intervening hijab (curtain). At the same time he is present in all the dimensions of humanity and stages of being, and being the highest manifestation of:

He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden [57:3]

wants all human beings to achieve such a perfection. It was painful for him to see
that they failed to achieve such a station, and perhaps the verse:

Ta ha: We have not sent down the Qur'an to you that you distress yourself [20: 1-2]

makes an oblique reference to this fact, and perhaps this hadith also refers to it:

No Prophet was made to suffer torment like me15

9. Marhum Amin al-Islam Tabrasi in his Majma' al-Bayan narrates the following:

Prophet Nuh ('a) lived among his people for 950 years. ..And he would invite them
day and night, but it would add nothing in them save repulsion. Sometimes his people would beat him so much that he would fall unconscious, and on regaining consciousness, he would say: "O Allah guide my people for they do not know"16.

10. Following is the first verse of a beautiful poem attributed to Imam' Ali ('a)17:

When he saw Ibn Muljim he recited the following near Amr bin Ma'dikarb:

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15 'Ali al-Muttaqi al-Hindi,Kanzu'l 'Ummal, v.11, tradition no. 32161
16 Amin al-Islam Tabrasi, Tafslr Majma ' al-Bayan, v.4, p.866
17 Minasha 'r al-Mansub ila 'l Imam al-Wasiyy 'Ali bin Abi Talib, p.64