Hadith 159

ership is from Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic, having been Revealed to me-saww. (O) Community of people! Ali-asws and the good ones from my-saww sons-asws, they-asws are the smaller weighty thing, and the Quran, it is the greater weighty thing, and each one informs about its companion and is in accordance to it. They will never separate until they return to me-saww at the Fountain. Indeed, they are the trustees of Allah-azwj among His-azwj creatures, and their rulers in His-azwj earth. Indeed, and I-saww have fulfilled! Indeed, and I-saww have delivered! Indeed, and I-saww had made you listen! Indeed, and I-saww have clarified! Indeed, and Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said, and I-saww said on behalf of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic! Indeed, there isn’t any Emir of the Momineen apart from this brother-asws of mine-saww, nor is the Emirate of the Momineen permissible for anyone after me-saww, apart from him-asws. Then he-saww struck his-saww hand upon his-asws forearm and raised it, and it was from the beginning of what Rasool-Allah-saww had ascended, he-asws was at a level below his-saww position, so his-asws hand reached to around the face of Rasool-Allah-saww, and Ali-asws rose until his-asws came to be with the knees of Rasool-Allah-azwj. Then he-saww said: ‘Community of people! This is Ali-asws, my-saww brother-asws, and my-saww successor-asws, and retainer of my-saww knowledge, and my-saww caliph upon my-saww community and upon the interpretation of the Book of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic, and the caller to it, and the worker with what is His-azwj Pleasure, and the one-asws warring to His-azwj enemies, and the loyally upon His-azwj obedience, and the forbidder from His-azwj disobedience. He-asws is a caliph of Rasool-Allah-saww, and Emir of the Momineen, and the Imam-asws, the guide, and fighter against the allegiance-breakers, and the deviants and the renegades by the Command of Allah-azwj. I-saww say the word will not change in my-saww presence by the Command of my-saww Lord-azwj. I-saww say: ‘O Allah-azwj! Befriend the one befriending him-asws, and be Inimical to the one being inimical to him-asws, and Curse the one denying him-asws, and be Wrathful upon the one rejecting his-asws rights. O Allah-azwj! You-azwj Revealed unto me-saww that the Imamate is for Ali-asws, Your-azwj guardian at my-saww explaining that to them, and my-saww nominating him-asws with what Your-azwj Completing for Your-azwj servants of their religion, and Completing upon them Your-azwj Favours, and being Pleased for them with as a religion’. I-saww say: ‘And the one who seeks other than Islam as a Religion, it will never be Accepted from him, and in the Hereafter he would be from the losers [3: 85]. O Allah-azwj! I-saww keep You-azwj as Witness I-saww have delivered. O community of people! But rather Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Perfected your religion with his-asws Imamate. So, the one who does not complete with him-asws and with the ones-asws from his-asws sons-asws from his-asws sulb up to the Day of Qiyamah to be standing in his-asws position and object to Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic, so their deeds would be confiscated, and they would be in the Fire eternally. The Punishment would not be lightened from them nor would they be respited. Community of people! This is Ali-asws, your most helpful to me-saww, and your most rightful with me-saww, and your closest one with me-saww, and you