Hadith 7

(The book) ‘Nahj (Al Balagah) –
‘From a speech of his-asws: ‘Until He-azwj Send Muhammad-saww as a witness, and giver of glad tidings, and Warner, best of the Created beings as a child, and their most chaste when older, purest of the Purified in conduct, and most generous of the ones approached for it. The world was not sweetened for you in its pleasures, nor were you enabled from the udders of its leftovers, except after whatever you came across, its reins were trailing, its Prohibitions, in the presence of a people had come to be at the status of the thorn-less lotus and its Permissible(s) were remote, not-existent. And by Allah-azwj, you will come across it as an extended shade to a numbered term. So, the earth would be empty for you and your hands would be extended in it, and hand of the leaders would be withheld from you, and your swords would be overcoming upon it and they swords would be withheld from you. Indeed! And for every blood is an avenger, and for every right there is a seeker, and that the avenger regarding our-asws blood is like the judge regarding a right of his-asws own self, and by Allah-azwj, he-asws is the one, the one he-asws seeks will not frustrate him-asws nor will the one fleeing escape from him-asws. By Allah-azwj! I-asws swear, O clan of Umayya, after a little while you will be recognising (seeing) it (caliphate) to be in the hands of other and in the house of your enemies. Indeed! The most insightful of the sights is what its glance would be in good. Indeed! The most hearing of the ears is what retains the remembrance (Zikar) and accepts it. O you people! Become preached from the flames of the lamp of preaching and enjoy from the clear spring having been kept away from the dirt. Servants of Allah-azwj! Do not incline to your ignorance nor be led by your whims, for the one lodging in this (world) is like a guest on the edge of a cliff, the ruination would run upon his back from a place (to another) due to a new opinion after an opinion, intending to stick to what cannot be struck to, and drawing near to what cannot be drawn closer to. So, Allah-azwj, Allah-azwj, if you were to complain to the one who cannot redress your complaint, nor one who is deficient of his view what had been accomplished for you. It isn’t upon the Imam-asws except what he-asws has been loaded upon with the Commands of his-asws Lord-azwj, the delivering and the preaching, and the struggling in the advising, and the revival of the Sunnah, and establishing the legal penalties upon its deserving ones, and implementation of the two portions (shares) upon its rightful ones. Therefore, rush to the knowledge from before its vegetation dries up, and from before you are too pre-occupied with yourselves from consulting the knowledge from the presence of its people-asws, and forbid from the evil and keep away from it, for rather you have been Command with the forbidding (but only) after having stayed away from it (yourself)’’. [132]
(The book) ‘Nahj (Al Balagah)’ –
‘And from a sermon of his-asws, and it is from the sermons of the future events: ‘The Praise is for Allah-azwj, the Evident to His-azwj creatures by His-azwj creation, the Apparent to their hearts by His-azwj Arguments. He-azwj Created the creation from without any forethought, when the forethought can only be linked to the one with a mind (thinking organ), and He-azwj isn’t with a thinking organ within Himself-azwj. His-azwj Knowledge moved in the interior of the unseen veils and surround the obscure beliefs of the secrets. And from it, regarding mention of the Prophet-saww: ‘He-azwj Chose him-asws from the tree of Prophet-hood, and lamps of illumitation, and the lofty forelocks, and navel (centre) of al Bat’ha, and lamps for the darkness, and springs of wisdom’. And from it: ‘He-saww was a physician of the households of Bat’ha. He-saww prepared his-saww ointments and heated u