[8] ‘I heard Abu Abdullah -asws mentioning in a Hadeeth of Ghadeer Khumm...

[8] ‘I heard Abu Abdullah -asws mentioning in a Hadeeth of Ghadeer Khumm: ‘When the Prophet -saww said for Ali -asws what he -saww said, and established him -asws for the people, Iblees -la shrieked such a shriek, the devils gathered to him -la . They said, ‘O our master -la ! What is this shriek (for)?’ He -la said, ‘Woe be unto you all! Your day is like the day of Isa -as !

By Allah -azwj , I -la have strayed the people regarding him -as !’ He -asws said: ‘So, the Quran (Verse) was Revealed: And Iblees did ratify his conjecture upon them, so they (all) followed him except a group from the Momineen [34:20] . Iblees -la shrieked, and the devils returned to him -la . They said, ‘O our master -la ! What is this other shriek (for)?’ He -la said, ‘Woe be unto you all! By Allah -azwj !

Allah -azwj has Narrated my -la speech as Quran and has Revealed unto him -saww : And Iblees did ratify his conjecture upon them, so they (all) followed him except a group from the Momineen [34:20] ’. Then he -la raised his -la head towards the sky, then said, ‘By Your -azwj Mighty and Your -azwj Majesty, I -la shall join up the separate group with the community!’ He -asws said: ‘The Prophet -saww said: ‘In the Name of Allah -azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful.

Surely, (as for) My servants, there wouldn’t be any authority for you upon them [15:42] ’. He -asws said: ‘Iblees -la shrieked such a shriek, the devils returned to him -la . They said, ‘O our master -la ! What is this third shriek (for)?’ He -la said, ‘By Allah -azwj , from the companions of Ali -asws . But, by Your -azwj Might and Your -azwj Majesty, O Lord -azwj ! I -la shall adorn the acts of disobedience for them until I -la make them to be hateful to You -azwj ’.

He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘By the One -azwj Who Sent Muhammad -saww with the truth! For the devils and the demons are most upon the Momineen than the hornets upon the meat, and the Momin is more robust than the mountain, and the mountain can be reduced from by the axe, and it can be chiselled from it, and the Momin cannot be lessened from his religion’’.

[9] ‘A man asked Abu Ja’far -asws (5 th Imam) about the Words of Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic: But they said, ‘Our Lord! Lengthen the distance between our journeys! And they were unjust to themselves [34:19] . He -asws said: ‘They were a people who lived in two inter-connected villages and were able to see each other, and rivers which flowed, and had phenomenal wealth.