And do you hope that He may give you the reward of those...

And do you hope that He may give you the reward of those practising charity while you enjoy comforts and deny them to the weak people and widows? Certainly man is awarded according to what he has done and meets what he has sent forward. Beware of Mu’awiyah From A letter to Ziyad ibn Abih when Imam knew that Mu’awiyah had written to Ziyad to deceive him to attach him to himself in kinship. I have learnt that Mu’awyiah has written to you to deceive your wit and blunt your sharpness.

You should be on guard against him because he is ths Satan who approaches the believer from the front and from the back, from the right and from the left, to break into his inadvertance and overcome his intelligence. All men to us are Equal A letter to Sahl ibn Hunayf Al-Ansari, his Governor of Medina, about certain persons who had accede to Mu’awyiah Now, I have come to know that certain persons from your side are stealthily acceding to Mu’awyiah.

Do not feel sorry for their numbers and what you lose of their help. It is enough for them that they have gone into misguidance and for you that you have been relieved of them. They have known justice, seen it, heard and perceived it. They have realized here that, to us, all men are equal in the matter of right. Therefore, they ran away to selfishness and partiality. So, away with them and let them far away.

By Allah, they have surely not fled from an oppression nor do they proceeded to a justice. O’ you semi-men From a sermon after Sufyan Ibn Auf of Banu Ghamid invaded Al-Anbar; Mu’awyiah had sent him to raid over people the sides of Iraq. To frighten its inhabitants. The horsemen of Banu Ghamid have reached Al-Anbar and killed Hassan ibn Hassan Al-Bakri.

They have removed your horsemen from their garrison and killed virtuous men of you I have come to know that the person of them has been breaking into Muslim women and the other women under protection of Islam and took away their ornaments from legs, arms, necks and ears and no woman could resist it except by reciting the verse of Quran, “We are for Allah, and to He we shall return.” Then they got back laden with wealth without any wound or loss of life.

If any Muslim dies of grief after all this he is not to be blamed but rather there is justification for him before me How strange! How strange! By Allah my heart sinks to see unity of these people on their wrong and your dispersion about your right. Woe and grief befall you as. You have become a target at which arrows are shot.