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SERMON 179


Condemning his disobedient men

I praise Allah for whatever matter He ordained and
whatever action He destines and for my trial with you, O' group of people who do not obey
when I order and do not respond when I call you. If you are at ease you engage in
(conceited) conversation, but if you are faced with battle you show weakness. If people
agree on one Imam you taunt each other. If you are faced with an arduous matter you turn
away from it. May others have no father (woe to your enemy!) what are you waiting for in
the matter of your assistance and for fighting for your rights? For you there is either
death or disgrace. By Allah, if my day (of death) comes. and it is sure to come, it will
cause separation between me and you although I am sick of your company and feel lonely
with you.

May Allah deal with you! Is there no religion which
may unite you nor sense of shamefulness that may sharpen you? Is it not strange that
Muawiyah calls out to some rude low people and they follow him without any support or
grant, but when I call you, although you are the successors of Islam and the (worthy)
survivors of the people, with support and distributed grants you scatter away from me and
oppose me? Truly, there is nothing between me to you which I like and you also like it, or
with which I am angry and you may also unite against it. What I love most is death. I have
taught you the Qur'an, clarified to you arguments, apprised you of what you were ignorant
and made you swallow what you were spitting out. Even a blind man would have been able to
see, and he who was sleeping would have been awakened. How ignorant of Allah is their
leader Muawiyah and their instructor Ibn an-Nabighah. (1)
(1).
"an-Nabighah" is the surname of Layla bint Harmalah al-Anaziyyah, mother of
Amr ibn al-As. The reason for attributing him to his mother is her common reputation in
the matter. When Arwa bint al-Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib went to Muawiyah, during the
conversation, when Amr ibn al-As intervened, she said to him: "O' son of
an-Nabighah, you too dare speak, although your mother was known publicly and was a singer
of Mecca. That is why five persons claimed you (as a son), and when she was asked she
admitted that five people had visited her and that you should be regarded as the son of
him you resembled most. You must have resembled al-As ibn Wa'il and therefore you came to
be known as his son."
These five persons were (1) al-As
ibn Wa'il, (2) Abu Lahab, (3) Umayyah ibn Khalaf, (4) Hisham ibn al-Mughirah, and (5) Abu
Sufyan ibn Harb. (Ibn Abd Rabbih, al-lqd al-farid, vol. 2, p. 120; Ibn Tayfur, Balaghat
an-nisa', p. 27; Ibn Hijjah, Thamarat al-awraq, vol. 1, p. 132; Safwat, Jamharat khutab
al-Arab, vol. 2, p.363; Ibn Abi'l-Hadid, vol. 6, pp. 283-285, 291; al-Halabi, as-Sirah
vol. 1, p. 46).

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