SERMON 176
About the two arbiters (after the
battle of Siffin)
Your party had decided to select two persons, and so
we took their pledge that they would act according to the Qur'an and would not commit
excess, that their tongues should be with it and that their hearts should follow it. But
they deviated from it, abandoned what was right although they had it before their eyes.
Wrong-doing was their desire, and going astray was their behaviour. Although we had
settled with them to decide with justice. to act according to the light and without the
interference of their evil views and wrong judgement. Now that they have abandoned the
course of right and have come out with just the opposite of what was settled, we have
strong ground (to reject their verdict).
.Forward to Sermon 177.Back to Sermon 175.