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unable to keep up with the process of
working, due to their special
circumstances, for they believe in the
Guardian of Allah, however, they
leave working and supporting/giving
victory to the Guardian of Allah. And
their excuse is also unacceptable,
because each one of them can work
by what he is able to work by, as for
throwing the rope on the back of the
animal (meaning giving absolute
freedom with no restrictions or
conditions), then that is shortcoming
with the Guardian of Allah, and
consequently it is shortcoming in that
which Allah has commanded them
by.
{For those perhaps Allah will pardon
them, and Allah is ever Pardoning
and Forgiving.}
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Allah gives him just as He gave the
Prophets and the Messengers (pbuh).
Just as Malik Al Ashtar whom was
hundreds of Kilometers far away
from for Ali ibn Abi Talib (pbuh), then
he would sit in the night weeping, so
his companions would ask him
[regarding his weeping], so he would
say: ‘I am weeping for I hear the
supplication of Ali (pbuh) to Allah ’,
for within the Kingdoms of Heaven
had already been opened for Malik,
as they had been opened for the
Prophets and the Messengers.
{And whoever leaves his home}: his
home: is his body, meaning, whoever
leaves from his body, for death is of
two types:
1 – (the detested type) and it is
making the body a coffin for the soul
{For those perhaps…}: for they are
through following desires, and the
deserving of punishment, while
worship of the ‘I’ (ego), and love of
pardon and forgiveness is for those
the world, and supporting the
whom have not associated [with
enemies of Allah, and hold enmity
Allah] among them. So they are upon towards the Guardian of Allah, and
the Wilayah, however, they do not
assuming his position, just as the nonwork, thus, forgiveness is for those
working scholars do. Amir Al
who are short comers in their work,
Mu’minin Ali ibn Abi Talib (pbuh)
and as for leaving the Wilayah of the
said: ‘While the other (kind of) man is
Guardian of Allah, or taking up other he who calls himself learned but he is
than him [as an authority], then this is not so. He has gleaned ignorance from
shirk (Polytheism) and shirk is not
the ignorant and misguidance from
forgiven.
the misguided. He has set for the
people a trap (made) of the ropes of
{And whoever migrates in the path of
deceit and untrue speech. He takes the
Allah will find on the earth many
Qur'an according to his own views
[alternative] locations and
and right after his passions. He
abundance. And whoever leaves his
makes people feel safe from big sins
home as an emigrant to Allah and
and takes light the serious crimes. He
His Messenger and then death
says that he is waiting for
overtakes him - his reward has
(clarification of) doubts but he
already become incumbent upon
remains plunged therein, and that he
Allah. And Allah is ever Forgiving
keeps aloof from innovations but
and Merciful.} [4].
actually he is immersed in them. His
{And whoever migrates in the path of shape is that of a man, but his heart
is that of an animal. He does not
Allah}: the Guardian of Allah is the
know the door of guidance to follow
path of Allah [5], so whoever
nor the door of misguidance to keep
migrates in it towards Allah, he will
aloof therefrom. These are living dead
find vastness, and great giving, and
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bodies. "So where are you going to"
and "how are you then turned
away?". Ensigns (of guidance) are
standing,and signs are clear, and the
minarets (of light) have been fixed.
Where are you being ta ken astray and
how are you groping while you have
among you the descendants of the
Prophet? They are the reins of Truth,
ensigns of Faith and tongues of truth/
honesty. Accord to them the same
good position as you accord to the
Qur'an, and come to them (for
quenching the thirst of guidance) as
the thirsty camels approach the water
spring.
O' people take this saying from the
Seal of the Prophets (pbuh and his
Family) that he who dies from among
us is not dead, and he who decays
(after dying) from among us does not
really decay. Do not say what you do
not know, because most of the Truth
is in what you deny. [Accept the
argument] of one against whom you
have no argument. It is I. Did I not
act before you on the greater thaqal
(ath-thaqal al-akbar, i.e. the Qur'an)
and did I not retain among you the
smaller thaqal (ath-thaqal-al-asghar,
i.e. the descendants of the Prophet). I
fixed among you the standard of
faith, and I taught you the limits of
lawful and unlawful. I clothed you
with the garments of safety with my
justice and spread for you (the carpet
of) virtue by my word and deed. I
showed you high manners through
myself. Do not exercise your opinion
about what the eye cannot see or the
mind cannot conceive, Till people
begin thinking that the world is
attached to the Umayyads, and that
they would be showering their
benefits on them, and lead them to
their clear spring for watering, and
that their whip and sword will not be
removed from the people. Whoever
thinks so is wrong. There are rather a
few drops from the joys of life which