Hadith 18

er the recognition. Lord-azwj! Judge between us and our enemies with the truth, and You-azwj are best of the judges’. Nasr said, ‘Muawiya wrote to him-asws with the answer, ‘From Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan to Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws. As for after, leave the envy, for long you-asws have not benefited with it’ – up to the end of what has passed by a report of Ibn Maysam, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on him’’. [76]
And seyyid Al Razy said in (the book) ‘Al Nahj, part of it, and we shall mentioned it for the lot of difference between the two. ‘He said, ‘And from a letter of his-asws as well: ‘And how will you deal (with it) when the coverings are uncovered from you of what (activities) you are in this world. It has attracted you with its adornment, and deceived you with its pleasures. It called you and you answered it, and it led you and you followed it, and it instructed you and you obeyed it, and there is no doubt that you will be paused at a pausing upon what no shield would shield you from it. Leave from this command and take preparations for the reckoning and be prepared for what would befall with you, and do not enabled the deviants from your ears; and if you do not do so, I-asws shall let you know what you are heedless from yourself. You have acknowledged that the Satan-la has taken his-la take from you, and has reached his-la hopes regarding you, and flows from you the flow of the soul and the blood. And O Muawiya! When were you a manager of the citizens and master of the affairs of the community without any previous precedence, nor any high nobility, and we seek Refuge with Allah-azwj from necessitating the previous misfortunes, and I-asws am cautioning from becoming deliberate in deceptive security, being different in the public and the private. And you have called to the war, so leave aside the people and come out to me-asws, and excuse the two parties from the fighting, in order to know which one of us two men has rust upon his heart and a covering upon his sight. I-asws am father-asws of Al-Hassan-asws, killer of your grandfather (Utba Bin Rabie), and your maternal uncle (Al-Waleed Bin Utba), and your brother (Hanzala Bin Abu Sufyan), cutting them into pieces on the day of Badr, and that sword is still with me-asws, and with that hear I-asws shall meet my-asws enemies. I-asws have not replaced the religion, nor have I-asws taken a new Prophet-saww, and I-asws am upon the manifesto which you have wilfully neglected it and you have entered into it unwillingly; and you are claiming that you have come to retaliate for Usman, and you have known where the blood of Usman has fallen, so (go and) seek it from over there if you were a seeker. It is as if I-asws am seeing you clamouring from the war when it bites you, clamouring of the camels with the loads, and it is as if your group is calling me-asws, panicking from the consecutive strikes and occurrences of death, and slain after slain, calling me-asws to the Book of Allah-azwj, and these are Kafirs, rejectors, or allegiance breakers’’. [77]
And Ibn Maysam said, ‘It is reported that Muawiya con