Were it not for you, contemplation would not be a preacher, reason would not be guidance, and analogy would not be proof. Were it not for you, the inhabitants of the land would have been ruined, and its foundations would have been utterly scattered.

This is like the assertion that the Imam is the cause of the existence of the world, as he says: He is the cause of the world, and for him the things were created, and for what cause were the things.

This is the secret of the first creation, which God began and the hidden concealed. For this reason, destiny was decreed in the Mother of Books, and existence came into being.

And this Imam is the collector of all virtues and good deeds. His body is purified from every defect, and his soul is free from every deficiency, as he says: God has endowed him with every virtue, as the verses of the Book detail.

And a spirit of guidance in a luminous body, extended by a ray from the Highest, who is not embodied.

And this Imam is the trustee of God, the guide of creation, the heir of the earth, and the healer of people. And concerning this, he says: