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Prophet’s lady to the deserts. By God, I heard the Prophet (peace be upon him andhis family) say, ‘My nation shall be in a concordance and in discrepancy. You shouldjoin them when they are concordant. And you should choose for the middle situationwhen they are engaged in discrepancy. You are to focus your eyes on my household.If they fight, you should fight with them. If they opt for peace, you should followthem. The right is being with them whenever they are.’”“Who are his household?” I asked.“They are those we are mandated to adhere to. They are the imams after him. Theirnumber is as same as the Israelite leaders’. They are Ali and his two sons, and ninepersons from the Al-Hussein’s offspring. They are the immaculate and the sinlessimams,” answered Ummu Salama.“What a pity! People are perishing, then!” I expressed.“Every sect rejoicing what they had with them,” she commented.THIRD DISCUSSIONTHE ISLAMIC PRINCIPALS IN SERMONS OF THE FAREWELLPILGRIMAGEPreviously, we have proved that the Prophet’s sermon of Arafat, in the FarewellPilgrimage, included his prediction of the coming of the twelve imams. It also includedhis recommendations in this regard.Now, we are to discuss contents of the other five sermons; sermon of Mecca on day ofTarwiya, sermon of the second day, sermon of Al-Kheif Mosque on day of Nafr andsermon of Ghadir.Although the references of narrations communicated, confusedly, a few reports aboutcontents of these sermons, it is possible to infer that the Prophet (peace be upon him andhis family), through these sermons, provided the entire affairs needed by his nation afterhim. These prophetic sermons included statements dealing with the following fivebases: