فَلَمَّا خَلَّفَهُ أَكْثَرَ الْمُنَافِقُونَ الْأَقْوَالَ...
فَلَمَّا خَلَّفَهُ أَكْثَرَ الْمُنَافِقُونَ الْأَقْوَالَ فِيهِ قَالُوا مَلَّهُ وَ سَئِمَهُ وَ كَرِهَ صُحْبَتَهُ فَتَبِعَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع حَتَّى لَحِقَهُ وَ قَدْ وَجَدَ بِمَا قَالُوا فِيهِ So, when he -saww left him -asws behind, most of the hypocrites taunted him -asws with regards to it and they said, ‘He -saww is fed up with him -asws , and is tired of him -asws , and dislikes his -asws company’.
So, Ali -asws followed him -saww until he -asws met him, and he -asws had found (grief) from what they had said regarding him -asws .
فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَا أَشْخَصَكَ عَنْ مَرْكَزِكَ قَالَ بَلَغَنِي عَنِ النَّاسِ كَذَا وَ كَذَا فَقَالَ لَهُ أَ مَا تَرْضَى أَنْ تَكُونَ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ مِنْ مُوسَى إِلَّا أَنَّهُ لَا نَبِيَّ بَعْدِي Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘What made you -asws come back from your -asws position?’ He -asws said: ‘It reached me -asws , such and such from the people’.
He -saww said to him -asws : ‘Are you -asws not pleased that you -asws happen to be from me -saww at the status of Haroun -as from Musa -as , except that there would be no Prophet -as after me -saww ?’ فَانْصَرَفَ عَلِيٌّ إِلَى مَوْضِعِهِ فَدَبَّرُوا عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يَقْتُلُوهُ وَ تَقَدَّمُوا فِي أَنْ يَحْفِرُوا لَهُ فِي طَرِيقِهِ حَفِيرَةً طَوِيلَةً بِقَدْرِ خَمْسِينَ ذِرَاعاً ثُمَّ غَطَّوْهَا بِحُصُرٍ دِقَاقٍ وَ نَثَرُوا فَوْقَهَا يَسِيراً مِنَ التُّرَابِ بِقَدْرِ مَا غَطَّوْا وُجُوهَ الْحُصُرِ Ali -asws left to go (back) to his -asws place, and they (hypocrites) pondered on killing him -asws , and they preceded in digging a pit for him -asws (to fall into it) on his -asws way, a long pit of a measurement of fifty cubits.
Then they covered it with palm leaves and spread some soil above it, by a measurement of what was required to cover up the face of the palm leaves.
وَ كَانَ ذَلِكَ عَلَى طَرِيقِ عَلِيٍّ الَّذِي لَا بُدَّ لَهُ مِنْ سُلُوكِهِ لِيَقَعَ هُوَ وَ دَابَّتُهُ فِي الْحَفِيرَةِ الَّتِي قَدْ عَمَّقُوهَا وَ كَانَ مَا حَوَالَيِ الْمَحْفُورِ أَرْضاً ذَاتَ حِجَارَةٍ دَبَّرُوا عَلَى أَنَّهُ إِذَا وَقَعَ مَعَ دَابَّتِهِ فِي ذَلِكَ الْمَكَانِ كَبَسُوهُ بِالْأَحْجَارِ حَتَّى يَقْتُلُوهُ And that was upon the way of Ali -asws which was a must for him -asws from travelling it – so that he -asws and his -asws ride would fall into the pit which they had dug deep.
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