Hadith 326

And it is reported by Nasr as well, from Abdllah Bin Kardam Bin Marsad who said, ‘When Ali-asws arrived (at Al-Kufa), the majority of the people gathered to him-asws. When they had gathered, he-asws permitted for them. When he-asws saw their large number, he-asws said: ‘I-asws am not able to speak to them, nor can I-asws make you all understand, so attribute your affairs to one you are pleased with among yourselves, and make him your leader as an adviser for you’. They said, ‘Narsa is who we are pleased with, and what he is angered with we are angered with it’. Nara came ahead and sat to him-asws. He-asws said: ‘O Narsa! Inform me-asws about the kings of Persian, how many were they? ’ He said, ‘Their kingdoms existed in these last kingships of thirty-two kings’. He said, ‘What was their methods? ’ He said, ‘Their methods have not ceased to in greatness of their affairs as being one, until Chosroe Bin Hurmuz became our king, and he preferred with the wealth, and the office bearers, and opposed out first ones, and ruined that which is for the people, and built that which was for him, and took lightly with the people, and aroused the anger of the souls of Persia until they retaliated to him. They killed him and widowed his wives, and orphaned his children’. He-asws said: ‘O Narsa! Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Created the creatures with the Truth, and He-azwj is not Pleased from anyone except with the truth. And in Authority of Allah-azwj is a reminder from what Allah-azwj has Authorised, and no kingship will stand except by a plan, and there is no escape from a government, and our affairs will not cease to be attached for as long as our last ones do not accuse our first ones. When our last ones oppose our first ones and spoil, they will be destroyed and destroy (others)’. Then he-asws placed commanders upon them. Then Ali-asws messages to the office bearers in the distant horizons, and the most important of the directions was to Syria’’. [6]