17. “O People! Know that this Verse is about him: so perceive it thoroughly and
know that God has picked him as your Defender, and appointed him as your
"Leader". His obedience is bound to the Immigrants, the Allies, and those who
obey them in fairness; so is for the villagers and the citizens, the non-Arabs
as well the Arab clans, and for the free men and the servants; for all – young,
old, black and white, and for every Monotheist whosoever!

You are bound to achieve his decision and word, and to obey his instruction!
Whosoever opposes him is damned; and whosoever obeys him and regards, receives
the Grace of God. God delivers and forgives whosoever gives ear and obeys him!

18. O people! It is my final rising in such a [huge] gathering. Thus, listen,
and then obey well [the Words of] God! And submit yourselves to His Command! For
God Almighty is your Master and your Lord; and after God, your Master is the
Messenger of God, the Prophet, who is at present calling out to you. And after
me, according to the Divine Command, Ali is your Master, and your Leader,
[Imam]. Then after him, the Leadership will be preserved, and perpetuated in my
progeny, by his lineage, until the Day of Judgement when you come to encounter
your God and His Messenger.

19. Nothing is lawful but whatever God and His Messenger, and the Imams permit;
and nothing is forbidden to you, unless God, and His Messenger, as well as Ali,
and the next Imams forbid it. God, glory to Him in the highest, has stated to me
all about permissible and the forbidden, and whatever lawful and unlawful that
God has taught me in His Book, I have put it all in Ali’s disposal.

20. “O
people! Prefer [the superiority of] Ali to others, for there is no knowledge
that God has offered me, and then, I have offered it to Ali, the Leader of the
believers – all knowledge of mine has been transferred to him. He is the ‘The
clarifying Leader (Imam-e-Moabin)’; so doubtless that it is said in (Yaa-sin:
36/12), ‘Thus We have accounted, the knowledge of all things in the Exposing
Book of Guidance!’

21. O people! Never forget him, and do not deviate from his Leadership, and do
not violate his guardianship. He is one, who guides you to path of Truth, and he
himself does all what he discloses; he ruins lies, deceits, and he bars
artifice. Never can the reproaches of who blame [annoy and bother, or] cease him
in his way!

22. He is the first man to believe in God, and to His right
Messenger who believed was Ali; no one has ever beaten him ‘In His Doctrine’!


It was he who put his soul in danger for the sake of Messenger, and he adored
him. It was he who was always next to the Messenger of Almighty God, and prayed
God along with Him – it was no one but Ali.

23. “Ali is the first man to establish prayer with me. I informed him of God’s
Command that to lie on my bed, [on the Night of Immigration], so did he accepted
to sacrifice his soul for me.

‘Bid him I, to lie in bed of mine, the Night

Threatened hazard me – he did with delight,

He did sacrifice soul of his for me, and

Away journeyed I, dim within, off the Land.’”

24. “O people! Honor him greatly; for God Almighty has honored him – do accept
the ‘Bid’, for the Almighty God has chosen him as the ‘Imam’.

25. O people! He
has been picked as Imam by God; therefore, He does not accept the repentance of
the deniers. It is the absolute God’s will on those opposing Truth. Beware of
opposing him in ill-will, or you will be caught up by the Fire whose fuel is
stones and stone-men that have been prepared for all faith-rejecters!

26. O people! I swear to Almighty God that the bygone messengers have announced
‘Fact’, about my coming: now here, I am proof for the whole world – on the
earth, and in the heavens. Accordingly who doubts about my rightfulness, he will
be among the early ignorance. And one who doubts about my today’s percept, will
doubt the entire ‘REVELATIONS’, and one who doubts about one of the Imams, he
doubts not one of them but all! And the denier: i.e. those who doubt Us, will be
dwelt within the Fire.

27. O people! God has extremely honored me, and
bestowed His immense favours upon me, and know that, ‘There is no deity but Him!
And know that all praise, through all Eternity, and in all occasions belongs to
Him only.

28. O people! Honor Ali, for he is indeed the best of men next to me among you,
men and women! This will continue until the creatures exist on land and until
God sends His provision to man! May one be damned, may damned thus! May one be
buried in Wrath, in Divine Wrath: who refuses [listening to] my say, or agrees
not with what I have just said.

Know that Gabriel brought me this news of God, [saying]: "One who rises against
Ali, and does not accept his Leadership, then, let My wrath, and My course fall
upon that type. It is just for a man to see what [good or bad] he has forwarded
for his tomorrow – Next Day. Thus, fear God, for by opposing Ali, lest your foot
may slip after it is planted and found root! For indeed God is Aware of
everything you do!

29. O people! He is indeed the one next to God, and God has
remarked about whom, in His Lofty Book, and He has stated about those who oppose
him: ‘Alas! How negligence I was at neighborhood of Allah!’”

30. “O people! Do deeply reflect on the Holy Qur"an, and try to catch the
Verses’ sense and comprehend, then try to observe the even Verses of its, but do
not dazzle at resembled Verses. By God! Whatever is deeply rooted in it, and the
true meaning and the sense of its cannot be well explained to man, except by
this man that I am holding his hand high; now I announce that: ‘Whomsoever I am
master to, so is this Ali to him master!’

And he is none but Ali, the son of Talib, my brother, my successor and my help,
whose Leadership’s Decree, has been sent to me from God, Almighty:

31. O
people! It is obvious that Ali and my pure descendants born in this family
represent the minor benefit, and the Qur"an represents major.

Either of these two heralds, and relates to another, or they are in harmony with
one another: they will not separate from each other until they come to me at
‘Koathar’, (on that Certain Day)! Let it be known that: they are the Trustees of
God among His creatures, and are rulers by His Command on the earth.

32. Thus, know that I have done my duty, and let it be known that I have
conveyed the communiqué, and made you hear the truth, and brightened you about.
Let it be known that it was God Word and I repeated it on His behalf:

33.
Thus, let it be known that except this brother of mine, no one can be called the
‘Lord of the Believers’, who is here [as] a brother with me. And let it be known
that: after I am gone, the title of, ‘The Lord of the Believers’ is not allowed
to be used by any one except for him!”