Hadith 18

with that against the ones who are in opposition to you. Spread out your-asws hand, I shall pledge allegiance to you-asws’. But, I-asws did not do so. And you know that your father had said that, and wanted it, until I-asws was the one who refused to him, due to the people being so close to the era of Kufr, and fearing the sectarianism between the people of. Your father was more recognising of my-asws right than you are. If you were to recognise my-asws right, your father did not know of your attaining rightful guidance. And if you do not do so, then Allah-azwj would Make me-asws to be needless of you. And the greetings’’. [79]
(The book) ‘Nahj Al Balagah’ – And from a letter of his-asws to Muawiya: ‘As for after, surely Allah-azwj the Glorious Made the world for what is to come after it, and Tried its people in it for Him-azwj to Know which of them is of good deeds. And we aren’t Created for the world nor have we been Commanded to strive regarding it, and rather we have been Placed in it to be Tried in it, and He-azwj has Tried me-asws with you and Tried you with me-asws, Making one of us as an argument upon the other. You are inimical upon seeking the world by (wrong) interpretation of the Quran and are seeking me-asws for what neither my-asws hands have done nor my-asws tongue, and you and the people of Syrian have accused me-asws, and your scholars have rallied your ignorant ones, and your standing ones (rallied) your sitting ones. Fear Allah-azwj regarding yourself and snatch yourself away from Satan-la guiding you, and divert your face towards the Hereafter, for it is our way and your way, be cautioned from Allah-azwj Causing you to be involved in an entanglement, destroying the roots and cutting off the branches. I-asws hereby swear by Allah-azwj, a vow not to be broken, if He-azwj were to Gather between me-asws and you in a gathering of destiny, I-asws will not cease holding you until Allah Judges between us, and He is the best of the Judges [7: 87]’’. [80]
(The book) ‘Nahj Al-Balagah’ – And from a letter of his-asws to Muawiya: ‘As for after, the time has come not that you benefit with the observant glances at meaningful matters. You have travelled the steps of your ancestors by your claiming the falsities, and intrusion into the deceitful notions and the lies, and your plagiarising what had been above you, and your extortion of what is kept for others besides you, fleeing from the truth and rejecting what necessitates to you, from your flesh and blood, from what your hears have retains and your chest is filled with. And what is there after the Truth except for the straying? So how come you are turning away? [10: 32], and after the explanation, except for the confusion. Be cautious of the suspicions and its inclusion upon its confusion, for the Fitna has spread its covering for long, and its darkness has overwhelmed the sights. And a letter came to me-asws from you, being with unmannerly words weakening the strength of peace, and lines which did not tell of any knowledge being from you nor any forbearance. You have become, like the on