قَالَ لَهُ يَا دِهْقَانُ أَظُنُّكَ حَكَمْتَ عَلَى اقْتِرَانِ...

قَالَ لَهُ يَا دِهْقَانُ أَظُنُّكَ حَكَمْتَ عَلَى اقْتِرَانِ الْمُشْتَرِي بِزُحَلَ حِينَ لَاحَا لَكَ فِي الْغَسَقِ قَدْ شَارَفَهَا وَ اتَّصَلَ جِرْمُهُ بِجِرْمِ الْقَمَرِ وَ ذَلِكَ دَلِيلٌ عَلَى اسْتِحْقَاقِ أَلْفِ أَلْفٍ مِنَ الْبَشَرِ كُلُّهُمْ مُولَدُونَ فِي يَوْمٍ وَاحِدٍ وَ مِائَةِ أَلْفٍ مِنَ الْبَشَرِ كُلُّهُمْ يَمُوتُونَ اللَّيْلَةَ وَ غَداً وَ هَذَا مِنْهُمْ وَ أَوْمَأَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى سَعْدِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ الْحَارِثِيِّ وَ كَانَ فِي عَسْكَرِهِ جَاسُوساً لِلْخَوَارِجِ فَظَنَّ أَنَّ عَلِيّاً ع يَقُولُ خُذُوا هَذَا فَقَبَضَ عَلَى فُؤَادِهِ فَمَاتَ فِي وَقْتِهِ He -asws said to him: ‘O Dihqan!

I -asws think you decided based upon the separation of the Jupiter with Saturn when they shone at you during the dusk, having overlooked and connect it with the body of the moon, and that is evidence upon the deservedness of a thousand, thousand, from the mortals, all of them being born in one day, and a hundred thousand from the mortals, all of them dying tonight and tomorrow morning, and this one is from them’ – and he -asws gestured by his -asws hand towards Sa’ad Bin Masoud Al-Harisy, and he was from his -asws army, a spy for the Khawarijites.

He thought that Ali -asws was saying: ‘Seize this one!’ He grabbed upon his heart and died during that very time.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع لَمْ أُرِكَ عَيْنَ التَّوْفِيقِ أَنَا وَ أَصْحَابِي هَؤُلَاءِ لَا شَرْقِيُّونَ وَ لَا غَرْبِيُّونَ إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ نَاشِئَةُ الْقُطْبِ وَ أَعْلَامُ الْفَلَكِ وَ أَمَّا مَا زَعَمْتَ أَنَّ الْبَارِحَةَ اقْتَدَحَ مِنْ بُرْجِيَ النِّيرَانُ فَقَدْ يَجِبُ عَلَيْكَ أَنْ تَحْكُمَ بِهِ لِي لِأَنَّ ضِيَاءَهُ وَ نُورَهُ عِنْدِي وَ لَهَبَهُ وَ حَرِيقَهُ ذَاهِبٌ عَنِّي Ali -asws said: ‘Did I -asws not show you the eye of inclination that I -asws and these companions of mine are neither easterly nor westerly?

But rather we are resultant at the pole, and flags of the orbits. And as for what you have claimed that yesterday the two fires burst out from a constellation, so it should oblige upon you that you decide with it for me -asws , because it’s illumination, and it’s light are with me -asws , and it’s flame and it’s burning is going away from me -asws .

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