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69

SERMON 69

Spoken on the morning of the
day when Amir al-mu'minin was fatally struck with sword.

I was sitting when
sleep overtook me. I saw the Prophet of Allah appear before me,
and I said: "O' Prophet of Allah ! what crookedness and
enmity I had to face from the people. " The prophet of Allah
said: "Invoke (Allah) evil upon them," but I said,
"Allah may change them for me with better ones and change me
for them with a worse one.

as-Sayyid ar-Radi
says: "al-awad" means crookedness and
"al-ladad" means enmity, and this is the most eloquent
expression.