I -asws have not done so...
I -asws have not done so, nor did I -asws allow that, nor is it from my -asws doctrine, and I -asws am one who believes in obeying you upon every situation, and I -asws have reached from the years what has weakened me -asws from that. If I -asws had wanted it. Make me -asws to be in one of your armies until the death comes to me -asws , for it is near from me -asws ’.
فَقَالَ لَا وَ لَا كَرَامَةَ ثُمَّ أَطْرَقَ وَ ضَرَبَ يَدَهُ إِلَى السَّيْفِ فَسَلَّ مِنْهُ مِقْدَارَ شِبْرٍ وَ أَخَذَ بِمَقْبِضِهِ فَقُلْتُ إِنَّا لِلَّهِ ذَهَبَ وَ اللَّهِ الرَّجُلُ He said, ‘No, and there is no honour (in doing that)!’ Then he lowered his head and struck his hand to the sword and he bared from it the measurement of a palm’s width and held its hilt. I said, ‘We are for Allah -azwj !
By Allah -azwj , the man is gone!’ ثُمَّ رَدَّ السَّيْفَ وَ قَالَ يَا جَعْفَرُ أَ مَا تَسْتَحِي مَعَ هَذِهِ الشَّيْبَةِ وَ مَعَ هَذَا النَّسَبِ أَنْ تَنْطِقَ بِالْبَاطِلِ وَ تَشُقَّ عَصَا الْمُسْلِمِينَ تُرِيدُ أَنْ تُرِيقَ الدِّمَاءَ وَ تَطْرَحَ الْفِتْنَةَ بَيْنَ الرَّعِيَّةِ وَ الْأَوْلِيَاءِ Then he returned the sword and said, ‘O Ja’far -asws !
Are you -asws not ashamed being with this grey hair, and being with this lineage that you -asws speak with the falsehood and are splitting the stick (unity) of the Muslims intending to spill the blood, and drop the discord to be between the citizens and the friends?’ فَقَالَ لَا وَ اللَّهِ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مَا فَعَلْتُ وَ لَا هَذِهِ كُتُبِي وَ لَا خَطِّي وَ لَا خَاتَمِي He -asws said: ‘No, by Allah -azwj , O commander of the faithful!
I -asws have neither done so, nor are these my -asws letters, nor my -asws handwriting, nor my -asws seals!’ فَانْتَضَى مِنَ السَّيْفِ ذِرَاعاً فَقُلْتُ إِنَّا لِلَّهِ مَضَى الرَّجُلُ وَ جَعَلْتُ فِي نَفْسِي إِنْ أَمَرَنِي فِيهِ بِأَمْرٍ أَنْ أَعْصِيَهُ لِأَنَّنِي ظَنَنْتُ أَنَّهُ يَأْمُرُنِي أَنْ آخُذَ السَّيْفَ فَأَضْرِبَ بِهِ جَعْفَراً He removed a cubit from the sword. I said, ‘We are for Allah -azwj !
The man is gone!’ And I made it to be in myself that he would order me regarding him with an order, and I shall disobey him because I thought he would be ordering me to take the sword and strike Ja’far -asws with it.
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