MIRACLE 9 – CONVERSATION WITH A BIRD

In (the book) ‘Al Imtihan’ –

‘Ammar bin Yasir (r.a.) and Jabir Al-Ansari, ‘I was with Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) in the desert and I saw him (a.s.) to have diverted away from the road. So, I followed him (a.s.) and saw him (a.s.) looking at the sky, then smiled laughing. He (a.s.) said: ‘You have done well, O you bird when you travelled by His Grace!’

I said to him (a.s.), ‘O my master, which bird?’ He (a.s.) said: ‘In the air. Would you like to see it and listen to its speech?’ I said, ‘Yes, my master!’ He (a.s.) looked at the sky and supplicated with a supplication in a low voice, and there the bird swooped down to the ground. It fell upon the hand of Ameerul Momineen (a.s.). He (a.s.) caressed his hand upon its back and said: ‘Speak, by the Permission of Allah, the Almighty, and I am Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.)!’

Allah, the Almighty Caused the bird to speak in a clear Arabic language. It said, ‘The greeting be unto you, O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.), and Mercy of Allah, the Almighty and His Blessings’. He (a.s.) responded to it and said to it: ‘From where (do you get) your food and drink in this desolate wilderness in which there is neither any vegetation nor any water?’

It said, ‘O my Master! Whenever I am hungry, I mention your Wilayah of People of the House, so I get satiated. And when I am thirsty, I disavow from your enemies, and I get quenched.

He (a.s.) said: ‘May there be Blessings in you’. It flew away, and this is an example of Words of the Exalted: ‘O you people! We have been Taught the speech of the birds [27:16]’’¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 111, Trad 12 ↩