Ali, the Light of God
Universe-Shining Countenance
Nahj Al-Balagha Account of Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib, Amir Al-Mu'amenin ('a)
Sponsored by
Peyman Kurd and 'Abdullah Jahanandish
Author: Seyyed Mohsen Tayyibnia
Translator: Ali Ebrahimi
Tayyibnia, Seyyed Mohsen, 1976-
Author's title and name: Ali, the light of God[Book]: universe-shining countenance Nahj Al-Balagha theosophy account of Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib, Amir Al-Mu’amenin (‘a)/ author Seyyed Moḥsen Ṭayyibnia; sponsored by Peyman Kurd and ‘Abdullah Jahanandish; translator Ali Ebrahimi.
Abdullah Jahanandish; translator Ali Ebrahimi. Qom, Ansarian 1400-2021
Appearance specifications: 544 pages.
ISBN : 978-964-219-728-6
Listing status: FIPA
Language: English.
note : Title in Farsi: The wisdom of Amirul Momineen.
Issue : Ali Ibn Abi Talib (AS), the first Imam، 23 before emigration - 40 ق.
Issue : 'Ali ibn abi-Talib, Imam I, 600-661
Issue : Ali Ibn Abi Talib (AS), the first Imam، 23 before emigration - 40ق -- sermons
Issue : Ali ibn Abi-talib, Imam I, 600-661 -- *Public speaking
Issue : Nahj al-Balagha
Added ID: Ebrahimi, Ali, 1340 -
Added ID: Ebrahim, Ali
Added ID: Kurd, Peyman, 1353-
Added ID: Kurd, Peyman, 1974-
Added ID: Jahanandish, Abdullah, 1336-
Added ID: Jahanandish, Abdullah, 1957-
Congress ranking: BP38/041
Dewey classification: 297/9515
National bibliography number: 8505679
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Tayyibnia, Seyyed Mohsen, 1976-
-طیب نیا، سید محسن 1355
Ali, the light of God[Book]: universe-shining countenance Nahj Al-Balagha theosophy account of Ali Ibn-e Abitalib, Amir Al-Mu'amenin (a)/ author Seyyed Mohsen Tyyibnia; sponsored by Peyman Kurd and 'Abdullah Jahanandish; translator Ali Ebrahimi. Qom, Ansarian 1400-2021
ISBN: 978-964-219-728-6
حکمتهای امیرالمؤمنین
1 - علی بن ابی طالب (ع)، امام اول، 23 قبل از هجرت - 40
Ali ibn abi-Talib, Imam I, 600-661-2
3-علی بن ابی طالب (ع)، امام اول 23 قبل از هجرت - 40 ق - خطبه ها
Ali ibn abi-Talib, Imam 1, 600-661 - Public Speaking -4
الف. ابراهیمی، علی، 1340
ب.Ebrahimi, Ali.
ج. کرد پیمان 1353
د.Kurd, Peyman, 1974.
ه.جهان اندیش عبدالله 1336
و.Jahanandish, Abdullah, 1957
BP38/041
شماره کتابشناسی ملی 8505679
SLEV
حکمتهای امیرالمؤمنین الان ترجمه انگلیس
Ali, The light of God
By Seyyed Mohsen Tayyibnia Translator: Ali Ebrahimi
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بسمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحيمِ
In the Name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the Merciful
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Praise Account...7
Introduction ...13
Sincerity Account....17
Theosophy One...21
Theosophy Two...51
Theosophy Three ...69
Theosophy Four ...85
Theosophy Five...121
Theosophy Six...135
Theosophy Seven... 145
Theosophy Eight ....157
Theosophy Nine...169
Theosophy Ten... 175
Theosophy Eleven...181
Theosophy Twelve....189
Theosophy Thirteen...195
Theosophy Fourteen...205
Theosophy Fifteen...215
Theosophy Sixteen...225
Theosophy Seventeen...237
Theosophy Eighteen ...259
Theosophy Nineteen...275
Theosophy Twenty ...287
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Theosophy Twenty One...321
Theosophy Twenty Two ...337
Theosophy Twenty Three...353
Theosophy Twenty Four ...369
Theosophy Twenty Five ...377
Theosophy Twenty Six ...393
Theosophy Twenty Seven ...415
Theosophy Twenty Eight...423
Theosophy Twenty Nine ...447
Theosophy Thirty...463
Theosophy Thirty One...477
Theosophy Thirty Two ...489
Theosophy Thirty Three...503
References...531
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O' My God! O' God of soul! And O' God of the universe! Thou deserve endless praise. What I shall say of Thy Greatness, Power, Magnificence and Compassion; whatever I say and whatever other speakers say, Thou art higher than we say.
Infinite praise belongs to Thee who created us by Thy grace and obliged us with all gifts.
Of course, we, worshippers, can never thank and praise Thee even if our all physical being turns into mouth praising day and night; we can hardly fulfil thankfulness to even one of Thy Graces!
O' Thou, the Compassionate One! Thou forgive us as unthankfully down- trodden servants.
True! True! Thou created us from naught into this universe and granted us abundant blessings while Thou were needless of us.
Endlessly plenty of praise belongs to Thee, Power, Magnitude and Purity of whom is indication of every bit of the universe. Thou art the Absolute Rich and all creatures are beggars before Thee.
Everything begins and ends with Thy Permission. Thou art the Only God, the Unparalleled, who has no similarity to Thy creatures.
All parts of the universe are innovated by Thee and all objects manifest Thy Power.
Thou give life, take life, grant smile and weep; Thou hold birds up in the air, split seed and move the winds; thou bestow Thy rain of blessing unto thirst and dried lands after despair and Thou decorate the earth with fruitful trees, fragrant flowers and plants.
Thou bring the dead to life out of graves again on the Great Day for restoring justice and punishing the evil-doers and rewarding the well- doers.
Praise belongs to Thee who art the All-powerful of the universe and no
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being can hardly stand in front of Thee; any powerful being remains inferior to Thee and any honorable being stands as humiliated!
The whole universe praises and thanks Thee
( وَإِن مِّن شَيْءٍ إِلا يُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدَهِ وَلَكِن لَّا تَفْقَهُونَ تَسْبِيحَهُمْ )
..... Do not perceive their thanksgiving and adoration .....(Israa: 44)
In case man purifies his heart from sins, he hears creatures praising God; he then realizes that singing of birds, spattering of waterfall, blasting of wind all in all praise nothing but Thee.
If birds are fluttering in the sky nicely, if rivers are roaring heavily ahead, if gulls of twilight are singing, if shining sun reveals beautiful and warmish face every morning and if the earth and other heavenly planets circulate in regular circuit all happen with your permission and power.
O' God! O' Unparalleled and Compassionate God! Thou ordained and regulated night and day for us with Thy Grace so that we can both live, use times of night and day and behold Thy Magnitude in these two marvelous phenomena, taking full consideration of Thy Eternal Essence.
Woe unto the negligent people! Woe unto the negligent people! The very negligent people who turn back from Thee despite Thy evident Power and Greatness! What shall I say of wonders of Thy Power and Magnitude in the heavens?! Whatever man discovered more up to now or seen by very strong telescopes that there are billions of planets and stars and that some of them are million times bigger than the globe; they only made known a spot of greatness of Thy creation in the heavens and astonished minds and intellects!
Then one must say الله اکبر الله اکبر ولله الحمد and close mouth, nod head down, cry stormily and say O' forgive me! O' forgive me!
True! Praise belongs to Thee who art Sustenance Provider of man and all creatures; what a plentifully pure sustenance Thou created for man to eat, to enjoy, to praise Thee and become Thy servant; nevertheless, most people eat and enjoy eating but they are never grateful to Thee and Thou said in Thy everlasting words
(وَقَلِيلٌ مِّنْ عِبَادِيَ الشَّكُورُ )
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...But very few of My worshippers are grateful (Saba: 13)
O' Thou, God of Praise! Thou art not in need of our worship and gratitude, but it is our duty as Thy worshippers in return for all blessings Thou bestowed upon us; we are grateful and worship Thee; Thou ordained endless reward to gratefulness of Thy worshippers, which is eternal paradise and flight in eternality.
I talked about Thy abundant foods and gifts; that is true Thou created thousands of foodstuffs and beverages for us and we could have them in good taste and sweetness with no extravagance.
How tasteful and nice they are! Varieties of fruits including apples in different sizes; sour and sweet of them; cereals and vegetables; birds and animals of lawful meat; fresh clean water of sorts including hot ones in winter and cold ones in summer so delicious and pleasurable!
And Thou, O' God of Compassion! Although Thou bestowed all gifts and beauties for mankind in this world, Thou did not set the world as survival place for us, saying:
(وَ الْآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَ أَبْقي )
Though the Hereafter is finer and enduring (A'laa: 17)
And Thou introduced the world as trivial in the face of infinite number of gifts of the other world.
O' God! Praise belongs to Thee who destined with Grace four great and nice seasons on earth for mankind to take advantage of each one and be attentive to Thy Power. Thou cemented mountains in strength and in miscellaneously nice colors on earth to help mankind use their plentiful reserves. They are the very high-rise mountains that dazzle the eyes with their strength. But Thou empowered man to climb up them and stand on top erect and proud, saying: O' strong mountain! I am standing on you!
True! Thou conquered the earth for man to use through Thy grace and asked him nothing but his servitude to Thee, from which he is benefited.
Praise belongs to Thee of whom nothing in the heavens and on earth is hidden and Thou art endlessly omniscient of all creatures of the universe.
True! Thou art aware of everything; Thou know number of sky stars,
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number of desert pebbles and sea sands, number ocean species and Thou know what happens in the hearts and minds of mankind on the earth and what obsessions there are in human minds; as Thou said in Thy everlasting words:
(وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ وَنَعْلَمُ مَا تُوَسْوِسُ بِهِ نَفْسُهُ وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيد )
And indeed We were the One Who Created man and We know what does his passionate- self whisper to his heart and [through the Embracing knowledge] We are nearer to him than his jugular vein (Qaaf: 16).
Thou know billions of seeds split and grow out of soil every instance on this earth because Thou art Creator of seeds and all creatures of the universe; how may it be Thou would be negligent of all creatures Thou created?!
Thou hold death and life and Thou art the One Who give life and take life just as Thy Power, Magnitude and Divinity are revealed in Thy taking life of creatures.
True! True! While Thou take life of men and crush skulls and bodies inside graves, Thou give life to thousands of other people; while Thou fill eyes in the dark hole of graves with dust and make eloquent tongues of the dead dry and motionless, Thou let thousands of eyes see and thousands of tongues speak.
While Thou hit the faces of the arrogant people onto the ground and downgrade them; Thou take hand of thousands of the downtrodden with Thy Kind Hands and exalt them.
True! Thou art God of the universe and Thou deserve being praised. Thou art Compassionate, Great, Honorable, Patient, Forgiver and repentance Accepter; but Thy Agony and Revenge rendered are very hard to endure for the atheists, dissidents and enemies. Thou said in Thy Holy Quran:
(إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِالْمِرْصَادِ )
Verily, your Creator and Nurturer is watching all people from the ambush [of His Embracing Knowledge] (Fajr: 14).
Thy peace may befall upon all prophets, particularly our Seyyed and lord and beloved in our hearts, Abulqassem Al-Mustafa (s); he is the very beloved creature who has the highest rank and nobody can reach his rank;
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Thy peace may be upon his pure Progeny, particularly the gate of knowledge of the Messenger (s), his first legatee who is our lord Ali Ibn Abitaleb (a); the Infallible Progeny who is the pure family of the Quran; after Messenger (s), path of guidance and salvation runs with them and their guardianship means rescue ark of mankind.
عَنْ كِتَابِ عَيْنِ الْحَيَاةِ لِلْعَلامَةِ الْمَجْلِسِي رَحِمَهُ اللهُ، قَالَ: رُوِيَ فِي بَعْضِ الْكُتُبِ الْمُعْتَبَرَةِ الأءِ مَامِيَّةِ، عَنِ الْأَءِ مَامِ مُحَمَّد التَّقِي انام أَنَّهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم : ذِكْرُ عَلِي بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عام عِبَادَةٌ، وَ مِنْ عَلَامَاتِ الْمُنَافِقِ أَنْ يَتَنَفَّرَ عَنْ ذِكْرِهِ، وَيَخْتَارَ اسْتِمَاعَ الْقِصَصِ الْكَاذِبَةِ، وَ أَسَاطِيرِ الْمَجُوسِ، عَلَى اسْتِمَاعِ فَضَائِلِهِ، ثُمَّ قَرَأَيْ: «وَ إِذا ذُكِرَ اللهُ وَحْدَهُ اشْمَأَزَّتْ قُلُوبُ الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْأَخِرَةِ وَ إِذَا ذُكِرَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ دُونِهِ إِذَا هُمْ يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ». فَسُئِلَ صَلَوَاتُ اللهِ عَلَيْهِ عَنْ تَفْسِيرِهَا، قَالَ: أَمَا تَدْرُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ الله صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ كَانَ يَقُولُ: «اذْكُرُوا عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عليها فِي مَجَالِسِكُمْ فَإِنَّ ذِكْرَهُ ذِكْرِي وَ ذِكْرِي ذِكْرُ الله؟ فَالَّذِينَ اشْمَأَزَّتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ عَنْ ذِكْرِهِ، وَ اسْتَبْشَرُوا مِنْ ذِكْر غَيْرِهِ، أُولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ، وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ مُهِينٌ.
Allameh Majlisi says that Imam Mohammad Taqi (‘a) is being quoted as saying from his ancestor, the Messenger (s): Remembering Ali Ibn Abitaleb (‘a) is worshipping. Later, Hazrat Baqir ('a) added: A hypocrite dissident is known after his resentment from God and selects false stories and myths of Zoroastrians for hearing instead of virtues and excellences of Ali Ibn Abitaleb (‘a).
Hazrat quoted what the Almighty God said:
Whenever hypocrite dissidents hear remembering God, they have their hearts laden with hatred and whenever they hear about remembering of things other than God (idols and tyrants ...), they become delighted.
Hazrat was asked about interpretation of the verse and he said: Has not the Messenger narrated that Ali Ibn Abitaleb shall be remembered in your meetings and that remembering him means remembering me and remembering me is remembering God?
Therefore, those who hate remembering Ali Ibn Abitaleb (a) and who become gladdened remembering things other than him are the very people with faith in the Hereafter and face humiliating agony on the Day.
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الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاه والسلام على محمد وآله الطاهرين واللعن على اعدائهم اجمعين...
One day when I was engaged in studying Nahj Al-Balagha, I reached oration 182; one of Imam Ali's companions quotes that Commander of the Faithful (‘a) stood on a stone in his late years of his life in Kufa in 40 A.H and addressed people while he wore a rough wooly shirt, a date-made fiber sword hanging over his neck, a date-made fiber pair of shoes and his forehead being callous of multi-prostration.
In his speech laden with grief, Ali (‘a) after praising God, talking about monotheistic culture and advising people to seek piety refers to his loyal companions who were martyred in Siffin war while with gloomy heart complaining about disobedience and negligence of his disloyal companions in rushing to jihad with Mu'awiyya and says:
"....True! Those brothers whose blood were spilled in Siffin war lost nothing although they are not alive today so that they might be fed with grief and be drunk with bloody serum of heart.
I swear to God! They met God and He rewarded them and after passing times of horror, He let them be on His safe haven. Where are those brothers of mine who left for path of truth and died with it? Where is Ammar? And where is son of Tayhan? Where is Khuzaima Ibn Thabit Dhu'sh-Shahadatain al-Ansari? And where are like those of their brothers who made a pledge of self-devotion and martyrdom and sent their heads to tyrants?"
The narrator says that Ali (‘a) grasped his holy beard and wept for a long time, saying:
Alas! My brothers who read the Quran and judged accordingly, contemplated over divine obligatory and upheld it, revived divine traditions and ruined innovations, accepted call for jihad and built confidence in their leader and followed him.
Later, Ali (‘a) turning to people uttered loudly:
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Jihad! Jihad! Worshippers of God! I prepare an army today and whoever wishes to depart to God, he shall join with us.
To catch up with the speech, the late Seyyed Radi (author of Nahj Al- Balagha) writes:
Nawf Bakkali (one of Imam Ali's companions) said: Imam designated ten thousand troops for Husayn ('a), Ten thousand troops for Qeys Ibn Sa'ad and ten thousand troops for Abu Ayyub Khaled Ibn Sa'ad; for other commanders, he did so and when he was back to Siffin, Ibn Moljam, the cursed man, hit Imam with sword and the troops went back their homes. We looked like sheep that had lost their shepherd and wolves were ready to devour them from all sides.
This sorrowful speech which expresses the oppressedness of Amir Al- Mu'amenin (‘a) in his highest power affected me so much that I could hardly stop crying and my papers were moistened with my tears!
To relieve my heart, I decided to put down a few pages by addressing Ali (a) and retell how oppressed Hazrat was.
True! I intended to whisper and say:
O' lord! If people of your time left you alone and stopped appreciating you, you have lovers around the world now, who dedicate themselves to you joyfully; I wanted to say:
O' Commander of the Faithful (a)! All of us and our family may be sacrificed to you! You who were the first Muslim and pioneer of jihad and highly divine values; you who were brother of the Prophet (s), channel of his knowledge and philosophy and his truthful caliph but people misbehaved you.
Some days later, these sentences preoccupied my mind and I thought how I should put down these few pages of confabulations with Ali (‘a) and from where shall I begin?!
With such engagement, it occurred to my mind that I write about biography of Ali (a) from his birth to his martyrdom by addressing him; therefore, I decided to concentrate more on this with all aspects involved.
Successive days passed and I was constantly thinking of planning the
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writing. Despite being determined to write the book, I was not quite strong and set for several cases!! The reason behind this was that I always pinched myself, saying: There is a great difference between me, my elaboration and virtues of Imam Ali (‘a)!! I am too humble to discuss virtues of Imam Ali (‘a) and I should cut my coat according to my cloth!!
Temptations sometimes stopped me overlooking writing of the book, but despite such temptations, I heard a call from my inner sense, telling me: O' You! Write it! Write it! Although you are humble and wrongdoer!
Finally, call of my heart overcame my temptations and after several weeks of contemplation over the book, I began penning in the name of Allah.
At first, I made a slow progress, but after two or three weeks, I could get favor of Allah and speed up writing insofar as I wrote some pages a day till late at night and I sat to study and write in some days fifteen hours a day. I had planned about one year to accomplish the book, yet I incredibly completed it in less than four months. During the four months, I had stopped doing other things but writing the book and made use of several hundred historical-narrative sources in this regard.
I hope the Almighty God and His Beloved Messenger (s) accept this piece of work from me, the humble servant of God.
Here, in order to let respected readers know the book, I enumerate a number of its characteristics:
1. Talking about one span of lifetime of Ali (‘a) in semi-literary style and in a form of addressing him
2. Expanded employment of expression in taste and emotion as well as using figures of speech in relative colloquialism
3. Expressing virtues of Amir Mu'amenan (‘a) by frequent reference to Sunni and Shiite sources (one might say all generals of virtues of Ali ('a) have been quoted from Sunnis and Shiites).
4. Frequent referencing of the Islamic authentic and old historical backgrounds coupled with concise and interesting points
5. Elucidating high status of Imamate and responding some skepticisms of opponents
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6. Raising lots of miscellaneous and readable matters of philosophy accounts
7. Making reasons for verses and narrations on proving truthfulness of the Pure and Infallible Progeny (‘a)
8. Making references to issues of monotheism and theology quoted from Amir Mu'amenan (a) as well as enumerating some of the deviant ideasabout theology
9. Letting dear readers know several hundred hadith and historical sources after studying the book
10. Touching on highlights of lifetime history of the honorable Prophet (s) within discussion
I kindly ask readers to read the book to the end for further realization.
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Sincerity Account
Divine peace may befall upon you, O' lord, O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin, O' Aba Al-Hassan!
Peace of Angels, Prophets and all righteous, pure and good people of the universe may befall on you!
O' Commander of the Faithful, O' brother of the Beloved of God, O' knowledge channel of the last Prophet of God (s) and O' the most beloved being of God!
Peace may befall on you!
Peace may be upon you, O' banner of undeniable truthfulness of the truth! O' the most integrated man of the ancient centuries! O' Hand of God, hand of sky, Hand of the earth, peace may be upon you, O' Amir Al- Mu'amenin! O' immortal man, everlasting man, O' non-recurrent man of history!
Holding unsheathed sword, you, while being dignified, positive and exalted, made your open chest a shelter and exposed your singingly affectionate heart to revealing truth thump after thump in order to help mankind out of darkness and to release the innocently anonymous worshippers of God from life dungeon.
You rose up neck and neck with your brother, the Messenger of God (s) in the darkest night with the longest darkness of all ages which had buried man underneath cold grave of clamor and oblivion beneath lots of tyranny and aberration and sacrificed your dear life to revive human respect and dedicated it to exalt word of monotheism.
O' dignified of God! O' the unparalleled tireless campaigner of mankind! O' the great capturer of all peaks of divinely everlasting high values! Peace may befall on you!
You are the heavenly God-like man whose lovers outnumber in the heavens more than those on earth!
You are the universe-shining sun of heavens and you are the universe-
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illuminating and world-shining countenance!
The heavenly Angels are always eager to spread their wings and carpet your steps with them!
O' tranquilizer of heart of the last Prophet (s), O' soul of the Messenger of God (s); O' demolisher of palaces of atheism; O' strength and pillar of religion; O' verse by verse, word by word and letter by letter of the holy Quran; peace may befall on you!
Although unknowledgeable people of that time failed to know you and pulled their fiery daggers on your kind heart; and your enemies were the most atheist and atrocious creatures of the universe; they intended to extinguish your light through ploys and tricks but you with your whole being shined like thousands of thousand suns across the universe sky and your world-shining countenance illuminated the world with lights as wide as the eternality.
True! Those wicked ignobly born atheists turned silent themselves and God added to your status and elevation, increasingly. O' Commander of the Faithful! All of your learned lovelorn lovers aspire this: They wished they had existed that time and could have arranged their faces to carpet your steps!
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! O' Lion of God! O' Pride of religion! O' Freshness of Eternal Paradise of God! All of us may be sacrificed to dust of your footsteps, the very footstep dust that deserves being kissed and taken as blessing by the world people; one day, your brother, the Prophet (s) said to you:
O' Ali! If I feared not that tribes of my ummah might tell about you what Christians tell about Jesus (that he is God), I would speak of you in such a way that every group takes your footstep dust as blessing.(1)
And Salman Farsi, high-standing Companion of the Messenger (s) and your loyal companion told one of your companions one day:
The Prophet (s) said about Ali this way:
If my ummah would not go on extremes about Ali just as how Christians
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did about Jesus Christ, I could speak of him in a way that people would bow down on his footprints and kiss them.(1)
In case, your lovers turn every page of the holy Quran, your good perfume is smelled that you are spirit of the Quran and the Quran finds sense with you.
O' Commander of the Faithful! O' hero of heroes in the universe! Your lovelorn lovers never exchange the over-repaired shoes with the whole universe; the very shoes you asked one of your companions how much it cost;
He replied: O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! It is so ragged and over-repaired that it costs not a penny!
But we confess with love: Our lips may kiss sole of your over-repaired!
I wish history would trace back to your lifetime and we could lovingly sacrifice our life thousands of times for you so that we could alleviate part of your grief you had patiently kept within yourself or we might heal a bit your wounded heart. But alas! We failed to deserve doing so. Yet, all our pride is that our Imam is Amir Mu'amenin; of course, we feel disgraced because we have not been good Shiite of yours, so God might bless us by virtue of your favor and grace and regard us as your cordial Shiites on the Day.
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I testify that your birth was a great miracle.
What shall say and write of you that I can fulfill the truth about you?! But is it possible to speak of you in a way that your true status is fulfilled?! Because if all trees turn into pens, seas become ink, men and others change into calculator and author, they can hardly enumerate your excellences and virtues!(1) But how can I humbly write and compose that the great men are even amazed and humble in such endlessly huge area?
Limiting Ali's excellence not possible
Enough of words, frustration confessable
Hadith fails words of Ali's virtues high
If pencils becometh seas and pens trees try
Guess not the words may be boastful
Ahmad Mokhtar said the words truthful
True! Neither man nor superman can delineate your virtues but God who created and exalted you.
Hardly ever can one talk about your dawn in the universe of light except what you, your brother and your pure children said that: We existed in the shape of light in the universe of light, worshipping and prostrating the Creator of light thousands of years before the heavens and the earth had
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Theosophy Account One:
Light creation of Ali (‘a) and Progeny of Prophet (s) before human creation by citing Sunni sources and other various issues
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come into existence!1
Many hadiths from Shiite and Sunni hadith writers have been quoted that the Messenger (s) and his Progeny (‘a) were created in the shape of light before God created the universe. Several narrations from Sunni and Shiite sources need attention:
Ahmad Hanbal, of popular leaders, quotes the Messenger (s) in his Musnad as saying that: I and Ali have been created from a single light and God had created spirit of me and Ali before creation of the universe.
Ibn-e Maghazeli Shafe'ie, in his book titled "Manaqeb" quotes the Messenger that:
I and Ali were in the shape of light serving God and the light praised and sanctified God before Adam was created.
Sheikh Suleyman Hanafi Qundouzi quotes the Messenger (s) in his book, titled "Yanabi'a Al-Mawaddeh", vol. 2, p. 307:
((خلقت أنا و على من نور واحد قبل أن يخلق الله آدم بأربعة آلاف عام فلما خلق الله آدم ركب ذلك النور في صلبه فلم يزل شيئا واحدا حتى افترقنا في صلب عبدالمطلب فَفِيَّ النبوّة و في على الوصية ))
I and Ali are created from a single light before four thousand years when God created Adam; as God created Adam, He placed the light into his loin and this constantly continued to shift to loins of ancestors and forefathers until it broke into two halves within Abdulmotalleb. Later, Prophetic Mission came to me and Ali became my legatee.
Ibn-e Abi Al-Hadid Mu'atazeli quotes the Prophet (s) in Sharh-e Nahj Al-Balagha, vol. 2, p. 250:
((كنت أنا و على نورا بين يدي الله عزّوجل قبل أن يخلق آدم بأربعة عشر ألف عام، فلما خلق آدم قسم ذلك فيه و جعله جزئين فجزء أنا و جزء علي ))
I and Ali were a single light serving God before fourteen thousand years when God created Adam; as He created Adam, He divided the light into two parts: One part became me and another part turned into Ali.
Ibn-e Abi Al-Hadid further says: This hadith has been narrated by Ahmad Ibn-e Hanbal in his Musnad. Also, the book titled "Shawahed Al-Tanzil leqawa'ed Al-Tadhi", vols. 1 and 2 written by the great Sunni hadith writer, Hakem Neisabouri quoted hadiths from the Messenger (s) in this respect. Allameh Majlisi quotes the Prophet (s) in "Bihar Al- Anwar", vol. 35, p. 34:
(خُلِقْتُ أنا وَ علي من نورٍ واحدٍ )
I and Ali are created from a single light.
Allameh Majlisi quotes Imam Mohammad Baqir ('a) saying that:
Fourteen thousand years before God created Adam, He created fourteen lights of light of His Magnitude; afterwards, those fourteen lights were our spirits. Jabber says: Imam was asked about those fourteen lights, he said: Mohammad, Ali, Fatima, Hassan, Husayn ('a) and nine descendants of Husayn ('a), ninth of whom is the Upholder (a). (Bihar Al- Anwar, vol. 25, p.4)
Imam Baqir (‘a) says in another hadith:
O' Jabber! The first creature God created was Mohammad (s) and his guided posterity;
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But one might say of how you blossomed on the earth:
If sea water cannot be trenched
One must sip it as thirst quenched
My lord! The most beautiful dawn and blossom on earth belongs to you because you have been born in a shrine which is the most honorable and purest abode and worshippers fly to kingdom of heavens from the earth by turning to it.
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therefore, they were spirits of light in front of God.
Jabber says he asked Imam what spirits were. Hazrat said:
Shadow of light, spiritless light bodies that confirmed a unified spirit and that was Holy Spirit (Kafi, vol. 1,p 442).
A well-known hadith titled "Ma'refati Belnuraniyyata" has been quoted from Imam Ali (a) some part of which will suffice to be mentioned here: Abuzar Ghaffari asked Salman Farsi: O' Aba 'Abdullah (nickname of Salman)! What is knowledge of Amir Mu'amenan (a) towards luminosity?
Salman said: O' Jondab [name of Abuzar]! Come with me to ask it from Hazrat (‘a). We went to his place but we did not find him there. Abuzar said: We waited for him to come; Hazrat said: What affair brought you here? Abuzar and Salman replied: O' Amir Mu'amenan (‘a)! We came to see you and ask you about your knowledge of luminosity. Hazrat said: Well-done to two loyal friends because you do your best!
My knowledge of luminosity is knowledge of the Almighty God and that is the very pure religion for which God says:
((وَ مَا أُمِرُوا إِلا لِيَعبُدُوا الله مُخلِصِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ ..... ))
Though what was recited to them from Quran was also enjoined on them in their own Books: That they should worship Allah alone; and that they should make their religion sincere for Him.... (Bayyinah: 5)
Stop giving us Godly status and you can attribute any excellence to us but you never reach core reality within us.......I and the Prophet were one light; he became Mohammad Mustafa and I became his legatee, Ali Mortada; I am the straight path and great.......(Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 26, p. 2).
From all narrations, it is implied that the Prophet of Islam (s) and his Progeny (a) possessed luminous existence before everything else was created; but such luminous creation fails to clash with their physical creation in the world in certain time and space. Physically, the Prophet (s) and Progeny (a) are born like other human beings and live like others in peaks and valleys and they functionalize and give rise to capability at their will through stages of life and participating in scenes of patience, jihad and worship, by reason of which they remain models of human beings. Therefore, Hazrat Mohammad (s) and Ahl-e Bayt (a) have two facts: First, it was their luminous fact and second, it has been their physicality which looked like people of the universe.
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The life-giving and pure God willed that your birth be a great sign and miracle to make the world people think if they are thinkers!
When progeny of the pure women of the universe was on her nine-month- old pregnancy moved towards Ka'aba and began to circumambulate Ka'aba and remember God, she suffered labor pains and prayed beside Ka'aba in this way:
O' God! I am a believer of Thee and trust in whatever of the Messengers and heavenly Books from Thee; I also acknowledge words of my ancestor, Abraham Khalil (s) who founded Ka'aba. I swear to the right of the one who built House of Ka'aba and to the baby I bear in my womb, make childbirth easy for me!
Witnesses say: All of a sudden, backward wall of Ka'aba split apart and your mother entered Ka'aba and grew invisible; the split came together. We wanted to unlock Ka'aba but whatever trial failed; later, we found that this comes from God. Your mother stayed inside Ka'aba for three days and she came out on the fourth day while she was holding your sun-spreading being on her arms; she said:
I surpassed previous women because Assiyya, daughter of Mazahem (wife of Pharaoh) who secretly worshipped God, where worshipping God is not permissible unless necessary (as palace of Pharaoh was usurped by him); and Maryam, daughter of Emran who went far away during her childbirth(1); she finally saw a dried palm tree and shook the dried palm tree until fresh and good-quality date fell and she ate it(2). But I entered Ka'aba
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and ate paradise fruits and foods there and when I wanted to come out of Ka'aba, an invisible voice called: O' Fatima! Name your child Ali; he is Ali (meaning high status) and God of sublimated Ali says: I derived his name from My Name and bred him with My customs and made him discerned about scientific matters Myself. He is the one who breaks up idols in My House, says azan on top of Ka'aba, sanctifies and lauds Me. Good for the one who loves and obeys him and bad for the one who raises enmity against him and disobeys him(1).
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had died before this and had been forgotten." Then a voice cried to her from the inside of her womb: "Do not be sorrowful; verily, your Creator and Nurturer has provided a stream close to your feet; "and shake the branch of the palm-tree towards you, it will come tumbling upon you fresh and ripe dates; "so eat of the fresh date and drink from the stream and be happy. Then if you see some people around here say: "I have vowed to Ar-Rahman a silence fast and today I will not speak to anyone." (Maryam: 22-26)
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Shah Valiyullah Ahmad Ibn-e ‘Abdulrahim Dehlavi (dead in 1174 A.H) writes in "Izalat Al-Khulafa": Undoubtedly, there are successive narrations that Fatima, daughter of Assad gave birth to Amir Mu'amenan Ali Ibn-e Abitaleb (‘a) inside Ka'aba; no doubt, he was born inside Ka'aba on Friday 13th of Rajab A.H thirty years passed from Amul-Fil and nobody before him or after him had been born inside Ka'aba.
Shahabuddin Abu Al-Thana' Seyyed Mohammad Alusi, author of Tafsir-e Alusi, has written a detailed explanation of the ode attributed to 'Abdulbaqi Afandi Omari; he explains about the line:
ببطن مكه عند البيت إذ وضعا ....إنت العلى الذي فوق العلى رفعا
Birth of Amir Mu'amenan (may Allah honor his status) inside Ka'aba is famously known worldwide and it has been narrated in books of both Sunnis and Shiites; no excellence as such has been proved for anyone other than him. True! How worthy it is that leader of leaders has been born in a place where the faithful find as their Qiblah. Gratitude and praise belong to God who places everything on its
worthy place and he is sage of the sages.
Allameh Lakahnudi has cited the same statement of Hakem Neisabouri and has clarified that birth of Amir Al-Mu'amenan (a) has been successively reported inside Ka'aba and this excellence belongs to him.
Allameh Sa'id Gojarati, one of the great Sunni men, writes in “Al-E'lam Be'alam Masjid Al-Haram" in response to some of the enemies of Ahl-e Bayt (a) who hostilely inscribed birthplace of Ali (‘a) to be on mount "Abu Qubays": O' God! Thou know well that this is a greatly invective speech and it is forged by enemies of Ahl-e Bayt (‘a) because successive reports denote that he was born inside Ka'aba.
Abalhassan Ali Ibn-e Mohammad Ibn-e Mohammad Waseti known after Ibn-e Moghazeli (dead in 483 A.H), one of the ancient Sunni scientists, quoted from Imam Zeyn Al-Abedin (a) in detail about birth incidence of Ali (‘a) in Ka'aba by referring to series of sources.
Hafiz Ganji Shafeie writes in the book, "Al-Kefaya": Ali ('a) was born in Baitulharam in Mecca on Friday 13th of Rajab A.H thirty years passed from Amul-Fil; nobody before him or after him was born in there and this is for his commemoration and for respecting his status of honor and greatness.
Abi Al-Hassan Ali Ibn-e Husayn Mas'udi Hazli-one of the 4th century Sunni scholars- talks about the story of the auspicious birth of Ali (‘a) in Ka'aba in "Muravvij Al-Zahab”.
• And tens of other books written by Sunni scholars who have narrated the story for which dear readers can refer to "Al-Ghadir", vol. 6, the valuable writing of Allameh Amini for further information.
And the Shiite scientists have talked about this luminous event in hundreds of their books from the early times of Major Occultation hitherto.
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God splits constantly to prove His Godliness and Magnitude to the world for admonition. God splits dawn from dusk every day to make people know that the world has a Creator and Contriver(1). God splits seed instance by instance on this land to let life survive in the earth(2) because if seed is not split and grown by order of God, all animals, beasts, human beings and
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even deep ocean fish and aquatic species all will die. Hence, the Holy Quran says: Swear to God who split seeds.
God cracks rocks and makes water flow (1) and when deniers asked their
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Prophets for a sign of God, He cleaved mountains, brought out a female camel to show His Magnitude for their submission
(1), but God split His
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Whoever covers his heart with piety, he shall have his good deeds revealed and shall be triumphed in his works; therefore, take time to gain piety and act appropriately to reach unending Paradise because the world has not been created for your everlasting life; it is a passage in which you can take source for the Hereafter. As a result, rush to relocate and provide riding horses for this relocation. (Nahj Al-Balagha, oration 132)
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House apart to demonstrate your greatness to the universe people.
I wonder when light of yours dawned from Ka'aba, what happened to the earth, time and the heavens?! Has the soul of sky begun to pant out of enthusiasm of yours?! And the heart of the earth began to pulse out of joy of yours?! I do not know the Angels were weeping in the heavens or were smiling eagerly?! But certainly, praising of the Angels was remembering you and the Messenger (s) said:
Remembering Ali is worship(1).
The pure jewel you are in the universe of holiness
Remembering good of you result of praise of Angels (2)
I do not know what to say!
Has birth of yours changed love in different color?! Has love been interpreted?! Has love and mania become unified?! Has love found birthday ever since? Or I shall say words found no sense in front of you!! Whatever fragrance of this pure birth, it was more fragrant than perfumed
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them." So they called one of the ringleaders of the disbelief and he hamstrung her. So see how severe was My Chastisement after My Warners were belied by the disbelievers and the transgressors! We sent against them only a single Blast and they were left as the dry stubble of a fold-builder (Qamar: 27-31).
«كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ بِطَغْوَاهَا * إِذِ انبَعَثَ أَشْقَاهَا فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ نَاقَةَ اللَّهِ وَسُقْيَاهَا * فَكَذَّبُوه فَعَقَرُوهَا فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُم بِذَنبِهِمْ فَسَوَّاهَا * وَلاَ يَخَافُ عُقْبَاهَا »
[Such as] the people of Thamud who by denying Salih, they rebelled, when the most rascal of them stood for committing crime; then Salih, the Messenger of Allah said to them: "This is a she-camel of Allah and let her have her turn of the drinking-place to drink water." They rejected their Messenger and hamstrung her; so their Creator crushed them with a thunderbolt as recom pense for their sins and made them leveled with the earth; and Allah did not fear the consequences of what He did, since punishment of the wrongdoers is an act of Truth by the Divine Law (Shams: 11-15).
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breeze of paradise(1); it filled the earth, the sky and the heavens and will be fully smelled by heart-burned zealots forever! Thanks to this ominous birth, what tears were shed like rivers in times and what hearts were strongly and rhythmically pulsed to the full end!
You knew what frenzy enamored lovers there are who drank pure wine from leadership goblet of yours; how they will go beyond their existence and pass off boundaries of mania!!
Tell me which wise and lover man sheds tears of joy while he is tied in hands waiting at the gallows?!
Which lover smiles while he is crucified with nail on palm tree and cut off in hands, legs and tongue?!
Which maniac smiles when he knows he is pulled to abattoir with tied hands to be beheaded like sheep?!
True! What purely born people were both beheaded by impure hands of enemies of purities and hoisted like banners atop of gallows only because they loved you (2)! Let me stop talking this way because my moaning is heard
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before entering the city. Although he was a very old, skin-boned and physically failing aged man, he was so brave, strong-hearted, psychologically powered, strongly determined, eloquently tongued and firmly faithful man that he had frightened Ibn-e Ziyad with his much power. For this reason, he had inevitably dispatched one hundred troops to seize this young-hearted old man. Soldiers arrested Maytham and brought him to Kufa. Ibn-e Ziyad was told that Maytham had been seized and introduced him as the closest and greatest companion to Ali ('a). He was taken to Ibn-e Ziyad. He told Maytham: You must detest and hate Ali and remember him as a wrong man; otherwise, I cut off your hands and legs and let you be hanged! In the face of this threatening of Ibn-e Ziyad, Maytham said: Ali (a) informed me that you hang me and cut my hands, my feet and my tongue off! Ibn-e Ziyad said: To make Ali's statement come untrue, I hang you, cut your hands and feet off but I do not cut your tongue! Maytham said: How do you say that? When this is said by Ali (‘a) who quoted from the Prophet (s), who quoted from Gabriel and who quoted from God. I swear to God! I also know where I am hanged in Kufa! Ibn- e Ziyad angrily said: By God! I cut off your hands and feet and I do not cut your tongue to make your lord's lie and that of yours unfolded.
(Ibn-e Abi Al-Hadid, Sharh-e Nahj Al-Balagha, vol. 2, p. 393)
Maytham was nailed to palm-tree and his hands and feet were cut off. Maytham being on the gallows loudly uttered of virtues of Ali ('a) and enumerated wickedness of the Umayyad and iniquity of Yazid and Ibn-e Ziyad. Ibn-e Ziyad was told that Maytham on the gallows have created uproar that might ignite riot of people. Ibn-e Ziyad cried: Cut off his tongue. After that, his truth-saying tongue that, more incisive than sword for the atheists-was cut off. The man in charge of cutting his tongue told Maytham: Say whatever you like to say! Emir has ordered me to cut off your tongue. Maytham replied: Son of the fallen woman (Ibn-e Ziyad) has imagined that he can show to people that I and my lord are liars....this is my tongue. In this way, he was martyred while being on the gallows. (Rejal Kashshi, p. 86; Ibn-e Abi Al-Hadid, Sharh-e Nahj Al-Balagha, vol. 2, p. 394)
Hujr Ibn-e 'Adi
He was one of the Companions of the Prophet (s) as well as one of the warriors loyal to Ali ('a) and a special man close to him. He remained to be an example of bravery, piety and servitude, so he was called "Hujr Al-Kheir" meaning "Good Protector".
(Seyr A'laam Al-Nabla', vol. 3, p. 463)
His wayfaring conduct went so far to make him someone whose prayers were accepted.
(Al-Esabah, vol. 1, p. 314)
He was statue of religious fervor and he was relentless in the face of the wrong and forbidden deeds. He took part in all wars of Amir Al-Mu'amenin (a) and played a sensitive role in them.
(A'ssad Al-Ghaba, vol. 1, p. 697)
He was one of the restless lovers of Ali ('a) and he finally lost his life in his loving way of Ali (‘a). Hujr and his companions were told when they were on the verge of being martyred that if they curse Ali and detest him, they will be released from being punished. They said: We never do that. They were ordered to be cast off their shackles so that they might be engaged in worshipping from dusk to dawn. In the next morning, Mu'awiyya's
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and I bear not such stories!
Having been born, countenance of yours illuminated many eyes.
Your honorable and monotheistic father1 became happy; the great men of
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agents told them: Did you have good mood in praying and worshipping the other night; tell us what you think of Uthman? They said: He is the man who promulgated tyranny within governorship and acted untruly! For the last time, they were told: Are you ready to detest Ali? They replied: Hardly ever! We love Ali (‘a)!
Afterwards, Mu'awiyya ordered all of them to be hanged up.
(Kamel Ibn-e Athir, vol. 3, p. 323; A'ssad Al-Ghaba, vol. 1, p. 386)
Kumayl Ibn-e Ziyad Nakha'ie:
He was also one of the loving martyrs of Ali (‘a). He joined other Kufis in Siffin war! Amir Mu'amenan appointed him as agent and governor of "delegation" of Iraqi cities, but he was blamed by Ali (‘a) because of his poorly administrative ability.
(Nahj Al-Balagha, letter 61)
Yet, such blame never lessened even a bit of his love to our lord, Ali (‘a) because restless lovers of Ali ('a) remain as such. Ultimately, Hajjaj Ibn-e Yusuf, the well-known Arab blood-shedding executioner, seized him. Kumayl said to him: stop sharpening your teeth for me and avoid threatening me because my life is almost about to end! Do whatever you want to do as our time is due when we appear before the Almighty God and you must be responsive after you murder me; Amir Mu'amenan (a) told me that you will kill me. Hajjaj ordered him to be beheaded.
(Tarikh-e Tabari, vol.4, p. 440; Tarikh-e Dameshq, vol.5, p. 256)
Qanbar, male slave of Amir Mu'amenan (‘a):
It is said Hajjaj Ibn-e Yusuf said one day: I want to seize a man of Ali's Companions and shed his blood so that I can approach God!
He was told: Among Ali's Companions, no one as much as Qanbar has taken privilege of Ali's company. Hajjah ordered men to bring him. When he appeared before him, he asked him: Are you Qanbar? He said: Yes! He asked: Are you from Hamdan clan? He replied: Yes! He asked: Are you friend and a servant of Ali Ibn-e Abitaleb? He said: God is my Lord and Ali (*a) is my patron. He said: stop supporting religion of Ali! He said: If I do that, do you lead me to a better religion than that?! Hajjaj replied: I now intend to kill you; choose whatever way of murder, I'll kill you that way! Qanbar said: I put the choice to you. He said: What for? He said: Because in whatever way you kill me, you'll be killed in the same way (on the Day as eye for eye); my lord, Ali (‘a) has told me that I am killed in cruelty and in injustice. Hajjaj ordered him to be beheaded.
(Bihar Al-Anwar, vol.42, p. 126; Sheikh Mufid, Ershad, vol. 1, p. 348)
1. Hazrat Abutaleb ('a) was one of the few people that he believed in religion of Hazrat Abraham (s) and monotheism before Islam; when people worshipped idols, he never bowed down to idols and was a monotheistic believer. Ibn-e Abi Al-Hadid Mu'atazili talks about beliefs of the Dark Times in Sharh-e Nahj Al-Balagha:
They were different groups: A group of them denied the Resurrection Day and God.
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Another group believed in God but denied the Day. There was a third group who believed in God and in a post-mortem life but they denied the Prophetic Mission and were idolaters, regarding them as their intercessors before God. A different group believed in metempsychosis and they had bizarre ideas about idols. A number of them found them as partners of God. A number of others considered them as a medium between creator and themselves. But the Arab monotheists and God worshippers were only few, among whom there were 'Abdulmotalleb, Abutaleb and 'Abdullah.
(Excerpts from Ibn-e Abi Al-Hadid, Sharh-e Nahj Al-Balagha, vol. 1, pp. 117-120)
Ibn-e Abi Al-Hadid says in his poems about personality of father of Ali (‘a):
ولولا ابوطالب وابنه *** لما مثل الدين شخصا وقاما
فذالک بمکه أوى وحامی *** وهذا بيثرب جس الحماما
If Abutaleb and his son were not there
Religion never stood strong in height
He gave refuge and support to [the Prophet (s)]
Death whirlpools in Yathreb engulfed his son in might
Ibn-e Abi Al-Hadid writes in Sharh-e Nahj Al-Balagha, vol. 14, p. 84: One of the Shiite scholars had written a book about faith of Abutaleb; he brought it to me to write an introduction. Instead, I put down these poems of seven in number on back of the book. Abutaleb helped the Prophet (s) for forty two years, particularly in the last ten years of his life that was coincident with his Prophethood and call; he showed extreme self- devotion on Prophet's way. The only cause that made him so steadfastly and strong was the very force of pure faith in the holy Prophet (s). On protecting the Prophet (s), he stood adamant and preferred three years of homelessness and living within clefts of mountain and deep valleys in Shu'ab Abitaleb over management and chairmanship of Mecca; this three-year-old homelessness made him worn-out and lost his temperament. He died some days after violating the economic restrictions and coming back home. His faith in the Prophet (s) was so strong that he was even pleased to have all of his children killed for saving life of the Prophet (s); he even let Ali ('a) sleep on his bed to protect him from any attempted attack; more importantly, some day he was willing to have all heads of Quraysh killed in revenge and all the Hashimites might as well be killed.
(Parts from History of the Prophet of Islam (s), Ja'afar Subhani, p. 165)
But with all such cordiality and faith of Abutaleb (s), a group of purposeful people of the history incessantly worked against him and denied his whole virtues because they found that he is father of Ali (“a) and faith of father is being accounted as marked virtue for him; this was while blasphemy and polytheism of caliphs caused them to be degraded in rank! A group of people headed by the propagandistic system of the Umayyad and Abbasid even excommunicated him and claimed that verses have been sent down about his blasphemy!
(Parts from History of the Prophet of Islam (s), Ja'afar Subhani, p. 164)
Imam Sadiq (a) says about faith of Abutaleb (s):
«إنّ أبا طالب من رفقاء النبيين والصدّيقين والشهداء والصالحين وحسن اولئك رفيقا ».
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Abutaleb sat with the Prophets, the believers, the martyrs and the righteous and these people are such good friends.
(Bihar Al-Anwar, vol.35, p.111; Al-Ghadir, vol. 7, p. 393; Al-Hojat Alalzaheb Ela Takfir Abitaleb, Seyyed Fakhkhar Ma'ad, p. 82)
Hazrat Sadiq (‘a) says in another hadith:
«إنّ ايمان أبي طالب لو وضع في كفة ميزان و ايمان هذا الخلق في كفة ميزان لرجح ايمان أبي طالب على ايمانهم »
If you faith of Abutaleb is placed on one side of a scale and faith of people in another side, faith of Abutaleb stands superior.
(Bihar Al-Anwar, vol.35, p.112; Al-Ghadir, vol.7, p.390; Madinat Al-Ma'ajez, vol. 7, p.535)
Imam Reza (a) addressing one of his companions talked about faith of Abutaleb (s) in this way:
«وإنّك إن لم تقرّ بايمان أبي طالب كان مصيرك إلى النار »
Be aware that if you fail to confess to faith of Abutaleb, your place and home is in fire! (Al-Ghadir, vol.7, p.381)
When an unconscious man questioned Abutaleb's faith and intemperately indicted him of his status at the presence of Amir Mu'amenan (‘a), Hazrat (‘a) said while his face showed anger:
«مه ! فض الله فاك ، و الذيبعث محمدا بالحق نبيا لو شفع أبي في كلّ مذنب على وجه الأرض لشفعه الله »
Keep quiet! May God crush your mouth! I swear to God, who appointed Mohammad the Prophet, if my father wishes to take charge of intercession of any sinner, God shall make him intercessor.
(Al-Hojat Alalzaheb Ela Takfir Abitaleb, Seyyed Fakhkhar Ma'ad, p. 73)
Hazrat Abutaleb (s) is being recorded poetry in historical books that indicates his strong faith in all God's Prophets.
Pay attention to some of them, here:
ليعلم خيار الناس أن محمدا *** نبی کموسى والمسيح بن مريم
أتانا بهدی مثل ما اتیا به *** فكل بأمر الله يهدى ويعتصم
The noble and knowledgeable shall know that Mohammad is the Prophet (s), such as the Moses and Jesus (s); he has the same heavenly light they had. And all Prophets guide people and prohibit them from committing sins as ordered by God.
(Majma' Al-Bayan, vol.7, p. 37; Hakem Neisabouri, Mustadrak, vol.2, p.623)
تمنيتم أن تقتلوه وإنما *** أمانيكم هذى كأحلام النائم
نبی أتاه الوحى من عند ربه *** فمن قال لا يقرع بها سن نادم
Heads of Quraysh! Do you imagine you can overcome him?! The dreams you have in mind are only troubled sleeps! He is the Messenger (s) and he has revelations from God; whoever says no, he shall be filled with remorse.
(Divan-e Abutaleb, p. 32)
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Bani Hasim became joyful, but you know that what heart was the happiest heart then?! True! He is the very man who has the most beautiful name among God's creatures and God has bestowed his whole being a blessing for the world.(1)If I name him "lord", it is a true statement that you made to someone who asked you: You are higher in rank or the Messenger (s)? You harshly told him: I am a thrall of Mohammad's thralls! (2)If I say "your brother", it is also a true statement that Mohammad (s) said when he hugged you in front of thousands of people who witnessed: Ali remains
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ألم تعلموا انا وجدنا محمدا *** نبیاکموسى خط في أول الكتاب
وأن عليه في العباد محبه *** ولاخير ممن خصه الله بالحب
Quraysh! Do you not know that we found him the Prophet (s) like the Moses (s) and his name and label has been laid down in Heavenly Books? Worshippers of God raise special love towards him and the one whose love is being deposited in hearts by God shall not be rendered cruelty.
(Sira-e Ibn-e Hosham, vol.1, p.373)
والله لن يصلوا إليك بجمعهم *** في أوسد في التراب دفينا
فامضى لأمرك ما عليك غضاضه *** وأبشرو بذلک قرمنک عیونا
ودعوتني وعلمت أنك ناصحی *** فلقد صدقت وكنت فدم أمينا
وعرضت دينا قد عرفت بأنه *** من خير أديان البريه دينا
My nephew! Quraysh can never overcome you and I will not give up staying beside you and I make my bed stone and dust until that day; reveal what mission you are given, fear no one, give glad tidings and open the eyes of people. You called me on your religion; I know you are my advice giver and you remain trustworthy in your call. Verily, religion of Mohammad (s) is the best of all.
(Tarikh-e Ibn-e-e Kathir, vol.2, p.42)
Imam Ali (‘a) was asked about his father if he feels uncomfortable in fire or not. Hazrat said: Be quiet! May God crush your mouth; I swear to God, who truly appointed Mohammad (s). If my father renders intercession of all sins on the earth, God accepts his intercession. Is my father in Hellfire while his son divides Paradise and Hell?!
(Bihar Al-Anwar, vol.35, p. 110; Kanz Al-Fawa'id, vol. 10, p. 183)
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my brother in this world and in the Hereafter(1). And if say he is the very endeared man you are part of his being, I have said it truly because the endeared one of God said: I and Ali are both from one tree and others are from other trees.(2)
True, true; one might say the nicest meeting happened ever since on this globe was that of you and the Messenger! The Messenger (s) embraced you for first meeting on the globe, kissed you, smelled you, touched his face with yours and the most beautiful smile appeared on his countenance as broad as all times.
O' Ali!
Before you were born to this globe, what transactions you had with God in the universe of light that God bestowed you, since birth, such rank and dignity?! But here in this world, you dealt with God most highly and you were first to God after the last Prophet (s); other companions of the Messenger (s) stand behind at a farther distance from the first heaven to
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the seventh for good.
O' Ali! What mystery lies behind all these gifts, virtues, magnitude and rank from God for you?! We do not know and God knows!
Your holy and fully luminous birth inside Ka'aba carries messages for souls of non-tyrants.
Ka'aba is the first house that was built for worshipping God and no hub has been worshipped before it.(1)God called Ka'aba a safe place, full of blessings and a place for guidance of the world.(2) God has made His House pilgrimage mandatory and ordered His worshippers to rush to pay pilgrimage to Ka'aba wherever they are on this earth. (3)
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Your birth in Ka'aba has at least five messages: Monotheism, guidance, security, blessing, hurry and surpass.
1-is My لا إله ألا الله is motto of monotheism; God said: :Word of لا إله ألا الله .Fortress; Whoever enters My Fortress, he shall be secured from My Agony.(1)
And God said elsewhere that accepting your guardianship is entrance to His Fortress and Added in a holy hadith that: Guardianship of Ali Ibn Abi Taleb is My Fortress and whoever enters it, he shall be safe from My Agony.(2) And your brother, the Messenger (s) said: Ali is pillar of religion (3) and he also said: O' Ali! You look like قل هو الله احد 4 (4)You yourself describing
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the Holy Quran which is a Guidance and Glad-tidings for those who believe. "(Baqarah: 97)
«وَأَذَن فِي النَّاسِ بِالْحَجِّ يَأْتُوكَ رِجَالاً وَعَلَى كُلِّ ضَامِرٍ يَأْتِينَ مِن كُلِّ فَجٍّ عَمِيقٍ * لِيَشْهَدُوا مَنَافِعَ لَهُمْ وَيَذْكُرُوا اسْمَ اللَّهِ فِي أَيَّامٍ مَّعْلُومَاتٍ عَلَى مَا رَزَقَهُم مِّن بَهِيمَةِ الْأَنْعَامِ فَكُلُوا مِنْهَا وَأَطْعِمُوا الْبَائِسَ الْفَقِيرَ»
"And proclaim the pilgrimage among men as a Divine Duty; then people will come to you on foot or on lean camels from every remote land; "that they may witness profits provided for them in every aspect, spiritual, social and economic; and they should mention Allah's Name on the appointed days over what He has given them of the cattle for sacrifice; then eat of the meat of them and feed the miserable needy as well (Hajj: 27- 28).
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your divine status said: I am proof of God, caliph of God, gate of God, treasurer of knowledge of God, I am trustee of God's Secret, I am leader of people after the best creature who is Mohammad (s); you also said: I am the memory that is forgotten; the very path from which people are deviated; the very faith that is rejected; the very Quran that is forlorn; the very religion that is denied and the very path that is turned back. (1)
2. Guidance remains in the hands of God who said: And God guides on the straight path whoever He wishes.(2)
«يا على ! مَثَلُكَ مثل « قل هو الله أحد » ؛ من أحبّك بقلبه فكأنّما قرأ ثلث القرآن و من أحبّك بقلبه و أعانك بلسانه فكأنما قرأ ثلثى القرآن و من أحبّك بقلبه و أعانك بلسانه و نصرك بيده فكأنما قرأ القرآن كله »
O' Ali! You look like ""; someone who heartily likes you, he seems like having read one third of the holy Quran; someone who heartily likes you and helps you by tongue, he seems like having read two thirds of the holy Quran; someone who heartily likes you, helps you by tongue and assists you in action, he seems like having read the whole Quran. (Sadduq, Khisal, vol.2, p.580; Tafsir-e Nur Al-Thaqalayn, vol.5, p.701)
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Guidance is tradition of God but He never guides the oppressors and said: Tell what you imagine if the Quran is from God and you disbelieve in it; whereas a witness from Bani Israel testifies to the Quran and believes in it; you show arrogance and are of disbelievers and God, of course, will not guide tyrants and oppressors.(1) He also said: who is crueler than the one
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guides them to the Straight Path; (Ma'idah: 16)
«وَمَا كُنَّا لِنَهْتَدِيَ لَوْلا أَنْ هَدَانَا اللَّهُ لَقَدْ جَاءتْ رُسُلُ رَبِّنَا بِالْحَقِّ وَنُودُوا أَن تِلْكُمُ الْجَنَّةُ أُورِثْتُمُوهَا بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ»
.......we could never find guidance, if it were not that Allah had guided us; indeed, the Messengers of our Creator did bring us the Truth." And it will be cried out to them: "Your deeds of righteousness have made you the inheritors of this Paradise. "(A'raaf: 43)
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who attributes falsehood to God while he is invited to embrace God?! God never guides the oppressors.(1)
He added: Those who bear the Torah and stood against it are descriptive of a yule that carries books but it has no realization of them; true! This is exemplary of the people who denied signs of God and they are bad people and God will never guide the repressors.(2)
O' lord!
You are the speaking Quran, pillar of religion and strong path of God and whoever turns to you, he shall be guided. Those denying your status and strong path are undoubtedly the very cruel people and the misled although they recite the Quran by heart! Your brother, the Messenger (s) said of you: If Ali is chosen as your leader, you will see that he is a path-gone leader and guides you on the straight path.(3) He also said: I guide you on something if you accept it, you will be guided and not be ruined?! Verily, your guardian is God and your Imam is Ali Ibn Abi Taleb; therefore, try to
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Allah does not guide the self-oppressing people; (Taubah: 19)
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be his well-wisher and cordial and approve him because verily this is what Gabriel told me.(1)
3. People gather to cling to rope of your leadership to reach happiness and security; your brother, the Messenger (s) said: If people had shown unanimity over love of Ali, God would have never created the hell.(2) The elite of the Messenger (s) and the integral part of his body(3), Sediqqeh Kobra (‘a) also said: Fathers of this ummah are Mohammad and Ali; if they are obeyed, they improve their unsound judgment, they rid them of painful agony and if they are accompanied, they bestow them eternal gift that means everlasting paradise.4. Lady of the Two Worlds (a) said:
«أبوا هذه الأمة محمد و علي يقيمان اودهم و ينقذان من العذاب الدائم إن أطاعوهما ويبيحانهم النعيم الدائم إن وافقوهما»
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You and your pure family bring security and safety for dwellers of the earth because you said: I and my family provide people of the earth with security just as the stars bring safety for everything in the heaven.(1)
4. If all people were unequivocal followers and believers of God, God would bestow His widespread blessings upon people from the earth and the heaven; but they are not as such!!
God said in His luminous Words:(2)
And which faith and piety surpass confessing to your status and obeying your orders because God:(3)
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Fathers of this ummah are Mohammad and Ali; if they are obeyed, they amend their wrongs and save them from painful agony and if they are joined, they will bestow the eternal gift (the everlasting Paradise).
(Al-Borhan, vol.4, p. 307; Tafsir-e Imam Hassan Askari ('a), p.330)
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And your brother, the Messenger (s) frequently introduced you and your children as true cases of "the people in authority" to his companions; your son, Baqir (‘a) the fifth star of human guidance said: Islam rests upon five bases: Prayers, zakat, fasting, the hajj and guardianship and nothing has been given a call as much as guardianship. (1)
5. God has encouraged everybody to rush to His absolution, forgiveness and everlasting paradise promised for the righteous men:(2)
And the Messenger (s) said that love of you triggers forgiveness of sins.(3) On the day of Ghadir-e Khum, the Messenger (s) after talking
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among yourselves, refer it to Allah and His Messenger, if you believe in Allah and in the Last Day, this is better and more suitable for final conclusion. (Nissaa: 59)
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about your status and rank, caliphate and Imamate said: Whoever pledges allegiance to Ali, he shall make allegiance to the Almighty God and Hand of God stands as the highest hand.... O' people! Those who surpassed each other to make allegiance to Ali, love him and call him "Commander of the Faithful", they shall be exalted in paradise with divine rewards. (1)
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Zubayr Ibn-e Sa'id Qurashi is being quoted as saying that: I was with Sa'id Ibn-e Musayyib when Ali Ibn-e Al-Husayn (Imam Zeyn Al-Abedin (a), who was unparalleled in worship and piety, passed us. Sa'id Ibn-e Musayyib rose up for him and we did too; we greeted him and he did us too. Then Sa'id told Hazrat: O' Aba Mohammad (nickname of the 4th Imam (a))! Tell us about Fatima, daughter of Assad (a), mother of Ali Ibn-e Abitaleb (a). Hazrat said: My father said to me that Hazrat Ali (‘a) said: When Fatima, daughter of Assad ('a), son of Hashim died, the Messenger (s) shrouded him with his garment and said prayers over his dead body; he uttered seventy Takbir (God is Great) and stepped into his grave looking around the grave as if he meant to keep it vast and equal. He came out of the grave while tears rolled down his face. When he left there, Omar Ibn-e Khattab told him: O' the Messenger of God! I saw how you behaved this woman and nobody had done so far! The Messenger said: O' Omar! Verily, this woman was my mother from whom I was born. Verily, Abutaleb (a) took care of his business; he brought us together at his food spread; this woman [due to her serious kindness towards me] fed me more than my share. Verily, Gabriel (a) told me from God that she is a member of Paradise and Gabriel (a) informed me that God ordered seventy thousand Angels to say prayers over her. (Neisabouri, Hakem, Mustadrak, vol.2, p.108; A'yan Al- Shi'a, vol.8, p.388; Qadetena Kayf N'arefahem?, vol.1, p.33)
In this holy hadith as quoted by Sunnis, status and dignity of mother of Ali ('a) seems quite apparent; but the considerably important point in the hadith is that the Messenger (s) talked about Fatima, daughter of Assad:
«إنّ هذه المرأة كانت أمّى التي ولدتني»
This woman was my mother from whom I was born.
The Messenger (s) says that Fatima, daughter of Assad (‘a) is his natural mother. What secrecy lies in this statement of the Prophet (s)?! True! God knows better. Here, two hadiths are cited from the late Allameh Majlisi, "Hayat Al-Qulub” to make this sense for people of insight:
He quotes Ma'az Ibn-e Jebel that the Messenger (s) said: Verily, God created me, Ali, Fatima Hassan and Husayn before He had created the universe for seven thousand years. Ma'az said: Where were you, O' Messenger? Hazrat said: We were in the Heavens and we were praising and sanctifying Him. He said: How did you look like? Hazrat replied: We were spirits of light; God made us pillar of light and created our face and implanted us in Adam's loin. He then pulled us out for loins of our fathers and wombs of mothers and we were purified from dirtiness of paganism and evils from atheism time; a group of people became prosperous because of keeping faith in us and a group of others became vicious because of disbelieving in us. When God placed us on loin of Abdulmotalleb, He divided the light in two halves; one half He placed into loin of 'Abdullah and another half He planted into that of Abutaleb. My half went into womb of Ameneh and the second half went into womb of Fatima, daughter of Assad. So, I joined Ameneh and Ali joined Fatima. All pillar of light returned to me and I joined Fatima. Again, all pillar of light returned to Ali and made Hassan and Husayn from two halves of light. In this way, my light in Imams comes from descendants of Husayn until the Last Day. (Hayat Al-Qulub, vol.2, p.6)
By source, Abuzar is being quoted from Hazrat Mohammad (s) saying:
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I and Ali Ibn-e Abitaleb have been created from one light; we praised God on the right side of the Heavens before God creates Adam two thousand years ago. When God created Adam, He placed the light on his back and when he settled in Paradise, we were on his back; when Noah embarked on his ark, we were on his back; when Abraham was thrown into fire, we were on his back; God constantly transferred us from pure loins to purified wombs until we reached 'Abdulmotalleb; God divided the light in two halves. I was placed into 'Abdullah's loin and Ali was put into Abutaleb's. I was given Prophet-hood and blessing and Ali was granted eloquence and bravery. Two holy names were derived from us. Therefore, God owns the laudable Heavens and I am Mohammad, the praiseworthy. And God is Highly Honorable One; my brother is Ali. I was granted Prophetic mission and Ali was appointed as legatee and Imam to rule truth among people. (ibid.)
Of course, these two narrations are understood in Sunni sources-as said-and they are found in abundance. These narrations explicitly denote that origin, identity and reality of the Messenger (s) and Imam Ali (‘a) are identical; hence, this was why the Prophet (s) repeatedly said about Imam Ali (‘a):
Ali is from me and I am from Ali.
Ali is my brother in this world and in the other world.
I and Ali come from one tree and other people come from other trees.
Ali stands like a head for my body.
We share the same flesh and blood.
And the luminous hadiths of the like are successively found in Sunni sources, which, God Willing, are discussed later with their plenty of Sunni sources. Now, this question is asked of fair Sunnis:
Considering such plenty of hadiths in your Sunni sources, how do you authorize yourselves to give others priority over Imam Ali Ibn-e Abitaleb (‘a) for caliphate?!!
2. One of the great Sunni ulema named Mohaqqeq Dawani says in treatise “Nur Al-Hadiya", p.22:
When Ali was in his mother's womb, Fatima involuntarily stood up if she was seated facing the Prophet (s). When Mohammad (s) asked Fatima why she got up while bearing the baby? She said: I find a strange mood in myself when I see you and the baby moves in my womb; this means that the baby rises up, so I involuntarily get up.
And Fatima, daughter of Assad said to people:
When Hazrat Mohammad moved here and there, baby in my womb immediately moved that way; therefore, I inevitably turn my face that way.
Mohaqqeq continues to say:
Hence, Hazrat Ali (‘a) was aware of the Prophet's status and rank while resting in her mother's womb and this means nothing but a feature of sacred soul.
(It is said that Mohaqqeq Dawani-dead in 908 A.H-turned to Shi'a in late years of his life.)
True! This is status and dignity of our lord, Ali Ibn-e Abitaleb (a) who gave testimony to truthfulness of the Prophet of Islam (s) in his mother's womb and this was while usurpers of caliphate then worshipped idols!
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True! O' Commander of the Faithful!
It is not possible to rush to absolution and lasting paradise of God unless people and eagerly hurry to you first.
O' you, the great man whom God clad with magnitude and named you like His to show your unique name; we lovingly and proudly tell the world that: Our Imam is Commander of the Faithful (a).
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3. The late Sheikh Tusi says in "Amali", p.80:
The night when Amir Al-Mu'amenin ('a) was born, there was shining light in the sky and stars glittered light in multiplicity; Quraysh opened eyes at amazement once watching such unexpected scenery; people who were overexcited rushed out of their homes, chatting together: What is going on in the sky tonight?
4. The late Allameh Majlisi says in Bihar Al-Anwar, vol.42, p.18 and et.al: Hazrat Ali ('a) was spending his childhood times and one day, his father, Abutaleb came to his wife, Fatima, daughter of Assad saying: I saw Ali breaking idols of idolaters; I am afraid the great men of Quraysh are informed about it and they might harm Ali. Fatima, mother of Ali ('a) said: How amazing it is! I can give you a news stranger than what you said. When Ali was in my womb; I stopped by Ka'aba and I was engaged in circling around Ka'aba. Idolaters had placed their idols somewhere beside Ka'aba; as I reached there, Ali pressed his two feet in my womb so strongly that I was hardly able to near where idols were placed. (That means she kept circling around Ka'aba farther than where idols were.)
(Qotb Rawandi, Al-Khara'ej va Al-Jara'eh, vol.2, p.741, hadith 57; Bahrani, Seyyed Hashim, Madinat Al-Ma'ajiz, vol.3, p.147, hadith 804)
A Highly Important Point:
Although the Almighty God granted virtues to Ali (‘a) at birth, one should note that his highly pompous ranks among creatures of God are not because of those virtues; rather, the main reasons behind his superiority in ranks over all creatures of God-except the Prophet (s) are because of his unique self-devotedness and courage in the way of exalting the religion; unequivocal obedience from the Prophet (s); trampling of all carnal desires willfully; pioneering in all divine values and........; therefore, if Ali (‘a) had not been a man of courage, campaign and unique self-devotedness, his dignity and status would have been paralleled to an ordinary member of society. But our lord, Ali (‘a) made highest deals with God in this mortal world and God blessed him with the highest ranks.
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I testify that you overtake others in religion of God and center of Truth.
This bewildered pen wants to put down again; but how can one describe you?! Because divine values have been so much exalted within you that eyes of the universe can never view them!
All across East and West, nobody has ever seen like you, the conqueror of peak of values-after your brother, the Messenger of God (s)- on the days of long history.
True! You are the eternal spirit of universal values, who have conquered all peaks and the best people in the universe are still standing on the hills. Your pioneering in all divine values caused you to become the most beloved creature of God, a statement made by your brother, the Messenger (s).(1)
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Theosophy Account Two
Ali ('a) as the first Muslim with the references in Sunni sources and other various issues
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O' lord and emir of thumping hearts of heart-burned lovers!
You possess so highly ranks in high peak of divine values that one cannot cover through the low-level ranks!
Your enemies tried so hard to hide your virtues and used all ploys and tricks to extinguish your light which is a glow of light of God, but they themselves blacked out and you like shining sun shined across heavens of hearts of your lovers.
True! Light of God is eternal: "Atheists want to put out Light of God through absurd talks and of course, God will keep His Light safe and untouched although they are displeased with it. (1)
True! The atheists and vicious people can never cover with palm of their hand the shining sun shining in the sky in midday!
You and your pure family are the very good-deed tree that has steadfastly roots in the earth of knowledge and certainty as well as high and sturdy branches in the heavens of monotheism and knowledge.(2) And your enemies are the very vicious tree whose roots are grown within the morass of polytheism and hypocrisy and are relentless without fruits but stinky ones.(3)
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(Sharh-e Ihqaq Al-Haqq, vol. 15, p.281)
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Although those dregs of vicious tree of the Umayyad hired profiteering mercenaries to talk invective of you on pulpits for seventy years; (1) love of you within hearts of your restlessly lovelorn lovers never lessened a bit but increased because of your God-given exaltation!
There is a great difference between the wicked, mean and ignobly born family that started to be fully atheist, continued to be infidel and ended to be anti-God in generation and your pure one that began, continued and ended with Mohammad (s)?! (2)
Now, love of you boils in hearts and fire of love is inflamed; your lovelorn lovers set your name as Qiblah of their hearts everywhere in the universe; but as for the vicious family, the devilish mercenaries claiming caliphate? They were those people whom the Messenger (s) had dreamed like monkeys moving up and down his pulpit for seventy years!! (3)3. Manaqib Ibn-e Shahrashub, vol.4, p.36; Tafsir-e Fakhr-e Razi, vol.20, p.52; Al-Durr Al-Manthur Siyuti, Israa: 60)
There are lots of Sunni sources in this respect. (4)
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station and stability (Ibrahim: 26).
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True!
Wrong remains permanent and right remains lethal.(1) and you are eternalized within hearts of gnostics; eternality remains fruitful of your unparalleled sincerity.
From the very first day you were born, you were especially favored by the beloved Messenger of God (s); you were on first years of your holy life when the Messenger (s) took you to his home under his custody. Although a number of historians put down that the Prophet (s) took you to his home because your father was in short of money and Hazrat had done so to compensate for troubles on his behalf and help of your honorable father! (2), this is not the whole thing said because you were beloved of the Messenger (s) from the very time of your birth just as Hazrat was to you. Hazrat took you to his home to educate you under specifically divine manners; you yourself said:
"You [those Companions of the Prophet (s) who were deviated from Truth Path] know about close kinship to the Prophet (s) and specific situation I had with him; you also know when I was a mere child, the Prophet (s) hugged and pressed me unto his chest and let me sleep on his bed; this was
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while I touched his body and smelled his good scent and he himself fed me,
I joined him everywhere like a child accompanying his mother; he taught me one of moral virtues every day, ordering me to follow it. (1)
True! You were always with him; when he used to go to Hera cave for worship before his prophetic mission, you were with him, worshipping God; this was while those who claimed your ranks and position worshipped idols!!
But you worshipped God at childhood age and you were the first one to witness and have faith in the Messenger (s) when Trustee Gabriel (‘a) came down to reveal Mohammad's Prophet-hood Appointment to him.
True! You accompanied the Messenger (s) when he was sent the Revelation for the first time in Hera Cave; you heard Satan's cry and witnessed light of prophetic mission and it was then you raised faith in the Messenger (s); you yourself said:
"The Messenger (s) used to worship God at Hera Mount every year and no one saw him but me.....when he was granted Revelation of God, I heard Satan cry and I told Mohammad (s): What is this cry? Hazrat said: This is Satan's cry and it is because he is disappointed in not being obeyed in the earth. What I hear, you do too and what I see, you do too but the difference is that you are not the Prophet (s), you are my vizier and up to goodness. "(2)
You outpaced others from the very early vanguard of Islam and you have gone ahead so far that other faithful people of the Messenger (s) stood behind you at a distance of thousands of thousand kilometers.
You are the one whom God the Almighty praised for your pioneering in the field of faith, values and jihad and said:
"Pioneers, pioneers, they are the closest to Me. (3)
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Of course, when you pioneered to embrace Islam at its dawn (1), your faith
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• Tarikh-e Dameshq, vol.42, p.333
• Manaqib Khwarazmi, chapter 9, p.111
• Yanabi'a Al-Mawaddah, vol.2, p.78
• Faza'el Al-Khulafa', Omar Ibn-e Issa Khatibi, p.148
• Zakha'er Al-Uqba, Tabari, p.135
• Shawahid Al-Tanzil, Hakem Neisabouri, vol.2, p.185
• Sunan Termezi, vol.13, p.167
• Manaqib, Khatib Baghdadi, p.187
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(Al-Kamel Fi Al-Tarikh, vol. 2, p.57)
•Ahmad Ibn-e Hanbal quotes the Prophet (s) in his Musnad:
إنه لأول أصحابى إسلاما و أقدم أمتى سلما
(Musnad-e Ahmad, vol.5, p.26)
•Ibn-e-e Abi Al-Hadid quotes the Prophet (s):
هذا أول من آمن بی و صدقنی و صلّی معی
(Yanabi'a Al-Mawaddah, vol.1, p.197; Ibn-e Abi Al-Hadid, Sharh-e Nahj Al-Balagha, vol. 13, p.227)
•Allameh Karachki says:
After Ali Ibn-e Abitaleb (a), Ja'afar Ibn-e Abi Abitaleb was the second to embrace Islam. (Kanz Al-Fawa'id, vol. 1, p.270)
•Ibn-e-e Athir writes:
Only some days passed the Prophetic mission of the Prophet (s) when Abutaleb accompanied by Ja'afar stopped by the house of the Prophet (s); they saw that Ali (‘a) standing on the right side of the Prophet (s) upholding prayers. Ja'afar immediately stood on the left side of the Prophet (s) for prayers; Abutaleb observing such scene became delighted and composed poems on exciting his children and for supporting the Messenger (s); hence, Ja'afar Ibn-e Abitaleb was the second man who after Ali ('a) took faith in the Prophet (s).
(Assad Al-Ghaya, vol. 1, p.287)
•Hakim Neisabouri quotes the Prophet (s):
أولكم ورودا على الحوض أوّلكم إسلاما عليّ بن أبي طالب [ عليهما السلام ]
(Tarikh-e Madina Dameshq, Ibn-e Asakir, vol.42, p.40; Hakem Neisabouri, Mustadrak, vol.3, p.136)
•Ayesha is being quoted that the Prophet (s) said:
يا عايشة ! دعى لي أخي فإنّه أوّل الناس بي إسلاما
(Faza'il Al-Khamsa ('a), men Al-Sihah Al-Setta, vol. 1, p.208)
Mohammad Ibn-e-e Abibakr is being quoted that he has written a letter to Mu'awiyya (may God curse him), saying:
فكان أوّل من أجاب و أناب و صدق و وافق فأسلم و سلّم أخوه و ابن عمه علي بن أبي طالب [ عليه السلام ] فصدقه بالغيب
المكتوم
• Ibn-e-e Shahrashub has brought a list of the in Islam in his book on virtues, where the names of first ten of whom are respectively:
Ali (‘a), Khadijah (‘a), Jaʼafar Ibn-e-e Abitalib (‘a), Zayd Ibn-e-e Haritha, Amru Ibn-e-e 'Anbasah, Khalid Ibn-e-e Sa'id, Sumayya, Yaser, Ubaydah Ibn-e-e Harith, Hamza (Manaqib Al-e Abitalib (a), vol.2, p.4)
•The late Allameh Amini cites, in the invaluable book of Al-Ghadir, vols. 3 and 4, about one hundred hadiths from Sunni sources quoting from the Messenger of
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and Islam differed from that of others; rather, you brought your faith to emergence because you were monotheist since childhood and this was while other Companions of the Messenger (s) were not as such!
O' Essence of Mohammedan perfume! O' Fully reflective sign of the Messenger (s)! O' Verse of verse of Divine Verses! O' Word of Word and Character of Character of the most Glorious Quran! O' the shining sun of human values until the Last Day! O' Dawn of a clear morning as vast as all horizons of the universe! O' Interpreter of Divine Features and Names! O' Fragrance of Words of God!!
Your faith looked like a true morning that brought eternal illumination for mankind, which never set out and which never shows obscurity even a bit!
True, True!
The faith which is invaluable is sustainable and there may have been people who were believers but they were never constant in their beliefs; they ruined their faith through committing cruelty! But your faith not only failed to decrease under hardest circumstances, but also it increased even with hardships and tribulations. When your sun of being rose in Ka'aba, it was stationed so expanded in horizon with your faith, constancy and campaigns that it would shine for Path Seekers of God for ever and would lighten darkness.
They claimed to have your status and position; for years and for a major part of their life, they have been engaged in idolatry, liquor drinking and gambling(1); and if their expression of Islam is regarded as true not because of caprice, they were shaky in their faith because they claimed to have what they did not deserve having. They usurped a position that was yours! You
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God (s) and Imam Ali (‘a) and some Companions that Ali ('a) has been the first Muslim of the Messenger (s).
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yourself said:
The first one became caliph while he knew that my position in relation to Islamic government seems like axis of mill in relation to mill that rotates around it.
And you added:
He knew that I am flooded with sciences and flying-away gulls of thoughts can hardly fly as high as my value can.... . 1
Although you saw that how those wrong crowds plunder your divine heritage, you, with bone in the throat and a thorn in the flesh, sought patience and this holy verse of God fit you:
"Truly, We Will Grant reward of those who seek patience".
You are that Divine Straight Path2, you are the Great Event3, you are the effervescent spring of divine monotheism and philosophy whose even one drop the wrongdoers and oppressors will not have the luck to drink.
True!
You are the endeared and beloved of the Messenger (s) who said about you:
Whoever wishes to see knowledge of Adam, insight of Noah, patience of Abraham, piety of Yahya Ibn Zakaria and wrath of the Moses (against the oppressors), he shall look at Ali Ibn Abitalib." 4
One must be sorry for those people who let go your pure family, Rope of
1. Part of sermon 3 of Nahj Al-Balagha known as Shaqshaqiyya.
2. Sunni and Shiite narrations quoted the Messenger of God (s) that the Straight Path is the path of Muhammad (s), Ali ('a) and their progeny (a).
3. The honorable Prophet of Islam (s) told Ali ('a):
أنت النبأ العظيم و الصراط المستقيم و أنت المثل الأعلى.
(Shawahid Al-Tanzil, Hakim Neishabouri, vol. 1, p.76; Ayun Alkhbar Al-Rida (‘a), Sheikh Saduq, vol.1, p.6)
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من أراد أن ينظر الى آدم في علمه و الى نوح في فهمه و الى ابراهيم في حلمه و الى يحيى بن زكريا في زهده والى موسى بن عمران في بطشه ، فلينظر الى عليّ بن ابي طالب.
(Shawahid Al-Tanzil, vol. 1, p.103)
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God, and turned to those who themselves needed guidance of the guided and how nicely, loudly and decisively God the Almighty said it in His Words:
Is one who guides to the Truth more qualified to be followed, or the one who is not guided unless he is guided? What is the matter with you?! How do you arbitrate?! 1
What regret for the people of your time! They let go your shining sun of being and sought shelter in shadow of darkness and this was while they had frequently heard the Messenger (s) say of you:
Ali always stays with the Truth and the Truth always stands with Ali and the Truth circles around Ali wherever he goes.2
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«وَ ما كانَ هذَا الْقُرْآنُ أَنْ يُفْتَرى مِنْ دُونِ اللهِ وَ لكِنْ تَصْدِيقَ الَّذِي بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَ تَفْصِيلَ الْكِتابِ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ مِنْ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِين»
(Yunus: 37)
Hakim Neishabouri, a Sunni ulema, says the occasion of revelation is about Ali (‘a) and writes:
إختصم قوم إلى النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم فأمر بعض أصحابه أن يحكم بينهم فحكم [ أبوبكر] فلم يرضوا به ، فأمر عليّا عليه السلام أن يحكم بينهم ، فحكم بينهم فرضوا به، فقال لهم بعض المنافقين حكم عليكم فلان [ أبوبكر ] فلم ترضوا به و حكم عليكم على فرضيتم به؟ بئس القوم أنتم ! فأنزل الله تعالى في علي [ عليه السلام] أفمن يهدى إلى الحق؟ إلى آخرها و ذلك أنّ عليّا ( عليه السلام ) يوفّق لحقيقة القضاء، من غير أن يعلّم.
(Shawahid Al-Tanzil, vol.1, p.341)
Imam Baqir (a) says:
من يهدى إلى الحق فهم محمّد و آل محمّد من بعده و أما من لايهدى إلا أن يهدى فهو من خالف من قريش و غيرهم اهل بيته من بعد.
(Tafsir-e Qomi, vol.1, p.312; Tafsir Al-Burhan, vol.3, p.30)
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قال النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم: عليّ مع الحق والحق مع علي يدور معه حيثما دار.
The above hadith has been cited by many Sunni hadith writers and interpreters quoting from the Messenger of God (s) in their books, including:
Majma' Al-Zawa'id, Ibn-e-e Hajar Haythami, vol.7, p.235
Al-Mi'ayar va Al-Muvazinah, Eskafi, p.35
History of Baghdad, Yusuf Ibn-e-e Ya'aqub, vol. 14, p.322
History of Damascus, researched by Ali Shiri, vol.42, p.449
Kanz Al-Ummal, Muttaqi Hindi, vol.5, p.30
Yanabi'a Al-Mawaddah, Sheikh Suleyman Hanafi Kunduzi, vol. 1, p.173
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And he also said:
Ali stays with the Truth and the Quran and the Truth and the Quran stand with him and they are not separated until they join me at the Pond of Abundance.(1)
What regret for the people of that time! How these people sought reactionism and regression although the Messenger (s) reaffirmed you and your truthfulness; it looked as if the Satan had deafened and blinded them because they left you alone and resorted to someone other than you!!
Of course, the Satan was always determined to hide the Path of Truth in the absence of God's Prophets(s), raise deviations and innovations among ummah of the Prophets and lead people towards aberration from the Straight Path by spreading ignorance and imitatively divine caliphate.
After God recounts in the Quran story of how divine Prophets (s) emerged, de-paganized peoples through their campaigns and established justice, He says: "After the Prophets (s), a group of people came to succeed them, who ruined prayer service and followed carnal passions; these people will be punished for their aberration."(2) The story of the Moses (s) and the Israelites proves this point that how ummah of the Moses was deceived by astray Samiri and worshipped idols(3) while the Moses had made a pledge with them not to worship anyone but Allah and that in his absence, they had to unequivocally obey caliph and his successor, that is his honorable brother,
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Al-Imamma va Al-Siyasa, Ibn-e-e Qutayba Dinwari
Manaqib, Ibn-e-e Marduyya, p.115
And......
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Harun (s)(1); but in his absence, the Satan tempted the monotheist ummah of the Moses and deviated them. Objections of Harun (s) could not stop them keeping away from deviation and they even decided to almost kill Harun. When the Moses came back, he found his ummah calf worshippers; he told his brother, Harun: O' Harun! Were you not with ummah?! Harun, the Prophet (s) told him: O' brother! Stop questioning me because they ceased to listen to me; they weakened me and they were about to kill me!!(2) and the Messenger (s) assigned you as his successor in his absence and said:
O' Ali! Do you not get pleased if I tell you that your dignity in relation to me is the same as that of Harun to Musa with a difference that you are not Messenger of God?(3)
And you well remember that you joined the Prophet (s) in one of the ways to Medina until you reached a beautiful garden.....you told the Messenger (s): O' Messenger of God! What a beautiful garden this is! And he told
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you: Yes it is beautiful but there is one more beautiful than this one for you in Paradise. You reached another garden; you told him: O' Messenger, what a beautiful garden this is! He said: Yes it is! But for you, there is one more beautiful than this in Paradise; you passed seven gardens and you told him the same thing and he told you the same thing. There was nothing on the way more and the Prophet (s) hugged you and told you while weeping: My father may be sacrificed to lonely martyr! You told him: O' Messenger! Why do you weep? He said: there are grudges of tribes that are not made obvious for you unless after me, and there are the grudges of Badr and bloods of Uhud.
You then told Mohammad (s): Will my religion remain safe at that time?
The Messenger (s) said: Yes, your religion will remain safe.
How amazing it is! How amazing this much magnitude and greatness is!
When the Messenger (s) talked to you about usurping of your status and cruelty of the tribe extended to you and your family, you never complained to him; but you asked about safety and health of your faith and religion!
True! This is the faith shining forever, splits darkness and shows the way. The Prophet (s) told you:
O' Ali! Glad tidings befall upon you because your life and death is with me; you are my brother and successor; you are selected by me; you are my vizier, legatee and speaker on my behalf; you repay my debt, keep my promises, give back my deposit and fight with apostates (Qasetin), deviators (Mareqin) and de-allegiants (Nakethin) (1)of my ummah according to my Sunna. Your relationship with me looks like that Harun with Musa and you are a better epitome compared to Harun and you have good manners when he was weakened by his people and he was about to be killed by them.
Hazrat then said:
So keep patient against cruelty and unity of Quraysh because you are like
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Harun in relation to Musa and they are like calf and his followers. When Musa assigned Harun as his successor, Musa ordered him that if they had gone astray and he found companions, he can jihad with them helped by those companions; if otherwise, he had to restrain himself and keep his blood safe.(1)
And you after demise of the Messenger (s) found people split asunder, but you kept patient for pleasure of God while you felt bone in your throat and a thorn in your flesh and you witnessed how the wrong crowds plunder your heritage.
By God! Call of the Messenger (s) is still loudly heard:
O' People! O' People! Truth is with Ali and Ali is with Truth.
O' People! O' People! Path of Ali is that of the Truth.
O' People! O' People! Where do you rush while certain and steadfast signs-who are Ali and his descendants-are visible among you.
And this perennial call of the Messenger (s) is always heartened by truth- seekers every time and everywhere. You were and are great Grace of God for creatures and His Major Sign among people and He truly says:
Those who turned to infidelity and denied His Signs, they end up the Hell.(2)
Light of your guardianship splits darkness and your deniers are entrapped within darkness and God says: Those who denied Signs of God spend their life in darkness of ignorance dull and dumb; Divine Providence misleads whoever is qualified and leads whoever deserves being guided in Straight Path.(3) Your brother, the Prophet (s) introduced you and your family as
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origin of any Guidance on behalf of Allah, saying:
Truly, God has assigned Ali, his wife and children as proof for creatures and they are gates of knowledge among my ummah; whoever is guided by them, he shall be on the Straight Path.(1)
Word of God is higher than that of His Messenger (s), that He introduced you and the Messenger (s) as the same Straight Path in which the awakened and insight-prone people are involved: O' Messenger (s), Tell ummah that my path and that of my followers is the same thing that I call people to God in visibility and insight and I purify God from polytheism and partnership and I avoid polytheism.(2)
As for those blind-hearted people who left you alone and overlooked your
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revealed sun-like virtues, God says:
Whoever is blinded in this world, he shall be misled in the Hereafter.(1)
And you called people to guidance many times and cried:
The honorable Prophet of Islam (s) selected successors for you just as the past Prophets did for their ummahs because they never left people astray and they never left people without showing a clear way and strong signs. (2)
And you also said:
Progeny of the Prophet is home to secrets of God, refuge of divine orders, treasury of divine knowledge, authority for Islamic precepts, guardian of Heavenly Books and ever-standing strong mounts of religion of God; through Posterity of the Prophet, God unbent religion and removed its shake and anxiety.(3)
Again, you swore to God for guidance of people in compassion and said:
By God! I never concealed any word of Truth and I never told a lie; I was informed of divine caliphate from the early days. Be aware! Verily sins look like ill-treated horses that lead their riders unharnessed towards Hellfire.(4)
And what sin is greater than denial of Divine Proof, Divine Grace and
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unending Blessings of God?!
You are Proof of God, Grace of God and unending Blessing of God!
To give good news to you and your lovers, your brother, the Messenger (s) said:
O' Ali! When the Last Day comes, you show up with a luminous curtain and your head is crowned by light, which is so severely glittered that eyes of the Day people are about to be captured; at that time, God's Call says that where is legatee of Mohammad?! You say: "I am his legatee!" Herald calls whoever likes you, he shall enter Paradise and whoever dislikes you, he shall enter Hell. O' Ali! You are distributor of Paradise and Hell.(1)
True!
Your lovers will be in eternal Paradise of God; of course, whoever really loves you, he shall never give priority to anyone but you.
Once more, the Messenger of Blessing (s)-who knows you well-talked about your virtues and status in this way:
O' Ali! You are my legatee; war with you is war with me and peace with you is peace with me.
O' Ali! You are Imam and father of all eleven Imams who are pure and Infallible, from whom Mahdi comes and restores justice and equality across the earth....So, woe unto his enemies! O' Ali! If someone loves you and your descendants for the sake of God, God will keep him mustered with you and your descendants on the Day; all of you stay beside at high ranks and you are distributor of Paradise and Hell; your zealots enter Paradise and your foes enter Hell.(2)
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O' Ali!
What deal you have made with God that you keep stage of the Day in your hands and nobody enters Paradise and Hell unless after your distribution?!(1)
True!
You are the light of Divine Guidance at all times and the one who denied you failed to know God and the one who knew you knew God.
You are the one of whom the Angels remain proud in the Heavens and you are more well-known in the heavens than in the earth!
O' you whose enemies are the atrocious people of the universe and mystics of whom are the purified people of the universe!
And O' you, the light of Divine Guidance in all ages!
And O' you, fragrance of Words of the world-creating God about whom the Angels ordered by God called: Well-done! Well-done! Thanks to your faith and campaigns.
We confess that the one who denied you never recognized God and the one who approved and knew you knew God; we ask the Merciful God to bestow us a glow of your knowledge, under shadow of which we can worship God.
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I testify that the Messenger (s) introduced you as caliph beginning his Prophetic Mission.
The Almighty God has appointed your brother, the Messenger (s) as the Seal of the Prophets and blessing for the universe and put you as witness and proof of trustworthy Prophethood and his call and says in His Words of Revelation: "Does he who has clear reason from his God that a witness has come from God; and before that, the Book of Musa as Imam, testify it look like the one who is not as such?! They believe in him. And whoever of the opposition disbelieves in him, fire is his meeting place. So be confident that is Truth from Your God; but most people are not the believers."(1)
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True!
You stayed as a companion of the Prophet (s) from the early Islam and you were the first to accept his call; you joined him in all stages of hardships and tribulations; you never gave up sacrifice and self-devotion in the way of your heart-beloved, the Messenger (s) and attempted to support him to your last breath!
God revealed that: "First, spur fear among your close relatives [from consequences of polytheism](1) and the Prophet (s) was missioned to firstly invite his close relatives, and others later, to embrace Islam.
You were staunchest defender of the Prophet (s) when you were young man while many great men of the clan denied him and poked fun at him.
You know better than others that the Prophet (s), after revelation of verse and considering the aspects, ordered you as his dearest and most reliant companion to prepare food; at that time, you were only a thirteen year-old youngster and prepared some food and milk. Afterwards, your brother, the Messenger (s) invited forty five heads of the Hashimites and decided to call them to embrace Islam while entertaining them with food. Unfortunately, as you yourself observed, one of your uncles named Abu Lahab, though being an old man, ruined the readiness of gathering for raising the issue of prophethood and legateeship by uttering trivially unfounded words. The Messenger (s) found it right to postpone the case until tomorrow; later tomorrow, he re-arranged the plan of another gathering. After food was eaten, he turned to heads of his family and began his words by praising God and confessing to Unity of God in this way:
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Verily, leader of a group of people never tell a lie to his people! I take God as my witness that there is no God but Him that I am His Messenger for you and all universe. Lo, O' my relatives! You die like those asleep and come to life like those alive; you are punished based on your deeds and this is permanent Paradise of God for the benevolent people and His everlasting Hell for the evil-doers.(1)
Your brother, the Messenger (s) then added:
None of the people has brought for his relatives something better than what I have brought for you; I have brought goodness of this world and the Hereafter. My God has commanded me to call you to Him; which one of you will stand as my support so that he might become my brother, my legatee and successor among you?(2)
You yourself witnessed that when Hazrat came to this point, absolute silence surrounded the whole gathering and they were engaged in contemplation. You suddenly stood up and broke the silence and told the Messenger (s) in strong faith and more complete courage: O' Messenger of God! I am prepared to stand as your support!
Hazrat ordered you to sit down and repeated his statement three times; no step was firmly taken but the same strong steps-may God grant us blessing to sacrifice ourselves for them!
The Messenger (s) turned to his kinsmen and said:
People! This young man is my brother, legatee and successor for you! Listen to him and follow him.(3)
This time, gathering came to an end and the audience turned to your father who had hidden his faith and said with grin: Mohammad ordered you to
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In the very young age, you succeeded in divine test again; defended the Messenger (s) and saved the God-given honor although sheikhs and the white hair of the clan failed the test, grinned at you and your honorable father. When you were young, you proved that having long beard and being aged is of no pride; rather, it is knowledge that entails pride and privilege which you possessed in its highest form from the very beginning and others had not a bit of it. You proved that if God favors someone, he gains knowledge, in the very childhood, that the learned and sheikhs are even deprived of.
What a great sigh! Those unknowledgeable and insincere people left you alone despite all recommendations about your status on the part of the Prophet (s); this verse said by God applies to them:
Have you not seen the condition of people who changed blessing of God into blasphemy and destined themselves and their clan to perdition.(1)
And you yourself said about the above verse:
O' people! What has happened to you that you change tradition and recommendation and you avoid will of the Messenger (s)?! Do you not fear that Agony of God might befall upon you?!
You then said:
I am Grace of God the Almighty for you.(2)
And the Messenger of God (s) said on behalf of God before:
My Proof has been complemented to those cruel people of your ummah who abandoned leadership of Ali and his post-descendants because they
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hold in their existence (Ahl-e Bayt (a)) Sunna of yours and that of the prophets before you. They are treasuries of My Knowledge after you.(1)
True! True!
Those people who followed the Satan despite recommendations of the Messenger (s) and left you in fact held no reasoning except being aged and having long-beard! This was while they had to pay attention to knowledge and origin but they failed to do so and ended inside in ignorance!
True!
You have origin, one which dates back to tree of divine prophets. You come from origin of Abraham, Friend of God; you are brother of the Messenger (s); you and the Messenger (s) come from the same tree and others are from other trees.(2)
True!
You are enjoyment of Paradise and Paradise Tree and the Messenger (s) told about you:
Ali is the name that is inscribed on every hijab or veil in Paradise; My God has given the good news to me. (3)
He again said more about your great status:
Ali looks like the sun in the earth in daylight in the Seventh Heavens and in the sky of the world he is similar to moon in nighttime in the earth. God has granted a reward of excellence that, if divided in the earth, covers everybody; he is also rewarded an understanding that, if shared by people of the earth, encompasses all.(4)
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True! True!
You are enjoyment of divinely eternal Paradise; you are fragrance and perfumed words of immortality! You are leaves of the Quran! You are the one about whom the Messenger (s) said:
Looking at Ali's face equals worship.(1)
He further added:
Remembering Ali is worship.(2)
Only the purified people but not the evil-doers love you and your enemies are all hypocrite dissidents and the Prophet (s) said:
O' Ali! You are loved by the faithful only and you are regarded adversary by the hypocrite dissident.
And God introduces, in His Book of Revelation, the hypocrite dissidents as the most inferior people, saying:
Actually, the hypocrite dissidents are stationed in the lowest ranks of Hellfire with no companions.
You are manifestation of purity, goodness, honesty, valor, campaign, affection and anger in front of adversaries of God and your enemies are enemies of purity and goodness; therefore, your enemies are the meanest of all. The sincere Companions of the Messenger (s) found the hypocrite dissidents at odds with you;(3)
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Your lovelorn lovers always remember those nice words you expressed among your companions; when you said: In relation to the Prophet (s), I have ten features.
The companions told you: O' Amir Al-Mu'amenan! Tell us about them.
You opened your beautiful lips and you uttered with a voice nicer than melodious song of waterfall shower in Paradise:
The Messenger said to me: O' Ali! You are my brother, my friend, my legatee and my vizier. Your dignity compared to mine resembles that of mine before my God; you are successor in my ummah; your friend is my friend and your enemy is my enemy; you are Commander of the Faithful and lord of Muslims after me.
Then you taking a kind look-followed by Favor and Mercifulness of God- turned to your companions and said:
O' Companions!
By God! I took no action unless what the Prophet had made a pledge with me. Good for someone whose heart has embraced love of us, Ahl-e Bayt! Faith in heart of such person is more stable than Ohud mount in its position; whoever rejects love of us in his heart, faith in his heart looks like melting of salt in water.(1)
O' lord!
You must be described by God and His Messenger; we and like us have only heard your holy name and no more!
The most cordial Companions of the Messenger (s) who were cherished by him and after you-of course with a more distance of the earth to sun- stood behind you in the case of conquering values and high perfections; that is, Salman, Meqdad and Abuzar, the very people who-after demise of the Messenger (s)-remained unchanged on abiding by divine promise-your
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guardianship-and recognized you to some extent.
About your virtues and excellences, Abuzar Ghaffari is being quoted to say:
I heard the Prophet (s) saying: There are ninety thousand Angels around the Heavens who only praise and worship on obeying Ali Ibn Abitaleb ('a), detesting the enemies and asking remission for the Shiites. God has devoted Gabriel, Michael and Israfil to obey Ali ('a), detest his enemies and remit his Shiites.
Abuzar further said that he had heard the Messenger (s) saying:
God is known to everyone because of me and Ali; God is worshipped because of me and Ali and there are reward and punishment because of me and Ali.
Someone asked Meqdad about your virtues and Meqdad said: I heard the Prophet (s) saying:
God is the Only One in His Kingdom; He made Himself known to His Lights, entrusted His Orders to them and made His Paradise permissible for them. If God wants to purify heart of whomever of men or jinns, He grants him knowledge of Ali's guardianship and if He wants to veil him in his heart, He withdraws from him knowledge of Ali.
I swear to God who keeps my soul! It was because of my Prophethood and Ali's guardianship after me that Adam was warranted to be created by God, be breathed in by His Spirit, be accepted with repentance and be returned to His Paradise.
I swear to Him who keeps my life! It was because of my Prophethood and confession to guardianship of Ali after me that kingdom of Heavens and the earth was made known to Abraham and made him His friend....
He is Sight of God, His Ears and His Tongue in his creation and His open hands to bestow Blessings on His worshippers and His Face in the Heavens and the earth. He is reliably strong rope that is not torn apart; he is Door of God from which one must pass and House of God where whoever enters, he shall be secure. He is banner of God for the Path on the day of inciting people. Whoever knows him, he shall be rescued
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towards Paradise and whoever denies him, he shall be directed towards fire of fall.(1)
And Salman Mohammadi said of your virtues in this way:
Ali is a door opened by God; whoever enters it, he shall be faithful and whoever exits, he shall be irreligious.2
True!
God-feared and knowledge-prone people approved you and followed you but those being faithful by tongue with no heart-penetrated faith left you; the very people who made excuses during jihad and disavowed to participate in it; God describing them said:
O'the faithful people! Why do you immediately leave jihad in the way God while you are ordered to do so [like a heavy weight] and stick onto the ground?! Are you pleased with life of this world which has changed your after-life world?! This is while earthly things are worth trivial compared to the other world. Do know that if you do not take action to help religion of God for jihad, God will make you suffer painful agony; and another clan takes your place and you have not harmed God because He is Omnipotent.(2)
Your opponents were those who made lame excuses to shirk responsibility from taking part in war if God and His Messenger ordered for doing so and God says about them:
Only those who disbelieved in God and the Last Day and have doubts in their hearts ask your permission not to take part in jihad and those
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hypocrite dissidents remain in constant dubiousness.(1)
And your opponents are the same people who were discourteous and cried loudly before the Messenger of God (s) and God says in His Words of Revelation they are unwise and without common sense:
O' those who claim to be believers! Stop talking louder than the Prophet's talk because if you do so, your good deeds turn out to be void and your common sense goes away ..... in fact, those who call you loudly from behind your chamber are mostly unwise and witless.(2)
Your adversaries were those who insulted the Messenger (s) when he began to talk to you in privacy, telling him: The Messenger (s) is ear [that is, he easily believes].
And those [who are claimants of faith] are the people who bother the Messenger (s) and tell him that he is ear.....those who bother the Messenger of God(s) should know that they must be ready to suffer painful agony. (3)
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And those against you were the people whose works were done in hypocrisy and whose prayer was done in dullness; God says about them:
O' Messenger! Tell them whatever you contribute in the way Allah willfully or unwillingly shall not be accepted by God because of your hypocrisy; you are the people who are accustomed to committing sins and iniquity; their contributions were not accepted because they disbelieved in
God and His Messenger; they never upheld prayers unless with reluctance and dullness and they do not give contributions unless with serious reluctance.(1)
And your opponents were those who found fault with the Prophet (s) when he divided charity and booties and God described them in this way:
And some two-sided people find fault with you when you donate charity; if they are given lots of things, they are pleased with you; otherwise, they become seriously angry. It could be so much better if they were consented with whatever God and His Messenger granted them, saying God it is sufficient for us.(2)
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Also, the people who claimed to be faithful left the Prophet (s) alone with the enemy in Ohud war and ran away; God describes them as:
In Ohud war, you escaped disregarding anyone and ignored the Prophet (s) while he called you on helping others during war....(1)
In Ohud war, you defended the Messenger (s) at the cost of your life and you fought with the enemy; your enemies were the same heads of vicious family who fought against Islam as much as they had power; but when they were faced with threat of Islam in conquest of Mecca, they falsely became believers out of fear and changed their tactics in countering with Islam under disguise of hypocrisy.
True!
Those people who, after departure of the Messenger (s), unobserved his recommendation for your guardianship and Imamate were either mundane and weak believers or hypocrite dissidents; but those trustworthy faithful people who were settled with faith in their hearts-such as Salman, Abuzar, Meqdad and Ammar-never left you alone although they were in minority; Salman, the very truthful companion of yours, about whom the Messenger (s) said:
Whoever wants to look at a man whose heart God has brightened with faith, he shall view Salman. (2)
And about Abuzar, he said:
Nobody has been cast the shadow of sky as Abuzar, the trustworthy.(3)
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True!
Those who approved and accompanied you were the pure and good people of the universe and are proud of having an Imam like you, the Commander of the Faithful!
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I testify that your progeny stands as proofs of God for the creatures and the guided pure who are guides.
The pure and holy land produces the fully blessed and purely scented plants but the impurely ominous land produces the impurely ominous grown things. God says:
The well-pure land generates good plants as God permits and the impurely rough land emits nothing but less fruitful and small amount of plants. We express Our Signs for the people who raise gratitude.(1)
You and your progeny are the same pure trees that are grown in the land of Prophethood and Immaculate Mohammad (s) that is more attractive, greener, more pleasant, purer and more fragrant than the Paradise.
By Divine Grace, you are origin and progenitor of all nicety and goodness in the universe. The pure, pleasant, good-looking, fragrant, nicely spoken, nicely looked people of the universe lose color in the face of your purity, pleasantness, nice countenance, fragrance, appealing words and tumultuously sea-like looks!
Progeny like yours is never found in the whole universe because no landlord like yours is found; the very landlord whose small part of auspicious blessings perfumed the universe and a glowing property of endeared face of whom illuminated the sun and stars!
I am the mortal, disabled, anxiously amazed and broken-penned being; how I can say of the heavenly long-winged birds!!
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Theosophy Account Four
Virtues of Ahl-e Bayt (‘a) in Sunni sources and other various issues.
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I say to myself:
O'fly! Arena of Simorgh (phoenix) fit not your flight
You raise petition and make trouble for us (1)
but bare-headed broken pen moans in this way:
I found not great caprice for sweet lips
But how fly cannot be in quest of sugar(2)
God has talked about you and your progeny and who else are others? And God in distinction between truth and falsehood put His Words of constant truth everywhere and every time and there are no others!! (3)
I shall speak about the Quran to make you and your progeny true; God in
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His Words of Revelation introduced you as progeny of Prophethood purified from all sins, describing you as:
God wants to cleanse any evil from your progeny and keep you flawlessly clean.(1)
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True!
God decided on your purity because you and your progeny are Proofs of God and illuminating stars of human guidance and divine guides and proofs must be clean off any sins and faults; you expressed in your words:
Verily, the Almighty God made us pure and immaculate and put us as witnesses for His creatures and His proof on earth; He joined us with the Quran and the Quran with us; neither are we separated from the Quran
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and nor does He keep away from us.(1)
And you said about this holy verse:
I was in Umme Salama's house with the Messenger (s) where«...انّما یرید اللّه»was revealed by God, telling me that this verse has been revealed for you, your children of Hassan and Husayn and Imams descending from you.
You then told the Messenger (s):
O' Messenger! How many will become Imams after you?
The Messenger(s) stared at you, saying:
After me, you become Imam; after you, Hassan, after Hassan, Husayn, after Husayn, his son, Ali, after Ali, his son Mohammad; after Mohammad, his son, Ja'afar; after Ja'afar, his son, Musa; after Musa, his son, Ali; after Ali, his son, Mohammad; after Mohammad, his son, Ali; after Ali, his son, Hassan; after Hassan, his son, the Upholder will become Imams; their names had been inscribed on the basis of the Heavens. I asked God who these people were. God said: They are Imams who come after you and they are pure and Immaculate but their enemies are the cursed ones.(2)
And you yourself said that the Messenger (s) stopped by your house every morning, saying:
May God bless you; rise up to say prayers and recited:
«إنّما يريد الله ....»
True!
Prophet (s) kept on doing as such for nine months after the verse revelation to make Ahl-e Bayt applicably known to everyone.(3)
3. GThehayat Al-Maram, p.215
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But as the shining sun rules as inexistence for the blind, a group of people appeared and moved across the line of offering the Umayyad good wishes, interpreting the verse in some other way and said: The above revelation has been sent down for others!! (1)
In another verse, God has said friendship and kindness extended towards you and your progeny is rewarded by how your brother, the Messenger (s) tried for Prophetic mission:
O' Messenger! Tell that you seek no reward but expression of kindness towards your progeny for your mission.(2)
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True!
You are the pure progeny of close kinsmen of Messenger (s) to whom people are advised to extend love because it is with this chain of kindness that people acquire luck to join you to enjoy your luminous statements and teachings.
But how did people, after departure of the Prophet of Blessings (s), behave his kinsmen?! Did you reward his Mission well?! The same Prophet who granted them honor and kept humiliation away from them!
But what did people do to his honorable daughter ('a) who was lady of both worlds and your wife? What did they do to your six-month-old Mohsen? What did they do to your Hassan (‘a)? What did they do to your Husayn (‘a)?
What did they do to you?! Were you not brother of the Prophet (s)? Were
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you not the first one who kept faith in the Prophet (s)? Were you not gate of the Messenger's knowledge?! Were you not vizier and caliph of the Prophet (s)? Were you not the very man about whom the Prophet (s) said: I and Ali are two fathers of this ummah?!
Were you not the same person about whom the Messenger (s) said:
Looking at your face is worship!! (1)
Were you not the very man about whom the Prophet (s) said:
Remembering Ali is worship.
How many Ali was there among ummah at that time?!!
Were you not the one who slept on Prophet's bed to save his life and risked your life to let him survive? Were you not the one to whom the Prophet (s) said, in conquest of Mecca, to stand on his shoulders and drop down idols on top of Ka'aba?! (2)
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Were you not the one who killed Amru Ibn 'Abdowad with your Zulfiqar sword in Khandaq war?! And the Prophet (s) said:
On the day of Khandaq, strike of Ali is higher than worship of jinns and people on the Day!! 1
Were you not the one on chest of whom the Prophet (s) put his head and joined the other world?!?(1) Were you not the one who was missioned by the Prophet (s) for his legal bathing, shrouding and upholding prayer over his stiff?! (2)
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Why did they hang rope over your neck?! Why did they drag you, while you were tied in hands, to the mosque for forced allegiance with armed-to- teeth troops?! Why did they whip, injure and martyr your wife in oppressiveness while she intended to defend you?! (1)
Did the Messenger (s) say not that:
Whoever persecutes Fatima ('a), he shall have bothered me and whoever bothers me, he shall have bothered God?! (2)
Had he said not:
Fatima is integral part of my body?! (3)
What did they do to your Husayn?! What did they do to the elite of the Messenger (s)?! What did they do to fruit of your heart?! Had the Messenger not said that:
Husayn is from me and I am from Husayn?! (4)
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What was fault of your Husayn who was beheaded in thirst?
True! True!
Whatever cruelty they imposed on you augmented their infidelity and they failed to extinguish radiation of your and your children's world- shining countenance; but you shined like thousands of thousands of sun in the universe and you will continue to shine forever, forever.
You acquired divinely eternal honor and God says to you about the cruel people:
And of course, stop guessing that they pursued the path of infidelity; We give them more chance until they continue to add to their blasphemy and rebellion because they face torment of the Day so much that they are harshly degraded and humiliated.(1)
And God also said:
And it takes not long for the infidels and cruel people to know that whereto they return as penalty and revengeful hell.(2)
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Your endeared son, Husayn (‘a) said:
Death in honor is much better than life in humiliation! (1)
And your followers in the universe raise hope to see your descendant, Mahdi (may Allah hasten his emergence) emerge and to uproot the Umayyad of the history filling the world with all-out justice, a good news frequently given by your brother, the Messenger (s).(2)
It is a treasure to render love to you, love not bestowed by God to any good-for-nothing people; rather, He grants it to someone who has tainted his faith with tyranny, saying in His Words:
Those who are believers and have not tainted their belief with cruelty; they shall be secure and be guided through the reality.(3)
How nicely, how nicely the Messenger (s) has expressed the blessings derived raising love to you, the pure and infallible progeny!
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Whoever dies with love of Mohammad's Progeny, he shall have died as a martyr.
Knowing that! Whoever dies with love of Mohammad's Progeny, God shall forgive him.
Knowing that! Whoever dies with love of Mohammad's Progeny, he shall have died with repentance.
Knowing that! Whoever dies with love of Mohammad's Progeny, he shall have died with full faith.
Knowing that! Whoever dies with love of Mohammad's Progeny, he shall be given good news of Paradise by death Angel.
Knowing that! Whoever dies with love of Mohammad's Progeny, he shall be taken to Paradise in respect just as a bride goes to a groom's house.
Knowing that! Whoever dies with love of Mohammad's Progeny, he shall be opened two gates to Paradise in his grave.
Knowing that! Whoever dies with love of Mohammad's Progeny, God shall set his grave as shrine of Angels.
Knowing that! Whoever dies with love of Mohammad's Progeny, he shall have died on tradition and community of Islam.
Knowing that! Whoever dies with enmity to Mohammad's Progeny, he shall enter into arena of Resurrection while on forehead of whom is inscribed: Disappointed in Blessing of God.
Knowing that! Whoever dies with love of Mohammad's Progeny, he shall have died in infidelity.
Knowing that! Whoever dies with enmity to Mohammad's Progeny, he shall have not smelled scent of Paradise. (1)
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True!
You, your honorable wife and children are the same people of whom God is proud in His Quran for your great self-sacrifice and self-devotion and He has recalled you as great people when you took vows to keep three days of fasting and donated all your food during breakfasting to beggar, orphan and the needy at the door of your house on the way of God although you were in dire need of them; you and your family broke your fasting only with water!
Gabriel came down and told the Prophet (s): O' Mohammad! Take this surah because God congratulated you on having such a posterity and recited surah of «هل اتی» for him. In this holy surah, God has praised you and your family in parts of the verses and promised the everlasting Paradise.(1)
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In some part of this surah, God says about your great self-devotion:
They (Ahl-e Bayt) keep their vows and fear the day whose torment is great. Though being in need of the food, they donate it to the poor, beggar and the needy and say: We feed you for the sake of God and we ask for no reward; we fear our God on the Day when it is hard and severe.(1)
Such devotion of yours sinks hearts and it lets tears roll down; you broke your fasting with water at the end of three days not to say "no" to the poor. By donating some loaves of bread, you turned out to be eternalized in the holy Quran and such donation surpassed the whole contributions of the universe! Why? Because you donated, that of your whole food, in utmost civility and only for pleasure of God. There might be thousands of thousand tons of donations that worth nothing because they are made with
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hypocrisy and selfishness.
Here, God has said in the Quran for creation of such creature:
Well-done on God who is the best of creators.(1)
And when the Angels told God, the Omniscient that:
Man embarks on corruption on earth and sheds blood; God said: I know something you do not know.(2)
From the same sacred and luminous family, a son is born and this great son told the wicked man when he was asked: swear allegiance or accept death! This man, Blood of God and elite of the Messenger (s) replied:
I accept death in honor and I never yield to humiliation because death in honor is honorable and we, the pure and infallible progeny are kept away from humiliation.(3)
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You and your pure progeny are the same people who were taken to meet Christians of Najran for cursing each other; this revelation qualifies you:
O' Messenger! If you were given knowledge about Jesus (that Jesus is not son of God), the Christians who rejected the fact began to argue with you again; tell them to bring their children, wives and people, so do we; then try to curse the liar and say may God curse the liars.(1)
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In the wake of descent of revelation, the Messenger (s) took you, your wife and your two children of Hassan and Husayn (a) for mutual cursing meeting and took none of the Companions; you are introduced as((انفسنا))by God and that is, soul of the Prophet (s); this was not a recent event because the Messenger (s) had said before:
Ali is from me and I am from Ali.(1)
And he had said:
I and Ali come from one tree and people come from other trees.(2)
You appeared at the mutual curse meeting and Christians observed your luminous face and that of your family; they were frightened and told the Messenger (s): We are ready to please you; excuse us from mutual cursing!
In addition, there are some quotations that:
When you and your family appeared there, the white hair of the Christians said: I see faces that God will root off mountains if these faces demand Him so; hardly ever do you curse them, you will face perdition and even
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not one Christian will remain on earth until the Day!(1)
You and your pure children are the same trustworthy people whom God has ordered everybody to unequivocally obey in His Revelations:
O' believers! Seek divine piety and stay with the trustworthy.(2)
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You, your honorable wife and your pure family are the very ones about whom the Prophet (s) recommended in his last sermon and put you beside the Quran, saying loudly:
O' people! I leave two invaluably memorable things to you: The Book of God and my Progeny; as long as you resort to them, you never go astray and know that these two are inseparable until they grant audience to me at the Pond of Abundance on the Day.(1)
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What a great and precious the words of the Prophet (s) is! He introduced you as brother of the Quran and said guidance of ummah is possible by turning to both.
That wrongdoer who said: The Quran is enough for us; it is a big lie because the Prophet (s) had said in his good words: The Quran and Ahl-e Bayt are never separable! They left you alone by
Following the wrongdoer, saying loudly again: The Quran is enough for us; they tell a lie because they take no advantage of the Quran although they recite it by heart and by nice voice!
You and your family are the actual interpreters of the Quran;(1) you and your
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pure family are the same remembrances God has ordered to be asked, if you fail to know;1 you and your infallible family (‘a) are the same firmly
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( وَ ما أَرْسَلْنا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ إِلا رِجَالاً نُوحِي إِلَيْهِمْ فَسْتَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ لا تَعْلَمُونَ )
And before you [O' Messenger] We sent men to whom We revealed [Our Messages], so ask the learned of the people of the Book if you people do not know about it (Nahl: 43).
There are various narrations in Shiite and Sunni sources citing that People of Remembrance God said to be referred to are Ahl-e Bayt (‘a); here, a number of hadiths from Sunni sources are given as examples:
Hakem Neisabouri, Tabari, Qertebi, Alussi and Ibn-e Kathir say:
أنّها نزلت في أهل بيت محمد ( صلى الله عليه [ و آله و سلم ) و علي ( عليه السلام ] وفاطمه [ سلام الله عليها ] و الحسن و الحسين ( عليهما السلام ).
(Tabari, in his Tafsir,vol.14, p.19 under the above verse; Hakem, Shawahed Al-Tanzil, vol.1, p.334; Qertebi, in his Tafsir, vol.11, p.272; Ibn-e Kathir, in his Tafsir, vol.2, p.57 under the above verse; Alussi, in his Tafsir, vol.14, p.134 under the above verse and....)
قال الإمام على عليه السلام:
والله إنا لنحن أهل الذكر و نحن أهل العلم و نحن معدن التأويل والتنزيل و لقد سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم يقول: أنا مدينة العلم و عليّ بابها فمن أراد العلم فليأته من بابه.
( Tafsir-e Tha'albi, vol.6, p.270; Shawahed Al-Tanzil, vol.1, p.436; Hakem Neisabouri, Mustadrak Al-Sahihin, vol.3, p.126; Ibn-e 'Abdulberr, Al-Isti'ab, vol.3, p.1102; Siyuti, Jame'a Al-Saghir, vol.1, p.415; Kanz Al-Ummal, vol.13, p.148 and.....)
Usul-e Kafi quotes the Prophet (s):
الذكر أنا و الائمة أهل الذكر.
(Usul-e Kafi, vol.1, p.121)
Hafiz Mohammad Ibn-e Musa Al-Shirazi quotes Ibn-e 'Abbas under the above verse:
هم محمد صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم وعلي عليه السلام و فاطمة عليها السلام و الحسن و الحسين عليهما السلام، هم أهل الذكر والعلم و العقل و البيان و هم أهل بيت النبوة ومعدن الرسالة و المختلف الملائكة والله ما سمّى المؤمن مؤمنا إلا كرامة لأمير المؤمنين عليه السلام.
(Najjah Ta'ie, Velayat-e Ali (‘a) fi Al-Quran men Kotob Al-Sunna)
Imam Reza ('a) says:
نحن أهل الذكر و نحن المسؤولون.
(Tafsir-e Nur Al-Thaqalayn, vol.3, p.55)
Imam Baqir (‘a) says:
« الذِّكْرِ » القرآن، و آل الرسول « أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ» و هم المسؤولون.
(Tafsir-e Nur Al-Thaqalayn, vol.3, p.88)
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indomitable in knowledge and God has said in this regard:
No people know interpretation of the Quran except God and those who are firmly indomitable in knowledge.(1)
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For what reason the wrongdoer said: Book of God is enough for us? Had he not heard the Prophet (s) say that the Quran and the pure and infallible family are never separated from each other?
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true!
He had heard but the Satan manifested love of chairmanship to them so much that they became prepared to trample all facts.
Elsewhere, in another statement, the Prophet (s) resembled you, the pure and infallible family to Ark of Noah, saying that:
O' ummah! Know that Ahl-e Bayt is being exemplified as Noah's Ark; whoever embarks on it, he shall be saved and whoever disobeys it, he shall be drowned.(1)
Salim Ibn Qeys Helali-one of your loyal and Shiite companions-says:
I was in Mecca during hajj pilgrimage when Abuzar Ghaffari circled
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around a group of people, yelling: O' people! O' people! Whoever knows me, he knows me and whoever not, I introduce myself to him; I am Jondab Ibn Jonadah Abuzar and I heard the Messenger (s) say:
O' people! Be aware that my progeny among you looks like Noah's Ark; whoever embarked on it, he shall be saved and whoever refused to do so, he shall be perished.(1)
What a good and clear example the Prophet (s) has made to introduce you and your family! You are ark of salvation; you decompose waves of sedition and skepticism; you sail your strong and priceless ark safely through crushing whirlpools of the world to safe shore of Paradise while all travelers of the world are aboard. What a magnificently nice ark! What a capacious and fully-equipped ark!
Nothing is the cost of boarding this great ark but pure faith that is intermingled with trustworthiness and knowledge.
I have questions to ask the worldly wise people:
Is it better to drink blood-tainted and morass-laden water or fresh cold water?! Is it pleasant to smell stinky and nausea-induced worm-eaten animal's dead corpse with unlawful meat or take the
fragrant odor of red rose, tuberose and narcissus?! Is it better to live in a dungeon with no way out where the inmate is being plunged into his defecations and stinks or to reside in an elevated ever-green place with fountain and varieties of plants and flowers?! Is it better to choose to marry a fully-burned-body wife with leprous face and blind eyes or an unparalleled kind and beautiful wife who has uniquely existential perfections?! Is it better to possess a paralyzed body, blind eyes and unhealthy mind that has no relief and sleep or to have a fully healthy body away from any diseases with happy mind that has no woeful grievances?!
I am certain that every wise person of the world would say: It is quite obvious that he chooses the second ones; but many do not know that they are troubled with the first choices and they are negligent people.
You and your honorable family pull out human beings of stinks, diseases
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and darkness with your ark of salvation and bring them into fragrances, lights, accuracies and beauties.
The straight path is made possible through your help and those who choose path of others are out of Knowledge of God and the Straight Path; you said:
If God wished, He would introduce Himself unmediated to His worshippers but He did not wish so; but He assigned us as mediators in His Path of Knowledge. Those who turn away from our guardianship and prefer others, they are not on the Straight Path. (1)
Your brother, the Messenger (s) said among companions:
O' people! Know that there is a Door of God through which whoever enters, he shall be secure from the Hellfire and great horror.
Abu Sa'id Khedri stood and asked: O' the Messenger of God (s)! Usher us to that Door until we know it.
The Messenger (s) said:
He is Ali Ibn Abitaleb, Seyyed Al-Usiya', Amir Mu'amenan, brother of the Messenger (s) and caliph of God for all people; O' people! Whoever is pleased with my leadership, he shall follow guardianship of Ali Ibn Abitaleb and Imams who come from my descendants because they are treasuries of my knowledge.(2)
The Messenger (s) says in other words that you, Ahl-e Bayt (‘a) are the
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very door of repentance of the Israelites from which whoever enters, he shall be endowed with Divine Mercy and Blessing.(1)
You and your pure family cause the earth and the people of the earth to be secure and the Messenger (s) said in this regard:
Stars make residents of the heavens secure; therefore, when the stars fade away, so do people of the heavens; my Progeny brings security for residents of the earth and if my Progeny fails to exist, all residents of the earth perish away.(2)
True!
You are blessings of the earth, you are security of the earth and you are ever-standing mountains of certainty because nobody can be compared to you, the pure Progeny; you yourself said:
Nobody can be compared to Progeny of the Messenger (s) because they
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are cherished by guidance of the Prophet's Ahl-e Bayt; they are unique. Progeny of Mohammad (s) bases religion and standing pillars of certainty; the rushers shall return to them and stragglers have to join them because features of right of guardianship are devoted to them and the Prophet's testament of caliphate of Muslims and heritage of the Prophetic Mission belong to them.(1)
You also said:
Progeny of Mohammad stands as the best progenies, his Ahl-e Bayt is the best of all and his lineage is the best of all lineages who are grown in shrine and are brought up in garden of honor; the lineage tree has long branches with fruits inaccessible to anyone.(2)
You compassionately cried for guidance of people:
O' people! Turn a careful eye to Ahl-e Bayt of your Prophet; go the way they go. Step into their footprints; they never astray you from guidance and never take back you to perdition and ignobility. If they kept silent, you keep quiet too; if they rose up, you do too. Stop outpacing them because you are gone astray; avoid being left behind because you are destroyed.(3)
O' lord!
The pure and trustworthy people follow you rather than wrongdoers and evildoers.
I am amazed how some people who said they were followers of the Messenger (s) resorted to others despite all recommendations of the
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Messenger (s) about you, your status and your family?!
And I am more amazed of what a man says or better to say, a man-like wicked person of the wicked family who says: Verily, the idea of prioritizing Ahl-e Bayt of the Messenger of God is among signs of ignorance because relatives of the heads were given priority.(1)
O' Amir Mu'amenan! By your permission, I give response to this wicked talker:
O' the wicked! What were your masters doing when our lord expressed his faith in childhood?! Did they worship God or idols?
O' the wicked! Did the Prophet (s) say about our lord, Ali (‘a) that he is gate of my knowledge and philosophy or about your masters?
O' the wicked! To whom did the Messenger say that he is the most learned man after him?! Did he say it to our lord or to your masters?
O' the wicked! Whom did the Prophet (s) call his soul? Our lord, Ali (‘a) or your masters?
O' the wicked! Whom did the Prophet (s) introduce as father of this ummah beside himself? Our lord or your masters?
O' the wicked! Whom did the Prophet (s) introduce as his successor at Ghadir-e-Khum as ordered by God? Our lord or your masters?
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O' the wicked! In his last sermon he delivered, whom did he put beside the Quran? Our lord and his family or your masters?
O' the wicked! Whom did the Prophet (s) introduce as ark of salvation? Our lord and his family or your masters?
O' the wicked! Whom did he introduce as stars of guidance and cause of security of the globe? Our lord and his family or your masters?
Of course, you having been overfilled with hypocrisy are not expected otherwise!
But let me talk a bit about your followers who are more wicked than the one who said that:
It suffices for you to know that the Islamic nations have been set ablaze; they with their null ideas that have been inherited from you, the wicked and added up to them accuse all Muslims particularly followers of Ahl-e Bayt (a) of blasphemy and say blood, property and honor of them are permissible! They have killed thousands of your followers of Muslims and Shiites of Iraq, Pakistan, Syria and elsewhere in series of bomb attacks; these evildoers by perpetrating suicide attacks at mosques of the Shiites kill tens of innocent children, women, men, young and old to approach God!!
I apologize Amir Al-Mu'amenan (‘a) that I made a lengthened talk about the wicked men.
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenan!
Ending this chapter, for more blessing and in spite of our enemies and those who envy your esteemed status and truthfulness, I cite some part of your nice speech in Nahj Al-Balagha:
About the status of yourself and your family, you said:
Where are those who pondered that they are the learned of knowledge of the Quran and not us?! They made such allegation against us based on falsehood and cruelty. God upgraded us, the Progeny of the Prophet and downgraded them; He bestowed us blessings and deprived them of them; we were included in His gifts and excluded them of them; path of guidance is sought by means of us and aberration is replaced with enlightenment by
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virtue of us. Verily, the twelfth Imams all come from the Quraysh whose tree has been planted in the household of the Hashimites; others deserve not having status of leadership and guardianship and other claimants of caliphate are not qualified for this. (1)
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I certify that your true followers are those who are guided and prosperous.
Pure, fragrant and green plants grow on pure land with moderate climate and fully succulent but on a dry salty and desert land, no plants grow but thorns and prickles. Beautiful and fragrant flowers grow on moderate weather and rainy land, hosted by beautiful butterflies. A marsh land whose stinky odor keeps away insects of a many hosts microbes and parasites.
Trees having sturdy roots on fertile and rainy land produce succulent, fragrant and healthy fruits but those trees lacking water and fertile soil produce bitter, dry and not a lot of fruits.
This is a principle that the good things always join the good ones and bad things join the bad ones. The loyal Companions of the Messengers were from the pure and sincere ones but their disloyal and hostile Companions were from the impure and polytheist ones.
O' Ali!
You are the one to whom the Messenger (s) said:
You are Commander of the Faithful, Sultan of religion, Imam of the pious people and leader of the marked people of the world.(1)
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And you are the leader, Imam and lord that the Messenger (s) prayed for you and your followers and said:
For whomever I am lord, so is Ali. O' God! Bestow love on whoever accepts Ali as leader, and whoever not, find him as enemy; whoever helps him, stand by him and humiliate whoever looked down on him.
The Messenger (s) further said about you to his ummah:
O' ummah! Do know that you do not go astray if you resort to Ali.(1)
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He frequently told people about your status and that of your family:
God created the Messengers from different trees; but He created me and Ali from a single tree. I am the origin; Ali is the branch; Fatima fertilizes it and Hassan and Husayn stand as its fruits and our Shiites are its leaves.
He then added:
If someone worships God a thousand years, a thousand years again and a thousand years between Safa and Marwah in order to become as old as water-skin but lacking kindness towards us, God shall throw him unto fire by face.(1)
And he said about your knowledge and science:
I am city of knowledge and Ali stands as its gate; therefore, whoever seeks knowledge, he shall pass through that gate.(2)
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He explained more:
Ali is the Straight Path and in fact people are questioned about his leadership on the Day. 1
1.
عن ابن عباس: قلت للنبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم: يا رسول الله ! أ للجنة جواز ؟ قال النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم: نعم. قلت: و ما هو ؟ قال صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم: حبّ عليّ بن أبي طالب. قال النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم لعلی علیه السلام: أنت النبأ العظيم و الصراط المستقيم و أنت المثل الأعلى.
(Tarikh-e Baghdad, vol.3, p.161; Tarikh-e Dameshq, vol.42, p.244)
قال النبی صلی الله علیه و اله و سلم لعلی علیه السلام : انت النبا العظیم و الصراط المستقیم و انت المثل الاعلی.
(Tafsir-e Borhan, vol.5, p.565; Saduq, Ayun-e Akhbar Al-Reza (‘a), vol.2, p.6)
قال النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم: لا يجوز أحد الصراط إلا من كتب له على جواز.
(Yanabi'a Al-Mawaddah, vol.3, p.230; Heythami, Al-Sawa'iq Al-Muharraqah, p.192)
ذكر البيهقي عن الحاكم النيشابوري، بأسناده عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم إذا جمع الله الأولين و الآخرين يوم القيامة و نصب الصراط على جسر جهنّم ، لم يجزها أحد إلا من كانت معه براءة بولاية علي بن أبي طالب
(Tabari fi Al-Riyadh, Moheboddin, Al-Beihaqi, vol.2, p.172)
قال ابن عباس: دخل الإمام على عليه السلام على النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم و عنده عائشة، فجلس بين النبي صلی الله عليه وآله وسلم وعائشة ؛ فقالت ما كان لك مجلس غير فخذى؟ فضرب النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم على ظهرها و قال: مه لا تؤذيني في أخي فأنّه أمير المؤمنين و سید المسلمين و قائد الغر المحجلين يوم القيامة، يقعد على الصراط المستقيم فيدخل أولياءه الجنّة و يدخل أعداءه النار.
(Kanz Al-Ummal, vol.11, 619; Ibn-e Dameshqi, Jawaher Al-Mataleb, vol.1, chapter 49, p.349; Kunduzi Hanafi, Yanabi'a Al-Mawaddah, vol.1, chapter 14, p.221; Taftazani, Sharh Al-Maqased, vol.2, p.291; Ibn-e Abi Al-Hadid, Sharh-e Nahj Al-Balagha, vol.9, p.169; 'Asqalani, Ibn-e Hajar, Al-Esabah, vol.4, p.170; Manaqib-e Ibn-e Mardawiya, p.62 and...)
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He said again:
O' Ali! Your rank and status in relation to me is the same as rank and status of Harun in relation to Musa unless no Prophet comes after me.(1)
And he said about your honor, magnitude and status once more:
I and Ali were light before God and we praised and sanctified Him a thousand times before God created Adam; When He created Adam, He incorporated the light into his loin; I and Ali were the same light until we were separated from each other on 'Abdulmotalleb's loin and God made Prophethood exclusive to me and caliphate to Ali.(2)
He then said about you:
Eh, O' ummah! Shall I guide you on something that you fail to be ruined when you agree to it?! Verily, your Imam is Ali Ibn Abitaleb; therefore, you should wish well for him, be his cordial and approve of him. Verily,
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this is something Gabriel told me. (1)
He chanted a call and said about you:
Eh, O' ummah! If you take Ali as your leader, you shall see that he is a guide and leads you towards the Straight Path.(2)
He added:
For me, Ali looks like my head for my body.(3)
Among Companions, he addressed you many times:
O' Ali! You are liked only by the faithful and disliked by enemy. (4)
Here, there were a number of sincere and knowledge-prone companions of the Messenger (s) who discovered your unparalleled dignity, circling around sun of your existence like loving butterflies and became known after the Shiites of Ali as the Prophet (s) put it.
True!
Your followers were like the very insight-prone Companions of the Messenger (s) like Salman, Abuzar, Meqdad and Ammar who approved of you and paid a homage to your status.
Those sincerely knowledge-prone people were those who never tainted their faith with cruelty and were never needless in their being of your shining sun of leadership.
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O' lord!
Whom did the Messenger (s) call as someone of his Progeny(1) and said: His science is like a sea depth of which cannot be tapped? (2)
O' lord!
About which one of the Companions did the Messenger (s) say that Paradise longs for him? (3)
O' lord!
Which one of his Companions did the Messenger describe that the heavens and the earth had not yet seen someone more honest than him?(4)
True! Salman
True! Abuzar
The very pure people, the very campaigners, the very knowledgeable people!
Your true followers who embraced hardships in preserving religion of the truth at the cost of their life have always been as pioneers of faith and knowledge in the course of long history. There were many of your true followers who sacrificed their life for God in the way of reviving the truth to preserve high values of religion of Mohammad (s). Your true followers who were satiated with pure essence of Mohammad's leadership and grew
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on the land of the Alawites had always been the freemen of the world. You stood and pioneered firmly in faith and so did your followers; you were chivalrous and lion-like fighter in front of your enemies and so were your followers; you showed reluctance for the world and longed for joining God and so did your followers.
That is why the Messenger (s) told you about you and your Shiites:
O' Ali! You and your Shiites are those who achieve salvation on the Day.(1)
Your supporters are not only those who are people of salvation in the Hereafter but also they are faced with salvation in this world because they have you.
O' Ali! What does Ali mean?! It means all purities of God in the universe; it means all beauties of God in the universe; it means all Graces of God in the universe; it means all joys and pleasures of God in the universe; it means all treasures of God in the universe; it means all secrecies of God in the universe; it means all blessings and gifts of God in the universe!
O' Ali! What does Ali mean?! It means wrath, revenge and agonies of God in the universe!!
Has God not determined Paradise as place of His endless purities, joys,
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blessings for the true faithful?!
Has God not ordained His Hell as place of His wrath, revenge and agony for atheists and dissidents?!
And has the Messenger (s) not told you: O' Ali! You divide Paradise and Hell among people on the Day? (1)
True!
All these rest within you and you are not these things and you are superior; only God who created you knows you.
Before your birth, you had a rank and dignity in the world light before God and because of that Abraham (s) asked God to make him your Shiite and God accepted his request, saying in His Words:
Verily, Abraham is among his Shiites. (2)
And your brother, the Messenger (s) told you about your Shiites that:
O' Ali!...this friend of mine, Gabriel told me on behalf of God that He has granted seven features to your followers: Easy death, companionship in loneliness, light in darkness, safety in fear, equal scale of acts, passing
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through the Path into Paradise eighty years before entry of other people.(1)
Ibn 'Abbas asked the Messenger (s) about this Word of Revelation: and those precursors are the nearest to God; Hazrat quoted Gabriel as saying to him: They are Ali and his Shiites; they proceed towards Paradise and they are the nearest to him because of God's Grace and Favor. (2)
The Messenger (s) heralded you about your true followers:
On the Day, your Shiites enter Paradise while they are fully satiated with water and your foes enter while they are fully thirsty and nobody gives them water. (3)
And God says in His Word of Revelation about you and
your followers:
Those who were believers and benevolent are in fact the best people of the universe.(4)
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Jaber, a Companion of the Prophet (s) says about you and your Shiites: I was with the Messenger (s) when Ali (‘a) came close from far and the Messenger (s) said:
I swear to the One who owns my soul that this man and his Shiites will be endowed with salvation on the Day.(1)
You and your true followers are the case of God's Holy Word of Revelation:
Good for them and their benevolence, those who became believers of God and are benevolent! (2)
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True! Those whose hearts God brightened by light of faith and certainty never turn to anyone but you.
O' Ali!
Enemies of your Shiites are the very unknowledgeable people whose pride hampered their souls from the Straight Path. Your brother, the Messenger
قال ابن عباس: لما نزلت هذه الآية، قال النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم لعلى عليه السلام: تأتى أنت و شيعتك يوم القيامة راضيين مرضتين و يأتى أعداؤك غضابا مقمحين.
Ibn-e Mardouyeh, Manaqib, p.346
Siyuti, Al-Durr Al-Manthur, vol. 6, p.376
Mottaqi Hendi, Kanz Al-Ummal, vol.11, p.323
Ibn-e Hajar Heythami, Majma' Al-Zawa'id, vol.9, p.131
Tabrani, Al-Mu'ajam Al-Kabir, vol. 1, p.319
Tafsir-e Alusi, vol.30, p.207
Khatib Baghdadi, Tarikh-e Baghdad, vol.12, p.284 and.....
عن على عليه السلام قال لى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم: ألم تسمع قول الله تعالى: « إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ أُوْلَئِكَ هُمْ خَيْرُ الْبَرِيَّةِ »، هم أنت وشيعتك و موعدي و موعدكم الحوض إذا جاءت الأمم للحساب يدعون غزا محجلين.
Shaw'id Al-Tanzil, vol.2, p.459
Kunduzi Hanafi, Yanabi'a Al-Mawaddah, vol.2, chapter 58, p.357
Shawkani, Fath Al-Qadir, vol.5, p.477
Al-Tabari, Mohammad Ibn-e Ali, Besharat Al-Mustafa, p.296 and......
قال النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم لعلى علیه السلام يا أبا الحسن! أما إنّك وشيعتك في الجنّة.
Heythami, Majma' Al-Zawa'id, vol.9, chapter: Virtue of Ahl-e Bayt (a), p.173
Al-Mu'ajam Al-Awsat, vol.6, p.355 and vol.7, p.343
Kanz Al-Ummal, vol.1, p.223
Tafsir-e Tha'albi, research of Mohammad Ashur, vol.9, p.67
قال ابن سيرين عن الآية: «طُوبَى لَهُمْ وَ حُسْنُ مَآبٍ : هي شجرة في الجنّة، أصلها في حجرة علي و ليس في الجنّة حجرة إلاّ و فيها غصن من أغصانها.
Abubakr Ibn-e Mardawyeh, Al-Manaqib, p.268
Kunduzi Hanafi, Yanabi'a Al-Mawaddah, vol.1, chapter 24, p.287
Al-Jame'a Le'ahkam Al-Qur'an, vol.9, p.317
Tarikh-e Baghdad, vol.9, p.317
قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم: أما علمت أنّ منزلي و منزل علي في الجنّة واحد و قصري و قصر علي في الجنّة واحد و سريري و سرير علي في الجنّة واحد.
(Hakem Neisabouri, Shawahed Al-Tanzil, vol.1, p.306)
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(s) introduced the Straight Path as your path and said: Your Shiites are on the Straight Path. (1) Besides, the Messenger (s) talked about various emerging sects among Muslims and their differences and introduced path of salvation only your path, saying:
Soon, my ummah will be divided into seventy three sects; all of them are ordained to Hell but followers of Ali. (2)
God assigned you to be Imam for guiding people and commanded His Messenger (s) to tell all people to follow you; (3) your Shiites are those who accepted Call of God and God promised them the eternal Paradise; those who denied you shall expect a deplorable finality; God says in this regard:
Those who accepted Call of God and became His believers shall have best reward and happiest life and those who rejected His Call, they shall expect a hard account and Hell which is a bad resting place even though they possess twice of what is on the earth and give it for compensation [it is not accepted]. (4)
The one who is claimant of knowledge and cognition and has appealed
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perfection, intuition and a group of people on an improper direction but insults the Shiites is in reality devoid of knowledge and he is ruled by self- pride and self-centeredness. (1)
Your true followers are actually people of piety and purification; your true followers are people who render worship and invocation in cordiality far from hypocrisy. Shi'a is not only by name; rather, it is performed through faith and practice and your true followers are prone to be people of faith and practice; your Shiites say their prayer rightly on time and prefer it over other things; your Shiites are constantly reciting and mindful of Words of God; your true Shiites are the very people who campaign in the Path of God and they never reconcile with enemies of God and enemies of religion of God; your true Shiites are the very those who expect emergence of the Upholder, your descendant, Mahdi (may Allah hasten his emergence) in order to sacrifice their lives beside him for resuscitation of religion of God.
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I certify that you welcomed death with open arms to please God and to protect life of your brother, the Messenger (s).
You were always pioneer, proud and victor on divine trials; you not only stood in highest ranks in faith, but also you pioneered in sacrifice and self- devotion. The other sincere faithful people stood far behind you.
In your younghood, you were ready to sacrifice the whole existence of yours-your precious life-to maintain the freshly planted tree of Islam and fearlessly embraced death in the path of God; you sacrificed your life not for gaining Paradise or salvation from the Hell but for gaining satisfaction of God.
Historians have put down the story of your great valor and self-sacrifice in 13th of Hegira:
In 12th and 13th A.H, the Qurayshite atheists found that they are faced with great threat in their whole system because a large number of Muslims in Mecca secretly migrated to Medina in order to be secured from persecutions made by the Quraysh. The Qurayshite atheists were informed that Muslim migrants in Medina had succeeded to draw the attention of a good number of Medina residents to Islam and to pledge allegiance to Prophet of Islam (s). They learned that if Mohammad (s) departs to Medina, Medina will turn out as an important base for him; as a result, they will have to endure a threatening situation.
The doyen of the Quraysh came to meet each other in a place called "Dar Al-Nodwah to find a solution by exchanging their thoughts. People in the meeting rejected the suggestion of jailing the Prophet (s) or letting him, with his hands and feet tied, go by himself on a mean camel in the desert. At last, they came to this conclusion that murdering him is the only way to stop influence of Islam.
The holy Quran explains the meeting as:
When they showed atheism, worked to deceive you, jail you, murder you
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or let you out, they spur trickery and God, in response to them, renders deceit on them and He is the Best to bring trickery.(1)
Therefore, they assigned a warring man of each tribe to nightly assail house of the Prophet (s) and kill him; in this way, all tribes become responsible for his blood and the Hashimites cannot fight with all tribes and only suffice to receive ransom. Forty people were selected and they were supposed to fulfil their mission when night breaks. The Prophet (s) was informed about the perilous plot of Quraysh atheists and made his decision to depart to Medina nightly and to find somebody to sleep on his bed for blinding chase line of the enemy. He did so to make polytheists imagine that he had stayed in the house. This came to be useful in that they would never find his bed empty and would open the routes so that he could move out and take a safe haven.
Now one should see who is willing to sleep on the Prophet's bed to be stricken with forty cutting swords and sacrifices his life for him?!
True O' Amir Al-Mu'amenan!
You were that sacrificial man; you were the first one who kept faith in the Messenger (s) and you were like a butterfly circling around the existential sun of his. When he posed the case to you, you accepted it with little doubt, telling him: O' Messenger of God! Will you be safe if I sleep in place of you? The Prophet (s) said: Yes! I will remain safe.
You fell yourself onto the ground while you had tearful eyes and nice smile on your face and kneeled down to thank God. You stood and said: I do whatever I am missioned to do as the whole soul of mine, my eyes, ears and black spot of my heart, will be sacrificed to you! Command me to what you wish as I am your aide; I do just as you wish me to do and my success
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Theosophy Account Six
Ali (a) sleeps on the Prophet's bed and this is compared to Abubakr's company
with the Prophet (s) in Thur cave
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comes from God only.(1)
How nice! How nice!
In that very younghood where every young man longs for life, you never asked of life and health but life and health of your brother, the Messenger (s); when he gave you good news of his health, you fell yourself onto the ground and thanked God.
True!
It was because of this you became beloved of and dearest to the Messenger (s); he said about you:
Verily, flesh of Ali comes from mine and so does his blood.(2)
he also said about you:
For me, Ali is similar to my head as it is to my body.(3)
He frequently recommended us about you and said:
Ali comes from me and I come from him; whoever bothers him, he has bothered me.
With such great self-sacrifice, you became more endeared before God and Angels. Since night broke, you laid on the Prophet's bed until he left his house at a suitable time. The very time of that dangerous night you slept on his bed God told His dear Angels of Michael and Gabriel: Which one of you is ready to sacrifice life to the other?! None was ready to do so. God
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said: Now see how Ali Ibn Abitaleb is ready to sacrifice his life for him! (1)
True O' Amir Al-Mu'amenan!
It lasted no long at night when forty people began to besiege Muhammad's house; they peepholed the house and noticed the situation normal. At dawn, the invaders broke into house of revelation and surrounded the bed where Ali (‘a) had slept; You, O' Amir Al-Mu'amenan! Got up and told the invaders: What do you want?! They angrily cried: Where is your cousin, Muhammad?!
You bravely replied: Had you put me to guard him?! Those vicious people became infuriated because of your words and persecuted you a lot.
You, O' Amir Al-Mu'amenan!
You became willing to expose your holy body to cutting swords out of love to protect the Prophet's life; you did as such to beat all lovers of the universe and join the eternity by sacrificing your life for your beloved, the Messenger (s)! Although you survived the assassination, your sacrifice is worthy because you failed to fear danger and embraced death to defend the truth eagerly and with open arms. Such self-devotion of yours was so valuable that God Almighty lauded it in His Book and said it was done for pleasure of God: And some people sell their lives to please God and He is the most Merciful to His worshippers.(2)
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O' Amir Al-Mu'amenan!
The night when the Prophet (s) was missioned to leave Mecca and you slept on his place, the very man who, according to some histories, later claimed caliphate after him accompanied him on his way. (1)
One, in a comparison, can discover brilliance of your unparalleled faith and magnitude of your spirit. Bed of the Prophet (s) means a place waiting for swords and you are not battling sword only because if you battle sword in a war, you can defend with defensive devices and repel sword and enemy, but you, O' Amir Al-Mu'amenan! Must sleep on bed and pull cloak of the Prophet (s) over your head and show yourself with his garment to let swords land onto you so that your brother, the Messenger (s) can survive.
But the man who accompanied the Messenger (s) hid himself in the cave; despite spider webs woven on the cave door, the enemy was unlikely to see anybody in the cave. Yet, he tried to make noise to attract attention of the polytheists out of fear. For this reason, the Prophet (s) told him: Stop fearing anything!(2)
Moheboddin Tabari, Zakha'er Al-Uqba, p.88
Wahedi, Asbab Al-Nozul, vol. 1, p.42 and various other sources
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True!
At that age, you stopped being frightened by those cutting swords that wanted to tear your body apart, but the man, though being with the Prophet (s) and spider webs being woven on the cave door, failed to keep faith and continued to go on hypocrisy.
Followers of that man argue about his excellence over others when being accompanied by the Prophet (s)!! This is while you showed such self- devotion that night that God, the Praiseworthy, remains proud of it.
True!
That night when you had slept on Muhammad's bed, God revealed to Gabriel and Michael that He ordained death for one of them, saying which one of you shows sympathy and outpaces the other for death?
Both chose to live. They were revealed why they did not look like Ali Ibn Abitaleb who was put Mohammad's brother and We ordained long life for one over the other. But Ali chose death and gave priority to Muhammad's survival; he slept on his bed until he could survive?! Go protect him from
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his enemies! Both landed down, one over his head and the other down his legs, to save him from his enemies; they kept stones away from him; Gbriel told him: Bravo! You, son of Abutaleb! God remains proud of you to the Angels of Seven Heavens.(1)
Not only did you fear anything that night, but also you have always stood brilliant in self-devotedness and jihad in the course of twenty three years of Muhammad's Prophethood; you always embraced dangers and never trembled and showed weakness out of dismay.
Since your endless virtues always remained a thorn in the impure eyes of the hypocrite dissidents, they tried ever to disguise them but they ceased to do so; you kept a name and they left behind nothing but ill-fame and miserability.
One of the hypocrite dissidents and wrongdoers of the history who is one of the great men from the cursed lineage granted four thousand dinars to his sycophant and vassalageous mercenary to tell the above verse (Baqara: 207)-that is revealed by God for your self-devotion and bravery-has been sent down for the most vicious man, the first and the foremost, named Ibn Muljam Moradi-may God curse him.(2)
The wrongdoing man is the very man who with his father fought at their utmost for the atheists to destroy Islam; when they were pulled sword of Islam, they outwardly expressed to be Islamic and inwardly stayed as atheist and held vengeances through martyrdom of descendants of the Messenger (s).
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He is the one who monopolized the government and converted it into kingdom and kingcraft whimsically intended to let azan sayers think off but he himself and his malicious family faded away while ;" اشهد أن محمد رسول الله"
your brother, the Messenger (s) and his pure progeny increasingly gained honor(1)
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I certify that Pride of the Universe People (s) introduced you as his brother in this world and in the world after.
Self-devotion and self-sacrifice in the exalted path is a way chosen by the great men of history. In that young age, you having been dispossessed of the world and its belongings showed to the world people that one must sacrifice his most valuable asset that is sweet life to defend the sublimated values and assist religion of God. With two tearful eyes, you dedicated your precious life to the Messenger of God (s).
You were the most beloved of the Messenger (s) and became more endeared in his eyes! The Messenger (s) was frequently heard saying that, "call my brother, Ali!"
You were so beloved in the heart of the Messenger (s) that he introduced you as the most beloved creature of God among the Companions; when the Messenger (s) was gifted a grilled chicken, he lifted his hands up in the sky praying: O' God! Bring here the most beloved being of Thee to share this food with me! At the moment, door of his house was knocked and he said: Open the door for the most beloved of God. The door was opened to your heart-catching posture that illuminated eyes of the Messenger (s) and gladdened his pure heart. He called you on his food ceremony, saying: You are the most beloved creature of God.(1)
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Hadith of "Al-Tayr Al-Mashwi"; hadith of "Maw'akha" and hadith of "Sadd Al- Abwāb" in Sunni sources and other various issues
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When departing from Yathreb to Mecca, the Messenger (s) had stated a will to you to give back deposits of people and depart to Medina along with relatives and the Hashimite women. After the Messenger (s) departed, you stood up a high spot of Mecca and said: Whoever has put deposit something to Mohammad, he shall come and take it. (1) Those having deposited something to Mohammad appreared to take it back. Afterwards, as the Prophet (s) put it a will, accompanied by the honorable daughter of the Messenger (s), Fatima (‘a), Fatima, daughter of Zubayr, your honorable mother, Fatima, daughter of Assad as well as Muslims who had not succeeded to migrate, you headed for Medina.(2)
But spies of Quraysh were informed of your travel, they chased you and blocked your way at Dhajnan and threatened you. Women and children began to moan and you showing bravery defended haram of Islam and Muslims shouting: Whoever wants to have his body mutilated and his blood shed, he can approach us. (3) signs of anger on your holy face horrified the Quraysh agents so strongly that they had no way but surrendering and returning.(4)
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Your brother, the Messenger (s) reached Qoba village 10 km from Medina after several days of walking, where he sojourned in a house until you join him and he arrived in the city of Yathreb.(1)
True!
In those days when the Messenger (s) expected you and your co-travellers in Qoba village, citizens of Yathreb were eager for the Messenger (s) to arrive, but he stayed there in respecting you to join him.
When you arrived in the village, your feet were bleedingly wounded. The Messenger (s) was told that you had come but you had no strength to
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appear to him. The Messenger (s) immediately reached the place where you were and eagerly hugged you. When he saw your wounded feet, he began to cry much.(1)
After you had your feet healed, you joined the Messenger (s) to move towards Yathreb and you entered into the city while people enthusiastically welcomed you there.
When the Messenger (s) settled in Yathreb-which is now fortunately named Madinat Al-Nabi by virtue of his arrival ordered his Companions to erect a mosque; you too along with him and other companions accomplished construction of a small and simple mosque.
Once the simple building of mosque was completed, a number of migrants built their houses around the mosque and opened a door of their houses overseeing the mosque so that they can enter it directly from there. Several days passed in this way, sudden command reached from God that all private doors to the mosque except that of yours and the Prophet's must be closed! (2)
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This closure of doors made a fuss among a few people assuming that this is an exception familially and emotionally; in order to clarify the case, the Messenger (s) said: I swear to God! I neither closed nor opened anything, I just obeyed order of God.(1)
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True!
You were so high in rank before God that He only permitted you and the Messenger (s) to open door of your house towards the mosque, but the other doors must be kept closed.
Conclusion of pledge of brotherhood with his Companions was one of the important measures the Messenger (s) took when arriving in Medina. He was given a mandate from God to make the Helpers and Migrants set a brotherhood treaty in order to keep hearts of Muslims closer to one another; hence, one day, he told his Companions in a general gathering: Make brotherhood promise two by two religiously. (1) He then turned to Muslims and said: You become brother of the so-and-so and in this way, he announced three hundred of them to become religious brothers of each other.
When business of brotherhood came to an end, you weepingly told the Messenger (s): O' Messenger (s)! You settled promise of brotherhood among your Companions but you did not do so between me and the other one?
While smiling, he turned to you and said:
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O' Ali! I never delayed pledge of brotherhood with you unless I called you my brother; you only deserve being my brother in this world and the other world.(1)
He then opened his fragrant arms and embraced you as wide as Paradise, saying:
Two thousand years before creation of the Heavens and the earth, it was inscribed on the transom of Paradise that Mohammad is the Messenger of God and Ali is his brother.(2)
God knows when the Messenger (s) eagerly and enthusiastically hugged you, one of the most beautiful scenes of world of creation manifested itself. At that time, hearts of cordial Companions of the Messenger (s) were overfilled with joy and Angels in the Heavens flowered your name and name of the Messenger (s)-registered on the Heavens-with light and chanted Salawat (Peace may befall upon the Messenger (s) and his Progeny).
When the Messenger (s) hugged you, you smelled fragrance of his body that was more fragrant than the fountain drink of the Paradise (3) and he too
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smelled your perfumed body that was more fragrant than the nectar creek of the Paradise (1) ; this good fragrance of brotherhood between you and the Messenger (s) perfumed scent to bereaved mystics of your Pure and Infallible Progeny for ever in the world, hell, the other world and Paradise.
True!
With this brotherhood promise, the Messenger (s) wanted to make everybody realize that you are not only the most endeared of his loved ones, but also you are his partner in all ranks except Prophethood as he uttered other words about you:
O' Ali! Are you not pleased if I say your position and rank in relation to me is the same as that of Harun's in relation to Moses; the only difference is that you are not Prophet.(2)
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He also said about you:
You are from me and I am from you. (1)
And he said:
Whoever bothers Ali, he has bothered me. (2)
And he said:
Looking at your face is worship. (3)
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He cautioned your opponents and enemies that whoever passes away under enmity and racour of Ali, he has died under Jewish or Christian religion rather than Islam.(1)
And the Messenger (s) called you the great trustworthy.(2)
He further said about you:
Ali is Imam of virtuous people; he is killer of enemies of God; whoever helps him, he shall be triumphant and his ill-wishers and adversaries are downgraded.(3)
He told you:
You are my legatee in my Progeny and my caliph among my ummah. (4)
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About your endless God-given virtues, he said:
If trees turn out to be pens, seas become their ink and jinns and people take account of it, virtues of Ali Ibn Abitaleb cannot be collected.(1)
Also, he has made a pledge to your sworn enemies and deniers of your virtues and God-given position that they will be mustered on the Resurrection while they carry a ring of fire flames on their necks as God Dooms it! (2)
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I certify that you are constantly with the Truth and the Truth joins you.
The right always wins and the wrong fades away (1) in the Everlasting Words of God and your brother, the Messenger (s) announced you, in his precious words, accompany the truth and the truth constantly accompanies you:
Ali is with the Truth and the Truth with Ali; wherever Ali goes, He goes with Ali.(2)
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Theosophy Account Eight
Hadith of Ali Ma’a' Al-Haqq, in Sunni sources and various other issues
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The strongly standing way is that of yours; the strong words are those of yours; your way is the very Straight Path (1) that we, Muslims, have a duty to demand God ten times in our daily prayer service.
People are of two kinds: they either follow the right or are after the wrong; whoever chose you, he would cover the right way and whoever turned away from you, he would willy-nilly step towards the wrong that is the hell.
Those claiming that they resorted to the holy Quran and abandoned your leadership shall know that they never enjoy Words of God; your brother, the Messenger (s) said of you and your link to the holy Quran:
Ali is with the Truth and the holy Quran and the Truth and the holy Quran is with Ali and they are inseparable as long as they meet me at the Pond of Abundance.(2)
You yourself said in your bright words:
I am the speaking Quran.(3)
People of the wrong hanged the holy Qurans on spears and stood against you; a group of people were deceived by them, collapsed inside the wrong, (4) while the spirit and reality of the holy Quran remained with them.
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And now the nice, gilded and calligraphically written Qurans are being placed on spears through new ploys staged by those opposing your leadership; a group of people blindly escort them and they are negligent that the holy Quran is with you and it lies within your heart; and call of the Messenger (s) always fills the history that: O' people! Know that Ali is with the Truth and Quran and Quran and the Truth is with Ali forever.
But Alas! Many of ears look like gates and people again pursue the gilded Qurans hanged on spears despite the unending call of the Messenger (s) made at Ghadir-e-Khumm that:
Whomever I am his lord, Ali is too.(1)
And you yourself stated:
I am the very memory forgotten and the same path from which they are deviated; I am the very faith that is blasphemized and the very Quran that is forlorn; I am the religion that is being denied and the straight path from which they have turned away. (2)
You permanently called people on the Truth and trustworthiness and you behaved people tenderly like your brother, the Messenger (s); you constantly cautioned them to fear God and remember the hard Day of Judgment.
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O' people! I recommend you to seek piety that controls and strengthens you, so cling to threads of piety (Book of God and Ahl-e Bayt (a)) and seek shelter in their facts so that you would be led towards destined tranquility, lofty positions, sturdy sanctuaries and honorific homes on the day when your eyes become stared; everywhere becomes darkened to man and herds of camels and properties are forgotten because when the Day comes and Israfil's Trumpet is blown, hearts stop thumping, tongues fail to speak, lofty mountains and rocks fall down and their hard parts become soft like mirage; mountains are levelled with the ground as if there remains no ups and no downs; at this time, there is no intercessor to intercede, there is no friend to provide benefits and there will remain no apology beneficial. (1)
You then compassionately warn people of identity of this world and the other world:
O'people! This world is a place of departure and the other world remains your eternal home; therefore, save source from this transient home to your eternal home; keep yourself obedient and avoid committing sins because He always watches you. Before you leave your physical bodies, try to leave your hearts; you have been tested in this world and been created for the world after. Someone who passes away, people say: what has he left behind? But Angels say: What has he saved for future? (2)
You continued to say:
I frighten you from the mundane life because it is a place for dislocation rather than for unending survival. This world has decorated itself with pride and it deceives man with pride and beauty.
This world is a home trivial compared to Paradise because lawful (halal) is mixed with unlawful (harām) and its wells are intermeshed with ills; death lies within its life and it is tasteful and distasteful together. God never chose it for friends but He never hesitated to give it to foes. It has little reward and it is plentifully vice-incarnated. It has no accessible provisions and its property is plundered and it is no more prosperous and
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is on the verge of being destroyed. What is worth having a house whose foundations are on the verge of collapse and life of which like birth and provision comes to an end? And what pleasure is there in life that is finalized like time of journey? (1)
You are oriented to Truth and Qur'an and your words of reproaching mundane life are nothing but Words of God who deprecates mundanism in His Holy Quran:
The similitude of the life of the world is only as water which We send down from the sky, so by its mingling with the soil arises the produce of the earth of which men and cattle eat; when the earth has taken on her ornaments and is flourished and the owners of the land think that they have power over it, then Our Command suddenly by night or by day comes, and We make it [the earth] as a harvested land as though it had not been flourished the day before. Thus We expound the Words of Revelation for a people who ponder. (Yunus:24) (2)
And he has stated:
Beautiful for mankind is love of the joys [that come] from women and sons and stored up heaps of gold and silver and horses branded [with special mark] and cattle and tilth; such are the provisions of the life of this world, but with Allah is the Excellent Abode. (Al-e Imran:14) (3)
And he further stated:
[O' people] Know that the life of this world is but play and amusement, decoration and showing off among yourselves, and greed for increasing the number of children and the amount of wealth; it can be compared to
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vegetation after receiving the blessing of rain; it springs up and pleases the farmer, then it withers and turns into yellow; then it becomes dry; then it becomes straw. So in the Hereafter, there is a Severe Torment for the disbelievers [whose all struggles were focused on the worldly life] and there is Forgiveness from Allah and His Pleasure for those who did well and were the righteous. So the life of this world is only a deceiving perishable property. (Al-Hadid:20) (1)
And you again cautioned people in a startling and nicely eloquent expression to take a lesson from the dead and those lain in the graves; how death has captured them and you walk on their graves:
.... You walk on their skulls, farm on their dead bodies, eat whatever they have left behind, reside in their ruined homes and the days existing between you and them weep over you. Before you, they were plunged into death and surpassed you to reach destiny.
This is while they were ranked high in sustained honor and pride. They were ruling monarchs and exalted serfs who ultimately reached the Purgatory. The ground seized them, eating away their flesh and drinking their blood; they remained hidden in the split of graves motionless and lifeless; they neither are worried about changes and nor are fearful of quakes and of loud outcries.as if they existed and became dumb, they could hear and became deaf and they turned to become motionless. They rest as though they are fallen unconscious unto the soil and drowned into sleep.
There are neighbors who do not become familiar with one another and friends who fail to meet each other. They found dangers of the other world more horrifying than what they were fearful of and they observed its signs far greater than what they imagined.
People!
If you think of them or if everything is unveiled, you view the dead in the way that their ears have been eaten off by insects, their eyes have been
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filled with soil rather than with eyeliner, their once eloquent tongues have been torn off and their hearts in chests have tended towards silence after awakening in such a way that the whole body showed decay and has made them look ugly. Everybody is exposed to submissiveness and they have neither hands to defend nor hearts to moan.
Oh!
What endeared and good-looking bodies that lived with colorfully delicious foods and cherished by blessings were engulfed by the ground.. (1)
And you made your startling and admonitory statements when you returned from Siffin war with your companions and entered the graveyard behind Kufa gate and addressed the dead in loud voice:
O' residents of horrendous homes, evacuated places and dark graves! O' those who are lain underneath the soil;O' expatriates! O' the deserted people! O' frightened people! You left this world before we do and we come after you and we will reach you; as for your homes, there are the others who dwell in them; as for your wives. They married other men; as for your properties; they are distributed among people; this is our news, what news do you have?!
Then you turned to your companions and said:
Know that if the dead had been authorized to speak to you, they would have told you that the best source of life for the other world is piety. (2)
You always longed for guiding people and advised them to compassionately attain eternal salvation; you even advised your blind-
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hearted and sworn enemies to make ultimatum to them. You gave advice to Hend Al-Masour, the liver eater, in one of your letters written:
After remembering God and greetings, verily, God the Praiseworthy set this world for the Hereafter and tested people in this world to make it clear whoever is more benefactor. We are not created for this world and we are not ordered to make efforts for this world; we are born to be tested and verily God tested me by you and you by me and made one as a proof for the other one. You turned to the world through wrong exegesis of the Holy Quran and you ask me something that is not tainted by my hand and tongue (murder of Uthman); you and people of Sham made that falsehood and indicted me of that so that your discerning people incite the undiscerning ones against me and your resistant people provoke the grounded ones against me.
Muawiyya!
Fear God, defy the Satan that harnesses you and return to the other world that is your and my way; fear God who uproots you with crushing disaster and de-generates you. (1)
And how nicely you exhorted people with your precious words to achieve their destiny of eternal Paradise:
The Day remains ahead of you and death rests behind you, it drives you; try to be disencumbered to reach Paradise. Verily, those who reached are awaiting you to join them. (2)
God says in His Book:
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Did you think that We created you in vain and you would not be returned to Us? (1)
And He says:
We did not create the heaven and the earth and what is between them in vain; this is the thought of the disbelievers who do not see any purpose behind Allah's Creation, so woe to the disbelievers, because of the Blazing Fire of the Hell!(Saad:27) (2)
And He says:
We created Jinns and men and ordained for them to worship me [to prove the victory of the Truth over the Falsehood i.e. the victory of Allah over Satan, through the pious and the righteous worshippers] (Zariyat: 56). (3)
Oh, yes!
God the Almighty introduced goal-based system of creation and He expresses growth and perfection of men in being worshippers; you constantly pinpointed these two cases to people:
O' worshippers of God! Fear God and welcome life's final term by doing good things. God, the Praiseworthy did not create you in vain and did not leave you by yourselves, you are at close distance of reaching death between you and the heaven or the hell. (4)
Oh, yes!
Your way is the path of the Truth and straight one and your illuminating words lighten the hearts of the true faithful. You split apart darkness and remove doubts and suspicions because you always stand by the truth and truth is always yours; whoever stood with you, he was guided and gained the Eternal Paradise of God and your brother, the Messenger (s) said:
In case you find Ali as your leader and Imam, you will see he is a guide
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and leads you to the Straight Path. (1)
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I certify that your unparalleled valor and sword blade granted honor to Islam in Badr Battlte.
Badr war was the earliest major conflict erupted between Muslims and non-Muslims; in this conflict that occurred in the 2nd year of Hegira, thanks to your unparalleled courage, resistance of the Messengers Companions as well as the Invisible Reliefs of Angels, infidel troops suffered a hard defeat leaving behind seventy killed and seventy seized while they were fleeing although troops of Islam numbered one third of those of non-Muslims.
God endeared and exalted Muslims because of this victory and degraded the Quraysh infidels.
You always being the most courageous and devoted Companion among the Companions of the Messenger (s) and never fearing death and desiring to sacrifice your life for God created such scenes of courage in that bloody battle that one fails to write about it.
From the very onset of the battle, your marvelous audacity destroyed leaders of non-Muslims; your sword blade shattered skulls of non- Muslims-in which devils nested-so badly that they shouted and moaned out of pain and some yelled at each other saying:
This is Fatima, daughter of Assad who cut off your heads while he walks in health and safety and he is not killed.(1)
In that battle and thanks to your miraculous power, about half of those
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Greetings of crowds of Angels upon Amir Al-Mu'amenin (a) before Battle of Badr
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killed were sent to the hell by your sword.(1) At that time, the Quraysh infidels ran away in spite of those forces and means and accepted a humiliating defeat.
You were so endeared by God in that event that God sent down His Angels to relieve hearts of the faithful and you were the first one to be saluted by them as God had commanded.
You yourself said:
In Badr war, I was busy taking water out of well when a strong wind blew three times, like of which I had not seen before. The first one was Gabriel joined by one thousand Angels who came down to see the Messenger (s); the second one was Mikael along with one thousand Angels came at the right flank; the third one was Seraph along with one thousand Angels came at the left flank. You said that three-time strong blow of the wind meant salutation of the three groups of Angels extended to me.(2)
You yourself nicely articulated some part of this event; it reads herein to gladden your zealots:
The night before Badr war erupted, I dreamed Hazrat Khidr; I asked him to teach me a pray that can be a device for gaining victory over enemies and pagans. He said: یا من لا هو الا هو At dawn, I went to see the Messenger (s) and told him about my last night dream. The Messenger (s) said: Ali! He taught you the great name. I constantly uttered the pray on Badr day.(3)
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We managed Badr war while only few people of us has horses. That night, all Companions and Muslims were asleep except the Messenger (s) who had stood uprightly under a tree and said prayers until dawn.(1)
On Badr day, we fought a bit with the enemy; later, I came up to the Messenger (s) to see what he is up to. I saw him on prostration, saying O' God! Thou art Guardian of all beings. (2)
In Badr war, I was amazed at fearlessness and daring of the Quraysh and this was while I had killed Walid Ibn Utbah; my uncle, Hamzah had murdered Utbah and I took part in killing Shaybah (another son of Utbah). When Hanzalat Ibn Abi Sufiyan attacked me, I abruptly struck him on his head; his eyes had come out of socket; he fell down and instantly died.(3)
On Badr day when it was daylight, we and enemy troops began to step up battling and we were in close confrontation; I left the battlefield to chase and seize a man of enemy troops; at this time, I saw Sad Ibn Kheythama who was fighting with a group of polytheists. They were fighting with each other while they had been on top of a hill of sands and pebbles; Sad fell down soon as he was hit by sword of enemy and became martyred.
When the polytheist conqueror having been armed up to his ears with all kinds of armor and iron and while being on horse saw me, he knew me,
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rode off his horse and called me by my name, saying O' Son of Abutalib! Come ahead to raise a battle together. I neared him and so did he. Because I was shorter than him and he was standing on top of hill, I dragged backward to make a relative equality; the wretched man found this act of mine as a way of fearing and runaway and said: O' son of Abutalib! Are you running away? I said I go back and I come back soon. When I could solidify my footsteps and make myself poised for battle, he tried to strike me, but I repelled it; his sword came in touch with my shield and while he was trying to make it free, I hit him on his shoulder and this made him heavily shiver and his armor broke apart. I guessed he is killed as a result of being wounded by that strike; I suddenly noticed shining light of sword from my behind. I quickly dodged my head down and the sword landed onto head of the infidel whose skull and his helmet jumped into the air; somebody said: Take it from me, son of Abdulmutallib! I found him my uncle, Hamzah and the murdered man is Tuaymat Ibn ‘Adi.(1)
O' yes, Amir Muamenan!
You created marvels in that battle and the Messenger (s) and Heavenly Angels stood proud of you. You hoisted banner of honor and monotheism over the dead bodies of atheists. By murdering Muawiyya's kin as earlier said, you broke backbones of the vicious family leaders.
Later, you wrote a letter to Muawiyya by referring to the incidence. O' Muawiyya! The sword that landed onto your forefather (Utbah), your uncle (Walid) and your brother (Hanzalah) in Badr war is kept by me now! (2)
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The Prophet (s), in that battle, had handed the banner to you and this was while banner of atheist troops was held by the same father and son. (1)
You raised jihad with enemies and killed them on the Path of God. When the hypocrite dissidents ruled by ignorant thoughts found that their relatives had been killed by you, they spurred grudge against you; after demise of the Messenger (s), when they learned that there are favorable circumstances for revenge, they stopped you from going on your inalienable right and martyred your children in return for revenge of those who had been killed in Badr.
But the Prophet (s) earlier had stated about you: Ali remains as Imam of the good people and killer of enemies of God; those who give him help are triumphant and those ill-wishers are degraded. (2)
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I certify that the most auspicious and blessed bond in the universe was your marriage concluded between you and the honorable daughter of the Messenger (s).
In the eyes of the Messenger of God (s), the dearest people were two ones. One is his dear and respectful daughter, Fatima Zahra (a) about whom he said:
Fatima is an integral part of my body; whoever gladdens her, he shall gladden me and whoever saddens her, he shall sadden me; Fatima is the dearest of all to me (1)
And he also said:
Verily, Fatima is an indispensable part of my existence; she is apple of my eye and fruit of my heart; what saddens her saddens me too; what gladdens her gladdens me too. (2)
And O' Ali! He frequently said about you:
Ali is from me and I am from Ali. (3)
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Hadiths about the dignity and rank of Amir Al-Mu'amenin (‘a), Fatima (‘a) and Mahdi (a) cited from the Sunni sources
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And he furthered:
Whoever bothers Ali, he shall bothers me.(1)
There appeared various men to propose marriage to sweetheart daughter of the Messenger (s), but all of them were rejected because none of them was qualified and in the same rank with her-who was Infallible and Divine Gift to the Messenger (s).
On behalf of God, the Prophet (s) was given a mission to tell the suitors that marriage of Fatima (a) must be concluded by the order of God; the Companions of God also realized that marriage of Fatima (a) is not an easy case and anyone even having a good material and spiritual situation cannot marry her unless one man who is beloved before the Messenger (s).
And you, O' lord!
You took a chance to grant an audience to the Messenger (s); you were filled with bashfulness, you held your head down as though you wish to say something but you were ashamed of putting it forth!
The honorable Prophet (s) made you talk and you conveyed your intent in brief sentences. He deeply stared at you and agreed to your request with a smile, saying: You keep waiting until I raise the issue to my daughter. When the Messenger (s) told his daughter about your proposal for marriage, Zahra (a) kept silent. The Prophet (s) stood up and said:
God is great! Silence of my daughter means her pleasure. (2)
O' yes!
Seddiqa Kobra (a) agreed to marry you because nobody but you deserved marrying the Lady of the Two Worlds. Zahra (a) deserved you and so did
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you. This was something the Heavenly Angels knew well too as your name and hers had been engraved with light on the Divine Throne as two Immaculate Couples.
O' yes!
The Prophet (s) married his part of existence to you as God had ordered him to do so:
Marry the light to light.(1)
And you and Fatima (a) concluded your marriage at the presence of the Heavenly Angels.
At that time, you had not much of the worldly things except sword and armor; you were missioned from God to sell your armor and procure wedding things and costs. With full sincerity, you sold your armor and brought the money for the Prophet (s); the Prophet (s) gave some of the money to Bilal and Ammar without counting it so that they could supply his daughter with some amounts of perfume and life necessaries. They began to buy small amounts of things which were in fact dowry of his daughter and brought them to the Messenger (s). (2)
You and Fatima (a) started your joint life with those small things. In the night of your marriage, the Prophet (s) escorted his daughter up to your house and when he wanted to leave and leave you alone, he put his daughters hand in yours and prayed:
O' God! This is my daughter and the most beloved of all people to me; O’ God!Ali too is the most respectful Muslim to me; O' God! Keep their bonds strong and firm! (3)
When the Messenger(s) left your house and you both were together, you found your dear and honorable wife anxious and worried, telling her,O'
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daughter of the Prophet (s)! "What is your anxiety for?!”
Zahra (a), the Light of God and Intercessor of the Day, said to you that:
O' Ali!
I thought of my mood and condition and I remembered end of my life and my burial place; I recalled entry into grave when I moved from my father's house to mine!
O' Ali!
For God's sake, to begin our joint life, come join me to stand up for prayer and worship God from dusk to dawn.(1)
And you with your honorable wife began to pray until dawn and your house became the descent place of groups of Angels and blessing of light of you and Fatima (a).
O' yes!
Your house was overfilled with illumination until dawn and Angels sprayed scent of God in the sky with their wings by coming down to your house.
The universe had never seen and will never see such a blessed marriage. You and Zahra (a) were two vast divine seas which were linked by God through the Messenger (s).(2) The marriage generated an endeared and
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auspicious man like Seyyed Al-Shuhada (a) whose sacred blood resuscitation of religion is indebted to.
And your dear descendant, the Promised Mahdimay Allah hasten his emergence is one of the blessings of such divine marriage; he will emerge and spread across the universe justice by call of truth and your Zulfiqar sword; he is the one whose blessed emergence had been heralded by the Messenger (s).(1)
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I certify that following your self-sacrifice for protecting life of the Messenger (s) in Ohud war Gabriel heralded: There exists no chivalrous man but Ali and no sword but Zulfiqar!
In Badr war where the Quraysh infidels were faced with heavy and humiliating defeat mainly through your bravery decided to take revenge to compensate for it and to rehabilitate their lost prestige; henceforth, all atheist leaders of the Quraysh agreed to expend the merchandise Abu Sufiyan had transferred safely to Mecca in Badr war for avenging the Messenger (s) and Muslims. (1)
Army of polytheism made up of three thousand warring men with various horses and plenty of military equipment commandeered by Abu Sufiyan departed to Medina.
The Quraysh corps reached hillside of Uhud mount on 5th of Shawwal, 3rd of Hegira.
The Prophet (s) arrived in Uhud region while being accompanied by less than one thousand warriors. The Prophet (s) tied three banners; he handed banner of Muhajiran and gave banners of Aws and Khazraj tribes to two people from their own tribes. (2)
Your brother, the Messenger (s) handed Lawa, the greatest banner, to Musab Ibn Umayr and after he was martyred, he gave it to you; in that battle, both banners of Līwā' and Right were in your strong hands. (3)
Of course, in all battles, you were standard-bearer of army of Islam. (4)
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Theosophy Account Eleven
Courage of Imam Ali (‘a) in Uhud battle, runaway of Abubakr, Omar and Uthman from the battle cited from Sunni sources
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The polytheists deployed their forces and handed the flag to Talḥat Ibn Abi Talha and sent him to the frontline of corps. (1)
The Messenger (s) also set array to his army and stationed fifty archers led by Abdullah Ibn Jubayr atop of Uhud Mount, greatly emphasizing that: Repel back enemy horsemen by shooting arrows so that they might not attack from backside; whether we win or lose, you stand firm wherever you are stationed.(2)
But I wish that group had listened to what the Prophet (s) told them to do and would not have left their very important post on the move for booties, thus leading decisive triumph of Muslims to loss of battle.
At the outset of battle, Talhat Ibn Abi Talha-standard-bearer of the atheist army yelled: "Who intends to fight with me?"
With a lion-like roaring, you replied to him: Son of Abitalib is ready to fight with you. After that, you entered into the battle field by uttering Takbir, God is Great, and you confronted him; before he could attack you, you preempted and split in half his head up to his beard striking him strongly, so he fell on the ground. (3)
When the standard-bearer of the atheist army was killed by you, the army was filled with dismay. After Talha was killed, his brother took the flag and joined the battle and he was also sent to the hell by your uncle, Hamza.
Standard-bearers of the atheist army one after another were murdered you as you continued to chivalrously fight with them. Later on, you contentiously told the man who had claimed your right:
Is there anyone among you but me who had killed nine of Bani Abd Al-Dar in Uhud war, each one handing flag to the other until their slave man, Sawab Jawshami came to the battlefield? He used to say: I swear to God I kill no one else but Mohammad in return for my masters. He had bulged cheeks and reddened eyes; you were afraid of him and you moved away;
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as he neared me, he looked like a steady dome. We exchanged two strikes and I chopped him in half.'
When standard-bearers of the infidel army one after another were killed by you, they found their army defeated and ran away by leaving behind a large number of arms. (1)
Muslims once found themselves victors of the battle, they began to collect booties in relief with no concern to return of the enemy; you were beside the Messenger (s) lest the enemy might dauntlessly counterattack you with a new plot and jeopardize life of the Prophet (s).
Khalid Ibn Walid, one of the enemy commanders, attempted a lot to storm Muslims from the backside, but those fifty people began to shoot arrows to stop him and his forces passing through. When archers-excluding a few of ten people- all guessing they have won the battle came down the mount to take the lead of others on collecting booties of war, Khalid Ibn Walid accompanied by a great number of troops raided Muslims and martyred those ten people and marched into heart of army of Islam in search for booties.
At this time, Muslims were attacked by the enemies from the front and back sides and army of Islam broke apart. Umrah, daughter of Alqamah took advantage of such situation and retook the fallen flag of the Quraysh, calling back fugitives of war to resist and stand. The runaway forces came back to the battlefield when seeing the hoisted flag and re-organized their troops and besieged Muslims.(2)
In the meantime, a man called Abdullah Ibn Qamiah Leythi who wanted to kill the Prophet (s) killed Musab Ibn Umayr, resembling Mohammad (s) when he wore armor and shouted: I killed Mohammad!
Rumor spread on murder of the Messenger (s) entirely disordered Muslim forces, sapped morale of them and they escaped scene of battle.(3)
A group of them fled to reach Medina and entered the town; women poured dust on them, telling them: You escaped and abandoned the Prophet (s)!
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A large number of others ran off to Mount of Uhud while they had nowhere to go; some people stayed with the Messenger (s) there.(1)
The Messenger (s) called those running away but nobody even looked back; all of them were fleeing. (2)
God refers to this runaway, saying in His Book:
[And remember] When you ran away, [leaving the battlefield] climbing up the hillside without even casting a glance at anyone; and the Messenger(s) was calling you from your rear. There did Allah give you distress one after another to teach you not to grieve for [the booty] that had escaped you, nor for that which had befallen you. And Allah is the Well-aware of all that you [men] do (Al-e Imran153).(3)
In that scuffle, a number of infidels took oath together to unanimously attack the Prophet (s) and kill him. But you, O Ali!
In that conflict, you never moved even one step backward and you showed such a courage to protect life of the Prophet (s) that people of the earth and the heaven became astonished!
You in that hard-fought campaign circled around the Prophet (s) as one hundred lions and struck back blows from him, killing the raiders. When a group of Bani Kinanah tribe and another group of Bani Abd Manat among whom there were four well-known warriors attacked the Messenger (s), you began to stand against them, killed their heroes and dispersed others. At this moment, your brother, the Prophet (s) said: Ali is from me and I am from Ali; there was instantly a voice from the heavens heard as:
لا فتى إلا على و لا سيف إلا ذوالفقار !
Once more, fifty people of infidels collectively raided the Prophet (s) and you cried out and infiltrated into them, killing a number of them and the
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rest ran off; the heavenly call filled the sky again:
لا فتى إلا على و لا سيف إلا ذوالفقار !
In the meantime, Gabriel told the Messenger (s): Truly, Ali sacrifices himself and the Angels have become amazed at his self-sacrifice; the Messenger (s) said: Why should n't this be as such? Ali is from me and I am from him!
On that day, a voice was frequently heard from the sky, saying:
لا فتى إلا على و لا سيف إلا ذوالفقار !
And the speaker of voice was invisible. The Messenger was asked who the speaker was. He said: It is Gabriel.(1)
You sacrificially fought and defended the Prophet (s) while your body was plunged in blood as a result of wounds and injuries, but you only thought of saving the life of Muhammad (s). How surprising!
The very people who later claimed to be in your position were among the first ones leaving battle because they feared their life might be in danger and ran away. Although they heard call of the Messenger (s) as O' Muslims! Stop fleeing, they were heedless to the call and escaped. (2)
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But you roared like a lion and defended the Messenger (s) in that totally unequal battle while you suffered over sixty wounds.(1)
Recurrent shouts of the Messenger (s), your unparalleled valor as well as resistance of several Companions of him made groups of Muslims who had run away return and pull back the infidels and move the Prophet (s) to
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a safe place.
In this battle, about seventy Muslims including Hamza, the Messengers uncle were martyred.
The Quraysh atheists finding themselves conquerors of war and on the other hand, fearing that army of Islam might be re-organized under strategies of the Prophet (s) and enter the battlefield again, went back to Mecca, claiming twenty eight people dead.
Over twelve out of twenty eight people were killed with your sword, Zulfiqar.(1)
When you and the Messenger (s) returned to Medina from Uhud battlefield, Fatima (a) rushed to welcome her father while holding a bowl of water and washed her fathers blood-filled face; when you entered with Zulfiqar in your hand and your hand up to shoulder soaked in blood, saying to her:
O' Fatima!
Take this sword that is not to blame; I am neither feared nor blamed.
I swear to my life! I hastened to help Mohammad as much as I could and acted to obey God who is All-aware of the worshippers.
Cleanse the sword off enemy's blood, the sword which forced the family of enemy standard-bearers to drink fire of hell.(2)
The Messenger (s) said at this time:
O' Fatima!
Take this sword because your husband did what it deserved and he
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murdered the ruffians of Quraysh with it.(1)
Afterwards, the Prophet (s) ordered Umma Salama and Umme ‘Ațiyya to heal your wounds; they came to see the Prophet (s) and said: We heal every one of his wounds, but he has other wounds open and we are worried about his life The Messenger (s) with other Muslims paid a visit to you while you were badly injured and lain on the ground; Hazrat Mohammad touched your wounds with his hand to recover them, saying:
Verily, a man who is faced with hardship on the path of God has undoubtedly made his effort and he is excused.
You said at that time:
I praise God that I did not run away and resisted the enemy.(2)
And you added later:
But what a pity that I was deprived of grace of martyrdom!
Your brother told you:
You hopefully embrace it.(3)
O' yes!
You once more left a good name, were victorious in hard divine test and ceased to fear death; you sacrificed your life to your friend and became more beloved to the Messenger (s) and this was while a number of claimants were disgraced in divine trial.
You surprised the Heavenly Angels; they looked at you from above and praised your courage in bravo; Gabriel, the Trustee had become so overwhelmed with your self-devotion that his call was frequently heard in لا فتى إلا على و لا سيف إلا ذوالفقار ! : the heavens and earth
People turned to this and that and we are proud that our Imam is Ali (a).
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I certify that the sun has spoken of your virtues and has been humble to your rank.
God the Almighty created man with the highest rank,(1) placed him His noblest and granted him esteem.(2)
And from among men, He chose people who are decorated with His Traits and Proof over people and creatures.
And God the Almighty conquered the earth and the heavens and made it obedient to His Proof.(3)
Proof of God interferes with existence as to His Approval; and that the universe is obedient to him.
Jesus (a) who was Proof of God inhaled into muddy bird statuette giving life to it and relived a dead buried in the grave.(4)
And you, O Amir Al-Mu'amenin (a)!
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Theosophy Account Twelve
Hadith of "Radd Al-Shams" in Sunni sources
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After your brother, the Messenger (s), you are lord of all Proofs of God; the earth, the heavens, time and the sun are conquered by you.
How nicely the Messenger (s) said about you:
In the seventh heavens, Ali looks like the sun in the earth during the day and in the sky of universe, he resembles the moon during the night.
And he said:
God has bestowed Ali share of excellence that if divided among people of the earth, it encompasses all; He has granted share of understanding thatif distributed among people of the earth, it includes all.
And he added:
Ali possesses a name that is inscribed on each veil of Paradise; my God has given me the good news.(1)
You are superior creature of God; you are Proof of God; you are perfect man and you are manifestation of Divine Names and Attributes!
In validated books, I read a virtue of you that primarily amazed me and that is salutation of the shining sun of God extended to you; but later, I told myself that it is not surprising; our lord, Ali (a) has subjugated the universe and the sun speaking with him is merely a little portion of his magnitude and rank and the sun, humble being of God, has confessed to it.
Abuzar Ghaffari, the sincere and trustworthy Companion of the Messenger (s) says that your brother, the Messenger (s) told you one night. Tomorrow, go up to Baqi'a mounts and stand on a highland; when the sun rises, send salutation to it; God has ordered it to answer you with the traits you have.
Tomorrow, you came out while you were accompanied by a number of Migrants and the Helpers-who claimed your right after demise of the Messenger (s). Followed by companions in the way, you reached Baqi'a and stood up a high place; the very instance the sun began to rise, you saluted it, saying: Peace be upon you that are new creature of God and His obedient being! A voice heard from the heavens said: Peace be upon you who are the first, the last, the outward and the inward and the one who is
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all-aware of all things!
When his comrades heard what the sun had said went unconscious; after several hours, they came on while you had gone far.
All of them went to see the Messenger(s), telling him: You say Ali is a man like us; but the sun addressed him with the words by which God has addressed Himself!(1) The Messenger (s) told them: What did you hear from it? They said we heard the sun say Peace be upon you, O the first!
The Messenger (s) said: It is true; he is the first one to believe in me.
They said: We heard it saying O' the last! The Messenger (s) replied: It is true; he is the last one to renew meeting with me; he gives me burial ablution, clothes me in shroud and buries me.
They said we heard the sun saying O' the Outward! The Messenger (s) told them: all of my knowledge has appeared to him.
They said: We heard it saying O' the Inward! Your brother replied to them: It is true; all my secrets lie within his Inward.
They said: We heard it saying O the one who is all-aware of all things. The Messenger (s) said: It is true; He is aware of haram and halal, the obligatory and permissible things and the like.
As the Messenger (s) finished what he said about your virtues and ranks- to which the Sun confessed, they stood up and said:
Mohammad drew us to darkness! They later left the mosque(2)
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O' yes!
Divinely shining Sun confessed to your status and truthfulness, but regret belongs to those who do not believe your greatness and resorted to those who kept far away from the Straight Path.
And the other virtue of yours-denoting humbleness of the Sun by Allah's Leave before you-lies in the story that goes below:
Both in books of your followers and those opposing your caliphate and executorship, Asma Bint Amis has said a lot:
The Messenger (s) performed noon prayer at Şahba of Kheybar territories; he sent you after something and when you came back, the Messenger (s) had said afternoon prayer.
Later on, he put his head on your lap and went to sleep as late as the sunset. For his respect, you were seated in the same way while you had not said your noon prayer; as the Messenger (s) woke up and noticed your condition, he prayed to God as such. O' God! Your worshipper, Ali restrained himself for his Prophet, Thou rise back the sun for him.
Asma Bint Amis witnessing the condition says: The Sun suddenly began to rise again and covered up the mountains. And you stood up, made ablution, and performed your noon prayer and the sun set back.(1)
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O' yes!
These are ranks God has granted you because you were the purest; you were the most challenging man; you were the most self-devoted in the way of resuscitating the truth and exalting the word of monotheism; you were many other things we do not know but God and His Messenger (s) is aware of!
Salman Farsi quotes the Messenger (s) saying that:
I would have told about Ali something that people would have kneeled down on the ground to kiss his footprints,(1) if there had not been my ummah going on extremes as Christians had done about Jesus Christ.
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I certify that your braveness on Khandaq day surpassed worship of jinn and Ens as late as the Day.
Since its early times, Islam has interwoven with your support and unparalleled valor. Banner of honorific religion of God has always been hoisted in your qualified hands and enemies of religion of truth have plunged into their blood in the face of your sturdy steps, divine arms and blade of your Zulfiqar.
Among the sincere Companions of the Messenger (s), there was no one but you who constantly stood in all hard battlefields and experiments, hero, victor, proud and could gain pride of Islam, cheerful heart of the Messenger (s) and pride of the heavenly Angels.
One of the extremely important and fateful trials facing Muslims was battle of Khandaq (Ahzab).
In 5 A.H, various anti-Islam parties and groups including the Quraysh pagans and those of other clans and Jews who were endangered in their benefits by virtue of progress of Islam united to launch an all-out anti- Islam conflict; being equipped with ten thousand forces and abundant facilities, they eventually could depart to Medina to fight with Muslims and whimsically destroy Islam.
Once your brother, Mohammad (s) was informed of enemy troops moving to Medina, he sat with his Companions to consult about how to counter with the enemies; in that sitting, proposal of your sincere companion and the Messengers, that is Salman Farsi was approved. He proposed that a deep and high trench (Khandaq) be dug to stop enemy infiltrating into Medina. You and other Companions of the Prophet (s) finished digging trench. The huge army of enemy approached and stopped before the trench and a number of others beleaguered Medina.(1)
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Theosophy Account Thirteen
Courage of Ali in Khandaq Battle cited from Sunni sources
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Here, many Muslims were frightened from excessive number of enemy forces and some stumbled in doubt in connection with divine promises that are victory of the right against wrong.
God the Almighty says in His Book in this regard:
O' believers! Remember the gift God granted to you when an army of disbelievers assembled against you; We sent a strong wind and an army (of the Angels) unseen to help you and God was aware of your deeds. Remember when the army of disbelievers attacked you from up and down and you were amazed out of fear, you choked your throat of life and made different imaginations about Promises of God.
There, believers passed a trial and (the weak-faith people) showed instability. And at that time, the hypocrite dissidents and those with doubtful hearts told each other the promise God and His Messenger kept with us was only a pride and deceit. Then, a group of them said: O'people of Yathrib! You should no longer stay in Medina; you should return. A group of them asked the Messenger to allow them to return, saying that our homes have no wall and safety whereas they told a lie and they intended to flee. And if army of Aḥzāb had arrived in the city, they would have fulfilled their demand to join atheism. This is while they had made a pledge to God to remain loyal to Promise of God and never turn back on war. (1)
O' Amir Mu'amenan (a)!
You not only stood unterrified from multiplicity of enemy troops and remained quite decisive for materializing divine promises of victory of the faithful people; but also you showed more tolerance and determination to
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defend religion of the truth; God says about you and sincere Companions of the Messenger (s) who brought a good name in that hard trial:
And when the faithful people witnessed army and forces of atheism, they said: This is the Promise God and His Messenger kept to us beforehand (that the right wins the wrong); God and His Messenger told the truth and nothing but faith and obedience was raised.(1)
God the Almighty suppressed the atheists in the battle. They failed to pass through trench and remained behind some days; in the meantime, a stormy wind as ordered by God began to blow and ruined camps of the atheists; filled their hearts with serious horror and intimidation and sent the Invisible Forces of the Angels to help Muslims. Besides, murder of their so-called champion, Amru Ibn-e Abduwad by you, O' Ali! Added to their horror and the pagans unable to do anything began to flee.
O' yes!
Your unique courage caused the enemy to lose morale and think of returning to Mecca.
Division of parties had called upon the most powerful Arab gallants to join the war, among whom Amru Ibn-e Abduwad and four others put on combat garment and jumped off the other side of trench with their horses through a small pass off trench inaccessibly far from Islamic troops; they appeared to army of Islam and Amru Ibn-e Abduwad was the most well-known among them.
Out of five people there, he came close to you in defiance; he instantaneously heightened his voice and began to roar, boasting to fight all around the battlefield. Amru's incessant roars frightened Muslims so badly that they were frozen with no reaction whatsoever.(2)
Silence of Muslims increased his venture and said: Who are claimants of
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Paradise? Do you not say that your dead go to Paradise and ours go to Hell? Is there no one ready to send me to Hell or I send him to Paradise?!
Here, he recited his known poems:
I shouted so much to ask somebody among you to fight with me and my voice is muffled!
I am standing at a place where pseudo-heroes are afraid to stand before warring heroes!
True! It is the best instinct for chivalrous men to be honorable and courageous!(1)
Here, the Messenger (s) commanded someone rise up and get Muslims the hell rid of this man; but nobody save you was prepared to fight with him.
O' yes!
Every time Amr ventured to yell for defiance, it was only you who would rise up, asking the Prophet (s) for permitting you to fight with him; yet, he disagreed.
This continued to be repeated several times and the last time you asked for permission of fight, the Prophet (s) told you: This is Amru Ibn-e Abduwad. And you told him: I am Ali!(2)
Finally, the Messenger (s) agreed; he handed Zulfiqar to you, put you on with turban and prayed for you in this way:
O' God! Protect him on the front side, backside, from left side, from right side, from up and down.(3)
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The whole Islam has stood against the whole blasphemy.(1)
What the Messenger (s) said well showed that victory of one over another was victory of blasphemy over faith or faith over blasphemy; in other words, it was a challenge fateful enough to determine future of Islam and paganism.
You quickly rushed to the battlefield while you were reciting these poems in response to Amru's:
Stop hastening that the powerful response to your call came along!
The one who has pure intention, favorable insight and honesty that salvages every strong man.
I hope I make elegiac chanters chant beside your stiff; as a result of open strike sound of which remains even after war and echoes everywhere.(2)
You quickly footed towards Amru and when you came face to face with him, you said: You had promised yourself that you accept one of the three things a man from Quraysh asks you.
Amru replied: Yes. It's true.
You told him: My first demand is that you embrace Islam!
Amru said: Forget about this demand.
You told him: You can overlook war, go back from here and leave others to deal with Mohammad!
He replied: Quraysh women never speak of such thing (they will not be pleased); I have taken vows not to grease my head until I take revenge of
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muhammad.
You courageously told him: So ride off your horse for battle!
Amru replied: I guess no Arab demands me as such; I don't like you being killed by me because your father was a friend of mine; go back, you're quite young!(1)
You powerfully and courageously told him: I like to kill you!
Amru was infuriated about what you said, rode off his horse, cut off his horses foot and launched assail on you.
A hard fight erupted; both came in grips with each other and the air was filled with dusty particles with no good visibility. Those watching the fight had no information about you and Amr; they only heard swords striking defensive tools such as shield and the like.
Amr found a chance and hit you hard on your head but you struck back his blow with shield; the shield broke in half and your head partly split leading to blood rolling your holy beard.
This instance you took the chance to blow him hard and he was knocked down. Dust in the battlefield stopped both armies closely see the outcome of the battle; all of a sudden, there was chant of Takbir. Army of Islam cried out in joy and everybody understood that you sent the great Arab hero to the hell!(2)
While bleeding on your head, you slowly but surely went back to army camp and you were smiling for your win; headless body of Amru Ibn-e
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Abduwad laid on the corner of the battlefield. You murdered the well- known Arab champion and army of Ahzab and their desires endured irreparable blows; it was a blow that sapped their morale and filled them with despair of winning. For this reason, the Messenger (s) told you about unparalleled job:
If what you have done is compared with what ummah has done today, it surpasses them because no house of pagans houses remained unless it was degraded with murder of Amr and no house of Muslims houses remained unless it was honored.(1)
And he furthered:
Battle of Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib with Amru Ibn-e Abduwad on Khandaq war excels actions of my ummah until the Day comes.(2)
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Philosophy of such statement is obvious because Islam and the Quran that day were apparently on the verge of abyss, spending the most critical times; someone who showed the utmost sacrifice in the battlefield, protected Islam from threat and guaranteed its perpetuity until the Day was you, O Ali!
And Islam took roots from being blessed by your sacrifice after your brother, the Messenger (s) and embellished the world people; therefore, public worship is indebted to your courage.
True! Many were shaken with fear and became enfeebled in that divine trial but you stood highest of all before God and His Messenger; the heavenly Angels gemmed you with flowers again and extended well-done to you.
The history also says that when Amrs sister reached at the body of her killed brother and saw that his expensive armor was still on with him, she saidI confess that his killer has been an honorable man.(1)
You never breached pledge with God and you constantly stood to firmly sublimate word of monotheism; you mostly aspired to sacrifice your life for religion of God.
God says in His Word of Revelation:
There are among the believers many men who have been true to the covenant they made with Allah; of them some have submitted their souls in martyrdom and there are some who are waiting to join their brothers in Paradise and they have not in the least changed their mind about their covenant; (Aḥzāb:23)(2)
And you yourself said that:
We have been sent down the above word of revelation and I swear to God I am the one who expects to be martyred. [And there are men like Hamzah who had previously been martyred] and I never change my policy and keep
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my pledge with God.(1)
You annihilated Arab great men in Badr battle; in Uhud battle where many fearing their life left the Prophet (s) alone, you audaciously defended the Messenger (s). In that unequal battle where you were bodily wounded, you never hesitated to fight and this was while many claiming to be faithful and resistant climbed up the mount like a goat and ran away from battle scene.(2)
And in this battle of Aḥzab, although Amru Ibn-e Abduwad roared and insulted Muslims, you only obeyed the Messenger's command and stood up to him; those claimants either ran away home or hid themselves behind the Messenger (s)!
O' lord! Others turned to other than you and we are proud that you are our lord!
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I certify that you divide Paradise and Hell on the Day.
What can I say about you and you are higher than description I give you! The Heavenly people have dazzling eyes at your unexampled status and grandeur and what can we the earthly beings, say of you?
In this world, insincerely knowledge-free people failed to recognize you; but God the Exalted reveals your grandeur on the Resurrection Day.
And there, people and deniers of you understand who Ali is!
In this world, you were denied by many people; you were tormented a lot and your pure family was martyred but on the Day, you are the only who can do everything upon Gods Leave. God grants a status exclusive to you as a reward for your purely unique faith and your unexampled and amazing valor and sacrifice to destroy atheism and sublimate word of monotheism.
O' yes!
It is only devoted to you and you are divider of Paradise and Hell for all people from the first to the last.
The Messenger (s) frequently stated Ali divides Paradise and Hell on the Day. Nobody he said can enter Paradise and Hell unless Ali divides it.
And he repeatedly told you: O' Ali! You divide Paradise and Hell among people on the Day; nobody enters Paradise but those mystics who have learned about your status and nobody enters Hell but those who have denied and defied you.
And you yourself repeatedly said: I am divider of Paradise and Hell.(1)
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Hadith of "Ali divides Paradise and Hell" in Sunni sources, an explanation and the other various issues
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This speech is so gravely made that human intellect cannot figure out its deep sense. This statement made by the Messenger (s) represents that the Resurrection is kept in your hands upon God's Leave. Good for those mystics of yours and your rightful followers who take benefit from divinely eternal Paradise.
Your brother, the Messenger of God (s) was told: O' Messenger of God! Do we need permission to get rid of fire of Hell?
Hadrat stated:Yes. And that is love of Ali Ibn-e Abitalib.(1)
At this time, one of the wives of the Messenger(s) who began to blame you, the Messenger (s) told: Stop bothering my brother; as he is Commander of the Faithful, lord of Muslims and master of worshippers on
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the Day; he sits at the Path on the Day, letting his friends enter the Paradise and his enemies into Hell.(1)
O' yes!
God grants honor and high status to whoever He wants; He has granted you honor and high status. He is Omniscient and others not; He Wills and Does everything and hardly ever can any creature stand against His Will!
True! The Resurrection Day, arena of resurrection remains in your hands and you divide Paradise and Hell for people.
As for your enemies and those who deny you as Imam!
With this statement made, your enemies, who can hardly bear hearing your holy name, should shatter their own heads by striking them to the wall!!
And deniers of your divine caliphate and Imamate; those whose affection of others is deeply rooted in their hearts and can hardly hear such virtue of yours should die of grief! (2).
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and those wicked followers (1) who are now committing crimes in the name of Islam, saying that your followers are infidels and amputate them(2), young and old, only because of approach to God in a series of bomb attacks at the mosques should hang themselves up as the Messenger (s) stated about your Shiite followers that they win salvation on the Day.(3)
And you and your pure Ahl-e Bayt are the very Companions of the Paradise as God has said: They recognize the believers by their countenances and give them good news of Paradise; you and your family separate the truthful believers from others and let them enter Paradise upon God's Leave.(4))
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And when, on the Day, letters of acts of people are opened and the truthful believers-who are your followers-open their letters of acts in this world, love and affection are the most brilliant and outstanding acts extended to you; the Messenger (s) said in this regard:
Among the most salient acts in the track record of the believers on the Day are love and kindness dedicated to Ali Ibn Abiṭālib.(1)
Your brother, the Messenger (s) is the most superior being of God's Creatures as well as a blessing for the universe and you too remain under his auspices as to divine ranks; Hadrat said to you one day:
O' Ali! People are from different trees and you and I are from one tree. (2).
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And He also said:
Verily, God has assigned Ali, his wife and children as His Proofs for the creatures and they are opening doors of knowledge for my ummah. Whosoever is guided by them, he shall be moving along the Straight Path.(1).
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This is to certify that you brought increased honor for Islam with the Conquest of Khaybar and filled the Messenger(s)s heart with joy!
Whoever reads the history of early Islam, he shall observe that the greatest courage and self-devotedness for sublimating the word of monotheism and religion of God has been shown by you after the Messenger (s). You have always been pride of Islam and expectation of the Messenger (s).
Your holy name always shook bodies of heroic infidels and loud outcry of Takbir, God is great, you chanted in the battlefield filled hearts of champions of infidel troops with horror.
You stood as Gods Lion and the archetypical hero across battle scenes of the right against the wrong; you stood firm on your exalted aim and ceased to turn your back on enemy as you stated in your epical words; verily, I have never run away from battlefield and jihad and I streamed blood of the one who came to fight with me. (1)
You accompanied the Messenger (s) in all battlefields and you held banner of Islam in one hand and your unsheathed Zulfiqar in another hand so that you could recklessly strike apart heads of infidel leaders; afterwards, infidels would run away out of fear with their banners and weapons left behind.
And you made illuminating statements about yourself. I am a companion and brother of Gods Messenger; I am a pioneer in Islam; I break apart idols; I fight with the atheists and subvert enemies of religion.(2)
You joined the Messenger (s) in all battles and you kept banner of the
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Messenger (s) in your hands in all wars.(1)
The Messenger (s) was asked who would hold your banner on the Day. He said: Who can be better than the one holding it in the world; that is my brother, Ali Ibn Abitaleb.(2)
Your continued courage brought great pride of Islam which remains to be recorded under your name, O Lion of God Forever!
You carry nicknames of Khaybar Conqueror, Khaybar opener and Khaybar breaker.
O yes!
You on an unspeakable battle brought the fortified fortress of enemies of Islam into control of army of Islam in Khaybar and the Messenger (s) became joyful in his heart.
Before your battle in Khaybar, the Prophet (s) dispatched a number of people along with some combatants to conquer Khaybar, but they were defeated and came back; the Prophet (s) mandated you to conquer highly accessible and fortified stronghold of Khaybar. You created an epic in that battle which will persist in the history of Islam. By killing the hero and generalissimo of Jews named Marhab Hemayri, his brother, Yasser and several other heroes of Jews and by showing divinely supernatural power of jumping across trench, pulling off the giant and heavy door of castle and immediate destroying all resistances, you overfilled hearts of Khaybar enemies with so much horror that they were withdrawn any power of defense and were forced to unequivocal surrender. With such great conquest, Islamic state gained enormous wealth, property and armament and Muslims were relieved from distress.(3)
It was after this great conquest that morale of Muslims came to become strengthened and they could conquer Mecca and dominate Islam over all across Arabian Peninsula. )
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What comes below is detailed account of this great conquest and your unparalleled courage, which is recorded in the most authentic books of the Islamic history:
Khaybar, a fertile land and green plateau, located about 155km northward of Medina on the way to Sham. As cited, Khaybar warriors and residents numbered 20,000 people.(1)
Khaybar Jews dwelt in seven rocky fortified fortresses erected up on the mountain.(2) There existed water well and a large amount of foodstuffs and the dwellers could stay there in trenches and could resist the enemy as long as one year.(3)
The Messenger of God (s) wrote a letter to Khaybar Jews and called them on embracing Islam but they rejected. Having been worried about conspiracy of Khaybar, (4)the Messenger (s) decided to fight with them to make them yield to the Islamic state. Hazrat departed to Khaybar along with one thousand and four hundred people and two hundred horses in 7th Hegira.(5)2
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After several days, army of Islam reached Khaybar region. All Jews took refuge in rocky fortified forts and took defensive position.
Jews knowing that collapse of Khaybar is end of Hejaz life defended hard their foundation and injured about fifty Muslims by massive shooting on the very beginning day of battle. It was very hard to capture the forts due to their impenetrability and fortifications. Muslims fought on days and returned to their camps nearby the forts in the nights.
Khaybar forts excluding Al-Qamus fort were captured one after another; Al-Qamus fort was regarded as the largest and strongest stronghold. (1) All fighters of Al-Qamus were united and defended the fortress hard. The more Muslims attacked, the more intense they were faced with shooting of Jews and retreated while leaving casualties behind. At this time, Hazrat had a headache and could not take part in war;(2) hence, he entrusted commandeering to Abubakr and handed him the banner. Abubakr went to war with the army but he failed and came back. The next day, Omar was assigned to commandeer troops and hold the banner. He failed to do something either because of shooting on the part of Jews; he fled and returned to the camp.
In the night, the Prophet (s) said: I will hand the banner to a man who is fond of God and His Messenger and so are they; God conquers the fortress by him; he incessantly attacks without running away.(3)
Muslims expected to see that man and each one of them wished he could the man concerned to the Prophet (s). Tomorrow morning, the Messenger (s) said: Where is Ali Ibn Abitaleb? People replied: He is suffering from !
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eye irritation in such a way that he cannot see ahead.
Later, O' Amir Mu'menan! The Prophet (s) sent Ammar Yasser after you and you while having irritated eyes came up to the Prophet (s). Your brother, the Messenger (s) healed your eyes with his saliva, saying: O' God! Keep Ali safe from heat and cold. Then he let you wear his iron armor, tied Zulfiqar to it and handed you the banner and said: Go ahead and stop looking your back until God makes you triumphant.
You, O' Amir Mu'menan! Moved a little forward and called without looking back: O' the Messenger of God! Over what should I fight with them?! He said: Keep fighting with them until they give testimony that there is no God but the Only God and Mohammad is His Messenger; when they did so, they have protected their life and property and told you: I swear to God! It is much better for you to guide someone by God than having red-haired camels.
At dawn when the sun was rising, you with your army while mourning with passion reached Al-Qamus fort without being noticed; Jews found themselves besieged completely when they saw you and your army.
You firstly called Jews on embracing Islam but they rejected; you asked them to pay taxes but they rejected; then you asked them for battle.
At this time, Jews sent their well-known warrior and hero, Marhab to raise an eye-to-eye confrontation with you.
Marhab came out of the fortress right away; he was physically giant and while he had two armors on, two swords and stony helmet, he began to brag: Khaybar knows I am Marhab! I am armed to my teeth and a full- fledged champion; I thrust spear at times and pull sword at other times.(1)
Once Muslims saw him, they were frightened and ran away.
But you O' Hero of the heroes of the universe! Responded to him at once:
I am the one whose called him Haydar (lion-hearted man); the very lion of the forests; my face is grimly macabre; I immediately kill you with my
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sword.(1)
After this, Marhab roared and attacked you; he pulled up his sword to strike you. You nimbly surpassed him and hit his head so hard with your Zulfiqar that all soldiers of Islam heard the sound of strike.(2) Marhab though having shield had his shield cut through his helmet and head up to his teeth and fell down.
After killing Mrhab, you wrenched large stony door of the fortress off its place by divine power and made a bridge for army to cross and enter the fort; after a short fight, all fighters of the fort surrendered to you.(3)
True! You bravely conquered the fortified stronghold of Khaybar and hoisted flag of Islam over its roof.
You were manifestation of God and you could wrench the huge door of Khaybar fort off with one hand-which could not be easily lifted by seventy people(4); you yourself said in this respect:
By God! I do not wrench Khaybar door physically but I did it with divine power.(5))
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When the Prophet (s) was informed about your victory over Jews, he departed to the fortress and saw you on his way, telling you: I heard of your newsworthy and valuable job; verily, God is pleased with you and so am I! When he spoke as such, you began to weep with your tears rolling down your nice-looking beard and holy eyes.
Your brother asked you: For what do you cry? And you whose heart is wider than the seven heavens said to him: I cry of joy that God and His Messenger are pleased with me!(1).
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You only and always had a deal with God; you never took any actions for carnal desires and you always sacrificed your life to sublimate Word of God. You became beloved of God and His Messenger because of these things and thousands of thousand uniquely good virtues!
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! We seek your assistance
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I certify that you possess all ranks of the Messenger (s) excluding his status of Mission and Prophethood.
One can hardly speak about faith and cordiality without your name because you stand on apogee of faith and cordiality; one cannot talk about self- devotedness and daring without your name; all devotions and courage are interpreted under your name; one cannot say of the Holy Quran and its great teachings without your name; rather, you are leafs, verses and characters of the Quran. We cannot talk of the Seal of the Prophets (s), blessing of the universe and Light of God without a mention of your name because you as God testifies are soul of the Messenger (s) (1) and as Mohammad (s) testifies are part of his existence and he said: I and Ali are from the same tree and other people are from other trees(2), adding: Ali is from me and I am from Ali.
About you, I, like any other deviant people, do not exaggerate by saying that you are God but you are manifestation of names of God: Manifestation of power and grandeur of God, manifestation of delicacy and beauty of
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Theosophy Account Sixteen
Hadith of "rank" and hadith of "communication of Al-Taubah Sura” in Sunni sources, its explication and other various issues
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he ignores son of Abitaleb (‘a) because these words are meaningless without your name!
I do not exaggerate and I say it truly that one can speak of God but not of you because God is known with your name; this is not what I say.
You are proof of God; you are brother of the Prophet (s) and successor of all his virtues and ranks but his status of Prophethood.
You are Imam of creatures; you are shining jewel of divine creation; you are caliph of God and prostrated by the Angels at all times; you are sun of the heavens and guiding star for all the earth residents; you are endless sea and you and your pure family provide safety on the earth.(1)
Christians exaggerated about Jesus Christ (‘a) saying that: Jesus is God and thus they became disbelievers!(2)
I do not say you are God; you are servant of God; you are divinely virtuous worshipper to whom He granted you the highest ranks.
True!
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ranks to His Beloved who is beloved of the most beloved of His.(1)
You are the endeared man for the Messenger (s) on holy shoulders of whom you stood and dropped the big idol of Quraysh down from the rooftop of Ka'aba during conquest of Mecca.(2)
Your brother, the Messenger (s) frequently talked to the Companions about your status and made a mention of your valued position before God in different ways; a few of them recognized you and constantly and like a butterfly circled around universe-shining sun of your existence; hypocrite dissidents felt envious and concealed their vengeance against you as long as the Messenger of God (s) met his maker and joined God; at this time, they showed their grudge and usurped your divinely inalienable right through falsehood and instilling doubts, preventing people from your path that is the very Straight Path of God.
And a large number of people neglected, became opportunists and abandoned you after demise of the Messenger (s). After his demise, the wicked people left you, bothered you while many of them had heard the Prophet (s) saying that:
O' people!
Whoever bothers Ali, he has bothered me; verily, Ali is the first to be one of the believers and he is the most faithful to promise of God. Know that whoever persecutes Ali, he shall be appointed as Jew or Christian on the Day.(3)
But those people disregarded what the Messenger (s) said and spurred ي
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cruelty against you as well as your dear wife and children to a great extent.
Has the Messenger (s) not said to his ummah that:
O' people!
I recommend my Progeny to you that they constantly follow the Truth and the Truth is always with them; they are brave Imams after me; they are trustees of ummah and they are the Infallibles; they number as many as chieftains of the Israelites(1) and companions of Massih; nine of them are from Husayn's loin and Mahdi of ummah comes from them.(1)
All ummah witnessed this:
On 9th of Hegira when some first verses of Sura of Taubah came down to the Prophet (s), the Prophet (s) gave a mission to Abubakr to depart to Mecca to read it out loud for people of Mecca during hajj so that it could be an ultimatum for polytheists!
Deniers of Amir Mu'amenan (‘a) may not be happy because the story is not finished here, so listen to what continues!
The Prophet (s) had a purpose by doing it and he knew well what would occur!
Abubakr became happy and rode off his horse to Mecca and perhaps he imagined that he is approved by God and His Messenger! But he was negligent of the fact that the Prophet (s) wanted to re-mention to people who was qualified and who was unqualified. He wanted to say that someone who is not qualified on behalf of God to be sent down some verses, how can he succeed lord of the universe, the Seal of the Prophets (s)?!
True!
As Abubakr moved to Mecca, Gabriel came down to Mohammad (s), telling him: O' Messenger (s)! God says: nobody is authorized to convey your message on your behalf unless he comes from you.
Your brother, the Messenger (s) expecting such message from God happily
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called you and gave his horse (1) to you, saying that: O' Ali! Move quickly and catch verses of Sura of Taubah from Abubakr; send him back to Medina and you yourself transfer the message because this is ordered by God.
You immediately headed to reach Abubakr and told him that the Messenger (s) had said that you should transfer the message and he had to return. He was annoyed and resisted but you took the verses from him and moved towards Mecca; Abubakr uneasily returned to Medina and asked the Messenger (s) about the reason. The Prophet (s) told him: God ordered me to do so.(2))
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God, manifestation of kindness and mercifulness of God and manifestation of wrath of God.(1)
True! One cannot speak of goodness, purity, beauty and self-sacrifice but 2
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This event which took place roughly one year before demise of the holy Prophet of Islam(s) proved to people of knowledge and insight that who is soul of the Prophet (s) and has his dignity and is eligible to be caliph of the Prophet (s) and the superior beings of God.
In the 9th year of Hegira, your brother, the Messenger (s) equipped an army to spread Islam for waging a war with Roman Empire. God in holy Sura of Taubah explains about this battle which is the last battle of the Prophet
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(s) and which is known after "battle of Tabouk" in history of Islam.
This Sura says that how hypocrisy-developed in the late years of the Prophet's life-disrupted and stonewalled trend of his life.(1)
Trip to the Levant for battle-because of long distance-lasted several months and dissidents were worried that the Prophet (s) and his troops stay far from town, so they can capture Medina and turn the tables.
But Mohammad (s) was well informed about conspiracy of dissidents and he thought of a strategy to stop their ill-omened plot, which disappointed all of them; that strategy was that he let you stay in Medina.
True!
You joined the Prophet (s) and were his standard-bearer in all battles and you stayed in town in battle Tabouk only as the Prophet (s) had ordered to watch the situation.
When dissidents found that their plot came out in the wash with the appearance of the Impetuous Lion (as Ali ('a) was known after) began to spread rumors that you fail to accompany the Messenger (s) in the battle because of long distance and hot air!!
They intended to instigate your fervor by spreading such rumors so that you might leave Medina with the Prophet (s) and they can easily fulfil their sinister aims.
Regretfully, a number of simple-minded people began to retell each other what dissidents said. You heard them and became annoyed and met up e.
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with the Prophet (s), tearfully saying: people say I have refused to take part in the battle because of long way and hot weather! And some others say you disfavor me and because of that, you let me stay in town!
Lovingly staring at your good-looking face, the Prophet (s) very kindly expressed his eternal statement about your dignity:
O' Ali!
Be happy and go back as Medina needs you!
O' Ali!
Aren't you pleased to be close to me in rank as Harun was to the Moses? Except that after me there is no Messenger.
And you said: Verily, I am pleased! And you returned to Medina.(1))
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True!
The Messenger saying such eternal words (s) clarified one more time that you are his true successor just as Harun was for the Moses.
Where are those who resorted to other than you going?! You are the rightful Imam, you are caliph of the Messenger of God(s), you are Proof of God and you are Divine Straight Path!
Where are you, O' deniers, going?!
O' the sagacious people of the universe! Hasten because Ali ('a) is inheritor of Mohammad (s); O' the vigilant people of the universe! Hasten because Ali (‘a) is the strengthened rope of God; O' God-seekers of the universe, O' enthusiasts of purities and O' those who ask for guidance! Hasten because Ali (‘a) is waiting in front of Doors of Paradise, waiting!....
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I certify that God perfected His Religion by proclaiming caliphate and Imamate in Ghadir-e-Khumm through His Messenger (s).
Greetings befall upon you, O' brother of the Messenger of God(s), Proof of God and Imam of the universe! Greetings befall upon you, O' Amir Mu'amenan (‘a)! Who gives life to celestial resident mortals and are pride of cherubim of the heavens.
In this theosophy account, I want to talk about Ghadir; the ebullient and limpid spring of knowledge that gushes forever and satiates those thirsty of pure learnings.
Ghadir is not a pond; it is an ocean width of which is much wider than breadth of eternal Paradise of God.
In this endless ocean, constellation of thousands of thousand suns shines but their splitting lights fail to tap depth of that gigantic ocean.
Ghadir has an outward and inward: the outward is proclamation of your immediate caliphate and Imamate on behalf of God by your brother, the Messenger (s); the inward of this endless ocean is unknown to us but known to God and His Messenger (s)!
In Ghadir-e-Khumm, in ending years of blessed life of the Messenger (s), Mohammad (s) vociferously said:
O' people! Ali is my caliph; O' People! Ali is Proof of God; O' people! Follow Ali after me so that you might not go astray!
And the Messenger of Blessing (s) who is compassionate and well-wisher of the world people called on people and cried out:
Lo and behold O' People! Whoever finds me his lord, Ali shall be his lord as well.
And he repeatedly said to make that one-hundred-thousand crowd lend an ear to what he says:
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Lo and behold O' People! Ali is from me and I am from Ali(1); O' People! I and Ali come from one tree and people are from other trees;(2) O' People! If you agree on Imamate of Ali ('a), you will never face perdition;(3)O' People! Ali is always with the Truth and the Truth is always with Ali, (4)O' People! Ali Ibn Abitaleb after me is the most omniscient man of all people. O' People! Friendship with Ali engulfs sins just as fire feeds wood.(5) O' People! I am house of theosophy and Ali is its door.(6) O' People! Verily, Ali is from my flesh and his blood is from mine.(7) O' People! Ali for me is as my head is for my body.(8) O' People! Ali and his followers are the very those who are delivered on the Day.(9) O' People! Whoever bothers Ali, he
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Theosophy Account Seventeen
The great and magnificent incidence of Ghadir-e-Khum in Sunni sources, explanation and response to doubts raised by the opposition and various other issues
(1) قال النبي (صلى الله عليه و آله و سلّم : علي منّي و أنا من علي.
قال النبي (صلى الله عليه و آله و سلّم): يا علي ! أنت منّي و أنا منك.
(Sahih-e Bokhari, Ketab-e Solh, vol.3, p. 168; Hakem Neisabouri, Mustadrak Al-Sahihin, vol. 3, p.120; Beihaqi, Sunan Al-Kobra, vol. 8, p.50 and.....)
(2)قال النبي ( صلى الله عليه و آله و سلّم ) : أنا و على من شجرة واحدة و الناس من أشجار شتّى.
(Hakem Neisabouri, Mustadrak Al-Sahihin, vol.2, p.241; Tarikh-e Dameshq, vol. 42, p.64; Zakha'er Al-Uqba, p.16; Tafsir Al-Durr Al-Manthur, vol.4, p.44 and....)
(3) (......Kanz Al-Ummal, 32966 and إن تولّوا عليّا تجدوه هاديا مهديّا، يسلك بكم الطريق المستقيم.
(4)على مع الحق والحق مع على يدور معه حيثما دار.
(Kanz Al-Ummal, vol.5, p.30; Tarikh-e Baghdad, vol.14, p.322; Majma' Al-Zawa'id, vol. 7, p.235; Tarikh-e Dameshq, vol. 42, p.449; Ali Ibn-e Mardawyeh, p.113 and.....)
(5)(32997 Kanz Al-Ummal, hadith أعلم أمتى من بعدى، علي بن أبي طالب ..
(6)أنا دار الحكمة و علي بابها فمن أراد العلم فليأته بالبابه. ...
(Kanz Al-Ummal, hadith 32021 and.....), il jst s
(Siyuti, Al-Jame' Al-Saghir, vol. 1, p.451; Manavi, Fayd Al-Qadir, vol.3, p.60; Zakha'er Al-Uqba, p.83; Ossad Al-Ghaba, vol.4, p.22; Lesan Al-Mizan, vol. 1, p.432 and..)
(7)Los dos ad id tile (Kanz Al-Ummal, hadith 32936)
(8) i was owl, aljiva is te (Kanz Al-Ummal, hadith 32914)
(9)شيعة على هم الفائزون يوم القيامة. يا علي ! أنت و شيعتك الفائزون يوم القيامة .
(Siyuti, Al-Durr Al-Manthur, vol. 6, p.397; Showkani, Fath Al-Qadir, vol.5, p.477; Hakem Neisabouri, Shawahed Al-Tanzil, vol.1, p.500; Manaqib-e Khwarazmi, p.113; Kanz Al-Ummal, vol. 11, p.323; Tabrani, Al-Mu'ajam Al-Kabir, vol.6, p.354 and....)
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has bothered me.(1)And O' People! Epigraph of track record of a faithful person lies within friendship with Ali Ibn Abitaleb.(2)
Also, the Prophet (s) continued to say:
Whoever likes to live like me, dies like me and resides in Divine Paradise which is everlasting place, he shall choose Ali as his guardian and leader and pursue Imams coming after him, who are from my Progeny and from my inborn disposition because God has put my knowledge and understanding their sustenance; Woe betides those who deny their status and give up observing my right about my Progeny because they shall be deprived of my intercession on the Day: (3)
Ghadir is manifesting place of Will of God!
God willed you succeed the Messenger (s) and become Imam of people; He grants honor to whomever He wishes; He granted you endless honor because you were His Beloved and the beloved of the Messenger (s).
You were avant-garde in Islam and conqueror of all peaks of divine values; you were the greatest worshipper, after the Prophet (s) you were the most valorous and devoted man. In battlefields, many fled out of fear they had for their life, leaving alone the Messenger (s) among huge crowds of enemies. O' You, Lion of God! You never stepped backed but you roared and massacred crowds of disbelievers while being lonely in order to protect )
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the Messenger of God (s).
I portrayed only a small part of your unparalleled courage in this book; now, before dealing with Ghadir event, I want to speak of another one of your epics-which took place one year prior to Ghadir and triggered survival of Islam and degradation of disbelievers; this courage of yours was seen in "Battle of Hunayn".
When tribes of Hawazin and Thaqif-settled around Ta'if-heard your brother, the Prophet (s) with you and his army heading from Medina for conquest of Mecca, they imagined that he intended to war with them; hence, they joined their forces and some other tribes joined Hawazin and Thaqif too.(1)
Equipped with forces, they reached valley of Hunayn atop of which they took position. The Messenger (s) sojourned there fifteen days after conquest of Mecca that happened on Friday 20th, Ramadan of 8 Hegira; afterwards, he decided to crack down pagans of Hawazin and Thaqif who abstained from embracing Islam.
Army of Islam reaching their region moved into the valley to pass through; they were faced with sudden and unexpected assault of enemy and ceased to stabilize themselves. From top of the valley, the enemy in full strength sparked Muslims with spears and stones. Horrified Muslims turned back and left the Messenger (s) alone in that kerfuffle and ran away!
Some fled as far as Mecca and told people about battle of the Messenger (s); some people of Mecca became happy and some others said: Arab returns to religion of forefathers.(2)
In that war, all of them who numbered twelve thousands and were proud of their large numbers escaped but four people!(3) And ten people! Based on some narrations.(4).
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At this time, a group of Quraysh leaders who forcibly expressed turn to Islam and remained atheist inwardly during conquest of Mecca began to blame others; having seen Muslims on the run, Abu Sufyan Ibn Harb who had newly and apparently turned to Islam happily shouted:
O' Hawazin and O' Thaqif! Muslims flee as far as seaside.
Kaldat Ibn Hanbal said:
Today sorcery is annulled!
Safwan, one of the Companions, harshly told him: God may break your mouth!
Shaybat Ibn Uthman ‘Abdari whose father had been killed in Battle of Ohud said:
I take vengeance for my father's blood today, I kill Mohammad today!(1)
When the enemy saw that Muslims left the Messenger(s) alone and ran away, they came down the valley to murder Mohammad (s).
And you, O' Lion of God! O' Assad Allah Al-Ghaleb! O' Son of Abitaleb! You were circling around existential sun of the Messenger (s) while you had banner of honor of Islam in one hand and Zulfiqar in your other hand; you roared like a lion and whoever neared the Prophet (s), you split apart his head with your Zulfiqar.
Brash standard-bearer of enemy's army named "Abu Jerul" rode a red- haired camel accompanied by a large number of men attacked the Prophet (s); he came close with his retinue and bragged so: I'm Abu Jerul! I don't leave battlefield until I kill these people or I get killed myself.(2)
You rushed to him and hit him on his back; he fell onto the ground and you cut him in half with another strike. Once Abu Jerul was killed, enemy's army faced defeat.(3)
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loud voice to call back runaway Muslims, 'Abbas shouted:
O' People who made a pledge to the lineage! O' People of Baqara! Where on earth are you running away?!(1)
Recurrent yells of the Prophet (s) made a number of elusive Muslims return and come in grips with the enemy in the valley of Hunayn; this time God the Almighty sent down waves of Angels to help His Messenger (s) and Muslims. In the end, thanks to your courage, O' Commander of the Faithful! As well as descent of Angels, polytheists left behind their women, children and properties in the battlefield, a number of whom were killed, a number of others were captivated and others had gone on the run.(2)
Seventy people from enemy's army were killed, forty warriors of whom had been killed by you, O' Amir Al-Mu'amenan!(3)
True!
Fadl Ibn 'Abbas says: When all people were running away, my father looked but he did not find Ali among the resolute people and he annoyingly said:
Should son of Abutaleb withhold his life from the Prophet (s) under such conditions? But he was always the only companion of the Prophet (s) under critical times!
I said: What do you mean by saying such things about your nephew?! Do .
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you not see him in the midst of war?! 'Abbas (Mohammad (s)'s uncle replied: My son! Tell me how he looks! I said: He is such and such. He said: What is that shining? I told him: It is shining light of Zulfiqar that circles around heroes of enemy and kill them.
'Abbas said: He is chivalrous man proper and son of the chivalrous! May his uncles be his sacrificial lamb!
Fadl says: On that day, Ali Ibn Abitaleb cut in half forty warriors and his strikes were fatally lethal.(1)
True!
Umma Salim-a heroine in the arena of Hunayn-told the Prophet (s): O' Messenger of God! Did you see how they delivered you to the enemy and fled, leaving you behind! When you catch them, do not forgive them but kill them, polytheists! The Messenger (s) said: God suffices it Himself and Divine Blessing is much wider than this.(2)
What days we have! The very those who left the Messenger (s) and ran away out of fear found themselves in perfect status!!
Small wonder! That time, their courage showed face and they raided your house and Fatima's (‘a), set ablaze it and disrespected the Prophet (s)!(3)
I make a mention of your valor shown in Sariya, "Zatus Sallasil" or Battle of Chains; afterwards, I come back to story of Ghadir, the divinely endless ocean:
In the midst of Mecca conquest, the Messenger (s) was told that a number of Arabs had been unified to invade Medina in full strength and force. The Messenger (s) dispatched Abubakr with a number of people; he returned to Medina with no success; later on, Omar was sent, he came back with no results like Abubakr. Amr Ibn Al-'Ass who had newly expressed to be Muslim told the Prophet (s): O' the Messenger of God! War is deceitfulness; send me to fix everything; he went after making something .
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out but he was destined as previous commanders were.
Ultimately, the Messenger (s) appointed you, O' Amir Mu'amenan! Commander. You went back home and banded your head with a special cloth you banded when you were up to hardships of war and moved northward of Medina nearby Tabouk where the enemy was. You shocked the enemy by applying concise military tactics such as camouflage and concealment, killed seven of their valiant warriors and detained some others who were brought handcuffed to Medina. The Messenger (s) joined by the Companions welcomed you outside Medina. When you saw him, you rode off your horse to pay respect to him; he said:
Ride on your horse because God and His Messenger are verily pleased with you!
You wept out of joy because of pleasure extended to you by God and His Messenger; your brother, Mohammad (s) told you:
O' Ali!
If I had not feared that groups of my ummah would tell about you what Christians had told about Jesus Christ, I would have told something about you that all people would have taken soil under your feet as blessing.(1)
The Messenger (s) cleaned your face off dust with his cloak and kissed your forehead; while weeping, he said to the Companions:
O'Companions! Stop scolding me for my interest in Ali! Verily, my interest in Ali comes from God; God ordered me to love Ali and keep him my next of kin.(2)
Let's go back to story of Ghadir, to the endless ocean of divine grace bestowed on mankind! )
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O' Commander of the Faithful!
Proclaiming your leadership and Imamate at Ghadir-e-Khum was not a new issue; the Messenger (s) had recurrently talked to the Companions about your status and caliphate after himself; but Ghadir had and still has a different magnificence!
The story of Ghadir-e-Khum engraved into body of history goes as:
Your brother, Mohammad (s) departed to Mecca in 10th of Hegira-the last year of his holy life-to uphold hajj pilgrimage. Once Muslims were informed about his departure to hajj, a majority of people from different spots of Hejaz headed for hajj to join him for performance of hajj. Those who accompanied him in hajj are reported to number one hundred and twenty thousand people.(1)Al-Moghazi, vol.3, p.1111(2)
You' O' Amir Mu'amenan!
When the Messenger (s) had gone to take part in the hajj pilgrimage, you joined by troops were given a mission by him to be in Yemen; as soon as you heard about his departure to the hajj, you along with your soldiers moved towards Mecca too and reached him nearby Mecca. Meeting you there, he was gladdened and asked you: How did you make your intent?! You replied: I declared my intention on your behalf when I was wearing my pilgrim's garment, saying: O' God! I wear pilgrim's garment with the same intention as Thy Messenger has done.(3)
With your brother, Mohammad (s) and retinue, you arrived in Mecca and performed the hajj by following the Messenger (s).
The Messenger (s) delivered a sermon in 'Arafaat, "the Mount of Recognition", notifying people that his demise imminently happens; in this sermon, he spoke to people(3) about respecting Ka'aba, forbidden months, the obligatory things and divine rules and then said: this religion is powerful and revealed and twelve caliphs need be rulers who are from 1
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Quraysh.(1)
Muslims accomplished the hajj rituals under supervision of the Messenger (s) and moved back Medina and their homes as ordered by the Messenger (s); when caravan reached "Rabigh" three miles far from "Johfa"-one of the appointed times of consecration, Trustee Gabriel landed on a spot called Ghadir-e-Khum and addressed your brother with the word of revelation below:
O' Messenger! Notice people of what is sent down by God and if not, your mission is not accomplished; God shall protect you from evils of ill-wished people.(2)a
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Tone of the verse carried a heavy duty which if abandoned would make Messenger's mission unfinished and it was not definitely about monotheism, campaign, prayers, fasting and so forth because the rules of such matters had previously been expressed; therefore, O' Amir Mu'amenan! What is this heavy duty? And if it is abandoned, it means mission bears no results?!
True! Considering the fact that the verse had been sent down in the last year of holy life of the Messenger (s), it certainly relates to issue of succession and caliphate after the Messenger (s).
True!
What is more important than that the Messenger (s) introduces Imam and caliph after himself in front of over one hundred people?!
The Messenger (s) ordered everybody to stop going, saying to those ahead of caravan to stop and those behind to quickly join others.
It was noon and hot; a canopy by means of chador hanging on tree was made for the Messenger (s). The Messenger (s) upheld noon prayers in congregation; afterwards, while he was surrounded by crowds of people,
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he stood up on high spot over camel's saddleback and recited loudly a sermon:
Praise belongs to God; I seek His help; I have faith in Him and we trust in Him. Lo! O' People! I imminently follow call of God...
Then he said:
I leave two precious things for you, one is Book of God and second is my Progeny both of whom remain inseparable until the Day comes.....Lo! O' people! Stop surpassing the holy Quran and my Progeny and give up dereliction because you shall perish away.(1)
At this sensitive instance when everybody had stared at mouth of the Messenger (s), he called you and you climbed up camel's saddleback and stood beside him. All people stared at you to find out what the story is that the Messenger (s) has called you to stand beside himself?
At that juncture, the most sensitive, the highest and the most dangerous page of human history came into existence; the Messenger of God (s) raised your hands with his own and vociferously told people:
O' people! Who is the most deserving of the faithful?
Everyone said: God and His Messenger are the most deserving of all faithful people.
The Messenger(s) then said:
God is my Lord and Lord of the faithful people and I am worthier than believers than themselves. Lo! O' people! Of whomsoever I had been Master (Mawla), Ali here is to be his Master.
And he prayed for you and said: .
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O' God! Love those who love Ali and oppose those who are against him.... (1)
And he added:
The present people here shall convey the news to the absent people.
At this time, you climbed down camel's saddleback and everybody rushed to make allegiance to you. The very two people who usurped your status after demise of the Prophet (s) swore allegiance to you and congratulated you on that.(2).
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People were fraught with cheers and joy and everybody told you well- done. There was celebration and festivity in Ghadir-e-Khumm for three days as ordered by the Messenger (s) and everybody pledged allegiance to you; although some were distressed and gloomy in heart but they saved face and swore allegiance to you.
At that time, Gabriel came down to Mohammad (s) and conveyed a message from God that "I complemented your religion today and I brought My Grace in full to you and I am pleased that your religion shall be Islam.(1)..
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Your brother, the Messenger (s) immediately said:
God is great! I praise God for completing religion and fulfilling His Grace
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and Pleasure for my Prophethood and leadership of Ali after me.(1)
"Hessan Ibn Thabit" took the chance to compose about this everlasting event with permission given by the Prophet (s):
On Day of Ghadir, in the territory of Khumm, their Prophet (s) heralded and how well he conveys a message when he heralds.
He said: Who is your governor and leader? They responded without expressing enmity: Your God is our governor and you are our leader; you will find none of us disobedient today.
He then said: O' Ali! Stand up because I am pleased you become leader and guide after me. Whomever I govern, this Ali is his leader; therefore, you become his intimate companion and friend.
Afterwards, he raised supplication: O' God! Love his friends and oppose his enemy.(2)
True! The Messenger (s) informed people about your leadership in that great arena and nobody but dissidents of religion deny it.
Event of Ghadir never ends because Quran lasts forever and two Quranic )
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verses of Mai'dah: 3 and 67 came down to eternalize Ghadir event; although hypocrite dissidents turned the tables after demise of Prophet (s) and prevented affairs of Muslims from being managed by your Godly hands. But you were always Imam and proof of God although many denied you.
You are shining sun of heavens of Imamate and guidance of ummah; bat- natured people cannot bear looking at your luminous countenance. All pure people expose their faces at the threshold of Ghadir to the ground so that the dust of the land, blessed with steps of you, the Prophet (s) and Angels might become eyeliner of their eyes.
Drinking sip of Ghadir syrup lets mankind fly to eternity and co-sit with the Messengers and Angels.
They denied substance of Ghadir and deprived themselves of good-life eternity. I am surprised that the group saying they are subordinate to the holy Quran and the Messenger of God, they deny your caliphate-which is recommended by the holy Quran and Messenger of God! Amazingly, they say: the Prophet (s) advised us to make friends with Ali, saying: whomever I am his friend, Ali is too and he did not say even one word about his caliphate and succession!!
For one reason or another, this statement of theirs is really nil and those who made it deceive themselves and they should know that reality never changes and fades away if it is denied by deniers.
Have two verses of the holy Quran been sent down upon the event only for your friendship, O' Amir Mu'amenin?!
Had the Messenger (s) not announced people of your friendship, his Prophethood would have been incomplete?!
Is it reasonable for a Messenger who-as said by the holy Quran-fails to speak out of passion keeps thousands of people waiting in that hot air and torrid desert only for saying that whomever I am his friend, he shall be friend of yours? Was this something new that people were unaware of and was it necessary to be expressed ceremonially?!
Was perfection of religion and despair of disbelievers-cited in Ma'idah: 3- only because the Messenger (s) introduced you as friend?!
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Was the Messenger (s) worried about announcing your friendship that God told him: God protects you from people?!(1)
Besides, they did not accept your divine caliphate and said and say: The Messenger (s) introduced no one as successor and entrusted affairs to ummah; have you realized guardianship in religion of God?!!
How can they tolerate to say as such?! Is it possible that the Messengers leave alone ummah without competent successors?
The more we look at history, the more we can see that all prophets, prior to their demise, introduced the purest and the most learned people of their times as successors among their ummah. They may envisage that Islamic ummah has become exception in this regard and succession is being entrusted to people!!!
O' Commander of the Faithful! What on earth are they saying?!!
Do they not know they insult the holy presence of the Messenger (s)?!
How is it possible that the Prophet (s) who never left Medina even for a few days unless he had appointed successor for himself, now that he has .
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passed away, he leaves his ummah alone and he himself becomes cause of sedition and differences among his ummah?!
Alas, alas!
O' Amir Mu'amenan! What on earth are they saying?!!
Ironically, they never tolerate such judgment about their caliphs, saying that since Abubakr felt sorry for ummah, he did not leave them alone and posed Omar as his successor; Omar, too, having been concerned about ummah of the Messenger (s) organized a six-member council so that one person can certainly be appointed as caliph for people!! (1)
All the Abbasid and Umayyid caliphs-who say many of the Abbasid and Umayyid caliphs are truthful-thought of future of Islam and appointed caliphs before death!!
To them, from among Islamic ummah, only one person never thought of future of ummah and that was your brother, the Messenger (s)!!
I invoke by God! Because of such invectives they raise against the holy Prophet of Islam (s); of course, the pure people of the universe always cling to you and your descendants and lend a heart to you and your leadership!
After departure of the Messenger (s), you, in various instances, argued about your caliphate and stood in defense of your own right by pointing to .
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Ghadir event.(1))
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And you are proof of God although many denied you but of course, call of the Messenger (s) survives until the Day, saying:
من كنت مولاه فهذا على مولاه
However, many clog their ears with fingers not to hear that everlasting call!!
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I certify that you, Commander of the Faithful, great truthful man and discriminator of the right versus wrong.
Title of "Commander of the Faithful (‘a)" is only exclusive to you rather than others because God the Almighty put such title only for you and He has not authorized anyone else to put it on himself.(1)
One day, the Messenger (s) told you when his Companions were present:
O' Ali! You are Commander of the Faithful, you are leader of religion and you are Imam of the pious people and leader of worshippers and well- known people.(2)
And Hazrat also said:
God revealed to me three times that "lord", "Amir", "Seyyed of Muslims", "Imam of the pious" and "leader of the worshippers and well- known people is my brother, Ali.(3)
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Mention of several important events during Ghadir-e-Khumm and fake titles of caliphs through citation of Sunni sources
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And the Messenger (s) called you "the great truthful man" (1)and you yourself said in your luminous words:
I am worshipper of God, brother of the Messenger of God and the great truthful man.(2)
And you also added that:
Whoever attributes such titles to himself, he shall be liar.(3)
And the Messenger (s) mentioning to his ummah said:
In near future after me, a sedition erupts; so if that time came, you should follow Ali Ibn Abitaleb. Verily, he is the first one who believed in me and the first one to ........on the Day; Ali is the great truthful man and the great discriminator between the right and wrong of this ummah.(4)
And O' lord!
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been usurped by the wrong crowd! They had no right to call themselves "Amir Mu'amenan"; they had no right to introduce themselves as "truthful" and "discriminator of the right and wrong" and no one of ummah was allowed to call anyone else Amir Mu'amenan, truthful and discriminator of the right and wrong.
But the wrong crowds and their supporters raised cruelty against you and called others Amir Mu'amenan, truthful and discriminator of the right and wrong!!
Your brother, the Messenger (s) said:
O' Ummah! Know that the truthful men are three in number: "Habib Najjar" believer of Al-e Yasin; "Hizqil" believer of Al-e Fer'un and "Ali Ibn Abitaleb" who is the third and most superior of all.(1)
And he also said:
In the night of Ascension to Heaven when I looked at every door of doors of Paradise, they read: Ali Ibn Abitaleb had been Commander of the Faithful seventy thousand years before Adam was created.
When the wrong crowds usurped your position and the first one called himself Amir Mu'anenan, you said:
By God! Very soon it is not forgotten that the title is only qualified to be given to me and those two people heard from the Messenger of God (s) that the title is only exclusive to me.(2))
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Most important of all, you yourself told 'Abbas-your uncle and Messenger's one day that:
In the event of Ghadir-e-Khumm, the Messenger (s) selected eighty people, forty of whom were Arabs and forty others were non-Arabs and among whom were these two people; all of them ordered by the Messenger greeted me as Commander of the Faithful.(1)
On the day of Ghadir-e-Khumm, a divinely eternal and magnificent day, crowned you with his lordship, grandeur and dignity besides introducing you as Imam and leader of ummah on behalf of God, telling people to greet you; on that day and in that grand assembly, the Messenger (s) put his turban named "Sahab" on your head with his holy hands to make the universe know that you are his rightful successor and repeated for several times:
Whomever I am his lord, so is Ali; O' God! Love his friends and oppose his enemies.(2) .
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On that day, the real believers became happy, hypocrite dissenter group concealed grudge against you in their hearts and a group of others having shaky faith felt jealous of your status and dignity.
One of the dissidents could hardly keep his hypocrisy in his heart and objected to the Messenger (s), saying: You commanded us on behalf of
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God to worship Him, say prayers, keep fasting and perform hajj; we accepted all of them but you didn't suffice and went far beyond this; you held up your cousin's arm and made him lord of us!!
Tell me to know if this is from God or from you yourself?
The Messenger (s) told him: I swear to God, the Only God! This is from God and not from me.
The wicked man having heard what Mohammad (s) said rushed to his camel, saying: O' God! If what Mohammad says is true, then fall onto us stone from sky! The man was about to reach his camel when a stone came down from sky on his head and killed him.(1).
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• front; he then said: Face me! Hazrat did so, he said: Turn back! Hazrat did so; he said: The Angels came to me likewise. He added:
من كنت مولاه فعلى مولاه اللهم وال من والاه و عاد من عاداه و انصر من نصرو اخذل من خذله .
For more information, see the invaluable book of Al-Ghadir, vol. I pp. , 290-293. Therefore, the day of Ghadir, day of Imam Ali's crowning, is the most auspicious day in Islam and the greatest day of celebration for enthusiasts of Amir Al-Mu'amenin ('a) just as it is the day of grief and grudge for enemies and ill-thinkers.
The above story has been cited plentifully in Sunni sources; hereunder, a number of these sources are mentioned:
•Hafez Abu Ubayd Heravi died in Mecca in 223 A.H says in his interpretation titled "Gharib Al-Quran": After the Messenger (s) publicized in Ghadir-e-Khumm what he was missioned to say to people, the story spread across cities. Jabir Ibn Nadr Ibn Hareth came up and addressed the Messenger (s) that: You ordered us on behalf of God that we certify Unity of God and your Prophethood; perform prayers, fasting, hajj and zakat; we accepted all of them but you went far beyond that and raised up arm of your cousin and Is this from من كنت مولاه فعلی مولاه :kept him superior to us, saying God of from you?!
The Messenger (s) said: I swear to God, the Only God that this came down from Him. The man having heard this moved towards his camel while murmuring: O' God! If what Mohammad says is right, drop us a stone from sky or send down painful agony! Hardly had he reached his camel, a stone came down on him and slit through his back; he was killed and God revealed these words:
(سَأَلَ سائِلٌ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعِ * لِّلْكَافِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُ دَافِعٌ مِّنَ اللهِ ذِي الْمَعَارِجِ )
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in this world and in the Hereafter, since it is from Allah the Owner of the Ways of Ascent to His Presence (Ma'arij: 1-3).
Abu Eshaq Th'albi Neisabouri dead in 427 A.H says in his Tafsir called "Al-Kashf va Al-Bayan" as regards to Ma'arij Word of Revelation:
When the Messenger of God (s) reached Ghadir-e-Khumm and after people gathered there, he held up Ali's hand and told people:
afterwards, this story spread across cities و من كنت مولاه فعلی مولاه and towns and Hareth Ibn Nu'aman Fahri. He rode his camel to reach Abtah. After coming down his camel, he let his camel down on the ground. He met with the Messenger (s) addressing him: O' Mohammad! You ordered us on behalf of God to testify Oneness of God and your Prophethood and we accepted it; you ordered us to say prayers five times a day; we obeyed. You commanded us to pay zakat and we obeyed; you ordered us to keep one-month fasting and we obeyed. You ordered us to perform hajj; we accepted but now you went far beyond these things and you raised up your cousin's arm and excelled him over us, saying: YoYo Cijo; Is this ordered from God or you?!
The Messenger (s) said: I swear to God, the Only God! This has been said from Him.
After hearing what the Prophet (s) said, Hareth Ibn Nu'aman moved towards his horse, saying: O' God! If what Mohammad says is true, send down on us stone or chastisement from sky! He was about to reach his horse when God landed stone onto his head that went out of his back. God sent down these verses:
سَأَلَ سائِلٌ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعِ " لِّلْكَافِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُ دَافِعٌ مِّنَ اللهِ ذِي الْمَعَارِجِ ،
•Hakem Abulqasem Haskani in his book دعاة الهداة إلى أداء حق الموالاة
quoted Hazifat Ibn Yamani, saying:
The Prophet (s) said about Ali at Ghadir-e-Khumm:
من كنت مولاه فعلى مولاه
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Hareth Ibn Nu'aman Qahri said: Is this something you say yourself or God ordered you to say it?
The Messenger (s) said: I do not say it from myself but God ordered me to say it.
He said: O' God! Send on us stone from sky; he was near his horse when stone came down on him, filled him with blood and he was killed. Later, God sent down the above verses.
•Shamsuddin Abulmozaffar Sebt Ibn Jawziyya Hanafi dead in 654 A.H citing this narration in the book, "Tazkerat Al-Khwas, p.19 writes: This hadith has been narrated from Abu Eshaq Th'albi in his interpretation cited from the Prophet (s) as saying when the Prophet (s) announced leadership (Velayat) of Ali ('a), it was spread out and reached "Hareth Ibn Nu'aman Fahri". He mounted a camel and reached the mosque to see the Messenger (s). he kneeled down and told Hazrat after calling his name: Verily, you ordered us to give testimony to Oneness of God and your Prophethood, we accepted it; you ordered us to say prayers five times a day, to keep fasting during Ramadan, to pay pilgrimage to House of God and clean our property by paying zakat; we accepted all these from you. But you never sufficed and raised arms of your cousin and excelled him over others, saying:من کنت مولاه فعلی مولا has this been said by you or come from God?!
The Prophet (s) became angry with red eyes and said: I swear to God who is the Only One being Worshipped! This has come from God and I myself ordered nothing and repeated this three times. At this time, Hareth rose up, saying: O' God! If what Mohammad says is true, send on us from sky a stone and give us a painful chastisement! It is said: He was about to reach his camel when God landed a stone onto his head that came out of his back; in this way, he died and God sent down the above verses.
The late Allameh Amini, the author of valuable book of Al-Ghadir, vol.1, pp. 239-246; this story and account of descended verses are being quoted from thirty books and Sunni scientist.
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This is quoted from hadith book of Salim Ibn Qeys Helali, hadith 50; this hadith is cited in Sunni sources such as Manaqib-e Khwarazmi, p.60; Hakem, Mustadrak, vol.3, p.138.
The remaining parts of Theosophy Account
1. In some Sunni books, some narrations have been ascribed to the Messenger (s) where he has introduced Abubakr as trustworthy and Omar as discriminator; all are fake narrations made by the Umayyad and enemies of the Infallibles (a). Many of Sunni scholars also confessed that these two nicknames are nicknames of Abubakr and Omar and the related hadiths are considered fake.
“Ibn Habban” as one of the great men of knowledge of dignitaries of Sunnis says in Al-Mojremin, vol.2, p.116: There is no doubt that these hadiths are fake and many hadiths as such are abundant in Sunni books. Some other Sunni scholars who unanimously agree on fake hadiths naming Abubakr as trustworthy and Omar as discriminator are as follows:
•Sebt Ibn Jawziyya, Al-Mozu'at, vol. 1, pp.323 and 336
•Zahabi, Mizan Al-E'tedal, vol. 1, p.540
•Ibn Kathir, Al-Badaya va Al-Nahaya, vol. 7, p.230
2. Rejal-Barqi (One of the old and authentic Shiite books on dignitaries) reads that: twelve people of great men of the Companions stood up one after another to address Abubakr on the first Friday after day of Saqifa Bani Sa'edah in the mosque of the Prophet (s) and explicitly recounted brilliant record of Imam Amir Mu'menan (a) and his competence for the Islamic caliphate. These twelve people were six Muhajirin (Immigrants) and six Ansar (the Helpers); Immigrants were: Abuzar Ghaffari, Salman Farsi, Khaled Ibn Sa'id Ibn As, Meqdad Ibn Aswad, Buraidah Aslami, Ammar Yasir and the Helpers were: Khuzaima Ibn Thabet, Sahl Ibn Hanif, Abu Al-Haytham Ibn Al-Tayhan, Qeys Ibn Ebadah Khazraji, Ubay Ibn Ka'ab and Abu Ayyub Ansari.
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others. Salman, among them, said: O' Abubakr! Do you want to be leader of someone who is more omniscient than you!? O' Abubakr! Give priority to someone who was given priority by God and His Prophet (s) in his lifetime. Buraidah Aslami also said: O' Abubakr! Don't you remember or do you have a bad memory that when the Messenger (s) was alive, he commanded us to salute to Ali ('a) and tell him: Greetings to you O' Amir Mu'amenin?
(Rejal-e Barqi, beginning of Rejal Ibn Davoud quoted from Ali Dawani, Ghadir-e-Khumm, Hadith of Velayat, p.41)
3. Salim Ibn Qeys says: I was with Salman, Abuzar and Meqdad during reign of Omar. A man from Kufa came and joined them, asking for guidance. They said to him: You have a duty to accompany Book of God as well as joining Ali Ibn Abitaleb who is with Book of God; we testify that we heard the Messenger (s) say: Ali is with the Quran and Truth; he turns whichever direction He Turns; he is the first one who believed in the Messenger (s) and he is the first to shake hands with me on the Day; he is major trustworthy (discriminator of the right and wrong). He is my heir, my vizier and my caliph of my ummah and he fights according to my Sunna.
The man told them: Then, why do people call Abubakr trustworthy and Omar discriminator?! Salman, Abuzar and Meqdad said to him: People call them in names not belonging to them just as they give them titles of caliph of the Messenger (s) and Amir Mu'amenin while these names do not belong to them.
Ali ('a) is caliph of the Messenger (s). The Messenger (s) ordered us and them to greet Ali (‘a) as the Commander of the Faithful (‘a).
(Hadith book of Salim Ibn Qeys Helali (Secrets of Mohammad and his posterity), hadith 52, Ihtejaj-e Tabarsi, vol.1, p.230; Ibn Shazan, Fada'il, p.145, Manaqib-e Ibn Shahrashub, vol. 3, p.62)
4.و من طريق المخالفين ما رواه عبد الله بن أحمد بن حنبل في مسند أبيه أحمد بن حنبل، عن الهيثم بن خلف، قال : حدثنا محمد بن أبي عمر الدورى قال : حدثنا شاذان ، قال : حدثنا جعفر بن زياد عن مطر، عن أنس
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يعني ابن مالك، قال : قلنا لسلمان : سل النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم من وصيّه ؟ فقال له سلمان : يا رسول الله من وصيك ؟ فقال صلى الله عليه و آله وسلم : يا سلمان من كان وصيّ موسى ؟ فقال يوشع بن نون، قال : قال صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم : وصيّي و وارثي من يقضي ديني و ينجز موعدي، عليّ بن أبي طالب عليه السلام
('Asqalani, Ibn Hajar, Fath Al-Bari, vol.8, p.114; Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, Fada'il Al-Sahabah, vol.2, p.615, hadith 1052; Ibn Jabr, Nahj Al-Iman, p.197; Al-Kunduzi, Yanabi` al-Mawaddah la Dhi al-Qurba, vol.1, p.234, hadith 4; Shawahed Al-Tanzil Leqawahed Al-Tafdil, vol.1, p.99; Muhibbuddin Al-Tabari, Al-Riyadh Al-Nodrate Fi Manaqib Al-Ishrah, vol.3, p.138; Ghayat Al-Maram Hojjat Al-Khisam fi Taiin Al-Imam men Tariq Al-Khass va Al-Aam, vol.2,p. 144; Taher Qomi, Mulla Mohammad, Al-Arba'iin, p.36; Kufi, Mohammad Ibn Soleyman, Manaqib Al-Imam Amir Al-Mu'amenin (a), p.341, hadith 267; Helyat Al-Abrar fi Ahwal Mohammad va Aleh Al-Athar ('a), vol.2, p.442, hadith 2; Naqd Al- Maqalah Al-Fatimiyya fi Naqd Al-Resalat Al-Uthmaniyya, p.427; Bahjat Al-Nazar fi Ithbat Al-Wasayah va Al-Imamat Le A'emmate Al-Athna 'Ashar, p.50; Bihar Al-Anwar, vol.38, p.19, hadith 35)
Omar Ibn Khattab offending the Prophet (s) when he was deceased with citations of Sunnis and other various issues
Waqedi, Al-Moghazi, vol.3, p.1117; Sireye Halabi, vol.3, p.207; Ibn Yusef, Mohammad, Sebl Al-Hoda, p.3786
Tarikh-e Ya'aqubi, vol.2, p.113; Irshad-e Sheikh Mufid, p.98; Sireye Halabi, vol.3, p.207; Tabaqat-e Ibn Sa'ad, vol.2, p.120
Tabaqat Ibn Sa'ad, vol.2, p. 190
فأنفذوا جيش أسامة؛
It means: Move army of Osama!
(Tarikh-e Ya'aqubi, vol.2, p.113)
Quoted from Shahrestani in Al-Melal va Al-Nahl, vol.1, p.23 and Ibn Abi Al-Hadid in Sharh-e Nahj Al-Balagha, vol.6, p.52, he said:
لَعَنَ الله مَنْ تَخَلَّفَ عَنْهُ !
In Sharh-e Nahj Al-Balagha, vol.1, p.261, Ibn Abi Al-Hadid Mu'atazili
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and in Irshad, p.196, Shaeikh Mufid say: The Messenger (s) by emphasizing a lot meant that Medina could be evacuated from those who coveted caliphate and Imamate could be transferred to them with no problems. Imam Ali (s) also made this clear as quoted from Sheikh Saduq in Khisal, p.371.
Sheikh Mufid, Irshad, p.97; Tabarsi, A'laam Al-Wari, p.134. This was what the Shiite ulema believed about the last prayers the Messenger (s) upheld; a group of Sunni historians included among them was Ibn Hosham in his Sira, vol.4, p.301 and Meqrizi in Emta' Al-Asma', vol. 1, p.548 said that Abubakr held prayers for people as the Messenger (s) had ordered. A large number of them including Malik Ibn Anas in Muwatta, vol. 1, p.136; Bokhari in Sahih, vol. 1, p.162; Termezi, vol.2, p.197 have narrated that the Messenger (s) performed prayers while seated. Abubakr stood behind him; this means that Abubakr acted as communication medium of the Messenger (s) and people!!
There is great disagreement among Sunnis whether the Messenger (s) himself performed the last congregation prayers or Abubakr by order of the Messenger (s) or he did it as Ayesha made it possible. But Ibn Abi Al- Hadid in Sharh-e Nahj Al-Balagha, vol.9, p.198 quotes his tutor, Sheikh Abu Ya'aqub Yusef Ibn Esma'il Lema'ni Mu'atazili as saying that Ali (‘a) has said: Appointing Abubakr for leadership of prayers was made through what Ayesha did and provided, but the Messenger (s) realized it and left the house; he stopped Abubakr doing it by pulling him aside the pulpit.
Ibn Sa'ad in Tabaqat, vol. 2, p.191 says: Osama came up to Jorf where commandeering troops was situated and he intended to move when Umme Imen's messenger arrived and informed that the Messenger (s) was feeling very bad and he was about to meet the maker; hence, Osama and his army stopped moving and those seeking excuses for this mission (the Messenger (s) emphasizing that the army must move ahead under any conditions); in this way, the Messenger (s)'s desire failed to come true.
يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَطِيعُوا اللهَ وَأَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولَ وَلا تُبْطِلُوا أَعْمَالَكُمْ.
O'you who believe! Obey Allah and Allah's Messenger and do not cause your deeds to become fruitless (Muhammad: 33)
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يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَطِيعُوا اللهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَلا تَوَلَّوْا عَنْهُ وَ أَنْتُمْ تَسْمَعُونَ ،
O' you who believe! Obey Allah and Allah's Messenger and do not turn away from the Messenger while you hear his call to guidance (Anfal: 20)
وَ أَطِيعُوا اللهَ وَأَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولَ فَإِنْ تَوَلَّيْتُمْ فَإِنَّمَا عَلَى رَسُولِنَا الْبَلَاغُ الْمُبِينُ
Obey Allah and obey His Messenger and if you people turn away from the Truth know that Our Messenger is only in charge of conveying the Divine Message publicly (Taghabun: 12)
فَلا وَ رَبِّكَ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ حَتَّى يُحَكِّمُوكَ فيما شَجَرَ بَيْنَهُمْ ثُمَّ لا يَجِدُوا فِى أَنْفُسِهِمْ حَرَجًا مِمَّا قَضَيْتَ وَيُسَلِّمُوا تسليما
No, by your Creator and Nurturer! They will not be considered believers unless they accept you as their judge in all that they dispute among themselves: and [also] if they do not find in their souls any resistance against what you decide and submit themselves [with total submission [to your judgment] (Nessa': 65)
This hadith known after hadith of Thaqalayn was reiterated by the Messenger (s) and it was one of the things he articulated when he was at the point of demise. About the authenticity of this hadith in Sunni sources, we can only say that it is being cited in their Sihah Sitta except Sahih-e Bokhari.
(Sheikh Mufid, Irshad, p.96; Yanabi'a Al-Mawaddah, vol.1, p.40)
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I certify that your brother, the Messenger (s) thought of you, his Ummah and was concerned about you until his blessed life; he met the maker on your bosom.
One must talk about your oppressedness from this part on; one must talk about insincerity of people towards your right! When the Messenger was alive, nobody dared disrespect you because of him and his blessed presence stopped hypocrite dissidents holding their envy and grudge against you and your status.
From the very beginning, you strongly supported him and so did he.
At great event of Ghadir-e-Khumm, the Messenger (s) declared his imminent demise to people and he accomplished the hardest mission there, which was notifying people about your Imamate and caliphate.
Almost two months after his return from Ghadir-e-Khumm, he was bedridden and told you that his ascending departure is imminently happening. In those times of his sickness, you like a butterfly circled around his existential sun and you never left him there unless you had to take care of necessary things. You yourself witnessed that he was grieved on his face and constantly stared at your face with all his gloomy heart.
True! Your brother, the Messenger (s) well knew that what conspiracies are imminently taking place; he knew that, after his demise, how he is rewarded for his mission; what kinds of cruelties will be imposed on you and his Progeny!!
True! The Messenger (s), in his last days of his life, was heavy-hearted and he left the world for eternal life with his heavy heart while his holy head rested on your chest.
O' Amir Mu'amenan! Retelling those unpleasant days and events excruciates hearts of lovers, but it has to be said to unfold to the world oppressedness of the Messenger (s)-who spent all his life for guidance of Ummah, but they mistreated him and his Posterity.
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During his illness times, the Messenger (s) commanded an army to be organized and leave Medina for battling Roman Empire.(1) He appointed Osama Ibn Zeyd commander of the army and ordered all Companions but you to leave Medina for the Levant.
A well-populated army was organized, but the Messenger (s) was informed that several people stopped the army moving through and they made excuse that Osama deserved not being commander because he is only nineteen years old.(2)
The Prophet (s) became very annoyed and went to mosque while having towel on his shoulder and a kerchief on his head to talk to Muslims there and let them fear from danger of such wrongdoing.
Though suffering from a severe fever, he took a pulpit and began to talk after praising God: Lo O' people! I am very much worried about delayed movement of army! It looks as though you hardly bear Osama and you have tried to lash out at him. Your objection and disobedience is not something new; you used to criticize his father's commandeering before (during battle of Muttah). I swear to God that his father also deserved such appointment and so did his son. People should treat him well and recommend others to do so.(3)
The Messenger (s) finished his words here and climbed down the pulpit. He became bedridden because of having severe fever. He incessantly told those of the Companions who paid a visit to him this: Let Osama's army move forward.(4)
But again, the Messenger (s) was told that several people had the army stop
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Omar Ibn-e-e Khaṭṭāb insults the Prophet(s) when he was about to depart to the other world cited from Sunni sources and the other various issues )
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at the camp. The Prophet (s) who was deeply vexed said: May God curse those who disobey Osama's army. (1)
The army stopped moving at last and Mohammad's emphatic and serious order remained undone!
Why did he insist that all Companions except you leave the city with Osama?!
True! He well knew that some people co-voiced to conspire to usurp caliphate after his demise; hence, he insistently asked them to move and leave Medina!
The conspirers knew that the Messenger (s) was on the verge of death, so they failed to give an ear to what Mohammad (s) said at the pretext of his illness and commandership of Osama and did not leave the city.(2)
During his illness times, you helped him by his arms to take him to the mosque for congregational prayers. But when his illness grew worse, he could hardly do the prayers and asked you to take his part for congregational prayers.
In one of these days, Bilal said azan, calling people to say prayers; the Messenger (s) said: Today, I am sick and somebody else shall say prayers with people. Ayesha said: Tell Abubakr to do so; Hafsah said: Tell Omar to do so. When he heard as such, he got up; you and Fadl Ibn 'Abbas held his hands and he departed to the mosque while resting on you both and his feet dragged. He drove away Abubakr from the altar by pointing to him and began to say prayers from the first part. As he finished prayers, he went back home.
Later on, he summoned Abubakr and Omar and told them: Didn't I tell you to leave Medina with the army of Osama?! They replied: Yes! Hadrat said: .
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Then why didn't you leave? Abubakr said: I went but I came back to meet you again! Omar said: O' Messenger of God! I didn't go at all as I didn't like asking others about your state of health!(1)
Two of them fell behind with what the Messenger (s) said, making excuse that they were worried about health of the Messenger (s); others too followed them not to leave Medina. Therefore, the army stopped moving forward while they had known what God said: Whoever obeys the Messenger (s), he has obeyed God.(2) Also, they had heard God that:
They never reach true faith unless they are submissive to you in all affairs and disputes.(3)
They failed to surrender to God and His Messenger (s)! Because if they had done so, they would have heard what the Prophet (s) said. )
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But you fully obeyed God and His Messenger (s) with no doubt raised and you always sacrificed your dear life for God and His Messenger. That was why you were endeared by God, Angels and His Messenger.
When the Messenger (s) was sick, Companions rushed to pay him a visit and he recommended much that: O' People! Know that I left two invaluable things among you: Book of God, my Progeny. Stop surpassing them because you are dispersed and observe their rights otherwise you are faced with perdition.(1)
Now I want to tell you something that people of insight find very painful and deplorable:
On last Thursday of blessed life of the Messenger (s) whose illness worsened and a group of Companions came to pay him a visit, he said:
Fetch me ink and a piece of paper to write something for you because I want none of you go astray after me.
But all of a sudden, Omar began to utter: Don't fetch him ink and pen because this man has become delirious for his severe illness and suffices Book of God among us!! At this time, a number of people accepted to bring ink and pen, saying: Listen to the Messenger (s) and a number of others agreed to what Omar had said: Book of God is enough for us.(2).
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As dispute erupted, the Messenger (s) became annoyed and said:
Get up and leave me alone because it is not well-deserved to keep arguing in front of the Messenger (s).(1)
After this, some people in the house expressed remorse and said: If you like, we can fetch you ink and pen?
The Messenger (s) replied: Now that you have said such things?! No! But )
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I recommend you to treat my Progeny well.(1)
He then turned his face from them; people left him; only you and some others remained there.
Son of 'Abbas, Mohammad's uncle, constantly recalled the event and said while weeping: What a Thursday it was! All disaster came from that day when uproar prevented the Messenger (s) from writing something and they disrespected him badly.(2) .
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True! The greatest disrespect was paid to the Messenger (s) and accused him of uttering delirious words!! The very Messenger about whom God says:
He never speaks out of passion and whatever he says is nothing but divine revelation.(1)
They insulted the affectionate Messenger and great father of mankind (s)! The same endeared man who cast chains of immersive polytheism, superstition and humiliation off ummah and honored them. True! They appreciated his efforts and tenderness in this way!!
This was the time when the Messenger (s) found that a number of his wives who were daughters of those two people opted to raise sedition and unfolded reports of his house to their fathers.
Burned with severe fever on his face, Hadrat helped by you entered into the mosque and turned to people, saying: 4)
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O' People! There have been flames of fire and sedition like breaks of dark night; you have no cat's paw against me; I illegalized what the Qur'an did and banned whatever the Qur'an did.(1)
The Messenger (s) was really concerned about the future of Islam, though suffering from his bad illness and knew that some people outside his house had conspired to capture caliphate. When he decided to inscribe the necessary obedience to his legatee and rightful caliph-you, O' Amir Mu'amenan-they stopped him leaving a document about the condition of caliphate(2)
In one or two days of his worldly life when he was failing his health and nobody could meet him, you constantly stayed beside him and never left him alone unless you had to take care of necessary things. Once you were out for a business, he felt seriously bad and went unconscious. When he came on, he did not see you. He asked: Call my brother and my friend!(3) All people knew he meant you. You came and sat beside his bed; he wanted to get up and you helped him to do so and let him lean back to your chest.(4)
The Messenger (s) said:
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dead body before everyone else does and stay with me until I am buried; ask for help of God.(1)
You let Mohammad's holy head rest on your lap and led your ears towards his lips when he spoke to you for a long time. When you were asked what Hazrat said. You replied: He taught me thousand aspects of knowledge where each aspect contained thousand other aspects; he made his will that, God Willing, shall be executed by me.(2)
It was not long since signs of imminent death emerged on his noble being. You had his head lean back your chest and the Messenger (s) muttered remembering God. Silence filled with grief and worry spread across everywhere; the Migrants and the Helpers had gathered outside the house deeply worried about his health; all of a sudden, his lips stopped muttering and you detached your face from his while your eyes were filled with tears and you had a lump throat; you said:
May Allah augment your reward because of your Prophet's tragic demise!
This was how the Messenger(s) of compassion, mercifulness and the most superior creature of God ascended to his eternal place from this earthly world and his heart-rending departure blocked the aspect of Prophethood for good.
The Messenger (s) had put his will to you that you do his ablution, you shroud him and say prayers by yourself over him. You did all this and after that, you permitted the Companions to say prayers over him in groups.(3)r
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Your noble words in Nahj Al-Balaghah read:
The Messenger(s) became numbed. while his head was on my chest and he lost his soul; his soul I quite felt and I got it into my face.
I took care of his ablution with the help of the Angels as though door and wall of house were shouting. A group of Angels came down and a group of others flew to the sky. My ears were filled with their quiet praying over him; afterwards, we buried him into his cenobite. Who is more deserving than me with his life and moments of his death?......(1)
While having weeping eyes, you mourned on the pure body of the Messenger (s) when rendering ablution on his body, saying:
O' Messenger of God, may my parents be sacrificed to you! Upon your demise, connections stopped while others did not after death; with your death, prophethood, descent of heavenly revelations were disconnected!
Tragedy of yours kept those grieved by tragedy in patience and led them to equal mourning. If you had not ordered me to be patient and tolerant, I would have wept so stormily that I had no tears to roll; and this heart- rending suffering would always remain in me. My grief would persist, all of which mean nothing on your tragedy.
What must be done because we cannot return life and stop death? Keep us .
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remembered to God and to yourself!(1)
With your own hands, you buried the holy and pure body of your brother,(2)Prophet Mohammad (s) and placed gravestone on him and you cast the last look at his face.
May peace betide upon him who was the most unparalleled and highest man!
May peace be upon him who was Seal of the Prophets (s), essence of existence and the best and noblest being of God!
May peace be upon you, O' Abalhassan! You were the most superior and dearest creature of God! .
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I certify that disqualified people usurped your right after demise of the Prophet (s) and exercised cruelty against you and your family, but you sought patience for pleasure of God.
Greetings be upon you, O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin O' Aba Al-Hassan! You are the most oppressed man among people!
How soon commands of the Prophet (s) have been forgotten and what cruelty has been exerted against you despite all advice given by the Prophet (s) about you and your family! You who were always endeared and honored by the Prophet (s), but woe! Ah! Once the Prophet (s) was deceased, they dishonored and disrespected you! They usurped your inalienable right for worldly inferior life of two days; they raided your house and set it on fire! Woe betides upon days of life! They failed to feel mercy on your honorable wife, woman of the two worlds and apple of the eye of the Prophet (s) and martyred her after wounding her.
By God! It is extremely hard to utter such words! It is such a heavy disaster that it fills hearts of your lovers with blood when it is talked about, but it must be said to make your oppressedness known and let the world people know what those malicious people did to you, the speaking Qur'an, centerline of the truth and brother of the Prophet (s)!
It must be said to let the universe people know that what those wicked men did to you, the first Muslim, standard-bearer of army of Islam, door of knowledge of the Prophet (s) and legatee of him!
Having a heart laden with grief and tearful eyes, I put down such events by citing historically validated sources and recount your oppressedness although biased people find it regrettable to reveal these facts!
All the world people observed that the Prophet of Islam (s) introduced you as his successor at Ghadir-e-Khumme, but as the Prophet (s) met the maker and you with a number of his Companions were engaged in preparing him for burial ablution and shroud, a group of people secretly came together and willfully appointed caliph for the Islamic community and ignored
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advice of the Prophet (s) and laid the first deviating foundations of Divine Religion.(1)
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True!
The Prophet (s) had willed to you to do his burial ablution and shroud and say prayers over him; he had told you not to do anything else until this is done. You were engaged in putting his will into effect when conspirers found a chance to come together in your absence and willfully chose caliph and forcibly made people swear allegiance to the caliph they appointed!(1)t
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his side, saying: I want to tread you in such a way that your limbs might be broken! (Tarikh-e Tabari, vol.2, p.459)
Ultimately, Sa'ad Ibn-e Ebadah Ansari having been accused of not swearing allegiance to Abubakr was assassinated.
(Ibn-e 'Abd Rabba, Al-'Aqd Al-Farid, vol.5, p.14; Baladhuri, Ansab Al-Ashraf, vol. 1, p.558)
As for murder of Sa'ad Ibn-e Ebadah, history reads:
Sa'ad Ibn-e Ebadah, following the story of Saqifah Bani Sa'idah, departed to Damascus to express his objection. Omar sent someone to Damascus and ordered him saying: Ask Sa'ad to swear allegiance in any way possible; if he failed to do so, ask for God's help (to kill Sa'ad)!
The agent moved up to Sham and found Sa'ad in a garden; he asked for his allegiance. Sa'ad said: I never swear allegiance to anyone from Quraysh. The envoy said: I'll kill you if you don't do so! Sa'ad said: Even if you kill me. The agent said: Are you outside of what people have agreed on? Sa'ad replied: If you mean allegiance to Abubakr, Yes! After this, the agent shot him and killed him.
Some of the Migrants sharing hands with a number of the Helpers took allegiance for Abubakr in whatever way they could while the holy body of the Prophet (s) had not yet been buried.
Ibn-e Abi Al-Hadid Muʼatazili writes:
(فلما بويع أبوبكر اقبلت الجماعة التي بايعته تزفه زقا إلى مسجد رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه [ و آله ] وسلّم .....
As allegiance to Abubakr was made, Abubakr was joyfully carried on their shoulders to the mosque of the Messenger of God (s).......
(Sharh-e Nahj Al-Balagha, vol.6, p.19)
Dear readers overviewing issues of Saqifah history knew that appointment of Abubakr for caliphate was made as a result of wilfully hasty action of a number of the Migrants and the Helpers rather than consensus of Islamic ummah. Also, the following books cite Saqifah event:
• Sahih-e Bukhari, vol.4, p.119
• Siray-e Ibn-e Hisham, vol.4, p.225
• Kanz Al-Ammal, vol.3, p.139
• Tarikh-e Ya'aqubi, vol.2, p.103
In the history of Islam, two major events have occurred to put a major effect on internal grouping of the Islamic system and both have taken place in the two ending months of the Prophet's life; these two major events are as follows:
A. Ghadir-e Khumm in the 18th Dhulḥajjah, 10 A.H.
B. Bani Saedeh Saqifah; less than three months after Ghadir event
These two events have similarities and differences which are referred to hereunder:
Similarities:
• Both events have occurred in the late years of the Prophet (s)'s life.
• Both events are about the issue of succession and leadership of the Islamic ummah after the Prophet(s).
• Both events were in contact with people and they pronounced their appearance through approval and allegiance.
• The Companions of the Prophet (s) were present in both events.
• Both events focused on one one of the Prophet's Companions for his succession and both had been from the Quraysh.
• Both events originated in emergence of subsequent religious factioning in Islam and appearance of two systems of Imamate and caliphate in confrontation in the history of Islam.
Differences:
• Ghadir assembly was held in public and expanded from all Islamic cities and tribes which were present in Hajj journey (Hojjat Al-Weda) of Prophet Mohammad (s) and which were on their way back; while Saqifah assembly was organized by Ansār, the Helpers immediately after demise of the Messenger of God (s) and later several people of the Mohajerin, the Migrants appeared at the assembly; therefore, it had a tribal color and it was never a general assembly.
• Ghadir event and notice of Imamate happened in one of the religiously glorious ceremonies that is Ḥajj pilgrimage while Saqifah assembly took place in the most sorrowful conditions that is when the Prophet (s) was on the verge of demise where people particularly the Hashemites grieved beside him.
• Ghadir assembly was held in Juḥfah on an open and wide space, which belonged to no certain group, but Saqifah assembly was dependent on a certain group; that means Bani Saeda from the Ansar; therefore, it had a tribal color.
• The Prophet (s) himself organized Ghadir with divine mission and motives, but Saqifah came to be hjeld by a number of the great men of tribes with a motivation of seizing the caliphate based on tribal competition.
• At Ghadir, leadership and succession of the Prophet (s) was given to all people on a notice with religious criteria and through pronouncement of God to the Messenger (s), causing perfection of religion, completion of grace and despair of atheists, but at Saqifah, the caliphate was raised with tribal criteria and showing off self-pride motivated by inter-competition and was followed by conflict of the Islamic system internal forces.
• Ghadir issue was based on the Qur'anic text, but Saqifah issue was entrusted to council and consultation of participants.
• Ghadir event happened very transparently by speech of the Prophet (s) and introduction of Hadrat Ali (‘a) to those who were there and pronouncement of his imamate and caliphate; people there publically heard it, congratulated it and they were supposed to let those absent there know about it, but Saqifah assembly was run hastily and clandestinely with preemptive measures of the Ansar for designating ruler from among themselves, while the subject candidate was not clearly known. Upon arrival of three people of the Mohājerān (Abūbakr, Omar, Abū Ubaydah Jarrah), there appeared severe disputes and subsequent arguments and opposition among Ansar triggered election of Abubakr. The next day, caliph was brought to the mosque and people were asked to swear allegiance to what was done while a large group of Moslems of Medina had not attended Saqifah assembly.
•The person introduced to people at Ghadir was young, dynamically spirited and energetic in terms of age, but the man elected in Saqifah was affected by tribal Sheikdom regime, was old and lasted only two years after being elected.
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Some Companions of Messenger of God (s) who stopped joining them immediately told you that O' Ali! Why are you silent because a group of people at Saqifah of Bani Saedah have tried to greatly conspire by robbing you of your virtues on their behalf; you told them that you cannot ignore testament of the Messenger of God (s) and leave alone his holy body and leave house, saying: The Messenger of God (s) had told me that his ummah would adopt retrograde after his demise.
But you never kept silent and you nightly had your honorable wife ride a horse, took hands of your two sons and stopped by houses of every one of Mohajerān and Ansar and reminded them of your own right, asking them to help you to take your right back.
From among ummah, only forty five people declared their readiness to help you and made an appointment with you to come to your house in the morning while having their head shaved and their weapons to defend your right to death. In the morning, except for four people with shaved heads and weapons in their hands, nobody came up there!(1) You went to see them two more nights and asked for their help; they said they would come to help you in the morning, yet nobody came up there again but those four people!
When you noticed their disloyalty and breach of promise, you stayed at home, turned to the Holy Qur'an and were engaged in formulating and rounding it up. It was in shape of sheets of paper, pieces of wood and skin before and you stayed home until you recovered them all. When you were busy writing it with your holy hands by keeping its interpretation, revelation, its abrogation and its abrogated, the caliphate apparatus sent after you to come out and pledge allegiance to usurpers of your caliphate! You answered: I am busy and I swore not to wear cloak unless I say prayers .
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and until I collect and draw up the Holy Qur'an.
After several days of finishing inscription of Words of Revelation, you took the Holy Qur'an and went up to mosque of the Messenger of God (s) and vociferously said:
O' people! From the day the Prophet (s) died, I had been busy making his preparation of body ablution and formulating the Holy Qur'an. God sent down revelation and I recovered it; I recited all revelations for the Prophet (s) and he taught me its interpretation.
You then said:
Because you would not say later: We were uninformed of such things and you would not say on the Day: I did not call you to help me and did not remind you of my right.
Omar Said: We are needless of your Qur'an!
You went back home after that.
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Omar told Abubakr: Send someone after Ali to tell him that he must swear allegiance and we are not in power until he swear allegiance. If he swears allegiance, we are relieved because of him.
Abubakr sent someone to you to say: Respond to caliph of the Messenger of Allah!
And you said:
Praise belongs to Allah! How soon they raised falsehood!
Omar said to his comrade: You must send someone after him to swear allegiance because nobody but him, his family and these four people remained unless they have done so!
Abubakr said: whom shall we send to him?
Omar said: We send Qonfoz after him because he's an ill-tempered, violent and one of the freed men.
Abubakr dispatched Qonfoz with a number of people to you. He came and you did not let him in; he went back.
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They returned to Abubakr and Omar while they were seated at mosque and people sat around them. They said: We weren't allowed to enter in the house.
Omar said: Go there; if you were allowed to get into house; otherwise, you could go in the house with no permission!
They came up there and asked for a permission to enter; your honorable wife, lady of the two worlds said: I won't let you enter into my house!
His cortege went back but Qonfoz remained there.
They told Abubakr and Omar: Fatima said such things and we refused to enter her house without permission.
Omar angrily said: We have nothing to do with women!!
After all, he ordered people around himself to fetch firewood; they carried firewood and Omar himself joined them to do so and set them around your house, your wife and your children!
Then Omar yelled in such a way that you heard him from inside the house: O' Ali! I swear to God! You must come out and swear allegiance to caliph of the Messenger (s); otherwise, I'll set ablaze the house with the people inside!
Days must weep because of such words until the Day! What on earth did he say?! Whose house does he want to set on fire?!! Your, your wife's and your children's house?!!!! The very house Trustworthy Gabriel recalled its residents and has congratulated the Prophet (s) for having a family?!(1)
The house that the Messenger of God (s) greeted its residents nine months in every morning prayers after the Revelation came down?! The house where hope of the Messenger of God (s) lived and Revelation came down?! Does he want to set it to fire?!!!!(2))
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The same house where brother of the Messenger of God (s) lives! The house where piece of being of the Messenger (s) lives? The very house in which two endeared people of the Messenger lives?!!!
The Almighty God says in His Holy Qur'an: O' Messenger! Tell your ummah that you do not want any reward for your mission unless they show goodness and brotherhood to your Progeny.(1)
But they want to pay for countless troubles your brother, the Messenger of God (s) had?! The very endeared who let them out of atheism, polytheism and superstition and honored them; now they want to give reward for his troubles this way?!
(2)(أُيّ لكُمْ وَلِمَا تَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ اللّهِ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ )
After that threat, your honorable wife said: O' Omar! Do we have anything to do with you?
He replied: Open the door, if you don't, I set fire on your house!
Lady of the two Worlds said: O' Omar! Do you not fear God when you enter my house?!
But he was heedless and ask for fire on her house's door; after that, he opened half-burned door with a strike while Fatima (‘a) was behind the door.
He entered into the house with his men and your wife (‘a) who had sacrificed her for your life came near and shouted: O' father, O' Messenger ?
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of God (s)!
The God-ignorant man strongly hit her body side with sword sheath in front of you and your children; she moaned, saying: O' father! Omar whipped her arm and she cried: O' Messenger of God! Do you see how Abubakr and Omar misbehaved your survivors!
You whose wife not letting you come behind the door immediately rose up and caught Omar, dragged him, grounded him and hit him on his neck and nose and you wanted to kill him, but you remembered testament and words of the Messenger of God (s) who had told you to keep patience in the face of such disaster and calamity!
You told him: O' son of Khattab! I swear to Him who appointed Muhammad as the Messenger, You knew you could hardly come into my house if God had not ordained this and because of the promise I had kept with the Prophet (s).
He whipped the endeared daughter of the Messenger of God (s) while he had heard him say that: Whoever bothers Fatima, he has bothered me! And he had heard that your brother, Mohammad (s) had said about his honorable daughter:
Verily, God becomes angry if Fatima does too.(1) By so doing, they caused Wrath of God and were permanently cursed.
Omar asked for help; people also rushed into your house. You tried to snatch your sword but they did sooner than you and some raided you. Some agents attacked you with sword and caught you to rope you in neck; those agents dragged you along to the mosque to force you to swear allegiance to Abubakr.
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was the speaking Qur'an and a door to knowledge of the Messenger (s) among ummah!
This was while they had heard Mohammad (s) say: Ali is from me and I am from Ali.
In fact, those people threw rope around neck of the Messenger of God (s)!(1)
Who could believe that the standard-bearer of army of monotheism would be some day treated this way?! Who could believe that God's Lion would be lashed and dragged along to the mosque some day?!
But you, for God's Pleasure, kept patient and never showed your anger because men of God behave as such.
O' days! O' times! And O' history! How did you stand to narrate such a painful and bitter event?!
How did your moans not go up to the heavens and how did rain of blood not roll down your eyes?!
If days, times and the earth might speak, they would say:
We moaned much and strongly ate our hearts out; but as people then could hardly hear and see, they failed to perceive things!
If the heavenly angels showered flowers enthusiastically over your name and that of the Messenger of God (s) written with light up in the heavens when the Messenger (s), in his early days of Hegira, brought people together to become brothers two by two and in the end, he hugged you, telling people: Ha O' people! Know that Ali is my brother in this world and the other world, the same angels now began to moan and wail in the heavens once they noticed such heart-rending scene!
Who could imagine that one of the heads of the vicious family-who was standard-bearer of army of infidels- takes office in the name caliph of Moslems and speaks about you sarcastically citing that event!
Thirty years after that event, Mu'awiyyat Ibn-e Abi Sufyan, may God damn him, his father and his children, wrote a letter to you, saying: .
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......as far as the caliphate regime harnessed you and led you, like a refractory camel, towards allegiance.(1)
And you, in response to letter of that eternally cursed man, said:
You had written in your letter that "I was led like a refractory camel for allegiance"; I swear to God that you wanted to vilify me, but you, in fact, praised me! And you wanted to scandalize me, but you were done so and no Moslem has a problem if he is made oppressed.(2)
They took you by harshly dragging you to reach Abubakr and this was while Omar stood with his sword above Abubakr and there were "Khaled Ibn-e Walid", "Abu Ubayydah Ibn-e Jarraḥ", Salem Mawli Abi Huzayfa”, Mu'az Ibn-e Jebel", Moghirat Ibn-e Sho'abah", Asīd Ibn-e Ḥadir", "Bashir Ibn-e Sa'id and all other people having their swords had been seated around Abubakr.
They brought you into the mosque and you shouted at them, saying: I swear to God! If I had a sword in my hand, you could hardly do such a thing to me.
I swear to God I would not blame myself for jihading with you and if I could have forty people, I would disperse your people, but may God damn tribes that swore allegiance to me and later, they looked down on me.
Staring at you, Abubakr cried: Let him go!
You said: O'Abubakr! How soon you usurped status of the Prophet (s) oppressively! On what right and with what status do you invite people to pledge an allegiance to you? Did you not swear allegiance to me as ordered by God and the Prophet (s) yesterday?
This time Omar harshly said: Swear allegiance and leave these wrong crowds! ً
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You said: If I don't do it, what will you do?!
They said: We kill you in humiliation!
You said: Then, you've killed a God worshipper and brother of His Messenger!
Abūbakr said: It's true you're worshipper of God, but we don't confess you're brother of the Messenger!
You told him: Do you deny that the Messenger set a brotherhood between me and himself?
He said: True!
You then turned to the crowd and said: O' Muslims, Muhajerin and O' Ansar! I swear to God that did you hear not that the Messenger, at Ghadir- e-khumm, say: Whomever I am his leader, Ali shall be his leader too?!
You talked about all of what the Messenger had said about your status, reminding them as such and people approved of your words.
Abubakr fearing you might be helped by people told you: What you said is true and we heard it ourselves and kept it in our hearts, but after that, we also heard the Messenger say: we're Ahl-e Bayt selected by God, honored us and preferred the World Hereafter to this World for us and He shall not keep prophethood and caliphate in one place for Ahl-e Bayt.
It is amazing! How did he attribute falsehood to the Messenger (s) while he well knew that whoever, knowingly, attributes lie to Mohammad (s), he shall reside in the hell!
God says in His everlasting Words:(1);
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And the worldly life is nothing but play and amusement, frivolity and pleasure and the other world is much superior and more stable.(1)
How valuable this short mean world is to make man revoke any right and restore any wrong?!
When he said this, you told him: Is there anyone of the Messenger's Companions who shares what you say and confirms it?
Omar said: Caliph of the Messenger tells the truth; I also heard the Messenger say what Abubakr said! Abū Ubaydah Jarrah and Salem Mawli Abi Ḥuzayfa and Ma'az Ibn-e Jebel said: He is right. We've heard the Messenger say such a thing.
When several people falsely confirmed the first falsehood, you told them:
You made a pledge to the cursed scripture in Ka'aba that: If God takes the life of the Messenger, you seize caliphate from us.(2).
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The Messenger said this to me and I told him: O' Messenger of God (s)! What should I do then?
He said to me:
If you found people at odds with them, do jihad with them and declare war; otherwise, swear allegiance to them and save your life.
And you then said:
I take the oath of God! If those forty people who swore allegiance to me would have kept their promise; I would have raised jihad with you in the Path of God, but by God! Hardly ever will single one of you take the caliphate until the Day.
You proved the reason for their false words by citing Words of God, saying:
The mere reason behind what you attributed to the Messenger is Word of God who says:(1)
The Book means Prophethood and wisdom means Sunna and government means caliphate and we are family of Abraham.
At this time, Abūzar, Meqdād and Salman-the three cordial Companions of the Messenger of God (s)-stood up, saying:
O' Ali! If you order us, we'll strike them with sword and defend you to the last drop of our blood!
You told the three life-sacrificing Companions: Refuse to do so and remember the testament the Messenger (s) made to you.
Omar told Abubakr having been seated up on the pulpit: ;
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How is it that you are up on the pulpit while this man is at war and he is not to pledge allegiance to you; order us to decapitate him!
He spoke while your two endeared sons (a) had stood there; when they heard him say as such, they began to weep. You hugged them, saying:
Stop crying! By God! They have no power to kill your father!
Umme Imen, nurse of the Messenger, appeared and said:(1)
O' Abubakr! How soon you showed your envy and discord! Omar ordered to have her out of the mosque, saying: We've nothing to do with women!
Buraydah Aslami-one of the Companions of the Messenger (s)-rose and said: O' Omar! Do you attack brother of the Prophet (s)? We know you well among the Quraysh men! Aren't you, both, the same people who were told by the Prophet(s): Go up to Ali and greet him as Amir Al-Mu'amenin? You replied: Is this Command of God? He said: Yes!
Abubakr said:
It was so; but the Messenger (s) said: Prophethood and caliphate do not end up my Progeny!
Buraydah said: I swear to God! He hasn't said such a thing. By God! I give up living in the city whose emir is you.
Omar ordered to have him thrashed and expelled.
After that, Omar told you:
O' son of Abitāleb! Stand up and swear allegiance to us!
You said:
If I refuse to do it, what will you do?
He said:
By God! I behead you!
You repeated your statement three times and you were given the same reply; you then stretched your hand without opening your hand; Abubakr .
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touched your hand and he was contented with same thing.
While having rope on your holy neck, you saw tombstone, saying:
O' my cousin! These people looked down on me and they were about to kill me. You said what Hadrat Harun told his brother, the Moses: O'son of my mother! (When you had left for Mount Sinai and they had become idolaters) they humiliated me and (when I advised them to stop worshipping calves), they were about to kill me!(1)
They told "Zubayr" to swear allegiance to them; he did not do so. Omar, Khaled Ibn-e Walid and Moghirat Ibn-e Sho'aba with some others attacked him, snatched his sword, dropped it down, broke it and they dragged him along.
Omar sat on his chest, telling him: Swear allegiance to us; otherwise, you'll be murdered!
Zubayr told him: By God! If I had my sword at hand, you would stay away from me! He then swore allegiance to them.
They turned to Salman; strongly hit him on his neck; knocked him down, twisted his hand and he then was forced to take allegiance.
After him, Abūzar and Meqdād were threatened to death and they too were compelled to take allegiance.
Salman turned to them, saying: You'll face perdition with what you've done; do you know what you've done?!
Omar said:
O' Salman! Now that your friend and you, too, swore allegiance to us, you can say whatever you wish and so can your friend!
Salman replied him: You and your friend are to blame for sins of all people until the Day!
Omar said:
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and you aren't enlightened that your friend will be caliph?!
Salman replied him again by reciting the Holy Qur'anic Revelations and you told the loyal Companion: O' Salman! I swear you to God to keep quiet.
abuzar said:
O' Omar! You scold us because of love and respect of Mohammad's Progeny?! May God damn whoever raises enmity against them!
Omar said:
Amen; may God curse whoever raises cruelty against their right! But by God! They own no right of caliphate and they are equal with others!
You told Omar: O' Omar! We've have no right of caliphate, but you and your friend have? Woe onto you! I wonder if you know what crime you committed to yourself!
Omar told you: O' Abalhassan! Stop saying more now that you've sworn allegiance because all people voted for me and not you; therefore, am I to blame?
Abubakr said:
O' Omar! Now that he has sworn allegiance to us and we've become safe from his evils and sudden attack, let him say whatever he likes to.
You continued to say all of what your brother, the Messenger of God (s) had said about them and their place during Resurrection Chastisement; after that, you took off the rope, threw it apart, moved out of the mosque to go home.(1).
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When you entered your half-burned house, you saw your dear and
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honorable wife bedded as a result of strikes of those vicious men. With tearful eyes and sorrowful heart, you appeared beside her and she condoled you while she herself suffered from critically physical pain.
They battered the dearest daughter of the Messenger (s) and hit her on the body side with half-burned door and disrespected the lady of the two worlds. What sin did she commit to deserve being behaved that way?!
She committed sin of defending the right; her sin was to scandalize the oppressors and her guilt was to guide people on the Straight Path of God!
The honorable lady took the place of her honorable father at the mosque of the Prophet (s) after his demise to prevent ummah from deviation and vociferously said:
O' People!
Be aware and know that fathers of this ummah are Ali ('a) and Mohammad (s); if you obey them, they will improve your dishonesty, help you out of painful chastisement of hell and grant you gift of Paradise if you join them.(1)
And she told ummah:
I swear to God! If they entrusted the right to people of the right and followed Progeny of the Prophet (s), even two people would hardly raise differences about religion of God.(2)
True!
Her sin was that she told the truth and defended your inalienable right as seen by the usurpers of the caliphate!
The honorable woman had become so annoyed in heart, as wide as kingdom of God, about what they did that she made a testament to you to render her nightly ablution, shroud and burial(3) because she did not want to )
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have the cruel people take part in her funeral and burial ceremony.(1)
You acted as your wife had willed and after her martyrdom, you rendered her ablution and shroud in camera and buried her at night; when you placed her pure body in the grave, with tearful eyes and painful heart, you noticed the grave of the Messenger of God (s) and confabulated with him, saying:
"Greetings betide you, O' the Messenger of God! Greetings from me and your daughter who has now been buried beside you and hastened to reach you!
"O' the Messenger of God! I've reduced my patience and tolerance by losing Fatima and I've no self-restraint. It was me who buried you with my hands and your honorable soul flew between my chest and neck.
Therefore, what you deposited to me returns to you, the owner. From this time on, my grief endures and my nights are vigil. You'll soon know how your ummah united to raise cruelty to her; ask her about our sorrowful mood because it's not been long since you've been lost in mind and heart."(2)
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because of the testament she made to you.
Her grave is unknown so that all the world people might ask themselves:
Why must grave of his endeared daughter and his apple of the eye be hidden?!
So that all the universe people would ask themselves:
Why must daughter of the Messenger of God (s) make a testament to you to bury her in the dark night?
And it is not a lie to express about such oppressedness of you and your wife, but it is right and those who have denied your Imamate and caliphate have cited this point in their books.(1)t
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The words of a wanton man who claim to be Moslem have shocked me! How he claims to be Moslem while he sees his wild attack on your house- where Angels descend-as one of proud and courageous acts of the caliphate regime and shamefully reads it in his malodorously poetic lines towards your brother, the Messenger of God (s):
"How well Omar talked to Ali, honor the listener and glorify the speaker! That I set ablaze your house and not let you stay there if you do not make allegiance, although Mohammad's daughter might be in the house!
Who but Omar could make statements in front of the knight of Adnan Dynasty and their defenders!?"(1))
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O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin (a)! With your permission, I want to tell this this wanton man a few words:
However I think I do not know what to tell you and what word I should use for you, O' wanton man! To tell you something you deserve and prove the real truth about you!?
You have just heard the name of Amir Al-Mu'amenin and your smaller brain than a filbert could hardly realize a drop of endless sea of our lord, Amir Al-Mu'amenin (a)!
You are proud of the wild attack on the house of Revelation?! Attack on the same sacred house where Trustee Gabriel entered with a permission?!
You whom you know yourself a Moslem!
Have you read the Word of God that says?:
"O' Messenger! Tell your ummah that you do not want a reward but raising affection towards your Progeny.(1)
You talked about epic and valor of Omar Ibn-e Khattab!! : "Who but Omar could make a statement in front of the knight of Adnan Dynasty!?"
O' Wanton man!
Is this courage and epic that a group of armed-to-teeth people attack the house of Revelation, frighten children and women, beat them and set ablaze their house!?
Do you name such unmanly acts courage and valor in your creed?!
You brag about courage of the so-called man?!!
You really know what you say or you pretend to be ignorant?!
The very man you bombastically brag about his valor in your poems turned back on the enemy's army and escaped the Uhud battle fearing his life; this was while the Messenger (s) called and asked him and those running away »
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for resistance, but he and many others ran away fearing their lives!
However, our lord, Ali (‘a) sacrificially defended the Messenger (s) in that hard-fought battle and his holy body suffered tens of injuries there.
Also, he and many others fearing their lives ran away in Ḥanayn war and Ali ('a), our lord, roared like hundred lions and defended life of the Messenger (s).
And if you do not know something, I tell you to know it!
In the battle of Khandaq, the trench battle, when Amru Ibn-e 'Abdowad with several others of disbelievers passed through Khandaq, loudly making fun of beliefs of Moslems, he and his comrade, fearing their lives, hid behind the Messenger of God (s) who repeatedly told them and others: one man goes ahead and gets hell rid of him; nobody moved ahead. The very man you brag about his valor dared not even take a step forward and stood frozenly.
And it was our lord, Ali (‘a) who stepped into the battlefield by saying Allahoakbar, God is great and struck Amru Ibn-e ‘Abdowad, sending him to hell; this made the Messenger (s) happy and said about his courage:
On the day of Khandaq, Strike of Ali is higher than worshipping of jinn and people on the Day!
I have heard you have bombastically and excitedly recited these nasty poems in a meeting with great literary men and others and the audience has applauded you?!(1)
Don't be happy because I tell you a point that degrades you!!
I recount the well-known words of the Messenger (s) to Amir Mu'amenan (‘a), saying: Ali is liked by the faithful and held grudge by the hypocrite dissident.(2)h)
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And hear another statement the Messenger (s) made to Ali ('a), saying:
O' Ali ('a)! Whoever dies by raising enmity against you, he shall die as a Jew or Christian.(1)
Also hear this your great men have cited in your books, reading:
Some Companions of the Messenger (s) have known impurely-born people as enemies of Ali ('a)!(2) It's true, hear it again: Some Companions of the Messenger (s) have known impurely-born people as enemies of Ali ('a)!
Also listen to this being quoted from the Prophet (s) as saying:
Skeptics are mustered from their own graves in relation to Ali (‘a) while carrying of fire which has three hundred flames on each of which there is a devil that burns his face as long as he appears before God for judging.(3)!
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May we be mustered by the Almighty God to Amir Mu'amenan (a) and you to very those people!
Peace of God be upon you, O' Abalhassan, O' Amir Al-Mo'amenin!
O' Standard-bearer of guidance and a great man of the history of man; O' opener of Divine Blessing forever! If some people failed to realize you and exercised cruelty against you and your family, O' the beloved of God and His Messenger (s)! You have lovers whose hearts are sunk and tears roll down their cheeks when they hear your blessed name.
If they attacked your house and insulted your blessed status and your family, but many people love you and your pure descendants.
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I certify that although the wrong crowd ignored your inalienable right, you always sought good patience and wished well for the ummah
O' Amir Al-Mo'amenin! Hardly ever has human history seen an oppressed man like you! Every free man who studies your lifetime confesses to this fact. You were the first to say "here am I" to call of the Prophet of Islam (s); the first to stand behind him in saying prayers and the first to accompany him in defense.
You were the only man who said "here am I" to call by your lord, the Messenger (s) in "Hadith of Warning" or Yawm al-Inzar, and publicly became a believer in front of forty relatives of the Messenger and were satirized by some people there.
You together with your honorable father were the first to circle the blessed existence of the Messenger(s) and safeguarded him; you have been a self- devotedly vigilant day and night for three years.
You were the only man who fearlessly slept on the Messenger's bed and sacrificed your life to protect the life of the Messenger (s) when he was on his migration to Medina.
You chivalrously fought in all big or small wars. You never retreated although you suffered lots of injuries in some wars. You acted as a defensive shield for the Messenger (s) against the enemies. This was while many ran away from fighting because of fear of life and left behind the Messenger (s) among enemies.
You were the only man who appeared on the battlefield. The enemies shivered and eluded when they saw you. They lost their heads in war with you.
You were the only man out of many men of the world whom the Messenger (s) deemed competent for marrying his beloved daughter and the most
superior woman of the world, Hadrat Şediqqeh Kobra (‘a). He introduced you as vizier, successor, and Imam after himself on and on.
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However, when the Messenger (s) deceased, you engaged in his ablution, shroud and burial as he had made a will. Some people, in your absence, gathered at the Saqifeh Bani Sa'ideh and willfully selected someone as caliph. They usurped your caliphate and when you did not swear allegiance to them, they invaded your house, set it ablaze, injured your wife and killed your son in your wife's embryo. They forcibly seized the land of Fadak which was a gift from Muhammad (s) to his daughter and they told a lie that the Prophet (s) has said: we, Messengers, leave no dirhams, dinars and property as inheritance!(1)
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Theosophy Account Twenty One
Usurpation of Fadak by the caliphate system, reasons for patience of Amir Al- Mo'amenin (a) in front of the usurpers of caliphate, bibulousness of Abubakr and Omar before and after their embracing Islam based on citations of Sunnis and the other issues )
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They left you, an effervescent and tumultuous sea of divine perfections and introducer of medina of the knowledge of the Prophet (s), and made you keep house for 25 years and stopped you giving the pure facts and divinely high cultures to people.
But you kept patient while you were a thorn in their flesh and a bone in their throat; you yourself said:
"I kept patient while I resembled someone whose flesh is filled with thorn and whose throat is clogged by bone; I myself saw that my inheritance was being plundered."(1)
In one of the days-during caliphate-when you were making speech for people, an Arab man entered into the session saying: Woe! I have been )
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tyrannized! You told him: Come up here! When the man approached, you told him: O' Arab man! I have been tyrannized to the extent of sands, pebbles and hair of animals.(1)
You constantly joined the Messenger of God (s) and slayed the Arab great men and those with a recorded history, who blocked Islam to enhance Islam and defend religion and the Prophet (s); the hypocrite dissidents who could not revenge the Prophet (s) held all their grudges against you for impure blood of their common ancestors after departure of the Prophet (s). They took revenge of you through casting you out of society(2) and if you had not had good patience, you would have been killed. You unfolded this fact after 25 years passed from Saqifa Bani Sa'ida and said:
"I noticed that I have no companions but my family for achieving my right and if I had not taken any action, everyone would have been killed; hence, I was not pleased to find them killed. I closed my thorn-filled eyes and I sipped taste of events while bearing my throat clogged with bones. This state of mine was more distasteful than colocynth, but I tried to be tolerant. "
You found that reasoning and argumentation of a lot is not of a consequence and the caliphate system and its followers insist on maintaining their power. By appraising conditions of the Islamic society, you drew this conclusion that if you insist on capturing the government and administering your right, there will be a situation where efforts made by the Prophet (s) and bloods given for irrigating the sapling of Islam are wasted; hence, you gave up pursuing caliphate to maintain the main Islam(1).
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and you made a statement years later:
"I gave up donning roble of caliphate and abandoned it while I was deep in thought whether I could rise up alone (without followers) and (seize my right) or I keep patient in a suffocating atmosphere of oppression they created? An atmosphere where the old grow worn out, the youth grow old and the faithful are compelled to suffer until the last moments of life; finally, I saw that tolerance and patience remains closer to wisdom and intellect; therefore, I kept patient but I looked like the one who has thorn in his eyes and bone in his throat. I noticed openly that my heritage is being plundered.(1)ţ
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Although you witnessed that the ummah of the Prophet (s) turned back from you and went out of the straight path, but you gave them chance and compassionately helped and guided them, particularly when some Jews, Christians and citizens of other nations headed for Medina to inquire about Islam. They raised questions from caliphs and Companions, but they could not answer them. They had no way but referring them to you. You as the gate of knowledge of the Prophet (s) answered their questions based on the Torah, Bible and the Qur'an. This created great wonder and joy on the looks of the caliphs who had taken the seat of the Prophet (s)! (1).
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When the caliphate system was faced with a deadlock to deal with political matters and some problems, they had no way but referring to you for solutions. Words fail the author to describe it, but you answered their queries and led them out of their impasse.
Particularly during Omar Ibn-e Khaṭṭāb's caliphate, there happened various problems with the conquests and expansion of countries by the army of Islam and the Caliph could not handle the problems, he referred to you and you guided him, so he said: If Ali (‘a) had not helped me (in solving obstacles of governance), Omar could have perished!(1))
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O' lord, you are honorable! More honorable than breadth of the Seven Heavens!
That is true! You solved problems of the very person who ordered your house to be raided, set ablaze it and stab your honorable wife!
One of the staunchest enemies of Islam was Roman Empire which incessantly threatened the central government of Islam in the north. Prophet Muhammad (s) joined by a massive army headed for Tabuk in 9th of Hijra to fight with Romans. He came back to Medina without fighting, but the threat of Roman Empire always preoccupied his mind. For the same reason, in last moments of his life when he was ill, he arranged an army of the Helpers and Migrants to be dispatched to Damascus. The army failed to leave Medina for reasons (referred to in theosophy nineteen) and the Prophet (s) died while the army of Islam had set up camp seven kilometers far from Medina; later, those painful events.......
After Abubakr seized caliphate, he was utterly doubtful about fulfilling the Prophet's commandment (battle against Romans). Therefore, he consulted with a group of Ṣaḥāba, but the consultation did not let Abubakr abandon his doubtfulness because everyone formed his own opinions. Then, he asked your idea and you told him: If you enter into combat, you will win. The Caliph became happy when he heard you saying that and said: you struck good omen and tidings.(1)
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a hard-fought battle in Qādesiyya. Sa'ad Waqqāṣ, the commander of the army, wrote a letter to Omar and let him know about the threats of enemy and their integrated assault on the federal government. He further said that army of Islam is prepared to begin preemptive attack on the enemy.
Omar went to mosque and brought together the heads of ṣaḥāba and informed them that he wanted to leave Medina to stay at an area between Basra and Kufa and commandeer the army.
This time, Talḥah stood up and exhorted the Caliph to do that; he made statements which smelled cajolery and flattery very well.
After him, Uthman rose and not only did he encourage the Caliph to leave Medina, but also he added: Write a letter to the army of Sham and Yemen to desert their regions to join your forces to counter with the enemy.
This time, you were in the mosque; for victory of the army of Islam, you stood up and said:
"Victory or defeat of the army is not dependent on more or less population of the army, this is religion of God that made it triumphant and it is Army of God that He prepared and helped it.
The situation of ruler looks like thread of beads that brought them together; if the thread is torn apart, beads are scattered and they can never be collected and formed anew.
Today, although Arabs are a few in number, but they are powerful and endeared with the force of Islam and in the light of society, unity and harmony; therefore, you rotate the society like millstone by means of Muslims and fuel the flame of war with enemies with their aid because if you yourself leave Medina, Arabs from everywhere will not obey your orders and what you have left behind is more important than what you have ahead of you. [This means that if you leave hub of caliphate system, some people might, in your absence, spur rebellion and uprising and disrupt the system of Islamic ummah. This threat of internal turbulence is worse than that of the external enemies.]
And if non-Arabs see you tomorrow in the battlefield, they will say: this is the basis and origin of Arabs, if this basis is uprooted, you feel comfortable. This idea will make them more covetous and determined in
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destroying you and battling against you.
As for what you said, they prepare to fight with Muslims and you are upset about it. Know that God feels displeased with this more than you and He is more omnipotent over what He finds pleasant.
As for the increased number of enemy troops you referred to; know that we never relied on the number of men in the battles in the past; rather, we counted on assistance of God and we became victorious.(1)
Having heard your statements, Omar found them pleasant and made up his mind not to leave Medina(2), saying: I invoke by God that problem might come up and Ali (‘a) is here to solve it.(3)
If you were domineering and opportunist, you would tell Omar: Join the troops in the battle! So that he might be killed and you could seize the power in Medina. If he had not been killed in the war, you would have taken control of the central government in his absence and troops. In this way, he would have been removed from caliphate and you could have become the Caliph, which was your legal right rather than others.
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But you never used weapon of deceitfulness for achieving your own right; instead, you overlooked your right honorably for the sake of the interests of Islamic community and you constantly led ummah in their problems on the days when they disavowed you from your right.
Of course, this never seemed that you conceal the facts; rather, you told people who rushed to you and swore allegiance to you right after death of the Caliph III and that those three men were not the true Caliphs of the Messenger (s), but they had usurped the divine status!
True! You made your everlasting statements and unfolded the facts as such: 9
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"Be aware! I swear to God!
Ababakr donned garment of caliphate while he knew that my status in relation to Islamic government looks like axis of mill in relation to mill which rotates around it. He knew that I owned enormous stock of knowledge and high-flying gulls of ideas cannot fly as high as my high value.....so that the Caliph I kept on his way and shifted caliphate to Khaṭṭāb's son.....
Amazingly! Ababakr who, in his lifetime, asked people to accept his excuses, [Abubakr repeatedly said: Leave me alone and excuse me from caliphate because I am not better than you]. How did he entrust caliphate to someone else while he was dying?
Both overused caliphate and utilized its outcomes; at last, the first one drove the government on a way and entrusted it to a man {Omar} who was a combination of violence, hard-headedness, mistake and apology.
Ruler resembles someone who rides on a rebellious camel; if he reigns hard, camel's nostrils are torn and if he leaves it free, it falls down the cliff.
I swear to God!
People had been in troubles of pain and suffering in the second Caliph's rule. They experienced hypocrisies and oppositions and I had no alternative but to remain patient during the long painful and agonizing times until my lifetime passed.
Later, Omar assigned others on the caliphate and guessed that I equal them! I take refuge in God because of this Shura!! When had I been in doubt before them and now I am equivalent to members of Shura.
inevitably fell short in struggling with them again and I came in harmony with them. One of them who held grudge with me became upset [S'ad Ibn- e Abi Waqqāṣ who was one of the six-member Shura] and the other one found his groom superior ['Abdulrahman Ibn-e Auf, Uthman's brother-in- law who had right of veto in Shura as Omar had ordered!] and those two others whose names are not good to say. [Talhah and Zubayr who rebelled against Imam because of being shrewd and rascal and created Jamal battle] until Uthman became Caliph. His stomach bulged of overeating and he frequented between kitchen and men's room. His father's relatives from
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the Umayyad rose up and overused public property as hungry as a greedy camel which eats spring-grown plants. Uthman lavished so much that he was discredited, his acts provoked people and his gorging destroyed him...."(1) 3)
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Divine Peace betides upon you who are honorable and manliness is being interpreted with your name and high status of patience is elucidated with you!
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I certify that the Almighty God has deposited the first and the last knowledge in your constellation-like heart.
One can hardly speak about your knowledge which is an endless ocean!
After your brother, the Messenger of God (s), you are the most knowledge- based being of God. No close Angel or Messenger, no being in the heavens and earth possess knowledge like yours. God has bestowed you whatever knowledge, more than what He has granted to His Angels and Messengers.
What is said is not exaggerative! But it is a truth expressed by the Messenger (s):
"Knowledge has six parts, five sixth of it belongs to Ali and one sixth of it people have; Ali shares it with people too in such a way that he stands higher than them in one sixth of it.
The Messenger of God (s) is elixir of knowledge of creation and leader of series of world of contingency and he is closer to proximity of Allah than all creatures; God says about him:
"Statements of the Messenger are nothing but Divine teachings and Revelation and God has taught him very strongly. "(1)
The Messenger (s) has been cognizant of secrets of world of contingency and those of the universe more than anyone else even the near-stationed Angels and your knowledge is extracted from his Divine Knowledge and he said:
I am city of knowledge and Ali is its gate; so whoever wants knowledge, he
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shall enter through that gate.(1)
And said:
"I am place of theosophy and Ali is its gate (2)
It's true!
You are gate of the Messenger's knowledge and acquisition of his knowledge is not made possible unless you are referred to!
You inherit the knowledge of all Messengers of God and you yourself said:
"Ask me secrets of the Invisible World because I inherit all knowledge of )
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the Messengers of God. (1)
God says in His everlasting Words:
“Are people who know equal to those who do not know [of course, they are not equal] and they do not say unless they are wise. "(2)
How the first one could give priority to himself while he knew that you possess tremendous knowledge of theosophy!(3)
How the second one who confessed "everyone is jurisprudent more than him even women behind curtains"(4) could give priority to himself while he 8
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knew that the Messenger (s) told about you:
"After me, Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib is the most knowledgeable man among my ummah. "(1)
Do people who are unable to deal with the simplest religious and scientific issues deserve being successor of the Messenger (s) or you who were, are and will be the gate of Muhammad's knowledge?!
How and on what basis did people of that time follow them while God says?
"Are people who know equal to those who do not know?!"
Is someone who himself needs guidance of others deserves taking the seat of the Messenger (s) or someone who has been favored by God and been granted knowledge by Him and not only is he on the Straight Path, but also he himself is the straight path?! (2)
God and His Messenger (s) did not let them to do so and they willfully seized the seat of the Messenger (s) and people also willfully followed them!
The insincere ummah left you aside and they deprived themselves of your unending blessings. You said repeatedly:
"O' people! Come and ask me your questions as long as I survive and )
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know that I am aware of heavenly paths better than those of the earth. "(1)
You announced people in your luminous speech that you are omniscient and aware of secrets of creation; you know what happens in deep heavens. But alas! They could not appreciate your rank and knowledge.
You engaged in cordial worship of God in the years of pain and suffering and spent some part of your precious time to build wells and palm yards. Although you helped the miserable people and nothing you saved for yourself and your children, but is it right for someone who knows the heavenly paths better than those of the earth's and who is aware of Divine Kingdom spends his time for agriculture?!
If you were given chance, you would publish vast knowledge, reveal secrets and open doors of knowledge to people!
Although the very knowledge remained from you is an endless ocean with which only a sip would satiate those who seek divine teachings.
You always desired to find a knowledgeable person with whom you speak about sciences and secrets of creation and you frequently pointed to your chest and said:
In my chest, you find a tumultuous sea of knowledge, but alas! Nobody is in pursuit of it! (2)
One day, you had leaned back column of the Prophet's mosque, saying:
"O' the uninformed! And O' the abandoned of Divine Commands!
Know that you are inquired about all you have done! What is the matter with you that you turn back from Him and tend towards other than Him?
....I swear to God! If I want, I can let you know of all of what you've done in your life from the beginning to the end... know that I hand over these priceless mysteries to my reliable and confidant companions.
I swear to God who selected Muhammad (s); I speak nothing but truth!
The Prophet Muhammad has deposited all knowledge to me and informed )
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me about where one dies, where one is rescued and when this government ends. He whispered happening of all events to me.
O' people! By God, I make you obey nothing but I myself obeyed before and I refrain you from no sin but I quitted it before. "(1)
True!
The Messenger (s), treasury of Divine Knowledge, taught you and you inherited his knowledge in the past and now; you yourself said:
My brother, the Messenger of God (s) confided in me thousand channels of knowledge from which thousand channels were opened.(2)
Abu Hurairah says:
I was at the presence of the Messenger (s) when Ali came in. the Messenger (s) said: Do you know who he is? I said: He is Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib.
The Prophet (s) said:
He is an endless ocean, shining sun, more generous than the Euphrates, his heart is more widespread than the world; God may damn his foes! (3)
And Ibn-e 'Abbas also says by quoting the Prophet (s):
[On the night of ascension, mi'rāj] Gabriel brought me Dornuki, a type of kilim, and I sat on it. When I reached the presence of God, he confided in me; whatever I learned, I transferred it to Ali; therefore, Ali is channel through my knowledge. Later, he called Ali and said: O' Ali! Making peace with you is making peace with me and waging war with you is waging war )
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with me; you are sign of guidance between me and my ummah after me.(1)
One day, your brother, the Messenger (s) told some of his Companions about your knowledge in this way:
"God has granted him so much of knowledge, science and understanding that it would encompass everyone if his knowledge is distributed among the people of the earth. "(2)
Your perception, transfer and sharp intelligence were so fast that everyone was amazed; Omar Ibn-e Khaṭṭāb told you when you answered his question honorably and saved his life:
I am not amazed that you have full command on jurisprudential, judicial and scientific matters; rather, what I am surprised is that you answer any question immediately, without hesitation and contemplation!
You told him:
O' Omar! How many fingers does my hand have?
He said: Five fingers.
You told him:
Then why didn't you think about the answer?
He said: This is clear and needs no thinking.
You replied:
All matters sound to me as five fingers sound to you.(3)
God the Almighty revealed Kingdom of the heavens and the earth to .
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Abraham (a) as He says in His Everlasting Word:(1)
According to reports, God revealed Kingdom of the heavens and the earth to Abraham (a) only one time, but you constantly-as God permitted- beheld it and your heart always possessed the highest ranks of certainty.
One day, you were on the pulpit of Kufa mosque and addressed people loudly: O' people! Ask me as long as I am with you and know that I know the heavenly paths better than those of the earth!
This time, a man in the mosque hearing what you said asked:
Tell me, where is Gabriel, the Trustee?
You told him: Let me see. You looked up and down, to left and right sides and you turned to him and you yourself are Gabriel, the Trustee!
The very moment you said it, Gabriel flew up in the heaven from the middle of people.
Having seen this event, people cried: "God is great" and asked you: O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! How did you know that the man was Gabriel?!
When I looked up in the sky, I saw as high as the Throne and I saw all creatures inside the earth, but Gabriel was not there; therefore, I found out that the questioner is Gabriel himself.(2)
Just as nickname of “Amir Mu'amenin" is exclusive to you and whoever )
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but you put such nickname on himself, he shall be a liar; the statement that "ask me as long as I am with you" is also exclusive to you and whoever claims as such, he shall be scandalized by God as some claimed as such and they were discredited.(1).
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Your knowledge is infinite in front of human knowledge and the other creatures of God and none of God's creatures owns wisdom to imagine even part of your knowledge although your knowledge ceases to match that of God's.
You behold Kingdom and inward of the heavens and the earth and you know what are included in them; you are aware of how many stars there are in the sky and how many angels there are in the universe!
You know how much mountains weigh and how much water seas has! No leaf falls down the tree and no seed splits on the earth unless you know with the permission of God!(1)
Although secrets of the Invisible World are controlled by God,(2) He Himself said:
"To whomever of our creatures we decide, we shall grant the Invisible Knowledge. (3))
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Although such words irritate your foes and deniers, they must know that honor is exclusive to God. He grants it to whomever He wishes and no one cannot object to it. He granted an honor to you and to nobody in the universe but the Messenger (s).He does whatever He finds expedient.
Of course, if anyone wants to know the reason for all honor and grandeur He has given you, we say that there are dozens of reasons and we enumerate one reason here, but the rest remains only to Him.
That one reason:
You were harbinger in faith; you were the most self-devoted man; you were the most cordial man; you were the most pious man; you were the bravest man; you were the most free man; you were the most worshipping man; you were the most defensive man; you were the most obsequious man; you were the most humble man; you were the most beneficent man; you were the most affectionate man; you were the most campaigning man; you were the most crucial man; you were the most magnanimous man; you were the most trustworthy man; you were the most patient man; you were the most God-fearing man; you were the most benevolent man; you were the most outstripping man; you were the most promise-keeping man; you were the most trustee man; you were the most fast-keeping man; you were the most diligent man and thousands of other things that totally make one reason. Apart from these thousands of reasons, we say one more time:
Grandeur and honor exclusively belongs to God and He grants it to whomever He wishes and He wanted to bestow it to Ali ('a) and He did!
You kept the whole knowledge of the Book (the Holy Qur'an) in your heart; God says:
"O' Messenger! Atheists object to you that you are not Messenger; say the only proof between you and me is God and one who holds the knowledge of the Qur'an... (meaning testimony of God and one who has knowledge of the Qur'an [meaning Ali (a)] shall suffice for proving your prophetic mission and trustworthiness). (1) )
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It is true that you have kept the whole knowledge of the Book in your heart.(1)
Some part of reality of what is said is revealed through this Qur'anic story:
God granted a powerful and broad-based government to Solomon, the Prophet (‘a) in so far as animals, jinns and forces of nature served him as permitted by God. Hoopoe brought news for Solomon: in Yemen, a polytheist woman is a king and worships the Sun and she has forced people )
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to worship the Sun.
Solomon wrote a letter to her and called her on embracing creed of Truth. "Belqis", queen of Sheba, after consulting with her ministers, decided to send gifts to Solomon to stop him bothering them.
When agents of Belqis brought gifts to Solomon, he angrily turned down the gifts and said: We attack your land with a large number of troops soon and let you out of there.
They returned to let her know about threat of Solomon. Solomon turned to his ministers and said: When Belqis and her companions hear this, they will rush to our country to express their faith and submission out of fear.
He then added: Who can bring her great monarchy throne here before Belqis enters my palace?(1) (Letting her find out the God-given magnificence of Solomon more.)
Here, Efrit jinn stood up and said: I can present here the great throne of Belqis before you stand up!(2) Solomon said: Is there anyone who can do it sooner?
At this time, Solomon's minister named "Aşef Ibn-e Barkhiya rose and said: I can bring the throne in a blink of eye! Solomon accepted and he brought Belqis's great throne to Solomon in a blink of eye and Solomon quickly said: This is the Grace of God to me.(3) .
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God delineates Barkhiya for having some part of the Book's knowledge and he could bring the great throne of Belqis to the Solomon's palace in a blink of eye from a distance of some thousand kilometers!
And you have gathered the whole Book's knowledge in your heart and God knows what you can do in the universe-as permitted by Him-if you will and what Barkhiya has done sounds nothing compared to your will and job.(1) Of course, you have always sought Divine Pleasure in your works.
All of you, pure and infallible progeny, are heirs of knowledge of the Messenger (s) and you are treasury of Divine Knowledge. Nobody surpasses you in terms of virtues and knowledge; you, the Infallible Imams, are proofs over all creatures.(2) )
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Greetings of God betide upon you, O' Ya Abalhassan! O' the endeared and beloved of God and His Messenger! Greetings befall on you and your pure family and on your being oppressed! Divine Peace be upon you! You are entry to the knowledge of the Messenger and after him, you are the only Divine Straight Path.
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I certify that God has made your obedience and guardianship mandatory in the Qur'an.
The Qur'an wholly expresses your status and grandeur. The Qur'an begins with
and you are the point of "Ba"".(1)The Qur'an makes sense
with you for which you said:
I am speaking Qur'an.(2)
The Qur'an fully covers comprehensive divine teachings and law of the Almighty God for human evolution and mankind never achieves its pompous teachings unless he embraces your leadership and that of your pure descendants (a) who are all spirit of the Qur'an and guides of
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mankind.
Throughout history, God appointed Messengers one after another for human guidance to regain faithfulness to treaty of primordial nature from him, remind people of the forlorn blessings, stop him worshipping idols and lead him towards God. You yourself said in your precious words:
"God took treaty of Revelation from the Messengers to let them transfer the trusted prophetic mission when most people, during the Dark Age, ignored treaty of God and failed to know the truth of God; they turned to false gods and Satan refrained people from Divine Knowledge and separated them from worshipping Him. God appointed His Messengers; however, He incessantly sent His Messengers proportionate to demands of people to regain loyalty to treaty of primordial nature from them and remind them of the forlorn graces; make ultimatum by announcing Divine Rules; reveal the hidden capabilities of intellects and introduce Signs of Divine Power in the Universe. "(1)
True! God has never left people by themselves and He dispatched Messengers for their guidance at all ages to instruct them Divine Knowledge. Centuries passed and God appointed your brother, the Messenger of God (s) to complement fulfilment of promise and granted the most comprehensive religion to people through mission of the Seal of the Prophets (s) about which you made your own invaluable statement:
"Until God the Praiseworthy appointed Muhammad as His Messenger to fulfil His Promise and Prophetic Mission completion; a Messenger whose treaty promise of prophetic mission He had taken from all Messengers, his signs were well-known and his birthday appeared to be auspicious. On the days when people on the earth had various religions, different demands and methods, some resembled Him to phenomena, others denied His precious names and attributed them to idols and some others pointed to other than Him. Therefore, God the Praiseworthy saved people from deviation by Muhammad, guided them and released them from ignorance. Later, He wanted him to meet Him; admired what He had for him; honored him by relocating him from the world; freed him from tribulations and 1
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troubles and He generously took his life.'
Just as God did not leave people in isolation throughout history and sent Messengers for their guidance, so He perfected His religion and finalized His Blessings by selecting people of perfection as Imams and successors of the Messenger (s) after your brother, Muhammad (s) met his Maker.
True!
God never left people with no leader and Imam after Muhammad (s) and introduced the purest people to people through His Messenger (s) about which you made your own statement:
"The holy Prophet of Islam selected successors among you [announced on behalf of God] and the past Messengers did so for their people because they never left people alone and never left this world without introducing a clear way and strong signs. "(1)
Those who imagine the Messenger (s) left the world while he gave no advice compared to Caliphs after himself make a big mistake!
True!
All Messengers of God have endeavored to introduce their successors after their demise and Muhammad (s) also spoke of you and your descendants who are Divinely Elected and introduced you to his ummah.(2)
How do those adversaries find it right to judge about the Messenger of God (s) in this way; saying that he said nothing about his successors while they themselves confessed that Caliph I was concerned about the Caliph after his death and appointed Omar Ibn-e Khaṭṭāb as Caliph II. Caliph II also, )
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when dying, ordered constitution of a six-member council to select Caliph III from among themselves. But the Messenger said nothing and was not worried about the future of Muslims!!! How do you judge as such?!
I swear to God who split the seed, hoisted the heavens and moved the winds that it happened differently; rather, he introduced the purest, the most campaigning and cordial man, it means you, to people and made a pledge to them to obey you. But after his demise, many of them breached the pledge!
God says:
"O' believers! Obey God, His Messenger and your Imam. (1)
True!
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According to a narration, when the above revelation came down, one of the honorable Companions of the Messenger (s) named Jāber Ibn-e 'Abdullah Anṣāri asked the Messenger (s):
O' Messenger! Who are these Imams whose obedience corresponds to your obedience?
The Messenger (s) said:
O' Jāber! They are my Caliphs and Imams of Muslims after me; the first one is Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib, the next one is Hassan and after him, Husayn and after him, Ali Ibn-e Husayn and after him, Mohammad Ibn-e Ali who is famous as Baqir in the Torah and you meet him soon. When you met him, say my greeting to him. After him, Sadiq Ja'afar Ibn-e Mohammad, after him, Musa Ibn-e Ja'afar, after him, Ali Ibn-e Musa, after him, Mohammad Ibn-e Ali, after him, Ali Ibn-e Mohammad; after him, Hassan Ibn-e Ali and the last one is Imam Mahdi (May God hasten his emergence) who is homonymous with me and he is the remained Proof of God among His creatures.(1) .
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And God says in His another Revelation which introduces you to people and deems your leadership necessary for them:
"It is nothing but to know that your guardian is God and His Messenger and the believers, the very believers who hold up prayer service and pay zakat on genuflect.(1)
According to various narrations, this Revelation has come down for you )
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It is true!
God, in this holy Revelation, announced your leadership and Imamate to people and made obedience from you obligatory.
Authentic books read:
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One day, 'Abdullah Ibn-e 'Abbas, the honorable Companion of the Messenger (s), sat beside the Well ZamZam and quoted hadith for people from the Messenger (s); a man, wearing a turban and veiled face, suddenly approached. Each time, Ibn-e 'Abbas quoted hadith from the Messenger (s), he also began a sentence with «قال رسول الله صلی الله علیه و اله سلم», quoted another hadith from the Prophet (s).
Ibn-e 'Abbas swore him to introduce himself. He unveiled his face and cried:
O' People!
Whoever doesn't know me shall know that I'm Abuzar Ghaffari! I heard the Messenger (s) say and if I tell a lie, may my two ears become deaf! And I saw it with my two eyes and if I tell a lie, may my two eyes become blind! That the Prophet said:
Ali is Imam of the righteous and killer of the atheists; whoever helps him, he shall be helped by God and whoever gives up helping him, he shall not be helped by Him.
Later, Abuzar added:
O' people!
One of the days I was engaged in saying my prayers beside the Messenger (s) at the mosque. A beggar came in and asked people for help, but nobody helped him. He raised his hands up in the sky, saying: O' God! I take you as my witness that I asked for help at the mosque of Your Messenger (s), but nobody replied. At this time, Ali ('a) was on genuflect and he pointed with his finger and beggar neared him. Beggar took the ring off Ali's hand. The Messenger (s) witnessed it while being in praying. When he finished his prayers, he raised his hands up in the sky and said:
O' God! My brother, the Moses, asked Thee to broaden his spirit, make things easy for him and let him speak bluntly and clearly to make people understood. Also, the Moses asked Thee to make Harun, his brother, his vizier and companion, augment his strength by means of him and make him share his works.
O' God! I am Muhammad, the Prophet appointed by Thee! Widen my heart
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and make things easy for me. Make Ali, of my Progeny, my vizier so that I might become strong and firm because of him.
Abuzar says:
The Prophet (s) was about to finish his supplication when Gabriel (‘a) came down and said to him: Read! The Prophet said: What shall I read? Gabriel said: Read!
"Be sure that your guardian and custodian is God and His Messenger and the believers, the very believers who pay zakat while they are on genuflect. "(1)
You are the same shining sun of guidance for which God says in His Words:
"O' You, the Prophet! You are the only warner and leader for every ummah. "(2))
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When the above Revelation came down, the Messenger (s) placed his hand on his chest and said:
I am warner! Then he put his hand on your shoulder and said: O' Ali! You are the guide and the guided people after me are guided by you.(1)
With all the emphases of the Almighty God over your Velayat, but many left you alone and made you overstay at home for twenty five years!
Some others held grudges against you and they could not remove them during life of the Messenger (s), but once the Prophet (s) departed, they held them over you and your family, particularly the malicious dynasty of the Umayyad-none embraced Islam whole-heartedly. They raised 9
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invective on the pulpits against you after you were martyred and murdered your Shiites wherever they saw them.(1)
One day, your brother, the Messenger of God (s) told you:
O' Ali! Whomever of this ummah dies in grudge and vengeance against you, he shall die as a Jew and Christian.(2))
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The enemies held such a grudge against you that even children having your name were unsafe lest they might be killed by those executioners.
One day, you and the Messenger (s) with your wife and your two honorable children were in a camp tent and people stood outside. The Messenger (s) called and said:
O' People!
Be aware that I make peace with those who make peace with the people of this tent; I challenge those who challenge them and like those who like them; I am at odds with those who are at odds with them; nobody likes these people but a gentlemanly prosperous and happy man and nobody is their adversary but an ungentlemanly atrocious man.(1)
He said about you again:
Whoever likes to pass through Ṣerat (in the Doom's Day) airily and enters into Paradise incalculably, he shall like my heir, guardian and Caliph Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib; whoever wants to fall into the hellfire, he shall abandon his leadership (Velāyat).
And many times, the Messenger (s) swore to God and said:
O' People!
Swear to Honor and Magnificence of God! Ali is the very door which is opened towards God and he is the Straight Path.(2))
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He added more:
This is Gabriel who has informed me from God of the two Worlds that the whole prosperity is actually exclusive to one who loves Ali in his lifetime and after his demise and the whole atrocity and wretchedness belongs to one who holds vengeance against Ali whether in his lifetime or after his death!(1)
It is true!
Those who have success of loving you and your family are prosperous people and are the real faithful people; but those whose heart never bows to your divine status and raises none of your affection are the people who are losers and wicked.(2)
(2)
(1)هذا جبرئيل يخبرني عن ربّ العالمين أنّ السعيد كل السعيد من أحبّ عليّا في حياته و بعد موته و إنّ الشقي كلّ الشقى من أبغض عليا في حياته وبعد موته.
(Manaqib-e Khwarizmi, p.37; Bihar Al-Anwar, vol.32, p.276)
(2)God says in An'am: 82:
« الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَ لَمْ يَلْبِسُوا إِيمَانَهُمْ بِظُلْمٍ أُولِئِكَ لَهُمُ الْأَمْنُ وَ هُمْ مُهْتَدُونَ »
An'am: 82
Imam ṣādiq (‘a) says:
بما جاء به محمد من الولاية و لم يخلطوها بولاية فلان و فلان فهو الملبس بالظلم، اولئك لهم الأمن في الدنيا و الآخرة وهم
(UşÜl-e Kafi, Kulayni, vol. 1, p.2469)
Ḥākem Ḥaskāni Neishabouri says by citing Ibn-e-e 'Abbas:
مهتدون
الذين آمنوا » یعنى: صدقوا بالتوحيد هو علي بن أبي طالب [ عليه السلام ]».
ولم يلبسوا » يعنى: لم يخلطوا ، نظيرها « لم تلبسون الحق بالباطل » يعنى لم تخلطون ؟ و لم يخلطوا « ايمانهم بظلم » یعنی الشرك»
قال ابن عباس:
و الله ! ما آمن أحد إلا بعد شرك ما خلا عليّا فإنّه آمن بالله من غير أن يشرك به طرفة عين ( اولئك لهم الأمن » من النار و العذاب » و هم مهتدون » يعنى: مرشدون إلى الجنّة يوم القيامة بغير حساب، فكان عليّ أول من آمن به.
(Shawāhid Al-Tanzil, vol. 1, p.197)
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I certify that you accepted governance for exalting the Word of Allah, defense of truth and ultimatum over people.
What can be said that patience is curved in the face of your magnificence! You were kept away from your right for 25 years, but you have always sought satisfaction of God and submissiveness to His Commands.
You yourself said it:
After demise of the Prophet (s) and disloyalty of companions, I looked around and found nobody but my own family who will be killed if they help me; therefore, I was unhappy with their death. I closed my thorn-full eyes and drank bitter goblet of events while having to suffer broken-bone clogged in my throat; I controlled my anger and I kept patience by drinking the goblet much more bitterly than colocynth plant.(1)
Although you were set aside from your inalienable right, but you kept patience for divine pleasure and gained the highest reward which God grants to the patient for which God says:(2)
And you are Imam of the patient and stand up on the pompous peak of patience and all the patient people of the universe stand at its downhill with their highest ranks.
You were brother of the Messenger (s) and his first standard-bearer in the battles, but you had been forced to seek house overstay. You were the most learned man after the Messenger (s), but you were pulled to the side. You
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were the very man who knew paths of the heavens better than those of the earth. They left you alone and dispersed and you spent your precious time for agriculture and the other engagements!
After the Caliph III was murdered, people collectively rushed to you and beseeched you to accept the caliphate. You never showed willingness to seize caliphate and said to them: Leave me alone and they said: We admit nobody save you and come together with nobody but you.(1)
They stretched hands for allegiance and you drew back. They snatched your hand and swore allegiance to you without your satisfaction! The caliphate was your right from the very beginning; the right which God had granted you. You resisted and clearly announced that you were unwilling to accept governance because you knew that they can hardly bear your justice and they utterly changed after demise of the Messenger (s). Since you knew that divinely sublime values had been set aside in these twenty five
years and they will be unhappy if those values return to the context of society.
You knew that they would stay with you as long as you secured their interests! But they stand against you if you reject their illegitimate interests. Later, you told them: Forget it; you'd better have me as your advisor, but they insisted on swearing allegiance to you.
And when you were in charge of governance and wanted to comply with the Book of God and Sunna of the Messenger (s), they stood against you!
Now, let us hear you when you described the day of allegiance:
"People like thirsty camels which near water and unleashed by the camel rider attacked me. They pressed and pushed each other and I thought as if they wanted to kill me or some die because of others and they might be treaded over. "(2)4)
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"On the day of allegiance, crowds of people looked like shaggy mane of hyena, surrounding me on every side. It was almost about to trample Hassan and Husayn and my mantle was torn apart from both sides. People like cattle of sheep encompassed me. When I rose up and seized power, a group of them breached promise, a number of others disobeyed me and abandoned religion and some others refused to obey God." (1)
"You opened my hand for allegiance and I closed it; you pulled it and I took it back. Then, you like thirsty camels rushing to trough raided me and I had my shoe lace gone, my cloak fell off my shoulders and disabled people were treaded over. People were so pleased to make allegiance to me that the children were happy, the old people began to come by while trembling, the ill people being carried on the shoulders of their relatives and young girls who were unveiled, appeared on the stage. (2)
And on the day of allegiance, you also said:
"After Uthman was killed, you came to me and said you wanted to make allegiance to me. I said: I don't do that and I pulled back my hand, but you stretched it ahead. I took away my hand, but you grabbed it, saying that you will accept nobody but me and will surround no one but me; you crowded around me like camels which are unleashed by camel driver on the day of water. I thought you wanted to kill me or someone among you killed someone else. Thus, you all swore allegiance to me and so did Talha and Zubayr. "(3)8
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you knew many of them could hardly bear you justice, you made an ultimatum and accepted their allegiance. You said in this regard:
"I swear to God who split the seed and created life! If many people had not been there for allegiance and the companions had not made ultimatum over me and if God had not taken promise from ulemas not to keep silent in the face of hunger of the oppressed and gluttony of the tyrants, I would have left reins of caliphate camel on its hump and let it go and would have quenched the end of caliphate with the first drink. Then you would have seen your world is worthless to me than sniveling of a goat. (1)
You told them again for making an ultimatum:
"Know that if I accept your invitation, I will behave you based on my own knowledge and I will ignore what different people say and blame; but if you leave me by myself, I will be like one of you. I may be more attentive and obedient to your Caliph-elect than you are. If I become your vizier and advisor, it will be much better than being your emir and leader. "(2)
You were Imam of the people of the universe. Although, after departure of the Messenger (s), people turned back from you and regarded someone else as the Caliph, but you were viceroy of the Messenger (s).
And if you did not accept allegiance when people rushed to you, you were Imam of the universe people and direct viceroy of the Messenger (s) again.
When people rushed to you for making allegiance to you, it was not because you are direct viceroy of the Messenger (s) and your right has gone )
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away during 25 years, but because they swore allegiance to you and you will be the Caliph IV! Otherwise, the real faithful knew only you as the viceroy of the Messenger of God (s) and the others as the usurpers from the demise of the Messenger (s).
After people insisted and rushed to your house in groups, you felt it an obligation and honorably accepted it although you knew what consequences are borne ahead, you told them:
"If this has to be done, it should be done at the mosque because my allegiance shall not be made secretly, but it shall be made with satisfaction of Muslims in front of the public. "(1)
Next morning, you took a pulpit at the Messenger's mosque and loudly addressed loudly the crowds of people inside and outside the mosque:
O' people!
All of you pay attention to what I say! This is an order. None of you has a right in it unless you assign him. We parted from each other by making this pledge yesterday. If you want, I am willing to seize it; otherwise, I hold no vengeance against someone who accepts it.(2)
People unanimously cried out:
It's true! We still remain on our decision made when we separated from one another.
Then, you said:
Be aware that I am reluctant to be a Caliph, but you wanted me to be your emir....are you pleased now?
The crowd shouted:
We swear allegiance to you in accordance with the Book of God.(3)
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yours and swore allegiance to you as a Caliph of the Islamic community.
From the beginning of your caliphate, you were mostly concerned about social justice, the very justice which was set aside for years, particularly abundant properties of the public treasury which was divided among the family members of the Caliph III. Hence, you spoke to people on the second day of caliphate:
I swear to God!
Wherever I find the looted public treasury, I give it back to the owners even though it has been spent for marriage or purchase of slave maidens because justice solves public problems and the one who pays heavy price for justice, he shall find it more difficult to bear.(1)
It is true!
The most important concern you had was justice and on the second day of your governance, you made everybody understood that kinship and friendship has no effect on you to receive facilities. All are equal and some who had sworn allegiance to you for the greed of post understood that you are a man of reconciliation with those who are well-known, powerful and wealthy in the society.
On the very early days of your government, you announced that you ignore policy of expediency and what you had become in charge of and committed, you stand by it. You told people that they should be changed and return to values of early Islam.
It is true! You told them:
What I say and take charge of, I abide by them; the one to whom admonitions are revealed and takes advice from its agony, he shall be retained from abyss of skepticism through piety and self-restrained. Be aware that dark days and trials return to you once again as they were during the Be'athat. I swear to God who appointed the Prophet (s) rightfully. You will be tested like the seeds on the screening sieve or the )
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foodstuffs mixed in the pot! You will be up and down and down and up. Those who had a precedence in Islam and were in isolation come to power and those who surpassed unrightfully are drawn back.(1)
It is true!
In your caliphate where name, tradition and fame was measure of enjoying the facilities had no longer a status and for you, everyone was equal in using the public treasury. In your caliphate, kinship and social relations failed to interfere with adoption of a position; rather, divine piety, meritocracy and capability were the only measures for the posts to be entrusted. Therefore, when you placed unknown persons in some positions and refused to assign some well-known authorities because of their mamonism and transformation to some posts after departure of the Prophet (s), they breached their allegiance, stood against you and raised a rebellion.
But you were man of God!
You were never enfeebled in your aims, never adopted appeasement, stood in the field of action and stood up to aberrant mamonists.
You were never even a bit attached to the world and endowed yourself in entirety to religion. If you accepted public allegiance and caliphate, you intended to defend the oppressed, resist and counter against the oppressors and the corrupt. The government for which many were willing to die and were ready to replace the right and the wrong with each other-as they did before-seemed as worthless as goat's sniveling. You yourself said:
"I swear to God who split the seed and created life! If many people had not been there for allegiance and the companions had not made ultimatum over me and if God had not taken promise from ulemas not to keep silent in the face of hunger of the oppressed and gluttony of the tyrants, I would )
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have left reins of caliphate camel on its hump and let it go and would have quenched the end of caliphate with the first drink. Then you would have seen your world is worthless to me than sniveling of a goat. (1)
A point:
Of course, one should also note that if Imam Ali ('a) rejected allegiance and conditionally accepted after public insistence of a lot. Besides, the next day, at the mosque, he again asked for satisfaction of people about his caliphate; all said that they had the same idea in the past day and that they were contented. Because of this, majority of people wanted him to be the Caliph IV after Uthman and they never paid attention to the issue of Imamate and direct caliphate of Imam; otherwise, Ali ('a) was Imam and rightful Caliph of the Messenger (s) and public vote ceases to interfere with the issue. 3
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I certify that you, for establishing justice, fought with the rebels who breached promise and destroyed them.
Peace of God be upon you, O' Ya Abalhassan! O' the great oppressed of human history! Peace of God be upon your endless patience and tolerance!
You were not oppressed during 25 years of house stay; rather, when people swore allegiance to you, you were also oppressed! One may say that you have been oppressed within five years of caliphate and it exceeded the time of 25 years of house stay when you were oppressed!
If they broke into your house and set fire on it after departure of the Messenger (s), but they imposed three bloody wars on you during five years of your caliphate and killed many of your companions.
If you were engaged in prays and invocations before God, though having thorn in eyes and bone in throat, during those 25 years, they made you suffer a lot in the five years of your caliphate and you confabulated with no one but the well, asking God to grant you martyrdom.
Many found it hard and heavy to bear your caliphate and reign which was full of justice and resuscitation of the genuine Islamic Sunna and thus they stood against you with their swords pulled. When you assumed power, you were faced with a community which-25 years past the demise of the Messenger (s)-had been distanced from the Islamic values. You faced an Islamic community which was overfilled with hatred, tribal and racial vendetta and discrimination resulting from a sovereignty over a vast territory including different peoples and tribes for several years.
In that community, many of the white hair residing in Mecca and Medina and having plentiful booties from expansionism and public wealth turned to an aristocratic life and completely abandoned divine values; in contrast, a huge crowd of people lived in poverty and destitution. Therefore, when you, at the onset of your rule, raised the genuinely Islamic mottos and tried hard to materialize them across the community, they stood against you.
You experienced sedition in the very first year of your caliphate and the
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sedition was erupted by breach of promise of some doyen of ṣaḥāba and rebellion of Basra citizens against you.
After murder of Uthman, people who rushed to you and made allegiance to you included Talḥa and Zubayr, the two well-known Companions of the Messenger (s). They insisted on your caliphate, swore allegiance to you and encouraged people to do so. They demanded to be rulers of Basra and Kufa, but you did not find them qualified and rejected their demand. They deserted Medina to go to Mecca secretly. There, they organized an army under the auspices of Ayesha-who was full of grudge against you by taking advantage of the public property looted by the Umayyad. They departed to Basra, captured it and mobilized many of its citizens to counter with your government after killing your agents in Basra.(1)
It is true!
Talḥa and Zubayr were once the faithful Companions of the Messenger (s). Matter of time and obsession of luxuries changed them so much that they stood against you, the speaking Qur'an.
Having had no excuse to breach promise, they charged you with murder of Uthman and brought together a group of unwise and revengeful people to counter with your newly founded government.
I try to explain more in this regard:
On the very days of your caliphate, Talha and Zubayr who found no benefit objected to you and you decisively told them:
"You became angry at the least thing and forgot the most wells! Can you tell me which right has been taken away from you? Or which shares have I taken and raised cruelty against you? And which complaint for right is
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claimed to me and I have shown weakness? And of which Divine Command have I not been ignorant and I have mistakenly covered it?
By God!
I was unwilling to be Caliph and showed no interest in being your leader. You invited me and imposed it on me. The day when I assumed caliphate, I deeply referred to the Qur'an and I followed every order accordingly. I pursued the tradition of the Messenger (s).
And when both of them found fault with you, saying: Why don't you consult with us about the affairs? You told them:
"I am needless of your vote and opinion and that of the others. Nothing has happened to me yet not to know how to rule or to need your and others' consultation. If so, I would have done it. As for your objection that I treated everybody equally, I must say I did not follow my own ways or my desires; rather, you and I learned such treatment from directives of the Messenger (s) which order to issue and how to comply with it. Therefore, I was needless of you on the division God had ordered.
By God!
Neither you nor others have a right before me to oppose me. May God guide your and our hearts towards the truth and inspire us and you of patience and tolerance. God may bless someone who cares about a right, provides help or destroys a cruelty he has seen and takes care of the right until it returns to its owner!"(1)
But they disregarded your advice and left your center of caliphate, which was then in Medina and went to Mecca. In Mecca, they brought together Ayesha-who held long-simmering enmity with you-and a group of the Umayyad residing in Mecca as well as your opponents. They headed for Iraq and Basra to hire forces against your government under the excuse of taking revenge for Uthman.
They accused you of murdering Uthman while the most suspicious people who committed his murder were themselves.(2))
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When Talha and Zubayr and their supporters hoisted banner of opposition, you told people:
Be aware that verily the Satan has mobilized his party and men and has organized an army to restore cruelty and sustain the wrong.
By God!
Those who breached promise find no fault being committed by me and unobserved equity between me and themselves! They seek a right which they abandoned and want revenge for a blood they shed! If I partnered with them, they had a hand too. If they themselves spilled Uthman's blood, then they must be penalized. The most important reason they make is not to their advantage.
They want to be fed from a mother's breast which is dried up, to revive a heresy which has long been dead; and what inviters! And what embracers!
Verily, I am pleased with the Book of God and His Command about those who have breached promise; however, if they refused to do so, I shall respond with the sword which suffices for the treatment of the wrong and the assistance of the right.(1)
The conscienceless rebels entered Basra city and trickily held captive Uthman Ibn-e Ḥanif, your representative and Amir in Basra with seventy people of his men who were guards of the public property and brought them to Ayesha. She ordered them to be killed. They beheaded your companions like sheep. It is said that they numbered 400 and this was the first time that a group of Muslims were patiently decapitated.(2).
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When you were then informed that the aberrant rebels committed such a crime in Basra, you addressed people, saying:
Those aberrant people designated the Satan as measure of their job; the Satan entrapped them, made their hearts grow seeds of discord and cherished them. The Satan wept with their eyes and spoke with their tongues; with their help, it drove camel of deviation and let them see ill- acts showing beautiful such as behavior of someone who showed he shares rule of Satan and talks wrongly by tongue of Satan.
You tried hard to lead the rebels back to the Straight Path; but they stood more firmly on their positions to oppose you day by day.
Therefore, when you found that the advice given to those deviant people is of no consequence, you mobilized people of Hejaz for combating them, saying:
Know that the Satan gathered his party and has called upon infirmaries and cavalries! I am necessarily aware of the affairs; I neither disguised the right, nor did the right remain in disguise to me.
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I swear to God!
I create a whirlpool for them that nobody but me can work it out; those sunken in it cannot be saved and those who run away do not imagine the return.(1)
You moved your army from Medina to Iraq to fight with the rebels. After several days of walking, you arrived in the territory and sojourned in a region nearby Basra so that the army troops might catch a breath and logistics can be readied.
They set up a tent for you and you entered into it. Ibn-e 'Abbas came in there and he was shocked when he saw you forming a callus on your shoes!
He may have told himself: How come he sat there to form a callus on his shoes at this ticklish situation!
You told him: O' Ibn-e 'Abbas! How much does the shoes worth? He sharply looked at the shoes and said: O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! It has been patched a lot and it is worth nothing!
You told him:
I swear to God that the same worthless shoes is much more beloved than ruling over you unless I defend a right or repel a wrong when I put it on.
After that, you came out of the tent and addressed people, saying:
Verily when God appointed Muhammad as His Messenger, nobody could hardly read a book and claimed to be a Messenger. Prophet Muhammad upgraded the ignorant people to have human esteem and salvaged them to keep their spears sharpened until they were triumphant with a strengthened community.
By God!
I was a vanguard of the army of Islam so far as the arrangements of atheism and polytheism were dilapidated; I never lost strength and was never frightened. Now, I go on that way and tear apart the cover of the wrong to release the right thereof. 0
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What on earth shall we have to do with the Quraysh! I swear to God I fought with them when they were infidels and now that they are betrayed, I battle against them. I lived with them yesterday and I am in trouble because of them today.
I take God as my witness! The Quraysh does not take revenge of us but because God selected us among them and honored us.(1)
It is true! You were never attached to the world and rule over people. You were sincere, freed and righteous worshipper of God and what you did was only for the pleasure of God.
You said that ruling over people is much worthless than your patched, torn and tattered shoes unless you administer the right and rescind the wrong!
You wanted, through what you said, make people understood that if you are engaged in war, it is not because you seek power and rule over people; but because you intend to uphold the right and de-hold the wrong.
You are shining star for guiding mankind and mankind is in need of your teachings for keeps; mankind who is plunged into the world and what crimes and injustice he commits to reach a position and office!
But you applied three divorces to the world and though you then dominated one third of the world (the entire Saudi Arabia, Ancient Iran, Iraq, some part of Africa and...), you failed to oppose Divine Command even a bit and you always remained obedient to Him.
You said that ruling over people is less worth than your fully amended shoes, but they rebelled against you. The Satan had shown the world and its jewels so attractive to them that they were ready to easily behead a large number of the innocent people to achieve government.
But you were the same great man who said: If I am given the whole world, instead I take away a tiny straw from an ant's mouth, I shall never do it!
It is true!
You were not ready to take away a tiny straw from the ant's mouth, but those ill-wishers were prepared to decapitate the innocent Muslims to grab 3
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a two-day-long government!
As for your torn and tattered shoes, Ibn-e 'Abbas said: it is worth nothing. You said: ruling over you is much worthless for me than my shoes.
I should say:
O' my lord! I swear to God that your tattered shoes stands worthier than paradise for your lovers and mystics!
We well remember what the Messenger (s) said about one day:
O' Ali! If I had not feared that some tribes of my ummah tell what Christians said about Jesus Christ, I would have talked about you
that you do not pass by a group of people unless they take your under-feet dust as blessed.(1)
When your army reached nearby the city of Basra where rebels had gathered, you observed army of Talha, Zubayr and Ayesha with over thirty thousand people and abundantly strategic materials.
You always felt pity on ummah and you showed your kind and tender heart to them this time too, telling Ibn-e 'Abbas to go and advise them with a hope that the leaders of sedition become remorseful and stop conflict and bloodshed.
You told Ibn-e 'Abbas in this way:
Stop meeting with Talḥa! Because you find him like a wild cow which has tilted its horn and ready for battle. He rides on untamed horse and says it is tamed; instead, meet Zubayr who is more flexible. Tell him your cousin says: you knew me in Hejaz and you don't know me in Iraq?! What happened you withdrew your treaty?!
Ibn-e 'Abbas went up to rebels and advised them to give up rebellion and stop bloodshed of Muslims, but Zubayr and the other insurgents repeated their absurd words, saying: Ali murdered Uthman and he must be tried!
Ibn-e 'Abbas came back and said that they do not understand logical words and they should be treated by nothing but sword! 2
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You carrying no armor and weapon, wearing the shirt of the Prophet(s) and putting his robe on your shoulders stood up between the two armies. You loudly called on Zubayr. Your compatriots told you: Zubayr has weapon of war and you have no weapon. You said: No fear, tell Zubayr to come to see me.
Zubayr moved towards you and Ayesha cried: Poor Asma' (wife of Zubayr) became a widow! She was told: Stop fearing! Ali will not kill anyone who is given clemency.
Zubayr came close to you; do you know what you are doing?! You yourselves killed Uthman and now you say I killed him?!
O' Zubayr! I swear you to God!
Did the Prophet (s) not tell you that if you love Ali and you said: Yes, I love Ali? Then the Prophet (s) told you: there comes a day when you come out and oppose him and make sure you are a tyrant. Did he not tell you as such?
Zubayr replied: What you said is true.
Do you remember when the Prophet said hello to me and I smiled, but you said: why did you not say hello to him and felt selfish? The Prophet told you: Ali is not selfish and there will come a day when you oppress him?
Zubayr said:
O' Abalhassan! It is true! I had forgotten it. I remembered it now and I know you are right. I come back now and I do nothing to make your memory vexed.
Zubayr said this and left the battlefield. Ayesha said to him: O' Zubayr! What has happened to you?! Zubayr said: I was astonished in front of him and I never enter in a fight with him.
'Abdullah, son of Zubayr who fueled to the fire scolded his father; Zubayr bravely attacked with no strike of sword and went out.
Fifty horsemen chased him, but he scattered them all around. He reached valley of "Seba' ". A man from Bani 'Aqim tribe knew him. He brought him milk and fruit. Zubayr drank milk and ate fruit. He began to say his prayers. After that, he slept; when he slept, the man from Tamim killed
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him with sword and brought you his weapon and ring.
You became sad when you heard he was killed and said: I heard the Prophet say: Give good news of hell to the killer of Zubayr! Then, you looked at his sword and said while weeping: This is the sword of someone who launched jihad of a lot in the Path of God and delighted the Prophet's heart.
Ayesha's army had poised for attack. You turned to your army and said:
O' people!
Relieve your eyes, think of war and remember the Praiseworthy God. Stop talking and yelling that is indicative of ill-heartedness.(1)
Ayesha called on her army: Prepare for war! Plenty of arrows were thrown to your army and your compatriots pulled swords to attack the rebels as you command; you stood there in patience and calm!
Your compatriots told you: O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! Why don't you order for attack?
You said:
I wanted to see if bloodshed can be stopped. Now I see advice is of no consequence to them and our troops have been wounded. There is no more excuse. I wanted not to be initiator of war.
Then, you wore armor, carried your sword, put your turban on and readied for attacking army of insurgents, but you still kept your kind heart of peace. So you kept the Qur'an in your hand and told your compatriots:
Which one of you can take this Qur'an and go to them and remind them of its commands and prohibitions? [Keep the Qur'an rule among us]
A slave servant from Majāsha' came out and said: O' Amir Al- Mu'amenin! I can stand up to do it.
You told him: O' Young man! If you take this Qur'an to them and they kill you, don't you mind?
He replied: I am sacrificed for the sake of the Qur'an. 0
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You told him: First, they cut off your hands and kill you.
The man said: I am ready as it is Pleasure of God.
You let him go with prayer.
The man took the Qur'an and went to them for ultimatum and said: This is cousin of the Messenger of God (s) and his legatee! This is the heavenly Qur'an, see it and fear from it, stop opposing and getting yourselves killed!
One of the Ayesha's slaves came ahead, hit him with sword and cut off his two hands. He held the Qur'an onto his chest. At last, they hit him on the chest and murdered him.(1)
Your holy face showed anger once you saw such a scene; you handed banner of war to your son, Mohammad Ḥanafiyya and said:
If mounts are dug out, you keep steadfastly, press your teeth, lend your head to God, stiffen your foot on the ground, look at the ending lines of the enemy's army, ignore the abundant troops of the enemy and know that God, the Praiseworthy makes us win.(2)
You attacked the enemy's army and whoever came up to you, you bisected him with your Zulfaqar.
Your army recklessly invaded Ayesha's army on the front, right and from the left side. It was a hard-fought. Both armies stormily shouted and glow of swords that landed onto one another's bodies lightened the eyes. Hands and heads were cut off and blood immensely covered the ground.
After several hours of battle, your compatriots besieged army of rebels and spilled their blood in the wake of recurring strikes. Talha was hit with an arrow and got killed. The commanders of the enemy's army were killed with your sword one after another and Ayesha's army decamped.
A large number of them were murdered, many ran away and a group of them were captivated by your army.(3))
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Ayesha mounted a camel. You ordered camel to be chased and it was chased and Howdah fell onto the ground.(1)
You reached her, telling:
O' Ayesha! Isn't bloodshed enough?!
She replied:
O' Ali! You won. Behave me well!
You turned to Mohammad Abibakr-her brother and one of your sincere companion-and said:
Help your sister and nobody stays close to her Howdah except you. Mohammad went near her and caught her hand.
Ayesha said: Who are you?
He replied: O' sister! I am your brother. Why did you do such a thing and disrepute yourself?!(2)
Later, you commanded Ayesha to be taken to Medina by a group of women who were armed, dressed like men and their faces veiled.
You tried hard to stop bloodshed, but they did not listen to you. You called them on commands and prohibitions of the Qur'an and put the Qur'an rule among you but those wicked rebels rejected it.
It is true!
They rejected the Qur'an, turned their back on it and caused a great sedition to happen.
You arrived in the city of Basra after winning the people of Jamal and greatly blamed the people of Basra for receiving the rebels by addressing them and said:
You were army of one woman and followers of an animal [Ayesha's camel]! You fought when the camel made a sound. You escaped when its .
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hands and feet were cut off. You have mean ethics and your promise is broken apart; your religion is hypocrisy and your drinking water is salty and unpleasant. Whoever lives among you, he shall be penalized by his sins and whoever keeps away from you, he shall be blessed by God. Soil of your city is the most malodourous soil.....(1)
Your intellects are weak and your thoughts are unwise, so you are a mark for shooter, morsel for the eater and a prey for the hunter.(2)
In introducing Talḥa and Zubayr and Ayesha's army, you said:
They soared like thunder and radiated like power, but they ceased to do anything and finally, they were enfeebled! We are not like that; we have no production of thunder and lightning unless we act and we do not inundate unless we shower.(3)
You then entered into great edifice of public treasury with a large number of your companions. In the public treasury, there were lots of properties accumulated. Somewhere in there, gold coins piled up like a small hill in such a way that everyone was dazzled in eyes! When you stared at the piled-up coins, you repeated several times: O' golden coins! Get away and deceive someone other than Ali!
Later, you told some of your companions: Divide these coins among the present companions and give each one of them 500 coins.
Abul'aswad Dueli, one of your companions and narrator of this hadith,
says:
I swear to God who rightfully appointed the Prophet (s)! No less no more of coins remained undivided! It looked as if Ali (‘a) knew about the number of coins and the exact number of people! There were twelve thousand people who received 500 coins, totally amounting to six million coins of the public treasury of Basra.(4)2)
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You moved towards Kufa after suppressing the fracas of Basra rebels and in a few days, you arrived in the city of Kufa. People rushed to welcome you. You went to the mosque of Kufa and performed two rek'at of prayers. After that, you made an invaluable speech, some part of which is as follows:
O' people!
Verily, I fear two things from you: Corporeal desires and long-simmering aspirations; but man is stopped believing in truth if he is in pursuit of carnal desires and long-standing desires make him forget the World Hereafter.
Be aware!
The world quickly turns its back on you and it looks nothing but a bowl where there remains little water.
Be conscious that the Other World is coming to us. This World and the Next World each has children; try to be the children of the Other World rather than This World because every child returns to his parents on the Doom's Day. It is time of action today rather than Doom's Day and tomorrow is Doom's Day rather than action.(1)
From then on, you stayed in Kufa and shifted center of your caliphate here from Medina because Kufa was situated on a sensitive region and could better control the Islamic territories from there.
In those days, one of your companions came to you and said:
I liked my brother could have been in the battle of Jamal and could see how God helped you to defeat the enemies!
You replied: Did your brother feel in mind and heart with us? 4
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He said: Yes!
Then you told him:
So he was with us in the battle and those who are absent share fighting beside us; they share beliefs with us though being in their father's loin and mother's embryo and are born soon. Religion and faith are solidified by them.(1)
Peace of God betides you, O' Abalhassan! We wish we could be there and would sacrifice our life for you. 4
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I certify that you waged a war with Mu'awiyya and his followers to please God and counter with the wrong.
In the very beginning days of your caliphate, you deposed Mu'awiyyat Ibn-e Abi Sufiyan from ruling over Sham. He was appointed emir of Sham during the Caliph II and during the Caliph III, Uthman who was from the Umayyad, Mu'awiyya's caliphate in that important land became further strengthened.
You deposed him because he was a wrongdoing and corrupt man. He and his father, Abu Sufiyan were the hypocrite dissidents of the Army of Islam. Before conquest of Mecca, they countered with Islam and waged war as much as they could, but once Mecca was conquered and when they faced sword of Islam, they outwardly embraced Islam to save their lives and inwardly opposed the religion of God.
Mu'awiyya was the same man who was standard-bearer of the army of atheists in three battles of Badr, Uhud and Khandaq and you were the standard-bearer of the army of Islam.(1)
You knew him well and you were aware that he does not believe in God and Doom's Day in heart.
Mu'awiyya, his father and his family are from the very vicious lineage whom God has said in His everlasting Words in this way:
And like word of vicious, it is like a vicious tree which has no sturdy root.(2)
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Issues of Siffin Battle
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When you demoted Mu'awiyya from Sham, he did not admit it and began to oppose you, but you were determined to do so and you were unwilling to have him as Amir of Sham on your behalf even one day.
You dispatched one of your companions named "Jarir Ibn-e 'Abdullah” to Sham to send your message to Mu'awiyya. Mu'awiyya told him: Write Ali to assign me on Sham and Egypt and when he died, I swear allegiance to nobody, in this case I approve of him and know him as the Caliph.
Jarir wrote Mu'awiyya's offer to you and you replied: Mughayra [one of the Umayyad and Mu'awiyya's men] offered me as such in Medina and I rejected it; I will not do it and God will not see me as keeping those deviant my arm.(1)
Once Battle of Jamal ended, Mu'awiyya began to launch negative propaganda against you among Sham people and he cried everywhere that the Caliph III was murdered while he was oppressed; Ali has murdered him! His mercenaries instigated people against you wherever they had influence and prepared them to war with you.
In those circumstances, Mu'awiyya wrote you a letter in which he threatened you to war. In reply to the cursed man, you wrote him:
After praising God!
I received your letter in which you wrote God has appointed Muhammad for His religion and confirmed him and his Companions. By the way, what amazing things days have revealed to us about you! You want to inform us of what God has granted us? And tell us about the blessing of having the Prophet? Your story looks like that of a man's who took dates to "Ḥajar', the land of plentiful dates (as it is attributed to English proverb, “export iron to New Castle")! Or invite your professor to compete with you!! And you think that the most superior men in Islam are so and so man (meaning Abubakr and Omar). You remembered something that if proven has nothing 2
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to do with you and if it is a lie, it is not your business; what do you have to do with superior and inferior men, politician and non-politician?! What the liberated captives(1) and their children have to do with recognizing advantages among the early migrants, their ranks and status! Never! You are involved in something about which you are alienated; now, you set forth the business that the condemned is the ruler? O' man! Why don't you keep quiet? Why don't you remember your shortcomings? Why don't you retreat to your backward status? What business do you have with superiority of the poor people and victory of the victorious people in Islam [you are ignorant of it]? You are always wandering around the desert of aberration and turning back from the straight path!
What I am saying is not for informing you! I say to remind God's Blessings. Don't you see that a number of migrants and helpers have been martyred on the Path of God? And each one had an excellence? But when our martyr, Hamza got martyred, he was called lord of martyrs and the Prophet said seventy takbirs (meaning “Allahu Akbar, proclaiming His greatness" instead of five takbirs over his dead body? Don't you see? A group of people whose hand was cut off in jihad each had an excellence, but when one of us [Ja'afar Tayyar] who was given a strike and his hand was cut off, he was called Tayyar? Who flies with two wings in Heaven! And if God had not banned a man praises himself, I would have enumerated lots of virtues so that discerning hearts of the faithful might know them and the ears of hearers could be familiar with them.
Mu'awiyya!
Stop claiming as such because you have shot a wrong target! Verily, we are cherished by our God and people are grown and bred by us. How you are equal with us when the Prophet is from us and the scandalous liar (Abu Jahl) is from you; Hamza, God's Lion is from us and Abu Sufiyan, Assad Al-Aḥlaf is from you;(2)two lords of youth of the people of Paradise are from us and two children thrown into the fire are from you; and the best .
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world women are from us and the firewood-carrying woman of the Hell people (wife of Abu Lahab, Mu'awiyya's aunt) is from you; all such virtues are from us and those scandals are from you.
You said [after departure of the Messenger (s)] I was unleashed like a camel and dragged towards allegiance. I swear to God! You wanted to blame, but you praised; you wanted to scandalize, but you were scandalized. A Muslim has no fear of being oppressed as long as he is certain about his religion; I made this reasoning even for someone other than you to get advice; I briefed it as much as I remembered.
Afterwards, you reminded me of my business with Uthman, [You accused me of his murder]; you must reply because you are one of his relatives! By the way, which one of us raised more enmity towards Uthman? And paved the way for his killers? The one who helped him and asked him to observe and do public affairs? [Meaning Imam Ali ('a)] or the one who asked for his help and refused to do so? And waited for his death? [Meaning Mu'awiyya....]
I do not claim that I did not find fault with Uthman's heresies; I blamed him and I do not apologize for that.
You wrote that there is no alternative but war with me and my companions! You make man laugh while he cries a lot! Where did you see the descendants of 'Abdulmoṭallib stand behind the enemy? And fear sword? So wait a little until your rival comes to the battlefield.
The one you are looking for will soon find you and what you escape from, you will find nearby yourself. And I with a large army of the migrants, helpers and followers will move towards you immediately; troops who are pressed together and when they move, they darken the sky.
People who are clad in garment of martyrdom and they eagerly meet God; accompanied by them, there are descendants of valiant people of Badr and sword of the Hashemites whose sharp edge you know well did what on bodies of your brother, uncle, forefather and family [by Imam Ali ('a) in the Battle of Badr]!"(1)8
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You gave crushing responses to babbles of Mu'awiyya although you knew that he would never accept the truth.
Mu'awiyya did not give up his viciousness and prepared a large army by spreading rumors of Uthman's murder by you. He wanted to invade Iraq under the pretext of avenging Uthman's blood.
Mu'awiyya's mercenaries spread rumors across the cities that Ali killed Uthman; you made a sermon in reply to such hearsays:
"If I had ordered Uthman to be killed, I would have been his killer and if I had stopped it, I would have been one of his companions. Nevertheless, someone who helped him cannot say he is better than those who had not helped him(1) and those who had not helped him could not say his companions are better than us. I briefly say the story of Uthman: he looked for despotism and arrogance and you had been intolerant and over- excessive; God has an achievable rule for arrogance, tyranny, intolerance and extremism.”(2)
Finally, by instigating the feelings of Sham citizens for retaliating murderer of Uthman and promising leaders of Sham tribes the emirates of different regions in the case of defeating you, Mu'awiyya could mobilize a large number of troops.
It is true!
He could mobilize one hundred and twenty thousand troops for combating your government through deceitfulness.
When you observed that Mu'awiyya with lots of troops move towards Iraq, you summoned your commanders to ask them to become quickly geared up and head for Sham frontier.
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ninety thousand troops were ready to move to Sham, most of whom were from different cities of Hejaz, Iraq and Iran.
When Mu'awiyya and his troops headed for Iraq, he wrote a poetic letter to you, saying:
"O' Ali! Guess not I'm negligent; I'm now with strong troops heading for Kufa to battle against you."(1)
In response, you wrote:
I was not stupid like you to move to Sham
You came here to spill blood of people
Now, ninety thousand combatants and shooters reply you
And this month of Muharram is the death year of many of your companions.(2)
You immediately addressed people and told your troops to move ahead sooner and stop enemy's troops coming into Iraq at the border in Siffin region.
Your troops with lots of equipment joined you and reached Siffin after several days of walking. You were informed that Mu'awiyya had reached there sooner, camped and blocked the way to water of the Euphrates which had been under his control.
Having heard this, you made a sermon, saying: )
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"People of Sham invited you to war by waterway closure.(1) You are on the horns of a dilemma: You either stand still in humiliation or satiate your swords with their blood to quench your thirst; know that death in life together with defeat and everlasting life lies in your triumphant death. Be aware! Mu'awiyya has brought together a group of deviated people and has kept truth dark for them until they blindly keep their throats target of spears and swords. "(2)
With your loud sermon, your companions unsheathed swords and moved towards the Euphrates. There erupted a battle, result of which was unblocking the waterway and retreating of Mu'awiyya's army from that region.
Once the waterway was unblocked, some of the men told you that let us mutually keep the waterway closed to Mu'awiyya and his men so that they cannot battle as a result of thirst.
O' you, Amir Al-Mu'amenin! Whose spirit is more widespread than the seven heavens told them: we do not do it as God has made this water halal
for all of His Creatures even disbelievers.
It is true!
In those circumstances, you could close the waterway to them to force them to surrender; you showed manliness and kept the water open.
Mu'awiyya and his dynasty have not realized manliness and humanity. You felt mercy of that wicked man and let waterway open to them; but the vicious descendants of Mu'awiyya blocked the waterway to the Euphrates 1
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for your son, Husayn (‘a) at Karbala, letting not him and his children drink even a little water.
Yes! That wicked dynasty has not realized humanity.
Upon arrival of your troops in Siffin territory, haram months began and two armies set up camps opposite one another for three months.
You tried a lot to beware Sham people of war and bloodshed in this time, but they insisted on launching battle and bloodshed.
In these three months, you wrote various letters to Mu'awiyya to give him the ultimatum, preventing him from a bloody war, but he failed to accept even a bit of your advice and recurrently charged you with murder of Uthman. He declared the only way of cessation of hostilities is that you shift him the caliphate.
Currently, some of the letters you wrote him are brought here:
"O' Mu'awiyya!
What will you do when your colorful garments are set aside?! The garments that are ornamented with beauties of the world? The world betrayed you with its pleasures and called on you and you accepted the call; it ordered you and you obeyed. Verily, it takes you to a perilous field where no protective shield saves you.
O' Mu'awiyya!
Stop this (war) and be prepared for judgment and the incidents coming to you. Don't give lending ears to the ignoble astray (Amru Aş)! If you don't do so, I'll tell you that you have been neglected. Verily, you are a spoiled man whom Satan governs and he will achieve his dreams with you and he flows all around you like spirit and blood.
O' Mu'awiyya!
You called me on a war? If you are right, leave people alone and come to fight with me alone (eye-to-eye confrontation) and stop the two armies killing each other so that you might know which one of us has darkened heart and whose face is disguised?
O' Mu'awiyya! How long have you (the Umayyad) been rulers of ummah
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and commanders of people?! You have neither brilliant precedence in religion nor high honor in family!
I invoke by God not to be in trouble with rooted enmities! I frighten you to attempt to pursue your dreams and you are not the same overtly and covertly.
I am Abulhassan! Killer of your ancestor, uncle and brother in the Battle of Badr(1) who split apart their heads; today, I carry the same sword and I meet my enemies with the same heart; I established neither heresy in religion nor a new Messenger I selected. I go the same divine straight path which you abandoned willfully and you had embraced reluctantly. You fancy you've come to take revenge of Uthman's blood?! While you know who has spilled his blood!
If you are right, ask them for it! [not asking from me, I'm innocent] verily, I see you in war, who are carrying heavy burden like camels and moaning and I see your troops calling me on the Book of God because of being impatient of incessant strikes of swords, of hard disasters and fall of bodies on the ground. This is while your troops are disbelievers and allegiant promise breakers.(2)
You wrote him another letter, saying:
"O' Mu'awiyya!
You killed a large number of people, betrayed them through your aberrance and sank them in turbulent surge of your sea of ignorance where darkness covered them and they were plunged into waves of skepticism, being driven from the way of truth to byway. They turned to the Dark Age of the past generation and remained proud of features of their family's ignorance, save a few of the discerning people who changed their way and separated from you when they knew you. They rushed to God not wanting to help you because you asked them to do hard job and deviated them. 0
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O' Mu'awiyya!
Fear God when you do things and release yourself from control of devil because the world has abandoned you and the Other World has approached you. (1)
You wrote another letter to the wicked man again, saying:
"After remembering God!
Verily, God set this world for the Next World and put people on trial to verify whoever is more benevolent. We are not created for this world and not ordered only to make attempts for this world; we were born to undergo trials and verily God tested you with me and tested me with you, giving one of us proof for the other.
You turned to the world by falsely interpreting the Qur'an and attributed something to me (Uthman's murder) with which my hand and tongue were never tainted. You and people of Sham concocted that falsehood and charged me so that the informed people among you would stimulate the uninformed people against me and the standing people from you would incite those crippled people against me.
O' Mu'awiyya!
Fear God and battle the devil that harnesses you and return to the Hereafter that is my way and yours. Fear God who uproots you through a crushing disaster soon and overwhelms your generation.
Verily, I take an oath of God for you, an oath by which I stand! If the days brought you and me in one place, I would stand on your way until God arbitrates between you and me because He is the best arbitrator. "(2)
But your advice failed to affect him on his dark heart and he constantly repeated his rubbish words in writing back to you.
This went on to pass by months of haram, reaching the lunar month of Şafar 1st (37 A.H.). You then turned to your army troops and said: 5
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"We stopped the conflict for two reasons: Firstly, it was month of haram; secondly, we attempted to have them stop war and follow us; now that they still persist on their aberration and the month of haram has passed by, we are set to bring the conflict to an end with your chivalrous attacks and finish them up. We are confident we are right and we fight them with firm faith."(1)
Then, you assigned the commanders of your army in different wings and your troops were poised for attack. Mu'awiyya was also informed and marshalled his troops. You turned to your army, saying:
"Each of you felt valorous and daring against the enemy in the battlefield and found his brother timid and weak, he must defend him thanks to his superiority just as he defends himself because if God wills, He will make him as brave as you are.
Verily, death is quickly in search of you; those who resist and those who run away, none cannot get released from grip of death and verily, the most honorable death is to die on the Path of God.
I swear to the One who holds life of son of Abuțṭālib in His hand!
Thousands of sword strikes on me are easier than dying in bed in opposition to God! I behold as if you are escaping from some attacks while moaning like herds of salamander where neither a right is regained by you nor a cruelty is stopped by you! Now, this is you and this opened way; rescue belongs to someone who has gone into the battlefield for combat and death goes to someone who feels enfeebled. "(2)
After that, you raised your hands up in the sky and whispered with your God, saying: ht
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"O' God of the hoisted heaven and retained space where night and day, circulation of sun and moon and frequenting route of moving stars take place and Thou set it a place for Thy Angels who are never tired of worshipping Thee! O' Lord of the earth! Where Thou let people reside, beasts and insects move back and forth and Thou placed the uncountable visible and invisible things! O' God of high and strong mounts which Thou established for the earth like sturdy nails and a backbone for the creatures!
If Thou helped us to win the enemy, keep us away from invasion and fix us on the path of truth; if we lost to them, grant us martyrdom and let us stay far from seditions."
Then, you turned to your army and said:
"Where are those free men who rise up to support their leader?! Where are those men of fervor who fight when disasters and obstacles come down?!
O' people beware! Disgrace and laid-back is behind you and Paradise stands ahead of you."(1)
Firstly, eye-to-eye confrontation started and you unsheathed your Zulfiqar; you moved towards those so-called heroes of the enemy's army. You crushed skull of every one who came to fight with you.
Malek Ashtar, Abu Ayyub Ansari and Hossein Ibn-e Monzar killed their rivals one after another.
Drum of group attack were played and the two armies attacked each other. A horrible carnage erupted. Hands and heads were gone off bodies;
streams of blood ran across Şiffin territory Malek Ashtar, Abu Ayyub Ansari and Hossein Ibn-e Monzar killed their rivals one after another.
Drum of group attack were played and the two armies attacked each other. A horrible carnage erupted. Hands and heads were gone off bodies;
streams of blood ran across Șiffin territory. You fearlessly hit the heart of enemy's troops and cut anybody's body in halves when he came to fight with you; this was while Mu'awiyya did not come out of his 1
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commandeering tent even a step further out of fear.
The battle of day one lasted late at night and thousands of both sides were killed and wounded.
This fully bloody carnage continued several days and your compatriots attacked the enemy's troops with full capacity, killing some of them so far as Mu'awiyya's army revealed signs of defeat.
Inter alia, Mu'awiyya tried a lot to absorb the commanders of your army with money and promise of governance of the captured lands, but he failed to do so by writing those letters whatsoever.(1)
The battle intensified every day and more of Sham citizens were killed. During the heavy carnage, Mu'awiyya wrote a letter to you:
"But later; because the battle lingered a long time and a number of people are killed every day; hostility and campaign has worsened, I had begged you to let me have leadership of Sham and not asking me to make allegiance to you and to follow your caliphate and obedience. I still remain persistent on my aim and I want you to leave me free in Sham so that such belligerence might be removed and war might come to an end."(2)
It is true!
When the deceitful man who had mobilized people of Sham against you under the pretext of taking revenge of murderer of Uthman saw signs of defeat, he forgot blood of Uthman and beseeched you for reconciliation! In replying him, you wrote:
"But later, O' Mu'awiyya!
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you saw was a droplet of sea and a flame of the Hell.
You begged me to assign you governorship of Sham; this is impossible to be done by the son of Abiṭālib who is leader of a tribe and entrust people and their affairs to a tyrant like you. But you wrote that we are descendants of 'Abd Manaf; know that "Umayyad" was never like "Hashem" and "Harb" was not equal to "Abdulmoṭallib". There is a big difference between Abusufyan and Abuṭālib! There is a big difference between the freed, migrant and devotee?! Hardly ever will the right stand by the wrong, that's all and nothing else. "(1)
Fierce fighting still continued; so many people from the two sides had been killed and a large number of mutilated heads, legs and hands in piles could be seen all over the vast upland.
Having noticed that a good many of his troops had been killed through your thunder-like attacks and that of Malek Ashtar, Mu'awiyya ordered his mercenaries to shout, "We are Muslims and brothers, stop fratricide! Let's make peace to become strong in the face of non-Muslims".
People of Sham stormily cried for their lost ones and continuously demanded cessation of hostilities.
But you told your troops not to be deceived by Mu'awiyya's tricks because victory is forthcoming:
“O' My companions! Fate and destiny has brought us here; everything we do, every breath we make and every word we utter, more or less, overtly and covertly are seen by God and His Knowledge encompasses us.
O' My companions! We must fight tomorrow. Stay awake and ask for His Assistance tonight. Recite the Qur'an, say prayers and ask God to make you win. Know that your enemy's health and strength has failed and it seeks after improvement and imploration of peace through ploy and trick. At first, they showed seriousness, attempt and valor; now that finality is there, you must be strong in body and in heart. We turn to war tomorrow morning until God rules between us "(2)6
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It is true!
As you knew that peace is deceit of Mu'awiyya, you turned it down to dry out origin of the "vicious family".
Your sermon strongly and heartily influenced your companions. That night they tended to invoke by God, say prayers and recite the Qur'an and they became prepared for jihad early morning.
The sun rose and you wore corselet armor of the Prophet (s) and took his sword, saying: I swear to God if it had not been for guidance of the aberrant people, I would have not stepped into the battlefield! But what I can do save choice of war because no reforms are made; after that, you ordered your troops to attack.(1)
That day witnessed the toughest and the most slaughtering scenes of war; tens of thousands launched invasions on Mu'awiyya's camp from three sides and lots of amputated heads, hands and legs covered the ground. The bloody war lasted till night. You, from one side, Malek Ashtar, from another side and the other commanders from a different side invaded. That
night which is one of the well-known nights of history is famous after “Lalat Al-Harir” has been regarded as the hardest and bloodiest hours of
battle in şiffin, where thousands of both sides of the battle had been killed.
Infantries disembarked that night, swords were fallen apart and banners fell down, arrows were overshot and prayers were unsaid! Both armies came into grips with one another in the dark in such a way that their spears and swords were broken and they had to devour each other tooth and nail. At that night, as people of Sham left lots of lost lives and wept like "cat", that night was called "Laylat Al-Harir".
You roared like a lion in that dark night and cut in halves bodies of enemies. You recited fifty hundred and twenty three Takbir, “Allahoakbar” in the night of that hard and bloody battle and in every Takbir you said, you killed one of Sham's men.(2)
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battle and Sham's army turned out to decamp and took its last breaths.
Night was about to close and Malek Ashtar kept a-few-step distance to Mu'awiyya. Mu'awiyya was scared and summoned Amru Aş, telling him: Make a trick because Ali has destroyed our troops and nobody survives until morning.
Amru Aş said: put the Qur'an on spear top and say we are Muslim and you are Muslim; stop fighting with one another and let's accept the Qur'an to arbitrate between us.
Mu'awiyya accepted the trick of Amru Aș and ordered all Qur'ans to be foliated and soldiers to put them on spear tops, crying: stop slaughtering; let's keep the Qur'an as our arbitrator.
When "Ash'ath Ibn-e Qeys" saw the Qur'an on spear top, he returned from the battlefield and told you: You said every day to practice the Book and Sunna; they are saying the same thing today! You told Ash'ath and others: this is a trick; now that they have lost war and are decamped, they have turned to the Qur'an.
His trick worked and a group of your troops quit the war in that fateful situation.
They turned to you and said: We fought with the people of Sham because they deviated from the Qur'an. Now they are reliant upon the Qur'an, why should we fight with them?!
There, a group of your companions holding their swords in hand said: O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! We fight until we finally win if you command us. In contrast, those betrayed by Amru Aş pulled swords, telling you: We killed Uthman who did not practice the Qur'an and now that these people have become ready to obey the Qur'an, why should we fight with them. If you, too, do not follow it, we catch you and hand you over to Mu'awiyya!
These people who were called the Kharijites later insisted that you bring back Malek from the battlefield; you told them: O' people! You know I was the first person who gave in to the Qur'an and I have spoken to them over the Qur'an from the very beginning. They want to get rid of us with this trick and I never assign you to do what you are reluctant to do; but
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know that your prosperity lies within your obedience and you will know the truth after this.(1)
These people numbered twenty thousand and insisted on their demand and you had to stop the war. You asked one man to go tell Malek to give up fighting and come back.
He reached your army's valiant general and told him: Ali (‘a) says you give up
the war and come back. Malek said: This is not the time to give up the war; don't you see how Mu'awiyya's army is defeated and in distress and we are only a few steps to reach his camp!
The man who was himself a Kharijite, Rebel, told your general: O' Malek! If you don't quit, you won't find Ali alive. Malek said: God damn it! If Ali is not alive, we don't want the world alive! Malek became angry, dropped the sword and went back.
Malek, your loyal companion, came to you and observed that your army has been divided into two groups: A group is for war and another group is against war. He told them: O' people of disunity and humiliation! Is this the time to give up the war? They said: We fought for God yesterday and we stop fighting for God today.
You told Malek in grief and sigh: O' Malek! No sooner is advice beneficial to these people.
Finally, those people who had no insight and knowledge were deceived by Mu'awiyya and prevented Malek from uprooting "the vicious family”.
O' lord! God knows what blustery heart you had and how you suffered in grief!
You were Imam whose obedience was obligatory, but the group of people who turned as your enemies later paid no attention to what you said and accepted what enemies of God said!
You were grieved a lot because you saw that how Mu'awiyya's men were united in their wrong and those men in your army are scattered in their way of right! 9
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You sighed highly and wrote Mu'awiyya:
O' Mu'awiyya! This you and the Qur'an, what do you want to do?
In reply, he wrote you: I am pleased with the arbitration of the Qur'an between you and us.
You and Mu'awiyya exchanged various letters and the reciters of the Qur'an were supposed to come together to contemplate over rule of God and decide about it. After two months, they agreed to have two arbitrators selected and accept whatever they found expedient and give them one-year chance.
Mu'awiyya intended to spend a long time to secure money and troops for his control.
People of Sham said that they would choose Amru Aş. Ash'ath Ibn-e Qeys and Kharijites said: We vote for Abu Mūsā Ash'ari.
You told them: I am not pleased with Abu Mūsā Ash'ari because he cannot compete with Amru Aş; besides, he slandered behind me and stopped people obeying me.
Mu'awiyya infiltrated into the army of Ali (‘a) and betrayed people with money, post and promise to have them insist on the selection of Abu Mūsā Ash'ari.
You told your troops: if there is no way but choosing an arbitrator, I choose “Abdullah Ibn-e 'Abbas". They said: you are both one. You told them: If you are not satisfied with 'Abdullah Ibn-e 'Abbas, I choose Malek Ashtar; they opposed him too.
You insisted more, but they rejected! You inevitably said to them: I find it not right and say there is a bad consequence of it, but you must shoulder the responsibility. Afterwards, you whispered with God: O' God! Know that I resent these people. Among them, an old man named "Abdullah Ibn- e Ḥurayth Ta'ie" came forward and told you: O' Ali! It's end of my life; I want to say something and that is, is there a rule after the Qur'an? You told him: By God, No! He said: Why did you make peace with these people?! Fight with them until you finish it up. You told him: They don't listen to what I told them.
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The Kharijites, there, sprayed dust into the old man's mouth and he died three days later.(1)
Everyone put the arms down and Mu'awiyya along with some of his men were supposed to come and write a peace contract.
"Abdullah Ibn-e Abi Arfa"", one of your companions, was assigned as a clerk. After name of God, you told him to write: This is a contract between Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib, Amir Al-Mu'amenin and Mu'awiyyat Ibn-e Abi Sufyan.
That vicious man told you: O' Ali! If I found you Amir of the faithful, I would not fight with you!
In reply, you told that cursed man:
God is great and the Messenger of Allah said truly!
O' Mu'awiyya! On that day when the Messenger said to me to write Hudaibiyya Treaty, he said: Write in the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful, this is a treaty that Muhammad, Messenger of God signs with people of Mecca. Then, your father, Abu Sufyan said: if I had confessed to your prophethood, I would have not fought with you. Tell him to write your name, your father's name, my name and my father's name; the Messenger of God said: O' Ali! Write as he says! After that, the Messenger told me: O' Ali! There will come a day when you write a treaty with his son just as I wrote a treaty with his father.
Later, you told your clerk: Write as Mu'awiyya wants.
Amru Aş told you: O' Ali! Do you compare us with disbelievers?!
You told him: Keep quiet! You were friend of polytheists and enemy of the faithful. That father was (Abu Sufyan) who fought with the Seal of the Prophets and spurred sedition and rebellion for twenty three years; this is son (Mu'awiyya) who raised tumult and spilled bloods with your aid.
At this time, a group of your cordial companions like "Abdullah Ibn-e Ḥanāb" and "ş'aṣat Ibn-e ṣuḥān" and others stood up and said: O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! We still remain faithful and believer as we were; our 0
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hearts obey you and do what you command us to do; you invited them to keep calm and patient.
At last, peace treaty was put down such as:
This is a contract between Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib and Mu'awiyyat Ibn-e Abi Sufyan, people of Hejaz and people of Sham who became pleased with the rule of God from the very beginning till doing whatever the Qur'an vitalizes, they vitalize; and whatever the Qur'an renders dead, they render dead. And these people, Abu Mūsā Ash'ari and Amru Aş have become arbitrators so that they would rule in whatever way [considering the Qur'an], they accept and if the rule is not included in the Qur'an, they act according to tradition of the Messenger (s). Abu Mūsā and Amru Àṣ remain secure from troops and the two armies have no objection.
Treaty was written in this way. You and Mu'awiyya signed it. People of Iraq and people of Sham were supposed to return to their homelands until the two arbitrators declare the result before end of the year.
You told your army to be ready to move towards Kufa. Among the other things, a man from Rabi'ah, one of your companions, appeared with his sword unsheathed and attacked the army of Mu'awiyya, injuring a few of them; later on, he attacked your army and wounded some people. He said: I hate Ali, Mu'awiyya and their arbitration and there is no rule save rule of God!
The man was killed by your companions and he was the first of the Kharijites to be killed.(1)
Abu Mūsā Ash'ari and Amru Aş headed for "Dumat Al-Jandal" that had been specified for arbitration and you with a grieved heart departed to Kufa while being joined by your army.
It is true!
The same people who forced you to keep house stay for twenty five years and ignored your inalienable right annoyed you worse and deeper after they made allegiance to you. )
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After several months, şiffin Battle came to an end and a number of your endeared companions like "Ammar Yaser" and "Uwais Al-Qarani" became martyred. You suffered with tragedy and sadness of separation from your loyal companions. (1)
You really showed tenderness towards the Islamic ummah and you used every chance to give people advice; therefore, you stopped by Kufa cemetery, "Wadi Al-Salam" with your companions before arriving in the city of Kufa that was your place of governorship.
You stared at the graves and said loudly:
"O' residents of horrifying houses, vacant places and dark graves; O' those slept into the soil; O' strangers; O' those who are left alone; O' those who are horrified! You left this world before us and we follow you and join you later.
I, Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib, want to report to you about your world; as for your houses! Know that others reside in them; as for your wives! They married others; as for your properties! They are divided among the heirs. Yes! This is a news about your world [to which you were bound and attached]
O' those who are dead! Now you tell what the news is! [Did you find the divine promises right?]".
No voice came from the graves and you turned to your companions and said:
"Know that they heard too; but they are not allowed to speak. If God had given them permission to speak, they would have reported you: Truly, the best source of yours for journey to the Otherworld is piety".(2)ه
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O' Abalhassan! Peace of God befalls onto you who have been oppressed!
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فقال: أمَّا لَوأُذِنَ لَهُم فِي الكَلامِ لَأَحْبَرُوكُم أَنَّ ؟ خَيْرَ الزادِ التَّقْوَى ؟
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I certify that Ḥadrat Moses (‘a) and Ḥadrat Jesus (‘a) have given the good tidings of your caliphate and Imamate.
During Şiffin Battle, there occurred different events, some of which represented your grandeur and truthfulness. In this chapter, two instances are mentioned so that your enthusiasts and zealots become happy when reading them.
These two events included: One during departing to șiffin and two when returning from there.
When you and your troops moved towards șiffin territory, after several days, you reached a place where there was no water while troops and horses were very thirsty. The companions looked for water, but they found no water around. They came to you and said:
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin!
There is no water around here and we are all thirsty. What is your strategy?
You rode your horse and told your troops: Come along!
You went by a detour and after an hour or so, a monastery appeared far in the desert; you and your companions reached there. You ordered your companions to call the monk of the monastery. They called him and he came out of the monastery.
You told him: O' monk! Is there any water nearby for these people and horses to drink?
The monk told you: From here to reach water, it is more than two miles and there is no water except that. If I am not brought water by my friends, I will die in this desert.
Companions told you: O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin!
If you find it right, we go there for water because we are failing in health.
You told them: You don't need to go there; later, you pointed your hands
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to Qiblah, saying: Dig out there, you reach water!
People rushed to take shovel and pickaxe and dug the ground on the same place you had referred to. A white stone under pebbles came out. They dug around the large white stone to move it aside, but they failed to do so.
You told them: There is water under this white stone!
A large number of your companions tried a lot to remove the stone, but they couldn't. They said:
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! The stone ceases to move with our strength.
You rode off your horse; rolled up your sleeves and moved it a bit around and pulled it away.
Your companions recited "takbir". Water popped up, colder than snow and very clean!!
Everybody drank water, filled their water skins and let their horses drink too.
The monk looked at what happened there.
You put the stone on its place and said to them to pour soil on it to disappear its trace.
When you were about to move towards șiffin, the monk yelled: Stop; stop!
Troops stopped and he rushed to you and said: You are the sent messenger?
You said: No!
He said: You are the Archangel?
You said: No! But I am the inheritor of the Seal of the Prophets.
The monk said: Stretch your hand to swear allegiance to you.
You stretched your hand; he shook it and said:
اشهد أن لا اله الا الله و أنّ محمد رسول الله وانك وصى رسول الله و أحق الناس بالأمر من بعده .
You explained to him rules and conditions of Islam, saying:
What caused you to embrace Islam after so many years of being on the religion of the Moses?
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He said:
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin!
This monastery is built on your hope and demand; many ulema of this monastery have died and had no luck to meet you. God gave me sustenance and it is written in our Book: there is a spring around here on which a large white stone rests and it is not found unless a prophet or inheritor of a prophet finds it. It is also written that it will be found by a Saint Imam of God. For this, I thought you are either a prophet or an inheritor of prophet and because of this I embraced Islam through you and confessed to your leadership.
Then you wept so much that your beard was wetted with your tears. You said:
I thank God who remembered me and reminded my supplication in the previous Books.1
You tṣurned to your companions and said: Did you hear what this brother of yours said:
They said: Yes we heard it and we thank God for this gift of God.
The turned-Muslim monk no longer stayed there and joined you in the
Battle of Șiffin. He was martyred in the Battle and you yourself said prayers over his body and buried him.2
You took off the rocky door of a castle in Kheybar conquest by loud call of takbir as God permitted; now after thirty years of that event, your powerfully divine arms repeated the same thing by taking a heavy stone aside!
What you did in Kheybar was a miracle and this one you did around the monastery was also a miraculous act.
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As for the second event that happened on your way back from Şiffin:
You reached a monastery. An aged man, smart and nice-looking, came out of the monastery while carrying a book in his hand.
That old man came close to you and said:
Greetings be upon you, O' caliph of the Messenger of God(s)!
You replied:
Bravo! O' brother, Simoen, son of Jonah! How are you? May God bless you!
He replied: I'm feeling good, O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin and lord of Muslims and O' inheritor of the Messenger of God of both Worlds!
I'm from generation of the Apostles of your brother, Jesus, son of Mary (a). I'm from Simeon, son of Jonah, inheritor of Jesus Christ (a). He was the best of the twelve Apostles of Jesus, his beloved man and the first before Jesus. Jesus made a testament to him and gave his books and theosophy to him. His family still remained adamant to his religion and avoided disbelief.
I keep those books written by Jesus and his scripture; these books read everything people have done after him by mentioning the individual monarchs, their term of monarchy and what has happened in their times. This has gone so far that God has appointed an Arab man from the descendants of Esmail Ibn-e Abraham Khalil Al-Rahman from a territory called "Tahama" (Hejaz), in a place named "Mecca". He is called Ahmad, cheerful, nice eyes and joined eyesbrow, who has twelve names.
The book cites appointment, birth and migration of that Messenger and those who fight with him, those who help him, those who show enmity to him, his duration of lifetime, and what disunity his ummah raises after him; it also mentions name of every Imam of guidance and Imam of misguidance until God sends down Jesus, son of Maryam (‘a).
Names of thirteen descendants of Hadrat Esmail Ibn-e Abraham Khalil Al- Rahman are mentioned in the book. They are the best people whom God created and they are the most beloved to Him.
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God loves those who love these people and He is at odds with those who defy them; whoever obeys them, he shall be guided and whoever disobeys them, he shall be misguided. Obeying them is obeying God and commiting sin against them is raising sin against God. It is also cited in this book names of these Imams, their lineage, their ethos; how each of them lives one after another; how many of them conceal their religion and how many of them reveal it; which one of them becomes governor and people are submissive to them until God sends down Jesus, son of Maryam (a) to last of them. Jesus says prayers behind him and says:
You are the Imams whom nobody deserves proceeding you.
Imam of the Agemay Allah hasten his emergence performs prayers for people while Jesus stands first behind him. The first superior one of them is Hadrat Muhammad (s) and the last one of them owns reward of all of them and of those who have obeyed him and guided by him.
The monk opened the book that he had in his hand and read:
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Ahmad is the Messenger of God and his names are Muhammad (s), Yāsin, Tāha, Nūn, Fāteḥ, Khatam, Aqib and Māḥay. God has seen his transfer in prostrators [meaning in the loin of messengers] and has talked to him with His Blessing. Whenever God is remembered, he is also remembered; he is the most honorable creature of God and the most beloved to Him. God has not created whether the Archangel, or the Messenger sent to people from Adam to others who are higher and more beloved tnan to God. In the Doom's Day, God lets him sit on His Throne and accepts whomever he intercedes.
In his name and in his remembrance, the Pen has run in the Protected Tablet in Mother of the Book. He is Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah (s).
After him, his brother who is his standard-bearer in the Resurrection; he is brother of the Prophet (s), his inheritor, vizier and his caliph for his ummah.
The most beloved creature of God, after the Prophet (s), is Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib (a) as the authority of every faithful man.
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Later, the eleven Imams from descendants of Ali ('a) [achieve Imamate]
The first Imam of the twelve Imams meaning Ali ('a), two of whom [that is two children of Ali ('a)] are homonymous with two sons of Ḥārūn, Shabar and Shubayr. (1)
And nine more from smaller descendants of these two brothers, Husayn (a), come one after another. The last one of them is one by whom Jesus Ibn-e Maryam (‘a) stand for prayers.
In the book, names of each of these Imams who become governor and those who reveal or hide their religions are mentioned; the first one who reveals his religion is someone who filles all cities of God with justice and rules over the east and west so far as God keeps him dominant over all religions.
Later, the monk closed the book and told you:
When the Prophet (s) was appointed, my father was alive, acknowledged him and believed in him, testifying that he is the Messenger of Allah. My father was a very old man who could not move at all. When he died, he told me: Muhammad's inheritor, his successor and his feature are in this book and he passes by you [monastery] soon when three Imams of misguidance and invitors to fire are mentioned in this book; their names, tribes and traits are cited and how long each governs, meaning such and )
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such and such in the past; whenever he passed you by, you go to him, swear allegiance to him and fight with his enemy because jihad beside him looks like jihad beside Muhammad (s); his enthusiast resembles that of Muhammad (s) and his enemy is like that of Muhammad (s).
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin!
The book reads that twelve Imams from the Quraysh, Muhammad's tribe with his progeny are rendered enmity, prevented from their right, killed, abandoned, deprived, resented and terrified. Their individual names with their ethos are included in the book and how long and how broadly each governs, what your descendants, your companions and your Shiites receive from murder and horror; and how God appoints you as their succesors, helpers and Imams and what of humiliation, war, disaster, murder and terror they will face.
He then said to you:
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin!
Stretch your hand to swear allegiance to you. I testify that there is no God but Allah and Muhammad (s) is His Messenger and worshipper. You are His Viceroy, inheritor, witness for people and His Proof in the earth. Islam is religion of God and I hate any religion that is at odds with Islam because Islam is a religion God has chosen for Himself and He is pleased with it for His Imams. This is the religion of Jesus, Prophets and Messengers before Muhammad and my forefathers believed in it.
I love you, him and your friends and resent your foes; I love eleven Imams from your children and I hate their enemies, opponents, and those who hate them, claim their rights and spur oppression against them-from the very first to the very last.
He then shook hands and made allegiance to you.
You told the monk: give me your book. He gave it; you told one of your companions:
Get going with this man, find an interpreter who can understand his words and write the contents of the book in Arabic language clearly. He brought the book written in Arabic.
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When it was brought to you, you told your son, Imam Hassan (‘a):
My son! Bring me the book I gave you!
It was brought to him.
You said:
My Son! Read the book and you, O' Fellow who show ignorance look at the book and see that it is my handwriting and scripture of the Prophet.
Your dear son read the book; even one letter was not the opposite with no delay and priority in words as if it looked one man had written it for two people.
You praised God and said:
I gratify God if He willed people would not raise differences and not disperse; I thank God who remembered me and retained my affairs. He and His Friends remembered me!
Your Shiites who were present there were happy to hear the story and thanked God; on the other hand, it annoyed many of those who were around you in such a way that they showed signs of annoyance on their faces.(1)2
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I certify that you killed the Kharijites after making an ultimatum for countering with deviations and dogmatism.
You and your army returned from the Battle of Ṣiffin to Kufa with no results. At this time, people spoke of arbitrators (Amru Aṣ and Abu Mūsā Ash'ari) across all circles and people of Hejaz, Iraq and Sham had been waiting for the result. A number of advocates surrounded the two arbitrators and tried to persuade them on their behalf. Days and months passed and they exchanged views at "Dumat Al-Jandal" and plotted to deceive each other. Indoctrination of the Kharijites deeply affected the solidification of one another's morale, but one principle was certain and that was your nobility and honor and mamonism and deceitfulness of Mu'awiyya!
Nobody was worried like you because you knew how such an arbitration would come out and what conspiracies were behind it. You were very annoyed and patient, a patience harder than when you suffered a thorn in eyes and bone in your throat!
But what could you do?! People did not follow you, yet you showed to them benevolence and pity.
After the event of Șiffin, you made one of your sermons:
I praise God! For complementing His gifts, submitting to His greatness and remaining secure from His disobedience and I ask His help in removing needs because whoever is guided by God, he shall never be misguided and whoever is known an enemy by God, he shall never be rescued; whoever is made needless by God, he shall never be needful.....
And I testify that Muhammad is His worshipper and Messenger. God sent him with a clear religion, a sustainable sign, a sturdily written Qur'an, a brilliant and shining light and revealing command so that skepticism would be eliminated, and clear reasons would be made, divine signs would abstain people and frighten them from divine panalties. God sent the Prophet of Islam when people were entangled with seditions, religion was
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torn apart in threads and pillars of faith and certainty were unstable; they raised differences in fundamentals of religion and their affairs remained dispersed. There was no easy way and no shelter; there was dimmed light of guidance and everyone was blind-hearted; sins were committed against the Compassionate God and Satan was assisted; faith was not helped and its pillars were collapsed and its signs were denied and its routes were ruined and its roads had become old and forlorn. The ignorant people obeyed Satan, followed him and were fully fed by him....
You spoke of the status of the Pure and Infallible Progeny for public vigilance and recognition of the path of truth:
The Messenger's Progeny keeps in place the Divine Secrets, shelter of Divine Commands, Treasury of Divine Knowledge, the authority of Islamic ordinances, guard of the heavenly books and ever-standing mounts of Religion of God. God erected the curved backbone of religion through Ahl- e Bayt and eliminated its value and anxiety in the face of the corrupt people who planted seed of sin [meaning the Umayyads] and irrigated pride and deceit and harvested nothing but agony and miserability! Nobody can be compared with the Prophetic family and those who are bred by the guidance gift of the Prophet's Progeny are unparalleled. The Prophet's Progeny bases religion and sturdy pillars of certainty. Those who haste must go back to them and those left behind must join them because characteristics of right of leadership are exclusive to them. The Prophet's will of the caliphate of Muslims and legacy of prophetic mission belongs to them. Now that I am entrusted caliphate, the right returned to man of right.(1)
After Şiffin, you warned people once more:
Verily, seditions, sensualism and heresy begin in the heavenly rules. Innovations that the Qur'an opposes; therefore, if the wrong did not mix with the right, those who sought the right would discover it and if the right separated from the wrong, the enemy would lose tongue. But they take
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Citations, Letter of Mohammad Ibn-e-e Abi Bakr to Mu'awiyya and his reply 2
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some part of the right and some of the wrong to be mixed with each other, there the Satan would overcome his friends and only those whom God favors and blesses shall be salvated.(1)
You knew what kind of sedition is being formed at Dumat Al-Jandal and how Amru As intended to spur corruption through deceit and falsehood in the Islamic community; therefore, you made a speech in order to reproach the trick:
O' people!
Faithfulness accompanies truthfulness which I do not know a shield stronger and protector than that. The one who is aware of his return to the Resurrection shall not be deceitful; however, nowadays, we live in an environment and timing when most people find themselves clever if they show deceitfulness and they are known as people of contrivance by the ignorant.
How do they think? May God kill them!
There might be a person who is aware of upcoming events and ways of tricks, but he is prevented from inhibitions of God [who might use tricks] although he has the power to do it, he leaves it there; but the one who ignores sins and opposition to religion, he takes advantage of playing tricks.(2)
At last, Mu'awiyya's trick affected Abu Mūsā Ash'ari and was deceived by him. Amru Aş told him: Do you find it right that I depose Mu'awiyya and you depose Ali [to finish such differences?] after that, we both vote for 'Abdullah Ibn-e Omar?
Abu Mūsā Ash'ari said: What a good say!
Then they made an appointment to declare vote of arbitrators in the public on Monday. Monday came, Abu Mūsā Ash'ari appeared there with several people and so did Amru Aș. The meeting was formal.
Abu Mūsā told Amru Aş: 1
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Stand up and depose Ali; I depose Ali too. I keep yesterday's promise with you.
Amru Aş trickily said:
I invoke by God I speak before you do; you are older and first than me in faith and migration. You take the lead and I follow you.
Abu Mūsā stood up, praised God and turned to the audience, saying: O' people! The best creature of God is one who fails to try to be careful of his self and think of people. I witnessed that many had been killed. I and Amru Aş found it right to depose Ali and Mu'awiyya to subside the sedition and assign shura for caliphate; you know now that I deposed Ali swearing that I took this ring off my finger.
After him, Amru As stood up and said: O' people! Abu Mūsā Ash'ari is a man who had gone to Yemen on behalf of the Messenger; he owns the status Abubakr, agent of Omar Ibn-e Khaṭṭāb and arbitrator of Iraqis. Now, he demoted Ali and I appoint Mu'awiyya as Caliph as I put this finger on my left hand!
He said it and sat down. Abu Mūsā became annoyed with this unexpected thing and said to him:
I swear to God we had made another promise; may God damn you, O' deceitful man of evil-doing and evil-doing tyrant!
Amru Aş said cold-bloodedly:
You can say whatever you like!
In that meeting, followers of Mu'awiyya with Amru As went back to Sham happily and victoriously. Mu'awiyya who used to beg you for emirate of Sham announced himself the undisputable Caliph of the Islamic communities after arbitration and attacked the regions under your rule.
After this, you immediately made a sermon for the public saying:
"I gratify God!
Although there emerged great events and hard times, I testify that there is no God but the Unparalleled and Only God and I give testimony that Muhammad is His worshipper and Messenger.
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After praising God; know that disobeying an experienced, knowledgable and affectionate advisor leads to regret, wandering and remorse. I told you my view and order for arbitration in sincere words but you rejected it like oppressive opponents and disobedient promise-breakers so far as the advisor became doubtful and refused to give advice! The story of you and me looks like the one concocted our brother from Hawazin tribe: in the territory of Mun'arej, I gave necessary orders but they rejected them and tasted the bitterness of insurgence." (1)
You explicitly opposed the arbitration of arbitrators, asking people to become ready to battle against Mu'awiyya and come together at the military camp to move towards Sham. (2)
But a group of people objected to you and said: Why did you accept arbitration in Șiffin to make this happen?!
They were those who forced you to accept arbitration; but they introduced you as cause of sedition!
So-called as the Kharijites, they said: Ali accepted arbitration and became an apostate!!
When you were engaged in gathering forces and arming them for a re- battle against Mu'awiyya and people of Sham, they left your army in opposition to you and camped on a place named "Harura" in half parasang distance to Kufa.
They chanted this slogan? Rule is exclusive to God and they accused you of standing up to rule of God and had become atheist by accepting the arbitration of people in the face of the Qur'an that says rule remains exclusive to God!(3)
They said to you: We join your army to fight with Mu'awiyya if you repent and return to faith!!
You advised them, saying: For which sin shall I repent! 2
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Having been numbered over twelve thousand people, they kept on raising objections and doubtfulness about your religion; you kept patience and responded to their slogan:
Rule is merely exclusive to God and said:
"What you say is right when it becomes wrong out of will! It is true! There is no command but command of God, but these people (the Kharijites) say God is the only ruler while people need ruler, bad or good so that the faithful people might be busy in their affairs under the shadow of government and atheists are also beneficiaries. People live when there is a government; government collects public treasury by which enemies can be fought; routes remain safe and secure and the poor's rights can be taken from the powerful's; the benevolent live in welfare and remain safe and sound from the evil-doers. "(1)
They compelled you to accept the arbitration in Şiffin; when the arbitration came to be scandalized, they found you guilty for that, saying you ignored the rule of God and became satisfied with rule of people. Finally, they said that government belongs to God and man is not authorized to govern people!
It is true!
They were engaged in such dogmatic and profound deviations. The aberrated group continued to insist on their opinions and you kept patience in front of them. In replying your companions who said they must be treated militarily, you said:
If they raised propaganda and merely spoke against us, we too speak against them. But if they use sword and rebel against us, we fight with them.(2)
By citing the revelation words of the Qur'an, you argued with them; but they rejected and repeated their words.
One of the leaders of the Kharijites told you: We fight neck and neck on your behalf as long as you were confident about Battles of Camel and 3
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Şiffin, but now that you are in doubt, you must repent and testify that you have gone astray; in this case, we will stay with you.
You told them:
I never raised doubt about Islam even a bit when I embraced it. Basically, God has guided you and saved you from disbelief through us! I had said that two arbitrators must arbitrate based on the Book of God and if they did otherwise, their arbitration is of no value to me.(1)
Those wicked deviators charged you, a basis of faith and certainty, with atheism and insisted that you must repent and return to Islam!!
You were the first Muslim, brother of the Messenger of God (s), standard- bearer of Islam, centrality of truth, chapter of knowledge of the Messenger (s), distributor of Hell and Heaven, the speaking Qur'an, the Straight Path, and the inheritor and Caliph of the Messenger (s); the earth, the time and the heavens testify your truthfulness; by God! Desert sands and pebbles of deep oceans and leaves of trees all were and are proofs of your great faith.
Despite all of this, you showed pity on them and longed for their guidance. You dispatched two men of your loyal companions named 'Abdullah Ibn- e 'Abbas and S'aşa'at Ibn-e Suhan to their camp to give them advice, hoping that they might make up their mind and make you delighted, but they said:
We will join Ali until he repents!(2)
In their view, accepting the arbitration equaled atheism; henceforth, those deviators asked you to give testimony to your atheism and repent it!!
Of course, they gradually found other extremist beliefs and went far to believe that cardinal sin triggers undermining all good deeds and faith and sinner must make repentance for embracing Islam; otherwise, he is known as an infidel!
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repent, you said:
"God may shower stones of incedents and calamites on you so harshly that no trace of you might remain! Should I testify my atheism after my faith in God and my jihad beside the Messenger of God (s)?! If I do so, I have gone astray and will not be guided. "(1)
Some of your companions kept on telling you: these people do not understand a language save sword. You replied to them: We will not treat them militarily as long as they do not use arms.
One day, you decided to go to their camp to make ultimatum and give them advice. For so doing, you stopped by their camp outside Kufa in "Harura" region, telling them:
Have you all been engaged in şiffin Battle?
They said: Some of us were there and some not.
You said: Divide in two groups so that I can talk to you suitably.
They were in two groups; then you called:
"Keep quiet! Lend an ear to me wholeheartedly and whomever I asked to swear to testimony, he shall give testimony by knowledge.
Tell me! When Sham people deceitfully put the Qur'an on spears in the heated state of battle and in our moment of winning the battle, you did not say that:
Sham people are our brothers and we are in the same religion? They want us to disregard their wrongs and are pleased with arbitration of the Book of God, we believe that we accept what they say and give up battle?
But I told you that:
This conspiracy is outward faith and inward enmity and grudge; it begins with blessing and ends with remorse; therefore, keep battling in this situation and stop distracting from the way you are proceeding; show your anger in the battle and do not listen to call of herald [from Sham people] because if they are replied, they are the deviators and if they are released, 8
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they are humiliated, that it happened as such.
But alas!
I saw you who yielded to demands of Sham people and accepted the arbitration.
I swear to God!
If I refused it, I would not be held accountable for its consequences and God would not include its sin in my file.
I swear to God!
If I had accepted the arbitration and I had deserved following it because the Qur'an is with me; since I joined it, I stayed with it.
Later, you added:
We stayed with the Prophet and verily our fathers, children, brothers and relatives were surrounded by war and carnage, but we only added to our faith rather than disaster and we were determined to walk along the way of truth and submit to divine command and keep patience over pains of burning ulcers.
Today, we have been involved in a bloody war with our Muslim brothers with the emergence of rusts in religion, dishonesty and influence of doubts in our thoughts, false interpretation of religion; therefore, whenever we feel something brings unity for us, and by which we keep close to each other and fill the gaps, we show inclination towards it and we seize that and abandon the other way. (1)
The group finally replied you in this way:
O' Ali!
If we asked for cessation of hostilities, it was because the Qur'an could be arbitrator rather than people and you were satisfied with the arbitration of people and disregarded the Qur'an. Therefore, you are to blame! Repent until we all join your army back to fight with Mu'awiyya. You told them: 8
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If I accepted the arbitration of people forcibly, it was because they could act according to the Qur'an instead of their personal view; they did otherwise!
You noticed that they cannot understand logical words; you left their camp and returned to Kufa.
In the midst of such event, you found out that Mu'awiyya called himself winner of arbitration and Caliph of Muslims, taking widely invasive action.
His men keep attacking the cities under your governance, killing people and plundering their belongings.
You immediately addressed people and persuaded them to war with Mu'awiyya; after sixty days, sixty thousand people were prepared to move towards Sham.(1)
The sixty-thousand-people army was prepared to depart to Sham when you were informed that the Kharijites used arms and savagely killed some of your companions; they even murdered a pregnant woman who was one of your supporters and took out her embryo and put it on spear in order to declare war with you.(2)
You knew the ultimatum for the deviated group is finished, so you told your companions: we firstly deal with these insurgents and then we try to fight with Mu'awiyya.
The deviated group was more dangerous than Mu'awiyya and his men because Mu'awiyya embarked on a war with you over government case, but the Kharijites intended to be at odds with religion in principle! You moved your army towards Nahravan where the Kharijites stayed. When
moving there in Şafar, 38 A.H., a man, brother of Ash'ath Ibn-e Qeys, a hypocrite dissident told you by forecasting through recognition of stars:
If you go this hour, you do not win. I discovered it through astrology. You .
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replied him in a way that it is a lesson for those who see themselves as fortuneteller or have been influenced by fortunetellers! You said:
"You imagine you are aware of that hour if one moves, he will not suffer loss?! And you terrify one from the hour, if he moves, he will face losses?! Whoever acknowledges what you said, he shall deny the Qur'an and remain needless of being helped by God for achieving lovely aims and being protected from embitterments!
You look as if you want to be praised instead of God! Since you made people know the hour as you think, that they are beneficiaries and remain safe from loss.
Afterwards, you turned to God, saying:
O' People!
Avoid learning from astrology for falsified forecasts except some part of it you need for sea and desert navigation because astrology attracts you towards divination and to witchcraft; astrologist like diviner and diviner like sorcerer and socerer like atheist and atheist is in Hell."
Then you told your companions:
Move ahead in the name of God.(1)
You joined with your army left Kufa for rebels' stronghold alongside Nahrawan River; a man told you:
The Kharijites passed through Nahrawan Bridge.
You said:
"This side of river is where the Kharijites will be slaughtered. By God, only ten of them remains alive and ten of you will not be killed.”(2).
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You and your army reached the twelve-thousand-troop army of the Kharijites beside Narawan River.
At this time, you made your last words to them loudly:
"I frighten you! Lest you might get up in the morning while your dead bodies are left around Nahrawan, its uphills and downhills; you are refugees and trapped in predestination without having a clear reasoning from God as well as a decisive proof. I prohibited you from such arbitration, but you obstinately opposed me to let me come to this point as you wished.
O' you, the unwise, the vicious and the bastard! I did not cause the arbitration disaster to happen and I never wished your loss. "(1)
In reply, they said:
As you were satisfied with arbitratiin, you are apostate; we do not talk to you until you repent.(2)
You told your compatriots:
Set Nukhaila as the center of army. You assigned "Hujr Ibn-e ‘Adi Al- Kindi" on the right side of troops and "Shabath Ibn-e Rib'i" on the left side. "Abu Ayyub Anṣāri" was appointed as amir of the cavalry and "Abu Fetādeh" as amir of the infantry. (3)
You ordered to have a long banner hoisted and two thousands of your compatriots stand on one spot under the banner, saying:
Whoever comes under this banner, he shall be safe.
You made an ultimatum again; in the midst of your sermons, one of the heads of the Kharijites named "Qarqara Ibn-e Nuqel Ashjaee" was impressed by your words and said: I wonder why I fight with Ali (‘a); he is the inheritor of the Messenger (s) and viceroy of God. He said this and with 500 of the apostates separated from the Kharijites and went to Kufa. Once he left, another group departed to Kufa too. A number of them took ,
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refuge in the banner. Eight thousands out of twelve thousands left. Only four thousands who constantly cried: "Arbitration is exclusive to God", remained there.(1)
'Abdullah Ibn-e Wahab, one of the ringleaders of the Kharijites, pulled sword, came into the battlefield and defied you. You unsheathed your Zulfiqar and killed him with one strike. The Kharijites attacked your troops and your companions attacked them too; they killed so many of them that only 9 people left, who ran away. You ordered your men not to chase them.(2)
Turning to your companions, you said:
People leave religion just as an arrow is shot from a bow although they recite the Qur'an, the Qur'an does not pass through their larynx. I swear to God who keeps me alive! The Prophet had informed me of rebellion of the Kharijites. He added: They are identified that there is a man among them who, instead of one hand, has a piece of flesh on his arm and shoulder like women's breast with grown hair; the hair looks like mustache of a cat and the man's name is "Zul Thadiyeh"
He was found among the killed men.(3)
Sedition of the Kharijites subsided after they were killed, but the wrong belief of those who had gone away remained in the community. They began propaganda and they created big sects.
When a man asked you: O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! The Kharijites were all killed.
You said:
"No! By God, never! They will bear sperms on back of fathers and wombs of mothers; whenever a horn pops up, it is cut off." (4)9
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I certify that you possess miracles and great generosity as God has permitted.
In His Everlasting Words, God, the Almighty has introduced His Messengers as possessing miracles. They do things to prove their truthfulness with the permission of God and mankind fails to do so; for example, the Moses dropped his stick which turned into a big snake(1); Jesus made a bird statue with mud and inhaled in it. The statue livened and flew away. He also enlivened a dead person out of grave(2). Your brother, the Messenger (s) had big miracles like splitting of the moon(3), ascension to
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the heavens.(1) You yourself narrated one of the big miracles he had. You said in one of your sermons:
"I was with the Messenger when the Quraysh heads came up to him, saying:
O' Muhammad! You made a big claim which is made by none of your fathers and progeny! We want you to show us a miracle; if you say yes and do it, we understand that you are Messenger of God; if you say no, we will realize that you are a liar and sorcerer. Your brother, the Messenger (s) told them: What do want? They said: Call that tree to be uprooted and stand before you. The Messenger said: God is Omnipotent; now if God does it, do you believe and testify the truth? They said: Yes! The Messenger .
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said: I'll show you soon what you asked for and verily I know better than anybody else that you will not return to goodness because someone among you is killed and will be buried in Badr well and he is the one who will wage the Battle of Ahzab (Parties).(1)
Later, the Messenger (s) pointed to the tree and said: O' tree! If you believe in God and the Resurrection Day and you know I am the Messenger of God, move up with the roots and come stand in front me as God has ordered.
I swear to the Messenger whom God appointed rightfully, the tree was taken off the ground and stood towards me as birds flapped and twigs rustled. It surrounded the Messenger with long twigs and with some on me; I was standing on the right side of the Prophet (s). When the Quraysh heads saw this scene, they proudly said: order half of the tree to come closer and the other half stands unmoving. The Messenger (s) ordered. Half of the tree approached him with a harsh sound and marvelously as though it wanted to twist around him; the heads of Quraysh said out of obstinacy and disbelief: Order this half of the tree to go back and join the remaining half as it was. The Prophet (s) ordered and it happened as such.
ولا إله الا الله :I said
O' Messenger! I am the first to believe you! And I am the first to confess that the tree did what you wanted for approval of your prophetic mission with the permission of God, but the Quraysh heads said: He is a lying sorcerer with a marvelous socercery and he is skilled. They addressed the Messenger (s), saying: Does anyone but Ali believe your prophetic mission? "(2)
And you, O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin!
You are the Caliph and true inheritor of the Seal of the Prophets (s). You stand higher than all divine prophets in status except the Messenger (s). n
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You have great miracles like divine messengers. O' inheritor of the Messenger! O' great testifier of truth! O' great Faruq (Separator of right and wrong)! There are lots of miracles and generosities cited in the authentic historical books, some of which I quote to enlighten your enthusiasts:
You preserved reputation of a girl with your God-given knowledge and miracle and prevented a sedition from happening.
"Ammar Yaser" and Zayd Ibn-e Irqam", your loyal companions, say:
We sat with Imam Ali (‘a) at Kufa mosque and he was at his position of judgment. You told Ammar:
O' Ammar! Fetch my Zulfiqar! He brought it and you unsheathed it and put it on your legs. All of a sudden, a loud cry filled ears.
You said: O' Ammar! Today, I want to alleviate sorrow of people of Kufa.
Tell those standing outside to come in.
Ammar went out and saw a woman riding on a camel and shouts:
O' Judge of those who are at distress! I turned to you; make me be proud of yourself and solve my big problem.
Around her, there were thousands of horses with unsheathed swords; a group of them talked for her and a number of others talked against her. She got off her camel and the others got off their horses too and entered into the mosque. The woman stood in front of you, saying: O' Ali ('a)! I came up to you because you are omniscient of what has happened now and until the Resurrection!
You turned to Ammar, saying: Go tell people of Kufa to stop by the mosque and witness this judgment.
Ammar informed people and Kufa mosque was overcrowded.
Then, you said: O' those who have come from Sham, tell me your problem!
At this time, an old man stood up, saying:
Peace be upon you, O' treasure of the poor! This maid standing in front of you
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home now. Verily, she has disrepute me in my family. I am known after courage, wisdom and perfection; my courage is unparalleled among Arabs; however, I am perplexed about what has happened to me and I am grieved.
Later, you turned to the girl, saying: O' girl! What do you think about what your father says?
The girl said:
I am virgin and I tell the truth, but if I am pregnant, by God! I have never betrayed myself. You are the inheritor and successor of the Messenger of God; you know that I do not lie when I claim and nothing is hidden from you. Solve my problem!
At this time, you took a pulpit, addressing people:
God is great! Tell midwife to come here.
A woman named "Khūlā", midwife of Kufa's women, came up there.
You told her: Hang a curtain between you and people and check to see if this girl is pregnant?
Midwife obeyed the order and said: Yes, she is both pregnant and virgin!!!
You then heralded:
يا اهل الكوفه ! أين الائمه الذين ادّعوا منزلتي؟! أين من يدعى في نفسه أنه له مقام الحق فيكشفهذه الغمّه
Where are those leaders who claimed my status?! Who is the man who imagined the status of truth belongs to him so that he might remove such problem and grief?!
"Amru Ibn-e Ḥurayth" (one of the hypocrite dissidents) ridiculously said:
This problem is only solved by you; today, your Imamate is proven to us!!
You told the girl's father:
O' angry man! You are hurt in reputation! Are you from Damascus?
He said: Yes!
Aren't you from a village called "As'ār"?
He said: Yes!
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You said: Is there anyone among you to fetch a piece of ice now?
He said:
There is a lot of ice in our village, but we cannot bring it here now!
You told him:
It is two hundred and fifty parasang far from our city and yours?
He said: It's true, my lord!
Later, you turned to the people inside Kufa mosque, saying:
أيها الناس!
أنظروا إلى ما أعطى الله عليّا من العلم النبوي الذي أودعه الله و رسوله من العلم الرباني
O' People! Look what God has granted to Ali from knowledge of the Prophet.
Sitting on the pulpit, you stretched your hand and a piece of ice dropping water suddenly popped up on your hand; at this time, people in the mosque cheered loudly. You told them:
أسكتوا ! و لو شئت أتيت بجباله
Keep quiet, if I decide, I can make an iceberg known to you!
After that, you told the midwife:
Take this piece of ice and the girl out of mosque. Then, get a basin under her and place the ice near her embryo; a leech will come out and weighs 197 g plus 6.1 dirham.
Midwife did as you had said; a big leech suddenly fell into the basin. It weighed as much you had said. It was brought to the mosque; you recited words of revelation of the Qur'an, saying:
O' angry man! Your daughter has not committed adultery; when she was ten years old, she went into water somewhere and let the leech go into her embryo. Ever since it had been in her embryo, sucked blood and became enlarged!!
At this time, daughter's father stood up, saying:
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I certify that you know what is in embryos and in minds!(1)
It is true!
You with your divine knowledge, generosity and miracle solved a big problem and saved face of a chaste girl!
Peace be upon you, O' ya Abalhassan!
O' Light of God!
You have always supported the oppressed hearts and their redressers. When you brought a piece of ice on your hand from As'ar village and made the crowd happy and rejoiced in the mosque; you said: If I decide, I make an iceberg appear here!
I fully confirm truth of your words! I swear to my God I confirm it! Because your status is much higher than that of "Aşef Ibn-e Barkhiyā”, vizier of Hadrat Solomon ('a). He could bring the great throne of Belqeys from the neighboring country, Yemen in a blink of eye because he was learned about part of the Book and I testify thyat the whole knowledge of the Book is in his heart.
If Aşef Ibn-e Barkhiyā could bring Belqeys's throne to Solomon palace with his unimportant knowledge of the Book, you with your whole knowledge of the Book can easily and in no time bring the iceberg to Kufa mosque from the South Pole, thousands kilometers away from Kufa. By God! You can do it because you are viceroy of God.
God, in His Everlasting Words, has spoken of His endeared Prophet, Jesus Christ and says that he gives life to the dead with the permission of God. You are Proof of God and you stand higher than Jesus (‘a).
• One of the miracles quoted for you in several cases is enlivening the dead, two cases of which are recounted hereunder:
1. Meytham Tammar, your loyal companion says:
I was at the presence of my lord and many people were around him; a tall .
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man wearing grey robe and turban and armed with two swords entered without saying greetings; people moved their heads up to watch, but our lord, Ali (‘a) failed to look up.
The man cried out:
Which one of you has been selected because of courage and armed with contentment? Which one of has been born in the House of God? Which one of you has helped the Messenger (s) in his lifetime?!
You said:
O' Sa'ad Ibn-e Fadl Ibn-e Rabi'ah Ibn-e Mudrakat Ibn-e Tayyib Ibn-e Ash'ath Ibn-e Abi Sam'a Ibn-e Aḥbal Ibn-e Khazārat Ibn-e Da'abal Ibn-e Amru Dwayni! I am the one.
He told you: Labbayk Ya Ali!
You told him:
Ask me what you want because I am treasure of grieved men! I am described as benevolent! I am the one by whose order clouds rained! I am the one who has been delineated in every heavenly Book! I am Mount Sinai and Jabal Mousa! I am the Straight Path!
The Arab man said: we've been told that you are the one on the earth who has revitalized the dead.
You told him: Tell me your problem!
He said:
I represent sixty thousand people from 'Aqimeh. Among them, a young man has died and they have differences over cause of his death; now, they have sent with me the dead body that is now outside the mosque. If you make him alive, we will know that you are trustworthy and nobleman. We will be confident that you are Proof of God on the earth. Otherwise, he is taken back to his tribe and we understand that your claim is unfounded and you declare what you cannot do!
You turned to Meytham Tammar, saying:
O' Aba Ja'afar! Ride a horse and move around places and alleys in Kufa and cry: Whoever wants to see excellence, supremacy and knowledge
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which God has granted to Ali, brother of the Messenger (s) and husband of Fatima Zahra, he shall come to Najaf desert.
Meytham Tammar completed his mission and came back.
You told him: Host this Arab man. Meytham took him with the dead man's coffin to house and served him.
Tomorrow morning when you said your morning prayers, you moved towards Najaf; people of Kufa appeared at Najaf desert.
You told Meytham: O' Aba Ja'afar! Bring the Arab man with the dead man.
He brought both of them; turning to people of Kufa, you said:
O' people of Kufa! Tell about us of what you see and narrate what you hear of us.
Then, you said: Take the dead man out of coffin with the help of some Muslims.
The Arab man uncovered the coffin; he unwrapped a silk cloth, Dībāj where there was a young man whose curls looked beautiful like women.
You told the Arab man: how long is he dead?
He said: 41 days.
You said: Why did he die?
The Arab man said:
His family wants you to make him alive to tell who has killed him? Because he slept safe and sound at night, but in the morning he was found decapitated.
You said: Who wants revenge?
He said: Fifty of his relatives looks for his revenge.
You told him:
His uncle has killed him! Because he married his daughter to him, but he left her and married another wife. His uncle killed him out of grudge.
The Arab man said:
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We are not contented with what you said and we want to have the young man himself testify who has killed him and flames of sedition subside.
You stood up and praised God and greeted the Messenger (s), saying:
O' people of Kufa! Verily, the Israelite ox is not more valuable than Ali, brother of the Messenger (s) before God; verily, the Almighty God revitalized a dead person after seven days.
Later, you neared the dead body, saying:
Verily, a dead body was touched by the Israelite ox and he was made alive. I touch the dead with some organ of my body because my body organ stands higher than the ox before God.
Then, you shook him with your right foot, saying:
O'Mudrakat Ibn-e Hanzalat Ibn-e Ghassan Ibn-e Bahrain Ibn-e Fahm Ibn- e Salamat Ibn-e Tayyib Ibn-e Mudraka Ibn-e Ash'ath Ibn-e Akhraș Ibn-e Dāhelat Ibn-e Omar Ibn-e Fadl Ibn-e Ḥubāb! Rise up because Ali made you alive with the Permission of God!
At this time, the young man stood up from the coffin, whose countenance was nicer than sun and more brilliant than full moon; he turned to you and said:
Labbayk Labbayk! O' revitalizer of bones!
You told him: Who had killed you?
He said: My uncle, Hurayth has murdered me.
You told him: go back to your family.
I am needless of relatives, said the young man.
You told him: What for?
He said: I am afraid they kill me again and you are not among these people, then who makes me alive?!
You turned to the Arab man, saying: You go back to your family.
He said: I stay with you and the young man as long as I am alive.
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They stayed with you until they were martyred in the Battle of Șiffin.(1)
2. Your loyal companion, Salman Farsi is being quoted as saying that:
A woman from the Anṣār, the Helpers named "Umme Furwah" who was one of your lovers was killed. You were not there when she was killed. Having heard that she was killed, you stopped by her grave and looked up in the heaven, saying:
اللهم يا محيى النفوس بعد الموت و يا منشىء العظام الدارسات بعد الفوت أحى لنا « أمّ فروه » و اجعلها عبرة لمن عصاك
O' God! The One who keeps people alive after they are dead and O' Grower of the rotten bones! Give life back to "Umme Furwah" until those who have disobeyed Thee take admonitory lesson.
All of a sudden, a voice came down, saying: O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! Go where you had prayed.
You stopped by her grave again, saying: O' worshipper of God, get up with the permission of God!
Umme Farwah came out of grave while weeping and said: O' Amir Al- Mu'amenin! They wanted to put out your light, but God decided to make it more brilliant and to sublimate your name although disbelievers had been reluctant of it.
You brought back the woman to her husband. She gave birth to two sons and she lived six months after your martryrdom.(2)
If God enlivened seventy people of the Israelites with supplication of the Moses (a)(3), you deserve more for fulfilment of your prayer because you )
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stand higher in status than the Moses (a).
And if Jesus (a) incited the rotten dead from the graves with the permission of God, you deserve more receiving permission of God because Jesus (‘a) reached a status in the shadow of your leadership.
You are the viceroy of God in the universe, His most beloved creature after the Messenger of God (s) and the Great Sign of God. The one who denied you never recognized God.
• God in His Qur'an says about Solomon: We taught him to talk to birds(1); His Qur'an reads the story of hoopoe talking to him(2) and the )
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story of him talking to ant.(1)
With the permission of God, you were learned about logic of animals. This interesting story is quoted by your honorable companion, Ammar Yaser:
I was with Amir Al-Mu'amenin (a) at Kufa mosque and nobody was there but me.
He heard you say: Believe it, believe it!
Ammar looked around and saw nobody. He was surprised!
You told Ammar: O' Ammar! You look as if you tell to whom I talk?
He said: Yes, that's right.
You told him: Move your head up.
Ammar moved his head up and saw two pigeons talking together.
You told him: O' Ammar! Do you know what the pigeon says?
Ammar said: No. O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin!
You said: The female pigeon tells the male pigeon: You love other than me and left me? The male pigeon takes an oath and says: It is not true!
The female pigeon replied: I don't believe you! I swear to the One who is )
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in this Qiblah, I love no one but you!
O' Ammar! I told the female pigeon: Believe it; believe it.
Ammar told you: O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! I do not know someone but Solomon Ibn-e Davoud who was familiar with the language of birds!
You told him: O' Ammar! Verily Solomon asked God on our right of Ahl- e Bayt and became acquainted with the language of birds.(1)
We should not be amazed about birds' love and attachment to one another because God says: Birds are ummahs like you.(2)
It is true!
Your status is much higher than that of Solomon, the Prophet (‘a). If he could talk to birds, you can talk to all animals with the permission of God because you are omniscient of all divine creatures in the heavens and the earth!
Imam and Proof of God on the earth are proof and Imam on both men and on group of jinns. This story is being quoted in historical books:
One day, you were on pulpit of Kufa mosque, addressing people; a gigantic snake suddenly appeared from one of the doors of the mosque, which is known after Bāb Al-Fil(3)nearing your pulpit. People were all horrified and were prepared to repel it; you pointed to them that they keep not moving.
The snake approached you and climbed up the pulpit. You kept your head close to it and it came within your earshot shouting. People kept quiet and were amazed. You moved your lips and the snake listened. It then climbed .
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down, went back from the way it had come and it was not seen!
You returned to your address and finished it. Afterwards, you came down the pulpit and people surrounded you, asking you of the case. You said: it was a ruler of rulers of jinns disguised as a snake. He had misrepresented a proposition and did not know its rule. He came to me to ask me about that.
I told him what the rule was. He prayed and returned.
It is true!
You are Proof of God and Imam of jinn and people:
على حبه جنته *** قسيم النار و الجنته
وصى المصطفى حقا *** امام الانس و الجنته
Ali stands as shield against fire
Distributor of heaven and hellfire
Successor and inheritor of Muhammad (s)
Leader and Imam of jinns and ummah;(1).
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Peace of God be upon you, ya Abalhassan! O' the one who is Great Proof of God over creatures and you are the Great Sign of God in the heavens and the earth.
May our faces be red carpet under your steps and may our valueless lives be sacrificed to your fully patched shoes!!
Intercede us before your brother, the Messenger of God (s).
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Theosophy Thirty
I certify that purely monotheistic sciences are discovered in effervescent springs of sciences of you and your family.
The most sublimated, invaluable and nicest monotheistic and divine sciences must be sought in the statements of you, the pure and infallible family (‘a) because you and your family are the treasuries of monotheism.
Whoever looks for the pure and undeviated sciences, he shall come and sit beside you with your sciences, a drop of which seems like an ocean because the knowledge of you, the Pure and Infallible family (‘a) fails to derive from human sciences and experiences, which are error-prone; rather, they are proxy or non-proxy divine doctrines and teachings.
How a many of thinkers who appeared to claim they own divine sciences and put down books and treatises of a lot, but they could hardly elucidate even a bit of monotheistically pure sciences!
In essence, any sciences and teachings that do not come from the effervescent springs of your sciences are astray and retrograde; you yourself told Kumayl:
O' Kumayl! Receive sciences from us to be with us.(1)
Your honorable descendant, Imam Ṣādiq (‘a) says:
Someone who says he is one of our Shiites tells a lie; at the same time, he resorts to people other than us. (2)
It is true!
Your real Shiites receive sciences only from your family's effervescent
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spring and are thirsty for you; their hearts are humble for your words and problem-solving sciences and thet never follow those "bandits of beliefs".
Who are bandits of beliefs?!!
Those who appeared to present wrong and deviated sciences in front of your illuminative sciences let a large number of people abandon the Straight Path of monotheism and depart to destination of seditions; they are those who raised points in the face of the Qur'anic texts and introduced those wrong things as being included within religion. They charged the combatant and campaigning ulemas of your family-who countered with those beliefs-with stupidity and superficialism!! Does someone who claim to have the highest divine sciences and writes in his book: The reason why the Moses, when he was back from his trip and found that his people worshipped calf, treated Ḥārūn who had stopped a group of people worshipping the calf and also prevented the remaining minority from calf worshipping chastised his brother and pulled his forehead's hair!!(1) By God, O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! Are these wrong things divinely sublimated sciences, matters that stand against the Qur'anic texts?!
Does the Qur'an say that Sameri was deviated or Ḥārūn, the prophet?!
They say Ḥārūn was knowledge-free who stopped the calf worship because the calf worshippers worshipped God too!!
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! You are the speaking Qur'an and you keep all the Qur'anic sciences in your heart; has Pharaoh, the evil-doer passed away as a pure and a faithful man?!
The same people who claimed to have pure sciences say: He died while he was pure!!(2)
I swear to God I do not believe what they say!
Because I certainly believe in what God says about Pharaoh:
"Pharaoh said: "I am your supreme god, so God made him suffer agony ه
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in this world and the other world. "1 (1)
He says more:
"Pharaoh enters into Hell before his people." (2)
And they claim that when a man reaches certainty, Shari'ah is nullified from him.(3)
And the knowledge-free Sufi exonerates your murderer, negates the perpetration of a big crime, he is attributed to God and is praised, who is introduced by the Prophet (s) as the most atrocious man from the beginning till the end. (4)
Or another man whose followers call him mystic says about idolatry:
If Muslim knows what idol is,
He makes certain religion is in idolatry.(4)
According to their sciences, everything comes from Divine Essence; therefore, idol is not separated from the Essence of God. In this case, idolater worships God!!
One of the interpreters of such vulgarities says: i
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Meaning that Muslim believing in monotheism and denying idol should know that what actually idol is; whose manifestation it is and who is idol in appearance; should know that of course religion of truth lies within in idolatry because idol manifests the absolute being which is the truth. In this case, idol is actually the truth and religion and habit of Muslim is worshipping the truth and idolatry is the very truth worshipping, so religion rests in idolatry every instance.
He then says:
You find idolaters favorable
Idol stands beloved to you(1)
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin!
These people explicitly say that idolaters worship God because idol is the same Essence of God that has appeared on the earth as such!!
Another man says in this regard:
In idol houses, you are only worshipped
The one who prostrates on stone, mud and wood
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Of your virtue, of idols of Somnath it showed
Worshipping idolater of idols of Somnath
Lāt and Manāt prostrated he in rejoice
As the disbeliever found your virtue in Lāt and Manāt(2)
O' lord of real mystics!
They and their followers claim that such malodorous words clashing with Divine Revelation and school of Prophets are understood by anyone! They say: The most concise and delicate points of monotheism are included in these words!! 5
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O' Amir Mu'amenan!
I hereby voice my resentment of such foul and void words because if we accept such sciences, we have denied you and your family's sciences.
In the sciences you have presented, God contradicts with all His Creatures and no congruity exists between the phenomena and the Almighty God; but they say all objects appear as God Himself and this is God who has changed into different forms and the other one says: This is God who has emerged as donkey.(1)
I invoke by God from such absurd words!
Of course, the pious ulemas of your school, O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! Have always nullified the ideas of such bandits of beliefs with their pens of writing throughout history.(2)
These cases are only a small part of dozens of void sciences they raised; they left you and your family's sciences and proceeded to achieve their own conducts and experiences and experienced big mistakes.
Now, I refer to some parts of your invaluable statements about monotheism, knowledge of God and Divine Sciences so that those lovers of you would benefit from unique treasures.
• I praise God whom speakers are frustrated to praise; whose gifts auditors are unable to audit and campaigners cannot fulfil His Right; God whose Essence deep thinkers can hardly realize and divers of sea of sciences cannot reach Him; God whose traits are .
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unlimited and no certain time can be given for Him. He created creatures powerfully; moved winds with His Blessing and turned anxiety and tremor of the earth into tranquility through mountains.
Religion begins with theology, perfect recognition of God, belief in Him and testifying His Oneness; perfect monotheism, cordiality and perfect cordiality separate Him from features of creatures because every qualification shows that it is other than subject of qualification and each subject of qualification testifies that it is other than qualification; therefore, if God is defined with the attribute of creatures, He has been proximated to something (a counterpart is imagined for Him); in this way, two kinds of God are raised and organs are assigned on Him and He is not recognized as the Only God.
And if you do not know God, you point to Him; and whoever points to God, he has limited Him and has counted Him. Whoever says: In what does God rest? He has imagined Him in something else. Whoever asks: Where is He placed: He has considered somewhere without God whereas God has always been Ubiquitous and He has not been made of something. He stays with everything but never co-sits with everything and different from them; He is close to them.
He performs all works without movement and tools; He sees everything even when there was no phenomenon. He is Unique and Lonely because there was nobody with whom He familiarizes or horrifies without him.
He created creatures without thinking or using any experience, with no movement or any decision in distress. He set a suitable time for creating beings and harmonized different creatures; a certain instinct was put in each creature and joined them with the instincts. He was aware of details and aspects of creatures before their creation, knew their limits and ends and He was familiar with inside and outside phenomena.(1)
I praise God who is aware of the hidden secrets and blatant signs give testimony to His Existence across the universe; He never appears to be seen. Neither eyes that has not seen Him can deny Him, nor can any heart that knew Him see Him. He has surpassed everyone in terms of superiority; 1
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He is so close to creatures that there is nothing closer than Him.
His high rank has kept Him away from His phenomena and His proximity to phenomena has not equaled Him to anything. He did not make intellects know the reality of His Essence and let people recognize Him; therefore, He is the one whom signs of existence give testimony to His Existence and has made hearts of deniers confess to His Existence; He is God higher than what incarnators say and what deniers guess.(1)
• I praise God whose attributes are the same making Him the First before one can say He is the Last; He is outward before He is inward. Every unit or lonely being is trivial without Him, every endeared being is down and mean and every powerful being is weak and enfeebled without Him; every proprietor is a worshipper without Him and every learned man is a student without Him; every powerful man is sometimes potent and impotent at other times without Him; every listener is deaf in listening to poor sounds and cannot hear far distant sounds without Him.
He has not created creatures to strengthen their governorship or to fear future, or get help to combat his counterpart or to show pride to partners or to fight with the opponents; rather, all are His creatures and they are obedient and modest worshippers in the shadow of His nurturing.
God is not placed in anything so that one can say He is there and He is not away from the phenomena, so one can say He is separated from them.[God is other than objects, but He dominates the whole creatures]
He is the One God whom we hope in times of tribulations and we fear in His Gifts.(2)
Imaginations can hardly give Him attributes and intellects are frustrated to realize His Quality; neither a part can be imagined for Him and nor can He be discriminatory; nor can eyes and hearts 5
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properly learn Him.(1)
God is aware of whatever fruits of trees and leaves on the ground; of where sperm is placed and blood clotting and embryo that is like a piece of flesh as well as human sperm and nurturing. He has no trouble for this much awareness; He is not concerned about protecting these colorful creatures. He takes measures to have His influence over them with His justice; His Grace and Blessings have continued despite shortcoming of His creatures to praise Him.(2)
Whoever trusts in Him, He shall keep it sufficient; whoever demands Him, He shall pay it. Whoever lends money to the needy, He shall pay his loans; whoever praises Him, he shall be rewarded well.(3)
He has shown to us plenty of examples of His Kingdom of Power and marvels of His Blessings that all give testimony in clear language to His Existence; they involuntarily call us on recognition of God.(4)
I praise God who is the First and nothing existed before Him and who is the Last and no creature could exist after Him; He is so public that nothing exists beyond Him and He is so hidden that more hidden than Him cannot be found.(5)
He created creatures with no need of thought because thinking is exclusive to those who have a heart in their chest, but He is not as such because Divine Knowledge has split deep Invisible Veils and He surrounds the concealed ideas and thoughts.(6)
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there was no potency. (1)
One cannot say from when He Existed. He is a blatant Existence and one cannot ask from what He is. He is a hidden fact and one cannot ask where He is. He is neither an object with a finality nor a disguised being surrounded by something; He is not so close to creatures to be attached to them and He is not so far to be separated from them.(2)
God can do all works at the same time and He is not changed as a matter of time; no place surrounds Him; He is not delineative by language; He is Omniscient of everything: drops of waters, stars of the sky, particles of dust with whirlwind in the air, movement of ants on the hard stones and tiny ant resting places under dark nights.(3)
Eyes cannot clearly see Him, but hearts realize Him with honest faith. He is speaker but not with thinking; He is determined but not out of desire and wish; He is maker but not with hands and feet but not concealed; He is great but not with tyranny; He sees but not with outward senses; He is affectionate but not with tender hreart; heads and faces fall onto the ground and hearts are relentless because of His Fear.(4)
And hundreds of unparalleled, excellent and illuminative statements have remained from you, O' Amir Al-Mu'amnenin! each of which is effervescent waterful springs to quench thirst of those who seek after pure Divine sciences. In these sciences, God is defined in such a way that there is no congruity shown between God and His beings.
True!
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say there is perfect similarity between Creator and Creature and they go far beyond this, saying:
"Mystic is someone who sees God in everything and sees Him the same as everything. "(1)
In your illuminating words passed, God is the Creator of objects and He is the only eternal Essence and all other creatures are originated (they did not exist, God created them).
In your illuminating sciences, the only Eternal Being is the Almighty God and other creatures are created by God who made them with no layout and raw materials.
One can say that the most important principle of you, the pure and infallible family ('a) in elucidating the monotheistic disciplines is "essential contradiction of God with objects", meaning that God has no similarity to His creatures. He is also Unique in His Attributes quite different from the attributes of His creatures. Forv example, several valuable statements made by your descendants are herein mentioned in this case:
•Imam Baqir (‘a) says:
Essence of God is empty of essence of people and essence of people is empty of essence of God; every object is creature save God who Creator of objects.(2)
•Imam Sadiq (‘a) says:
His Creatures are not in Him (meaning that creatures do not possess His Attributes and He is not in His Creatures.
•And says:
Whoever thinks God comes from something or within something or on p)
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something, he shall be a disbeliever.(1)
And says:
God contradicts with His Creatures; meaning He is completely different from His Creatures.
And says:
His Substance is different between Him and His Creatures and He is not retributed because He is different from His Creatures; other objects are retributed.(2)
Imam Reza says:
So whatever is in His Creatures is not found in God and whatever is in Him is impossible to be in Him(3)
You yourself said:
God is different and separated from His Creatures and nothing looks like Him.(4)
And hundreds of precious words from you and your family that explicitly raised contradiction of God with the objects; this is while mankind continually thinks about complete similarity of God to objects.
One of them who is very well-known and drew a large number of people to nowhere land says:
In the universe, there is no existence but His Existence and this is Him who has emerged in different shapes that are called creatures and contingencies.(5))
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And says:
When we see God, we in fact see ourselves because our essence looks like Essence of God and there is no difference between Him and us unless in terms of limitation and reference; when God saw us, He has seen Himself because it is His Essence that has become us through characterization and determinism.(1)
And says:
Christians did not become disbelievers because of saying "Jesus is God" and unified God with Jesus Christ; rather their disbelief was because they accepted divinity of Jesus alone and it was a mistake; because God is both Jesus and anything else which we see in this world.(2)
Many of such void beliefs are found in his works and in his followers', but your true followers are happy because they have you, originator of all divine sciences.
They hear your brother, the Messenger of God (s) say: Ali always stays with truth and truth always stays with Ali, but they turn to others save you and your family.
In the end, some extracts from divinely and nice supplications that you recited at the Kufa mosque; the same supplications that let tears roll faces and relieve hearts of your enthusiasts:
•O' my Lord, O' my Lord! Thou art Lord and I am your worshipper and who shall raise pity on worshipper except his Lord?!
•O' my Lord, O' my Lord! Thou own my existence and I am Thy )
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slave and who shall feel mercy on His slave except his Owner?!
• O' my Lord, O' my Lord! Thou art omnipotent and honored and I am Thy degraded worshipper and who shall feel pity on a downgraded worshipper except a Powerful and Honored Essence?!
• O' my Lord, O' my Lord! Thou art Creator and I am Thy creature and who shall feel mercy on a creature except his Creator?!
• O' my Lord, O' my Lord! Thou art great God and I am an unimportant humble worshipper and who shall feel pity on an unimportant worshipper except great God?!
• O' my Lord, O' my Lord! Thou art powerful and potent and I am weak and impotent and who shall feel pity on a weak and impotent except powerful and potent God?!
• O' my Lord, O' my Lord! Thou art needless and rich of pleasures and I am poor and who shall feel pity on a needy poor man except a needless rich Creator?!(1)
May Divine Peace be upon you, O' ya Abalhassan! You are scale, straight path and door of knowledge of Allah, God of both Worlds. )
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Theosophy Thirty One
I certify that the world with all its gems could hardly make you slip even a bit and you kept on Straight Path of God in this mortal world.
You said many times that this world passes by and people deserve having the value of the Eternal Paradise rather than the inferior world that is mixed with pains, sufferings and deficiencies. You frequently told people, O' people! Stop selling yourself cheap to this world because you deserve having Paradise.
You have always been the most pious man and viewed the world as nothing good and pleasurable while most people found it nice and charming.
You have been the most pious man on the earth in the last years of your lifetime when you governed vast areas of the world; you never spent even a bit of the Muslim property for your welfare and livelihood; besides, you had hard-time life during your five-year-long government while neither wearing new and costly clothes, nor eating delicious food for a man who held control of almost one-third of the world.(1)
As for his house, I must say!!
True! It was a small clay-made house next to Kufa mosque! The very mosque you stopped by everyday and performed congregation prayers with people and guided them towards God. In the night, when people were asleep, you reached its altar and prostrated while you had tearful eyes and whispered with your moans, "O' my Lord, O' my Lord!”
True! Your house was a small clay-made house and had nothing inside but two or three mats, gelim, several pots, one manually operated mill, two ragged shirts, one pair of fully patched shoes and the like.
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This was while that enemy of God and chief of the vicious family who had brought many people in opposition to you in the name of Islam and the Qur'an lived in large and splendid palaces and filled his stomach with the most delicious foods and put on silky clothes.
O' my lord! I do not want to say that your lovers exchange one tiny hair of yours with the whole world; rather, I say that they do not exchange dust of your feet and clay of your house with thousands of world either.
You granted the most delicious foods to orphans and the needy people, but you only had barely bread.
One day, a man brought you sweets named "refined cookies"; you looked at it and never ate it, saying:
By God! Your food smells good, looks colored and flavored, but I do not like keeping my soul accustomed to something I am not used to having it.1
One day you had a flowing robe on in the cold season and it failed to keep you warm. One of your companions told you, O' Ali! God has put a share for you and your family from the public treasury, but why do you treat yourself as such?
You told him:
I swear to God! I do not take anything from your property and I have brought this mantle from Medina(1)
You had advised all of your governors to live with piety and take care of the public property while using it with other people equally.
One day, you were informed that one of your agents assigned by you as governor of Basra accepted the invitation of attending party of wealthy men; you were annoyed and wrote a letter and reproached him:
After remembering God and greetings! O' son of Hanif, I have been told that a wealthy man from Basra invited you to attend his party and you rushed to the party. Colorful edibles and dishes of foods were brought to you. I could not guess you accept the party of people whose needy people .
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have been deprived in cruelty and whose wealthy people had been invited; think where you are? And which table do you eat food?
So when you do not know whether the food is halal or haram, throw it away and use whatever clean and halal you are certain about.
You then added:
Be aware! Every follower has an Imam to follow and he is lightened from him; be aware! Your Imam is pleased with two tattered garments and two loaves of bread from his world. Know that you cannot do this, but you can help me with piety, truthfulness, chastity and great endeavor.
I swear to God! I have not saved gold from your world and silver and nothing of its booties; I have not added any garment to my two old garments; I have not seized even one inch of the world's land and your world sounds to me more unimportant than bitter seed of oak tree.
I cherish my soul through piety so that I would be steadfast, safe and firm on the Resurrection Day that is the most horrible days. If I wanted, I could supply food and garment from pure honey, wheat and silk fibres; alas! I might be overcome by passion and caprice makes me to eat delicious foods while there might be someone in Hejaz or Yamama who needs bread or remains hungry.
Can I be pleased to be just called Amir Al-Mu'amenin and not share distastes of times? And I am not model for them during hard times of life?
I am not created to be amused with clean and tasteful foods like a fat animal which tries to find grass or like an unleashed animal whose job is grazing and filling its stomach with no news from its future.
Am I created in vain? Am I played with? Should I snatch rope of aberration? Or walk in deviation?
You said more:
O' world! Stay away from me; I put harness on your back and released from your claws and traps; I have avoided your slips...
Stay away from my sight; I swear to God! I am not tamed by you because you degrade me; I do not give my harness to you because you drag me wherever you want; I take oath of God, an oath which is willed by Him. I
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make my soul get used to austerity until it gets happy if it finds a loaf of bread and it is contented with salt instead of stew and bread......
O'son of Ḥanif! Fear God and be contented with your own loaves of bread so that you would be saved from hellfire.(1)
One day, your brother, Aqil was hosted by you. You told your son, Al- Hassan (a) to gift a garment to his uncle. Imam Hassan (‘a) gifted one shirt and one robe of his own to his uncle. The night came; it was hot. You and Aqil went up the roof of the emirate house and were engaged in conversation. It was time to have dinner. Aqil finding himself as guest of the caliphate court naturally expected to see a colorful dinner reception, but he was served with a very simple and poor dinner unexpectedly. He amazingly asked you: the food is the same thing?
You told him: Isn't this gift of God? I thank God very much for these gifts.
Aqil said: So, I should say my demand sooner and leave you. I am in debt; order my debt to be paid as soon as possible and help me whatever you can; I leave you for my home.
You told him: How much is your debt?
He said: One hundred thousand dirhams.
You said: One hundred thousand dhms! It is too much money! But I am sorry, my brother, I don't have this much money to pay off your debts; you can wait until I get paid my wage, I share you.
He said to you: What? I should wait until you get paid? You hold public treasury under your control and you are telling me that I should wait until shares are paid and I can take it from public treasury!
Your brother, Aqil constantly persisted that you give him some money from the public treasury.
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You were seated where Kufa market was overseen. Money boxes of merchants and businessmen could be seen from there. You told him in response to his insistence: I suggest you something; if you follow it, you can pay your debts and extra money also remains for you. .
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Aqil said: What should I do?
You said: there are boxes downstairs here. When nobody is there, you can go and break boxes and take whatever you want!
He said: Whose boxes are they?
You said: They belong to these shopkeepers; they keep their cash money there.
Aqil amazingly looked at you and said: You suggest I break boxes of people and take their assets?
You told him: How do you suggest that I open boxes of public treasury for you? Whose property is this? This is owned by people who are asleep in their homes. I suggest you something else now, if you will.
He said: What suggestion is it?
You said: If you will, take your sword and I do too; Al-Ḥira is located nearby Kufa. There, there great merchants and wealthy men. We go there and attack them overnight and steal large amounts of riches.
He told you at great amazement: O' my brother! I have not come here to steal something as you say. Let them give me money from the public property so that I can pay off my overdues.
You stared at him, saying: As a matter of fact, it will be better, if we rob one person of his property than steal assets of hundred thousands of Muslims. How come that robbing property of one person is larceny, but stealing property of all people is not theft? You imagine that robbery is just exclusive to attacking someone and take his money by force? You are suggesting now the ugliest kinds of robbery?(1)
You were so much sensitive to public treasury and you stopped hands seizing it.
One day, one of your companions, named 'Abdullah Ibn-e Zam'ah asked you to give money from the public treasury; you told him:
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This is bounty recovered from battles Muslims were engaged in. If you had joined them in their jihad, you could have shared it; otherwise, nobody can seize their shares of suffering.(1)
You wrote a letter to Ziyad Ibn-e Abihi, the acting governor of Basra warning him of treason against the public treasury and said:
Verily, I swear to God, if I am informed you committed treason against public property, more or less, I treat you hard to make you have less income and be in confusion and distress for your family's costs.(2)
You wrote a letter to one of your agents who had gifted something from the public treasury to one of his relatives, saying:
I have been reported about you that you have taken from the public treasury; if so, you have angered God and disobeyed your Imam. It is reported that you have given bounties of Muslims, who have gathered including spears, horses and gained through spilling their blood, to Arabs who are your relatives! I swear to God who split the seed and created the phenomena, if this is a true report, you have been downgraded in my eyes! Stop disvaluing the right of God and flourishing your world by ruining the religion; in this way, you lose at most. Be aware that Muslims who come to you or me have equal rights distribution of public property; they all should refer to me and receive their shares.(3)
In another letter, you wrote to one of your governors who had abused the public property:
...may your enemy be fatherless, you look as if you take home the legacy of your parents! Praise be upon God!! Don't you believe in resurrection? Aren't you afraid of exact accounting of Resurrection Day? O' you who were regarded as one of the wise men before us; how do you enjoy drinking and eating while you know that you are doing something haram! .
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How do you buy slaves and marry women by abusing property of infants, destitute people, devout people and those who jihad in the Path of God?
Fear God and give back their property; if you don't do so and God gives me a chance to catch you, I will punish you and I strike you with a sword with which anybody was hit, he was gone to hell.
I swear to God! If Hassan and Husayn (a) had done so as you did, they would have never be endeared to me; they would not fulfil the desire until I take away the right from them and ruin the wrong gained from exerting cruelty.
I swear to God of the worlds! If what you took away unrightly was halal for me, I would not be pleased to keep it as the legacy of my survivors; therefore, wait and think that you have come to the end of your life, buried underground and you are shown your deeds, where the tyrant cries out in envy and ruiner of life and chances desires to return, but the loop hole and choice are blocked.(1)
Justice was the most central principle of your government and policy; you never observed and respected negligence and expediency and regarded everyone equal when you distributed the public property. This was while injustice and discrimination increased day by day after demise of the Prophet of Islam (s), but during your caliphate, the same conduct of the Messenger (s) was revitalized, leading to severe grudge and enmity against you.
One of the incorrect attitudes formed after demise of the Prophet (s) was striving for supremacy and seeking privileges of the Helpers and Migrants that opened a distracting way of new aristocracy and concession demands.
You dealt with such concession demands and separated rewards of Muslims before the Helpers and Migrants from concession demands as property, telling people:
Be aware! Anyone of the Helpers and Migrants of the Companions of the .
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Messenger (s) who considers himself superior than others because of accompanying his Prophet shall bring up such superiority before God later, God may grant him reward. Know that anyone who fulfilled call of God and His Messenger and embraced our religion and turned to our Qiblah, he should deserve having rights and limits of Islam.(1)
In managing the country, you based your policy on ethics and utterly far from deceitfulness; this was while Mu'awiyya withdrew security and stability from society through invasion and deceitfulness day by day, but you were never willing to go beyond human and moral boundaries in countering with the delinquent group. Hence, you told people who expected you to use weapons of deceit in confronting with Mu'awiyya: I swear to God! Mu'awiyya is not cleverer than me, but his strategy is breach of promise and commission of sins. If breach of promise was not unpleasant, nobody could be cleverer than me. But every breach of promise is sinful and whatever sin it commits, it darkens heart. (2)
You were pious and unparalleled worshipper of God and you fully possessed honesty, justice, cordiality, chivalry, certainty, courage and affection in front of the worshippers of God.
You were not only unwilling to grab a seed from an ant in cruelty; but also, if you were given the whole universe, you would not do as such. You said:
I swear to God! If I am given the lands of seven heavens with whatever under the sky to disobey God by grabbing barely skin from an ant's mouth, I will not do that and your world is more unvalued than the chewed leaf in a grasshopper's mouth.(3)
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people!
During your caliphate in Kufa, your armor was lost. After a while, you found it in hands of a Christian man. You took him to judge and filed a suit that the armor was yours; I have neither sold nor granted it to anyone; I found it now with this man.
The judge, who was appointed by you, saw you in respect and wanted to say that you are the commander of the faithful and the man would give it back to you. But you gave him a hint that he could treat you like a usual man and decide in accordance with due process of justice.
The judge told the Christian man: The caliphate declared his claim, what do you say?
The Christian man said: This armor belongs to me and I do not reject what the Caliph said (the Caliph might have made a mistake).
The judge turned to you, saying:
O' Ali! You claim it and this man denies it. Therefore, you should bring a witness for your claim based on process of justice principles.
You smiled and said: The judge is right; I should bring witness don't have any witnesses.
now, but I
The judge finding that the claimant has no witness decided on behalf of the Christian man. He took armor and left.
The Christian man who knew better that whose armor was that returned
after taking some steps and his conscience was awakened, saying to you: This way of government and behavior is different from the human behaviors; it is typical of government of Prophets. He then gave back the armor to you.
It was not long since he was seen turning out as a Muslim who fought faithfully in Nahravan Battle under your banner.(1)
You thought of the needy, poor and infants with your utmost capability; many nights, you took foodstuffs to them while you kept yourself unknown to people. Nobody could discover you until you were martyred by the 3
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enemy of God.
One day, you were passing through one of the alleys of Kufa city; you saw that a woman was carrying a waterskin and while panting, going to her home. You took the waterskin to her home. The door was opened and several children came out and welcomed their mother. You put the waterskin down, asking the woman it seems you don't have any man and you yourself take trouble of carrying it, how come you are alone?
The woman said: My husband was government soldier. Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib dispatched him to one of the borders where he was killed. I am alone with my children.
You said nothing with your head down and said good bye to her and her kids.
You thought of the woman and her kids all day and could hardly sleep in the night. Early in the morning, you took a basket full of meat, flour and dates and went up to her home. You knocked the door. The woman said: Who is it?
You said: I am the same man of God who carried your waterskin yesterday. I have brought some food for your kids.
The woman opened the door, saying: May God be pleased with you and rule between us and Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib.
You told her: I want to get a reward. If you let me, I can take charge of leavening, cooking bread or taking care of kids.
The woman said: very well, but I can leaven better and cook food. You take care of kids until I finish cooking.
The woman went after leavening bread and you immediately roasted some meat you had brought and had each kid have one morsel with dates with your hand. You said: My child! Forgive Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib if he fell short of your affairs.
Leavening was finished. The woman called you: O' man of God! Fire the furnace.
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falls short of affairs of the infants and widows.
At the same time, a neighboring woman looked in the house and recognized you. She told the owner of house: Woe betides upon you! You don't know this man who works for you?! He is Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib.
The woman came forward, saying: A lot of shame may be upon me! I apologize you.
You told her: No. I apologize you because I fell short of works of you and your kids. (1)
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I certify that you remained adamant to Divine Pledge until the last moments of your lifetime and emerged what God said to the Angels: "I know something you do not know".(1)
When you were relieved of the Kharijites and finished them up, you decided to head for Sham to battle against Mu'awiyya and uproot the wicked family; a number of your troops said:
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin!
We are incapacitated and debilitated! Our swords have grown dull. Let us reach Kufa, take a few days of rest, get armed and then depart to Sham.(2)
You confirmed and the army went back to Kufa, but they showed weakness in preparation for battle.
You constantly addressed people to render jihad, saying:
Verily, jihad in the Path of God is a door of Paradise doors which God has opened to His exclusive friends; jihad is garment of piety, strong armor and shield of God; one who finds jihad unpleasant and abandons it, God makes him wear garment of humiliation and suffer disasters. He remains astray in heart and the truth leaves him; he is deprived of justice and
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condemned to humiliation for abandoning jihad.(1)
One day, when you were addressing people to call them on jihad, "Ash'ath
Ibn-e Qeys" objected to one of the things you said, saying:
What you say now is detrimental to you and not beneficial to you!
You painfully stared at him and told the malicious man:
Who informed you that what I lose or profit?! Curse of God and curse of cursers be upon you! O' the arrogant of the arrogant's son, O' hypocrite dissident son of disbeliever!
I swear to God!
You were captivated once you were a disbeliever and another time during the Islamic government and your property and kinship could hardly help you out. The one who put his relatives at risk of being killed deserves being angered by his close relatives and not being trusted by the strangers.(2)
Ash'ath Ibn-e Qeys was the very person, when Amru As hanged the
Qur'ans over spears, who said in Şiffin Battle: We do not fight with the Qur'an. In this way, he made many believe him and brought the matter to be solved by arbitration and subsequent scandals!
There were various similar hypocrite dissident people like him in your army, who led them to showing weakness.
At that time (the late year of 39 and early 40 A.H.), you were regularly informed that Mu'awiyya's mercenaries attacked the villages and cities under your control, killed people and plundered their properties.
With a bloodful heart and a throat filled with sob, you addressed people to call them on launching jihad against Mu'awiyya, but they shirked the responsibility of battling him under different lame excuses. .
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One day, you told them when you took a pulpit at Kufa mosque:
Be aware! I called on you to fight with the Sham people day and night and publicly and secretly, saying that you preempt to attack them before they do.
I swear to God! Every nation invaded inside its home is downgraded, but you showed idleness and accepted humiliation in so far as the enemy attacked you incessantly and seized your land. At the moment, Mu'awiyya's commander, Sufyan Ibn-e Awf Ghamedi with troops moved into the city of Anbar and murdered my commander, "Hassan Ibn-e Hassan Bakri and expelled your soldiers from border positions.
I was told that a man from Sham army broke into house of a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim woman who were under the auspices of the Islamic government and robbed them of their necklace, bracelet, earrings and foot ornaments while they had no means but crying and imploring him.
Sham troops left with lots of booties without even one of them being injured or being spilled a blood. If a Muslim regretfully dies because of this distasteful event, he will not be blamed and I think he deserves it!
Then, you said while being grieved in heart:
It's amazing! It's amazing! I swear to God!
This reality kills human heart and makes it grieved that Sham people are unified in their wrong ways and you are divided in your right ways.
May it be ugly of your face and you will not be relieved as you have become target of disaster! When you are attacked, you do not attack? When they fight you, you do not fight them?!! This sin is committed before God and you are pleased?!
When I command you to move towards the enemy in summer, you say: it is hot; give us chance to spend burning summer; when I command you to war in winter, you say it is cold, give us chance to pass cold weather; are these excuses for escaping cold and hot weather?
When you run away from cold and hot weather, I swear that you escape more from swords!
O'umanly man-like man!
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O' unwise child-featured people whose intellects resemble behind-the- curtain brides! How much I liked I had not seen you and recognized you! I swear I am remorseful I know you and I am much grieved at last. May God persish you because I am annoyed because of you and I am upset in heart because of you!
You made me drink in sips cups of grief and ruined my decision through disobedience and humiliation as far as Quraysh said of me:
No doubt, son of Abiṭālib is brave enough but has no military knowledge.
May God give reward to their father; does one of them have my hard battle experiences?! Could he surpass me in battle? I was almost 20 when I appeared at the battlefield; now that I am 60 and more; but alas! Whoever is disobeyed, he shall have ineffective decision.(1)
You told them: I wish I had never seen you!
But O' my lord!
We wish we could be there to sacrifice our lives for you.
They did not deserve having you; otherwise, they would bow down to kiss your feet. If God traced us back to that time, we would pray God to give us chance and life to sacrifice for you a thousand times!
When you were told that one of Mu'awiyya's officers, named Nu'aman Ibn-e Bashir attacked territory of "Ayn Al-Tamr" (western part of the Euphrates), you said:
"I am in trouble by those who disobey me once I command them and when I call upon them, they do not listen to me.
O' unfamiliar people!
Why do you wait for helping religion of your God?! Don't you have any religion to bring you together?! Don't you have fervor to infuriate you?!
I rise up and cry among you and I beseech you, but you ignore me and disobey me as long as deplorable consequences emerged; I can neither count on you to revenge blood, nor can I achieve an aim with your help. 7
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I call on you to help your brothers; you yell and moan like a pain-suffering camel or like an animal whose back is wounded; you don't move. Only a few people came to me and they were anxious and disabled; they looked as if they are taken to death and witness it with their eyes.(1)
In the last years of your lifetime, you were told that "Ubaydullah Ibn-e ‘Abbas” and “Sa'id Ibn-e Namran", your commanders in Yemen were defeated by the blood-letting commander of Mu'awiyya, “Yasr Ibn-e Abi Artā" and returned to Kufa. You made a sermon, saying:
"At present, I have only the city of Kufa under my control to be opened or closed. O' Kufa! If you stay with me with all these disasters and attacks, may your face be ugly!
I was told Basr Ibn-e Artā(2)held control of Yemen; I swear to God! I knew people of Sham would overcome you because they are unified in helping their wrong aim and you are divided in defending your right aim! You disobeyed your Imam in right aim and they obeyed their Imam in wrong aim! They stood faithful to their leader but you remained unfaithful to your leader.
O' God! I made these people tired of my frequent advice and they made me tired too. They have run out of patience because of me and I am frustrated from them too. I am broken in my heart; grant me people better than them instead and instead of me, let worse man than me dominate them. "(3)
You stood on a stone in one of the days of 40 A.H. of your late lifetime in Kufa while putting on a coarse shirt, carrying a sword on the neck tied to date fibres, wearing shoes made of date fibres and your callused forehead caused by much prostration, and saying:
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ummah and I fulfilled duties the successors of the past Messengers accomplished among their people.
I treated you by lashing, you rejected, you did not go on the Straight Path and you did not come together by calling you on abundant warnings.
For God's sake!
Are you expecting a leader but me to accompany you and show you the path of truth?!
Be aware!
The world turned its back of what it had turned to you and what had been turned back turned and the benevolent people became ready to displace, changing the mortal world with the immortal world.
It is true!
The group of brothers whose blood was spilled in Șiffin lost nothing although they are not alive to be fed with grief and drunk with bitter tears.
I swear to God!
They met their Maker who granted them reward and resided them in His Safe Haven after times of horror.
Then you added while being much grieved:
Where are my brethren who kept on going the path of truth and died with the truth?! Where is Ammar?!(1) And where is son of Tayyahan?!(2) And where is Zul Shahadatayn?!(3)And where are, like them, of their brothers who made pledge of martyrdom and sent their heads to the tyrants.
Later on, you held your beard and wept a long time, and saying:
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about divine mandatory doctrines and upheld them, revived divine traditions and undermined heresy. They accepted call on jihad, trusted in their leader and followed him.
Afterwards, you held your head up and said loudly:
Jihad! Jihad! I prepare an army today; whoever wants to meet God, he shall depart with us.(1)
You wept so much that your beard became moistened! Your dear tears rolled down on the ground, the same tears that wetted your prayer rug during the night, the same tears in which floated their moon to rejuvenate by their plentiful fragrance, the same tears turned out as qiblah of sun on that day when you were weeping!
The same tears that sky stars were eager to meet and the earth was always intoxitated with it!
You wept tearfully to relieve your rending heart; after your sermon, many of Kufa people and the other spots were prepared to move towards Sham.
More than sixty thousand men declared their readiness to fight with Mu'awiyya. You decided to depart to Sham when the filthiest man of the world named Ibn-e Muljam Moradimay Allah damn him split your head's scalp with his noxious sword on the night of 19th of Ramadan, 40 A.H. and you were martyred two days as a result of deep gap on your heard, meeting your Maker and your brother, the Messenger of Allah (s). .
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The story of that heart-rending and bloody martyrdom is as follows:
Three men of the Kharijites named "Ḥajjāj Ibn-e 'Abdullah", "Amru Ibn- e Bakr Tamimi" and "Ibn-e Muljam Moradi" who had survived the battle of Nahrawan came together in Mecca and cried for the killed men of Nahrawan. They told each other that all evils of the Islamic community come from three men, namely Mu'awiyya, Amru Aş and Ali.
They made a pledge that each of them kills one of the three men on the 19th of Ramadan to keep the Islamic community restored and ordered.
Ibn-e Muljam the cursed said: I kill Ali. Ḥajjāj Ibn-e 'Abdullah undertook murder of Mu'awiyya and Amru Ibn-e Bakr Tamimi became responsible to kill Amru Aş.
Later on, Ḥajjāj Ibn-e 'Abdullah headed for Sham, Amru Ibn-e Bakr Tamimi went to Egypt and Ibn-e Muljam moved towards Kufa.
All three of them carrying poisonous swords appeared at the mosque on the night of 19th of Ramadan of 40 A.H.; Ḥajjāj Ibn-e ‘Abdullah attacked Mu'awiyya during prayer service, but his hand trembled and hit Mu'awiyya's foot. He was injured. He was cured and survived. Hajjāj killed the man who had come instead of Amru As for morning prayers because Amru As was sick and he had sent someone else in his place. He was killed. But Ibn-e Muljam Moradi came to Kufa and struck Ali's scalp when he was doing his morning prayers. Ali (‘a) was martyred.
Ibn-e Muljam Moradi arrived in Kufa on 20th of Sha'aban of 40 A.H. He joined by "Shabib Ibn-e Bajrah Ashja'i" his co-thinker, both of whom were induced by "Qaṭām Bint Alqama" laid in ambush at Kufa mosque, awaiting Ali ('a) on the night of 19th of Ramadan at dawn.(1)
Also, Qaṭām sent a man named "Wardan Ibn-e Mujalid", one of her tribe people, to help them.(2)
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back up and psychologically strengthen them.(1)
You, O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin!
During the nights of Ramadan, your son, Hassan ('a); your son, Husayn (a); your daughter, Zeynab (a) and your another daughter, Umme Kulthum hosted you.(2)
In the night of the event, you were guest of your daughter Umme Kulthum. You were feeling so badly that your daughter was surprised.
Breakfasting contained bread, salt and milk on that night. Before you break your fasting, you performed some raka'h of prayers. You then told her:
O' my daughter! You are serving me with two courses of food?! Don't you know that I follow my brother, the Messenger (s)?!
O' my daughter! Whoever has better (less) food and clothes in this world, he shall stand easier before God on the Resurrection Day!
You told her:
By God! I don't break my fasting unless you take away one of these foods.
Your daughter took away milk and you broke your fasting with bread and salt.(3)
After you finished eating, you stood for prayers again and you constantly bowed and prostrated. After you finished your prayers, supplication and invocation, you began to recite the holy surah of Yasin, saying:
اللهم بارك لى في الموت
O' my God! May Thou make my death auspicious!
You then went out of house, looking up the sky and kept on saying:
(. إنا لله و إنا إليه راجعون . « لا حول و لا قوة إلا بالله العلى العظيم )
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Umme Kulthum told you:
O' father! What is this wake and anxiety for this night?
You said:
I swear to God I am not lying and I am not told a lie! This is the night I am given the promise of martyrdom.(1)
Your daughter told you in worry:
Tell someone else to appear at the mosque and say prayers!
You told her:
Divine predestination is inevitable.
You decided to go to the mosque. You came into house yard; docks of the house came in front of you and opened their wings to block your way. Some wanted to send them away, but you said:
Leave them alone because they are delivering elegy.(2)
Imam Hassan who had reached the house said:
O' father! Why do you make bad omen?!
You said:
I don't make bad omen, but my heart testifies that I am to be killed.
When you reached at the door, cover hook got stuck with your belt and it went loose from your short loin; you made some poems with the theme below:
“O' Ali! Fasten your belt firmly and prepare for death. Verily, death will meet you and stop begging death when it comes down your house; stop being proud of the world although it agrees with you. "(3)
Your daughter hearing what you said cried out "my father and help me out! And your son, Husayn (‘a) followed you out; when he reached you, he said: I want to stay with you. You told him: I swear you to the right you 8
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owe me that you go back home! He went back home and sat with Umme Kulthum while being unhappy and sad.
You entered into Kufa mosque. Lamps of the mosque were off and you began your supplicatory prays. Then you went up the roof and said azan. You came down and voiced: <الصلاه الصلاه> and awakened those who were asleep to say their prayers; Ibn-e Muljam, the cursed was also among those asleep and had hidden his poisoned sword under his garment. When you reached him, you said: Get up for prayers and stop sleeping as such because this is devil's sleep.(1)
You entered into the altar for performing congregation prayers and the cursed man stood behind you; Wardan and Shabib crept on the corner. When you finished prostration in the first rak'ah, Shabib Ibn-e Bajra pulled his sword and attacked you while yelling: Ruling is exclusive to God and you cannot rule on His behalf and entrust the matter of religion to arbitration of arbitrators. He moved his sword up to strike your scalp, but his sword met with the arch; Ibn-e Muljam pulled his sword immediately, Ali! Ruling belongs to God not to you and ' : لله الحكم يا على، لا لك و لا لأصحابك :shouting your companions; later, he struck your head with his sword and slit your head to where you prostration.(2)
Your head began to bleed and colored your beard, shirt and altar; you fell on the altar, saying:
بسم الله و بالله و على مله رسول الله فزت و رب الكعبه
I swear to God of Ka'aba I am salvated.
And you also said:
هذا ما وعدنا الله و رسوله
This is the same promise given to us by God and His Messenger.
At that time, there happened an earthquake and seas and skies shook; doors of the mosque struck each other; the Angels shouted from the heavens and
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called in the heavens and the earth loud enough to be heard by people, saying:
I swear to God! Pillars of leadership split asunder, signs of piety vanished and the space vital between the Creator and creature tore off; Mustafa's cousin was killed, Ali Mortada became martyred by the most wretched and atrocious man. (1)
Performers of prayers in the mosque chased Shabib and Ibn-e Muljam to find them and some others surrounded you, striking their heads and faces and crying. People shouted in moaning and wailing; your two endeared sons ran to the mosque and saw that their honorable father had been covered with blood in the altar. You wanted to stand up and say prayers, but you failed to do so. You substituted Imam Hassan (a) to perform prayers for people and you yourself finished your prayers in sitting.
When your son finished prayers, hugged your head and said while weeping: O' father! You broke my back!
You opened your eyes and said:
From now on, your father has no suffering and pain. Your grandfather, Mustafa, your grandmother, Khadijeh Kobra, your mother and Huris of Paradise are present now waiting for your father.
People covered your head's wound with your robe and carried you to the middle of the mosque from the altar. You had been looking up to the sky and constantly remembering God.
You went unconscious; your son, Hassan (a) wept and you came conscious with his tearful drops on your face. You opened your eyes and said:
O' my son!
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and your brother, Husayn will be martyred with sword; you both will join your grandfather, mother and father.(1)
You told your son:
Just as I had sitten, I went asleep; I met the Messenger of God (s). I told him: O' Messenger of God (s)! What bitterness I tasted from your people and how much I suffered from their spitefulness and enmity!
The Messenger said: Damn them.
I said: May God give me people better than them and dominate them by a bad man instead of me.(2)
The cursed Ibn-e Muljam was arrested and brought to the mosque; people thrashed him and salivated on him.
He was brought to your son, Imam Hassan (‘a). When he saw the eternally cursed man, he said: O' the cursed man! You killed the Commander of the Faithful and Imam of Muslims! He was the same man who sheltered you and granted you rewards.
The damned man bowed his head and said nothing. People raided him and battered him.
You said in a slow and weak voice: Compromise with him!
You then recommended your son, Hassan (‘a) about the cursed man, saying:
O' my son!
Compromise with your captivated man and treat him with blessing and kindness; don't you see how his eyes move out of fear and he is anxious in heart!?
Your son told you:
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You said:
O' my son!
We are progeny of blessing and forgiveness; therefore, feed him like your food and beverages; if I die, you can retaliate him and kill him, but stop mutilating him. If I survive, I know more what to do to him.(1)
What I can say with this pen, with this language?!
O' chivalrous man! O' honorable man! You were beaten with sword and covered with blood in the altar, but you remembered God and you never moaned and complained; you even felt pity on the damned man and told people to compromise with him!
O' Ali!
Who are you? Who are you? You are not God, so who are you? The same God who created you and granted you honor and grandeur knows who you are!
Peace of God may betide your last takbir; peace of God may be upon your last prayers; peace of God may be upon your holy lips that constantly prayed and remembered God; peace may be upon your endeared scalp that split apart on the path of reviving the truth, justice and divine values peace may be upon blood drops of a lot that dribbled on the mosque altar and crimsoned it!
Peace of God may be upon your sacred gasps that began counting in the last instances of your life; peace of God may be on your kind eyes half- opened and full of head's blood!
Peace of God may be upon your ragged garment that was colored with the blood of your head and peace of God may be upon your patience and tolerance that had surprised the Heavenly Angels!
Peace of God may betide upon you, O' Abalhassan! O' sun of human guidance for good! 7
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I certify that the unending universe-shining sun of your existence permanently and on a higher horizon radiates forever for the creatures of universe thanks to your martyrdom.
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! All heart-burned and sad people of the universe may be sacrificed to you! You were placed into a gelim held on four sides and taken to your small clay house while you were soaked in face and garment with blood.
Woe of the world may betide upon the universe people! Who could think that one day the remover of Khaybar castle's door may be placed into a gelim and taken home!
O' the earth, O' the heavens, O' history and O' time! I am amazed how you witnessed the rending world scene, ceased to die and are still alive!!
The earth might say: I was intoxicated because of Ali's walks on my face; the heavens might say: I fell in a faint by Ali's looks in my heart; history might say: I was then astonished by what Ali ('a) said: "I swear to God of Ka'aba, I am salvated” and time might say: I was then overwhelmed by Ali's supplications!
You were unconscious and lifeless when you were taken home; when you came on, you told your dear sons, Hassan and Husayn (a) again:
Put Ibn-e Muljam in jail; give him water and food and behave him well. If I survive, I know better what to do to him; if I wanted, I would make him pay ransom to go free; if I wanted, I would forgive him. If I die, you will decide; if you decided to kill him, stop mutilating him.(1)
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The Holy Shrine of Amir Al-Mu'amenin (a) and emergence of generosity in the Shrine, Ijtihad and justice of ṣaḥāba, Khalid Ibn-e-e Walid committing big crime of slaughtering the people of Malik Ibn-e-e Nuwayra's clan at the pretext of their apostasy and various other issues
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All people lent an ear to what you said and went back home except one of your companions named "Aşbagh Ibn-e Nubata"!
Your son came out of house again; when he saw him, he said:
O' Aşbagh! Didn't you hear what my father's words I told you?
He said:
I heard but I saw his heart-rending health and I am eager to meet him and hear one hadith from him; God may bless you! Ask him to give me permission of meeting him.
Your son came home and told you about his request; you permitted him to come in the house and pay a visit to you.
He entered and sat beside you; he saw that the wound of your head is wrapped with a yellow-colored handkerchief, but your face looked more yellow than that of the kerchief.
Due to severe injury by strike and effect of wound, you exchanged your knees. Then, you stared at Aşbagh and told him in a low voice:
O' Aşbagh! Did you hear my words Hassan (‘a) transferred to you?
He said:
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenan!
I heard your words, but I saw you in a mood that I became eager to meet you again and hear a hadith from you.
With the same kind tone of your weak voice, you told him:
Sit down! I don't think you hear any other hadith from from now on.
O' Aşbagh! Know that the Messenger (s) was in bed and I paid him a visit just as you did; he told me: Get out and ask people to gather for prayers. I followed his order and people assembled at the mosque. The Messenger (s) said: Go up on pulpit and sit one step lower than my seat, telling people that:
Be aware! One who misbehaves his parents may be cursed by God!
Be aware! The slave and servant who runs away from his lord may be damned by God!
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Be aware! One who renders cruelty to his hired man about his wage may be damned by God.(1)
O'Aşbagh! I followed the order of my beloved, the Messenger (s).
A man from the end spot of the mosque stood up, saying:
O' Abalhassan! You briefed three sentences of your speech; give a full account of it!
I didn't give him any response until I met the Messenger, asking him someone wants to know full account.
Later, you reached Aşbagh's hand and told him: Open your hand!
Aşbagh opened his hand. You took one of his fingers and said:
O' Aşbagh! Just as I held your finder, so my brother, the Messenger of God took my finger and said:
O' Abalhassan!
Ignore and be aware! Verily, you and I are father of this people, God may curse someone who raises mercilessness to us.
Be aware! Verily, you and I are lord of this people, God may curse someone who runs away from us.
Be aware! Verily, both you and I are hired by this people, God may curse someone who renders cruelty in paying our wage. He said amen and so did 1.(2)
You went unconscious as a result of severe pain and after a while, you came on and found Aşbagh still sitting beside you. You told him: O' Aşbagh! You are still here? )
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He said: Yes! O' my lord!
You said: Do you want me to tell you another hadith?
He said: Yes! God may increase your gifts.
You said:
O' Aşbagh! One day, the Messenger was passing through one of the alleys of Medina; he saw that I was unhappy with clear signs on my face. He said:
O' Abalhassan! I see you are sad; do you want me to tell you one hadith so that you might never be unhappy after me?!
I said:
Yes, O' the Messenger of God!
He said:
When the Resuurection Day takes place, God installs a pulpit higher than pulpits of the prophets and martyrs; He then orders me to go up that pulpit; He then orders you to go up that pulpit and sit one step lower than my seat. He then orders two Angels, each to sit on a seat lower than yours. When we are settled on our seats, all people from the antecedents to the posterity appear. After that, the Angel sitting one step lower than you shouts:
O' crowds of people! Whoever knows me, he shall not need me to introduce myself; and whoever does not know me, I shall make myself known to him: I am Ridwan, guard of Paradise. Be aware! God with His abundant gifts, Excellence, Mgnificence and Majesty has ordered me to hand over the Paradise keys to Muhammad (s) and Muhaamad (s) has ordered me to hand over those keys to Ali (‘a). Know that I have fulfilled my duty. Later, the Angel sitting on one step lower than the first step stands up and cries in such a way that all people of the Doomsday hear his voice, he says:
O' people! Whoever knows me, I shall not need to introduce myself; and whoever does not know me, I shall make myself known to him. I am Malik, guard of the Hell. Know that God with His Gifts, Excellence, Magnificence and Majesty has ordered me to give the keys of the Hell to Muhammad (s) and Muhammad (s) has ordered me to hand over those keys to Ali ('a); certify that I have fulfilled my duty; then I take keys of Paradise and Hell.
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After that, the Messenger said:
O' Ali ('a)! You resort to me by the higher part and your Progeny [the Immaculate Imams (a)] resorts to you by the higher part and your Shiites resort to them by the higher part.
You then told Aşbagh:
When the Messenger came up with what he said, I let my hands touch one another and said: O' the Messenger of God! Do we go to Paradise after this?
He said:
I swear to God of Ka'aba, yes!(1)
After you told this hadith and your health worsened, Aşbagh left your house while being unhappy.
True!
On Doomsday, you hold the keys of Paradise and Hell and the Messenger told you many times:
O' Ali! You divide Paradise and Hell on Doomsday.
And he also said:
You let your lovers enter into Paradise countlessly and your enemies fall into the Hellfire.
It is true, O' my lord!
You are so much endeared to God and His Messenger (s) that the arena of Doomsday is in your hands.
Your enemies wanted to put out your light by killing you, but those wrongdoers did not know the light that is never put out is Light of God.(2)!
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You never feared death because someone who is certain about God and
His Promises is never attached to the world to fear its separation. You were on the highest peak of faith and certainty and all of those who have reached certainty rest on the downhills of the peak.
You were the unparalleled hero and lion of God and you said:
I swear to God!
If I face the enemies by myself while they have occupied the whole earth, I am not frightened. I am aware of their deviation and my guidance on which I stand firmly and have reached certainty from God; and verily, I hope to eagerly meet God and His reward.(1)
Who can speak in such a way except son of Abutalib (a) that: If all people of the world gather in front of me, I am not frightened!
True!
Someone who is much eager about death can talk this way and that person was you who longed for death and said:
I swear to God!
Interest of son of Abiṭālib in death goes far beyond an infant's interest in his mother's breast.(2)
You loved being killed on the path of God, your Beloved and one day, your brother, the Messenger of God (s) gave you that good tidings; you yourself said:
When God sent down Ankabut: 1 and 2 that: "Do people imagine that they are left free with no trial because they said they were believers?" I knew that we never experience sedition and trial as long as the Prophet (s) is
among us.
I asked the Messenger of God (s):
O' the Messenger of God (s)! .
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What is this sedition and trial that God has told you about?
He said:
O' Ali!
After me, the ummah of Islam suffers from sedition and trial.
I said:
O' the Messenger of God(s)!
Is it not that a group of Muslims are martyred on the day of Oḥud and I was deprived of martyrdom and I found it hard; you told me:
O' Ali!
Good news for you because martyrdom will follow you.
He said to me:
Verily, this good news comes true; what is your patience, then?
I said:
O' the Messenger of God!
I might not keep patience and tolerance for such thing; rather, I would need good tidings and gratitude.
And he said to me:
O' Ali!
Verily, these people with their property experience sedition and trial soon and they oblige God for their devoutness; at the same time, they expect His Blessings and think they are safe from Power and Wrath of God; they make haram of God halal through false doubts and neglective passions; they consider halal the wine under pretext of grapes fruit and bribery under the pretext of gift and usury under the pretext of some kind of deal.
I said:
O' the Messenger of God!
At that time, what basis shall give to people? On the basis of apostasy? Or sedition and trial?
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He responded: on the basis of sedition and trial.(1)
Your health grew more critical hours after hours and your face turned more illuminative!
Physicians and surgeons of Kufa were called upon for healing deep slit of your head and none of them was more dexterous and knowledgeable than "Athir Ibn-e Amru Ibn-e Hāni"; he was a skilled physician and was an expert of medicine; he cured wounds.
Athir Ibn-e Amru came beside you; he examined your head's injury. He asked for sheep's fresh and hot lung. They brought it; he took out a vessel from it; he inserted it into the wound and sucked it; he took it out and looked at it. He saw white organs of brain in it; he said:
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenan!
Make a will because the strike of the enemy infiltrated the brain.(2)
True!
Promise of God approaches in your ascension to the highest ranks of Kingdom of God; your brother, the Messenger of God expects to warmly hug you, kiss you and alleviate your pains. Your honorable wife, Şediqah Kobra (‘a), the Light of God waits for you to look at your dear eyes and heal your sorrows. All prophets and the Saint Imams, as ordered by God, eagerly stand in orderely lines to shower you with the Paradise petals by saying, "Peace of God be upon Muhammad and his progeny" when you shake hands with your brother, the Messenger of God (s). The Angels of God in Paradise take minutes of time to perfume their wings by consecrating your foot dust forever once you step into the Paradise.
The Paradise, across its territory, reveals its most beautiful ornaments to eagerly embrace you with its eyes.
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When your face showed signs of departure to the highest rank of Kingdom, you made your will with the same failing health; the same will in which heightened servitude, worship, freedom and justice exist; the same will that human kind not only becomes prosperous in the world, but also he can fly to divine sustenance, spirit and eternality once he dies; this comes true if he keeps this will on top of his life!
This will remains useful for all people until Resurrection Day comes; you said:
I recommend you to fear God; avoid mamonism although it comes to you and stop being sad about whatever you lose in this world; tell the truth and act for Divine Reward; oppose the tyrant and help the oppressed. I recommend you, all of my children, my family and those who receive this will to fear God and to create discipline in affairs of life and restore peace among you because I heard from your grandfather (grandfather of Imam Hassan and Imam Husayn (a) say:
Creation of peace among people surpasses one-year-long prayers and fasting.
God! God!
Lest the orphans might be hungry at times and full at the other times and their rights might be lost.
God! God!
Observe the rights of your neighbors because the Messenger (s) has willed it; I recommend you to behave your neighbors well because we thought he would designate inheritance for them.
God! God!
Lest the others might surpass you in complying with the orders of the Qur'an.
God! God!
I recommend you to uphold prayers because it is pillar of your religion.
God! God!
Keep the House of God full because if it is kept empty, you are not given a
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chance of life.
God! God!
I advise you to jihad on the Path of God by using your properties, souls and tongues; it is up to you to join each other and pardon one another; lest you might lose friendship and keep distance from each other.
Continue to enjoin the good and forbid the bad because the bad will dominate you and if you ask God for assistance, He will not listen to you!
O' Descendants of 'Abdulmoṭallib!
Lest you might be engaged in the blood of Muslims and embark on carnage; tell that Amir Mu'amenan is killed; know that nobody else shall be killed except my killer. Look exactly! If I died from his strike, he shall be killed by one strike; stop mutilating him. I heard the Messenger say: Avoid cutting off organs of the dead although the dead is a crazy dog.(1)
When your voice became more weakened; you only recited remembrances of God just when the head of the Messenger was on death throes, when his sacred lips moved slowly and prayed God until his lips stopped moving and you took your head up while having tearful eyes and told his daughter, Fatima (a), his wives and the others beside his bed: God may reward you for the departure of the Messenger of God. Likewise, your lips stopped moving and your son, Imam Hassan (‘a) took his head up and condoled his brother and sister and a number of your companions who stood watching the moment of your demise beside you with tearful eyes.
True!
You closed your eyes to the world and departed to the good pleasure of God, but your shining countenance brightens the universe forever and illuminates the talented hearts with the Light of God.
True!
You are alive, you are eternally alive! The dead are your foes, the dead are your deniers.
Peace of God may be upon you on the same day when you were born, on 7
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the day when you were stricken and on the day when you are resurrected!
You told your sons (a) about the burial of your sacred body:
When I died, put my body in the coffin and nightly take it out of house when everybody is asleep. You take the rear part of coffin, the front part of coffin moves spontaneously. You then carry me to the land of Al-Ghari (Najaf); there, you see a white shining stone; dig out where the stone is and you will find a vast space; bury me in the same place.
Your sons and some special companions of you as you had advised took out your dead body out of house at night and the front part of your dead body moved by itself; they constantly heard wind blowing and birds flying on the way to reach Najaf; there, they saw a white stone shining. They dug it and reached a vast area where they saw stone writing:
This is the grave that Noah (a) has reserved for Ali Ibn-e Abiṭālib (‘a).
They buried your sacred body there and returned home and the companions were happy about honor and glory of God towards you.
Those companions who were present at the funeral procession and burial of your body met with a group of your Shiites who were absent in the ceremony and told them about the glory of God extended to you and your body and grave. They said: we would like to see what you saw!
They were told: The burial place of Ali (‘a) was concealed in accordance with his will.
They left and came back, saying: they dug the ground, but nothing they found there.(1)
You made a will to bury you at night to keep your grave in hiding because the Kharijites had said that they would disentomb your pure grave and vilify your body!
On being oppressed, it suffices to say that your grave went in hiding for one century after your demise; it was at the time of your descendant, Imam 7
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ṣādeq (‘a) when your grave became known to the Shiites.(1)
Peace be upon you, O' banner of the undeniable truthfulness of the truth! O' the most integrated man of the centuries! O' hand of God, hand of the heavens, hand of the earth, peace be upon you, O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! O' immortal man, eternal man, O' unrepeatable man of history!
In the wildest times of history, you, while holding unsheathed sword in hand and being dignified, certain and exalted, sacrificed your kind, melodic and thumping heart to the truth for the sake of unleashing man from the shackles of darkness and for the sake of releasing the unknown worshippers of God from life dungeon and held your open heart shelter of the truth.(2)
Peace of God betides you, O' Abalhassan!
O' the precious treasury of Divine Gifts, O' the unending element of excellence, O' the unparalleled and everlasting figure of the universe, O' the most brilliant manifestation of Divine Servitude, O' the world-shining light of eternality, O' the fountainhead of generosity and chivalry, O' the lion of God and hero of monotheism and knowledge field and O' the leading forerunner of forerunners of the universe in reaching the truth, Peace of God be upon you, Peace of God be upon you!
O' Amir Al-Mu'amenin! This book is finished after one hundred and ten t
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days of full-time work on a night, birthday annivarsary of your endeared son, Hadrat Hojjat Ibn-e Al-Hassan Al-'Askari (Imam of the spiritual time and the souls
of the world for redemption)
Of course, I am ashamed that I could hardly express my sincerity to you as much as you deserve, but I hope I could gladden the heart of your brother, the Messenger of God (s) and your endeared son, Imam of the Agemay God hasten his emergence by writing this book which is a drop of your virtues and oppressedness.
I swear to the same God who granted you honor and grandeur!
I put down the book neither for the Otherworld reward nor for gaining fame. Rather, it was only your love that motivated me to move my pen and finish it under hard circumstances.
I hope the Almighty God blesses me, a sinful worshipper thanks to your respect and your holy family (‘a) and grants me a good finality. My hope is that I can behold your sacred face when I am dying; you yourself said: Whoever dies, he shall see me.(1)And I hope we are blessed and you help us out in the Resurrection Day of God thanks to your esteem and status!
O' my lord!
In the end, I owe you one apology because I have talked beyond my status because I have written in some parts of the book as: God may get me to kneel down to you! There is a big distance between kneeling down to you and our rank to do as such!!?
I opologize you, his Eminence that I improve my statement in this way: )
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God may oblige me that I can reach the kneel-down of your slave, Qanbar and John, the black slave of your son, Husayn (a).(1)
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الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتمسكين بولايه أمير المؤمنين و الأئمة المعصومين ( سلام الله عليهم أجمعين ) وصلى الله على محمد و آله الطاهرين.
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The third shrine of Ahl Al-Bayt (a) in Shiraz, Iran
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Sha'aban 14th, 1434 A.H.
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