If he does not desist, We will surely seize him by the forelock.

If he does not desist, We will surely seize him by the forelock.” A miracle by Amir Al-Momineen -asws وَ لَقَدْ أَصْبَحَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَوْماً- وَ قَدْ غَصَّ مَجْلِسُهُ بِأَهْلِهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص: فَأَيُّكُمُ الْيَوْمَ نَفَعَ بِجَاهِهِ أَخَاهُ الْمُؤْمِنَ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع: أَنَا.

قَالَ: صَنَعْتَ مَا ذَا قَالَ: مَرَرْتُ بِعَمَّارِ بْنِ يَاسِرٍ وَ قَدْ لَازَمَهُ بَعْضُ الْيَهُودِ فِي ثَلَاثِينَ دِرْهَماً كَانَتْ لَهُ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ عَمَّارٌ: يَا أَخَا رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص هَذَا يُلَازمِنُيِ وَ لَا يُرِيدُ إِلَّا أَذَايَ وَ إِذْلَالِي لِمَحَبَّتِي لَكُمْ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ، فَخَلِّصْنِي مِنْهُ بِجَاهِكَ One day Rasool-Allah -saww came and his -saww gathering had crammed with its people, then Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘So which of you today benefitted by his virtue, his Momin brother?’ So Ali -asws said: ‘I -asws did’.

He -saww said: ‘What is that which you -asws did?’ He -asws said: ‘I -asws passed by Ammar Bin Yasser -as and one of the Jews was pressing him regarding thirty Dirhams which were for him upon him. So Ammar said, ‘O brother -asws of Rasool-Allah -saww ! This one is pressing me and is not intending except to harm me and humiliate me due to my love for you -asws , the People -asws of the Household. Therefore, finish me off from him -asws by your -asws virtue’.

فَأَرَدْتُ أَنْ أُكَلِّمَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيَّ. فَقَالَ: يَا أَخَا رَسُولِ اللَّهِ إِنَّكَ أَجَلُّ فِي قَلْبِي وَ عَيْنِي- مِنْ أَنْ أَبْذُلَكَ‏ لِهَذَا الْكَافِرِ وَ لَكِنْ اشْفَعْ لِي إِلَى مَنْ لَا يَرُدُّكَ عَنْ طَلِبَةٍ، وَ لَوْ أَرَدْتَ جَمِيعَ جَوَانِبِ الْعَالَمِ- أَنْ يُصَيِّرَهَا كَأَطْرَافِ السُّفْرَةِ [لَفَعَلَ‏] فَاسْأَلْهُ أَنْ يُعِينَنِي عَلَى أَدَاءِ دَيْنِهِ، وَ يُغْنِيَنِي عَنِ الِاسْتِدَانَةِ.

So I -asws intended to speak to the Jew for him, and he (Ammar) said, ‘O brother -asws of Rasool-Allah -saww ! You -asws are more majestic in my heart and my eyes than that I should exert you -asws for this Kafir, but intercede for me to the One Who -azwj would not Return you -asws from your -asws seeking; and if you -asws were to intend the entire sides of the world to become like the sides of the yellow (gold), He -azwj would Do so.

So ask Him -azwj to Assist me upon the paying off of my debts, and make me needless from the borrowing’.

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