Allah had commanded us to preach then
these people accepted and acknowledged
that. [It reached them from us and they
accepted and acknowledged it]. Our
mention reached them and their hearts
inclined towards us, recognizing us and
our hadith. Had they not been created
from this they would not have been as
such. No, by Allah, they would not have
acknowledged.”
Then the Imam (a.s.) said, “Allah created
certain tribes for Hell and fire. He then
commanded us to preach to them as we
had preached to them but to the later
ones it seemed repugnant and their
hearts felt hatred and they rejected it
from us, did not acknowledge it and
considered it as lies and they said, “They
are magicians and liars.” Allah then
placed a seal on their hearts and made
them to forget. Allah then opened their
tongue with some of the truth. Thus, they
speak of it but their hearts are in denial.
He uses it in defense of His friends and
those who obey Him. Had it not been
there no one would have worshipped
Allah on earth. He commanded us to
withheld it from them, hide and conceal.
You must also hide it from those that
Allah has commanded to withheld from
and hide from those that Allah has
commanded to hide and withheld from.”
The narrator has said that the Imam
(a.s.) then raised his hands and wept and
said, “O Lord, this is a very small group.
Make our lives as their lives and our
death like their death. Do not make
dominant over them any of Your enemies
that would cause us suffer pains for their
suffering. If You would allow it to cause
pains to us because of their sufferings no
one would worship You on earth. May
Allah send blessing up on Muhammad
and his Ahl al-Bayt and may (Your) peace
and more peace be with them.”)
[6] A section from AlMunajat
AlSha’baniya (Supplication of Sha’ban)
by the Commander of the Faithful
(pbuh), Bihar AlAnwar: vol 91, page 97.