حکمت 190: شگفتا! آیا معیار خلافت صحابی پیامبر بودن است؟ اما… · Saying 190

وَ قَالَ (عليه السلام): وَا عَجَبَاهْ أَ تَكُونُ الْخِلَافَةُ بِالصَّحَابَةِ وَ الْقَرَابَةِ.

قال الرضي: و روي له شعر في هذا المعني:

فإن كنت بالشوري ملكت أمورهم ٭ فكيف بهذا و المشيرون غيب

و إن كنت بالقربي حججت خصيمهم ٭ فغيرك أولي بالنبي و أقرب

Amir al-Mu'minin, peace be upon him, said: How strange? Could the caliphate be through the (prophet's) companionship but not through (his) companionship and (his) kinship? Al-Sayyid al-Radi says: Verses have also been related from Amir al-Mu'minin on the same matter. They are: - If you claim to have secured authority by consultation, how did it happen when those be consulted were absent! If you have scored over your opponents by kinship then someone else has geater right for being nearer to the Holy Peophet.