[17] ‘I said to Abu Abdullah -asws ...

[17] ‘I said to Abu Abdullah -asws , ‘I tend to mingle with the people, and my surprise is a lot from a people who are not befriending you (Imams -asws ), and they are befriending so and so, and so and so (Abu Bakr and Umar).

There is trustworthiness for them, and sincerity, and loyalty, while there are a people befriending you (Imams -asws , there isn’t for them that trustworthiness, nor the loyalty nor the sincerity!’ He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws sat upright and faced towards me like angry, then said: ‘There is no religion for the one who makes it a religion with a tyrannous imam (leader) who isn’t from Allah -azwj , and there is no fault upon the one who makes it a religion with the Wilayah of an Imam -asws of justice from Allah -azwj ’.

He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘There is no religion for those and there is no fault upon these?’ He -asws said: ‘There is no religion for those nor is there any fault upon these ones’. Then he -asws said: ‘Are you not listening to the Words of Allah -azwj : Allah is the Guardian of those who believe.

He Extracts them from the (multitude of) darkness into the Light; [2:257] – Extracting them from the injustices of the sins to the light of repentance and the Forgiveness due their befriending every just Imam -asws from Allah -azwj . And He -azwj Said: and (as for) those who are committing Kufr, their guardian is the tyrant who extracts them from the Light into the (multitude of) darkness; [2:257] ’.

He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘Doesn’t Allah -azwj Mean the Kafirs by it whereby He -azwj Said: and (as for) those who are committing Kufr [2:257] ’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He -asws said: ‘And which light is there for the Kafir, and he is already a Kafir so he would come out from it to the (multitude of the) darkness? But rather, Allah -azwj has Meant by this, they were upon the light of Al-Islam.

When they befriended every tyrannous imam (leader) who wasn’t from Allah -azwj , due to their having befriended them they came from the light of Al-Islam to the darkness(es) of the Kufr, so the Fire is obligated for them along with the Kafirs, so He -azwj Said: ‘ these are the inmates of the Fire; they would be in it eternally [2:257] ’’.