The man from them would be saying, ‘I testified the two testimonies!
The man from them would be saying, ‘I testified the two testimonies!’ He -asws will say: ‘Go to your imam so and so, and ask him if he can intercede for you’. He would say, ‘My imam, the one you are mentioning, has disavowed from me’.
فَيَقُولُ ارْجِعْ وَرَاءَكَ فَقُلْ لِلَّذِي كُنْتَ تَتَوَلَّاهُ وَ تُقَدِّمُهُ عَلَى الْخَلْقِ فَاسْأَلْهُ إِذْ كَانَ عِنْدَكَ خَيْرُ الْخَلْقِ أَنْ يَشْفَعَ لَكَ فَإِنَّ خَيْرَ الْخَلْقِ حَقِيقٌ أَنْ لَا يُرَدَّ إِذَا شَفَعَ فَيَقُولُ إِنِّي أَهْلِكُ عَطَشاً فَيَقُولُ زَادَكَ اللَّهُ ظَمَأً وَ زَادَكَ اللَّهُ عَطَشاً He -asws will say: ‘Return behind you, and tell the one you used to befriend and forwarding him upon the creatures, and ask him, when there was a better creature in your presence to intercede for you, for the best of the creatures is real.
He -asws does not reject when he -asws is called to intercede’. He would say, ‘I am dying of thirst!’ He -asws will say: ‘May Allah -azwj Increase your darkness and may Allah -azwj Increase your thirst!’ قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ وَ كَيْفَ يَقْدِرُ عَلَى الدُّنُوِّ مِنَ الْحَوْضِ وَ لَمْ يَقْدِرْ عَلَيْهِ غَيْرُهُ I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws !
And how will he be able to go nearer to the Fountain and others would not be able upon it?’ قَالَ وَرِعَ عَنْ أَشْيَاءَ قَبِيحَةٍ وَ كَفَّ عَنْ شَتْمِنَا إِذَا ذَكَرَنَا وَ تَرَكَ أَشْيَاءَ اجْتَرَأَ عَلَيْهَا غَيْرُهُ وَ لَيْسَ ذَلِكَ لِحُبِّنَا وَ لَا لِهَوًى مِنْهُ وَ لَكِنْ ذَلِكَ لِشِدَّةِ اجْتِهَادِهِ فِي عِبَادَتِهِ وَ تَدَيُّنِهِ وَ لِمَا قَدْ شَغَلَ بِهِ نَفْسَهُ عَنْ ذِكْرِ النَّاسِ فَأَمَّا قَلْبُهُ فَمُنَافِقٌ وَ دِينُهُ النَّصْبُ بِاتِّبَاعِ أَهْلِ النَّصْبِ وَ وَلَايَةِ الْمَاضِينَ وَ تَقَدُّمِهِ لَهُمَا عَلَى كُلِّ أَحَدٍ.
He -asws said: ‘Abstaining from ugly things, and refraining from reviling us -asws , and leaving the things others were audacious upon, and that wasn’t due to his love for us -asws nor for any pleasure from it, but that was due to the intensity of his struggle in his worship his piety, and due to what he had pre-occupied himself with from mentioning the people.
As for his heart, it is hypocritical, and his religion, it is the hostility by following the hostile people and the wilayah of the hostile ones (Nasibis), and his forwarding the two of them (Abu Bakr and Umar) over every one’’.