Ali Mamsus Fi Zat Allah (hadith): Difference between revisions

[[Fayḍ Kāshānī]], an 11th-century Shia philosopher and traditionist, interpreted mamsūs fī dhāt Allāh as one who has detached from self and united with God—seeing all powers as reflections of divine power.<ref name=":1" /> He believed such a person sees all knowledge and perfection as emanating from God.<ref name=":1">Fayḍ Kāshānī, Muḥammad Muḥsin, al-Wāfī, Isfahan, Imām Amīr al-Muʾminīn Library, 1st ed., 1986, vol. 3, p. 515.</ref>   

[[Sayyid ʿAlī Khān al-Madanī]], a 12th-century Shia scholar, argued that such a person should not be insulted, as all his attributes and perfections are divine.<ref>Kabīr al-Madanī, ʿAlī Khān, Riyāḍ al-Sālikīn fī Sharḥ Ṣaḥīfat Sayyid al-Sājidīn, Qom, Islamic Publishing Office, 1st ed., 1989, vol. 1, p. 34.</ref>   

Some have interpreted mamsūs as being passionately in love or deeply attracted. [[ʿAllāma Majlisī]] interpreted this hadith as reflecting Imam ʿAlī’s deep love for God, to the extent that he appeared madly in love with Him. He also suggested that it may mean that Ali’s flesh and blood were imbued with divine love.<ref>Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir, Biḥār al-Anwār, Beirut, Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, 2nd ed., 1983, vol. 39, p. 313.</ref>   

Others believe that the Prophet (s) described Imam ʿAlī (a) as mamsūs fī dhāt Allāh to mean “madly in love with God,” as someone who—like a madman—fears no one’s judgment in the path of God.<ref>Raḥmānī Hamadānī, Aḥmad, Imām ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, n.p., Munir Cultural Publishing Center, 1st ed., 1998, p. 132.</ref>