Hadith 840

it) to the ones with relationships, and the orphans, and the poor, and the travellers, and the beggars, and regarding the necks (freeing slaves), and establishes the Salat, and gives the Zakat, and they fulfil their promises when they are promising, and the patient ones during the adversity and the desperation and when distressed; they are those who are true, and these, they are the fearing ones [2: 177]. The Imam (Hassan Al-Askari-asws) said: ‘Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws said: ‘It isn’t righteousness that you should be turning – the Verse. When Rasool-Allah-saww preferred Ali-asws and informed about his-asws majesty in the Presence of his-asws Lord-azwj Mighty and Majestic, and clarified about the merits of his-asws Shias and the helpers of his-asws call, and Rebuked the Jews and the Christians upon their Kufr and their concealment of the mention of Muhammad-saww, and Ali-asws, and their-asws Progeny-asws, (which were) in their Books of their-asws merits and their-asws beauties, the Jews and the Christians prided against them-asws. So the Jews said, ‘We have prayed this Salat towards our Qiblah numerously, and among us are ones who revive the night (stay awake) praying towards it, and it is the Qiblah of Musa-as which he-as has ordered us with’. And the Christians said, ‘We have prayed this Salat numerously towards our Qiblah, and among us are ones who revive the night (stay awake) praying towards it, and it is a Qiblah which Isa-as ordered us with’. And each one of the two groups said, ‘Do you-saww view that our Lord-azwj would Invalidate these numerous deeds of ours, and our prayers towards our Qiblah because we are not following Muhammad-saww upon his-saww personal desires with regards to himself-saww and his-saww brother Ali-asws? ’
Allah-azwj the Exalted Revealed: “Say, O Muhammad-saww! It isn’t righteousness – the obedience by which you would be achieving the Gardens with and be deserving the Forgiveness and the (Divine) Pleasure with it, that you should be turning your faces – by your prayers – facing the east – O you Christians – and – facing the west – O you Jews, and you are opposing the Command of Allah-azwj are enraged upon the Guardian-asws of Allah-azwj. But the righteous is the one who believes in Allah – that He-azwj is the One, the Alone, the Individual, the Solid. He-azwj Reveres the one He-azwj so Desires to, and Honours the one He-azwj so Desires to, and Disgraces the one He-azwj so Desires to and Humiliates him. There is neither a repeller of His-azwj Command, nor is there an overturner of His-azwj Decision. And – believe in, the Last Day – Day of Judgment in which the most superior one to be Fulfilled with, would be Muhammad-saww, Chief of the Mursils-as, and after him-asws would be Ali-asws, his-saww brother, and his-saww successor-asws, Chief of the successors-asws. And (the Day) in which no one from his-asws Shias would be present except there would be an increase in his light during it, so they will be travelling in it to the Gardens of Bliss, him and his brothers, and his wives, and his offspring, the doer of good to him, and the defenders of his in the world. Nor would anyone from the enemies of Muhammad-saww be present except its darkness would overwhelm him, so he would travel in it to the painful Punishment, him and his associates in his beliefs, and his religion, and his doctrines, and those who were going closer to them when they were in the world, without there being dissimulation, to get their rights (from him). (And the Day) in which the Gardens would be calling out: ‘To us! To us, O friends of Muhammad-saww and Ali-asws and their-asws Shias! ’ And ‘Away from us! Away from us, enemies of Muhammad-saww and Ali-asws and the people who opposed them! ’
And the Fires would be calling out: ‘Away from us! Aw