Hadith 314

(The book) ‘Nahj Al Balagah’ –
‘It is as if I-asws am looking at the straying one croaking at Syria, and he has placed his flags on the outskirts of Al-Kufa. So, when he opens his jaws wide, and his rebellion intensifies, and his treading in the earth becomes heavy, the Fitna would bite its sons with its incisors, and the waves of ware would be in full rage, and there will appear from the days, their darkness, and from the nights, their toil. When the vegetation grows and stands upon its stalks, and its foam shoots forth, and its lightning flashes, the flag of the straying Fitna would be tied, and it will come like the dark night and the surging ocean. This, and how many (else) would incinerate Al-Kufa, from the gales passing upon it, and very soon, the heads will clash with the heads, and the standing (resisting people) would be cut down and the harvest would be destroyed’’. [157]