سورة الطارق

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): یَوْمَ تُبْلَی السَّرَائِرُ [On the day when hidden things shall be made manifest], meaning the veil is lifted from them.

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): These hidden secrets are tested — they held good in the heart and made it manifest.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): Muadh ibn Jabal said: I asked the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): "What are these hidden secrets by which the servants will be tested in the hereafter?" He said: "Your hidden secrets are your deeds, which are: prayer, fasting, zakat, wudu, ghusl of janabah, and every obligation; because all deeds are hidden secrets. A man, if he wishes, says: 'I prayed', while he has not prayed, and if he wishes says: 'I performed wudu', while he has not performed wudu. And that is the saying of Allah: يَوْمَ تُبْلَى السَّرائِرُ [On the day when hidden things shall be made manifest]."

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): O son of Masud! Hold fast to the hidden secrets, for Allah the Exalted says: يَوْمَ تُبْلَى السَّرائِرُ فَما لَهُ مِنْ قُوَّةٍ وَ لا ناصِرٍ [On the day when hidden things shall be made manifest, he shall have neither strength nor helper].

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): A sermon of the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him) which he delivered on the day of Ghadir, in which he said: "This [day] is a day of great importance, and the day of the perfection of religion. This [day] is the day when hidden secrets are made manifest."

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Mufaddal said: I asked my master Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): "Does the mission of the awaited Mahdi (may Allah hasten his noble relief) have a fixed time that people should know when it will be?" He said: "Allah forbid that He should fix the time of his appearance in such a way that our Shia would know it... The Mahdi (peace be upon him) comes to the Zaydiyyah sect and admonishes them for three days and invites them to peace and to accept him, but they only increase in rebellion and disbelief. So the Mahdi (may Allah hasten his noble relief), out of necessity, issues the order to kill them, and they are all put to the sword. Then the Mahdi (may Allah hasten his noble relief) says to his companions: 'Do not take their Qurans; leave them so that they become a source of regret for them, just as they altered, changed and distorted it and did not act according to what was in it.' Mufaddal said: 'Master! What does the Mahdi (may Allah hasten his noble relief) do afterwards?' He said: 'He sends an army to Damascus to arrest the Sufyani; they seize him and slaughter him on a rock. Then Husayn (peace be upon him) appears with twelve thousand truthful ones and the seventy-two men who were among his companions at Karbala and were martyred with him. Oh, how blessed is that luminous return! Then the greatest truthful one, the Commander of the Faithful Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon him), appears, and a tent is erected for him in Najaf, standing on four pillars: one pillar in Najaf, one pillar in Hijr Ismail (peace be upon him), one pillar at Safa, and one pillar in the land of Madinah. It is as if I see its lamps shining like the lights of the sun and moon in the sky and the earth. At that time the hidden secrets [of man] are made manifest.'"