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Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Abu Ja'far al-Ahwal said: I asked Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) about the spirit that was breathed into Adam (peace be upon him) according to the verse: فَإِذا سَوَّیْتُهُ وَ نَفَخْتُ فیهِ مِنْ رُوحی فَقَعُوا لَهُ ساجِدینَ [So when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My spirit, fall down in prostration to him]. He said: "It was a breath that was created, like the spirit which was created for Isa (peace be upon him)."

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, is One and Unique, and He is peerless in His Oneness. Then He spoke a word, and that word became a light, and then from that light He created Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family), and me, and my progeny. Then He spoke a word, and that word became a spirit, and Allah placed that spirit within that light and lodged it in our bodies. So we are the Spirit of Allah and His Word, and we are the proof of Allah over His creation [and through us He established His argument over His creation], and we remain always under the shelter of a green shade.