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مقامه».

ولهٰذا الإمام قوة سلطان على الشياطين الملازمين أهل الخير والصلاح ليصرفوهم عن طريقتهم.

فإذا وقع نظر الشيطان على هٰذا الإمام وهو عند بعض الصالحين يحتال كيف يصرفه عن طريقته، يذوب كما يذوب الرصاص في النار فيناديه الإمام باسمه عسى يسلم، فيدبر هاربا.

فلا يزال ذٰلك الصالح محفوظا من إلقاء هٰذا الصنف من الشياطين إليه ما يخرجه عن صلاحه ما دام هٰذا الإمام حاضرا ناظرا إليه وإن كان ذٰلك الصالح لا يعرفه ولا يعرف ما جرى وقد عاينا هٰذا لطائفة، فيدفع الله عن عباده بهٰذا الإمام الشرور التي تختص بالصالحين من عباده خاصة عناية منه بهم.

ومن خاصية هٰذا الإمام التصديق بكل خبر يخبر به عن الله وإن كان ذٰلك المخبر صادقا في إخباره أو مفتريا فإن هٰذا الإمام يصدقه لكونه ناظرا إلى الاسم الإلهي الذي يتولى هٰذا المخبر في إخباره.

فإن كان صادقا فإخباره عن كشف محقق، فيستوي هو والإمام في ذٰلك.

وإن لم يكن له كشف وأخبر عما وقع عنده وهو لا يدري من أوقعه ويقصد الكذب، فإن هٰذا الإمام يصدقه في إخباره والمخبر معاقب من الله، محروم بقصده الكذب، وهو في نفس الأمر ليس كذٰلك فوبال قصده

his station.”

This Imam has a powerful authority over the satans who cling to the people of goodness and righteousness to divert them from their way.

When a satan catches sight of this Imam while accompanying one of the righteous and plotting how to divert him from his way, it melts as lead melts in fire. The Imam calls it by its name, in the hope that it may submit, but it turns and flees.

That righteous person remains protected from this kind of satan’s casting into him something that would remove him from his righteousness, so long as this Imam is present, looking toward him—even if that righteous person does not know him or know what has occurred. We have witnessed this with a group of people. Through this Imam, God wards off from His servants the evils particular to His righteous servants, as a special care for them.

One of this Imam’s special qualities is assenting to every report related about God, whether the reporter speaks truthfully or fabricates. The Imam assents because he looks toward the divine name that governs this reporter in his reporting.

If he is truthful, his reporting proceeds from realized unveiling, and he and the Imam are equal in this.

If he has no unveiling and reports what has occurred within him, not knowing who caused it to occur and intending to lie, this Imam assents to his report. The reporter, however, is punished by God and deprived because of his intention to lie, though in the affair itself it is not so. The evil consequence of his intention