Suwaid Ibn Ghafleh said...
Suwaid Ibn Ghafleh said: "When Fatima was inflicted with her illness,
the women of the Muhajirin and Ansar gathered around her and said:
`How are you doing, daughter of Allah's Messenger?'
Fatima praised Allah, prayed for her father and said: "I have become,
by Allah, to have feelings of resentment for your world, detesting your
men; I have casted them after testing them, hated them after
examining them. Thus, shameful is the defiling of honor, playing after
being serious, striking the soft rocks, the slackening of spears, the
foolishness of judgments and the misguidance of wants". "Evil indeed are (the works) which their souls have sent forward before
them (with the result) that Allah's wrath is on them, and in torment will
Certainly it (Allah's wrath) has control of their affairs, held them
responsible (for deserving it), and launched its disagreement on them". "So, may the unjust ones be done away with, cursed, and damned. How they have snatched it away from the foundations of the Message,
the fundamentals of prophethood and guidance, the place of descent
for the Devoted Spirit, and he who is clever in the affairs of this world
and the hereafter? (She means that they usurped Ali's right)
Surely; (their action) is clear loss. Why were they hostile to Abu Al-
They took vengeance, by Allah, from him for his unbiased sword, his
carelessness about his death (i.e., his unprecedented courage), his
deadly assaults his severe encounters, and his anger for the sole sake
"By Allah, had they prevented each other from assuming the reigns of
power, which Allah's Messenger entrusted to him, he would have held
He would not have harmed them the size of a thread, Nor would his
followers stammer, (meaning they would have lived in harmony under
He surely would have delivered them to a spring pure, lush, abundant,
flowing over its banks yet its sides are not muddy. He certainly would have brought them back satisfied and advised them
secretly and publicly without providing himself with any availing thing. Nor would he favor himself with the worldly things with any gain, save
that which would quench the thirst of the thirsty, and feed the hungry. Surely the abstinent would have been distinguished from the desirous,
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and the truthful from the liar.