Had it not been for the presence of the ones who had...
Had it not been for the presence of the ones who had presented (for the allegiance), and establishing the argument by having found the help and what Allah -azwj has Taken upon the scholars not to yield to the gluttony of the oppressor and the severe hunger of the oppressed, I -asws would have cast its ropes upon its shoulders and would have quenched its last one with the cup of its last one, and you would have seen that his world of yours is more ascetic in my -asws view than the sneezing of a goat’.
قَالُوا وَ قَامَ إِلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ السَّوَادِ عِنْدَ بُلُوغِهِ إِلَى هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ مِنْ خُطْبَتِهِ فَنَاوَلَهُ كِتَاباً قِيلَ إِنَّ فِيهِ مَسَائِلَ كَانَ يُرِيدُ الْإِجَابَةَ عَنْهَا فَأَقْبَلَ يَنْظُرُ فِيهِ- [فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ مِنْ قِرَاءَتِهِ] [فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ مِنْ قِرَاءَتِهِ] قَالَ لَهُ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ [رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا] يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ لَوِ اطَّرَدَتْ [مَقَالَتُكَ] خُطْبَتُكَ مِنْ حَيْثُ أَفْضَيْتَ They (reporters) said, ‘And a man from the people of the desert said at his -asws reaching to this place from his -asws sermon and gave him -asws a letter.
It is said that in it were questioned he ‑asws wanted to answer these. He -asws went on to look into it. When he -asws was free from reading it, Ibn Abbas said to him -asws , ‘O Amir Al-Momineen -asws ! If you -asws could resume your -asws sermon (words) from where you -asws had become silent’. فَقَالَ هَيْهَاتَ يَا ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ تِلْكَ شِقْشِقَةٌ هَدَرَتْ ثُمَّ قَرَّتْ He -asws said: ‘Far be it, O Ibn Abbas! That was a foam snorted by a camel, then it subsided’.
قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ فَوَاللَّهِ مَا أَسَفْتُ عَلَى كَلَامٍ قَطُّ كَأَسَفِي عَلَى هَذَا الْكَلَامِ أَلَّا يَكُونَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع بَلَغَ مِنْهُ حَيْثُ أَرَادَ Ibn Abbas said, ‘By Allah -azwj ! I have not regretted upon any speech at all like my regret upon this speech when [1] Amir Al-Momineen could not reach from it to where he -asws had intended’. [1] Nahj Al-Balagah – Sermon No.
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