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and most importantly,
- possessing innate knowledge (meaning knowledge that is inspired/derived from God and not acquired through learning from schools)
Siyyid Kázim humbly acknowledged his own limitations in comparison, stating:
“His learning is derived from God, not from the teachings of Shaykh Ahmad, but from God. My knowledge is but a drop compared with the immensity of His knowledge, my attainments a speck of dust in the face of the wonders of His grace and power. Nay immeasurable is the difference.” 45ACT1
These characteristics of the Promised One that Siyyid Kázim described were all derived from the hadĂth 46ACT1 attributed to the holy Imáms. Â
Siyyid Kázim told many of his disciples that they would live to see the Promised One, but he warned them that in spite of all the preparation and signs, they would “… behold Him with your own eyes, and yet recognize Him not.”47ACT1 This came to pass. NabĂl tells how this unfolds for Shaykh Hasan, one of Siyyid Kázim’s disciples from ZunĂşz , a small town in northeastern Persia,48ACT1 [his full name was Shaykh Hasan-i-ZunĂşzĂ ]. Shaykh Hasan told NabĂl how he was greatly attached to Siyyid Kázim.
He even used to think that maybe Siyyid Kázim himself was the Qá’im and he was just covering it up until the time was right to tell everyone. But then Shaykh Hasan saw how displeased Siyyid Kázim became when one of the other disciples said a similar thing. So, he was praying every night that God would help him understand and recognize the Qá’im. It was during this period that the following incident occurred. 49ACT1
45 Dawn-Breakers Chapter 2, p25
46 Also called Traditions, the hadĂth are oral sayings attributed to the Prophet Mohammad and the Imáms and given very high importance – second only to the Qur’án. For more details on hadĂth see Appendix: Brief Background on ShĂ’a Islam.
47Dawn-Breakers Chapter 2, p25
48 ZunĂşz [nowadays called Zonuz] is a town about 100 km [about 60 miles] northwest of TabrĂz.
49Dawn-Breakers Chapter 2, p25
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