Harith al-A’war (RA) narrated: I passed by the mosque and found the people plunged in to chatter. I went to Ali (RA) and said to him, “O Commander of the Believers! Have you not observed that people are engaged in chatter”? He asked me if that was so and I said, “Yes.” He said, “Indeed,. I had heard Allah’s Messenger (SAW) say that there would soon come a fitnah (trial) and I asked him how we could come out of it. He said that it was the Book of Allah which contains an account of those before us and news of those who will follow us and commands on what we encounter. It is an unmistakable judgement, not a jest. If any of the despotic abandons it then Allah will diride him ibto pieces. And, if anyone seeks guidance in something other than it, then Allah will leave him astray. It is Allah’s (firm) strong rope. It is the wise reminder. It is the straight path. It is whereby desires cannot divert and tongues cannot be confused. The scholars can never be satiated with it. It does not become stale by much repetition and its wonders are never exhausted. It is the Book about which the jinn were not shy to say on hearing it:
“'We have really heard a wonderful Recital! It gives guidance to the Right, and we have believed therein” (Al-Quran 72:1-2)
He who confirms it,. speaks the truth, and he who abides by it (in action), is rewarded, and he who judges by it, is just, and he who invites to it, is guided on the straight path. Take it to yourself, O A’war!”
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