Admonishing his own companions
Admonishing
his own companions
Although Allah gives time to the oppressor ،His catch would not spare him. Allah watches
.him on the passage of his way and the position of that which suffocates the throats.
By Allah in Whose power my life lies these people (Mu'awiyah and his men) will overcome
you not because they have a better right than you but because of their hastening towards
(the wrong
with their leader and your slowness about my right to be followed).
People are afraid of the oppression of their rulers while I fear the oppression of my subjects
I called you for war but you did not come. I warned you but you did not listen. I called you
secretly as well as openly but you did not respond. I gave you sincere counsel but you did
not accept it. Are you present like the absent and slaves like masters?I recite before you
points of wisdom but you turn away from them and I advise you with far reaching advice
but you disperse away from it. I rouse you for jihad against the people of revolt but
morning but you are back to me in the evening as curved as the back of a bow. The
sraightener has become weary while those to be straightened have become incorrigible
O' those whose bodies are present but wits are absent and whose wishes are scattered.
Their rulers are on trial. Your leader obeys Allah but you disobeyed him while the leader of
the people of Syria (ash-Sham) disobeys Allah but they obey him. By Allah I wish
Mu'awiyah exchanges with me like Dinars with Dirhams so that he takes from me ten of
spite of having ears dumb in spite of speaking and blind in spite of having eyes. You are
neither true supporters in combat nor dependable brothers in distress. Your hands may
be soiled with earth. O' examples of those camels whose herdsman has disappeared if
they are collected together from one side they disperse from the other. By Allah I see you
in my imagination that if war becomes intense and action is in full swing you would run
away from the son of Abi Talib like the woman who becomes naked in the front. I am
certainly on clear guidance from my Lord (Allah) and on the path of my Prophet and I am
.on the right path which I adhere to regularly
About the Household of the Holy Prophet
Look at the people of the Prophet's family. Adhere to their direction. Follow their footsteps
because they would never let you out of guidance and never throw you into destruction.
If they sit down you sit down and if they rise up you rise up. Do not go ahead of them as
you would thereby go astray and go not lag behind of them as you would thereby be
.ruined
I have seen the companions of the Prophet but I do not find anyone resembling them.
They began the day with dust on the hair and face (in hardship of life) and passed the
night in prostration and standing in prayers. Sometimes they put down their foreheads
and sometimes their cheeks. With the recollection of their resurrection it seemed as
though they stood on live coal. It seemed that in between their eyes there were signs like
knees of goats resulting from long prostrations. When Allah was mentioned their eyes
flowed freely till their shirt collars were drenched. They trembled for fear of punishment
.and hope of reward as the tree trembles on the day of stormy wind
علل نکوهش وشکست کوفیان
ای مردمیکه بدن های شـما حاضـر و عقلهای شـما پنهان و افکار و آراء شماگوناگون است و زمامداران شما دچار مشکلات شماینـد، رهـبرشــما ازخـدا اطـاعت میکنـد،شـما بـا او مخـالفت میکنیـد، امـا رهـبر شامیـان خـدای را معصـیت میکنـد، از او فرمانبردارنـد. به خـداسوگند دوست دارم معاویه شـما را با نفرات خود مانندمبادله درهم و دینار با من سودا کند، ده نفر ازشـما رابگیرد و یک نفر از آنها را به من بدهـد!
ای اهل کوفه!گرفتارشـما شده ام که سه چیز دارید و دو چیز نداریـد،کرهـایی بـا گوشـهای شـنوا، گنگهـایی با زبان گویا،کورانی باچشـمهای بینا، نه در روزجنگ از آزادگانیـد، و نه به هنگام بلاوسـختی برادران یکرنگ میباشـیدتهیدست مانید!
ای مردم شماچونان شتران دورمانده ازساربان میباشید،که اگر ازسویی جمع آوری شوند از دیگرسو، پراکنده میگردند، به خداسوگندمیبینم که اگرجنگ سخت شود و آتش آن شعله گیرد وگرمی آن سوزان، پسـر ابوطالب را رها میکنیـدو ماننـدجـداشـدن زن حامله پس از زایمان از فرزندش، هر یک به سویی میگریزیـدو من در پی آن نشـانه هـا روانم که پروردگـارم مرا رهنمـون شـد، و آنراه را میروم که رسولخـدا (ص)گشود، و همانا من به راه روشن حق گام به گام ره میسـپارم.
اگر نام خدا برده میشدچنان میگریستندکه گریبانهای آنان تر میشد. وچون درخت در روز تندباد میلرزیدند، ازکیفری که از آن بیمداشتند، یا برای پاداشیکه به آن امیدوار بودند.
