It is reported by our elders...

It is reported by our elders, from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen -asws , may the greeting be upon him -asws ’ – and he -asws continued the Hadeeth up to he -asws said: – ‘The subject of alterations in the Verses which are different to what Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed, from what is reported by our elders, may Allah -azwj have Mercy upon them, from the Scholar -asws from Progeny -asws of Muhammad -saww , may the Salawaat of Allah -azwj be upon him -saww and upon them -asws , are Words of the Majestic and Mighty: You are the best of the communities raised up for the people; you are enjoining with the goodness and forbidding from the evil and are believing in Allah; [3:110] .

Abu Abdullah -asws said to a reciter of this Verse: ‘Woe be to you! Would the best community kill a son -asws of Rasool-Allah -saww , may the Salawaat of Allah -saww be upon him -saww and his -saww Progeny -asws ?’ He said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws , so how is it?’ He -asws said: ‘Allah -azwj had Revealed it as: ‘You are best Imams -asws !’ Can you see the Praise by Allah -azwj for them -asws in His -azwj Words: you are enjoining with the goodness and forbidding from the evil and are believing in Allah ?

His -azwj Praise for them -asws is an evidence upon that He -azwj did not Mean the whole community. Don’t you know that in the community there are the adulterers, and the sodomist(s), and the thieves, and the bandits, and the oppressors, and the mischief-makers? Do you view that Allah -azwj would Praise them and Name them as enjoiners of the good and forbidders of the evil? Never! Allah -azwj neither Praised them nor Named them as good people.

But they are the evilest in Surah Al Nahl, and it is a recitation of the one who recites: that you could become a community which is more prosperous than (another) community. [16:92] ’. Abu Abdullah -asws said to the one recited this in his -asws presence: ‘Woe be to you! It is not ‘A’rba’ (the most prosperous?’ He said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws ! So what is it?’ He -asws said: ‘But rather, Allah -azwj Majestic and Mighty Revealed: ‘So that you would be Imams -asws ’.

They -asws are purer than your imams (leaders). But rather Allah -azwj is Trying you with it’’. [31] See, Verse 3:123, in the Appendix III.