Befriend the one who befriends him -asws ...

Befriend the one who befriends him -asws , and Inimical to the one who is inimical to him -asws , and Help the one who helps him -asws , and Abandon the one who abandons him -asws , for he -asws is from me -saww and I -saww am from him -asws , and he -asws is from me -saww of the status of Haroun -as from Musa -as except that there would be no Prophet -saww after me -saww ’.

و كانت آخر فريضة فرضها الله تعالى على امة محمد (صلى الله عليه و آله)، ثم أنزل الله تعالى على نبيه الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَ أَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَ رَضِيتُ لَكُمُ الْإِسْلامَ دِيناً And it was the last Obligation which Allah -azwj the Exalted Obligated upon the community of Muhammad -saww .

Then Allah -azwj Revealed unto His -azwj Prophet -saww Today I Perfected your Religion for you and Completed My Favour upon you, and am Pleased with Al Islam as a Religion for you [5:3] ’.

قال أبو جعفر (عليه السلام): «فقبلوا من رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله) كل ما أمرهم الله من الفرائض في الصلاة و الصوم و الزكاة و الحج، و صدقوه على ذلك Abu Ja’far -asws said: ‘So they received from Rasool-Allah -saww everything which Allah -azwj had Commanded them, from the Obligations regarding the Salat , and the Sawm , and the Zakat , and the Hajj, and ratified him -saww upon that’.

قال ابن إسحاق: قلت لأبي جعفر (عليه السلام): متى كان ذلك؟ قال: «لسبع عشرة ليلة خلت من ذي الحجة سنة عشر، عند منصرفه من حجة الوداع، و كان بين ذلك و بين وفاة النبي (صلى الله عليه و آله) مائة يوم Ibn Is’haq said, ‘I said to Abu Ja’far -asws , ‘When was that?’ He -asws said: ‘Seventeen nights from Zil-Hajj in the year ten (Hijra) during the returning from the Farewell Hajj. And between that and the passing away of the Prophet -saww were a hundred days’.

[29] The Verse of Perfection of Religion فُرَاتٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حَفْصٍ الْعَوْسِيُّ [العرسي‏] قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَقْطِينٌ الْجَوَالِيقِيُّ عَنْ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ [ع‏] فِي قَوْلِهِ [قَوْلِ اللَّهِ‏] الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَ أَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي‏ قَالَ نَزَلَتْ فِي عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع خَاصَّةً دُونَ النَّاسِ Furat said, ‘It was narrated to me by Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Ali Bin Hafs Al Awsy, from Yaqteen Al Jawaliqy, ‘From Ja’far -asws from his -asws father -asws regarding His -azwj Words: Today I Perfected your Religion for you and Completed My Favour upon you [5:3] .

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