When it was the next morning, Rasool-Allah -saww came out from the tent and that flag was in his -saww hands, so he -saww installed it and said: ‘Where is Ali -asws ?’ It was said, ‘O Rasool-Allah -saww ! He -asws is with sore eyes, blinded of both eyes’. He -saww said: ‘Bring him -asws to me -saww ’.
فَأُتِيَ بِهِ يُقَادُ فَفَتَحَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَيْنَيْهِ ثُمَّ تَفَلَ فِيهِمَا فَكَأَنَّ عَلِيّاً لَمْ تَرْمَدْ عَيْنَاهُ قَطُّ ثُمَّ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ أَذْهِبْ عَنْهُ الْحَرَّ وَ الْبَرْدَ فَكَانَ عَلِيٌّ يَقُولُ مَا وَجَدْتُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ حَرّاً وَ لَا بَرْداً فِي صَيْفٍ وَ لَا شِتَاءٍ They came with him -asws being guided. Rasool-Allah -saww opened his -asws eyes then applied spittle in them, and it was as if Ali -asws did not have sore eyes at all. Then he -saww said: ‘O Allah -azwj !
Remove from him -asws the heat and the cold. So, Ali -asws used to say: ‘I -asws did not find after that, neither heat nor cold, neither in the summer nor in the winter’.
ثُمَّ دَفَعَ إِلَيْهِ الرَّايَةَ وَ قَالَ لَهُ سِرْ فِي الْمُسْلِمِينَ إِلَى بَابِ الْحِصْنِ وَ ادْعُهُمْ إِلَى إِحْدَى ثَلَاثِ خِصَالٍ إِمَّا أَنْ يَدْخُلُوا فِي الْإِسْلَامِ وَ لَهُمْ مَا لِلْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ عَلَيْهِمْ مَا عَلَيْهِمْ وَ أَمْوَالُهُمْ لَهُمْ وَ إِمَّا أَنْ يُذْعِنوا لِلْجِزْيَةِ وَ الصُّلْحِ وَ لَهُمُ الذِّمَّةُ وَ أَمْوَالُهُمْ لَهُمْ وَ إِمَّا الْحَرْبِ فَإِنِ اخْتَارُوا الْحَرْبَ فَحَارِبْهُمْ Then he -saww handed the flag to him -asws and said to him -asws : ‘Travel among the Muslims to the door of the fort and invite them to one of the three thing – either they enter into Al-Islam and for them would be what is for the Muslims and against them would be whatever is against them, and their wealth would be for them; or they submit to paying the tribute and the reconciliation, and for they would be to guarantee and their wealth would be for them; or the war.
So, if they choose the war, then battle them’. فأخذها و سار بها و المسلمون خلفه حتى وافى باب الحصن فاستقبله حماة اليهود و في أولهم مرحب يهدر كما يهدر البعير فدعاهم إلى الإسلام فأبوا ثم دعاهم إلى الذمة فأبوا فحمل عليهم أمير المؤمنين ع فانهزموا بين يديه و دخلوا الحصن و ردوا بابه He -asws took it (the flag) and went with it, and the Muslims were behind him -asws , until he -asws came to the door of the fort.
The guard of the Jews faced them, and in their front was Marhab, rolling just as the camel tends to roll along. He -asws invited them to Al-Islam, but they refused. Then he -asws called them to the guarantee, but they refused.