Hadith 117

nd for Him-azwj. So, if you were to be straight, you will be guided, and if you are crooked, I-asws will straighten you, and if you refuse, I-asws will begin with you, for firmness to happen which there is no superior. But, with whom, and to whom shall I-asws entrust you all to, and whom shall I-asws blame with you, like an engraver of the spike with the spike, he would be cut by it. If only there were a people for me-asws after a people, and if only I-asws could precede my-asws day: ‘Over there, if I-asws had been invited, I-asws would have brought you a man like Irmiya-as as the protector. O Allah-azwj! The Euphrates and Tigris are two rivers, dumb, deaf, blind, mute. O Allah-azwj! Cause Your-azwj ocean to overcome upon these two (rivers), and Remove Your-azwj Help from them, not the removal with dwellers of Al-Raky calling to, for they accepted it, and the recited the Quran, and they judged by it, and they were incited to the Jihad, so they were foremost with inciting their children, and they took out their swords from their sheaths, and they grabbed the ends of the spears and marched, and formed rows. A row was destroyed, and a row attained salvation. Neither were they given the glad tidings of the salvation nor were they coerced upon the annihilation. They are my-asws brothers. They went and the praise was deserving for them. Then we saw him, and his eyes were dripping, and he was saying: We are for Allah and we are returning to Him [2: 156] to a life like the belly of a snake. Until when? No, until when for you, from them? No, until when? ’
Ibn Da’ib said, ‘This is what the reporters have preserved, the phrases, and whatever has fallen from his-asws speech is more and longer than what is not (so far) understood from him-asws. Then the wisdom and the extraction of the phrases with the wordings which has not been heard from anyone at all, with the eloquence in the preaching. It was from what is preserved from his-asws wisdom, a description of am man, that he-asws said: ‘He ends (dies) and does not end (desist), and he orders the people with what he does not do, and he seeks the increase in what remains (of his life), and he wastes what he is given, the love of the righteous, and he does not work with their deeds. And he hates the evil doers while he is from them. He rushes for the world what is to perish and forsakes from the Hereafter what is ever lasting. He dislikes the death due to his sins and does not leave the sinning during his lifetime’. Ibn Da’ib said, ‘Do the people think about what they are upon, from the being with his-asws description to what others are inclining to? ’ (He said), ‘Then the need of the people to him-asws and his-asws being needless from them. The blinding darkness did not cease to be with the people, as if there is a place for it other than him-asws (to remove it), like the Jew coming to ask him-asws, and his obstinacy, and he-asws informed with whatever was in the Torah and what they were already finding to be with them. So, how many a Jew became Muslim, and the reason for his Islam was him-asws. And as for his-asws needlessness from the people, he-asws was not found to be at the door of anyone at all asking him about any phrase, nor to benefit from him by a letter. Then the defending the opp