Hadith 123

il you break it voluntarily. Do not become to your Lord-azwj (and you) would be deficient from it, and be as fair as you can be to Allah-azwj what is necessary, and help as much as you can for the Religion, as much as you can by sitting back from it. And I-ra swear by Allah-azwj! If I were to narrate to you a Hadeeth I-ra have heard from Rasool-Allah-saww, you would snap at me-ra with a snapping of a thirsty serpent’. Ayesha said to her-ra, ‘What would make me understand your preaching, and my acceptance of your advice. My journey isn’t upon what you-ra are thinking. I am not inexperienced, and for good is the emerging you-ra would be emerging in, differentiating between the two quarrelling groups. If I were to sit back, it would be in a non-critical way, and if I were to go out, it would not be for the riches from it, from the increase by it in the recompense’. Al-Sadiq-asws said: ‘When it was from her regret, Umm Salama-ra took to saying (a poem), ‘If ever there was a bond with the error for anyone, it was for Ayesha a rank over the people, from being a wife of Rasool-Allah-saww, a merit, and a mention of whichever from the schools of the Quran, and wisdom which cannot happen to be except her obsession in the chest, removing for her every uncertainty. Allah-azwj has Snatched away from a people, their intellects, until he passes by the one who judges upon the head, and may Allah-azwj have Mercy on the mother of the believers, there is a change for me-ra to inspire the people’. Ayesha said to her-ra, ‘You are insulting me, O sister! ’ Umm Salama-ra said to her: ‘No, but the Fitna, when it comes, it would cover the sights of the eyes, and when it turns around (goes away), the intellectual as well as the ignorant one would see it’’. [140]