Hadith 8

(The book) ‘Al Ihtijaj’ – From Mus’ab Bin Abdullah who said, ‘When the people had surrounded Al-Husayn-asws, he-asws rode his-asws horse and tried to get the people to listen. He-asws praised Allah-azwj and extolled upon Him-azwj, then said: ‘Damnation be to you all, O you community, and gloom, and anguish to you all, and destruction. You had cried out desperately to us-asws for help and we-asws responded seriously, but you sharpened the swords against us-asws which were in your hands and gathered the fire upon us-asws which we had ignited against your enemies and our enemies. So, you became turning against your own friends and a hand of support for your own enemies from without there being any justice they had spread among you all nor any deed becoming for them, among them, nor any sin having happened from us to you. Is there any (alternate) governance for you when you are disliking us-asws, and the sword is placed, and the hearts are confused, and the view is not of good judgment. But you hurried to pledge allegiance to us-asws like the flying of locusts, and you overcrowded to it like the moths of the bed. Then you broke it foolishly and separated far away; and remoteness be for the tyrants of this community, and remnants of the (battle of) Al-Ahzaab, and you discarded the Book, and extinguished the Sunnah, and established brotherhood with the mocking ones, Those who made the Quran to be parts [15: 91], and with the disobedient ones of the communities, and joined with the ones of shameful lineages, Evil is what their souls have sent forwards. Allah is Wrathful upon them, and they would be in the Punishment eternally [5: 80]. Is it they you are reinforcing, and abandoning us-asws? Yes, by Allah-azwj! The abandoning is well known among you all. Your principles are built upon it, and your races have been strengthened upon it. So, you are the wickedest of the trees (lineages) to the beholder, and a meal for the usurper. Indeed, the Curse of Allah is upon the unjust [11: 18], the allegiance-breakers, those who are breaking the oaths after its affirmation, and you have already made Allah as a surety upon you. Surely, Allah Knows what you are doing [16: 91]. Indeed! And the illegitimate son of the illegitimate is leaving me-asws to be between the unsheathing (the swords) and the humiliation. And far be that to be for him-la! The humiliation is far from me-asws (to accept)! Allah-azwj has Refused that, and so has His-azwj Rasool-saww, and the Momineen, and the clean ancestors and the good laps, that we-asws should be preferring the obedience to the blameful one over the honourable slaying! Indeed! I-asws shall march with these kindred, upon the fewness of the numbers and large numbers of enemies, and abandonment of the helpers’. Then he-asws gave an example (in a couplet): ‘So if we-asws are defeated, then they have been defeated from before, and even if we are defeated, we would be without defeat! ’’[23]