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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Saqifa A Strict Stand The Imam was very much serious to compaign to regain his right. At the very face a reader can judge this from the Imam's behavior with them and from his sayings.

For instance, in his speech of SHAKH SHAKHIA he says: "I swear upon Him who opens a grain and creates people51, had not there stood the obligation for me and had not there been those present before me and the existence of a helper, I would have thrown the reins upon its neck52 and squenched the last of it by the cup of its first. God has forbidden the men of knowledge to concur with the gluttony of a tyrant and with the hunger victim." How meaningful the words!

He purports to say that his piety persuades him to leave off his right the last time too as he left at the first. But the difference is great between these two circumstances. In the first one lie did not demand to fight because he lacked the help. But this time he had to fight and to squench the circumstance by the cup of the first one, which he turned his face from and endured the thorn.

Ali used to say: "Had I found forty men of determination I would have raised against them." Mawiya took these words and taunted Ali. Once he wrote to Ali: "Whatever I forget I wouldn't your word to Abi Sifyan that you would have raised against the tyrants had you found forty men of determination." Ali did not deny this in his answer to Mawiya. In the history of YAKHOBI it is recorded that the companions of Ali demanded him to rise against the tyrants and that they would support him.

Ali asked them to come to him the next day with their heads shaved. The next day came to him only three. When he lacked forty supporters what could he do?

Let us hear what he has to tell himself (from the speech of SHAKH SHAKHIA): "I raised my head to see either to reach with an amputated hand or to endure the dark pit wherein a grownup becomes senile and an infant becomes old and toils a faithful till he meets his Lord." Then a little further he proceeds to tell: "I saw there is no helper to me except my own household members and I preserved them from death." There was no third to him; either to risk his household members or to accept the things as they were.

In the first case he had to preserve them in order to preserve Islam. If his household members were killed then the earth would be deprived of God's authority and Quran would be deserted without its parallel. Guidance would have been missed.