Hadith 25

(The book) ‘Nahj Al Balagah’ –
‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘And upon you all is with the Book of Allah-azwj, for it is the strong rope, and the manifest radiance, and the beneficial healing, and the saturating drink, and the protection for the adhering ones, and the salvation for the linking ones. It is not crooked so it should be straightened, nor does it deviate so it can be faulted, nor does the frequent repetition and entering the ears makes one weary. One who speaks by it is truthful and one who acts by its precedes’. And he-asws said: ‘He-azwj Sent him-saww upon a gap period from the Messengers-as, and prolonged slumber from the communities, and suspension of the (religious) Laws, so he-saww came to them with the ratification of that which came before him-saww, and the Noor to be guiding with. That is the Quran. Ask it to speak, and it will never speak, but I-asws will inform you all about it. Indeed! In it is knowledge of what is to come, and the narratives about the past, and cure for your diseases, and system of what is between you all’’. And he-asws said: ‘And know that this Quran, it is the adviser who does not deceive, and the guide who does not mislead, and the narrator who does not lie, and no one has sat with this Quran except he has stood up from it with an increase or decrease – an increasing in guidance or a decrease from blindness. And know! There isn’t any destitution upon anyone after the Quran, nor was there any richness for anyone before the Quran. Seek healing by it from your sicknesses and seek assistance with it upon the adversities, for there is healing in it from the greatest of the diseases, and it is the Kufr, and the hypocrisy, and the error and the straying. Ask Allah-azwj by it and divert to it with His-azwj Love and do not be asking His-azwj creatures by it. Surely, the servants cannot Divert to Allah-azwj the Exalted with similar to it. And know! It is an interceder to be interceded for, and a speaker to be ratified, and the one whom the Quran intercedes for on the Day of Qiyamah, he will be interceded for, and the one whom the Quran speaks ill of it will ratify against him on the Day of Qiyamah. A caller will call out on the Day of Qiyamah: ‘Indeed! Every cultivator will be Tried regarding his cultivation and the consequence of his deeds, apart from cultivators of the Quran! ’ So be from its cultivators and its followers and be pointed by it to your Lord-azwj, and takes its advice upon yourselves, and accuse your own opinions upon it, and overwhelm your whims in it’. And he-asws continued the sermon up to his-asws words: ‘And Allah-azwj, Glorious is He-azwj, did not Preach to anyone with the like of the Quran, for it is the strong Rope of Allah-azwj and His-azwj trustworthy cause, and therein is a spring of the heart and fountains of the knowledge, and there is no polish for the heart other than it, along with that the remembering ones have gone and there remain the forgetful ones, or the ones pretending to forget’ – up to end of the sermon’’. [27]