And if anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah)...
And if anyone desires a religion other than Islam
(submission to Allah), it never will it be accepted from him; And in the
hereafter, he will be in the ranks of those who have lost. Surely you
have not waited until its stampede seized, and it became obedient. You then started arousing its flames, instigating its coal, complying
with the call of the misled devil, quenching the light of the manifest
religion, and extinguished the light of the sincere Prophet. You
concealed sips on froth and proceeded towards his (the Prophet) kin
and children in swamps and forests (meaning you plot against them in
deceitful ways), but we are patient with you as if we are being notched
with knives and stung by spearheads in our abdomens, Yet-now you
claim that there is not inheritance for us! What! "Do they then seek after a judgment of (the Days of) ignorance? But
How, for a people whose faith is assured, can give better judgment
than Allah? Don't you know? Yes, indeed it is obvious to you that I am
O Muslims! Will my inheritance be usurped? O son of Abu Quhafa! Where is it in the Book of Allah that you inherit your father and I do not
inherit mine? Surely you have come up with an unprecedented thing. Do you intentionally abandon the Book of Allah and cast it behind your
back? Do you not read where it says: And Sulaiman inherited
And when it narrates the story of Zakariya and says: `So give me an
heir as from thyself (One that) will inherit me, and inherit the posterity
of Yaqoub' And: `But kindred by hood have prior rights against each
And: Allah (thus) directs you as regards your children's (inheritance) to
the male, a portion equal to that of two females' And, If he leaves any
goods, that he make a bequest to parents and next of kin, according to
reasonable usage; this is due from the pious ones.' You claim that I
have no share! And that I do not inherit my father! What! Did Allah
reveal a (Quranic) verse regarding you, from which He excluded my
father? Or do you say: `These (Fatima and her father) are the people
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of two faiths, they do not inherit each other?!' Are we not, me and my
father, a people adhering to one faith? Or is it that you have more
knowledge about the specifications and generalizations of the Quran
than my father and my cousin (Imam Ali)? So, here you are! Take it! (Ready with) its nose rope and saddled!
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