Ali(as) the first In many fields

Ali(AS) was the possessor of unique virtues and was the first and foremost person in a number of things. He had no match in the following attributes, to mention only a few :

• He was of noblest birth for both his father and mother were Hashimites.

• He was the only person to be born in the Kaaba (the house of God).

• He was the only Divinely authorized witness and Attester that Prophet Muhammad is the Messenger of God. (Surah Raad Verse 43, Surah Hood Verse 17 and Surah Saha Verse 6.).

• He was the first to offer prayers after the Holy Prophet.

• He was the only one to offer his assistance to the Holy Prophet at the gathering of Dawat-e-Asheera

• Ali (AS) was the only one (except the Holy Prophet) whom God inspired with Divine Secrets.

• He was the first to compile and codify the Quran.

• He had the distinction of being styled as “Brother” by the Prophet on both the occasions of “before Hijrat” at Mecca and after Hijrat at Medina.

• Ali (AS) was the only one named by the Holy Prophet to bathe his body after his death.

• HE was the only warrior to stick to his post on the battlefield in all battles and who never once turned his back

• It was he who was appointed Commander in all the battles in which the Holy Prophet did not partici­pate personally and was the Standard Bearer when the Prophet participated.

• He was the great warrior who succeeded in killing all adversaries who fought against him.

• It was Ali (AS) who caught and conquered pagan ‘Jinns’ many of whom accepted Islam.

• The honor of the propagation of the Quranic Surah “Al-Baraat” (the Immunity) fell to Ali’s lot, the Prophet saying that either he himself or Ali could do it and no one else, thereby raising him Supreme above all others.

• It was he on whom the Holy Prophet bestowed the title “a Second Aaron.”

• The privilege of removing the symbols of Arab paganism from the Kaaba (after the conquest of Mecca) was also reserved for Ali(AS).

• Ali (AS) had the good fortune to have the sublimest woman of the world Fatima( as) as his wife and a unique father-in-law like the Prophet(PBUH) and sons like Hasan(AS) and Husain(AS). 

• Ali(AS) had the honor of being nominated by the Holy Prophet as his Successor, Testator and Vicegerent.

• Ali(AS) was also honored by being styled “Moula” (Master) of the “Ummah” (nation) by the Holy Prophet, by the mandate of God.

• Ali(AS) is the one who (long before the creation of the universe) came into being along with the Holy Prophet each of them being a fragment of the same ‘Noor’, (Light), Muhammad(PBUH) having the Prophethood and Ali having the ‘Vilayath’. (Authority).

• Ali(AS) while in the stage of ‘Noor’ has been the Divine Professor who imparted knowledge to Gabriel and other angels - hence known as the Teacher of Gabriel.

• Besides the Holy Prophet(PBUH), Ali(AS) is the only one, de­parture of whose soul depends on his own will.

• He is the distributor of Kausar and will allot Heaven or Hell as deserved.