فمنهم من أبطأ...

فمنهم من أبطأ، و منهم من أسرع، و منهم من مر بطرفة عين، فوقعوا فيها كلهم، Then He -azwj Grabbed a Handful of this, and He -azwj Created them as creatures like the particles, similar to those ones. Then He -azwj Made them testify upon themselves similarly to what the others had testified. Then He -azwj Said to them: “Fall into this Fire!” So, from them was one who was slow, and from them was one who was quick, and from them was one who passed in the blink of an eye.

And they fell into it, all of them. فقال: اخرجوا منها سالمين. فخرجوا لم يصبهم شي‏ء. و قال الآخرون: يا ربنا، أقلنا نفعل كما فعلوا. قال: قد أقلتكم. فمنهم من أسرع في السعي، و منهم من أبطأ و منهم من لم يبرح مجلسه، مثل ما صنعوا في المرة الاولى Then He -azwj Said: “Return from it safely!” So they exited, nothing had affected them. And the others said, ‘O our Lord -azwj ! Lower us. We shall do just as what they have done’. He -azwj Said: “I -azwj have Lowered you”.

So, from them was one who was quick in the pursuit, and from them was one who was slow, and from them was one who did not depart from his seat, similar to what they had done during the first time. . فذلك قوله: وَ لَوْ رُدُّوا لَعادُوا لِما نُهُوا عَنْهُ وَ إِنَّهُمْ لَكاذِبُونَ». So these are His -azwj Words: And if they were to be returned, they would repeat what they had been Forbidden from; and they (would still) be lying [6:28] ’’.

[22] و روي بحذف الإسناد عن جابر بن عبد الله (رحمه الله)، قال: رأيت أمير المؤمنين علي بن أبي طالب (عليه السلام) و هو خارج من الكوفة، فتبعته من ورائه حتى إذا صار إلى جبانة اليهود فوقف في وسطها، و نادى: «يا يهود، يا يهود» فأجابوه من جوف القبور: لبيك لبيك مطلاع. يعنون بذلك يا سيدنا. And it has been reported with a deleted chain, (It has been narrated) from Jabir Bin Abdullah who said, ‘I saw Amir-Al-Momineen Ali -asws Bin Abu Talib -asws and he -asws was outside of Al-Kufa.

So I followed him -asws until when we came up to the graveyard of the Jews. Amir-Al-Momineen -asws paused in the middle of it and called out: ‘O Jews, O Jews!’ There was a response from the middle of the graves, ‘At your -asws command, at your -asws command at being called!’ – Meaning by that, ‘O our Master -asws ’. قال: «كيف ترون العذاب؟» فقالوا: بعصياننا لك كهارون، فنحن و من عصاك في العذاب إلى يوم القيامة.

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