فَنَادَى النَّاسَ فَاجْتَمَعُوا وَ أَمَرَ بِسَمُرَاتٍ فَقُمَّ شَوْكُهُنَّ ثُمَّ قَالَ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ مَنْ وَلِيُّكُمْ وَ أَوْلَى بِكُمْ مِنْ أَنْفُسِكُمْ فَقَالُوا اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ فَقَالَ مَنْ كُنْتُ مَوْلَاهُ فَعَلِيٌّ مَوْلَاهُ اللَّهُمَّ وَالِ مَنْ وَالَاهُ وَ عَادِ مَنْ عَادَاهُ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ So he -saww called the people, and they gathered, and he -saww ordered with the clearing (of the ground), so the thorns were removed.
Then he -saww said: ‘O you people! Who is your guardian and closer with you all than your own selves?’ So they (people) said, ‘Allah -azwj and His -azwj Rasool -saww !’ So he -saww said: ‘The one whose Master I -saww am, so Ali -asws is his Master. O Allah -azwj ! Befriend the one who befriends him -asws and be Inimical to the one who is inimical to him -asws ’ – three times.
فَوَقَعَتْ حَسَكَةُ النِّفَاقِ فِي قُلُوبِ الْقَوْمِ وَ قَالُوا مَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ ذِكْرُهُ هَذَا عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ قَطُّ وَ مَا يُرِيدُ إِلَّا أَنْ يَرْفَعَ بِضَبْعِ ابْنِ عَمِّهِ So the thorns of hypocrisy occurred in the hearts of the people and they said, ‘Allah -azwj , Majestic is His -azwj Mention has not Revealed this unto Muhammad -saww at all, and he -saww does not intend except to raise the shoulder of his -asws cousin -asws ’.
ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنَّكَ قَدْ قَضَيْتَ نُبُوَّتَكَ وَ اسْتَكْمَلْتَ أَيَّامَكَ فَاجْعَلِ الِاسْمَ الْأَكْبَرَ وَ مِيرَاثَ الْعِلْمِ وَ آثَارَ عِلْمِ النُّبُوَّةِ عِنْدَ عَلِيٍّ ( عليه السلام ) فَإِنِّي لَمْ أَتْرُكِ الْأَرْضَ إِلَّا وَ لِيَ فِيهَا عَالِمٌ تُعْرَفُ بِهِ طَاعَتِي وَ تُعْرَفُ بِهِ وَلَايَتِي وَ يَكُونُ حُجَّةً لِمَنْ يُولَدُ بَيْنَ قَبْضِ النَّبِيِّ إِلَى خُرُوجِ النَّبِيِّ الْآخَرِ Then Jibraeel -as came over to him -saww and he -as said: ‘O Muhammad -saww !
(Allah -azwj is Saying): “You -saww have spent your -saww Prophet-hood and completed your -saww days, therefore make the Great Name, and the inherited Knowledge, and the traces (Ahadeeth) of the Knowledge of the Prophet-hood to be with Ali -asws , for I -azwj do not Leave the earth except there is a scholar for Me -azwj in it, by whom My -azwj obedience can be recognised, and by him -asws My -azwj Wilayah can be recognised, and he -asws can happen to be My -azwj Divine Authority to the ones who would be born from the passing away of a Prophet -as to the coming out of another Prophet -as ”’.