كيف أصبحت من علتك يا ابنة محمد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله ؟

How have you risen from your illness, O daughter of Muhammad, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his Family?

فحمدت الله وصلت على أبيها وقالت : أصبحت والله عائفة لدنياكن قالية لرجالكن ، لفظتهم بعد أن عجمتهم وشنئتهم بعد أن سبرتهم ، فقبحا لفلول الحد واللعب بعد الجد وقرع الصفات وصدع القناة وخطل الآراء وزلل الأهواء وبئس ما قدمت لهم أنفسهم أن سخط الله عليهم وفي العذاب هم خالدون ، لا جرم لقد قلدتهم ربقتها وحملتهم أوقتها وشنت عليهم غاراتها فجدعا وسحقا وعقرا وبعدا للقوم الظالمين ، ويحهم أنى زعزعوها عن رواسي الرسالة وقواعد النبوة والدلالة ومهبط الوحي ( خ ) والروح الأمين والطببن بأمور الدنيا والدين ألا ذلك هو الخسران المبين وما الذي نقموا من أبي الحسن نقموا منه والله نكير سيفه وقلة مبالاته بحتفه وشدة وطأته ونكال وقعته وتنمره في ذات الله .

So she praised God and blessed her father, and said: I have risen, by God, loathing your world, detesting your men. I have spat them out after I had chewed them, and hated them after I had tested them. So ugliness upon blunted blades, and play after earnestness, and the striking of the smooth rock, and the splitting of the spear-shaft, and the corruption of opinions and the slipping of desires! “And evil is what their souls have sent before for them, that God is angry with them; and in the punishment they shall abide.” No doubt of it: I have fastened its halter upon them and loaded upon them its burden and poured upon them its raids. So mutilation and ruin and barrenness and distance be upon the wrongdoing people! Woe to them — how did they shift it away from the firm mountains of the messengership and the foundations of prophethood and its evidence, and the place of the descent of the revelation and of the Trustworthy Spirit, and from those skilled in the affairs of this world and of religion? Lo, that is the manifest loss! And what was it that they held against Abu al-Hasan? They held against him, by God, the severity of his sword, and the little care he had for his own death, and the weight of his tread, and the exemplary punishment of his onslaught, and his fierceness in the cause of God.

وتالله لو مالوا عن المحجة اللائحة وزالوا عن قبول الحجة الواضحة لردهم إليها وحملهم عليها ولساريهم سيرا سجحا لا يكلم خشاشه ولا يكل سائره ولا يمل راكبه ولأوردهم منهلا نميرا صافيا رويا تطفح ضفتاه ولا يترنق جانباه إلى أن قالت سلام الله عليها : استبدلوا والله الذنابي بالقوادم والعجز بالكاهل فرغما لمعاطس قوم يحسبون أنهم يحسنون صنعا ألا إنهم هم المفسدون ولكن لا يشعرون ، ويحهم * ( أفمن يهدي إلى الحق أحق أن يتبع أم من لا يهدي إلا أن يهدى فما لكم كيف تحكمون ) * ، أما لعمري لقد لقحت فنظرة ريثما تنتج ثم احتلبوا ملاء القعب دما عبيطا وذعاقا مبيدا ، هنالك يخسر المبطلون ويعرف التالون ، غب ما أسس الأولون ثم طيبوا عن دنياكم أنفسا واطمأنوا للفتن جأشا ، وأبشروا بسيف صارم وسطوة معتد غاشم وحرج شامل واستبداد من الظالمين يدع فيئكم زهيدا وجمعكم حصيدا ، فيا حسرة لكم وأنى بكم وقد عميت عليكم أنلزمكموها وأنتم لها كارهون .

And by God, had they inclined away from the clear highway and swerved from accepting the plain proof, he would have brought them back to it and carried them upon it, and would have led them a gentle leading in which the nose-ring does not wound and the traveller does not tire and the rider does not weary; and he would have brought them down to a watering-place flowing, pure, clear and abundant, whose two banks overflow and whose sides are not made muddy — until she said, the peace of God be upon her: They have, by God, exchanged the tail-feathers for the wing-feathers and the rump for the withers. So may the noses of a people be rubbed in the dust who “reckon that they are doing good work — lo, they are the corrupters, but they do not perceive.” Woe to them! “Is he who guides to the truth worthier to be followed, or he who does not guide unless he is guided? What ails you? How do you judge?” Now by my life, she has conceived; so wait a while until she gives birth; then milk, in place of a bowlful, fresh blood and a destroying poison. There the falsifiers shall lose, and those who come after shall know the consequence of what the first laid down. Then be easy in your souls concerning your world, and be calm of heart for the trials, and receive the glad tidings of a cutting sword and the onslaught of a transgressing oppressor and a general distress and a tyranny from the wrongdoers that will leave your spoil scant and your gathering reaped. So alas for you — and where are you bound? “While it has been made blind to you: shall we compel you to it while you are averse to it?”

قال سويد بن غفلة : فأعادت النساء قولها على رجالهن ، فجاء إليها قوم من وجوه المهاجرين والأنصار معتذرين وقالوا : يا سيدة النساء ، لو كان أبو الحسن عليه

Suwayd b. Ghafala said: So the women repeated her words to their men; and a group of the notables of the Emigrants and the Ansar came to her excusing themselves and said: O mistress of women, had Abu al-Hasan, peace