Miracle 98: Imam Ali (a.s.) Was Aware of the Theft from the Public Treasury

Al-Adwy stole a thousand Dinars from the public treasury, Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) asked Janabe Salman (r.a.) to go to him and say, ‘Return the wealth to the public treasury, for Allah, the Almighty the Exalted Said: and the one who embezzles will bring what he had embezzled with him on the Day of Qiyamah; [3:161]’.

Al-Adwy said, ‘How frequent is the sorcery of the children of Abdul Muttalib (a.s.)! I have not let anyone know of this at all!

And more surprising than this is that I had seen him (a.s.) one day, and in his hand was a bow of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.). I mocked at him (a.s.), so he (a.s.) threw it from his hand and said: ‘Take, O enemy of Allah!’ And just then the bow turned into a serpent and started coming towards me’.¹

Footnotes

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