قال علي (عليه السلام)...

قال علي (عليه السلام): لا سواء، و إن لنا حجة هي المعجزة الباهرة So, their preacher and their speaker said, ‘Do not be happy, O Ali -asws , that you -asws have frustrated us from establishing a proof upon our claim. So which proof is there in your -asws claim, except that you -asws are making our frustration as your -asws proof, as there is neither a proof in what we are saying nor is there a proof for you all in what you -asws are saying’.

Ali -asws said: ‘They are not the same, and that for us there is a proof, it is the remarkable miracle’. ثم نادى جمال اليهود: يا أيتها الجمال، اشهدي لمحمد و لوصيه، فتبادرت الجمال: صدقت، صدقت- يا وصي محمد- و كذب هؤلاء اليهود Then Jamaal the Jew called out, ‘O you camels! Testify for Muhammad -saww and his -saww successor -asws !’ The camels kept on saying, ‘You -asws speak the truth!

You -asws speak the truth, O successor -asws of Muhammad -saww , and these Jews are lying!’ فقال علي (عليه السلام): هؤلاء جنس من الشهود، يا ثياب اليهود التي عليهم، اشهدي لمحمد و لوصيه، فنطقت ثيابهم كلها: صدقت، صدقت- يا علي- نشهد أن محمدا رسول الله حقا، و أنك- يا علي- وصيه حقا، لم يثبت لمحمد قدم في مكرمة إلا وطئت على موضع قدمه بمثل مكرمته، فأنتما شقيقان من أشرف أنوار الله تعالى، تميزتما اثنين، و أنتما في الفضائل شريكان، إلا أنه لا نبي بعد محمد (صلى الله عليه و آله) Ali -asws said: ‘This is one genus from the witnesses.

O clothes of the Jews, which are upon them! Testify for Muhammad -saww and for his -saww successor -asws !’ So their clothes spoke, all of them, ‘You -asws speak the truth! You -asws speak the truth, O Ali -asws ! We testify that Muhammad -saww is Rasool -saww of Allah -azwj truly, and you -asws , O Ali -asws , are his -saww successor truly. A foot is not affirmed for Muhammad -saww in a nobility except you -asws tread upon the place of his -saww foot with the like of his -saww nobility.

Thus, both of you -asws are two brothers from the shining Lights of Allah -azwj the Exalted. (Although) you are distinguished as two, you are participants in the merits, except that there would be no Prophet -as after Muhammad -saww ’.