Excerpt: “As I went to bed that night, I sent my salaams to the Hidden Imam (as is customary among Shi’as) before asking, “If you are really in the Qur’an…? And I don’t doubt it, just curious. Because where are you then, for example, in Surah al-Kahf?”
There were a couple of other times prior when the Imam had knocked my ungrateful and cynical self back into the right place. That is for another day. But what caught me off-guard was the speediness of this particular response; as I drifted off to sleep, I saw a curtain with a Fatimid-style drawing of the Imam wielding the zulfiqar, seated over a large fish.”
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Excerpt: “As I went to bed that night, I sent my salaams to the Hidden Imam (as is customary among Shi’as) before asking, “If you are really in the Qur’an…? And I don’t doubt it, just curious. Because where are you then, for example, in Surah al-Kahf?”
There were a couple of other times prior when the Imam had knocked my ungrateful and cynical self back into the right place. That is for another day. But what caught me off-guard was the speediness of this particular response; as I drifted off to sleep, I saw a curtain with a Fatimid-style drawing of the Imam wielding the zulfiqar, seated over a large fish.”
Read in full here.