After you know all these...

After you know all these, you will know heresies and overacting, will see forgery against God and distortion, and will know how the declining ones fell. Let not the ignorant engage you in their ignorance. Seek these from their proper people, for they are surely the light by which enlightenment is sought and the leaders whose examples should be followed. By them, knowledge survives and ignorance fades away.

Their clemency refers to their ignorance, their utterance of wisdom refers to their silence, and their appearance refers to their hidden. They neither oppose the right nor do they disagree about it. Different traditions existed before them and God's decision passed before them. This is surely a reminder for those who mention. When you hear it, you should understand it heedfully, not just for relation. The relaters are certainly numerous while the heedful are few.

God is the One Whose help is sought. Imam Al-Hasan's Answers of Some Questions Muawiya sent a disguised man to Al-Kufa to ask Amirul Muminin (peace be upon him) for the answers of certain questions that the King of the Romans addressed at him. The Imam could recognize the man who confessed of his reality as soon as he was interrogated. Amirul Muminin (peace be upon him) said, "God may curse son of that who ate the livers . He, as well as his followers, is extremely deviant. God curse him.

He manumitted a bondmaid. It was preferable for him to marry her. May God be the judge between this nation and me. They disregarded my kinship, discounted my great rank, and wasted my characters." He then summoned Al-Hasan, Al-Hussein, and Mohammed -bin Al-Hanafiya-. As they were before him, the Imam said, "O Syrian brother, these two are the Prophet's sons and this one is mine.

You may ask anyone of them." The man referred to Imam Al-Hasan (peace be upon him), then put his questions: "What is the distance between the right and the wrong? What is the distance between the heavens and the earth? What is the distance between the east and the west? What is that colorless spot seen in the moon? What is the rainbow? What is this galaxy? What was the first thing that sprinkled on the earth? What was the first thing that shook on the earth?

What is the spring at which all the spirits of the believers and the disbelievers lodge? What is the hermaphrodite?