Hadith 34

and the man came with his wagging his fore-finger, beseeching to Amir Al-Momineen-asws and asked him-asws of the reversal. He-asws looked at him and moved his-asws lips, and he returned to be as what he was, a sound person. One of his-asws companions leapt at him-asws and said to him-asws, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! This is the power for you-asws just as we saw, and you-asws are preparing to (battle) Muawiya! What is the matter with you-asws, you-asws are not sufficing with part of what Allah-azwj has Given you-asws from this power? ’
He-asws lowered his-asws head for a little while and raised his-asws head towards them and said: ‘By the One-azwj Who Split the seed and Formed the person! If I-asws so desire to I-asws could kick with this short leg of mine-asws, in the length of these desert, and wilderness, and mountains, and valleys until I-asws hit the chest of Muawiya with it upon his throne, and overturn him upon his head, I-asws can do so. And If I-asws were to swear upon Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic to Come with him before I-asws stand from this gathering of mine-asws, and before one you can even blink his eye, I-asws can do so. But, we-asws are as Allah-azwj the Exalted Described in His-azwj Book: But, they are honoured servants [21: 26] They do not precede Him in speech and they are only acting by His Command [21: 27]’’. [136]
(The book) ‘Irshad Al Quloob’ – By his chain to Meesam Al Tammar who said, ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws addressed us in the central Masjid of Al-Kufa, and he-asws prolonged in his-asws address, and the people wondered at its prolongation, and the good quality of his-asws preaching, and his-asws making them desirous (for Paradise), and his-asws scaring them (with the Hell), and then a warner entered from an area of Al-Anbar, seeking help, saying, ‘Allah-azwj! Allah-azwj, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws regarding your-asws citizens and your-asws Shias. This cavalry of Muawiya has raided upon us suddenly in the desert of the Euphrates, what is between Hayt and Al-Anbar! ’
Amir Al-Momineen-asws cut short his-asws address and said: ‘Woe be unto you! Some of the cavalry of Muawiya has entered Al-Daskarah which follows the two walls of Al-Anbar, and they have kill therein seven women and seven from the male children, and seven female, and slandered them and trampled them with the hooves of the horses, and they said, ‘This is rubbing the nose of Abu Turab-asws’. Ibrahim Bin Al-Hassan Al-Azdy stood up in front of the pulpit and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! This power which you-asws showed upon your-asws pulpit, and in your-asws awareness is the cavalry of Muawiya son of the liver-eater, and what he has done with your-asws Shias, and why is this not known? Why did you-asws close your-asws eyes from Muawiya? ’
(Amir Al-Momineen-asws said) Woe be unto you, O Ibrahim! in order to destroy the ones to be destroyed from a clear proof and to Revive the ones to be revived from a clear proof, [8: 42]’. The people shouted from (all) sides of the Masjid, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Until when will the one to be destroyed, be destroyed by a clear proof, and revive the ones to be revived from a clear proof, and your-asws Shias are getting killed? ’ He-asws said to them: ‘for All