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From a Description of Sd. Ali ibn Abo-Talib [AHHF]

Some of the virtues of Ahl-al-Bait are that their exterior matches their interior and their sayings matches their doings. The companions lived with them for quite sometime, so let us listen to one of them describing Sd. Ali ibn Abo-Talib [AHHF].

Sd. Derar ibn Damrah [AAH] was asked to describe Sd. Ali [AHHF], so he said: by Allah he was long-ranged and greatly-powered. His saying is final and his judgment is just. Knowledge explodes from his sides and speaks of his tongue. He is estranged from the worldly life and its flowers, and he is intimate with the night and its loneliness. His tears were abundant and his thoughts were long. He liked of the cloth what was short, and of the food what was hard. Among us, he was like one of us. He would answer us if we asked him, and come to us if we called him. By Allah, while in spite of his closeness to us, we almost did not speak to him out of fear of reverence. He honored the people of religion and got the poor and needy closer to him. The forcible one does not wish for his falseness, and the weak one does not despair of his justice. I testify that I saw him in some of his situations, when the night dropped its veils and its stars sank in, holding his beard fidgeting like someone stung and crying the cry of a sad one and saying "O, worldly life, deceive someone else. Are exposing for me or you did miss me? How far! How far! I have divorced you three times with not turning back. As your age is short, your risk is high, and your living is low. Oh! How little is the provision, long is the travel, and lonely is the way!"

That is how he was described by those who lived with his, heard his words, and saw his deeds [AAH]. Sd. Ali [AHHF] advised Sd. Mawlana al-Hasan [AAH]. Sd. al-Hasan [AAH] said: When my father was about to pass away, he started advising and said: this is the advice of Ali ibn Abo-Talib the brother of Muhammad [PPBUH] and his cousin and companion: the start of my advice is that I testify that no god but Allah and Muhammad is His messenger and His choice. He chose him with his knowledge and accepted him for his manners. Allah will resurrect those of the graves and He will ask people of their deeds while He knows what is in the chests. Then I advise you, o, Hasan, and enough for you advisor; what the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] advised me with. If that happened stay in your home and weep your sin. And do not make the worldly life the most of your worries. I advise you my son with the prayers in its time and the almsgiving to its people at its place, and the silence at the imitation, and the saving and the justice in the pleased and angry states. The good neighboring, being generous to the guest, being merciful to the tired and the afflicted ones, being kind to the kinship, loving the poor and needy and sitting with them, being humble as it is of the best worship, remembering death, and asceticism of the worldly life as you are subject to death, exposed to affliction or laying down with illness.

I advise you with the fear of Allah in secret and in public. And I forbid you from deviating of Shari'a with saying. I something of the hereafter was presented to you, start with is, and if something of the worldly life was presented to you, go slow until you get your reason with it. Be ware of the places of accusation, and the sitting that is thought to be bad, as bad company change the sitter. Be, o, son, a doer, and forbid the stink, order the goodness, and forbid the abomination. Be brother to the brothers in Allah, love the righteous for his righteousness, humor the dissolute of your religion but detest with your heart, and contradict him with your deeds in order not to be like him. Do not sit on the roads, and leave the humoring of the ones without understanding. Tighten with your living and save with your worship and take the of it what you can always do. Keep silent to be saved. Advance for yourself you may win the goodness. Do Dhikr of Allah in all states. Be merciful to your young family members and honor their old ones. Do not eat any food until you give away alms from it.

You should stick to fasting, as it is purity of the body, and protection for whoever does it. Strive yourself, be careful with your sitter, and avoid your enemy. Stick to the Dhikr sittings. Do more supplication. I did not save any advice from you, o, son. This is a separation between me and you. I urge you to be good to your brother Mohamed, as he is the son of your father and you know that I love him. As for your brother al-Husain, he is the son of your mother and father. Allah in the successor for you, and I ask Him to make you righteous, and to keep you from the tyrants and the oppressors. Patience, patience, until Allah imposes this matter, and not force and no power except by Allah, the Most-High and Almighty.

Then he said: O, Hasan see the one who hit me, feed him of my food, and give him of my drink. If I lived then I will take my right, and if I died then hit just one hit and do not mutilate him, as I heard the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] saying (Beware of the mutilation even for a biting dog). O, Hasan, do not over cost my coffin as I heard the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] say (do not over cost the coffins). And walk moderately in between, if it was good you take me fast to it, and if it is bad you would throw me off your shoulders. O, Bany Abdel-Muttalib I do not want to see you shedding the Muslims' blood after me saying: You killed the prince of believers. No one should be killed by me except my killer. Then he did not say anything other that "LA-illaha-illa-Allah" until he was taken [AAH].

Written by the Student

Translated by Ahmed

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