They exaggerated greatly in their veneration of this Imam, for example, Ibn Hani said: "As you wish, not as fate decrees, so judge, the One, the Mighty."

And he says: "If your knowledge of God were foremost among people, God would not have sent a messenger. If your merit were among them, the Psalms, the Torah, and the Gospels would not have been revealed." As for the second book, the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, it was built upon the basis of the theory of divine emanation, that God emanates His light upon whom He wills of His servants, and that His emanation upon the Ummah is the strongest emanation. This is the theory by which Plato and the Neoplatonists gained renown. They said that this emanation has cyclical manifestations that appeared in Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, and was concluded with the Imam - and in the number seven there is infatuation and delusion. The divine spirit manifests in different degrees and successive stages, and appears to humanity from the beginning of its creation, progressing towards perfection, until it came to Muhammad, peace be upon him. In this sense, the Mahdi comes with a message that surpasses those before him, even the message of Muhammad. And it is necessary that