If I want, I can expose their names and introduce them to you, but I have concealed their names and protected their respect and the Almighty Allah will not be satisfied with anything other than my announcement regarding Ali.
O people, recognize this reality, because Almighty Allah has appointed him as your Master (Wali) and Imam and made his obedience obligatory on all. His command is obligatorily applicable and his statement is truth; one, who opposes him is accursed and is ineligible to testify in court. Listen to me and obey the command. Because Allah Ali is your master and Imam, and after him till Judgment Day, Imamate will continue in his generations. Nothing is lawful, except what Allah and His Messenger has made lawful and nothing is unlawful, except what Allah, His Messenger and they (the Imams) have made lawful.
There is no knowledge, but that the Almighty Allah has bestowed it to me and I have transferred it to him; do not go astray from him and do not confront him due to arrogance; he it is that guides to truth1 and he acts according to that.
Repentance will not be accepted from one, who denies him and Almighty Allah will not forgive him; Allah would indeed do this and punish him most severely. He is the most excellent of men after me, till the day would arrive and creatures would remain. One, who opposes him is accursed.
Jibraeel revealed these words from the Almighty Allah on me. Thus, everyone should see what he has sent for the morrow.2
Follow the clear (unambiguous) verses of Quran and don’t follow the ambiguous ones. None can interpret them for you, except one, whose hands I hold and whom I have lifted for you and announced: Of whomsoever I am the master, this Ali is (also) his master.
His mastership is revealed to me from the Almighty Allah.
Know that I have conveyed the message of God; know that I have announced it. Know that I have conveyed it to the people. Know that I have explained it. Then he said: After me, rulership is not allowed for anyone, except him.”
Then he raised him up, till his feet reached the knees of the Prophet and he said: “O people, this Ali is my brother and successor and the holder of my standard and my successor on those, who have faith in me; and he is my authority on the interpretation of Quran after me.”
On the basis of another report, he said: “O God, love those, who love him and be inimical to those, who are inimical to him, and curse those, who deny him; and be furious at those, who deny his rights.
O God, You revealed the verse of:
…..الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ
“This day have I perfected for you your religion…”3
…to make clear the Imamate of Ali. Thus, one, who does not follow him and my sons through him, his acts will be invalid and he shall remain in Hell forever. Indeed, Iblees caused Adam to be expelled from Paradise due to jealousy; so do not be jealous, lest your acts become invalid and your steps deviate. Surah:
وَالْعَصْرِ إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ لَفِي خُسْرٍ
“I swear by the time, most surely man is in loss,”4
…is revealed about Ali (a.s.).
O people, believe in God and His Messenger and by the light, which is revealed,5 with him
مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ نَطْمِسَ وُجُوهَا فَتَرُدَّهَا عَلَى أَدْبَارِهَا أَوْ نَلْعَنَهُمْ كَمَا لَعَنَّا أَصْحَبَ السبت
“Before We alter faces then turn them on their backs, or curse them as We cursed the violaters of the Sabbath.”6
Effulgence is sent down on me from God, then Ali and then in his progeny till the Mahdi.
O people, very soon, after me will come imams, who will summon you to Hell fire and who will not help you on Judgment Day; the Almighty Allah and I are immune from them. They and their followers are in the lowest level of Hell;
سَنَفْرُغُ لَكُمْ أَيُّهَا الثَّقَلَنِ
“Soon will We apply Ourselves to you, O you two armies.”7
يُرْسَلُ عَلَيْكُمَا شُوَاظٌ مِنْ نَارٍ وَنُحَاسٌ فَلَا تَنْتَصِرْنِ
“The flames of fire and smoke will be sent on you two, then you will not be able to defend yourselves.”8
2. Hafiz Hakeem Haskani Abul Qasim (d. after 490 A.H.).9
3. Hafiz Abul Qasim bin Asakir Shafei (d. 571 A.H.).10
4. Abu Abdullah Fakhruddin Raazi Shafei (d. 606 A.H.).11
5. Jalaluddin Suyuti Shafei (d. 911 A.H.).12
6. Qaazi Shaukani (d. 1250 A.H.) in his Tafseer, Fathul Kabeer.13
7. Sayyid Shahabuddin Alusi Shafei Baghdadi (d. 1270 A.H.).14
8. Shaykh Sulaiman Qunduzi Hanafi (d. 1293 A.H.).15
9. Shaykh Muhammad Abduh Misri (d. 1323 A.H.).16