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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).