SERMON 229
(About allegiance to Amir al-mu'minin for
the Caliphate. A similar sermon in somewhat different version has already
appeared earlier.)
You
drew out my hand towards you for allegiance but I held it back and you
stretched it but I contracted it. Then you crowed over me as the thirsty
camels crowd on the watering cisterns on their being taken there, so much
so that shoes were torn, shoulder-cloths fell away and the weak got
trampled, and the happiness of people on their allegiance to me was so
manifested that small children felt joyful, the old staggered (up to me)
for it, the sick too reached for it helter skelter and young girls ran for
it without veils.
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