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• ” Your expectation is of no avail. Your wish to get a pardon cannot be fulfilled.”
When the person was departing in disappointment, the Prophet (a.s) asked Hazrat Ali
(a.s.),” have you recognized this old person?” Hazrat Ali (a.s.) replied,” I have not
been able to place him.” The Prophet (a.s.) said,” it was the accursed Satan. Hearing
this he rushed towards the Satan, caught hold of his neck and threw him to the
ground. He shouted,” O Abul Hassan! Allah has given me respite till the Dooms Day!
Please don’t kill me.
• Salman narrates that once the Satan came across some people who were talking ill of
Hazrat Ali (a.s.). He stood near them. The people asked him who he was and he
replied that he was Abu Marra. Those persons asked him if he overheard what they
were talking about. He said,” May evil overtake you! You talk ill of your own master
Ali (a.s.)!” Those persons asked him why he was saying that Ali (a.s.) was their
master. The Satan said,
• ” According to the announcement of your Prophet Ali (a.s.) is the master of all those
of whom the Prophet (a.s.) is the master and also that Ali (a.s.)’s friendship is Allah’s
friendship and enmity with Ali (a.s.) is enmity with Allah.” Those persons asked
him,” Are you a Shia of Ali (a.s.)?” the Satan said,” No. However I am a friend of Ali
(a.s.) and I am also present in the progeny of his enemies.” Those people asked him,”
O Abu Marra! Can you recount some of Ali (a.s.)’s excellence. The Satan replied,” O
group of misguided persons! You have become heretics! I was busy in prayer with
some people on the land for twelve thousand years when those persons were
destroyed by Allah. I was left all alone. I protested to Allah about my loneliness.
Allah, in His Kindness, raised me to the Heaven where, along with the Angels I was
busy in prayers for another twelve thousand years. One day when I was busy praying
to Allah, I noticed a ray of light pass by. The Angels fell down in prostration and said
that this light was that of some great Prophet (a.s.). A proclamation came from Allah,”
O My Angels! The light you have seen is that of my Wali, Ali ibne Abu Talib (a.s.).”
Abu Hurara narrates that a person came to the Prophet (a.s.) and said that a poor person
went to China. From China he came back with so much riches that the people in the town
started envying him. The Prophet (a.s.) said,” can this transitory world cause people to
envy others. The person who is sitting here has acquired the riches about which even the
Angels in the firmament will be envious.
We noticed that one Ansari arrived near the Prophet (a.s.). The Prophet (a.s.) said,” This
man has amassed great amount of wealth and has deposited a part of his treasure in the
high seat of Arsh. The man shall receive so much reward for this that if it is distributed
amongst all the inmates of the Heaven and the Earth, all their sins would be pardoned and
entry to the Heaven for them will become mandatory!”
The companions asked the person,” What good deed you have done today that you have
qualified for such a high reward?”
The man said,” I stirred out of my house for some important work. On the way I thought
that I have delayed myself in the matter and perhaps I may not be able to achieve my end.
Suddenly I had an idea at that time that instead of going for my own task, I try to do some
good turn. Therefore I went to Hazrat Ali (a.s.) to get a glimpse of his radiant face. I am