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وَقَالَ لَهُمْ نِبِيُّهُمْ إِنَّ آيَةَ مُلْكِهِ أَن يَأْتِيَكُمُ ٱلتَّابُوتُ فِيهِ سَكِينَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَبَقِيَّةٌ مِّمَّا تَرَكَ آلُ مُوسَىٰ وَآلُ هَارُونَ تَحْمِلُهُ ٱلْمَلاۤئِكَةُ إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لآيَةً لَّكُمْ إِن كُنْتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ
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-Al-Baqarah ( البقرة )

Kashani Tafsir

[And their prophet said to them, 'The sign of his kingship is that there will come to you the Ark:] in it is a Spirit of Peace from your Lord, in other words, that in which your hearts will find peace, and a remnant of what the folk of Moses and the folk of Aaron left behind, among their descendants of the concept called farr, which is a light from the angelic realm by which the soul is illumined through its being joined to the angelic heavenly realm and receiving that effusion from the world of power, a requisite for the actualisation of the science of governance and the disposal of kingship and the wisdom created for it; the angels bearing it: in other words, it will come down to you through the medium of the heavenly angels. It is possible that this [tābūt] was a box containing a talismanic seal of the sort that would bring victory to the [king's] army, and other such royal talismans as are mentioned. It seems that it contained an image with a half human half feline head with a tail like a cat's, similar to the one that existed during the reign of Fereydun, called Darafsh-e Kaviyan.