Do not think that you are doing a favor to Allah by...

Do not think that you are doing a favor to Allah by accepting Islam lest His wrath should descend upon you, and lest He should afflict you with His punishment; surely He is everwatching. 1 cf. Chapter 3, Verse 144 of the Holy Quran. 2 cf. Chapter 89, Verse 14 of the Holy Quran. O people! There shall soon be leaders after me who shall invite (people) to the Fire, and on the Day of Judgement they shall not be helped.1 O people! Indeed, Allah and I are both clear of them. O people!

They, their supporters, their followers, and their adherents shall be in the lowest depths of the Fire; and evil, indeed, is the abode of the arrogant.2 Know that these are, indeed, the People of the Sheet;3 so, let each one of you look into his own sheet (of deeds)!” 1 cf. Chapter 28, Verse 41 of the Holy Quran. 2 cf. verses 4:145 and 39:72 of the Holy Quran.

3 By “the sheet”, the Prophet was referring to “the first cursed covenant sheet” that five leading men amongst the hypocrites secretly wrote and signed beside the Ka’ba during the Prophet’s farewell pilgrimage. They took an oath among themselves that they must never let the family of the Prophet (PBUH&HF) come into power after his departure. cf. Kitab Sulaim Ibn Qais al-Hilali, pp. 597, 650, and 820.

(Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (PBUH), here states that except for a small band (who themselves were the People of the Sheet) most people did not comprehend the issue of sheet). O people! I leave the authority after me as Imamate (leadership) inherited in my offspring until the Day of Judgement. Certainly, I just conveyed what I have been ordered to convey as an argument against everyone, be him present or absent, a direct witness or not, and already born or not yet born.

Hence, everyone who is present should convey (this sermon) to those who are absent, every parent should convey it to his/her children, (and they should continue to do so) until the Day of Judgement. But, (I have been informed that) some people shall replace this (divinelyassigned leadership) with kingdom through usurpation. May Allah curse the usurpers and dispossessors, And then, “We will soon settle your affairs, O the two weights.

And (also), “on you O the two (greatest enemies) shall be launched a flame of fire and a (flash of) molten brass, thus you shall never prevail.” O people! Without doubt, Allah, the mighty and the majestic, does not leave you in the state you are now, 1 Chapter 55, Verse 31 of the Holy Quran.