Hadith 61

(The book) ‘Al Ihtijaj’ –
A letter of Amir Al-Momineen-asws to Abu Bakr, when speech reached him-asws from him after his preventing Al-Zahra-asws of (estate of) Fadak: ‘Cleave asunder the waves of strife (Fitna) by the ships of salvation, and remove the crowns of the people of arrogance with all the people of treachery, and be illuminated by a Noor of the Noors, and distribute the inheritances of the pure ones, the righteous ones, and put away the weight of the burdens, usurpation of the gift of the Chosen Prophet-saww. It is as if I-asws with you (looking at) you hesitating in the blindness just as the camel tends to hesitate during the milling. But, by Allah-azwj! If there was Permission for me-asws with what there isn’t any knowledge for you with, I-asws would have scythed your heads from your bodies, like the grain harvest with a scythe of iron, and would have uprooted the skulls of your brave ones, what your trusted ones would have been scored with, and your neighbourhood would have been fearful with. For long you have recognised me-asws as a repeller of the armies, and a legendary annihilator, and exterminator of your greenery, and praise-worthy of your noise, and colossal of the two houses (world and the Hereafter), while you all were isolating in your houses, and I-asws was for your Master (Rasool-Allah-saww) yesterday. By the life of my-asws father-saww! You did not love for the caliphate and the Prophet-hood being among us-asws, and you are remembering the grudges of Badr and the vengeance of Ohad. But, by Allah-azwj, if I-asws were to say what has preceded from Allah-azwj regarding you all, your ribs would enter into your inside like the entering of the teeth of the rotary of the mill. If I-asws speak, you are saying, ‘He-asws is envious’, and if I-asws am silent, it is said, ‘The son-asws of Abu Talib-asws is panicking from the death’. Far be it! Far be it! I-asws at the moment, this is being said for me-asws, and I-asws was the deadly death, wading in the fatalities in the middle of the inactive night, carrying the two heavy swords, and the two long spears, and breaking the flags in the flood of pangs, and removing the worries from the face of the best of the created beings (Rasool-Allah-saww). Keep away, for by Allah-azwj, the son-asws of Abu Talib-asws is more comforted by the death than the child is to a breast of its mother. You will go mad of the bereavements! If I-asws were to inform you with what Allah-azwj has revealed regarding you in His-azwj Book, you would tremble like the trembling of the rope in the deep well, and you would come out from your houses fleeing and upon your faces would be paleness, but I-asws have eased my-asws existence until I-asws meet my-asws Lord-azwj with a hand pulled back from your pleasures, free from your grinds. So, an example of your world is nothing with me-asws except like an example of a rising higher, so it goes up, then it thickens and evens out, then its dissipates and disappears gradually. After a little while the veils would disappear from you, so you will be fin