And I am calling you -asws today for what I called you -asws for yesterday...

And I am calling you -asws today for what I called you -asws for yesterday, for you -asws are not hopeful for me staying but I am hopeful for it, nor do you -asws fear the destruction, but I fear it. By Allah -azwj , our men have gone and we have softened. And we are the children of Abd Manaaf, there is no preference for one of us over another; an honourable one is not to be disgraced, nor is a disgraced one to be enslaved. Greetings.

\n The answer of Amir ul-Momineen -asws to the letter of Muawiya \n Sulaym said, \u2018When Ali -asws read his letter, he smiled and said, \u2018I -asws wonder why Muawiya is trying to deceive me -asws \u2019.

So he -asws called his -asws writer Ubeydullah Bin Abu Raf\u2019a and said to him: \u2018Write!\u2019 \n \u2018Your letter came to me -asws in which you mentioned that, \u2018If only you -asws (and I) had known that the battle would reach this stage- that one of us would not be able to overcome the other\u2019, and I -asws and you \u2013 O Muawiya \u2013 are upon a destination which we will not reach to afterwards.

As for your seeking Syria, I -asws will not give it to you today in the same way that I \u2011asws did not give to you yesterday. And as for us being in fear and hope, you have spent (your life) in doubt as I -asws have lived knowing what is certainly the truth (Yaqeen). The people of Syria are as greedy for the world as the people of Iraq are for the Hereafter.

And as for your words, \u2018And we are the children of Abd Manaaf, there is no preference for one of us over another\u2019, that is what we are, but Umayya is not like Hashim -as , nor is Harb like Abdul Muttalib \u2011as , nor is Abu Sufyan like Abu Talib -as , nor is a hypocrite like a believer nor is the falsehood like the truth. In our -asws hands is the preference of Prophet-hood with which we \u2011asws govern the Arabs and bind the non-Arabs by it\u2019. Greetings\u2019.

\n Amro Bin Al-A\u2019as Teases Muawiya \n When the letter of Ali -asws ended up with Muawiya, he hid it from Amro. When Amro found out, he humiliated him over it as he had told him not to write a letter to begin with. And there was no one from the Quraysh who had greater respect for Ali -asws than Amro after the day in which he -asws made him to fall down from his ride.

\n Amro said (in a poem), \u2018O son of Hinda (Muawiya), it is dark what you desire \u2013 it is not for you when there is Ali -asws . He -asws has struck iron with iron, and you hope to deceive him -asws .