Hadith 13

ot know of your place in our presence, and so you sent something from the address and you do not know. Trust with that which is with me for you today, right now, from the honour, and the prestige, and the shelter, and the help. So, I am writing out an agreement you will surely accept, and I shall heal with the spending from me and with the righteousness’. Amro wrote to him, ‘It is with the couplets, not with the poem that the good is sought, in it is Egypt, and first of it, ‘The heart from me refuses to be deceived by the plotting, with the killing of Ibn Affan is a recompense to the Kufr’. Muawiya wrote to him with that, and enforced it to him. Amro pondered and did not know what to do, and the sleep went away from him. He said, (a poem), ‘My nights are prolonged with the worries of the darkness, and I shook hands from my time, the faces of survival. Did I deceive him? And the deception from me is a joke, or did I give him honest advice from myself? Or should I sit in my house, and in that would be rest, for an old man who fears the death in every east (direction)’. When it was morning, he called his slave Wardaan, and he was an intellectual, and consulted him regarding that. Wardaan said, ‘With Ali-asws is the Hereafter and there is no world with him-asws, and it is which would remain for you, and you will be remaining in it, and with Muawiya is the world and there is no Hereafter with him, and it is which will not remain upon anyone. So, choose whatever you so desire to’. Amro smiled and said (a poem), ‘O fighter of Allah-azwj Wardaan and his acumen. He has got it right, that which is in the heart of Wardaan. The world is presented, I am exposed to it, with greed of myself and in following the minds. A self is excused and another covets to reach it, and the person eats the stinky and it is two seeds. As for Ali-asws, it is a religion not participating the world in it, and that is a world for it and an authority. So, I choose the world from my greed over my insight, and it is not with me I can choose a proof with it, I do understand what is in it and can see it, and within me as well, are a variety of personal desires, but my soul loves to live in nobility, and a human being will not be pleased to live in humiliation’. Then he instructed with departure to Muawiya, but his son Abdullah and Wardaan (tried to) prevent him, but he was not prevented. When he reached the separation of the two roads, of Syria and Al-Iraq, Wardaan said to him, ‘The road to Al-Iraq is a road to the Hereafter, and the road to Syria is a road to the world, so which of the two will you travel? ’ He said, ‘The road to Syria’’. [61]