Hadith 192

(The book) ‘Nahj Al-Balagah’ – And from his-asws speech among what he-asws informed without the future events of Al-Basra: ‘O Ahnaf! It is as if I-asws am with it and the army has come which neither happens to have any dust for it nor noise, nor rustling of the reins, nor neighing of horses. They will be trampling the ground with their feet as if they have the feet of the ostrich’. (Seyyid) Al-Razy (the compiler) said, ‘He-asws is indicating at the king of Al-Zanj’. Then he-asws said: ‘Woe be unto your markets, the buildings and the decorated houses which have wings for it like the wings of an eagle and trunks like the trunk of an elephant, from they, the ones whose killed ones are not mourned nor are their absentees searched for. I-asws overturn the world to its face, and value it with its worth, and look at it with its eyes’. And from it He-asws indicated to describing the Turks: ‘It is as if I-asws am seeing them as a people, as if their faces are scraped. They are wearing the silt and the brocade, and they are valuing the ageing horses. The killing would happen over there freely to the extent that the injured would walk upon the slain, and the fleers would happen to be less than the captives’. One of his-asws companions said to him-asws, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! You-asws have been Given knowledge of the unseen’. He-asws chuckled and said to the man, and he was from (clan of) Kalb: ‘O brother of Kalb! It isn’t knowledge of the unseen, and rather it is a teaching from the One-saww with Knowledge, and rather knowledge of the unseen is knowledge of the Hour, and what Allah-azwj has Threatened of by His-azwj Words: Surely, Allah, with Him is the Knowledge of the Hour, [31: 34] – the Verse. He-azwj the Glorious Knows what is in the wombs, male or a female, and ugly or beautiful, and generous or stingy, and wretched or fortunate, and one who would be in the Fire as fuel or in the Gardens a friend to the Prophets-as. So, this is knowledge of the unseen which no one knows it except Allah-azwj, and whatever is besides that, it is knowledge Allah-azwj has Taught His-azwj Prophet-saww. He-saww learnt it and supplicated to me-asws that my-asws chest would retain it, and my-asws ribs would hold upon it’’. [71]