Miracle 64: The Sermon Without the Letter Alif

It is reported that, one day in presence of Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) the companions said, there is no letter from the alphabets more frequently used in speech than the letter ‘Alif’.

Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) got up and addressed a long sermon spontaneously which inluded the Praise upon Allah, the Almighty, and with the Salawaat upon His Prophet (s.a.w.a.) and his purified progeny (a.s.), and in it was the promise and the threat, and description of the Paradise and the Fire, and the preaching, and the rebuking, and the advice to the people, and other than that, and there was not in it usage of the letter ‘Alif’’.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 114, Trad 36 ↩