Eternal Words Nahj al-Balaghah Sermons SERMON 172 - About the Consultative Committee and the Battle of Jamal
SERMON 172 - About the Consultative Committee and the Battle of Jamal
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Praise be to Allah from Whose view one sky does not conceal another sky nor one earth another earth!
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About the “Consultative Committee”
After the Death of `Umar ibn al-Khattab:
Someone said to me, “O son of Aba Talib! You covet the caliphate.” I said to him, “Rather, you are, by Allah, more greedy, although more remote from it, while I am more suited as well as nearer. I have demanded it as my right, while you are intervening between me and it and you are turning my face from it.” When I knocked at his ears with arguments among the crowd of those present he was startled as if he was stunned not knowing what reply to give me about it.
O Lord! I seek Your succor against the tribesmen of Quraish and those who are assisting them because they are denying me (the rights of) kinship, have lowered my high status and are united in opposing me in the matter (of the caliphate) which is my right then they said, “Be informed that the rightful thing is that you have it and also that you may leave it.”
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Describing the People of Jamal
They (Talhah, az-Zubayr and their supporters) came out dragging the wife of the Messenger of Allah (`A’isha) just as a bondmaid is dragged for sale. They took her to Basrah where those two (Talhah and az-Zubayr) put their own women in their houses while exposing the wife of the Messenger of Allah to themselves and to others in the army in which there was not a single individual who had not pledged his obedience and sworn to me allegiance quite willingly, without any compulsion.
Here in Basrah, they approached my Governor and coffers of the public treasury, the funds of its other inhabitants. They killed some of them in captivity as well as others in treachery. By Allah, even if they had willfully killed only one individual from among the Muslims without any fault, it will have been lawful for me to kill all of this army because they were present in it but did not disagree with it nor prevented it by tongue or hand, not to say that they killed from among the Muslims a number equal to that with which they had marched on them.
