Hadith 34

not being a group of you with him-saww seeing his-saww situations, and recognising his-saww news. Then he-saww came to you all afterwards, with this Book, comprising upon all these wonders. So if he-saww was a speaker, just as you are thinking, then you all are the eloquent, and the rhetoricians, and the poets, and the writers, those there being no match for you in the rest of the cities and the religions, and from the rest of the communities. If he-saww was a liar, then the language is your language, and his-saww genus is your genus, and his-saww nature is your nature, and there would be a precedence in your groups or for one of you to oppose this speech of his-saww, by something more superior than it or the like of it, because if it was from the mortal, not being from Allah-azwj, then it would not be allowed except that there happens to be among the mortals, someone who is able upon the like of it. Therefore, come with that so that he would be recognised, and (so would) the rest of the counterparts, to you all in their conditions, that he-saww is false, a liar, lying upon Allah-azwj. and call on your witnesses from besides Allah – Those that will be testifying with your thinking that you all are right, and that whatever you are coming with is a match to what Muhammad-saww has come with; and your witnesses, those who are thinking that they are your witnesses in the Presence of the Lord-azwj of the world for it, and can intercede for you all to Him-azwj if you are truthful in your words that Muhammad-saww has said it’’. Then the Mighty and Majestic Said: But if you do not do it [2: 24] – this which you have been challenged with and you will never be doing it – i. e. – nor are you able upon it, then know that you are false and that Muhammad-saww is the truthful, the trustworthy, the one particularized with the Message of the Lord-azwj of the world, the one assisted by the Trustworthy Spirit, and by his-saww brother-asws, the Emir of the Momineen, and the chief of the successors-as. Therefore, ratify him-saww regarding what he-saww is informing you with from Allah-azwj, or His-azwj Commands and His-azwj Prohibitions, and regarding what he-saww is mentioning from the merits of Ali-asws, his-saww successor-asws and his-saww brother-asws. then fear– that Punishment the Fire, the fuel of which – and its firewood – are the people and stones sulphuric stones being the most intense of the things in heat (it is) prepared that Fire for the unbelievers in Muhammad-saww and the doubters of his Prophet-hood, and those denying the right of his-saww brother Ali-asws and the rejecters of his-asws Imamate’’. [37]