A Sermon of ‘Amir al Mu’minin, ‘Alayhi al-Salam — Hadith 1

of the ‘Ummy’ Prophet (saww) and their aversion from what came to them from the News of the Originator of the Heavens and the earth. Thus they are the people of regret, and the caves of suspicion, and the people of desires and misguidance and doubts, the ones whom Allah (azwj) has Left them to their own selves and their opinions. So he is a trustworthy one with those who is ignorant of him, not being accused by the one who does not know him. So how similar they are with the animals from whom their shepherd is absent, and how regrettable are the deeds of my (asws) Shiites after the nearness of their cordiality today. How they will humiliate each other after me (asws), and how they will kill each other and be all scattered tomorrow despite having originated from one branch, trying to find victory from a direction which is not for it. Each party from among them would grab hold of one branch from it. Whichever way the branch leans to, they will lean along with it. Allah (azwj) for Whom (azwj) is the Praise, will gather those for the evil of the day of the Clan of Umayya just like He (azwj) Gathers the clouds in the autumn. Allah (azwj) will Bring them together, then He (azwj) will Make them as debris like the debris of the clouds. Then He (azwj) will Open for them the doors and they will spill out from their source like the torrent of the two gardens, the flood of Al-Aram, when He (azwj) sent to them a يَجْعَلُهُمْ رُكَاماً كَرُكَامِ السَّحَابِ ثُمَّ يَفْتَحُ لَهُمْ أَبْوَاباً يَسِيلُونَ مِنْ مُسْتَثَارِهِمْ كَسَيْلِ الْجَنَّتَيْنِ سَيْلَ الْعَرِمِ حَيْثُ بَعَثَ عَلَيْهِ قَارَةً فَلَمْ mouse and the hill could not withstand against it (the flood) and its rocks came tumbling down when Allah (azwj) Shook the womb of the valleys with a severe Shaking. Then He (azwj) Transformed them into fountains in the earth restoring thereby the rights of the people and Making them to dwell in the houses of the people being a displacement of the Clan of Umayya so that they would not usurp what they usurped. Allah (azwj) will Undermine them and displace them by the boulders of Al-Aram and fill the valley of the olives by them. By the One (azwj) Who Split the seed and Brings life from it, that is going to happen. It is as if I (asws) can hear the whinnying of their horses and the humming of their men. I (asws) swear by Allah (azwj), that which is in their hands will melt, after the rise and domination in the country, like th