Hadith 325

j. As for regarding the Rulings and the oaths, so you are more of an example for others than the others who answered you and entered into what you had entered into. Indeed! The most fearful of what I-asws fear upon you is pursuance of the whims and long hopes. As for following the whims, it hinders from the truth, and as for long hopes, it makes one forget the Hereafter. Indeed! The world is travelling backwards (away from you), and the Hereafter is travelling forward (towards you), and for each one of these are sons. So, become from the sons of the Hereafter today there is working conducting (deeds) and there is no reckoning, and tomorrow there is reckoning and there is no conducting (deeds/worshipping). The Praise for Allah-azwj Who Helped His-azwj friend and Forsook His-azwj enemies, and Endeared the truthful, the rightful, and Disgraced the allegiance-breakers, the false. Upon you all is to be with the fear of Allah-azwj and obey the one who obeys Allah-azwj, from the People-asws of the Household of your Prophet-saww, those who are foremost with your obedience in what they are obeying Allah-azwj in, that the imposters, the claimants, the speakers, ‘(Come) to us! ’ They are meriting themselves with our-asws merits and are rejecting our-asws matter and disputing us-asws of our-asws rights, and distancing us-asws from it. They have tasted the evil results of what they have perpetrated, so they will soon be facing Ghayya [19: 59]. Indeed! Men from you had sat back from helping me-asws and I-asws am gently reproaching upon them. Keep away from them and make them listen to what they are disliking so they would recognise by that the party of Allah-azwj during the sectarianism’. Makin Bin Habeeb Al-Barbuwiya stood up to him, and he was in charge of his-asws police. He said, ‘By Allah-azwj! I see the fleeing and hearing the abhorrent. For them is a little’ – up to the end of what has passed by the report of Al-Mufeed. Then he said, ‘Nasr said, ‘And when Ali-asws arrived at Al-Kufa, he-asws descended at the door of the Masjid. He-asws entered and prayed Salat, then turned around. The people sat to him-asws. He-asws asked about a man from the companions who had descended at Al-Kufa. A speaker said, ‘Allah-azwj has Taken him’. He-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj the Exalted does not Take anyone from His-azwj creatures. But rather Allah-azwj, Majestic is His-azwj Mention, Wants with the death Endearment with Himself-azwj and Humbleness of His-azwj creatures’. And he-asws recited: and you were dead so He Revived you? Then He would be Causing you to die, then would be Reviving you, [2: 28]’. Nasr said, ‘When he-asws met him, he-asws felt heavy. They said to him-asws, ‘Will you descend at the castle? ’ He-asws said: ‘A castle is a ruin, we shall not lodge in it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And he-asws reprimanded a group, from the ones who had stayed back from him-asws and did not attend the fighting, and said: ‘What made you sit back from me-asws and you are the nobles of your people? By Allah-azwj! If it was from the weakness of the intentions, and deficient insights, then you are clear, and if it was from doubt regarding my-asws merit and a demonstration against me-asws, (then) you are e