Abu Tâtib...

Abu Tâtib, peace be on him: If not that some tribes of my people say about you as the Jews have said about al- Maslh (Jesus Christ), I would say some words about you, the words would make the people whom you pass by take some of the dust of your feet to cure themselves with it.” ‘Ali, peace be on him, said:” Two (persons) will perish because of me while I have no sin: an extreme lover and an extreme hater.” He (al- Sâdiq) said:” This is an excuse made by him (‘Ati) to show that he did not accept what the extreme lover and the extreme hater say concerning him.

Upon my life, if ‘Isa b. Maryam (Jesus, the son of Mary) 1 Al- Shiblanjl, Nflr Al- Absar, p.14 I. 2 Ibin Hamdfln, Kashif Al- Ghuma: 2/208. had kept silent towards what the Christians said concerning him, Allah would have tortured him. And you know that people say falsehood (to flatter you) and you know that if you do not prevent them from that and accept it, you will draw on yourself the wrath of Allah.

The mean of Hijaz and the rabble have said that you are the scholar of this time and its law, the proof of Allah and His interpreter, the bag of His knowledge and the scales of His Justice, and His burner with which the seeker cover the breadth of darkness to brightness of light, and Allah will not accept the act of the person who does not know your position, so they (men) have attributed you to other than your position, and said concerning you what you have not, then say because your grandfather was the first to say the truth, and the first to believe him in that was your father, and you are appropriate for tracing their traditions and follow their way.” So, he (al- Sâdiq), peace be on him, said:” I am among the branches of the Olive Tree, among the Lamps of the House of the Prophethood, the polite (person) of the dining table, the foster son of the generous and righteous (ones), among the Lamps of the Lantern in which (there is) the Light of the light, and the top of the remaining word in the children of the Chosen (Ones) till the Day of Resurrection.” So, al- Mansur turned to those who were sifting with him and said:” Indeed this (i.e.