THE DOCTOR AND THE SHEIKHS' DEBATE
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Warning about the Plots of the Usurpers
O companies of mankind! Believe in Allah and His Messenger and the light that has been sent down with him before we blot out the faces and turn them backwards, or curse them as we cursed the People of the Sabbath. By Allah He did not imply anyone in this except for a group from amongst my (Companions) whom I know by their names and their lineages, and indeed I have been ordered [by the Almighty] to overlook them. So let everyone act according to what one finds in his heart of love or hate for Ali.
O companies of mankind! The light from Allah, Almighty and Majestic, is entwined within me, and then within Ali Ibn Abitaleb, then within his descendants Until al-Qaim al-Mahdi [the Upholder, the Guided] who will re-establish the right/rule of Allah, and any right that is ours, for Allah, Almighty and Exalted, has made us a proof upon the negligent, the obstinate, the opponents, the traitors, the sinners, the wrongdoers, and the usurpers from amongst all the worlds.
O companies of mankind! I warn ye that I am Allah’s messenger, [while other] messengers have passed before me; so should I die or I am slain will ye turn back on your heels? And he who turns back on his heels will never harm Allah in the least, and Allah will reward the thankful the perseverant. O Indeed it is Ali who has been described by perseverance and gratitude, then after him are my offspring through his loins.
O companies of mankind! Deem not your embracing of Islam a favour onto me, rather do not even count it as a favour unto Allah, for He would nullify your deeds, and will wrath against ye, and will subject ye with tribulations of flame of fire and molten brass, indeed your Lord is in ambush.
O companies of mankind! Indeed there will be after me leaders who invite to the Fire, and on the Day of Resurrection they will not be succoured.
O companies of mankind! Indeed both Allah and I abjure them and bear absolutely no responsibility for any of their deeds, actions, or sayings.
O companies of mankind! They, their supporters, their followers, and their devotees are in the lowest depth of the Fire and indeed miserable is the abode of the arrogant. Indeed they are the signatories of the document, so let each one ye [O signatories of the document] look into his document. The narrator commented: this reference the prophet made about the document went by most of the people unnoticed, except for a few of them.
O companies of mankind! I bequeath [the issue of succession] as divine leadership ( ) and as an inheritance in my posterity until the Day of Resurrection. Indeed I have conveyed that which I have been commanded to convey [by the Almighty]; as a proof and evidence upon every one present or absent, upon everyone who witnessed or did not witness [this sermon], and [anyone who] is born or is yet to be born; so let those who are present here inform the absent, and let the parent inform the offspring until the Day of Resurrection. Verily, they will make the after me a possession and a usurpation, O Verily the curse of Allah be upon the usurpers and the usurping [transgressors];and then those who will do the un-occupying will make
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themselves unoccupied for ye [to deal with ye at length] O ye two weights, and there will be unleashed upon ye flames of fire and molten brass, and ye will not receive help.
O companies of mankind! Allah, Almighty and Exalted, will not leave ye in the state ye are in until He distinguishes the corrupt from the good, and Allah will not inform ye of the Unseen.
O companies of mankind! Indeed there shall be no a city except that Allah will destroy it – for its belying – before the Day of Resurrection, and He will give its governance to Imam Mahdi, and surely Allah honours His promise.
O companies of mankind! Indeed most of the former generations before ye went astray, and indeed Allah destroyed the former generations, and He will destroy the latter. Almighty Allah said, Did We not destroy the former generations, and then will follow them with the latter, That is how We deal with the guilty, Woe that day unto the beliers.
O companies of mankind! Indeed Allah has commanded me and He has prohibited me, and I certainly commanded Ali and prohibited him by His command. Thus the knowledge of [all] the commandments and the prohibitions is with him, so listen to his commands and ye will be safe [from going astray], obey him and ye will be guided, stop at his prohibition ye will be led to righteousness, comply with his course and do not let the diverse paths scatter ye from his path.
The Devotees and the Enemies of Ahl Al Bayt
O companies of mankind! I am Allah’s Straight Path ( ) that He ordered ye to follow, and after me it is Ali, and then [after him are] my offspring from his loins – the Leaders of Guidance – they guide to the Truth and do justice by it. In the Name of Allah the Beneficent the Merciful, All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of all the worlds, the beneficent, the merciful, Master of the Day of Retribution, You alone do we worship, and to You alone do we turn for help, guide us on the Straight Path, the Path of those whom You have blessed, not of those whom You are wrathful, nor of those who are astray. [This surah] was sent down about me and – by Allah – it was sent down about them (the ), it encompasses [all of] them, 100 and it is specific only to them. Those are the authorities and devotees of Allah who have no fear and nor do they grieve; O surely the party of Allah are victorious.
O Indeed it is their enemies who are the fools, the perverse, and the brothers of the devils inspiring each other with flashy words deceptively.
O Indeed their [the imams’] supporters and devotees are those whom Allah mentions in His Book, saying, Almighty and Majestic is He, You shall not find a people who believe in Allah and the latter day befriending those who act in opposition to Allah and His Messenger, even though they were their (own) fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their clan; they are those into whose hearts He has impressed faith, and whom He has strengthened with an inspiration from
Him: and He will cause them to enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein forever;
Allah is well-pleased with them and they are well-pleased with Him, they are Allah’s party: O surely the party of Allah are the successful ones.
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O Indeed their [the imams’] supporters and devotees are the believers whom Allah, Almighty and Exalted, describes them as, those who have faith and do not taint their faith with wrongdoing; to them belongs the true security, and they are the rightly guided.
O Indeed their supporters and devotees are those who have attained faith and then have never doubted.
O Indeed their supporters and devotees are those who enter Paradise in peace and security, the angels meet them with greetings saying, Peace be upon ye! Well ye Have fared; so enter in, to dwell forever.
O Indeed their supporters and devotees are those for whom is The Paradise; they are provided therein without any reckoning. O Indeed their enemies are those who will roast intensely in a Blaze. O Indeed their enemies are those who will hear the Hell blaring as it seethes and they will see it roaring.
O Indeed their enemies are those about whom Allah said, Every time that a nation enters [Hell], it will curse its sister [nation], until when they all gather together in it, the last of them will say about the first of them, ‘Our Lord, it was they who led us astray; so give them a double punishment of the Fire’. He will say, ‘It is double for each [of ye], but ye do not know’.
O Indeed their enemies are those about whom Allah, Almighty and Majestic, says, whenever a group is thrown in [Hell], its keepers ask them, ‘Did there not come to ye any warner?’ They will say, ‘Yes, a warner did come to us, but we cried lies, saying, ‘Allah did not send down anything;
ye are only in great error’. And they will say, ‘Had we listened or applied reason, we would not have been among inmates of the Blaze’. Thus they will admit their sin, so far-removed [from Allah’s mercy] are the inmates of the Blaze!
O Indeed their [the imams’] supporters and devotees are those who fear their Lord in secret; for them there is forgiveness and great reward O companies of mankind! What a difference there is between the Blaze and great reward.
O companies of mankind! Our enemy is he whom Allah has condemned and cursed, and our devotee is any one whom Allah has praised and loved. O companies of mankind! Indeed I am the Warner _ _ and Ali is the Bearer of Good Tidings _ .
O companies of mankind! Indeed I am the one who warns _ _ and Ali is the Guide _ .
O companies of mankind! Indeed I am a Prophet and Ali is a .
O companies of mankind! Indeed I am a Messenger, while Ali is the Leader ( ) and the after me, and the leaders ( ) after him are his sons. O Indeed I am their father but they are from his loins.
The Glad-Tiding of Reappearance of Imam Mahdi O Indeed the seal of the from amongst us is [the Upholder, the Guided]. O Indeed he is the one who prevails over the religion. O Indeed he is the avenger
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against the oppressors. O Indeed he is the conqueror of the fortresses and their destroyer. O Indeed he is the winner over all tribes of the polytheists and their guide [to the truth].
O Indeed he is the avenger of the blood of every one of Allah’s devotees. O Indeed he is the Succourer of Allah’s religion. O Indeed he is the scooper of the deep ocean [of knowledge]. O Indeed he will mark every owner of distinction by his distinction and every owner of ignorance by his ignorance. O Indeed he is Allah’s Choice and His Chosen One. O Indeed he is the inheritor of all knowledge, encompassing every perception.
O Indeed he is the communicator on behalf of his Lord –Almighty and Majestic – and he is the elevator of the teachings of His verses. O Indeed he is the rightful guide, the one of strong infallible opinion who is not prone to errors and puts things right. O Indeed he is the delegated to [by the Almighty].
O Indeed he is the one whom past generations have given glad tidings of. O Indeed he is the remaining proof ( ) and there shall be no after him, and there is no right other than that that is with him, and there is no light except that That is with him.
O Indeed none can overcome him and there is no victor over him. O Indeed he is the authority of Allah on His earth, His judge over His creation, and His trustee over His secret and His evident.
Preparation for Seeking Allegiance (mentioning of Ahl Al Bayt)
O companies of mankind! Indeed I have clarified for ye and made ye understand, and this Ali will teach ye and make ye understand after me. O Indeed I will, at the conclusion of my sermon, ask ye to shake hands with me to swear your allegiance to him, assenting and recognising him [and his authority], and then to shake hands with him, after [ye have shaken hands with] me.
O Indeed I have sworn allegiance to Allah and Ali has indeed sworn allegiance to me, and I, on behalf of Allah, Almighty and Majestic, require ye to swear the oath of allegiance to him indeed those who swear allegiance to you, do but swear allegiance to Allah: the hand of Allah is above their hands. So whosoever breaks his oath breaks it only to his own detriment, and whoever fulfils the covenant he has made with Allah, He will give him a great reward.
The Nation’s Reference for the Permissible and the Prohibited O companies of mankind! Indeed the Hajj and the Umrah are amongst Allah’s sacraments, So whoever performs the hajj to the House, or performs the Umrah then there is no blame upon him to circuit between them. Should anyone volunteer a good deed, then Allah is indeed appreciative, all-knowing.
O companies of mankind! Perform the hajj to the House, for no household arrives at it except that they will be enriched and receive glad tidings, and none refrain from it save they will be without posterity and impoverished.
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O companies of mankind! No believer stands at the save that Allah forgives him his past sins until his present time, and when he finishes his hajj let him begin his deeds afresh [with no record of sin in his book of deeds].
O companies of mankind! The Hujjaj (pilgrims) are assisted, and their expenses will be reimbursed, for Allah does not waste the reward of the faithful. O companies of mankind!
Perform the hajj of the House with perfect religion and thorough understanding and learning, and do not leave the sites except with repentance and a [resolute] determination to abstain from any sin.
O companies of mankind! _Maintain the Prayers and give the Zakah just as Allah, Almighty and Majestic, commanded ye, so if some time was gone-by and ye were negligent or forgetting, then Ali is your (patron/authority) and he will elucidate for ye, for he is the one whom Allah, Almighty and Majestic, appointed him for ye after me as the trustee of His creation. He is from me and I am from him, and he and the ones who succeed him from amongst my progeny will teach ye what ye ask about, and they will elucidate to ye what ye do not know.
O Indeed the halal and the haram issues are more than I can list and define, and then for me to go on to command to the halal and forbid the haram in one session.
However, I am commanded [by the Almighty] to take the oath of allegiance from ye and to make a covenant with ye that ye assent to what I have brought from Allah, Almighty and Majestic, about Ali the Commander of the Faithful ( ) and the (successors) after him, those who are from me and from him, which is the (divine leadership) that is upheld and established in them – the seal of which is al-Mahdi – until the day he stands before Allah who determines and decrees.
O companies of mankind! Every halal I have guided ye to, and every haram I have forbidden ye from, indeed I will never go back on, nor will I change or modify. O so make sure ye remember that, keep it, adhere and enjoin to it, and never change it nor modify it. O Indeed I repeat the word, O do uphold the prayers, give the Zakah, enjoin good, and forbid evil.
O Indeed the pinnacle of enjoining good is to adhere to my speech, and to convey it to he who is not present, and enjoin him, on my behalf, to accept it, agree to it, and assent it, and prohibit him from opposing it, for it is acommandment from Allah, Almighty and Majestic, and from me.
There is no enjoining good and forbidding evil except with a (infallible leader).
O companies of mankind! The Qur’an teaches ye that the after him are his descendants, and I informed ye and made ye know that they are from me and from him, as Allah says in His Book and He made it a lasting word among his posterity_, 126 and I say, “ Ye will never go astray so long as ye adhere to them both”.
O companies of mankind! [I urge ye to adhere] to piety, to piety ( ), and be wary of the Hour, just as Allah, Almighty and Majestic, said, indeed the quake of the Hour is a mighty thing.
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Remember death, the resurrection, the reckoning, the balances, being held to account before the Lord of Worlds, and [remember] the reward, and the punishment. So he who comes forward with the good deed he will be rewarded for it, and he who comes with the evil deed he will not have a share in paradise.
Formal Seeking of Allegiance
O companies of mankind! Ye are more than ye could shake hands with me all at the same time, and Allah, Almighty and Majestic, has commanded me to seek from ye verbal confirmation and recognition for what I have made binding obligation [of allegiance] for Ali Amir al-Mo’mineen, [as my successor], and for those who succeed him of the who are from me and from him, as I have informed ye that my offspring are from his loins.
So all together say in one voice: “ We hear, obey, approve of, and are bound by what you have conveyed from our Lord and your Lord with regards to our Ali Amir al-Mo’mineen, and those who are born from his loins. We swear the oath of allegiance to you in this regard with our hearts, with our souls, with our tongues, and with our hands. Upon that we will live, upon it we will die, and upon it we will resurrect. We will not change, we will not alter, we will not doubt, we will not deny, we will not hesitate, we will not renege against the covenant, nor will we break the pledge.
You have advised us with Allah’s admonition about Ali Amir al-Mo’mineen (the Commander of the Faithful) and the whom you mentioned to be your offspring from his descendants after him; Hasan, Husayn and those Allah appointed after them two.
The covenant and the pledge for them are taken from us; from our hearts, our souls, our tongues, our consciences, and our hands. He who realises it [by being present] he does that with his handshake, otherwise he [would] indeed confirm and admit it by his tongue, and we do not seek to alter that, and may Allah not see from us any change or conversion. We fulfil that on your behalf to the close and the far from amongst our offspring and our families, and we take Allah as our witness on that, and surely Allah suffices for a witness, and you are a witness on us for that”.
O companies of mankind! What do ye say? Indeed Allah knows every voice and the hidden [thought] of every soul, so whoever is guided is guided for his own sake, and whoever goes astray goes astray to his own detriment, and whoever pledges allegiance [to Ali] he has indeed pledged allegiance to Allah, the hand of Allah is above their hands. O companies of mankind!
So swear the oath of allegiance to Allah and swear it to me, and swear the oath of allegiance to Ali Amir al-Mo’mineen, Hasan, Husayn, and the imams from their offspring in this world and in the Hereafter the lasting Word; Allah will destroy he who betrays, and He will have mercy on he who remains loyal. So whoever breaks his oath breaks it only to his own detriment, and whoever fulfils the covenant he has made with Allah, He will give him a great reward.
O companies of mankind! Say that which I have just told ye and greet Ali as Amir al-Mo’mineen (the Commander of the Faithful), and ye say we hear and obey, Our Lord, grant us Your forgiveness, and unto You is the return, and ye should say All praise belongs to Allah who guided us unto this, and we would have never been guided had not Allah guided us, indeed our Lord’s messengers came with the truth.
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O companies of mankind! Indeed the merits and virtues of Ali Ibn Abitaleb in the sight of Allah, Almighty and Majestic – which He has revealed in the Qur’an– are more than I can list them in one session, so whoever informs ye of them [quoting me] and described them to ye, believe him. O companies of mankind! He who obeys Allah, His messenger, Ali, and the whom I mentioned, he has indeed triumphed a great triumph O companies of mankind!
Those who rush to swear allegiance to him and his authority and to greet him as Amir al- Mo’mineen are indeed the ones who are triumphant in the Gardens of Bliss.
O companies of mankind! Ye say that word with which Allah will be pleased with ye, for if ye disbelieve, together with all who are on the earth this will not harm Allah in the least.
O Allah! Forgive the believers through what I have conveyed and commanded, and wrath against the obstinate disbelievers, and all praise belongs to Allah the Lord of the worlds.
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