So now, O people, we praise our Lord; Allah and the source of our clear and unknown boons, which we obtain not for our efforts and endeavors, but for His favor and grace so as to test us whether we would thank or show ingratitude. He will give more to those who thank, while He will punish him whoever shows ingratitude. I declare there is no god but Allah uniquely without any associate. He is One and Absolute. I also declare that Muhammad is His servant and messenger. God sent him as mercy for the slaves, lands, beasts, and animals. He offers this mercy out of His grace and favor. Peace and blessings be upon Muhammad and his family.
O people, the best of people with God are the most regardful for Him, the most submissive to His commandment, the most painstaking in the obedience to Him, the best follower of the Sunna of the Rasulullah (SAW), and the best compliant with God’s Book. No one of God’s creature has a preference to another except through the obedience to God and His Apostle and the compliance with God’s Book and the Prophet’s Sunna. This is God’s Book among us. The Prophet’s commandments and traditions are with us. Only the ignorant, apostate, and rebellious, no one is unaware of them. God says:
People, We have created you all male and female and have made you nations and tribes so that you would recognize each other. The most honorable among you in the sight of God is the most pious of you. (49:13).
He who fears God is the true honorable, dignified, and favored. The same thing is said about the obedient to God and His Apostle. God says:
If you love God, follow me. God will love you and forgive your sins. God is All-forgiving and All-merciful. (3:31).
Tell them, “Obey God and the Messenger.” If they turn away (let it be known) that God does not love the unbeliever. (3:32).
Then Amir al-Mu’minin (‘as) shouted:
O Muhajirs, Ansar, and Muslims, do you think God owes you a great deal for your embracing Islam? It is surely you who owe God and His Apostle a great deal if you are truthful.
We will apply the rules of the Qur’an and the shares of Islam to everyone who turns the face to-wards our kiblah, has only the meat of the animals that are slaughtered according to our rites, and declares there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His servant and messenger. Except by the means of fearing and obeying God, no one is preferred to another. God may reckon you and us with the God-fearing ones, His disciples, and His dears who will not be subjected to fear and will not be aggrieved.
Certainly, this world for which you desire and covet while it admonishes and discards you is not your home or house for which you were created and invited. It will not last for you and you will not stay in it forever. Do not be deceived by its immediate pleasures after you were warned against it, it was described for you, and you did try it. Thus, you are not expecting for it a good end. Vie with each other, God’s mercy may be upon you, to reach your abodes, which you are ordered to construct, because they are the constructive that will never ruin and the never-ending that will never fade away. God has aroused your interests in these abodes, invited you to them, and settled your rewards there.
O Muhajirs, Ansar, and people of God’s religion, consider the attributes that are ascribed to you in God’s Book, the rank that you attained with the Rasulullah (SAW), and the efforts that you exerted for the sake of God. Do you think you have won so because of your ancestry and lineage? Or was it because of your efforts and acts of obedience to God? Seek the perfection of God’s graces upon you, God’s mercy may be upon you, through preserving yourselves and keeping God’s Book that He ordered you to keep. If you carry out God’s commandments and adhere to God-fearing, nothing of the humiliation of your life will harm you. If you do not abide by God-fearing, then nothing of the worldly pleasures that you pursue will benefit you. O servants of God, adhere to submission to God’s commandment, satisfaction with His act, and steadfastness against His misfortunes.
Regarding this booty, no one should enjoy precedence in the shares of the booty. God the Majestic has completed its distribution. It is God’s possession, and you are the Muslim servants of Him. This is the Book of God; we recognize it, declare it, and submit to it. Our Prophet’s covenant is with us. Hence, submit to the matter, God’s mercy may be upon you, because he whoever does not yield to this matter may leave us in any way he chooses. He whoever acts upon God’s obedience and judges according to God’s rules will not feel alone. They will have neither fear nor grief. Those are the successful. We beseech to our Lord and God to include you and us with the people of His obedience and dedicate your and our desires to His rewards. In the end, I seek God’s forgiveness for you and me.