Hadith 56

ppen that whenever the war intensified, would advance him-asws in its flames, so he-asws trampled its throat with his-asws soles, freeze its flames with his blades, enduring troubles for the Sake of Allah-azwj, passing by Rasool-Allah-saww and the Muslims. So, where are your turning to, and where are you going, and to whom are you desiring, and whom are you avoiding from, from the brilliant moon, and the bright lamp, and the Path of Allah-azwj, the straight, and the Way of Allah-azwj, the established? May Allah-azwj Fight you! Where are you going? Is it regarding the greatest truthful and the ultimate purpose you are shooting the recklessness of your intellects, and your hopes are drowned, and your faces are disfigured? You have been at the top of the mountain and distanced the reason from the attacking. Are you targeting Amir Al-Momineen-asws, successor-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww? You have enticed yourselves to clear losses. So, remoteness and perdition be for the Kafirs, the unjust. The aim of Satan-la has turned with you all and had blinded you from the clear argument if the two sanctuaries. Abdullah Bin Wahab Al-Rasy said to him, ‘O Ibn Sowhan! You are speaking with the foam of a camel, and roaring, and you are satisfied in your roar the eloquence of your companion. We are fighting him-asws upon a Judgment of Allah-azwj and the Revelation’. Abdullah Bin Wahab said some couplets. Al-Akly Al-Hirmazy said, ‘And I don’t know is it for him or of someone else’ – ‘So that you can necessitate the truth alone, and we shall keep striking until the judgment happens to be for us. So, if you were to follow a Judgment of God, it would happen to be for you, then we will not adopt the truth and the security and the peace, or else the supervision is more honourable, in the hands of the men among whom is the religion and the knowledge’. Sa’sa said, ‘It is as if I am looking at you, O brother of Rasib, rolling in your blood, the birds plucking your body parts. Neither a supplication is being answered for you, nor any information is been heard from you. That is released from you by an Imam-asws of guidance’. Al-Rasy said (a couplet), ‘The lion will come to know when we meet whether the grinding of the mill is upon him or upon us’. Deliver to your companion I will not be returning from him-asws. Either he-asws acknowledge to Allah-azwj of his-asws Kufr or he-asws exits from his-asws religion, for Allah-azwj is an Accepter of the repentance, severe of Punishment, and Forgiver of the sins. So, when he-asws does that, we shall make efforts in the battle’. Sa’sa said (a verse), ‘In the morning the people would be praised secretly’. Then he returned to Ali-asws and informed him-asws with what had flowed between him and them. Ali-asws gave an example (in prose): ‘My-asws messenger want the pausing, so they went hand in hand, then apportioned for me-asws upon the sameness’. Misery is for the poor, O Ibn Sowhan! But there is a pact for me-asws regarding them, and I-asws am their one to