13th Rajab-Wiladat of Imam Ali ibn-e-Abi Talib(a.s.)

Imam Ali
was the possessor of unique virtues and was the first and foremost
person in a number of things. He had no match in the following
attributes, to mention only a few:

He was of noblest birth for both his father and mother were Hashimites.

He was the only person to be born in the Kaaba (the house of God).

He
was the only Divinely authorized witness and Attester that Prophet
Muhammad is the Messenger of God. (Surah Raad Verse 43, Surah Hood
Verse 17 and Surah Saha Verse 6.).

He was the first to offer prayers after the Holy Prophet.

He was the only one to offer his assistance to the Holy Prophet at the gathering of Dawat-e-Asheera.

Imam Ali was the only one (except the Holy Prophet) whom God inspired with Divine Secrets.

He was the first to compile and codify the Quran.

He
had the distinction of being styled as “Brother” by the Prophet on both
the occasions of “before Hijrat” at Mecca and after Hijrat at Medina.

Imam Ali was the only one named by the Holy Prophet to bathe his body after his death.

Ho was the only warrior to stick to his post on the battlefield in all battles and who never once turned his back.

It
was he who was appointed Commander in all the battles in which the Holy
Prophet did not partici­pate personally and was the Standard Bearer
when the Prophet participated.

He was the great warrior who succeeded in killing all adversaries who fought against him.

It was Ali who caught and conquered pagan ‘Jinns’ many of whom accepted Islam.

The
honor of the propagation of the Quranic Surah “Al-Baraat” (the
Immunity) fell to Ali’s lot, the Prophet saying that either he himself
or Ali could do it and no one else, thereby raising him Supreme above
all others.

It was he on whom the Holy Prophet bestowed the title “a Second Aaron.”

The privilege of removing the symbols of Arab paganism from the Kaaba (after the conquest of Mecca) was also reserved for Ali .

Imam Ali
had the good fortune to have the sublimest woman of the world Fatima as
his wife and a unique father-in-law like the Prophet and sons like
Hasan and Husain.

Ali had the honor of being nominated by the Holy Prophet as his Successor, Testator and Vicegerent.

Imam Ali was also honored by being styled “Moula” (Master) of the “Ummah” (nation) by the Holy Prophet, by the mandate of God.

Imam Ali
is the one who (long before the creation of the universe) came into
being along with the Holy Prophet each of them being a fragment of the
same ‘Noor’, (Light), Muhammad having the Prophethood and Ali having the ‘Vilayath’. (Authority).

Ali
while in the stage of ‘Noor’ has been the Divine Professor who imparted
knowledge to Gabriel and other angels - hence known as the Teacher of
Gabriel.

Ali is the only one who continues in himself the attributes of all the Prophets put together.

Ali is the Head of all the Spiritual Lines of the Ahl­e-Tariqat and Sufis.

Ali is the replica of the Holy Prophet and is to him what the head is to a body.

The Prophet and Ali (AS)alone could come to the Mosque when under the obligation of a bath.

Ali’s
door, like that of the Prophet, that opened in the Mosque was retained
while the doors of all others were closed under a Divine Mandate.

Ali
(AS)is the one who was ordained to assist all Mess­engers of God from
Adam to Jesus, hiddenly and to come out openly to assist the Holy
Prophet.

Ali is the sole one divinely designated as the Hand of God, Face of God, Eye of God, Ear of God, Tongue of God and Symbol of God.

He
is the only one, acknowledgment of whose ‘Vilayath’ (authority) along
with the Prophethood of Muhammad is the basic requisite for the
Pro­phethood of any Messenger of God.

Like the Holy Prophet, Ali was bestowed upon with miracles, such as on two occasions he made the sun come back from the west when it had already set.

Besides the Holy Prophet, Ali is the only one, de­parture of whose soul depends on his own will.

He is the distributor of Kausar and will allot Heaven or Hell as deserved.