فَتَرَكُوا ذَلِكَ وَ جَعَلُوا يَقُولُونَ زَيْدٌ أَخُو...
فَتَرَكُوا ذَلِكَ وَ جَعَلُوا يَقُولُونَ زَيْدٌ أَخُو رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَمَا زَالَ النَّاسُ يَقُولُونَ لِي هَذَا وَ أَكْرَهُهُ حَتَّى أَعَادَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْمُؤَاخَاةَ بَيْنَهُ وَ بَيْنَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع They left that (calling me as the son of Muhammad -saww ) – and went on saying, ‘Zayd, brother of Rasool-Allah -saww ’.
The people did not cease to be saying this for me and I disliked it, until Rasool-Allah -azwj established the brotherhood between him -saww and Ali -asws Bin Abu Talib -asws . ثُمَّ قَالَ زَيْدٌ يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ زَيْداً مَوْلَى عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ كَمَا هُوَ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَلَا تَجْعَلْهُ نَظِيرَهُ وَ لَا تَرْفَعْهُ فَوْقَ قَدْرِهِ فَتَكُونَ كَالنَّصَارَى لَمَّا رَفَعُوا عِيسَى ع فَوْقَ قَدْرِهِ فَكَفَرُوا بِاللَّهِ الْعَظِيمِ Then Zayd said, ‘O servant of Allah -azwj !
Zayd is a slave of Ali -asws Bin Abu Talib -asws just as he -asws is a slave of Rasool-Allah -saww , therefore do not make him (Zayd) to be his -asws peer, nor raise him to be above his worth, for you would become like the Christians when they raised Isa -as above his -as worth, they disbelieving in Allah -azwj , the Exalted, the Magnificent’.
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَلِذَلِكَ فَضَّلَ اللَّهُ زَيْداً بِمَا رَأَيْتُمْ وَ شَرَّفَهُ بِمَا شَاهَدْتُمْ Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘Thus, due to that, Allah -azwj Graced Zayd with what you saw, and Ennobled him with what you witnessed.
وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَنِي بِالْحَقِّ نَبِيّاً إِنَّ الَّذِي أَعَدَّهُ اللَّهُ لِزَيْدٍ فِي الْآخِرَةِ لَيَصْغُرُ فِي جَنْبِهِ مَا شَهِدْتُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا مِنْ نُورِهِ إِنَّهُ لَيَأْتِي يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَ نُورُهُ يَسِيرُ أَمَامَهُ وَ خَلْفَهُ وَ يَمِينَهُ وَ يَسَارَهُ وَ فَوْقَهُ وَ تَحْتَهُ مِنْ كُلِّ جَانِبٍ مَسِيرَةَ مِائَتَيْ أَلْفِ سَنَةٍ. By the One -azwj Whom Sent me -saww with the Truth as a Prophet -saww !
That which Allah -azwj has Prepared for Zayd in the Hereafter would make pale into insignificance in his side what you saw in the world from his light. He would come on the Day of Judgment and his light would spread in front of him, and behind him, and his right, and his left, and above him, and beneath him, from every side to a travel distance of a thousand years’’.
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