Spirit, the Holy Spirit
وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُمْ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا {85}
And they are asking you about ‘الرُّوحِ’ the Spirit. Say: ‘The Spirit is from a Command of my Lord, and you are not Given from the knowledge (of it) except a little’ [17:85]
عَلِيٌّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الْخَزَّازِ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ يَسْئَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي قَالَ خَلْقٌ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ جَبْرَئِيلَ وَ مِيكَائِيلَ لَمْ يَكُنْ مَعَ أَحَدٍ مِمَّنْ مَضَى غَيْرِ مُحَمَّدٍ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَ هُوَ مَعَ الْأَئِمَّةِ يُسَدِّدُهُمْ وَ لَيْسَ كُلُّ مَا طُلِبَ وُجِدَ
Ali, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Abu Ayoub Al Khazzaz, from Abu Baseer who said,
‘I heard Abu Abdullah-asws saying (regarding the words) ‘And they are asking you about the Spirit. Say: ‘The Spirit is from the Commands of my Lord’ [17:85]. He-asws said: ‘A creature more magnificent than Jibraeel-as and Mikaeel-as. It did not happen to be with anyone from the past apart from Muhammad-saww, and it is with the Imams-asws, protecting them-asws, and it isn’t so that everything what is sought, it found’.[1]
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[1] Al Kafi V 1 – The Book Of Divine Authority CH 56 H 4