سورة الرحمن

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): سَنَفْرُغُ لکُمْ أَیُّهَا الثَّقَلانِ [Soon will We apply Ourselves to you, O you two armies], al-Thaqalan — we and the Quran are they.

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Zurarah said: I asked Imam Baqir (peace be upon him) about the verse: سَنَفْرُغُ لَکُمْ أَیُّهَ الثَّقَلانِ [Soon will We apply Ourselves to you, O you two armies]. He said: "The Book of Allah, the Quran, and we are they."

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): سَنَفْرُغُ لکُمْ أَیُّهَا الثَّقَلانِ [Soon will We apply Ourselves to you, O you two armies] means: we and the Quran, the Book of Allah, are they. The proof of this is the saying of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): "I am leaving among you two weighty things: the Book of Allah and my progeny, my Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them)."

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): I am leaving among you two weighty things; one of them is greater than the other; [the first is] the Book of Allah, which is stretched [like a rope] from the sky to the earth, and [the other is] my Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them). They will never separate from one another until they come to me at the [Kawthar] Pool.

Imam Rida (peace be upon him): Then who has conveyed the message from Allah the Exalted to the jinn and mankind?

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): O people, indeed I entrust the Imamate as an inheritance in my progeny until the Day of Resurrection, and I have certainly conveyed what I was commanded to convey. This is a proof upon every present and absent one, and upon everyone — whether present here or not, and whether already born or not yet born. Indeed, let those who witnessed convey it to those who were absent, and let fathers convey it to their children until the Day of Resurrection. Soon they will usurp this matter and turn it into a kingship. Then, O you two groups of humans and jinn! سَنَفْرُغُ لَکُمْ أَیُّهَ الثَّقَلانِ [Soon We shall attend to you, O you two heavy ones]! فَیُرْسَلُ عَلَیْکُما شُواظٌ مِنْ نارٍ وَ نُحاسٌ فَلا تَنْتَصِرانِ [Flames of smokeless fire and dense smoke will be sent upon you, and you shall not be able to seek help from anyone].