[9] \n Ali -asws Bin Muhammad Al-Askari -asws in his -asws...

[9] \n Ali -asws Bin Muhammad Al-Askari -asws in his -asws letter to the people of Al-Ahwaz regarding negation of the Compulsion and the Delegation, said that Amir Al-Momineen -asws answered to a man who had asked him -asws after his -asws dispersal from Syria (battle of Siffeen). He said, \u2018O Amir Al-Momineen -asws ! Inform us about our going out to Syria, was it Ordained and Pre-determined?\u2019 He -asws said: \u2018Yes, O sheykh!

You did not ascend a hill nor descended into a valley except by Ordainment from Allah -azwj and His -azwj Pre-determination\u2019.

\n The man said, \u2018Would my efforts be Reckoned with in the Presence of Allah -azwj , and Allah -azwj has not Shown me anything from the Recompense?\u2019 He -asws said: \u2018Yes, Allah -azwj has Magnified the Recompense for you all during your journey and you were going, and upon your dispersal and you were coming back, and you did not happen to be forced in anything from your states\u2019.

\n The man said, \u2018And how can we not happen to be forced, and the Ordainment and the Pre-determination were ushering us and from these two was our journey?\u2019 \n Amir Al-Momineen -asws said: \u2018Perhaps you intend the inevitable Ordainment and definite Pre-determination.

Had that been like that, it would invalidate the Rewards and the Punishment, and drop the Promise and the Threat, and the Commandment from Allah -azwj and the Prohibition, and there would not come a blame from Allah -azwj for a sinner, nor a praise for a good doer, now would the good doer be foremost with the Rewards of the good deeds than the sinner would be, nor would the sinner be foremost with Punishment of the sin than the good doer.

\n There are the words of the brethren of the idol worshippers, and armies of Satan -la , and disputer with the Beneficent, and testifiers of the falsehood and the slander, and the people of blindness and the tyranny. They are the Qadiriites (Fatalists) of this community, and its Magians.

\n Allah -azwj the Exalted Commanded as a choice, and Prohibited as a caution, and Encumbered the easy, and was not disobeyed by overcoming, nor obeyed forcefully, and did not Send the Rasools -as for fun, and did not Reveal the Quran in vain, and did not Create the skies and the earth and whatever is between the two in vain. That is a conjecture of those who are committing Kufr , so woe from the Fire be unto those who are committing Kufr \u2019.