Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-2271b

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"From 'Ali, that he said: Ask me, for you will not ask me about anything between you and the Hour, nor about a group that will guide a hundred and mislead a hundred, except that I will tell you and name its leader. A man stood and said: O Commander of the Faithful! Tell us about the trials. 'Ali said: When a questioner asks, let him understand; and when one is questioned, let him be deliberate. Indeed behind you are matters of great magnitude, and a severe and bitter trial. By He who split the grain and created the soul, if you lost me, and the harshest affairs and the realities of trials descended, many of the questioners would falter, and many of those questioned would be confused. That will be when your war has become intense and has uncovered its shin, and the world becomes a trial for its people, until Allah grants victory to the party of the righteous. A man stood and said: O Commander of the Faithful! Tell us about the fitnah. He said: When fitnah comes, it appears similar, and when it turns away, it becomes clear. Trials are only like the directions of the winds: they strike one land and miss another. So support the people who were bearers of banners on the day of Badr and the day of Hunayn; you will be helped and rewarded. Indeed the fitnah I fear most for you is a blind, dark fitnah, whose trial is specific and whose affliction is general. Affliction strikes whoever looks into it, and whoever is blind to it is not struck. The people of falsehood will prevail over the people of truth until they fill the earth with transgression and injustice. The first to break its pillars, to lower its tyranny, and to pull up its stakes will be Allah, Lord of the worlds. Indeed you will find evil masters after me, like a fierce she-camel: she bites with her mouth, kicks with her leg, strikes with her hand, and withholds her milk. Their affliction upon you will not cease until no one remains in your land except one who benefits them or is not harmful to them, and until the help of any one of you against them is only like the help of a slave against his master. By Allah, if they scattered you under every star, Allah would gather you on the easiest day for them. A man stood and said: Will there be a community after that? He said: It is a scattered community, but your giving, your pilgrimage, and your travels are one, while the hearts are different, and he interlaced his fingers. He said: Why is that, O Commander of the Faithful? He said: This one kills that one. It is a terrible fitnah of the jahiliyyah, in which there is no imam of guidance nor knowledge. We, the People of the House, see salvation from it, though we are not callers to it. He said: And what comes after that, O Commander of the Faithful? He said: Allah will relieve the affliction through a man from us, the People of the House, who will be a relief like the tanning of a hide. He will come ... except that he will impose humiliation upon them and give them to drink from the cup of his [ruin]. Quraysh would love to have the world and all that is in it, that if they could stand at the place of slaughtering a camel, some of what he offers them today would turn to them, but they would reject it and refuse except killing."

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