سورة الحجر

Imam Sajjad (peace be upon him): Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him), through his father, narrates from his noble grandfather Imam Sajjad (peace be upon him), who said: "In the Divine Throne there is a likeness of everything Allah has created on land and in the sea; and this is the meaning of the word of Allah [who has said]: وَ إِن مِّن شَیْءٍ إِلاَّ عِندَنَا خَزَائِنُهُ [And there is not a thing but with Us are the treasures of it]."

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): [What is meant by] the treasure is the water that comes down from the sky and, for every living creature, causes to grow that amount of food which Allah has appointed for it.

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): When Musa (peace be upon him) ascended Mount Tur and whispered in prayer to his Lord, he said: "O Lord! Show me Your treasures!" Allah said: "O Musa! My treasures are that whenever I will a thing, I say to it: 'Be!' — and that thing comes into being without delay."

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): Mas'ada ibn Sadaqa said: It is narrated from Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): The manner of Imam Ali (peace be upon him) was such that at the start of a rainfall he would stand beneath it until his head, beard and clothes became wet. It was said to him: "O Amir al-Mu'minin (peace be upon him)! Go beneath a roof [so that the rain does not soak you]." He said: "This rain is water that has just now come from the Throne." Then he began to speak and said: "Beneath the Throne there is a sea, and in that sea is water which is the means of the growth of the sustenance of living creatures; when Allah — whose remembrance is glorified — wills, out of His mercy, to cause to grow for them whatever He wishes, He reveals to that water, and that water, in accordance with the divine will, pours down from one heaven to another until finally — as I think Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) said — it reaches the lowest heaven; the lowest heaven then casts that water upon the clouds, and the cloud is like a sieve (turns the water into fine raindrops). Then Allah reveals to the wind that it should soften that cloud and melt [the water within it which has frozen from the coldness of the air] like flowing water; then take it to such-and-such place and such-and-such place and pour it down upon them, and let the rainfall in one place be abundant and in another place in a different manner. The wind then, exactly as Allah commands it, pours down the clouds drop by drop. And with every drop of rain there is an angel who sets that drop in its place, and the number and weight of the raindrops that fall from the sky are always determined and specified, except for the rain that fell at the time of the flood of Nuh (peace be upon him), which fell abundantly, one after another, without any measure or count."

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has made the clouds sieves for the rain, which melt the hail so that it becomes water, so that it does not harm anything it strikes; and what you see of hail and thunderbolts is a punishment from Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, with which He afflicts whomever He wills of His servants. (Yunus/107)

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): By Allah, indeed we (the Imams (peace be upon them)) are the treasurers of Allah in His heaven and His earth; not that we are treasurers of gold or silver, but rather we are the treasurers of His knowledge.

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Sadir said: I said to Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): "May I be your ransom! Who are you (the Imams (peace be upon them))?" He said: "We are the treasurers of the knowledge of Allah and the interpreters of the revelation of Allah."

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Abdullah ibn Abi Ya'fur said: Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: "O son of Abi Ya'fur! Indeed Allah is One, unique in Oneness (without partner), and singular in His command. He created a group and measured and destined them for this affair [Imamate and successorship]. O son of Abi Ya'fur! That group is us, and we are the proofs of Allah among His servants and the treasurers of His knowledge, we who have risen to this affair (Imamate and successorship)."

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Mufaddal said: One day I came into the presence of Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) and he said to me: "O Mufaddal! Do you know the reality of Muhammad, Ali, Fatima, Hasan and Husayn (peace be upon them)?" I said: "My master! What is the reality of recognising them?" He said: "O Mufaddal! Whoever recognises their reality will be at the highest degree of faith." I said: "My master! Make me recognise that reality." He said: "O Mufaddal! [The reality of recognising them is] that you know that they are aware of all that Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has created and brought into being, and that they are the word of taqwa (piety) and the treasurers of the heavens, the earths, the mountains, the sands and the seas, and they know how many stars and angels are in the sky, and they know the weight of the mountains and the measure of the water of the seas, the rivers and the springs; ما تَسْقُطُ مِنْ وَرَقَةٍ إِلَّا عَلِمُوهَا وَ لا حَبَّةٍ فِی ظُلُماتِ الْأَرْضِ وَ لا رَطْبٍ وَ لا یابِسٍ إِلَّا فِی کِتابٍ مُبِینٍ [no leaf falls [from a tree] but that they know of it, and there is no grain in the darknesses of the earth, nor anything moist or dry, but that it is recorded in a clear book [in the book of Allah's knowledge]]. (An'am/59) And that clear book is [also] recorded in their knowledge and they are aware of it."