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[2] Al‐Imama wa al‐Siyasa, vol. 2, p. 321.
become delighted. I have found you slow. I have written you many letters telling you of my strong
yearning for you. O Abu ‘Abd Allah, you have come to know of the excellence of the visitation to
the believer and communicating with him. Therefore, when this letter of mine reaches you, then
hurry! Hurry!
Sufyan’s Answer
When Sufyan received Harun’s letter, he threw it away and said to his righteous brothers: “Let
one of you read it, for I ask Allah’s forgiveness that I may touch a thing an oppressor had touched.
When he read it, he (Sufyan) ordered them to write him an answer as follows:
From the dead person.
To the servant deceived by hopes, Harun, who is deprived of the sweetness of faith and the
pleasure of the recitation of the Qur’an. Now then, I wrote to you to inform you that I have cut off
your rope and affection to you. You have made me a witness against you through your confessing
against yourself in your letter through your plundering the public treasury of the Muslims. You
have spent it on something other than its right and employed it in something other than its
concept. You are not content with that which you have done. You are far away from me when you
wrote to me to make me as a witness against you. I and my brothers who were present when your
letter was read have borne witness against you. We will bear witness against you when we stand
before Allah, the Just Judge, tomorrow.
O Harun, you have spent the wealth in the public treasury of the Muslims without taking their
consent. Are those whose hearts have been reconciled, those officials appointed over them on
the earth of Allah, the Mujahid in the way of Allah, and the wayfarer content with your deed? Are
those who know the Qur’an by heart and men of knowledge satisfied with your deed? Are the
orphans and the widows pleased with your deed? Does a group of your subjects consent to that?
Therefore, Harun, tie your loincloth, prepare an answer to the question, and a gown to the
tribulation. Know that you will stand before Allah, the Just Judge. So fear Allah in respect with
yourself, for you have deprived of the sweetness of knowledge, asceticism, and the pleasure of
recitation of the Qur’an, and sitting with the good. Your soul has permitted you to be an
oppressor and an Imam of the oppressive.
O Harun, you have sat on the throne, worn the silk, lowered the curtains in front of your door, and
likened yourself through the proof to the Lord of the worlds. Then you have seated your
chamberlains before your door and your curtains. They wrong the people and do not treat them
with justice. They punish those drink wine while they themselves drink wine. They commit
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