Justice and Remembrance: Introducing the Spirituality of Imam Ali

by Reza Shah-Kazemi

The Prophet said to his wife ʿĀʾisha, ‘Call unto me the leader (sayyid) of the Arabs.’ She asked, ‘O Prophet of God, are you not the leader of the Arabs?’ He said, ‘I am the leader of the children of Adam, and ʿAlī is the leader of the Arabs.’42