ثُمَّ رَجَعَ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ...
ثُمَّ رَجَعَ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ فَأَخْبَرَهُ بِمَا جَرَى بَيْنَهُ وَ بَيْنَهُمْ فَتَمَثَّلَ عَلِيٌّ ع أَرَادَ رَسُولَايَ الْوُقُوفَ فَرَاوَحَا- يَداً بِيَدٍ ثُمَّ أَسْهَمَا لِي عَلَى السَّوَاءِ- Then he returned to Ali -asws and informed him -asws with what had flowed between him and them. Ali -asws gave an example (in prose): ‘ My -asws messenger want the pausing, so they went hand in hand, then apportioned for me -asws upon the sameness ’.
بُؤْساً لِلْمَسَاكِينِ يَا ابْنَ صُوحَانَ أَمَا لَقَدْ عُهِدَ إِلَيَّ فِيهِمْ وَ إِنِّي لَصَاحِبُهُمْ وَ مَا كَذَبْتُ وَ لَا كُذِبْتُ وَ إِنَّ لَهُمْ أَنْ يَدُورَ فِيهِ رَحَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَى الْمَارِقِينَ فَيَا وَيْحَهَا حَتْفاً مَا أَبْعَدَهَا مِنْ رَوْحِ اللَّهِ Misery is for the poor, O Ibn Sowhan!
But there is a pact for me -asws regarding them, and I -asws am their one to fight them, and neither am I -asws lying nor have I -asws been lied to, and that for them is the turning of the mill of the Momineen upon the deviants. O woe!
Yet how remote are they from the Spirit of Allah -azwj !’ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِذَا الْخَيْلُ جَالَتْ فِي الْفَتَى وَ تَكَشَّفَتْ- عَوَابِسُ لَا يُسْأَلْنَ غَيْرَ طِعَانٍ- فَكَرَّتْ جَمِيعاً ثُمَّ فَرَّقَ بَيْنَهَا- سَقَى رُمْحَهُ مِنْهَا بِأَحْمَرَ قَانٍ- فَتًى لَا يُلَاقِي الْقَرْنُ إِلَّا بِصَدْرِهِ إِذَا أَرْعَشَتْ أَحْشَاءُ كُلَّ جَبَانٍ- Then he -asws said (a poem): ‘ When the horses roamed in the wilderness and uncovered the frowning, not questioned without stabbing.
They all turned together, then there was separation between them, he plunged a spear from it into the purest red, so the generation is not met except with its chest, when the guts of every coward shivers ’.
ثُمَّ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ وَ يَدَهُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ وَ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ اشْهَدْ ثَلَاثاً قَدْ أَعْذَرَ مَنْ أَنْذَرَ وَ بِكَ الْعَوْنُ وَ إِلَيْكَ الْمُشْتَكَى وَ عَلَيْكَ التُّكْلَانُ وَ إِيَّاكَ نَدْرَأُ فِي نُحُورِهِمْ Then he -asws raised his -asws hands and his -asws head towards the sky and said: ‘O Allah -azwj !
Be Witness that three have been excused from the warning, and with You -azwj is the Assistance, and to You -azwj is the complaint, and upon You -azwj is the reliance, and You -azwj Know Warned of their turning.
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