الله عليه وآله بقي ثلاثة أيام حتى دفن لاشتغالهم بولاية أبي بكر والمنازعات فيها وما كان يقدر أبوك علي عليه السلام أن يفارقه ولا أن يدفنه قبل صلاتهم عليه ، ولا كان يؤمن أن يقتلوه إن فعل ذلك ، أو ينبشوا النبي صلى الله عليه وآله ويخرجوه ويذكروا أنه دفنه في غير وقت دفنه ، أو في غير الموضع الذي يدفن فيه ، فأبعد الله جل جلاله من رحمته وعنايته نفوسا تركته على فراش منيته واشتغلت بولاية كان هو أصلها بنبوته ورسالته لتخرجها من أهل بيته وعترته ، والله يا ولدي ما أدي كيف سمحت عقولهم ومروتهم ونفوسهم وصحبتهم مع شفقته عليهم وإحسانه إليهم بهذا التهوين .

him and his Family, remained three days until he was buried, because of their being occupied with the rule of Abu Bakr and the disputes over it. And your father 'Ali, peace be upon him, was not able to part from him, nor to bury him before their prayer over him; nor was he safe from their killing him if he did so, or from their digging up the Prophet, may God bless him and his Family, and taking him out, and saying that he had buried him at other than the time of his burial, or in other than the place in which he should be buried. So may God, majestic is His majesty, put far from His mercy and His care those souls that left him upon the bed of his death and busied themselves with a rule whose very root was his own prophethood and his message — in order to take it out of the people of his house and his kindred. By God, my son, I do not know how their minds and their manliness and their souls and their companionship could allow, together with his tenderness towards them and his kindness to them, this making light of him.

ولقد قال زيد بن مولانا زين العابدين عليه السلام 2 : والله لو تمكن القوم أن طلبوا الملك بغير التعلق باسم رسالته كانوا قد عدلوا عن نبوته وبالله المستعان .

And Zayd, the son of our master Zayn al-'Abidin, peace be upon him, said [2]: By God, had the people been able to seek the kingship without attaching themselves to the name of his message, they would have turned aside from his prophethood also. And God is the one whose help is sought.

وقال السيد أيضا : وكان من جملة حقوقه صلى الله عليه وآله بعد وفاته وخاصة يوم الممات ، أن يجلس المسلمون كلهم على التراب ، بل على الرماة ، ويلبسوا أفضل ما يلبسه أهل المصاب من السواد ، ويشتغلوا ذلك اليوم خاصة عن الطعام والشراب ، ويشترك في النياحة والبكاء والمصائب ، الرجال والنساء ، ويكون يوما ما كان يوم مثله في الدنيا ، ولا يكون ، إنتهى 3 .

And al-Sayyid said also: And among his rights, may God bless him and his Family, after his death — and especially on the day of his death — was that the Muslims should all have sat upon the dust, indeed upon ashes, and should have worn the best of what the people of mourning wear of black, and should have kept themselves that day above all from food and drink; and that men and women alike should have shared in the lamentation and the weeping and the afflictions; and that it should have been a day the like of which there had never been in the world, nor ever will be. End. [3]