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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Kitab Al-irshad 1 Supplement /1 (This is an extract) from his speech, peace be on him, when Talha had been killed and the Basrans scattered."17 "Through us you were raised to nobility. Through us you broke into a new dawn of light out of darkness like the darkness of a moonless night. Through us you were guided amid darkness. Ears which do not comprehend the severe warning (given them) have become deaf.

How does one who is deaf to the loud cries (of God) hear a weaker call (of myself)? The heart which palpitation (out of fear of God) never leaves is strengthened. I have always expected the consequences of treachery from you and I have perceived in you the quality of the deceitful. The garments of religion have concealed me from you but the true nature of my purpose revealed you to me. I established the right way for you where you might recognize it.

Yet without a guide, you were digging (aimlessly for the water of truth) and did not find such water. "Today I am making things unknown to you speak out to you with clarity. The understanding of a man who has kept apart from me, has deserted him. I have never doubted in the truth from the time it was shown to me. The sons of Jacob were provided with the greatest evidence (for the truth) until they disobeyed their father and sold their brother (into slavery).

Their repentance came after their confession of guilt, and through seeking the forgiveness of their father and their brother they were forgiven." **************** Some of his words, peace be on him, spoken on his walking around the corpses (after the Battle of the Camel): "Here are (members of) Quraysh who have cut off my kinship with them (literally, my nose). Yet my life has been restored.

I had come forward to you warning you against seizing hold of the sword but you were like young men: You did not have any (real) knowledge of what you were seeing. However, it was destruction and an evil end. I seek refuge with God from an evil end." He passed Mu'id b. al-Miqdad and said: "May God have mercy on the father of this man.

If he had been alive, his judgement would have been better than this man's." "Praise be to God Who brought him down and made his side the inferior one," said 'Ammar b. Yasir.