Hadith 147

come clear for whom does the higher end-result happen to be. And know, you are rather plotting against your Lord-azwj Whose Plan you are feeling safe from within yourself, and you are despaired from His-azwj rest, and He-azwj with the Ambush for you, and you are in delusion. And with Allah-azwj, and His-azwj Rasool-saww, they are needless from you. And the greetings be upon the one following the guidance’. When Muawiya read (it), wrote to him, ‘In the Name of Allah-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful, From Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan to Muhammad Bin Abu Bakr, the belittler upon his father. As for after, your letter has reached me mentioning in it what Allah-azwj is rightful of, from His-azwj Authority and His-azwj Power, and what He-azwj had Chosen His-azwj with, along with the speech of Fitna, and you placed your weak opinion in it and to your own father is a rebuke. And you mentioned the merits of the son-asws of Abu Talib-asws, and the ancientness of his-asws precedence, and his-asws kinship to Rasool-Allah-saww, and his-asws help to him-saww, and his-asws comforting him-saww during every fear, so your argument against me and your faulting me was by the merits of someone else, not by your merits. I praise the Lord-azwj having Turned the merits away from and Making it to be for someone else. We, and your father was with us, during the lifetime of the Prophet-saww we used to view the rights of the son-asws of Abu Talib-asws and necessitated to us, and his-asws merit was surpassing upon us until Allah-azwj Chose for His-azwj Prophet-saww what is with Him-azwj, and Completed for him-saww, His-azwj Promise, and Manifest for him-saww His-asws Call, and the Won for him-saww His-azwj Arguments. The Allah-azwj Captured him (his-saww soul) to Him-azwj. So, the first one to blackmail him-asws of his-asws rights was your father and his Farouq (Umar), and they both opposed him-asws regarding his-asws command, upon that they were both in agreement and consistent. Then they called him-asws to their allegiances, and he-asws delayed from them and tarried upon them. They both thought of (killing) him-asws and intended the grievous with him-asws. Then he-asws pledged allegiance to them and submitted. But they did not participate him-asws in their affairs and did not notify him upon their secretive matters until they both died upon that. Then their third ones stood up from after them, Usman Bin Affan. He was guided by their guidance. So, you and your companion faulted him until remote ones from the people of disobedience coveted regarding him, and you hid (your grudges) to him, and (then) you revealed the enmity to him until you reached your aims regarding him. So, take your caution, O son of Abu Bakr and veil the consequences of your matter, and compare your palm with your feebleness. How can you belittle one who forbearance cannot be weighed by a mountain, nor can you fault one whose cradle was laid out for him by your own father and place the pillow of his kingdom for him. So if it happens that what we are in, is correct, then your father is the first in it and we are his followers in it, and if it happens to be tyra