Mouood Mouood English Edition
O people! Your women enjoy rights imposed upon you. You also enjoy rights imposed upon them. Your rights imposed upon them are that they should not let any take your places in your beds, and not permit those whom you dislike to be in your houses unless your permissions are obtained, and not to commit any ill deed. If they do, the Lord allows you to prevent them and abandon them in the beds and discipline them by unharmed beating. If they desist and obey, you then are obliged to bind yourselves to save their alimony and clothing in an acceptable way. You have taken them by the trust of God, and you have consummated their privates by the God’s Book. Hence, beware of your deeds respecting your women, and advise each other for their good.
O people! The believers are brothers. It is illicit for any believer to take from his brother’s property unless the satisfactory permission is obtained. Have I conveyed? O Allah! Be the witness.
Do not break your faith and return to unbelief by killing each other. I am leaving among you what protect you against deviation if only you accede to. It is the Book of Allah and my people; my household. Have I conveyed? O Allah! Be the witness.
O people! Your Lord is one, and your father is one. You all are from Adam, and Adam was created of mud. Surely the most honorable of you with Allah is the most caterful of his duty. Except by means of god-fearing, no Arab is preferable to any non-Arab. Have I conveyed?
“Yes. You did,” said they.
The witness should carry these to the absent.
O people! God has partitioned the portions of each heir. It is illicit for heirs to will more than the one-third. Babies are the bed’s, and the prostitutes’ share is the stone.
Curse of the Lord, the angels and the entire people be on that whoever ascribes himself to other than his father or master. God be not accept his excuse or compensation. Peace and God’s mercy be upon you.
Al-Kafi: 1/403:
… a man from Quraish: With Sufian Athawri I went to Jafar Bin Mohammed. We found him on his pack animal. Sufian addressed at him, “O Abu Abdillah! Would you please relate to us the Prophet’s sermon in Al-Kheif Mosque?” The imam apologized since he had already ridden, and promised he would answer Sufian’s question as soon as he would be back. “I adjure you by your kinship to the Apostle of God (peace be upon him and his family) to relate it to me,” insisted Sufian. The imam rode off. Sufian asked for a pen and a paper to record the imam’s wording. The imam spoke, “In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. This is the sermon of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) addressed in Al-Kheif Mosque:
God may bloom the servants who will listen and understand my words, and convey them to the absent.
O people! The witness should carry this to the absent. A bearer of a knowledge may happen to be illiterate, and a bearer of a knowledge may happen to carry it to the more knowledgeable.
Hearts of Muslims should never act unfaithfully in three matters; sincere performance of God’s duties, providing the advice to the Muslims’ imams and committing to their congruity. Their congruity is binding.
The believers are brothers of equal blood. They are one hand against their enemies. The least among them can bear their situation.”
After he had recorded these statements, Sufian provided them before the imam. Hence, Abu Abdillah rode the pack animal and went.
Halfway, I told Sufian that Abu Abdillah had bound him with an everlasting duty. “What is that?” asked Sufian. “It is the three things in which a Muslim should never act unfaithfully,” I said, “Sincere performance of God’s duties is a clear matter. Regarding providing the advice to the Muslims’ imams, who are those imams? Are they Muawiya Bin Abi Sufian, Yazid Bin Muawiya, Marwan Bin Al-Hakam and the other rulers, the collective prayers led by whom are invalid? About committing to their congruity, who are those congruous people? Are they the deferrers who believe that persons who did not perform a single obligatory prayer, and did not fast a single day, and did not perform the obligatory bathing, and demolished the Kaba and marry their mothers, are bearing the same degree of faith born by Gabriel and Michael; the angels? Or are they the fatalists who believe that the Satan’s desire can be materialized while God’s cannot? Or are they the Harurites who deny Ali Bin Abi Talib and decide his atheism? Or are they the Jahmites who claim that faith is knowing God only?”
As he became perplexed, Sufian asked me an explanation of the Prophet’s saying reported by Abu Abdillah; the imam. “Ali Bin Abi Talib, by God, is the only imam before whom we are mandated to provide the advice. And the congruity stands for his household,” I answered.
Sufian tore the paper and asked me to keep it secret.
Ali Bin Ibrahim’s Tafsir: 1/171:
The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) performed the Farewell Pilgrimage which was the tenth since he immigrated to Al-Madina. In Mina, he orated:
“Praised and thanked be Allah.
O people! Listen and understand my coming wording. I cannot guarantee whether I shall meet you the next year.
Do you realize which day is the most sanctified?”
“It is this day,” answered people.
“Do you realize which month is the most sanctified?”
“It is this month,” answered they.
“Do you realize which land is the most sanctified?”
“It is this land,” answered they.
“Your souls, estate and honors are as sanctified among you as this day in this month in this land till you shall meet your Lord Who will examine your deeds. O people! Have I conveyed?”
“Yes, you have,” shouted they.
“O Allah! Be the witness,” commented the Prophet. After a while, he added, “Every regulation, heresy, revenge and debt that were founded in Jahilism, are under my feet. None is preferable to another but by criteria of god-fearing. Have I conveyed?”
“Yes, you have,” declared they.
“O Allah! Be the witness,” said the Prophet, and added, “Every usury that was concluded in the Jahilism is revoked. The first usury I am to revoke is Al-Abbas Bin Abdil-Muttelib’s. Every revenge that was in the Jahilism is revoked. The first revenge I am to revoke is Rabia’s. Have I conveyed?”
“Yes, you have,” shouted they.
“O God! Be the witness,” said the Prophet, and added, “The Satan despaired of being obeyed on this land. But he pleased to be obeyed through your insignificant deeds. If the Satan is obeyed, he is then served.
O people! A Muslim is the brother of Muslims. It is illicit for a Muslim to shed the blood of the other Muslim, or to have from his estate unless satisfaction is obtained. I am given the orders of fighting people till they say: There is no god but Allah. As they speak this statement out, they will protect their souls and estate except in the rightful ways. The Lord shall be their judge. O people! Have I conveyed?”
“Yes, you have,” shouted they.
“O Allah! Be the witness,” said the Prophet and added, “O people! Keep my wording and you will harvest its benefits later on. Perceive my sayings and you will be prosperous. Break not your faith after me, and be not unbelievers by beheading each other for the sake of mundane affairs. If you do so, and you shall do it, you will find me in a phalanx between Gabriel and Michael; the angels, striking your faces with the sword…” For a while, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) kept peace while he was turning to his right. Then, he continued, “…or Ali Bin Abi Talib, God willing. I am leaving among you the two things that will enduringly protect you against deviation. They are the Book of Allah and my people; my household. The Knower of subtleties, the Aware has informed me that these two things shall never separate until they will join me on the Divine Pool. He shall be saved that whoever accedes to them. And he shall be perishing that whoever dissents them. Have I conveyed?”
“Yes, you have,” shouted they.
“O Allah! Be the witness,” said the Prophet and added, “Men among you shall be occluded from joining me on the Divine Pool. I will say they are being my companions. I will be answered, ‘You lack knowledge of what they committed after you.’ I will comment, ‘Far away! Far away!’”
