Hadith 111

ess of this wheat, and the luxury of these silken clothes, but far be it that my-asws desires would reach and lead me-asws to satiate myself-asws with good meals, and perhaps at Hijaz or at Al-Yamama there is someone who has no food for him regarding a disc of bread, nor any time is he satiated (with a full meal), or that I-asws should spend the night with a full belly and around me-asws there are hungry bellies and thirsty livers. Or that I-asws should become just as the speaker said, (in prose), ‘It suffices as a disease if you fill up the belly and around you are livers are yearning to the strip of cloth’. Should I-asws be content from myself-asws that it would be said to me, ‘Amir Al-Momineen’ while I-asws do not participate in the difficulties of the time, or I-asws become an example for them in the distresses of life? I-asws have not been Created to eat the good things like the roaming animals whose main concern is their fodder, or like the sent animals who is too pre-occupied from its fodder to understand its purpose of what is intended with it, or should I-asws be left in vain or neglected in vain, or I-asws should pull a rope of straying, or I-asws should roam the streets aimlessly? And it is as if I-asws am with a speaker of yours saying, when it was this time, ‘The son-asws of Abu Talib-asws, the weakness has made him-asws to be seated from fighting the foes and battling the braves’. Indeed! Remember, the tree of the forest is of stronger wood, and green branches and thin bark, and the vegetation of the wilderness is stronger as firewood and slow in burning out. And from Rasool-Allah-saww, I-asws am like the brother from the brother, and the forearm from the upper arm. By Allah-azwj! Even if the Arabs were to back each other against fighting me-asws, I-asws will not turn around from them, and if an opportunity enables me from their necks, I-asws shall be quick to it and I-asws shall struggle until I-asws purify the earth from this perverse person (Muawiya) and of the inverted body, until the clods are thrown out from between the harvested seeds. To you, O world, get away from me-asws! Your ropes are upon your shoulders and I-asws have slipped away from your claws and have fled from your traps, and I-asws am shunning the going into your slippery paths. Where are the generation which you deceived by your caress? Where are the communities wh