Hadith 4

eople have been invaded at all in the courtyards of their own homes, except they were disgraced. And I-asws swear by Allah-azwj! I-asws do not see you doing it (getting ready for war) until they do it, and I-asws would love it if I-asws were to meet them upon my-asws intention and my-asws insight, and attain rest from your hardness, for you are not except like a bunch of camels whose shepherd is lost. Every time they are gathered from one side, they disperse from the other side. By Allah-azwj! It is as if I-asws am with you if the war has been ignited and the fighting is hot, and you have split up from Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws like the splitting of the head and splitting of the woman from her front (guardian)’. Al-Ash’as Bin Qays Al-Kindy stood up to him and said to him-asws, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Why don’t you do just as Ibn Affan had done? ’
He-asws said to him: ‘O crest of the Fire, woe be unto you all! Surely, the deed of the son of Affan is shameful even upon the one having no religion for him nor any argument with him. How can it be for me-asws and I-asws am upon a proof from my-asws Lord-azwj and the truth is in my-asws hands? ! By Allah-azwj! A person enables his enemy from himself, tearing his flesh and breaking his bones, and stripping off his skin and shedding his blood, due to the weakness of what wings of his chest have been pressed upon him. You can be like that if you so like to, as for I-asws, I-asws am without it. If that come to me-asws, I-asws shall strike with my-asws noble (sword) the heads of the important ones would fly off from it, and the palms and the wrists would be cut off from it, and Allah-azwj will do whatever He-azwj so Desires to afterwards’. Abu Ayoub Al-Ansari Khalid Bin Zayd stood up, being an owner of the house of Rasool-Allah-saww, and he said, ‘O you people! Amir Al-Momineen-asws has made it hear the one who has retaining ears for him and a memorising heart. Allah-azwj has Honoured you all with an honour, you are not accepting it as is the right of its acceptance. There has descended in your midst, the son-asws of an uncle-as of your Prophet-saww and chief of the Muslims from after him-saww. He-asws is making you to be with the understanding in your religion and calling you to the Jihad the legalisers (of the Prohibitions), and it is as if you are deaf, not hearing, or there are locks upon your hearts, having coverings upon these, so (now) you are not using your intellects’. Are you not ashamed, O servants of Allah-azwj? Weren’t your pacts with tyranny and aggression yesterday? The afflictions were all-inclusive and widespread in the country, and you were the ones with deprived rights, and blamed faces, and tied bellies, and cast out bare, the hurricanes were stormy upon you. You could not protect from the heat and the cold, and scorching sun and the brightness, exce