Peak of Eloquence Nahjul Balagha By Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib - English Translation - Sermon 92

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About the Annihilation of the Kharijites, Themischief Mongering of Umayyads and the Vastness of His Knowledge:

So now, Praise and Glorification belong to Allah. O people! I have put out the eye of rebellion. No one except me advanced towards it when its gloom was swelling and its madness was intense. Ask me before you miss me,153 because, by Allah, who has my life in His hands, if you ask me anything between now and the Day of Judgement or about the group who will guide a hundred people and also misguide a hundred people, I will tell you who is announcing its march, who is driving it in the front and who is driving it at the rear, the stages where its riding animals will stop for rest and the final place of stay and who among them will be killed and who will die a natural death.

When I am dead hard circumstances and distressing events will befall you. Many persons in the status of asking questions will remain silent with eyes cast down while those in the status of replying will lose courage. This will be at a time when wars will descend upon you with all hardship and days will be so hard on you that you will feel them prolonged because of hardship till Allah will give victory to those remaining virtuous among you.

When mischief comes they confuse (right with wrong) and when they clear away they leave a warning. They cannot be known at the time of approach but are recognized at the time of return. They blow like the blowing of winds, striking some cities and missing others.

Beware that the worst mischief for you in my view is the mischief of Banu Umayyah because it is blind and also creates darkness. Its sway is general but its ill effects are for particular people. He who remains clear-sighted in it will be affected by distress and he who remains blind in it will avoid the distress. By Allah, after me you will find Banu Ummayyah the very worst for yourselves, like the old unruly she-camel who bites with its mouth, beats with its fore-legs, kicks with its hind legs and refuses to be milked. They will remain over you till they will leave among you only those who benefit them or those who do not harm them. Their calamity will continue till your seeking help from them will become like the seeking of help by the slave from his master or of the follower from the leader.

Their mischief will come to you like evil-eyed fear and pre-Islamic fragments, wherein there will be no minaret of guidance nor any sign (of salvation) to be seen. We Ahl al-Bayt (x) (the Household of the

Prophet (h)) are free from this mischief and we are not among those who

will engender it. Thereafter, Allah will dispel it from you like the removal of the skin (from flesh) through him who will humble them, drag them by their necks, make them drink full cups (of hardships), not extend to them anything but sword and not clothe them except with fear. At that time Quraish will wish at the cost of the world and all its contents to find me even only once and just for the duration of the slaughter of a camel in order that I may accept from them (the whole of) that of which at present. I am asking them only a part but they are not giving me.