The Descent of the Messiah — Page 313
FOOTNOTE 3 (From page 51) Ali Airi has emphasised in his book Tabșiratul-ʻUqalā', that no one can be equal to the Ahl-e-Bait. The brief answer to this is that the lineage of Sayyeds is based on being the descendant of Hadrat Fatima. So, though I am not an ‘Alawi, I am from the line of Hadrat Fatima. Some of my great-grandmothers were well-known and bonafide Sayyeds. It has been customary in our family that sometimes Sayyed girls were married into our family, and sometimes our girls married into the family of Sayyeds. The virtue that our family has achieved is not limited to human tra- ditional record, rather God has confirmed it through His pure revelation. In one of His holy revelations, which is in the words of the Holy Prophetas, God has named me Salman and said: 313