A Sermon of ‘Amir al Mu’minin, ‘Alayhi al-Salam — Hadith 1

e melting of the fat over the fire. The one who dies among them would have died as a misguided one, and to Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic would lead the one among them and Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic would Accept the repentance of the one who repents. And it is to Allah (azwj) that my (asws) Shiites will gather after the fragmentation of the evil day of theirs, and there is no good for anyone to Allah (azwj) Mighty is His (azwj) Remembrance, but to Allah (azwj) is the good and all of the affairs. O you people! There are many who are falsifiers for the Imamate whilst not being deserving of it. And had you not procrastinated about the bitter truth, and had not weakened from the weakening of the falsehood, the ones who are not like you would have become daring against you, nor would he have become stronger the one who became stronger against you in digesting the obedience and the removal from it of its deserving ones (asws). But you are all lost just as the Children of Israel were lost in the era of Musa ibn Imran (as). By my (asws) life, your being lost will increase from after me (asws) more than Children of Israel being lost. And by my (asws) life, you will be completing, from after me (asws), the allocated time of the Sultanate of the Clan of Umayya, having gathered to the Sultan who called to the misguidance, and you will be reviving the falsehood and will be placing the truth behind your backs, and will be cutting off the relations with the people of Badr and be very remote from the sons of those who fought for the Messenger (saww) of Allah (azwj). And by my (asws) life, that which in their hands will melt away upon the approach of the test for the Reward and the Promise, and the allocated times passes by. And the two-tailed star will make its appearance for you from the East, and the luminous moon will make its appearance for you. So if that were to happen, return to the repentance, and know that you all follow what you see from the East on the Path of the Messenger (saww) of Allah (azwj). So it will cure you from the blindness, and the deafness, and the dumbness, and suffice you for the justice and you would be able to discard the gross weight which is upon the necks. And Allah (azwj) is not remote except from the one who refuses, and is unjust and unfair, and take that which is not for him. “[26: 227] Those who do wrong will come to know by what a (great) reverse they will be overturned! ”