609 - الإمام عليّ عليه السلام بَعدَ مَقتَلِ الخَوارجِ‏

609. Imam Ali (AS) AFTER THE KILLING OF THE KHARIJITES

1840.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام - وقَد مَرَّ بقَتْلى‏ الخَوارجِ - : بُؤْساً لَكُم ! لَقد ضَرَّكُم مَن غَرَّكُم . فقيلَ لَهُ : مَن غَرَّهُم يا أميرَ المؤمنينَ ؟ فقالَ : الشَّيطانُ المُضِلُّ ، والأنْفُسُ الأمّارَةُ بالسُّوءِ ، غَرَّتْهُم‏بالأمانيِّ ، وفَسَحَتْ لَهُم ، بِالمَعاصي، ووَعَدَتْهُم الإظْهارَ ، فاقْتَحَمَتْ بهِم النّارَ .¹

1840. When walking past the slayed bodies of the Kharijites, Imam Ali (AS) said, 'How wretched you are! The one who misled you has brought harm to you', someone then asked, 'Who has misled them O Commander of the Faithful?' he said, 'The deceptive Satan and the carnal soul which commands towards evil have misled them by giving them a false sense of security, giving them a wide opening for disobedience and promising them victory, but through them they have plunged into the Fire.' ²

1841.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام - لَمّا قُتلَ الخوارِجُ فقيلَ لَهُ : يا أميرَ المؤمنينَ، هَلكَ القَومُ بأجْمَعِهِم - : كَلّا واللَّهِ، إنَّهُم نُطَفٌ في أصْلابِ الرِّجالِ وقَراراتِ النّساءِ ، كُلَّما نَجَمَ مِنهُم قَرْنٌ قُطِعَ ، حتّى‏ يكونَ آخِرُهُم لُصوصاً سَلّابِينَ .³

1841. When the Kharijites had been killed it was said to Imam Ali (AS), 'O Commander of the Faithful, these people have been destroyed in their entirety', to which the Imam (AS) responded, 'Not at all! By Allah they still exist in the loins of men and the wombs of women. Whenever a chief appears from among them he will be cut down till the last of them will be thieves and robbers.' ⁴

1842.الإمامُ عليٌّ عليه السلام : أيُّها النّاسُ ، فإنّي فَقَأْتُ عَينَ الفِتنَةِ ، ولَم يَكُن لِيَجْتَرِئَ علَيها أحَدٌ غَيري بَعدَ أنْ ماجَ غَيْهَبُها (ظُلْمَتُها) ، واشْتَدَّ كَلَبُها .⁵

1842.Imam Ali (AS) said, 'O people, I am the one who gouged out the eye of trouble [revolt]. There was no one except me who dared to advance towards it when its gloom was swelling and its madness was intense [when the uprising was at its peak].' ⁶