Eternal Words Nahj al-Balaghah Sermons SERMON 19 - Amir al-Mu’minin, Peace be Upon Him delivering a lecture from the pulpit of (the mosque of) Kufah when al-Ash`ath ibn Qays objected and said, “O Amir al-Mu’minin! This thing is not in your favor but against you.” Amir al-Mu’minin, Peace be Up
SERMON 19 - Amir al-Mu’minin, Peace be Upon Him delivering a lecture from the pulpit of (the mosque of) Kufah when al-Ash`ath ibn Qays objected and said, “O Amir al-Mu’minin! This thing is not in your favor but against you.” Amir al-Mu’minin, Peace be Up
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How do you know what is for me and what is against me? Curse of Allah and other be on you. You are a weaver and son of a weaver. You are the son of an unbeliever and yourself a hypocrite. You were arrested once by the unbelievers and once by the Muslims, but you wealth and birth could not save you from either. The man who contrives for his own people to be put to sword and invites death and destruction for them does deserve that the near ones should hate him and the remote ones should not trust him.
As-Sayyid ar-Razi says the following: “This man was arrested once when an unbeliever and once in the days of Islam.” As for Amir al-Mu’minin’s words that the man contrived for his own people to be put to the sword, the reference herein is to the incident which occurred to al-Ash`ath ibn Qays in confrontation with Khalid ibn al-Walid at Yamama, where he deceived his people and contrived a trick until Khalid attacked them. After this incident his people nicknamed him, “`Urfan-Nar,” which in the parlance stood for “traitor”.
