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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Masterpieces of Rhetoric Methood (nahj Al-balagha) People Are Equal in the Right After swearing alleginace to Imam, Talhah and Al-Zubayr complained to him that he had not consulted them or sought their assistance in the affairs: You have been angry of a small matter and left aside big ones. Can you tell me of a thing wherein you have a right of which I have deprived you?

Or a share which was due to you I have held away from you, or any Muslim who has laid any claim before me and I have been unable to decide it or been ignorant of it, or mistakened its category? By Allah, I had no desire for the Caliphate nor any interest in government, but you yourselves invited me to it.

When the caliphate came to me, I looked into the Book of Allah; I did not need your view or the view point of anyone else, nor has I ignored any judgement so that I ought to have consulted you or my Muslim brethren. If it were so I would not have turned away from you or from others. As regards to your mentioning question of equality, this is a matter in which I have not taken a decision by my own opinion, nor have I done it by my desire.

But I have found, and you too found, that whatever the prophet brought had been finished with. Therefor, I felt no need to turn towards you about what Allah had been finished with its sectioning. May Allah lead our hearts and yours towards righteousness and may He grant us and you patience, May Allah have mercy on whom he seas a right and helps to get it, or that who found a wrong and rejected it!

To the parties of (the Battle of) Al-Jamal A letter sent to Talhah, Al-Zubayer, and Aai’shah before the Battle of Jamal From the slave of Allah, Ali, the Commander of the Faithful, to Talhah, Al-Zubayer, you have known that I did not want the allegiance till I was compelled to it; and both of you were among those who accepted my homage.

If you have paid homage obedi-ently, and if you have paid homage to me reluctantly, you have certainly given me the excuse to deal with you for action, by showing your obedience and concealing you disobedience. And you, o’ Talhah, chief of Muhajirin (immigrants), and you, o’ Zubaryer, the knight of Quraysh: your repulsing this mat-ter before entering into it would have been easier than getting out of it after having accepted it.

And you, o’ Aai’shah, you went out of your house disobeying Allah and His messenger seeking a concern of whose responsibility you are free.