power that no power in the world can stand in the way of, as is shown in the following example. All of this leaves no opportunity for doubt or wavering.

Our traveller understood why believing in all of the prophets (‘alayhimussalām) is a fundamental article of faith, and that this giving of credence is a source of immense power. He experienced a spiritual emanation of faith from their lessons.

In ‘The Eighth Level’ of ‘The First Station’ it has been mentioned, in the following way, that which conveys the meaning of the lesson that this traveller took:

لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللهُ الَّذِي دَلَّ عَلَى وُجُوبِ وُجُودِهِ فِي وَحْدَتِهِ إِجْمَاعُ جَمِيعِ الأَنْبِيَاءِ

بِقُوَّةِ مُعْجِزَاتِهِمُ الْبَاهِرَةِ الْمُصَدِّقَةِ الْمُصَدَّقَةِ

There is no god but Allāh, the Necessary Being. The consensus

of all of the prophets, by the power of their extraordinary

credence-giving, attested-to miracles, demonstrates the necessity

of His unitive existence.

When this seeking traveller, who had tasted a sublime pleasure from the reality of the power of faith, was returning from the gathering of the prophets (‘alayhimussalām) those religious scholars 

who were verificationist, independent judges, and profoundly knowledgeable, invited him to their school. These are the scholars who verified the claims of the prophets (‘alayhimussalām) with certainty and strong, conclusive proofs and it is these who are known as ‘the purified ones’ (aṣfiyā’), and ‘the truthful ones’ (ṣiddīqīn).

He entered and saw thousands of geniuses, and hundreds of thousands of exacting scholars, and the great scholars of verification, verifying the established matters of faith, foremost amongst them being the necessity of the existence and unity of Allāh - with their deep, exacting investigations, that leave no room for even a hair’s breadth of doubt.

Indeed, their unanimous strong agreement concerning the fundamental articles of faith, and the foundations of those articles, as well as their each relying upon their certain, dazzlingly conclusive proofs, despite their differing abilities and approaches, is a proof that no one can possibly doubt, except for someone with as much intelligence and understanding of all of them put together, and who is able to find as many proofs as all of theirs put together.

Otherwise, the deniers can only oppose the scholars on the basis of ignorance and willful blindness, and in those unverifiable, negative matters, through pure stubbornness, and indeed through simply closing their eyes. He who closes his eyes makes the day night for himself alone.

This traveller knew that the lights spread by these reputable, profoundly knowledgeable teachers in that vast, remarkable school, have been illuminating half of the sphere of the earth for more than a thousand years. At that moment he found spiritual strength such that if every one of the people of denial came together,