MIRACLE 35 – GREETINGS OF FISHES ON AMEERUL MOMINEEN (AS)

The people of Kufa had panicked and came to Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) from the fear of drowning when the Euphrates had increased its water level. He (a.s.) performed ablution and prayers, then he (a.s.) supplicated to Allah, the Almighty and went ahead to the Euphrates leaning upon a stick in his hand. He (a.s.) struck with it the surface of the water and said: ‘Reduce, by the permission of Allah, the Almighty and His Desire!’

The water level reduced until the fishes appeared. A lot of them spoke with the greetings upon him (a.s.) as ‘master of the believers’, and certain other types from the fish did not speak, these were the eels, and the catfish, and the cornet-fish.

The people were astonished at that, and they asked him (a.s.) about the reason of what spoke, and the reason for silence of ones which were silent. He (a.s.) said: ‘Allah, the Almighty caused to speak for me what were clean from the fishes and silenced from me what were prohibited and filthy and distanced them’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 112, Trad 22 ↩