Miracle 94: Imam Ali (a.s.) Understands the Speech of Birds

It is narrated from Janabe Ammar bin Yasir (r.a.),

‘I was seated in the presence of Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) in Masjid Kufa and there did not happen to be anyone else in it besides me, and suddenly he (a.s.) was said: ‘Accept him! Accept him!’ I turned right and left but I did not see anyone. I remained wondering.

He (a.s.) said to me: ‘O Ammar! It is as if I am with you saying to them who had spoken against me’. I said, ‘It is like that, O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)!’ He (a.s.) said: ‘Raise your head!’ I raised my head, and there, I saw two doves’.

He (a.s.) said to me: ‘O Ammar! Do you know what one of them is saying to the other?’ I said, ‘No, by your life, O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)!’ He (a.s.) said: ‘The female is said to the male, ‘You have replaced me with someone else and fled from me and have taken a wife besides me’, and he swore to her and said, ‘I have not done that’. And she said, ‘I will not accept you’.

He said to her, ‘By the right of this seated one in this central Masjid! I have neither replaced you with someone besides you, nor have I taken other than you’. She thought of belying him, so I said to her: ‘Accept him! Accept him!’’

Ammar said, ‘O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)! I do not know of anyone who knows the talk of birds except Sulaiman Bin Dawood (a.s.)’. He (a.s.) said to him: ‘O Ammar! By Allah! Sulaiman Bin Dawood (a.s.) had asked Allah, the Almighty through us, the people of the household and he taught the speech of the birds.¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 42, Chp 117, Trad 1 ↩