Hawzah News Agency – The tenth part of Al-Ghadīr Sermon is presented to you dear readers:
مَعاشِرَالنّاسِ، إِنَّ الْحَجَّ وَالْعُمْرَةَ مِنْ شَعائرِالله، (فَمَنْ حَجَّ الْبَیْتَ أَوِاعْتَمَرَ فَلاجُناحَ عَلَیْهِ أَنْ یَطَّوَّفَ بِهِما) الآیَة.
مَعاشِرَالنّاسِ، حُجُّواالْبَیْتَ، فَماوَرَدَهُ أَهْلُ بَیْتٍ إِلاَّ اسْتَغْنَوْا وَ أُبْشِروا، وَلاتَخَلَّفوا عَنْهُ إِلاّبَتَرُوا وَ افْتَقَرُوا.
مَعاشِرَالنّاسِ، ماوَقَفَ بِالْمَوْقِفِ مُؤْمِنٌ إِلاَّغَفَرَالله لَهُ ماسَلَفَ مِنْ ذَنْبِهِ إِلی وَقْتِهِ ذالِکَ، فَإِذا انْقَضَتْ حَجَّتُهُ اسْتَأْنَفَ عَمَلَهُ.
مَعاشِرَالنَّاسِ، الْحُجّاجُ مُعانُونَ وَ نَفَقاتُهُمْ مُخَلَّفَةٌ عَلَیْهِمْ وَالله لایُضیعُ أَجْرَالُْمحْسِنینَ.
مَعاشِرَالنّاسِ، حُجُّوا الْبَیْتَ بِکَمالِ الدّینِ وَالتَّفَقُّهِ، وَلاتَنْصَرِفُوا عَنِ الْمشَاهِدِإِلاّ بِتَوْبَةٍ وَ إِقْلاعٍ.
مَعاشِرَالنّاسِ، أَقیمُوا الصَّلاةَ وَ آتُوا الزَّکاةَ کَما أَمَرَکُمُ الله عَزَّوَجَلَّ، فَإِنْ طالَ عَلَیْکُمُ الْأَمَدُ فَقَصَّرْتُمْ أَوْنَسِیتُمْ فَعَلِی وَلِیُّکُمْ وَمُبَیِّنٌ لَکُمْ، الَّذی نَصَبَهُ الله عَزَّوَجَلَّ لَکُمْ بَعْدی أَمینَ خَلْقِهِ. إِنَّهُ مِنِّی وَ أَنَا مِنْهُ، وَ هُوَ وَ مَنْ تَخْلُفُ مِنْ ذُرِّیَّتی یُخْبِرونَکُمْ بِماتَسْأَلوُنَ عَنْهُ وَیُبَیِّنُونَ لَکُمْ ما لاتَعْلَمُونَ.
أَلا إِنَّ الْحَلالَ وَالْحَرامَ أَکْثَرُمِنْ أَنْ أُحصِیَهُما وَأُعَرِّفَهُما فَآمُرَ بِالْحَلالِ وَ اَنهَی عَنِ الْحَرامِ فی مَقامٍ واحِدٍ، فَأُمِرْتُ أَنْ آخُذَ الْبَیْعَةَ مِنْکُمْ وَالصَّفْقَةَ لَکُمْ بِقَبُولِ ماجِئْتُ بِهِ عَنِ الله عَزَّوَجَلَّ فی عَلِی أمیرِالْمُؤْمِنینَ وَالأَوْصِیاءِ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ الَّذینَ هُمْ مِنِّی وَمِنْهُ إمامَةٌ فیهِمْ قائِمَةٌ، خاتِمُها الْمَهْدی إِلی یَوْمٍ یَلْقَی الله الَّذی یُقَدِّرُ وَ یَقْضی.
مَعاشِرَالنّاسِ، وَ کُلُّ حَلالٍ دَلَلْتُکُمْ عَلَیْهِ وَکُلُّ حَرامٍ نَهَیْتُکُمْ عَنْهُ فَإِنِّی لَمْ أَرْجِعْ عَنْ ذالِکَ وَ لَمْ أُبَدِّلْ. أَلا فَاذْکُرُوا ذالِکَ وَاحْفَظُوهُ وَ تَواصَوْابِهِ، وَلا تُبَدِّلُوهُ وَلاتُغَیِّرُوهُ. أَلا وَ إِنِّی اُجَدِّدُالْقَوْلَ: أَلا فَأَقیمُوا الصَّلاةَ وَآتُوا الزَّکاةَ وَأْمُرُوا بِالْمَعْروفِ وَانْهَوْا عَنِ الْمُنْکَرِ.
أَلاوَإِنَّ رَأْسَ الْأَمْرِ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ أَنْ تَنْتَهُوا إِلی قَوْلی وَتُبَلِّغُوهُ مَنْ لَمْ یَحْضُرْ وَ تَأْمُروُهُ بِقَبُولِهِ عَنِّی وَتَنْهَوْهُ عَنْ مُخالَفَتِهِ، فَإِنَّهُ أَمْرٌ مِنَ الله عَزَّوَجَلَّ وَمِنِّی. وَلا أَمْرَ بِمَعْروفٍ وَلا نَهْی عَنْ مُنْکَرٍ إِلاَّمَعَ إِمامٍ مَعْصومٍ.
مَعاشِرَالنّاسِ، الْقُرْآنُ یُعَرِّفُکُمْ أَنَّ الْأَئِمَّةَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ وُلْدُهُ، وَعَرَّفْتُکُمْ إِنَّهُمْ مِنِّی وَمِنْهُ، حَیْثُ یَقُولُ الله فی کِتابِهِ: (وَ جَعَلَها کَلِمَةً باقِیَةً فی عَقِبِهِ). وَقُلْتُ: «لَنْ تَضِلُّوا ما إِنْ تَمَسَّکْتُمْ بِهِما».
مَعاشِرَالنّاسِ، التَّقْوی، التَّقْوی، وَاحْذَرُوا السّاعَةَ کَما قالَ الله عَزَّوَجَلَّ: (إِنَّ زَلْزَلَةَ السّاعَةِ شَیءٌ عَظیمٌ). اُذْکُرُوا الْمَماتَ (وَالْمَعادَ) وَالْحِسابَ وَالْمَوازینَ وَالُْمحاسَبَةَ بَیْنَ یَدَی رَبِّ الْعالَمینَ وَالثَّوابَ وَالْعِقابَ. فَمَنْ جاءَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ أُثیبَ عَلَیْها وَ مَنْ جاءَ بِالسَّیِّئَةِ فَلَیْسَ لَهُ فِی الجِنانِ نَصیبٌ.
“O people! Pilgrimage to the House or visiting it is among God's religious rites; so let the pilgrims to Hajj or Umreh go round about them more. Anyone who voluntarily does some more good and decent deeds, God is indeed All-Aware Appreciative. (The Cow: 2/158).
O people! Set out for the Pilgrimage in the House of God! For no one would enter the God’s House, without becoming free of needs, and rejoicing; and no one would turn away from It, without becoming poor and abolished!
O people! No believer shall stop at the Regions [of Arrafat-Mash'ar and Mina to fulfill the rites], unless God forgives his previous sins, but fate is that when his Pilgrimage, [Hajj], is completed, he makes a new start.
O people! Upon the Hajj pilgrims, the pilgrims are bestowed help, and they are compensated whatever they spend, for indeed, God does not waste away the reward of the virtuous!
O people! Journey to visit the House of God as pilgrims, with a perfect faith, and with a great grasp and knowledge! And do not ever come back from such holy Land, unless feeling quite repentance [in heart], and promising to stop committing sins:
O people! Perform prayer, and pay the due welfare tax, as God Almighty has ordained you to act; but if a long time has passed, and you have neglected or forgotten [them], then, Ali is your master, and he shall explain to you what to do. He is the very man that God Almighty has set up as His certain trustee after I am gone. He is from me, so am I from him.
He, as well as all those who will come to the world from my lineage, will answer to all your needs, and will let you know whatever you do not know.
Know that ‘the count of permissible and forbidden things’ is much more than I could reckon, and to present them to you in one single session: [but only know that] the permissible things are ordained to you, and the prohibited things are forbidden.
Therefore, I have been commanded to take your allegiance, and that you swear it with me, and shake hands with me, so that what I have declared you about Ali, the Lord of the believers, on God's behalf, and his successors who will follow him. The ones who shall be coming from my lineage, but also from the ‘Leadership’ and his lineage; this Leadership is designated alone for them; and the last ‘Leader’ will be ‘His Holiness Mahdi’, until the Day he shall meet the Lord of the Providence and Fate!
O people! In regard with all permissible things I have guided you to follow, and the forbidden things that I have prohibited you, there is no change at all, nor have I ever transformed them to other detail. Remember it well, keep it in your mind, and talk about this subject, and give councils to one another about it and try not to change, nor transform it!
I repeat what I have just told you: perform your prayer, and do pay the due welfare tax, encourage one another to do deeds which are good, and forbid whatever is forbidden and not good.
But let it be known that the greatest act of goodness is to understand deeply what I have just expressed, and to relay this to those who have not been present here today, and to invite them to accept this from me, and to forbid them to oppose or object to me! For, this is a Command coming from God Almighty, and from me; and no invitation to do good, nor any prohibition of unlawful deeds will be accomplished or done, unless with the presence of an innocent Imam!
O people! The Holy Qur’an makes it known to you that the Imams, who shall come after Ali, will be his progeny descendants, as I told you before, they are Ali’s or my dependants – all are from him and I. For He has put it in His Book thus: ‘He assigned the creed of Leadership among those who will follow him,’ (The Ornament: 43/28). I have also said that as long as you seize these two, ‘the Imams and the Qur’an’ you shall you go astray!
O people! Take care of your piety, [again] piety! And beware of the Hour of the Resurrection Day, as God Himself has said: ‘The Shaking of that awful Hour is a terrible thing’… (Pilgrimage: 22/1).
Do remember the Death, and the Divine Balances, and ‘Reckoning’ in the presence of the Lord of the Reward, and Punishment! Whosoever brings good deeds with him, shall receive his share of Reward, and whosoever with him brings his sins, will not have any share [to enjoy] in Paradise.”
Al-Ghadīr Sermon:
Al-Ghadīr Sermon (Arabic: خطبة الغدير) is a sermon delivered by the Prophet (s) where he (s) introduced 'Ali (a) as the Wali (guardian) of Muslims. The prophet (s) delivered this sermon on Dhu l-Hijja 18 of 10/March 19, 632) on the return from Hajjat al-Wida' [Hajj of Farewell] in a place called Ghadir Khumm. Many Shi'a and Sunni scholars have narrated this sermon.
Al-Ghadir sermon is one of the proofs Shi'a bring for the guardianship of Imam 'Ali (a) after the Prophet (s). Shi'a also support their claim with other proofs and evidences.
The Hadith al-Ghadir is a part of this sermon where the Prophet (s) says, "Anyone I am his master (Wali), then 'Ali (a) is his master."
Since, this phrase is narrated by more than 110 companions of the Prophet (s) and 84 Followers, it can be said that this hadith has been narrated as mutawatir (frequent).
Allamah 'Abd al-Husayn Amini collected all the references for this sermon and the Hadith al-Ghadir from Sunni sources and published them together with all other supportive reasons for the event of Ghadir in 11 volumes in his book al-Ghadir.