174 Preface يا أَيُّهَا النّاسُ قَد جاءَكُم بُرهانٌ مِن رَبِّكُم وَأَنزَلنا إِلَيكُم نورًا مُبينًاAli Quli QaraiO mankind! Certainly a proof1 has come to you from your Lord, and We have sent down to you a manifest light.2 That is, the Prophet Muḥammad (ṣ), or the Qurʾān.The Qurʾān, according to Mujāhid, Qatādah and Suddī. The wilāyah of Imām ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (ʿa) according to traditions from Imām Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and Imām Muḥammad al-Bāqir (ʿa). See the commentaries of Furāt al-Kūfī and al-ʿAyyāshī under this verse.