Hadith 159

he judge, the decider from our children and our families. We keep Allah-azwj as Witness and suffice with Allah-azwj as Witness, and you-asws are a witness upon us with it, and everyone who obeys from the ones presence, and hidden, and the Angels of Allah-azwj, and His-azwj armies, and His-azwj servants, and Allah-azwj is more than every witness’. (He-saww said): ‘Community of people! What are you saying, for Allah-azwj Knows every voice and whisper of every soul, So one who follows Guidance, it is for himself, and one who strays, so rather his straying is against him. And you are not a custodian upon them [39: 41]. So, the one who pledges allegiance so rather he pledges to Allah-azwj, the Hand of Allah being Above their hands. [48: 10]. (O) Community of people! Fear Allah-azwj and pledge allegiance to Ali Amir Al-Momineen-asws, and Al-Hassan-asws, and Al-Husayn-asws, and the Imams-asws, a goodly word in posterity. May Allah-azwj Destroy the one betraying and have Mercy on one being loyal, So the one who breaks, is rather breaking against himself, [48: 10] – the Verse. Community of people! Be saying that which I-saww am saying to you all, and greet unto Ali-asws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’, and say, ‘We hear and we obey’”. ‘Yours is the Forgiveness, our Lord, and to You is the Destination’. [2: 285]; and say: ‘The Praise is for Allah Who Guided us to this, and we would not have been rightly Guided if Allah had not Guided us. [7: 43]. (O) Community of people! Merits of Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws are with Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic, and He-azwj Revealed these in the Quran more than can be counted in one place. So, the one who informs you with it, and introduces these, so ratify him. (O) Community of people! and the one who obeys Allah and His Rasool, [4: 13], and Ali-asws and the Imams-asws, those He-azwj Mentioned them, and that is the grand achievement [4: 13]. (O) Community of people! The preceders to his-asws allegiance and his-asws Wilayah, and the greeting to him-asws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’, they are the successful in the Gardens of Bliss. (O) Community of people! Be saying what Pleases Allah-azwj from you, the words, so ‘Even if you and the ones in the earth altogether were to commit Kufr, [14: 8], so you will not harm Allah-azwj of anything. O Allah-azwj! Forgive the Momineen and be Wrathful upon the Kafirs, and the Praise is for Allah-azwj Lord-azwj of the worlds’. The people called out to him-saww, ‘Yes! We hear and we obey the Command of Allah-azwj and orders of His-azwj Rasool-saww with our hearts, and our tongues, and our hands! ’
And they thronged to Rasool-Allah-saww and to Ali-asws, and they shook his-asws hands with their hands. The first one to shake hand of Rasool-Allah-azwj were the first (Abu Bakr), and the second (Umar), and the third (Usman), and the fourth, and the fifth, upon them is what is upon them, and rest of the Emigrants and the Helpers, and rest of the people to the last of them, in accordance to their status, up to the time they prayed Al-Zohr and Al-Asr (Salats), in one time, and Al-Maghrib and Al-Isha the last, in one time. and they connected the allegiance and the hand-shaking, thrice, and Rasool-Allah-saww said every time the people pledged: ‘The Praise is for Allah-azwj Who Merited us-asws over the entirety of the worlds, and the hand-shaking became a Sunnah, and as a ritual, and it was utilised by the one who hadn’t any right in it’’. [165]