The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #21 August 2014 | Page 56

"Then shall ye fill your buckets
with pure blood and fatal
venom?
"That day the dealers in
falsehood will perish!
"And the ones who come to
follow shall know the evil which
their successors have established!
"Then awaken the aversion in
yourselves to your world!
"Prepare your hearts for
calamities,
"Adapt yourselves to a sharp
sword; an assault of a tyrant
enemy, an overwhelming
commotion, and atrocity from
oppressors who shall leave your
booty worthless, and your crops
unharvested; "Alas!
"What a pity! How will ye be
treated? But indeed it hath been
obscured from your sight. Shall
we then compel you to accept it
when ye are averse to it?
Swaid Ibn Ghaflah added:
"The women informed their men
what Sayyida Fatima Zahra (a.s)
had said, then a group of men
went to her and said:

'O you Mistress of all women
(a.s)! Had Abu Al-Hassan (a.s)
mentioned this to us before we
made the oath, and gave the
promise (to Abu Bakr l.a), then
surely we would not have
exchanged him (Imam Ali a.s)
for anyone else!'
Sayyida Fatima Zahra (a.s) said:
“Leave me alone! Surely there is
not an excuse for you after (I
have already) spoken to you; and
there shall be no command after
(I have seen) your
shortcomings."