25. Tamim ibn `Abd Allah ibn Tamim al-Qarashi said in Farghanah that my father said, on the authority of Ahmad ibn `Ali al-Ansari, on the authority of `Abd al-Salam ibn Salih alHirawi that Al-Ma`mum asked al-Rida about the Word of Allah, the Mighty and High: They whose eyes were under a cover from My Reminder and they could not even hear. Consequently, he replied,

Verily, covering the eyes does not stop them from remembering Allah, and remembering Allah cannot be done with the eyes. However, Allah, the Mighty and High, has compared those who reject the guardianship of `Ali ibn Abu Talib with blindness, because they use to find the words of the Prophet burdensome, and they could not bear to hear them. Al-Ma`mun then said: “You have relieved me. May Allah relieve you!”