Hadith 19

ght), and a Guidance, and a Mercy, and a Healing for the believers, And those who are not believing, there is a heaviness in their ears and they are blind upon it [41: 44]. O Muawiya, Allah-azwj Majestic is His-azwj Majesty, did not Leave any type from the variety of misguidance and the callers to the Fire except that He-azwj has Challenged (Rebutted) it and has Argued against them in the Quran, and has Forbidden it in His-azwj Book to follow them, and has Sent down regarding them a Quran which cut them off and Spoken against them, so the one who knows it knows it, and the one who is ignorant of it is ignorant of it. And I-asws heard from the Rasool-Allah-saww say: ‘There is no Verse in the Quran except that it has for it an apparent, and a hidden, and there is no letter from it except that there is an explanation for it, And none knows its interpretation except Allah, and those who are firmly rooted in the Knowledge. [3: 7]. And in another report: ‘And there is no letter from it except and there is a limit notifying upon an apparent of the Quran and its esoteric, and its interpretation, And none knows its interpretation except Allah, and those who are firmly rooted in the Knowledge. [3: 7]. The ones-asws firmly rooted in knowledge are us-asws, the Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww. And Allah-azwj Ordered the rest of the community that they should say: They are saying, ‘We believe in it. It is all from the Presence of our Lord’. And none (would) mention except those with the understanding [3: 7]. And that they should submit to us-asws and refer their knowledge to us-asws, and Allah-azwj has Said: and if they had referred it to the Rasool and to the (Divine) Authority from them they would have known it, [4: 83], they-asws are the ones who should be asked about it and sought. By my-asws life, had the people – when the Rasool-Allah-saww passed away – submitted to us-asws, and followed us-asws, and emulated us-asws (done our-asws Taqleed) in their affairs, they would have eaten from above them and from underneath their feet, from what you coveted with regards to it. O Muawiya, when you desired for the caliphate, it did not harm us-asws as much as the harm we-asws are going to get from them. And Allah-azwj has Sent down Verses from the Quran regarding myself-asws and you especially. You and those who have your vision recite it upon its apparent (meaning) and are unaware of its explanation and its hidden (Baatin), and this is in Surah Al-Haqqah: So as for one Given his book in his right hand [69: 19] And as for one Given his book in his left hand, [69: 25], and that He-azwj will Call every imam of misguidance and every Imam-asws of Guidance, and along with each one of them will be his companions who paid allegiance to him. So He-azwj will Call me-asws and you. O Muawiya, and you are one to be bound in chains who will be saying ‘O Alas! I wish I had not been Given my book [69: 25] And I had not known what my Reckoning was [69: 26]. I-asws have heard Rasool-Allah-saww saying, and similarly for every imam of misguidance who was before you, and the ones who will be coming after you, similar words of disgrace from Allah-azwj and of His-azwj Punishment. And regarding you were Revealed the Words of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic: and We did not Make the dream which We Showed you except as a Trial for the people, and the Accursed tree in the Quran; and We Scared them, but it did not increase them except in great transgression [17: 60], and that was when Rasool-Allah-saww saw (in a dream) twelve imams from the imams of misguidance upon his-saww Pulpit, reverting the people backwards upon their heels. Two men from two different tribes from Quraysh, and ten from the Clan of Umayya. The first of the ten is your companion whose b