Zurarah said, “I asked Abu Abdillah A.S. about the words of Allah: ‘His Chair extends over the heavens and the earth,’ whether the heavens and the earth encompass the Chair, or the Chair extends over the heavens and the earth? He said: ‘Verily, everything is in the Chair.’” (Al-Kafi) Hafs ibn Al-Ghiyath said, “I asked Abu Abdillah A.S. about the words of Allah ‘His Chair extends over the heavens and the earth, he replied, ‘(its) His Knowledge.’” (Ma’ anil-Akhbaar) There is another tradition in the same book from the same Imam, which says: “The heaven and the earth and whatever is between them is in the Chair (Kursi), and the Throne (Arsh) is that knowledge which no one can measure.” Hunnan said, “I asked Abi Abdillah A.S. about the Throne (Arsh) and the Chair (Kursi). He replied, ‘Verily, the Throne has many diverse attributes. Allah uses in the Qur’an various adjectives to describe its various aspects. In the verse: ‘Rabbul Arshil Azeem.’ (9:129), The Lord of the Great Throne, means Lord of the great kingdom or authority. Moreover, He says, ‘The Beneficent (God) on the Throne is firm’ (20: 5) It means He is firmly established over His Kingdom, and it is the knowledge of the ‘how’ of the things. In addition, the Throne is distinct from the Chair (although they are together); because they are the two of the greatest doors of unseen, from which appears creation, and from which all things come. The Chair is the manifest door of the unseen from which manifests His Creation, from which all things come. The Throne is the concealed door of the unseen in which is found the knowledge of the states, conditions, existence, of measure and limit, of Will and intention, as well as knowledge of words, action & omission, and the knowledge of the beginning and return. Thus, these are the two gates of knowledge joined together. The dominion of the Chair is other than the dominion of the Throne (Arsh). The knowledge about the Throne is much more hidden.” As-Sadiq A.S. said in a tradition, “Everything that Allah created is in the receptacle of the Chair (Kursi), except His Throne (Arsh), because Arsh is too great for the Chair to encompass.” (Al-Ihtijaj) Al-Ayyashi narrates in his At-Tafsir from Muawiya ibn Ammar that he asked As-Sadiq A.S. about (the verse), “who is it that can intercede with Him, but by His permission?” He replied, “We are those intercessors.”
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