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answers to the questions of ‘Ali b. Suwayyid, who related that he sent some questions to the
Imam when he was in prison. The answers were late for a month. Then he answered him with this
answer. In it he has mentioned.
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Praise belongs to Allah, the Most High, the Great, through whose greatness and His light He
enlightens the hearts of the believers, with whose greatness and light the ignorant show enmity
toward Him, through whose greatness and light those in the heavens and in the earth seek the
access of means to Him through different deeds and contradictory religions; so (they are) right
and wrong, erring and rightly‐guided, endowed with eyesight and blind and perplexed. So praise
belongs to Allah whose religion has been made known and described by Muhammed, may Allah
bless him and his family.
Now then, surely you are a man Allah has placed among the family of Muhammed through giving
you a special rank, keeping the affection of that for which He has made you take care, inspiring
you with correctness, making you see the affairs of your religion; (that is) due to your preferring
them (to others) and your resorting the affairs to them. You have written to me to ask me about
affairs concerning which you have practiced precautionary dissimulation and which you have
hidden with capability. So, when the supreme authority (sultan) of the tyrants has expired and the
supreme authority of the Possessor of the supreme authority has come through leaving the
dispraised world to its inhabitants who have disobeyed their Creator, I have decided to explain to
you that about which you have questioned me lest perplexity should be imposed on our weak
Shi‘ites by their ignorant (leaders). Therefore, fear Allah, may His name be exalted and resort that
affair to its men; beware of that your are the reason for (bringing about) an affliction to the
testamentary trustees or (that) you provoke (the people) through revealing that which I have
deposited with you and showing that which I have asked you to hide; you should do (that), Allah
willing.
The first thing of which I want to inform you is that I want to announce my death to you in these
nights of mine without being impatient, remorseful, and doubtful about that which will be of what
Allah, the Great and Almighty, has decreed and ended. Therefore, lay hold on the firmest handle
of the religion, the family of Muhammed; the firmest handle is the testamentary trustee after the
testamentary trustee, submission to them and satisfaction with what they say; do not seek a
religion from those other than your Shi‘ites and do not like their religion. That is because they are
the traitors who have betrayed Allah and His Apostle; they have betrayed their community. Did
you know how they betrayed their trust? They were entrusted with the Book of Allah, but they
distorted and changed it.
They were showed the way to those in authority from among them, but they turned away from
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